EAAS Rob Kroes Publication Award

The European Association for American Studies (EAAS) is pleased to announce its biennial award for the best book manuscript in American Studies. The award is named for Rob Kroes, who served as Treasurer (1976–1988) and President (1992–1996) of EAAS.

For many years, Rob Kroes also edited the series European Contributions to American Studies where the EAAS Biennial Conference volumes appeared from 1980 to 2006. The competition is open to all members of the twenty-one national and joint-national American Studies organizations in the EAAS.

The EAAS defines “American Studies” broadly. To be eligible, a manuscript should be in the fields of literary, cultural, or historical studies. Interdisciplinary studies are also welcome. All entries should be concerned with phenomena or events that focus on what is now the United States of America. We welcome comparative and international studies that fall within these guidelines. To be considered, manuscripts should be between 250 and 400 pages long (375,000 to 670,000 characters equaling 1,500 characters per page).

Authors of eligible manuscripts are invited to nominate their work. We urge scholars who know of eligible manuscripts written by others to inform those authors of the prize. The award is open to authors of English-language manuscripts only. Entrants are requested to write a one- to two-page essay explaining why the manuscript is a significant and original contribution to American Studies. The winning work will be published at no cost to the author in the series European Views of the United States (Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg). The author is expected to provide the publisher with a camera-ready manuscript or PDF file. Manuscript guidelines are available upon request.

Four copies of the manuscript, clearly labeled “2011 Rob Kroes Award Entry,” must be mailed to the following address and received by August 31, 2011 (deadline exended):

Prof. Philip John Davies
Eccles Centre for American Studies
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
Great Britain

The winner will be announced by December 1, 2011.

The 2009 Kroes Prize winner is Astrid Franke of the University of Tübingen, Germany.

EAAS Biennial Conferences

Other Conferences

Ranking American Presidents

Northumbria University, UK, February 23, 2012

Native America

Indigenous Self-Representation in Canada, the US and Mexico

Post-graduate conference

University of Groningen, the Netherlands, February 23 & 24, 2012

Ireland and African America

Clinton Institute for American Studies
University College Dublin, Ireland, March 9-11, 2012

Visual Texts, Textual Pictures

Paris Sorbonne University, France, March 22-24, 2012

European Views of the United States

European Views of the United States is the official book series of the EAAS. We are proud to announce volume 3 of the series: E pluribus unum or E pluribus plura? Unity and Diversity in American Culture, eds. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, David Mauk, and Ole Moen, vol. 3, 2011 (Oslo Conference 2008)

European Journal of American Studies

The European Journal of American Studies is the official journal of EAAS. It welcomes contributions from Americanists in Europe and elsewhere and aims at making available state-of-the-art research on all aspects of United States culture and society.