Essay Contests for M.A. Students

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• Student Paper Prize Competition: Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

-- SYNOPSIS: The sponsor invites students to submit papers to its annual student paper prize competition. The sponsor encourages submissions that expand the purview of political and legal anthropology and challenge us in new ways to think anthropologically about power, politics and law.

-- Deadline: 10/01/2008

-- Contact: Mark Goodale

-- E-mail: mgoodale@gmu.edu

-- Program URL: http://www.aaanet.org/sections/apla/studentprize.html

-- OBJECTIVES: The sponsor encourages submissions that expand the purview of political and legal anthropology and challenge us in new ways to think anthropologically about power, politics and law. Topics may include the State; citizenship; civil society; colonialism and post-colonial public spheres; nationalism; cultural politics; multiculturalism; cosmopolitanism; globalization; immigration and refugees; resistance; and communicative media.

-- ELIGIBILITY: Eligibility is open to students in degree-granting programs (including M.A., Ph.D. and J.D.) at the time of submission.

-- FUNDING: The winner will receive a cash award in the amount of $300.00, plus travel expenses of up to $500.00 if she or he attends the 2007 American Anthropological Association meetings to receive the prize in person. The winning paper will be published in PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

• Institute for Humane Studies: Essay Contest

-- Harper Academic Research Competition: Recognizing the best published and unpublished work by graduate and law students on progress, prosperity, and human flourishing. $2,000 in prizes and the possibility of presenting research at the 2008 Social Change Workshop. Deadline: January 31, 2008.

-- Further information is available at http://www.theihs.org/grants_and_contest/id.908/default.asp

• Sylvia H. Forman Prize

-- Sponsor: Association for Feminist Anthropology

-- SYNOPSIS: The sponsor invites graduate and undergraduate students to submit a paper in feminist anthropology in competition for the Sylvia H. Forman Prize. Winning papers receive a certificate and a cash award and will have their paper summaries published in the Anthropology Newsletter.

-- Deadline: 06/01/2008

-- Contact: Dorothy Hodgson, Prize Chair, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, 131 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, U.S.A.

-- E-mail: dhodgson@rci.rutgers.edu

-- Program URL: http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~afaweb/forman.html

-- OBJECTIVES: The sponsor encourages papers in all four subfields of anthropology. Papers may be based on research within a wide variety of topics including (but not limited to) feminist analysis of women's work, reproduction, sexuality, religion, language and expressive culture, family and kin relations, economic development, gender and material culture, gender and biology, women and development, globalization, and the intersectionality of gender, race, and class. Papers that have been submitted for publication but have not yet been accepted may be eligible as entries, but authors of such papers should contact the Prize Chair to confirm eligibility before the submission deadline. Already accepted or published articles are not eligible.

-- ELIGIBILITY: Only one submission per student will be accepted.

-- FUNDING: The winners, one graduate and one undergraduate student, will receive a certificate, cash award ($1,000 graduate and $500 undergraduate) and have their essay summaries published in the Anthropology newsletter. Prizes will be awarded at the AFA Business Meeting at the AAA Annual Meeting, November 19 - 23, 2008, in San Francisco, CA. The AFA will contribute towards the cost of the winners' travel to the conference in the cases of demonstrated need.