ASECS - Emile Du Châtelet Prize

Organization: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

The Émilie Du Châtelet Award for Independent Scholarship is an annual award of $500, made by the Women's Caucus of ASECS to support research in progress by an independent or adjunct scholar on a feminist or Women's Studies subject. The award is open to the members of ASECS who have received the PhD and who do not currently hold a tenured, tenure-track, or job-secure position in a college or university, nor any permanent position that requires or supports the pursuit of research. Faculty emeritae are not eligible. The award is meant to fund works in progress, commensurate in scope with a scholarly article, book chapter, or edition, for which research is already under way. To be eligible for the prize, projects must advance understanding of women's experiences and/or contributions to eighteenth-century culture or offer a feminist analysis of any aspect of eighteenth-century culture and/or society.