ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION 2008
The Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR), an interest group of
the Society for Medical Anthropology, is pleased to announce its eighth
annual student paper award competition. The award will go to the best
graduate student paper on anthropology and reproduction. Submissions
from all fields of anthropology are encouraged.
Criteria on which the papers will be judged:
• Ethnographic richness based on fieldwork
• Anthropological methodology
• Linkage of work to other work in anthropology and reproduction
• Effective use of theory and data
• Originality/Creativity
• Organization, quality of writing, and coherence of argument
A committee of CAR members will read the papers. The author of the
winning paper will receive a cash award of approximately $250. The
winner will be announced in both the CAR Newsletter and the Anthropology
Newsletter. An abstract of the winning article will be published in the
CAR Newsletter.
Submissions must be postmarked no later than June 1, 2008. Send four
hard copies of the paper. On a separate page, include your name, mailing
address, e-mail address, telephone number, and school affiliation.
Please do not include identifying information on the essay itself.
Papers should be double-spaced, no longer than 9,000 words (including
references), and references should be formatted in American
Anthropologist style. Papers already published or accepted for
publication at the time of submission are not eligible. Questions may be
directed to Maggie MacDonald at maggie@yorku.ca
Address submissions to: Maggie MacDonald
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
York University
Toronto, Ontario CANADA M3J 1P3
