SPA Prizes

Lifetime Achievement | Stirling | Condon | Boyer

SPA Lifetime Achievement Award

The Society for Psychological Anthropology Lifetime Achievement Award honors career-long contributions to psychological anthropology that have substantially influenced the field and its development. The award seeks to recognize the work of individuals whose sustained involvement in psychological anthropology has had a major impact on research directions, on the wider visibility and relevance of the field, and on the growth of a community of scholarship addressing issues of culture and psychology.


Past Lifetime Award Winners



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Stirling Prize for Best Published Work
in Psychological Anthropology

Stirling Prize in 2009 for Best Published Article
Articles and book chapters published within the last two years, including ones scheduled for publication later in the year, are eligible for consideration. Nominations may be made by the author, publisher, or other party, as well as by the selection committee. Articles published in Ethos, the journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, are automatically eligible. However, it is recommended that meritorious Ethos articles still be nominated. The nominator must arrange to have three copies of the work sent for the selection committee to review, and should include a cover letter outlining the work's contribution to the field. All materials should be postmarked no later than May 15, 2009 and sent to:

SPA STIRLING PRIZE
Ashley Maynard, SPA Secretary-Treasurer
University of Hawai'i
Department of Psychology
2430 Campus Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
amaynard@hawaii.edu

The winner will be announced at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association and will receive a $250 cash prize.

Past Stirling Award Winners



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Condon Prize for Best Student Essay
in Psychological Anthropology

The Society for Psychological Anthropology each year awards the Richard G. Condon Prize for the best student essay (graduate or undergraduate)in psychological anthropology. The winner is awarded a year's membership in the Society and publication of the paper in Ethos (after appropriate revision as necessary).

The prize is named for the late Richard G. Condon, whose work included the study of adolescence, family, and change among the Canadian Inuit. Psychological anthropology is defined broadly to include interrelationships among psychological, social and cultural phenomena; it is not confined to studies of culture and personality. Essays will be judged on their organization and clarity, as well as upon their theoretical and methodological strengths. This year's winner will be recognized at the SPA Business Meeting held at annual meetings of the AAA.

Papers submitted for consideration in next year's competition should follow these guidelines:

1. No evidence of the author's identity may be provided in any way through the text or by reference in the paper.
   
   
2. The author's name and address, student affiliation, and the title of the paper must be provided on a separate cover sheet accompanying the manuscript, which should be identified by the title.
   
   
3. All authors of papers submitted for this prize must either be in Doctoral, Master's, or undergraduate degree programs at the time of submission, or be new graduates who received Doctorates, Master's Degrees, or Bachelor's Degrees after May 1, 2005. An entry should be accompanied by a photocopy of each author's student identification card or a photocopy of each author's most recent diploma. Only one entry is allowed per author.
   
   
4. Papers must not exceed 35 double-spaced pages and must follow the style of Ethos.
   
   
5. An electronic version of the paper (in the form of a Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat PDF file, on a CD or floppy disk) as well as four paper copies of the paper must be submitted and received by September 1, 2007, accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped manila envelope if return of the original is desired.

Submissions that do not meet the above requirements will be considered ineligible and returned without consideration. Entries should be addressed to:

SPA CONDON PRIZE
Ashley Maynard, SPA Secretary-Treasurer
University of Hawai'i
Department of Psychology
2430 Campus Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
amaynard@hawaii.edu

Past Condon Prize Winners



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Boyer Prize for Contributions
to Psychoanalytic Anthropology

Each year, the Society for Psychological Anthropology recognizes and rewards an outstanding published contribution to the field of psychoanalytic anthropology through the presentation of the Boyer Prize. The prize may be awarded to a book, article or book chapter published in the previous calendar year. The committee would like to call for nominations (including self-nominations) to augment its own pool of candidate publications. The deadline is July 15. Please send 3 copies to:

Jeannette Mageo
PO Box 644910
College 150
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164
Office phone: (509) 335-7737
jmageo@wsu.edu

Past Boyer Prize Winners