MAP awards a maximum of three prizes (up to $1,000 in total) for the best papers presented by graduate students at the annual meetings. Students in between degree programs and independent scholars who received their degrees no more than three years before the date of the conference are also eligible. Applicants must have presented the paper submitted at the last MAP conference (that is, in the same calendar year as the deadline for submission).
Submissions should be versions of the original conference presentations re-worked into scholarly essays (edited with notes). Inquiries and submissions should be directed to the MAP Vice President of the Association, Alison Perchuk.
The deadline for submissions for papers delivered at MAP's Annual Conference is November 1 of the same year. Awards will be announced at the subsequent Annual Conference.