The ICA has an interesting award. Not to brag too much, I won it last year, and one of you might this year. But move quickly with your nominations: Jan 31, 09 deadline. Note that the nominators must be ICA members, but the winner doesn't have to be. As the notice says below, the award is for researchers outside of the field of communication. Sociologists, historians, etc. in sociology, history, etc. departments are eligible. And sociologists, historians etc. who happen to be in a communication dept can be nominated, as long as they function as sociologists, historians, etc. I'm a committee member this year. I can answer general Qs to some extent, (the kind of answers I could post to this list) but not specific ones and Do note that it is about Communication RESEARCH -- I can think of some wonderful non-researchers, but they wouldn't make it thru. And please don't ask me to define Research now: that may make for lively committee discussion. There are no more criteria now than what is in this posting. There may be much talmudic committee discussion. The committee obviously chose last year's winner (me) on the basis of good looks. Here's the official announcement from the ICA website: COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AS AN OPEN FIELD The CROF prize of $500 is awarded to researchers who have made important contributions to the field of communications from outside the discipline of communications. It rewards and supports dialogue with other fields and institutional locations in which vital new understandings of the communications environment and the public sphere are being produced. Nomination Procedures Nominations should contain: 1. Letter(s) of nomination, not to exceed two pages apiece, speaking directly to each of the award criteria from the description 2. Publication(s) relevant to the award, If the publication is a book, arrangements should be made with the publisher to ship 5 copies to Michael Haley at ICA, 1500 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA), 3. CV(s) of the nominee(s) 4. All nomination materials should be submitted electronically by January 31 of each year, 11:00 pm EST at www.icahdq.org/cfp. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology University of Toronto 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________