Call for Submissions - The Popular Culture Association Electronic Research Site Award, 2020

The Popular Culture Association Electronic Research Site Award, 2020

The Popular Culture Association sponsors this prestigious award each year along with literary and film awards. This award recognizes the outstanding contribution of an academic database to the study of Popular Culture and American Culture developed within the past three years. Criteria will include use of hypertext/networking, use of supplementary/secondary materials,  breadth of archived material,  and ease of searching and updatability.

Award winners will be announced at the PCA Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA, in April, 2020, and posted on the PCA website, on other appropriate websites, and in other media forums. Recipients need not be present at the conference to receive the award.

To nominate sites for the PCA Electronic Research Site Award, see "How to Submit a Nomination" on the Popular Culture Association Awards website. Self-nominations are welcome.

Deadline for submissions: December 2, 2019.

Please direct questions to the selection committee chair, Allen Ellis at ellisa@nku.edu.

Last year's winner: Re:Collection, The Azrieli Foundation Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program and Riddle Films

Winners from previous years include:

The Ozark Folksong Collection at the University of Arkansas
The Berg Fashion Library
The Media History Digital LibraryThe Quilt IndexHandmade Cinema: A Guide to the People, Practices and Themes of Artisanal Moving Image Production
Colored Conventions: Bringing Nineteenth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life
The Collinwood Fire, 1908