Call for nominations: CSWEP’s Carolyn Shaw Bell Award and Elaine Bennett Research Prize

The annual Carolyn Shaw Bell Award is given to an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession, through example, achievements, increasing our understanding of how women can advance in the economics profession, or mentoring others.  Nominations should include a nomination letter, updated CV and three or more supporting letters, with preferably at least two from mentees. Nomination letters should be focused on examples of how the nominee has fulfilled the criterion of advancing the position of women in economics, rather than strictly on academic achievements. 

A CSWEP-appointed committee reviews nominations and the prize will be awarded at the January 2019 AEA Meetings in Atlanta. The Award Committee automatically retains and considers applications for a period of three years, and previous nominators are encouraged to update nomination packages if appropriate. Nominations are due September 26, 2018.

For more information and a list of past recipients of the Bell Award, visit: https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/cswep/about/awards/bell

The biennial Elaine Bennett Research Prize supports, encourages and recognizes outstanding contributions by young women in the economics profession.  Nominees should be at the beginning of their career and be within seven years of completing their dissertation and earning their Ph.D., but have demonstrated exemplary research contributions in their field.  Nominations should contain the candidate’s CV, relevant publications, a letter of nomination and two supporting letters.  The Bennett Prize is for fundamental intellectual contributions to economics.  Correspondingly, the nomination letter should describe the candidate’s research and its significance and supporting letters should come from experts in the field who are best able to speak to these contributions, regardless of departmental affiliation. 

A CSWEP-appointed committee reviews nominations and the prize will be awarded at the January 2019 AEA Meetings in Atlanta.  Nominations are due September 21, 2018.

For more information and a list of past recipients of the Bennett Prize, visit: https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/cswep/about/awards/bennett

Nominations for these awards may be sent to:
Shelly Lundberg, CSWEP Chair
Department of Economics
University of California
2120 North Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9210
cswep@econ.ucsb.edu