NACCS Tejas Foco Awards 2013

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ANNOUNCING
2013 NACCS TEJAS AWARD
FOR FICTION
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CHICANA AND CHICANO STUDIES—TEJAS FOCO

DESCRIPTION OF AWARD

NACCS-Tejas invites nominations and submissions for its 2013 NACCS-Tejas Fiction Award. The NACCS Tejas Award for Fiction Committee will consider any novel or collection of short stories published in 2012 in Texas or elsewhere. We will recognize an outstanding work of fiction that best represents a significant topic related to the Mexican American experience in Texas. The award will be presented at the NACCS-Tejas annual conference to be held at the University of Texas, Pan American in Edinburg, Texas February 22-23, 2013. There are no restrictions on the number of nominations per press. Authors may also self-nominate. Poetry, personal narrative, autobiography, reprints, re-editions of previously published works, translations, or books previously nominated for this award, are not eligible.

Nominations will be reviewed by a committee of NACCS-Tejas members.


PROCEDURE FORNOMINATIONS

Publishers or authors wishing to submit books for consideration should send three copies of the book, one to each of the three committee members at the addresses below by the deadline of December 3, 2012. Nominations should include a submission letter, including the name of the author, the title of the book, and the date of publication.


All nominations must be received (not postmarked) by December 3, 2012.


For additional information, you may contact the committee chair Arturo Madrid at amadrid@trinity.edu




COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Dr. Arturo Madrid (Chair)
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Northrup Hall 282
Trinity University
One Trinity Place
San Antonio, TX 78212

Dr. Norma E. Cantú
Professor of English and U.S. Latina/o Literatures
University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249

Dr. Marci R. McMahon
Department of English
CASB 211
University of Texas-Pan American
1201 West University Drive
Edinburg, Texas 78539

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**2013 NACCS TEJAS NON-FICTION BOOK AWARD**
Sponored by
The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco

NACCS-Tejas invites nominations and submissions for its 2013 NACCS-Tejas Non-Fiction Award. The 2013 NACCS Tejas Award for Non-Fiction Book Committee will consider any book or edited anthology published in 2012 in Texas or elsewhere. We will recognize an outstanding work of non-fiction that best represents a significant topic related to the Mexican American experience in Texas. The award will be presented at the NACCS-Tejas annual conference to be held at The University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, Texas February 22-23, 2013. There are no restrictions on the number of nominations per press. Authors may also self-nominate. Essays, journals, diaries, documentaries, scientific papers, photographs, textbooks, travel books, blueprints, technical documentation, user manuals, diagrams and journalistic essays or books previously nominated for this award, are not eligible. Nominations will be reviewed by a committee of NACCS-Tejas members.

Procedure for Nominations:

Publishers or authors wishing to submit books for consideration should send three copies of the book, one to each of the three committee members at the addresses below by the deadline of December 1, 2012. Nominations should include a submission cover letter, including the name of the author, the title of the book, press, and the date of publication. All nominations must be received (not postmarked) by DECEMBER 1, 2012. For additional information, you may contact the Committee Chair Jesus Cantu Medel: chano6_@hotmail.com

Committee Members

Jesus Cantu Medel, Houston Community College (8001 Fulton, Houston, Texas 77022)

Sonia Hernández, PhD, University of Texas-Pan American-History & Philosophy Dept. (1201 West University Drive, Edinburg, Texas 78539)

Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. PhD, University of Houston-History Department (4800 Calhoun Rd. Houston, Texas 77004)

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  **2013 NACCS TEJAS DISSERTATION AWARD**
Sponsored by
The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco


NACCS-Tejas Foco invites nominations and submissions for its 2013 NACCS-Tejas Dissertation Award. The 2013 NACCS Tejas Dissertation Award Committee will consider any dissertation defended in 2012 in the following fields: History, Sociology, Anthropology, English, Modern Languages and Literature, American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Chican@ Studies/Mexican American or Latin@ Studies, or related fields. We will recognize an outstanding dissertation that best represents a significant topic related to the Mexican American experience in Texas. The award will be presented at the NACCS-Tejas annual conference to be held at The University of Texas at Edinburg, in February 2013. There are no restrictions on the number of nominations per university or per department.


