2013 Whiteford Graduate Student Award in Applied and Public Anthropology

The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) announces its 2013 Whiteford Graduate Student Award in Applied and Public Anthropology in honor of Michael B Whiteford and Scott Whiteford. The award is intended to help two students attend either the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting or the SLACA Spring (bi-annual) meeting. The prize consists of US $200 for a student registered in a graduate program in the USA or Canada, and US $300 for a student registered in a graduate program in Latin American or the Caribbean. We encourage anthropology departments to support students entering the competition by providing additional conference travel funds.

The Whiteford Graduate Student Award was created through the enduring support of Michael B and Scott Whiteford who have donated all of the royalties from their book Crossing Currents: Continuity and Change in Latin America to the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology since its publication in 1998. With their contributions, SLACA has supported Latin American scholars by helping them travel to present their work at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. We are proud to extend the Whitefords’ generosity to students’ emerging scholarship at the spring SLACA meeting.

Papers submitted to the award’s committee are limited to a maximum length of six thousand words, including bibliography. Papers can be from any subfield of anthropology, but they must have an applied component and be based on field research carried out in Latin America, the Caribbean, or among first-generation migrants from these areas. The papers can be written in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese. The student must be a member of SLACA. Awards will be announced at the 2013 AAA meetings in Chicago, IL. The paper should be submitted before August 15, 2013 to Jason Pribilsky, Jury Chair. Please email papers as attached documents to pribiljc@whitman.edu. Please send documents as MS Word files, not PDFs.

Please send any comments, suggestions, and ideas for future columns to SLACA Contributing Editor Ronda Brulotte at brulotte@unm.edu.

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