other awards
Read about the Society for Applied Anthropology's prize competitions . . . Also, a new SfAA Award In Honor of Dr. Bea Medicine
open competitions
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.
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 August 15 , 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
University of Hawaii
Department of Psychology
2430 Campus Road
Gartley #110
Honolulu, HI 96822
Papers submitted for consideration should follow these guidelines:
- No evidence of the author's identity may be provided in any way through the text or by reference in the paper.
-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.
-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, 2006. 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.
-Paper must not exceed 35 double-spaced pages and must follow the style of Ethos.
Lourdes Arizpe Award
Call For Nominations from SMA for the Lourdes Arizpe Award, a AAA-wide award sponsored by the Anthropology & Environment Section. A & E through its Lourdes Arizpe Award, has created an opportunity to recognize recent outstanding achievement in the application of anthropology to environmental issues and discourse in international or domestic arenas across all ecological and policy applications. The creation and naming of this award highlights the critical need for anthropological knowledge and perspective in addressing current environmental issues with larger implications for matters of global concern.
The deadline for nominations is June 12. The recipients for the Professional and the Student categories of the Lourdes Arizpe Award will be presented in a ceremony and reception at the 2007 meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in Washington DC. For further information, contact: Shirley Fiske, Chair (Shirley.Fiske@verizon.net).
URL: http://www.eanth.org/Awards.php?Award=Lourdes.htm
The Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights
Nomination deadline: January 15, 2007
The Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights was established in 1999 to honor Dr. Jonathan Mann and highlight the vital link between health and human rights. Sponsored by four organizations, CARE, Doctors of the World, John Snow, Inc. and the Global Health Council, the award is bestowed annually to a leading practitioner in health and human rights and comes with a substantial financial reward to allow its recipients a measure of freedom to pursue their work in the important area of global health and human rights.
Despite his untimely death in a 1998 plane crash, Jonathan Mann is considered by many to be one of the most important figures in the 20th century fight against global poverty, illness and social injustice. As the first director of the World Health Organization's Special Program on AIDS from 1986-1990, Dr. Mann pioneered the approach to AIDS that continues to shape public health policy today. As the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at Harvard University from 1990-1997, Dr. Mann began to articulate the ways in which the health of individuals and populations reflects access to basic human rights, using as his warrant his years as a public health practitioner and strategist and as his text the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Throughout his career, Dr. Mann focused public attention on the fact that prejudice and discrimination help drive the AIDS epidemic, and that discrimination against those at risk of infection fuels the epidemic further. History will especially remember Dr. Mann for bringing to the world's attention the basic notion that improved health cannot be achieved without basic human rights, and that these rights are meaningless without adequate health.
The award will be presented on May 31, 2007 in Washington, D.C., at a special Awards Ceremony during the Global Health Council's Annual International Conference. The winner's name is embargoed until the time of the ceremony. The deadline for submitting nominations is January 15. More information and application form here.
Peter K. New Student Prize, Society for Applied Anthropology
Eligibility: The Competition is open to any person who was registered as a student at the graduate or undergraduate level in a college or university during the most recent calendar year. An eligible student is one who does not have a previously-earned doctoral degree. For example, a person with an M.D. degree who is registered as a student in a Ph.D. program is not eligible, and vice versa.
To be eligible, the manuscript should report on research that in large measure has not been previously published. The competition will be limited to manuscripts that have a single author; multiple-authored papers will not be eligible.
The winner of the Competition must be available to attend the annual meeting of the Society and present the paper. The winner is also expected to submit the paper to our journal, Human Organization, for review and possible publication. Students who have previously won either first or second place in the Peter K. New Competition are not eligible in subsequent years.
Submission: The paper should be double-spaced and must be less than 45 pages in length (this includes footnotes, tables, and appendices). The paper should conform to the guidelines of conventional style manuals. The original and four copies of the manuscript should be submitted. Applicants may transmit their manuscripts by facsimile in which case a fee for duplication will be assessed. The Competition will not accept manuscripts by electronic mail.
Topic: The research and the paper should use the social/behavioral sciences to address in an applied fashion an issue or question in the domain (broadly construed) of health care or human services.
Timetable: All submissions must be received in the Business Office of the Society by December 31. The judging for the Competition will begin in January. The winner will be announced in early February. The winner will be recognized and the paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society.
Criteria/Judging: The papers will be evaluated on the basis of the following general criteria: Originality; Research design/method; Clarity of analysis and presentation; Contribution to the social/behavioral sciences
Prizes: The winner of the Competition will receive a cash prize of $1,000 as well as a sum of $350 to partially offset the cost of transportation and lodging at the annual meeting of the Society. In addition, the winner will also receive a Steuben crystal trophy. Depending on the quality of the submissions, the jurors may elect to award a second and third place prize.
More Information here.
ongoing competitions
NIH Director's Pioneer Award (NDPA) Program
This program, a High-Risk Research initiative of Research Teams of the Future, is meant to complement NIH's traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research. First announced in 2004, the NDPA program resulted in nine awards in the first year. NIH has announced a second NPDA competition in 2005 for approximately five to ten new awards of up to $500,000 direct costs per year for five years. The program is not intended to support ongoing research projects or simply to expand the funding of persons already well supported for a particular project. The program is targeted to investigators at the early to middle stages of their careers. Awardees are expected to commit the major portion (at least 51 percent) of their research effort to activities supported by the NDPA. Deadline: January 16
Cheiron
History of the Social/Behavioral/Human Sciences Book Prize
Beginning in 2004, Cheiron: The International Society for the History of
Behavioral and Social Sciences will award the Cheiron Book Prize biennially
for an outstanding monograph in the history of the social/behavioral/human
sciences. Eligible works include original book-length historical studies,
written in English and published during the period 1 January 2002 through 31 December 2005. Topical areas can include, but are not limited to, histories
of psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, sociology, and social statistics.
Works that are primarily in the histories of medicine or education are not
eligible, unless they are strongly tied to the history of the social/behavioral/human
sciences.
Two copies of each entry must be received by the committee chair by 31
October
The
Global Health Excellence in Media Award
The Global Health Excellence in Media Award is given each year to a journalist
(print, electronic, or visual) who has in the prior year most effectively
captured the essence of a major issue in global health and conveyed it to
a broad audience. The Global Health Council recognizes the vital role played
by the media in informing the public as well as decision-makers, and seek
through this award to highlight the important contributions to understanding
and action made by the winner of the award. Selection of the awardee is
based on the quality of the reporting as well as its wide reach among readers
and viewers. Deadline: February 1