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Welcome to the Gorgias Book Grant Program
In its efforts to promote education, Gorgias Press offers annually the
Gorgias Book Grant. This program offers outstanding graduate students
grants in the form of Gorgias Press publications. Grants consist of books in the
value of $500.00 per grant. Each year, two grants are
distributed.
2007-2008 Grant Field: Any field within the scope of Gorgias
Publications
Application Deadline: January 31, 2008
Grant
Date: March 2008
Eligibility
- Candidate must be enrolled in a graduate program (Master's or Ph.D.) in an
accredited university or an institution of learning in the field of the grant.
- Candidate must have the equivalent of a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
Application Process
Send by mail the following items to: Gorgias Press LLC, Book Grants Program,
46 Orris Ave., Piscataway, NJ 08854. (All documents, apart from official
transcripts, must be in English. Part 1 and 2 of the application can be emailed
to Christine Kiraz, Christine@gorgiaspress.com)
- A letter indicating your interests in your field and plans for the future.
- A two-page description of your thesis, or a one-page description of your
course work in the case of course-based programs.
- Official transcripts of the previous 2 years of university education. If the
institutions you come from do not give out transcripts please contacts us to
make alternative arrangements to satisfy this requirement.
- Two letters of recommendations from professors familiar with your work (one
must be your current supervisor in the field of the grant).
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2007 Book
Grant Recipients
Thomas Carlson earned a Master of Divinity at Trinity Evangelical
Divinity School in Deerfield, IL, and is pursuing a Master of Studies in Syriac
at Oxford University in order to become better acquainted with Syriac-speaking
churches. He is currently preparing for doctoral studies in the history of the
medieval Church of the East. Thomas is married, and he enjoys languages, Sudoku,
and reading widely in ecclesiastical history. He was pleased to be awarded a
Book Grant, saying, "Gorgias Press not only publishes some of the most important
specialist works about the Syriac church history, but also branches out into
other related disciplines. These books will help me broaden as well as deepen my
studies."
Joseph Witztum: "I completed a BA and MA in Arabic
Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and am presently a
second year graduate student in the Near Eastern Studies Department at Princeton
University. Among my interests are the Quran, Syraic Christianity and possible
connections between the two. I wish to thank Gorgias Press for their generous
grant." Joseph intends to write his disseration on the Quran, and is
particularly interested in its Jewish and Christian sources. He plans to use the
book grant to acquire Syriac texts which will allow him to conduct detailed
comparisons between the Quran and its possible Syriac sources.
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