SMA awards: Council on Anthropology and Reproduction
5th ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER COMPETITIONThe Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR), an interest group of the Society for Medical Anthropology, is pleased to announce its fifth annual student paper award competition. The award will go to the best graduate student paper on anthropology and reproduction. Submissions from all fields of anthropology are encouraged.
Criteria on which the papers will be judged:
-Ethnographic richness based on fieldwork
-Anthropological methodology
-Linkage of work to other work in anthropology and reproduction
-Effective use of theory and data
-Originality/Creativity
-Organization, quality of writing, and coherence of argument
A committee of CAR members will read the papers. The author of the winning paper will receive a cash award of approximately $250. The winner will be announced in both the CAR Newsletter and the Anthropology Newsletter. An abstract of the winning article will be published in the CAR Newsletter.
Submissions must be postmarked no later than June 1, 2008 . Send four hard copies and one disk or CD version of the essay. A separate page should include your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and school affiliation. Please do not include identifying information on the essay itself. Papers should be double-spaced, no longer than 9,000 words (including references), and references should be formatted in American Anthropologist style. Papers already published or accepted for publication at the time of submission are not eligible. Questions may be directed to Susan Erikson at serikson@du.edu.
Please address submissions to:
Susan Erikson
Director, Global Health Affairs
Graduate School of International Studies
University of Denver
2201 South Gaylord Street
Denver, Colorado 80208