Thomas H. Naylor Scholarship - 2017
Guidelines for the Thomas H. Naylor Scholarship Paper Competition
El Paso Archaeological SocietyP. O. Box 4345El Paso, TX 79914-4345
Attn: Scholarship Committee
The El Paso Archaeological Society is pleased to announce the Thomas H. Naylor
Student Paper Competition, for Spring 2017.
The winning entry will receive a cash prize of $1,000 and publication of the paper in the Artifact, the
Journal of the El Paso Archaeological Society. The competition is only open to bona fide undergraduate and
graduate students of any recognized college or university.
Guidelines for Thomas H. Naylor Scholarship Paper Competition:
- The student must be at the sophomore level or above, who is in good standing and who has a commitment to
anthropology, archaeology, history, ethnology, or a related subject.
- Deadline for submission of papers will be June 1, 2017. The winning entry will be notified by June 15, 2017.
- The award will be given in a lump sum to the student at the beginning of the academic year. The choice of
institution is the student's.
- The student will provide four hard copies and one computer disk (CDRW or DVD/RW) of the paper that has been entered.
Figures and tables should be presented in numerical order within the text of the manuscript. The placement should be
on the page after the page they were referred to. There should be no figures or tables that are not referenced in the
text. Webster's 9th or 10th Collegiate Dictionary will be used in the editing process. Please see Guidelines for Thomas
H. Naylor Scholarship Authors.
- The papers will be judged on a 40-point scoring system, 10 points for correct length, 10 points for relevance, 10 points
for being well written/formatted, and 10 points for original research. Winners will be chosen during the Scholarship
Committee meeting, in which the scores will be posted and averaged. Each paper will be discussed from the lowest score to
the highest. A list of comments will be compiled. Typically a winner will be selected by consensual agreement of the
scholarship committee. In case of a tie, the tiebreaker will be the higher GPA of the two contestants. If the committee
finds more than one paper that has merit, then that author may be asked to resubmit the paper for inclusion in the Artifact
as a regular submission.
- A student that has received the scholarship award for one year may submit a new paper and again apply for the next year,
following the same application procedure. Students may submit only one paper per award year.
- In the event no suitable paper is found, the Society may withhold the award during a given year.
- Information about the scholarship will be publicized beginning in January 2018 at anthropology departments of universities
in the southwest and in the area media. The Society will accept papers beginning in January 2017 and up to June 1, 2017.
Papers received after June 1, 2017 will not be considered.
- The decision of the El Paso Archaeological Society Scholarship Committee is final.
- The El Paso Archaeological Society Scholarship Committee will consist of four members of the El Paso Archaeological Society.
- In addition to the paper that is to be submitted, all students will provide a cover letter, containing the following information:
name, address, phone number, and e-mail address. A statement of educational goals, a brief history of activities, and previous
research, must be included. The student will also provide the name of the college now attending, grade level and a copy of
transcripts.
El Paso Archaeological SocietyEPAS Scholarship CommitteeP.O. Box 4345El Paso, TX 79914-4345(915) 833-1196
Contact: Scholarship ChairMartha Allder: mjane2112@aol.com Phone (915) 760 - 6277See more information about submission
for articles in The Artifact