The Department of Classics is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the 2018 David Pingree Prize in Ancient Science and Intellectual History.

Submissions must be substantial papers examining the rigorous intellectual traditions of the ancient and medieval worlds and their textual sources. Open to all Brown undergraduates.

This prize will be awarded to the Brown undergraduate from any concentration who presents the best paper in a given year dealing with the rigorous intellectual traditions of the ancient and medieval worlds and their textual sources (including mainly, but not only, Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Akkadian).

Guidelines for submissions

• Submissions must be substantial examinations (4,000 to 8,000 printed words) of an issue(s) or problem(s) in one of the above listed areas of scholarly research. Submissions need not be original research contributions on the chosen matter (though such are welcome), but should deal with a matter of significance and interest and do so in a manner that emulates the critical and exacting fashion of Professor David Pingree’s scholarship.
• Submissions must be neatly printed or typed and easily readable, with a bibliography and any notes at the foot of their proper pages.
• Submissions must be received in the Department of Classics by 12:00pm on Monday, April 16, 2018.

Eligibility

Open to all Brown undergraduate students regardless of concentration.

Regular referees

• The Senior Professor of Sanskrit in Classics.
• The Senior Professor of the Exact Sciences in Egyptology and Assyriology.
• A deciding vote to be cast, in the event of a split decision, by the Chair of Classics.

Award

One prize of $1000!

Inquiries/Questions

Please contact James Fitzgerald, Das Professor of Sanskrit or John Steele, Professor and Chair of Egyptology and Assyriology.