SMA awards: New Millennium Book Award
The New Millennium Book Award has been established by the Society for Medical Anthropology to recognize and promote excellence in medical anthropology, broadly defined. The New Millennium Book Award will be made annually to a scholar within the field of medical anthropology for a solo-authored (or co-authored) book published since the beginning of the new millennium. In the 2008 competition, books published/copyrighted between 2005-2008 will be considered for the award.
The New Millennium Book Award will be given to the author whose work is judged to be the most significant and potentially influential contribution to medical anthropology. Books of exceptional courage and potential impact beyond the field will be given special consideration.
The New Millennium Book Award is designed to complement the Eileen Basker Prize and the Council for the Anthropology of Reproduction (CAR) book awards in the area of gender and health. Thus, books on gender and health topics will not be considered eligible for the New Millennium Book Award.
The Award will be publicly announced during the 2008 SMA awards ceremony, held during the annual AAA meetings. The winner will receive a $500 cash award and a plaque. Books that did not receive the award but are considered exceptional will receive honorable mentions at the award ceremony.
The New Millennium Book Award Committee strongly encourages submission of nominations for the 2008 competition. Nominations must come from one or more individuals (not organizations or publishers) in the form of a letter of nomination verifying the impact of the particular work on the field of medical anthropology. Self-nomination is not permitted, and works submitted without an accompanying letter of nomination cannot be considered. Six signed copies of the nomination letter should be sent to the Award Committee members at the addresses below. Similarly, authors/publishers of nominated books are expected to supply six copies of the relevant work to the Award Committee members as follows:
Tom Leatherman - Chair
Department of Anthropology
Hamilton College, Rm. 317
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Ralph Bolton
Department of Anthropology Pomona College
Hahn Building
420 N. Harvard Avenue
Claremont, CA USA 91711-6397
Ellen Gruenbaum
Department of Anthropology
California State University, Fresno
5245 N. Backer MS/PB16
Fresno CA 93740-8001
David Parkin
All Souls College
Oxford University
OX1 4AL
United Kingdom
Carolyn Smith-Morris
Assistant Professor
SMU Anthropology
P.O. Box 750336
Dallas, TX 75275-0336
Inquiries should be sent to the chair of the New Millennium Book Award Committee, Dr .Thomas Leatherman, at the address above or at leatherman@sc.edu. Six copies of all materials must be sent by the closing date of June 30, 2008 . Please include full name, mailing address, and email address for both authors and nominators.