(Reminder) Award Annoucement: Research Award

Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award

In honor of the late Sakıp Sabancı, Honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Sabancı University, the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards are given each year in the field of social sciences.

This year’s theme is: Future of Multilateralism in Global Turmoil: Rethinking Security, Economy, Democracy.

About The Award: In 2005, Sabancı University decided to announce and administer an international award in order to encourage research on all aspects of Turkish culture, society and politics, and to uphold distinguished examples of fresh research with a view to engaging intellectual attention on Turkey’s role in the contemporary world. The “Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award” has been endowed in honor of the late Sakıp Sabancı, Honorary Chairman of Sabancı University’s Board of Trustees, and covers fields such as Turkish and Islamic Art and the History, Economy and Sociology of Turkey.
The Prizes: The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award entails a Jury Prize for 25,000 USD. The Jury Prize will be awarded to an individual who has made distinguished contributions in this theme. An independent and international jury will select this Awardee. A series of awards will also be given to researchers under 45 years of age. This category includes 10.000 USD for each of three award-winning essays selected by the same jury panel from among submissions made for the competition.

Conditions for the competition are:

• All entries must be new and original works, not published previously in any form.
• Essays must be approximately 13.000 words, including title, citations, and endnotes. (References should be shown in the form of endnotes.)
• An abstract of 500 words embedded to the original essay and a short c.v. of the applicant are required.
• Entries must be submitted in English, in the form of an attached Word document to the form which can ve found in the website below.

The deadline for submission is Tuesday, 15 January, 2019.

For detailed information: award.sabanciuniv.edu