Early Career Award

The ESHHS is formally affiliated with the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JHBS). Together with the JHBS, the ESHHS encourages early career researchers to submit their papers for the Early Career Award.

The winning paper can be submitted to JHBS. If accepted after additional review, it will be published with a notice indicating that it is the winner of the ESHHS Early Career Award. The Publisher will then provide an honorarium of US $500 to the award recipient.

Eligibility

• All students are eligible to be considered for the Award, as are all researchers having completed their PhD no more than 5 years previous to the date of submission.
• Early career researchers who do not hold a permanent/tenured university position (or equivalent) are eligible.
• Those wishing to be considered must be members of ESHHS at the time of submission. (An appropriately completed membership form & proof of dues payment may accompany the submission.)
• Winners of the Cheiron Young Scholar Award for a given paper are not eligible for the Early Career Award for that same paper.
• Submissions are accepted for papers presented during both the current year’s ESHHS conference and the previous year’s conference.

Procedure

• Candidates should submit a paper proposal in the usual way for the annual ESHHS conference, and present their paper during the conference. Candidates must be sole presenter of the paper at the conference. Candidates must be the sole or first author on the paper and must be responsible for the bulk of the work of the paper.
• Submissions are due by 15 October of the given year. Candidates should submit a ‘written-up’ version of the paper presented. This may include small changes or additions, but should not exceed 5000 words (including footnotes). Candidates should use the house style of JHBS. Papers should be emailed to each member of the ESHHS Executive Board (President, Secretary, Treasurer, and the Communications Officer). Contact details for the Board can be found on the ‘About Us’ page of the website. Candidates should indicate that they wish to be considered for the Early Career Award and provide a short CV to establish eligibility. Candidates who are students should list the name/s of their supervisor/s and/or PhD committee with their application. The Board will acknowledge receipt of applications and will confirm their eligibility.
• After the submission due date, the Board will convene a committee to review all papers, and base its final verdict on the committee’s reviews. The committee will be composed so as to minimise or eliminate conflicts of interest (e.g. a scholar cannot sit on the committee if their graduate student is a candidate). In any given year, in the absence of high quality submissions no award will be made. The Executive Board will announce the winner of the Award (provided there are submissions of appropriate standards) during the business meeting of the following conference. The full-length paper can be sent to JHBS any time after the announcement. If the paper is accepted for publication in JHBS, the honorarium will be awarded.