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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:22.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: zoom-in; margin-right: 0px;" src="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SLAlogo.png" width="181" height="181"><b><span style="font-size:19pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,153,0);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration:none"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:22.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:19pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,153,0);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration:none"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:22.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:19pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,153,0);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">SLA Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(153,153,153)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:22.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68,68,68)">The Society for
Linguistic Anthropology would like to invite submissions of graduate student
papers for the <b><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">SLA’s Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize</span></b>.
Papers should be submitted by the deadline, March 20, 2015.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.75pt;line-height:18.75pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68,68,68)">The
winner and finalists will be invited to participate in an SLA-sponsored panel
at the <a href="http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/index.cfm">2015 AAA meetings in Denver</a>, along with this year’s competition judges (names
TBA). </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(52,52,52)">The winner will receive a <b>$500
prize</b> and a grant of up to <b>$300 to cover expenses for travel</b> to the AAA meeting
to accept the award.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.75pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Eligibility</span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68,68,68)">: In order to be eligible for the
award, the applicant must have been a graduate student in a degree-granting
program when the paper was written; must be the sole author of the paper; and
must submit the paper no more than two years after it was written. The paper
must be an original work based on original research conducted by the
author.  It will be evaluated on the basis of clarity, significance to the
field, and substantive contribution.  At the time of submission for this
competition, the paper must not have been published or submitted for publication.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Submissions</span></b><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68,68,68)">:
The paper should be suitable for submission to the Journal of Linguistic
Anthropology (<span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><a href="http://linguisticanthropology.org/journal/submissions/">http://linguisticanthropology.org/journal/submissions/</a></span>)
and must not exceed 25 double-spaced pages, not including bibliography. 
The paper must be submitted to <a href="mailto:jim.wilce@gmail.com">jim.wilce@gmail.com</a> in either .pdf or .doc
format by the <b>March 20 deadline</b>.  The cover sheet should include the
title of the paper; the author’s name; the author’s email address; the author’s
college or university affiliation; and the name of the faculty member who
served as the student’s advisor with respect to the writing of the paper. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Please contact Jim Wilce, SLA board
member-at-large, with any questions: <a href="mailto:jim.wilce@gmail.com">jim.wilce@gmail.com</a>. </span><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(52,52,52)"></span></p>

<br clear="all"><div><img src="http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/images/2015_logo_RGB_500.jpg" alt="2015_logo_RGB_500" title="2015_logo_RGB_500" border="0" height="305" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="500"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, serif">Dave Paulson <br><a href="http://www.temple.edu/anthro/index.html" target="_blank">Department of Anthropology</a> - <a href="http://temple.edu/" target="_blank">Temple University</a><br>Social Chair, Anthropology Graduate Students Association<br>Research Fellow, <a href="http://www.temple.edu/vietnamese_center/fellows/" target="_blank">Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society</a><br>SLA Web Assistant, <a href="http://linguisticanthropology.org/" target="_blank">Society for Linguistic Anthropology</a></font><br></div></div></div>