Senior Thesis Prize in Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR)
Apply by 11:59 PM 4/16/2024!
Contact: Fatimah Mateen
The Senior Thesis Prize recognizes projects that contribute to current scholarly discourses about ethnicity, migration, indigeneity, race, and/or rights. There is no restriction on field, methodology, or the form of the theses to be considered for this prize. Creative projects are eligible.
Projects will be evaluated based on their depth and breadth of research, originality of topic, clarity of expression, and strength of argument. The winning thesis or theses will define, explore, and expand its area of knowledge in ethnicity, migration, indigeneity, race, or rights. Projects can have a US/domestic, international, or transnational focus.
Individual professors, departments, or concentrations may nominate candidates, or candidates may nominate their own paper.
This competition is only open to Harvard students in their senior year who have been involved in EMR (secondary fielders, working groups, multiple individual EMR classes, etc.). Individual professors, departments, or concentrations may nominate candidates, or candidates may nominate their own paper.
Required supplemental documents
- Candidate CV/Resume
- Candidate Thesis
- Readers’ Comments (Not Required)
- Additional Supplemental Document (Not Required)
Additional Instructions
One original letter of recommendation is now OPTIONAL. If you would like to submit a letter to support your application, submitting letters through CARAT is the preferred method for submission. However, letters may also be sent via email from the recommender to fatimah_mateen@fas.harvard.edu. Emailed letters should be sent as a PDF document, on letterhead, and include a signature.
Reader comments are REQUIRED. Please either submit them with your application materials, or send them via email to fatimah_mateen@fas.harvard.edu as soon as they are available to you.
Resources
Harvard Centers, Departments, and Programs
- Asia Center
- Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
- Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Committee on Degrees in History & Literature
- David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)
- Department of African and African American Studies
- Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health (FXB Center)
- Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP)
- Human Rights at Harvard
- Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School
- Instituto Cervantes, Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States
- Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
- W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research