[ASEEES] New ASEEES Mentoring Program and other announcements

[Park, Lynda]

Dear ASEEES Members:

We are delighted to announce a new Mentoring Program for graduate students and early-career scholars and specialists. Our field boasts a wide range of area studies and disciplinary knowledge, but how one makes one's way through dissertation rites, funding cycles, postdocs, job markets, and non-academic career trajectories is often left as much to creative invention as it is to shared advice. Early-career scholars rightly lean on their advisors, their universities, and their peer networks with these issues, but the advantage of an association like ASEEES is that we can offer a good deal more. In a pilot project, ASEEES is sponsoring a new network to match volunteer mentors and mentees who are interested in conversation on these and other topics over the course of a single academic year.

For more information see:  http://www.aseees.org/programs/mentoring  The applications deadline is May 2.
Other Announcements:

ASEEES convention travel grants: We are currently accepting applications for two travel grants. Only members may apply. - http://www.aseees.org/convention/grants
Davis Graduate Student Travel Grant  deadline - April 15;
Regional Scholar Travel Grant deadline - May 1.

Donate: Please consider donating to the travel grant funds so that we can increase the number of grants that we can award: http://www.aseees.org/donate

ASEEES Prizes: We are currently accepting nominations for various prizes and awards - http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes
For the Tucker-Cohen Dissertation Prize<http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/robert-c-tuckerstephen-f-cohen-dissertation-prize>: The eligibility rule has been changed - the author no longer must be US or Canadian citizen or permanent resident.  The dissertation still must meet all other requirements as listed on the prize webpage.  The deadline for the prize nomination is May 15.
For the Ed A Hewett Book Prize<http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/ed-hewett-book-prize>: The scope of the prize has been broadened include books on "political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe" - not just on "centrally-planned economies and their transitional successors."

Convention: The 2014 Convention registration is open -http://www.aseees.org/convention/registration  We will post the hotel block information soon.

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Lynda Park, Executive Director
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