ISA Awards & Prizes

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Welcome to the ISA Awards website. ISA offers several awards given to recognize outstanding scholarly contributions to the field of international studies. These awards have different committees, nominating procedures and application deadlines, and they recognize outstanding papers, books, and achievement and service to the international studies community. Please see the menu links on the left for more information on these awards.

Awards are announced or presented during the ISA Annual Convention. Several Regions and Sections present awards during their Business Meetings or Receptions while others are presented during the ISA General Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony.

The type of awards presented include graduate student paper awards, faculty paper awards, book awards, service awards, and distinguished scholar awards. Award certificates, plaques, and monetary awards are coordinated through ISA Headquarters. 

The Awards Coordinator for 2009-2010 is Angelica Robison (arobison@isanet.org). Each award committee chair is responsible for sending complete award information to ISA Headquarters prior to the Annual Convention. ISA will prepare your award certificates for your business meeting, reception, or award ceremony.

Award News

Upcoming Deadline:
Intelligence Studies Section Student Paper Award
The Intelligence Studies Section (ISS), International Studies Association, is pleased to announce the first annual competition for the Intelligence Studies Section Student Paper Award. The award will be made annually by ISS in recognition of excellence for the best undergraduate or graduate student paper on a subject dealing with intelligence presented at the ISA annual conference.

Eligibility Criteria
The competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in any university or college in a humanities, social science, or similar program. Only papers submitted and presented at the 2010 ISA conference are eligible.

The Award
One award will be made in the amount of $500.

Submission
Papers may not exceed 40 pages, including notes. Theses and other major research projects are not eligible, but chapters from theses, research projects, or dissertations may be submitted within the specified length. Submissions must include the author’s name, institution, and complete contact information.  All submissions are to be made in Word or PDF format. The deadline for submissions is 26 March 2010. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Submissions should be submitted to the award committee chairman or to the Section chairman:

Joe Faragone, CD, MPPPA, MA
Chief Risk Officer
Afghanistan Task Force
Canadian International Development Agency
joe.faragone@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca

Daniel S. Gressang, PhD
Chairman
Intelligence Studies Section
Gressang@aol.com