Anthropology Funding

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• Kenneth W. Payne Student Prize

-- Sponsor: Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists

-- SYNOPSIS: The Kenneth W. Payne Student Prize is presented each year by the sponsor to a graduate or undergraduate student in acknowledgement of outstanding anthropological work on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered topic, or a critical interrogation of sexualities and genders more broadly defined. Submissions are encouraged from graduate or undergraduate students in any of the four fields of anthropology.

-- Deadline: 09/15/2008

-- Contact: Ann Kakaliouras, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Whittier College, 13406 Philadelphia Street, Whittier, CA 90608, U.S.A.

-- E-mail: akakalio@whittier.edu

-- Program URL: http://www.uvm.edu/~dlrh/solga/prizes/Payne/payneprizecall.html

-- Appl Type(s): Graduate Student, Undergraduate Student

-- OBJECTIVES: An award is presented to a graduate student in acknowledgement of outstanding anthropological work on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered topic, or a critical interrogation of sexualities and genders more broadly defined.

-- ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible for consideration, work should have been completed since September 2007 while the applicant was still enrolled as a student.

-- FUNDING: The prize includes a cash award of $400.

• Leslie A. White Award - Central States Anthropological Society

-- SYNOPSIS: The sponsor provides an award to assist graduate or undergraduate students in any subfield of anthropology with research and publishing expenses. Award amounts may be up to $500 each year.

-- Deadline: 04/11/2008

-- Contact: James H. Hamill, Chair / CSAS Awards Committee, 204 Beechpoint, Oxford, OH 45056

-- E-mail: hamilljf@muohio.edu

-- Web Site: http://groups.creighton.edu/csas//Awards.htm

-- Program URL: http://groups.creighton.edu/csas//documents/2008_White_application.pdf

-- OBJECTIVES: The sponsor provides an award to assist graduate or undergraduate students in any subfield of anthropology with research and publishing expenses.

• Beth Wilder Dillingham Award - Central States Anthropological Society

-- SYNOPSIS: The sponsor provides an award to assist graduate or undergraduate students in any subfield of anthropology who are responsible for the care of one or more children. Award amounts may be up to $500 each year.

-- Deadline: 04/11/2008

-- Contact: Dr. James F. Hamill, Chair / ATTN: CSAS Awards Committee, 204 Beechpoint, Oxford, OH 45056

-- E-mail: hamilljf@muohio.edu

-- Web Site: http://groups.creighton.edu/csas//Awards.htm

-- Program URL: http://groups.creighton.edu/csas//documents/2008_Dillingham_application.pdf

-- OBJECTIVES: The sponsor provides an award to assist graduate or undergraduate students in any subfield of anthropology who are responsible for the care of one or more children.

• Student Paper Prize Competition - Central States Anthropological Society

-- SYNOPSIS: The sponsor awards prizes each year for best undergraduate and best graduate student papers based on a presentation given at its annual meeting. The prize in each category is $300, and papers in any area of anthropology are eligible.

-- Deadline: 04/18/2008

-- Contact: Robert C. Ulin, Chair

-- Address: Western Michigan University, Department of Anthropology, Moore Hall 1005, Kalamazoo, MI 49008

-- Web Site: http://groups.creighton.edu/csas//Awards.htm

-- Program URL: http://groups.creighton.edu/csas//documents/2008_student_paper_competition.pdf

-- OBJECTIVES: Entries should be potentially publishable but papers that require some editing or rewriting may still be chosen for the prize. The papers should aim for the style, format, and quality of anthropological journal articles.