[Linganth] SLA Hardship Grant and Membership Waiver

[Constantine Nakassis]

July 1, 2020

Dear Colleagues,



The current COVID-19 pandemic has continued to impact our scholarly
community in multiple ways. We are particularly aware of and concerned
about the forms of financial hardship that are hitting members who are
underemployed and unemployed. To support members whose livelihood has been
significantly impacted, or outright lost, due to the impacts of the
pandemic, the Society for Linguistic Anthropology
<http://amaa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zMDExOTY5JnA9MSZ1PTM3NDA4OTc1NCZsaT0yNDU5MDIxMA/index.html>
is
inviting applications for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA)
Hardship Grant and Membership Waiver. The SLA Hardship Grant and Membership
Waiver program will assist financially vulnerable SLA members whose
livelihood has been majorly impacted by the pandemic (e.g., by layoffs,
loss of employment opportunity, significant lost income, lost or reduced
graduate funding due to lost teaching assistantships, research funding, or
other livelihood support). In addition, for members who receive a hardship
grant and whose AAA and SLA membership is set to expire before December 31,
2020, the SLA will waive its section membership fee as well as pay for the
AAA membership fee for that year.



To qualify, applicants must:

   - be either an SLA graduate student member or a professional member
   (including those who are practicing/applied, instructors, lecturers,
   post-docs, and tenure-track faculty) of the Society for Linguistic
   Anthropology,
   - have suffered a loss of livelihood due to recent pandemic, and
   - have a current salary (as of the date of application) below
   $20,000/year (AAA tier 2) or equivalent monthly salary ($1667/month).

The amount of the grant will vary based on member’s status: professional
members will receive grants of $1,000 and graduate student members will
receive grants of $500. (As per AAA definitions, student status holds up to
12 months after their graduation. After this they are considered
“professional” members.)



*Applications are due by July 15, 2020, and can be submitted here
<http://amaa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zMDExOTY5JnA9MSZ1PTM3NDA4OTc1NCZsaT0yNDU5MDIxMQ/index.html>.
*Funds
will be dispersed to qualifying applicants shortly thereafter. A second
round of applications will be announced in August and due September 1,
pending availability of funds. Members who received grants in the first
round will still be eligible in the second round, though preference will be
given to members who did not receive a hardship grant in the first round.
Should you have any questions, please contact Constantine V. Nakassis
<cnakassi at uchicago.edu>.



We hope that this support, even though small, will help our SLA community
move through these uncertain, unprecedented times.



Sincerely,



Constantine V. Nakassis

Secretary-Treasurer, Society for Linguistic Anthropology




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Constantine V. Nakassis
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology,
Associate Faculty in the Departments of Cinema and Media Studies and
Comparative Human Development, The University of Chicago
Treasurer, Society for Linguistic Anthropology
email: cnakassi at uchicago.edu, office: 773 834 4810

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