CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS - 2021 Pi Gamma Mu Convention

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (March 29, 2021)

Student presenters pose at the podium at the 2011 Triennial Internatioanl Convention. The highlight of the Convention was the day-long presentation of 40 members’ research findings, which took place in the ornate Kennedy Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building, located across from the U. S. Capitol on the northern side of Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC.

Pi Gamma Mu was forced to postpone its 2020 Triennial International Convention for one year by the global viral pandemic.  The 2021 Triennial convention will thus take place in early November of this year (November 3-6, 2021), but it will be a virtual convention. The convention will have most of the features of in-person triennial conventions, with some extra features, and will be much more affordable. Student members are encouraged to submit completed social science research papers for presentation consideration at the 2021 Convention. 

The final paper submission deadline is Friday, October 8, 2021. Submitters will be advised within two weeks whether or not their paper have been accepted.  All accepted papers will then be ranked by the Committee of Readers. The top fifteen papers will receive free conference registration. The top ten rated papers will receive publication consideration in the International Social Science Review (ISSR). Early submissions are strongly encouraged.

All submissions must include a completed cover page (see example below), including the title of the paper, the author's name, institutional affiliation, email address, telephone number, AND the email address and phone number of their Pi Gamma Mu chapter sponsor AND/OR the professor for whom the paper was originally written.  Students are to include their personal information only on the cover page and the email sent with their entry, to ensure a completely blind or unbiased evaluation when the paper is sent to the evaluation committee. The paper itself must include none of the identifying information from the cover page other than the title of the paper. Completed papers should be at least 12 pages but no longer than 30 pages in length, including endnotes and references; double-spaced in Times New Roman 12 font.  No review comments will be shared with submitters, either verbally or orally, prior to the submission deadline.  Authors are reminded that their paper is being submitted for viewing by an audience of scholars in a number of social science disciplines, and that if their paper was originally written for a specialized class it should now have language and terminology which could be understood by non-specialists in their discipline.

Papers need to be submitted via email to Dr. Charles W. Hartwig, Chair of the Committee of Readers, at [email protected], with a "cc" copy to the Convention Committee Chair, Dr. Susan Kinsella, at [email protected].  The papers should be attached to an email cover letter as a Microsoft Word document.  Other word-processing software is unacceptable.  Thedeadline for submitting papers isFriday, October 8, 2021; earlier submissions are highly encouraged.   

Submissions will be acknowledged by email when received. Chapter sponsors and/or the relevant faculty member will also receive notification. If a submission is not acknowledged within four days of being sent, the student submitter should follow up by contacting the Convention Committee Chair (Dr. Kinsella) at the email address above.

We are encouraging members of Pi Gamma Mu, undergraduate students, graduate students, and alumni alike, to submit their work. Past conventions have demonstrated that Pi Gamma Mu members have completed truly outstanding research – we look forward to learning about new research.

Now is the time to decide to submit a research paper. 

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Sample Title Page

The Impact of Tourism on Cultural Identity in Bali

Amy A. Student
First and Third Nation University
[email protected]
(287) 380-9383

Dr. A. Hunky Scholar
Faculty Advisor
Pi Gamma Mu, Whatever Beta Chapter
First and Third Nation University
[email protected]
(287) 325-9118

Submitted for consideration at the 2021 Pi Gamma Mu Triennial Convention