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AFAS PRIZES & AWARDS

Each year, the African and African American Studies program at Washington University honors the best student writings and book collections focusing on African or African-American life, culture, or history.   Awards are given to the best essays in humanities, politics, or social sciences.   There is also a journalism award.  Book collection awards honor the best of most interesting personal libraries amassed and owned by individual students.  All of the awards include *cash prizes*.  The competitions were established to encourage and recognize Washington University student excellence in writing and in the study and interpretation of African and African-American concerns.


The William Miles Prize


This prize honors the life and work of filmmaker William Miles, who chronicled the achievements of African Americans in documentaries such as I Remember Harlem and Men of Bronze.  The Washington University Film and Media Archive houses the William Miles Collection.  In partnership with the African & African American Studies Program, the archive will award a graduate prize of $500 and an undergraduate prize of $500 to outstanding essays, or other serious research projects, that make significant use of rare or unique materials from the archive. 

The Film and Media Archive is a treasure trove of 20th-century African American history and culture, and of American history and culture more broadly.  Areas represented in the archive include: the Civil Rights Movement, the Great Depression, Great Society programs, 20th-century African American culture and arts, African Americans in the military, African Americans in science, African decolonization movements, and many other topics related to 20th-century American history and culture.   

Eligibility Requirements and Other Information:

•Undergraduate essays must be at least 8 pages. Graduate essays must be at least 15 pages.  Other types of serious research projects are also eligible for the prize (e.g., a documentary film or a multimedia website).

•Essays and projects must make significant use of rare or unique materials in the Film and Media Archive.

•Entrants are welcome from any academic discipline. 

•All entrants must take a tour of the archive and have a consultation with the archive staff by February 27, 2009.  To schedule your tour and consultation, please contact Alison Carrick at alison.carrick@wustl.edu

•Entries are due April 1, 2009.

•The winning papers and projects will be posted on the archive website. 

  1. •For more information about the Film and Media Archive, please visit http://www.library.wustl.edu/units/spec/filmandmedia/ .    


To view the official William Miles Prize flyer, click here.