Newsletter: April 2005
Nancy Vuckovic and Janelle Taylor, Contributing Editors
2004 Virchow Awards Announced
Athena McLean (U Central Michigan)
Congratulations to the 2004 Virchow award winners. Each year, awards got to the best submitted papers in the area of professional, graduate student, and undergraduate papers. This year’s judges were Craig Janes, Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Merrill Singer, Brian McKenna, Linda Whiteford and Lynn Morgan. Winners of the 2004 Virchow Awards are:
Professional category: James Pfeiffer (Case Western U) - International NGOs and primary health care in Mozambique: the need for a new model of collaboration.” Social Science and Medicine 56(2003):725-738. Graduate Student category: Sarah Willen (Emory) “Birthing ‘invisble’ children: State power, NGO activisim, and reproductive health among ‘illegal’ migrant workers in Tel Aviv, Israel.” Undergraduate Student category: Hanna Garth (Rice)(advised by Eugenia Georges, Dept. of Anthropology and Bridget Gorman, Dept. of Sociology) “African American view on health care: an urban study.”
The annual Rudolf Virchow Awards are given by the Critical Anthropology of Health Caucus, a special interest group of SMA. Rudolf Virchow, a German physician writing during the 1800s, was a key founder of social medicine. The awards honor professional articles and student papers deemed by the judges to best reflect, extend or advance critical perspectives in medical anthropology. The professional award will be given to articles published during 2004. The graduate and the undergraduate awards will be given to a paper that was written in 2004 or 2005.
Submissions and nominations for the professional award must be for articles published in 2004. The graduate and the undergraduate awards will be given to a paper that was written in 2004 or 2005. Please note that the deadline is earlier this year. Send three copies of articles or papers postmarked by June 1, 2005 to: Athena McLean, 549 Rampart Way #302, East Lansing, MI 48823.
Nominees Sought for SMA Paper Prize Competitions
Elisa Sobo (VA Healthcare System)
The SMA announces the competition for the Rivers Undergraduate Student Paper Prize, the Charles Hughes Graduate Student Paper Prize, and the Steven Polgar Paper Prize. SMA Board member Elisa (EJ) Sobo oversees the competition; contact her at elisa.sobo@med.va.gov with questions.
The Rivers and the Hughes competitions focus on student achievements. The Rivers Prize will be given for the outstanding paper in medical anthropology written by an undergraduate student; the Hughes Prize will be awarded for the best paper written by a graduate student. The names of the winners (and of their mentoring profs, if appropriate) will be announced at the 2005 SMA annual business meeting in Washington, D.C. Encourage your students to apply.
Papers must have been written while a student, in this or the preceding academic year only. Both prizes carry a $250 cash award, and the journal Medical Anthropology Quarterly (MAQ) will have the right of first refusal on winning manuscripts. Winners serve on the judging committee in the following year’s competition.
Five hard copies of entries for the Rivers and Hughes (student) prizes must be sent to the prize chair, postmarked by June 15, 2005. Papers should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages, not including bibliography. Details about the author should be included in a cover letter and no identifying information should be contained in the manuscript. Entries can be mailed to Dr. Sobo at: HIV QUERI, HSR&D; Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, 111N-1; 3350 La Jolla Village Drive; La Jolla, California 92161.
The Steven Polgar Prize is awarded to a professional medical anthropologist for the best paper published in the SMA’s journal MAQ during the most recent complete volume year. The prize carries a $500 cash award. No nominations are needed: articles published in MAQ by eligible recipients will automatically be considered for this prize.
Alcohol and Drug Study Group Listserv Links Researchers
Gilbert Quintero (U New Mexico)
Interested in joining a network of scholars interested in alcohol and drug research? The Alcohol and Drug Study Group (A&DSG) is an interest group of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. The purpose of the A&DSG is to provide a forum for communication and interaction between persons interested in the anthropological study of alcohol and drugs. Members of the A&DSG conduct research in a variety of academic, applied, and governmental settings.
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Please send your comments, contributions, news and announcements to the SMA Contributing Editors Nancy Vuckovic (nancy.vuckovic@kpchr.org) or Janelle Taylor (jstaylor@u.washington.edu).