2008 Student Paper Prize Competition

The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D. and J.D.) at the time of their submission to send stand-alone papers between 5000 and 7500 words centering on the analysis of political and legal institutions and processes. 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. We encourage submissions that expand the purview of political and legal anthropology and challenge us to think anthropologically in new ways about power, politics and law.

APLA awards a cash prize of $300.00, plus travel expenses of up to $500.00 if the prize winner attends the 2008 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association to receive the prize in person. The prize winner will be announced in the Anthropology News, and the winning paper will be published in the peer-reviewed journal of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review . Submissions should be sent to:

Mark Goodale
George Mason University
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
3330 N. Washington Blvd.
Truland Building, 5th Floor
Arlington, VA 22201
Fax: 703-993-1302
Or, preferably sent as email attachments mgoodale@gmu.edu. For on-line submissions, please use a Word, Wordperfect, or PDF format. Deadline: 1 October 2008.