2020 Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award Call for Nominations

The College of Arts and Humanities is now accepting nominations for the University of Maryland’s Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award. Eligible candidates are UMD Ph.D. graduates who have submitted their dissertation to the Graduate School in the 2019 calendar year. Each ARHU unit may nominate one dissertation to the college.

The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2020 Distinguished Dissertation Award to the college is February 3, 2020. ARHU is able to submit up to four nominations for the 2020 award and the deadline for those submissions to the Graduate School is February 26, 2020, by 12:00 noon.

The Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. Awards will be given each year in four broad disciplinary areas: 1) Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering; 2) Social Sciences; 3) Humanities and Fine Arts; and 4) Biological and Life Sciences. For more information on the University Award: https://gradschool.umd.edu/funding/student-fellowships-awards/distinguished-dissertation-award.

Nominations must include:

1. A PDF of the whole dissertation.
2. A PDF attachment to include the remaining required elements of the nomination package (with bookmarks, if possible)

ARHU nominations should be submitted through the online application portal:  http://apply.arhu.umd.edu.  The portal will be open for nominations November 4, 2019 through the deadline on February 3, 2020 at 5p.m. The department and graduate program director is responsible for compiling the necessary components.

Please contact Ashley Richerson Miller at arichers@umd.edu with any questions.