Each year at the CPP Annual Conference, an early career scholar is selected for the Bill Gay Award.
The Bill Gay Award is for an early career scholar (defined as a scholar who is within 6 years of receiving their terminal degree) who has demonstrated their commitment to engaging with peace, peace studies, and peace and justice scholarship and/or activism.
Apply!
To be eligible for the award, a scholar must submit a full paper (5-7K words) at least two months in advance of the annual Concerned Philosophers for Peace conference. All submissions will be blind reviewed by the CPP awards committee.
The award will be announced at the annual CPP conference by the awards committee chair, and comes with a $2000 prize, formal certificate of recognition, and paper publication (subject to editorial approval) in the scholarly, peer-reviewed journal The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence.
Many thanks to Dr. Bill Gay, long-time CPP member, contributor, and activist scholar for peace and justice. His generous financial support is the backbone of this prestigious award, and CPP hopes that awardees will follow in Dr. Gay’s illustrious footsteps as lifelong champions for a more just and more peaceful world.
Submit your application here!
Please include your name, current position, number of years since receiving your terminal degree, and the institution from which you received that degree. Please prepare your paper for blind-review. You may submit your application at any time, but applications sent with less than two months advance for this year’s CPP Annual Conference will not be considered for this year’s prize, but will be eligible for the next year’s prize.
