The George Haydu Prize

The Prize. The Department of Anthropology administers the George Haydu Prize for the Study of Culture, Behavior, and Human Values. The prize, funded by an endowment provided by the late George Haydu of La Jolla, carries a cash award of $2,500.

Who may apply. Contestants must be fully registered UCSD graduate students in the Spring Quarter of the year in which the prize is awarded, or must have completed a Ph.D. degree at UCSD not earlier than the previous September 1. Previous winners of the Haydu Prize are ineligible.

Judging. The prize will be awarded to the submitted essay which best addresses the relation between culture, behavior, and human values. Essays should not be longer than 35 double-spaced typewritten pages. Essay will be judged on the basis of originality and scholarship by the George Haydu Prize Committee. Names of authors are withheld from the judges to insure impartiality.

In the event that none of the essays is judged of sufficient quality, the judges may elect not to award the prize. If two essays are judged to be of equal excellence, the judges may elect to divide the prize equally between the two authors.

Format & Submission. The cover page must carry the phrase "Submitted in competition for the George Haydu Prize" and include the title and the author's name, departmental affiliation, home address, Email address, and home phone number. The title of the essay, but not any identification of the author, should also be on the first page of the text.

An original and three copies of the essay, plus four copies of a one- to two-paragraph abstract of the essay, may be delivered to the Department Office in Room 216, Social Science Building or may be sent to:

The George Haydu Prize Committee
Department of Anthropology, 0532
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0532 USA

Deadline In most years the submissions must be received (not postmarked) by noon on March 1st. The judges' decision is announced on or about April 15.

Recent Prize Winners

Spring 2007

Naomi Haynes, Department of Anthropology
"The Impossibility of Individualism in African Pentecostalism: Behavior, Culture and Human Values in the Gospel of Prosperity". 

Amie Filkow, Literature Department
"Blackguards and Businessmen: Individualism and Racial Uplift in the Nineteenth-Century Black Atlantic". 

Spring 2006

Ellen C. Huang, Department of History
“qing as Social Relations, qing as Social Action: Lin Shu, the Politics of Feeling, and Empathy in Translated Fiction, 1898-1908.”