Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition
Call for Entries: Save the Date—May 15!
The Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE) will accept entries for our annual Graduate Student Paper Prize before May 15, 2024. Finalists will be paired with an established scholar in the field who is willing to help mentor their work towards possible publication. The winning author will receive a $400 award and, through SAE’s collaboration with the journal Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, will be offered the option for the paper to be peer-reviewed by the journal for possible publication. Check out last year’s winners below!
Format
The evaluation of entries will be based on originality and contribution to the field of Europeanist Anthropology. The word limit is 7,000 words, including the abstract, main text, and references. Please number the pages and include a title page. Rigorous and accurate citation practice is mandatory. Manuscripts must be submitted in English (original or in translation) in a style appropriate for a manuscript in preparation for publication. It is recommended to follow format guidelines for Social Anthropology.
Eligibility
Submissions will only be considered if they have not previously appeared in print or online. SAE will only accept one submission per person. At the time of submission, authors must be graduate students (currently enrolled in Masters or PhD programs) in Anthropology programs at universities anywhere in the world. There are no citizenship requirements. BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ+ scholars are strongly encouraged to apply.
Submission of entries
Interested graduate students should submit their work via email to Dr. Tracey Heatherington, Chair of SAE Special Projects, by May 15, 2024. By sending in your entry, you confirm that the submission is your own, original work which has not been published elsewhere, and that all sources are appropriately credited. Please acknowledge all sources of assistance.
- Your email subject line should read: ”SAE Paper Prize Submission 2024”
- The cover page of your essay and the body of your email message should include:
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- Your full name and university affiliation
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- Title and word count of your essay
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- Your full email address and contact information
- Attach your entry in PDF format
- Send to: tracey.heatherington@ubc.ca
You should receive confirmation of receipt within one week; if not, kindly resend on the same email thread. The review committee will inform candidates about the results of the competition in October. Good luck!
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THE CURRENT AWARDEES
The Society for the Anthropology of Europe is very pleased to announce the results of our 2023 Graduate Student Paper Prize. 16 papers were submitted, and the committee selected a winner and two honorable mentions.
Winner:
Elspeth Davies (University of Cambridge), for the paper, “Living with Cancer Risk in the UK: New Notions of ‘Care’,”
Honorable Mentions:
Rim J. Irscheid (King’s College London), for the paper, “The aftermath of German World Music: Affective Dimensions of Collaborative Cultural Productions across Berlin and Beirut,”
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Andreas Lekkos (University of Oslo), for the paper, “Greening the Future: Land, Change, and the State on a Greek Island.”
The winner and two honorable mentions will all receive mentoring from Europeanist Anthropologists to prepare their papers for publication. The journal, Social Anthropology, has reserved a slot for the publication of an updated version of the winning paper. The winner will also receive a $400 prize.
The committee was chaired by SAE Publications and Projects Chair Damani Partridge (University of Michigan), with Esra Özyürek (University of Cambridge) and Chelsi West Ohueri (University of Texas at Austin) serving as members. SAE warmly thanks the committee members for their service.
Graduate paper prize winners and panel members, 2013
2021 SAE Graduate Student Paper Prize:
Winner: Céline Eschenbrenner (Tulane University), “The Sound of Difference: Mobility, Alterity and Sound at the French-Italian Border” (mentor: Naor Ben Yehoyada)
Runners-up:
Emily Curtin (CUNY Grad Center), “Belarus in Motion: The Politics of Fitness in Contemporary Minsk” (mentor: Marek Mikuš)
April L. Reber (UC Santa Cruz), “When Middle-Class Talk Goes Underground: Conspiracy Talk, Authoritarian Spectres, and Speech Rights (mentor: Emanuela Grama)
2020 SAE Graduate Student Paper Prize:
Winner: Kelly Alexander, “When Food Waste Goes to Work: The New Flavor of the E.U.’s Circular Economy ”
Runner-Up: Antonio Montañes Jiménez, “‘Evangelical Gitanos are a Good Catch: Masculinity, Love, and Christianity in Spain”
Finalists:
Tatiana Safonova, “Digging National Soil: The State, Private Gardens, and Corpses in a Hungarian Village”
Evy Vourlides, “Living with Regenerative Design: Examples of Economic Diversity from Austerity Greece”
Olivia Spalletta, “Transient care, disability, and belonging in the Danish welfare state”