Prizes
The Society awards a number of prizes each year, recognising and rewarding excellence amongst undergraduate and postgraduate students, early career researchers, and authors of books in the field of French studies.
The Society owes its three R. H. Gapper prize to the generosity of the Gapper Charitable Trust, founded by Richard Gapper (1943–2014). Richard was involved in the Society for French Studies for many years, beginning in the mid-1990s. Not just an assiduous participant in the Society’s annual conference, he was Honorary Treasurer of the Society from 1997 to 2000, and a long-standing member of its Finance Committee. A full obituary was published in the journal and is available here.
Malcolm Bowie Prize
In 2008 the Society for French Studies launched the annual Malcolm Bowie Prize, to be awarded for the best article published in the preceding year by an early-career researcher in the broader discipline of French Studies.
R. Gapper prizes
The Society is pleased to confer the R. Gapper prizes upon scholarly work of outstanding merit, quality and value in the field of French and Francophone studies. Three separate prizes are awarded each year to work by undergraduates, postgraduates, and established researchers. Prizewinners must be based at an institution in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
R. Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize
A prize is awarded annually by the Society for French Studies for the best essay submitted by an undergraduate student at a university based in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland.
R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize
The Society awards an annual prize for an essay written by a postgraduate student, on any subject within the scope of French studies.