Seidler Competition for Graduate Students

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Each year the NCSA sponsors a paper competition for graduate students. Please download the following attachment for specifics concerning the competition. Download call HERE — now available

GRADUATE STUDENTS TAKE NOTE

Research papers submitted to the competition MUST be submitted first as conference

presentations (title and abstract are all that are required).

Deadline to submit presentations based on competition paper is December 1, 2023.

SUBMIT PRESENTATIONS HERE

Completed research papers are to be submitted by competition deadline of January 5, 2024.

SUBMIT TO SEIDLER COMPETITION HERE

Note: please read competition information for instructions how to log in.

For more information about the paper competition, contact
Fong Gong, Paper Competition Chair

fgong@bsu.edu

2024 Graduate Winners

John Seidler Award (First Place)
Sino Esthpappan, Northwestern University
Predictive Algorithms as Legitimating Resources: How Judges Use Pretrial Risk Assessments

Second Place
Soocheol Cho, Indiana University
Assessing Variation in Public Attitudes towards Paid Parental Leave in the United States

Third Place
Monica Heilman, Indiana University
Wages of Whiteness? Multiracial Young Adults’ Experiences of Whiteness as a Contingent Status, Wage, and Tax

HELP US CELEBRATE STUDENTS BY CONTRIBUTING
TO THE TWO FUNDS SUPPORTING THE
STUDENT PAPER COMPETITIONS

President’s Paper Comptition for Undergraduates Fund

Seidler Paper Competition for Graduates Fund

page updated April 3, 2024