Applications are open until January 17, 2020 for The 2020 Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Women and Mythology.
The Kore Award is conferred by the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. The award, established in 2009, is funded by the gift of a generous contributor and carries a $500 prize. The intention behind its founding is to create awareness of excellence in Women and Mythology, and to provide an organizational framework for supporting graduate students in their work. The award is presented at the biennial national conference, for dissertations completed and defended in 2019 and 2018. Defense must be completed by December 31, 2019.
Applicants can be from any discipline, including but not limited to literature, religious studies, art or art history, classics, anthropology, and communications. Creative dissertations must include significant analysis of mythology in addition to creative work. Applicants must be members of ASWM at time of submission.
Past winners of this award include Dr. Dawn Work-MaKinne (2010), Deity in Sisterhood: The Collective Female Sacred in Germanic Europe, Dr. Shannan Palma (2012), Tales as Old as Time: Myth, Gender and the Fairy Tale in Popular Culture, Dr. Mary Beth Moser (2014), The Everyday Spirituality of Women in the Italian Alps, Dr. Annette Williams (2016), Our Mysterious Mothers: The Primordial Feminine Power of Àjê in the Cosmology, Mythology, and Historical Reality of the West African Yoruba, and Dr. April Heaslip (2018), Regenerating Magdalene: Psyche’s Quest for the Archetypal Bride.
Applicants must be members of ASWM upon submission of entry. A letter of support from dissertation chair/director must accompany application. Applicants will be urged to also propose a paper for the national conference, and to appear at and present work at national conference, if they receive award. Housing and meals will be covered by the ASWM Board of Directors. Information about the national conference can be found at www.womenandmyth.org
Schedule for 2020 award:
Dissertations completed and defended in 2018 and 2019
Deadline for completion and defense: December 31, 2019
Application window: Sept. 16, 2019-January 17, 2020
Announcement of award winner: February 14, 2020
Awarded at conference Saturday March 14, 2020, Albuquerque, NM
Application for Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Women and Mythology