Self-nominations are allowed. Nominations will be reviewed by a committee of NACCS-Tejas Foco members.


Nominations should be sent to the committee chair including name, title of dissertation, university, department, committee members, date of defense, and include an abstract of the dissertation as well as a PDF or MS Word document of the dissertation itself and an accompanying bibliography. All nominations must be received by December 15, 2012. Nominations should include a submission cover letter briefly describing the main argument/s of the dissertation. For additional information, you may contact the committee chair Dr. Jaime Armin Mejía; Department of English; Flowers Hall; Texas State University, San Marcos; San Marcos, Texas 78666; jm31@txstate.edu. Only electronic submissions will be accepted.



Dissertation Committee:


Dr. Emilio Zamora

Professor of History
University of Texas at Austin

Janie Santoy

Assistant Professor of Technical Communication
Texas Tech University/Western Governors University

Dr. Jaime Armin Mejía, Committee Chair

Associate Professor of English
Texas State University, San Marcos

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FIRST ANNUAL
NACCS-TEJAS FOCO POETRY PRIZE

The National Association of Chicana and Chicano Scholars (NACCS)-Tejas Poetry Prize committee is seeking nominations for an outstanding poetry collection published in 2012 by a Tejan@ poet. The award will be presented at the NACCS-Tejas foco conference at UT-Pan American on February 21-23, 2013.

In addition to the above criteria:
  • The poetry book must be published in 2012. If the book will be published in 2012 after the Nov.15th submission deadline, please submit book manuscript and book contract copies. If your work is selected, the published book must be submitted prior to the awards ceremony
  • Chapbooks at least 40 pages long are eligible
  • Self-published works will not be considered
  • A copy of the book must be sent to each of the committee members (Norma Cantú, Emmy Pérez, and Isaac Chavarría) and postmarked no later than November 15, 2012
The award will be announced in late December 2012 or early January 2013.

Send copies of the nominated work to:
Norma E. Cantú
Dept. of English
University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249
(210) 363-4736

Isaac Chavarría
608 No. Linares St.
Alton, TX 78573
(956)240-1977

Emmy Pérez
Dept. of English, CAS 211
1201 W. University Drive
University of Texas-Pan American
Edinburg, TX 78539-2999

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Tejas Foco of NACCS
Call for Nominations for the
2013 Premio Estrella de Aztlán
A Lifetime Achievement Award

The Texas Foco of NACCS is proud to announce the Call for Nominations for the Premio Estrella de Aztlán, to honor individuals who have contributed their life’s work towards the betterment of Chicanas/os in Tejas. Nominations will be reviewed by a committee comprised of representative Tejas Foco members.

The Committee seeks letters of nominations of individuals whom we wish to celebrate and honor with the Premio Estrella de Aztlán Lifetime Achievement Award at our forthcoming 2013 NACCS Tejas Regional Conference. The 2013 Premio Estrella de Aztlán will be awarded to up to three individuals who, while they may not currently reside in Tejas the life-time contributions or body of work for which they are being honored has been made in, or is about, Tejas. The deadline for submitting the letters of nomination has been extended to JANUARY 15, 2013.

Awardees must be present to receive the Premio Estrella de Aztlán. The Premio will be announced and presented to the recipient(s) at the NACCS Tejas Foco Regional Conference, “Chican@ Studies Ahora!: Commnity-Based Pedagogies, Scholarship, and Activism,” at the University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Tejas, February 21-23, 2013. udies ¡Ahora!

Please e-mail nomination letters to Antonia Castañeda, Chair, Premio Estrella de Aztlán Committee, at acastaneda@stmarytx.edu

Committee members include Victor Gómez, Ana Juarez, José Flores, and Antonia Castañeda.



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