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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b>
</span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>2017 History Undergraduate Writing Prize Announcement</b><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">May 3, 2017 at 2:43:26 PM EDT<br>
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<div class="">The History Faculty is soliciting nominations for the 2017 History Undergraduate Writing Prize, honoring excellence in historical research and writing. There are three awards of $300 that honor MIT historians John W. Dower, Pauline Maier, and
Bruce Mazlish.</div>
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<b class="">Eligibility: </b><span class="">MIT and non-MIT undergraduate students who have taken a 21H subject in 2016-17, taught by an MIT History Faculty, member may submit entries.</span><span class=""><br class="">
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</span><span class=""><b class="">Requirements:</b></span><br class="">
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<li class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Paper must be a minimum of 10 pages, double spaced</font></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Paper must have been written for a 21H subject, taught by an MIT History Faculty member, in 2016-17</font></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Arial" class="">​Papers written for non-21H subjects are ineligible, unless the instructor has a joint appointment with the MIT History Faculty</font></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Papers should include the title only. Leave out your name, subject number, and subject title, as they will be anonymously evaluated by the prize committee.</font></li></ul>
<b class="">How to apply: </b><span class="">Send completed </span><a href="https://history.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2017%20History%20Undergraduate%20Writing%20Prize%20Entry%20Form.pdf" class="">entry form</a><span class=""> and paper as a PDF
file to </span><a href="mailto:mjpepin@mit.edu" class="">mjpepin@mit.edu</a><span class=""> by </span><span class="">5:00pm, Monday, May 22, 2017</span><span class="">. No late entries accepted.</span><br class="">
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<b class="">Evaluation Criteria: </b>A History Faculty committe will evaluate entries based on excellence in historical analysis, research, and writing.<br class="">
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Winners will be notified by email and their names will appear on the history website by Monday, June 5.
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<div class="">Best,</div>
<div class="">Meghan</div>
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<div class="">Meghan Pepin<br class="">
Undergraduate Administrator <br class="">
History Section, SHASS<br class="">
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br class="">
(617) 324-5134<br class="">
<a href="mailto:mjpepin@mit.edu" class="">mjpepin@mit.edu</a> </div>
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