2016 RUDOLF VIRCHOW AWARDS

2016 RUDOLF VIRCHOW AWARDS DUE JULY 1

Please consider submitting (or nominating) a paper to the Virchow
Awards competition. There are 3 categories of awards: professional,
graduate student, and undergraduate student.

*** 2016 Rudolf Virchow Awards ***
Rudolf Virchow, a 19th century German physician, was a key founder of
social medicine. His contributions centered on his recognition that
multiple intersecting factors - social, political, and economic –
produce disease and illness. He argued that the circumstances and
deprivations of poverty increase people's susceptibility to disease
and result in reduced life expectancy and quality of life. He
eloquently articulated the limits of medicine in the absence of
material security, a sentiment which informed his view that
nation-states play an important role in ensuring health security for a
citizenry. Virchow viewed advocacy as an essential part of health
praxis, and, in keeping with this legacy, the Critical Anthropology
for Global Health (CAGH) Special Interest Group honors Virchow's work
with three awards.

The annual Rudolf Virchow Awards are given by the Critical
Anthropology for Global Health Caucus, a special interest group of the
Society for Medical Anthropology. The Professional Award honors a
recent published article, and the Graduate and Undergraduate Student
Awards honor recent student papers that have not yet benefited from
editorial review. Winning submissions combine a critical anthropology
focus with rich ethnographic data, and best reflect, extend, and/or
advance critical perspectives in medical anthropology.

Submissions
The submission deadline for the 2016 Rudolf Virchow Awards is July 1,
2016. Awards are made in the following categories: 1) Professional, 2)
Graduate Student and 3) Undergraduate Student (see below). We
encourage you to submit your own work and/or to nominate papers of
your students or articles of colleagues.

If you wish to submit a paper for consideration, please e-mail the
paper and a cover letter of introduction to the Virchow Awards Chair,
Dr. Alexa Dietrich, at virchowawards@gmail.com by July 1, 2016. Hard
copies are no longer accepted. Confirmation of receipt will be sent.
To ensure a prompt and fair review, papers will not be accepted after
the July 1, 2016 11:59 pm PST deadline.

Professional Award Category
The professional award will be awarded for an article or chapter
published during 2015 in a peer-reviewed journal (print or online) or
peer-reviewed edited volume. Articles may be singly- or co-authored.
Technical reports and other contracted works are not considered for
this award. Professional articles must be submitted electronically in
Adobe PDF format as they appeared in print.

Graduate Award Category
The graduate student award will be awarded for a paper that was
written in 2015 or 2016 and that has not yet been subjected to
editorial review. Papers that have been submitted to a journal or
edited volume, but that have not yet benefited from review may be
included in this category. Theses and dissertations will not be
accepted. However, a summary no longer than 30 pages double-spaced
(inclusive of references) of a thesis or a dissertation that can stand
on its own, or a chapter that has been revised to stand on its own
will be considered for this award. Papers from students who have
graduated are still accepted in this category as long as the paper was
written in 2015 or 2016. Graduate student papers must be submitted in
Adobe PDF or Word format with a title-only first page. File sizes
must be less than 2MB. The document must exclude the author's name,
author's advisor, and university affiliation throughout. The cover
letter should include this information. Only papers, not interactive
media, will be considered for this award.

Undergraduate Award Category
The undergraduate student award will be awarded for a paper written in
2015 or 2016 while the student was still an undergraduate. Honors
theses are not accepted. However, a shortened version no longer than
30 pages double-spaced (inclusive of references) of the thesis or a
chapter from the thesis that has been revised to stand on its own will
be considered for this award. Undergraduate student papers must be
submitted in Adobe PDF or Word format with a title-only first page.
File sizes must be less than 2MB. The document must exclude the
author's name, author's advisor, and university affiliation
throughout. The cover letter should include this information. Only
papers, not interactive media, will be considered for this award.