Eligibility: Any student who presents, in person, a formal paper at the SEMSCC Annual Meeting shall be eligible for the prize. A student shall be defined as a person pursuing an active course of studies in a degree program. This will include persons who are engaged in writing the doctoral dissertation, but not those who are teaching full time while doing so.

Award: The award will consist of a cash prize of fifty dollars, and automatic consideration of the paper by the editor of the Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology.

Committee: The Student Prize Committee shall be chaired by the Vice-President of the SEMSCC and shall include the current and the two immediate past program chairs. Other committee members may be appointed by the chapter president.

Procedures:

1. Candidates for the Student Prize are asked to indicate on the abstract form that they wish to have their papers considered for the prize. If this is not done, candidates may write to the Program Chair before February 10 indicating that they wish to have their papers considered.

2. The Program Chair informs the Session Chairs of the names of all presenters whose papers are under consideration for the Student Prize. The Program Chair gives each Session Chair an evaluation form for each paper and a copy of the Guidelines.

3. Each candidate for the Student Prize must submit three copies of the paper to the Program Chair at the meeting. The papers are to be of delivery length and may not exceed 12 pages, double-spaced.

4. Immediately prior to the session at which the paper is to be delivered, the candidate must present an additional copy of the paper to the Session Chair.

5. The Session Chairs return all papers and evaluation forms to the Program Chair before the conclusion of the Annual Meeting.

6. The Student Prize Committee decides upon a winner before June 1. The Prize may be withheld, depending upon the judgement of the Committee. The winner will be notified by mail and will be recognized publicly at the next Annual Meeting of the Chapter, and in an annoucement in the SEM Newsletter.