Recent PhD grad Laliv Melamed won the 2017 Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Dissertation Award for her dissertation, Sovereign Intimacy: Israeli Homemade Video Memorials and the Politics of Loss. The award will be presented at this year's annual SCMS conference in Chicago (March 22 - March 26, 2017).
The Dissertation Award Committee of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies invites submissions for its annual award for the outstanding dissertation in film, television, and media studies. The SCMS Dissertation Award carries a cash prize of $1,000 and is presented at the annual conference. Dissertations that address any cinema, television or media topic within the disciplinary concerns and traditions of humanities-based moving image and sound studies will be considered. Criteria for judging include clarity and strength of argumentation, quality and originality of scholarship and research, organization and coherence, prose style, and contribution to the understanding of the field of film, television, or media studies.
For more information, visit the SCMS website.