Now that volume 5 (2014) is completely out, Film Matters is searching for three judges to determine the winner of the 2015 Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship. For more information about this new award, please see the initial announcement (https://www.filmmattersmagazine.com/2014/09/02/announcing-the-masoud-yazdani-award-for-excellence-in-undergraduate-film-scholarship/).
If you are a current instructor of film (graduate student, tenured/tenure-track professor, adjunct, etc.) at an institution of higher education, then please think about providing this valuable service to Film Matters and recognizing the dedicated work of an emerging film scholar, as well as his/her mentor and academic department.
All authors whose articles were published in 5.1, 5.2, or 5.3 of Film Matters as the result of a peer-review process automatically qualify for consideration. Twenty authors from volume 5 are eligible and represent the following institutions:
- City College of New York
- Concordia University
- Cornell University
- Grinnell College
- Nanyang Technological University
- Nottingham Trent University
- University of Alberta
- University of Hartford
- University of Hong Kong (3)
- University of North Carolina Wilmington (2)
- University of Texas at El Paso
- University of the West of England
- Vassar College
- Washington University in St Louis
- Wilfrid Laurier University (3)
Please email Liza Palmer (futurefilmscholars AT gmail.com) as soon as possible, indicating your interest in serving as a judge. Materials and policies/procedures will be provided to the judging board once it is populated. And the board, as a group, will decide whether they want to work anonymously or not.
Thanks, in advance, for your support and promotion of this award, which celebrates not only young film scholars, but also Masoud Yazdani of Intellect.
