The I. Austin Kelly III Prizes for Excellence in Humanistic Scholarship
The deadline for the 2006-07 Kelly Prize is Wednesday, April 16th 2008.
To acknowledge outstanding achievement by undergraduate students intellectually committed to fields of study in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT, the Kelly-Douglas Fund awards two prizes of $800 each to the best essays in one of the fields listed below (or in an interdisciplinary combination of some of these fields):
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Comparative Media Studies
- Economics
- History
- History of Science and Technology
- Linguistics
- Literature
- Music and Theater Arts
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Visual Arts
- Women's Studies
The Prize is distinctive in being the only HASS writing award open to all students engaged in HASS-related studies, with no further restriction on topic and content. Faculty are encouraged to identify high-quality undergraduate essays written for courses they offer, and help students develop them for submission to the Kelly competition.
