AES 2007 Book and Paper Prizes Announcement:
Sharon Stevens First Book Prize
AES Senior Book Prize
Elsie Clews Parson Prize (for Student Paper Read at Spring AES Meetings)
PLEASE CIRCULATE this announcement to authors, publishers, students, and colleagues. Please note May 15 deadline for submission for each book prize and the April 15 deadline for submitting papers for the ECP prize.
Every other year, the American Ethnological Association awards two prizes for books that speak to contemporary social issues with relevance beyond the discipline and beyond the academy. Ethnographies and critical works in contemporary theory -- single-authored or multi-authored but not edited collections, published in 2005-2007 -- are eligible. One prize is for a work by a senior scholar. The second, the Sharon Stephens Prize, is awarded for a first book. Nominations require a letter from a scholar (who is not a representative of a press) describing the appropriateness of the book for the relevant AES Book Prize, and three copies of the book -- sent directly to each member of the relevant prize committee by May 15, 2007. For more information, please contact the relevant committee chair.
For details about submitting and nominating books, click here to read more...
Sharon Stevens Prize (First Book Prize)
May 15 Deadline for Nominations and Submissions
Please send a nomination and a copy of the nominated book to each member of the committee by May 15, 2007
Committee Chair:
Prof. Jacqueline Solway
IDS, Trent University
Peterborough Ontario, CANADA K9J 7B8
(705) 748 1011 ext. 1219, fax (705) 748 1624
Email Prof. Solway with all inquiries at jsolway@trentu.ca
Committee Members:
Prof. Richard Handler
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia,
P.O. Box 400133, Garrett Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22904 U.S.A.
rh3y@cms.mail.virginia.edu
Prof. Rosemary Coombe
230 Willard Avenue
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M6S 3P8
rcoombe@yorku.ca
Senior Book Prize
May 15 Deadline for Nominations and Submissions
Please send a nomination and a copy of the nominated book to each member of the committee by May 15, 2007.
Committee Chair:
Prof. Carla Freeman
Departments of Anthropology & Women's Studies (Chair)
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
tel. (404) 727-0098
email: carla.freeman@emory.edu
Committee Members:
Prof. Ken Guest
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Baruch College, City University of New York
1 Bernard Baruch Way, Box B4-260
New York, NY 10010 USA
Phone: 646-312-4477 Fax: 646-312-4461
email: ken_guest@baruch.cuny.edu
Prof. Donna Goldstein
Department of Anthropology
CB 233 Hale Building
University of Colorado-Boulder
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0233
tel.: (303) 492-5484 fax.: (303) 492-1871
email: goldsted@spot.colorado.edu
_________________________________
2007 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize Announcement
Submission deadline for papers is April 15, 2007
The AES is pleased to announce the reinstatement of the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize for best graduate student essay presented at the annual spring meeting.
The prize, which began in about 1970 and was discontinued in the 1980s, was commemorated by a silver medallion made by a Hopi silversmith. The design of this medallion utilizes a spider symbol common to Hopi pottery design. It appears on this website as the AES logo.
The prize is given every other year for the best graduate student paper delivered at the spring meeting. The Elsie Clews Parsons Prize was most recently awarded in Spring 2005 to Marc David (UNC, Chapel Hill).
Graduate students interested in applying for the 2007 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize should mail three copies of the complete paper to be preented at AES/CASCA in Toronto to:
Fran Rothstein, AES Board Secretary
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice,
Towson University, Towson, MD 21252-0001
Papers must be received by April 15, 2007.
Papers should be no longer than 35 double-spaced pages, previously unpublished, and should conform to American Ethnologist style guidelines.
Inquiries may be sent to Fran Rothstein at FRothstein@towson.edu (but please do not send papers electronically).
