We are now accepting nominators for the 2025 Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award. Nominations for the 2025 Award are due May 2, 2025.
In memory of Carolina de Miguel Moyer, this award was established in 2021 to recognize emerging scholars in European Studies under age forty, or within ten years of defending their dissertation. The Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award is presented annually to a scholar who is judged to have made (through a body of publications) the most significant contribution to the interdisciplinary study of Europe.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award: Tommasso Pavone (University of Toronto) & Ana Catalano Weeks (University of Bath).
Eligibility Requirements
- The recipient must be a current member of the Council for European Studies.
- Nominees must be under age forty, or have defended their dissertation in 2015 or after.
- The age or time since PhD requirement can be expanded when there have been career interruptions with family leave to take care of dependent(s). In the case of parental leave, the requirement can be expanded up to one year per child. Similarly, in the case of other family leaves, the requirement can be expanded up to one year per dependent.
Prize
- A $400.00 (USD) cash prize and a certificate will be awarded to the winner
Apply or Nominate for the Award
Each nomination must include a cover letter highlighting specific scientific merits (not merely generic praise) and an updated curriculum vitae of the nominee, including date of birth and date of the doctoral degree. Information on career interruptions due to birth or care of a dependent must be provided in cases where the candidate is older than 40 years old at the time of the call or has defended their dissertation before 2015.
Self-nominations are welcome. However, members of the selection committee may not nominate potential recipients. Previous nominees are eligible for the award as long as they meet the merit and age requirements.
The award committee
Yasemin Soysal, Berlin Social Science Center
Anna Gryzmala-Busse, Stanford University
Francesc Amat, University of Barcelona
Laia Balcells, Georgetown University
Juan Diez Medrano, Carlos III de Madrid
To nominate yourself or a colleague for the award, please complete this google form no later than May 2, 2025.
