Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award Nominating Procedures

Nominations are accepted from faculty in the social sciences. Multiple nominations are accepted.

The nominee must be a currently enrolled doctoral student in the social sciences.
The nominee’s work must be excellent and demonstrate outstanding research in the social sciences. The work submitted for consideration must be sole-authored and may be a book, manuscript, seminar paper, course paper, or paper submitted for presentation at a professional conference or scholarly journal.
- Publication may already have occurred or may be the nominee’s ultimate goal, but prior publication or acceptance for publication is not a prerequisite for the award.
- Theses and dissertations may not be submitted, but papers derived from them may be submitted.
- Note: If a promising paper later becomes co-authored for publication, the committee encourages retaining the original sole-authored version for award consideration.

Nomination letter
- Describe the submitted work, its contribution to the field and the social sciences, and what makes it worthy of the award
- Confirm that the nominee is a currently enrolled doctoral student
- Confirm that the nominated work is sole-authored
The nominee’s curriculum vitae (CV)
A copy of the work submitted for consideration