The Association for the Sociology of Religion announces its annual competition for the Robert J. McNamara Student Paper Award. The McNamara award in the amount of $500 is given annually by the Association for the Sociology of Religion to recognize an outstanding student paper in the sociology of religion. Authors must be currently enrolled graduate students who have not defended the Ph.D. when the paper is submitted. Membership in the Association for the Sociology of Religion is required either at the time of application or previously. Submission for McNamara consideration is separate from ASR program participation; students who wish their papers considered for the program must submit paper abstracts to the Program Chair following the guidelines of all standard paper submissions. The successful applicant may also apply for up to $500 travel assistance to present his or her paper at the annual meeting.

Submissions must be received by 1 June 2008 to be eligible for the 2008 awards. Submission should be in the form of articles with a maximum length of 40 double-spaced, single-sided pages inclusive of all material: text, titles, notes, tables, figures, etc. The title page should include an abstract of no more than 200 words. Text should not exceed 12,000 words, i.e., approximately 36 double-spaced pages of 12 point (or 10 cpi) type.

To submit, applicants should attach their paper as a file, formatted in Microsoft Word, in an email addressed to Prof William Mirola Alternatively, a CD-Rom containing the file can be sent to the Chair's mailing address, shown below. Responsibility for the timely submission of useable materials to the proper address rests entirely with the applicant.

Send submissions to: Prof. William Mirola, Department of History and Social Science, Marian College, 3200 Cold Spring Road,  Indianapolis, IN 46222-1997

This year’s committee is composed of William Mirola (Chair), Michael Lindsay, and Robert Woodberry.