Aurora Borealis Prizes - Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study

The Aurora Borealis Prize Committee operates a paperless submission process. Nominating SASS members may submit their nominations via the link below. Nominees will receive an automated notification requesting that they submit their papers as delivered, without revisions, along with any accompanying audio-visual or handout materials, to auroraborealis@scandinavianstudy.org. Please put “Aurora Borealis YEAR” in the subject line.  Papers must adhere to professional citation standards and include a bibliography.

Nominations must include the following information:

• Name of presenter
• Presenter’s institutional affiliation
• Presenter’s e-mail address
• Session name/number
• Title of paper
• Nominator’s recommendation regarding the papers eligibility for either History, Social Science, or Arts and Humanities
• Nominator’s comments regarding reasons for the nomination, including information about the paper’s oral presentation, argument, originality, use of relevant sources/existing scholarship, and so forth.

Society of Historians of Scandinavia Aurora Borealis Prize in History 

The Society of Historians of Scandinavia have generously donated funds to support a third Aurora Borealis prize in the field of history, broadly defined, for papers presented by graduate students at the annual meeting. Attendees are encouraged to submit nominations for this prize by November 1.

Undergraduate Aurora Borealis Prize

The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study  is happy to accept nominations for the Undergraduate Aurora Borealis prize. SASS will award a $500 prize for one outstanding undergraduate paper submitted in the calendar year preceding the nomination deadline (January 1). Faculty and Teaching Assistants are strongly encouraged to nominate outstanding student work using the link below. Note that you will need to provide the student’s name, institutional affiliation, email address, and the nominators comment’s regarding reasons for the nomination. Undergraduate papers may be in any field provided that the topic is significant to the field of Scandinavian Studies. 

The nomination link is always open. The committee will review all nominations for the previous calendar year in January and February. Prize winners will be notified in March.