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Fredric M. Jablin Dissertation Award

The Faculty Honors New Scholars Annually

2008 Submission Deadline: Aug. 1, 2008
Please post and circulate announcement.

The Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond seeks submissions for the 2008 Fredric M. Jablin Dissertation Award. Submissions can be on any topic and from any discipline as long as they demonstrate substantial insights and implications for the study of leadership.

To be eligible for the award competition, a dissertation must be completed between Aug. 1, 2006 and Aug. 1, 2008. This year’s recipient(s) will be honored at the Tenth Annual Conference of the International Leadership Association, Nov. 12-15, 2008, in Los Angeles where they will be asked to present their dissertation research. The recipient(s) of the award will also receive a $1000 prize, complimentary one-year membership to the ILA, and complimentary conference registration and travel expenses to the ILA conference.

All submissions must be received by Aug. 1, 2008. Interested parties should submit a letter of interest, a three to five page abstract of a substantive dissertation chapter (specifically, the chapter that best represents the author's dissertation), a brief biography, and verification of the dissertation defense date (e.g., a letter from the dissertation advisor).

Candidates should e-mail submissions as attachments to jepsonaward@richmond.edu. Please do NOT send the dissertation. The award committee will contact semi-finalists by Sept. 15, 2008 to request a full dissertation chapter.

The Jepson School endeavors to further scholarship and educate students and others for and about leadership through curricula, events and programs. In 1999, the School implemented its annual Dissertation Awards, which are named for Dr. Fredric M. Jablin, who died in 2004.

The 2007 recipient was Dr. Steven D. Olson. Dr. Olson received his Ph.D. in Ethics and Society at Emory University. The title of his dissertation is "The Ethics of Leadership: Construction of an Analytical Framework, with Application to KenBlanchard's Theories of Situational and Servant Leadership." (Dr. Olson is pictured, right, with Jepson senior faculty member, Dr. Gill Robinson Hickman, who chaired the 2006-07 program.)

Honorable mentions went to: Richard D. Berry, George Washington University, Washington, DC, “Discovering the Missing Link of Emotion in Leadership: A Case Study of Affect Valence and Emerging Leadership” and Frederic J.A. Damen, Ph.D., Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, “Taking the Lead: The Role of Affect in Leadership Effectiveness.”

For past recipients, some authors' comments and abstracts, go to: