Two graduate students will be honored with a Lancaster Dissertation Award this year at commencement. Applications are due April 5 and all students must be nominated by a faculty member.
The Graduate Division coordinates the annual Lancaster Dissertation Awards competition. This competition recognizes individuals who, in the opinion of the award committee, have completed dissertations representing original work that makes an important contribution to the discipline during the period of July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2013. The recipients receive a monetary award and recognition at the commencement ceremony.
Two awards are given annually in two different broad areas that alternate each year. The 2013 fields of competition, which are specified by the national Council of Graduate Schools, include:
- Biological and Life Sciences: Nominees must be doctoral degree recipients or candidates in the fields of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, Marine Science, or Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
- Humanities and Fine Arts: Nominees must be doctoral degree recipients or candidates in the fields of Classics, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, English, Film and Media Studies, French, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, History, History of Art and Architecture, Linguistics, Media Arts and Technology, Music, Philosophy, Religious Studies, or Theater and Dance
Winners of the Lancaster Dissertation Awards will be UC Santa Barbara’s nominees for the prestigious Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. A number of UC Santa Barbara students have won this national honor in previous years.