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Scholarships, Awards, & Grants Information Second Annual Public Anthropology Publishing
Competitions (2009) The second competition focuses on graduate students who are preparing to conduct fieldwork or who have not, as yet, completed their doctoral dissertations and/or received their PhD. The winner will be selected based on (1) the public significance of the problem being addressed, (2) the way the problem is being approached, (3) a sample of the student’s writing, and (4) a signed agreement from the student’s dissertation committee supporting the student writing up his or her research in a form readable by a broad, public audience rather than as a standard academic dissertation. In the graduate student category, the winner was Claudia Seymour (at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). Claudia’s proposal explores how children understand and cope with violent conflict using, as a case study, research in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). She hopes, through the publication of her book, to strengthen child protection efforts in areas of violent conflict. Two runner-ups in the graduate student category were: Erin Finley (at Emory University) and Claire Snell-Rood (at the University of Virginia). Erin’s work examines Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD) among Mexican-American and Anglo-American veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Claire’s work considers how women living in the slums of Delhi, India strive to keep their families and themselves healthy. Ee would recommend that interested individuals read with care the statement at the link below explaining the basis for evaluating submissions. We should also highlight a developing relationship with the University of Pennsylvania Press and Rutgers University Press. All entries NOT accepted by the University of California Press’s series in Public Anthropology but of possible interest to Cynthia Mahmood, editor of U Penn’s series on The Ethnography of Political Violence, and to Alex Hinton, editor of Rutgers’ series on Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights, will be forwarded on to them for consideration in their series. It is our attempt at “one stop” submissions relating to Public Anthropology. Click Here for details. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2009. Submissions should be emailed to: bookseries@publicanthropology.org with the relevant material enclosed as attachments. Questions regarding the competition should be also directed to Dr. Rob Borofsky at: bookseries@publicanthropology.org . Please click here for further information. All entries will be judged by the Co-Editors of the California Series in Public Anthropology: Rob Borofsky (Center for a Public Anthropology & Hawaii Pacific University) and Naomi Schneider (University of California Press) AAA Leadership Mentoring/Shadow
Award Program Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral
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Women Educational Foundation Zora Neale Hurston AAA Annual Meeting Travel Grant Kenneth W. Payne Student Prize (SOLGA) Ruth Benedict Prize Competition (SOLGA) |
