<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default"><p style="border:0px;font-family:lato,sans-serif;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><strong style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><u>The DRIG Travel Award </u></strong></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:lato,sans-serif;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><strong style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">2017 Call for Papers </em></strong></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:lato,sans-serif;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">The Disability Research Interest Group (DRIG) of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association is pleased to announce the annual DRIG Travel Award.</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:lato,sans-serif;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">The DRIG Travel Award supports innovation in research pertaining to the anthropology of disability. The DRIG holds that people with disabilities are underrepresented in our field, as scholars and research participants. Consequently, disabled people’s experiences are frequently left out of anthropological knowledge production. For this reason, the DRIG aims to honor the research of emerging scholars who not only study disability experiences, but also critically and ethically engage with disability in local and global contexts. This year, we are pleased to offer two $100 one-time awards to honor emerging scholarship in Disability Anthropology.</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:lato,sans-serif;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">To be considered for one of two $100 awards, please submit the following no later than July 1, 2017:</p><ol style="border:0px;font-family:lato,sans-serif;line-height:inherit;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 30px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 35px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><li style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 5px;vertical-align:baseline">An email including your name, affiliation (or independent scholar status), and contact information;</li><li style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 5px;vertical-align:baseline">A current CV;
</li><li style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 5px;vertical-align:baseline">The title and abstract of your AAA presentation for the 2017 Meeting in Washington DC;
4. A statement of no more than 2 pages that describes your reasons for applying for this award. Statements should include a paragraph about the specific contribution that your work makes to the anthropology of disability/anthropological research on disability.</li></ol><p style="border:0px;font-family:lato,sans-serif;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Please send the application materials to Heather Thomas (<a href="mailto:thomash@uci.edu">thomash@uci.edu</a>), with “DRIG Travel Award Application” in the subject line by July 1, 2017.</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:lato,sans-serif;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Applications will be reviewed by members of the DRIG Steering Committee. Awardees will be selected according to a combination of scholarly merit and financial need. They will be notified by email. The award will be presented in check form during the AAA annual meeting.</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:lato,sans-serif;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><strong style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Past DRIG Award Recipients </em></strong></p><ul style="border:0px;font-family:lato,sans-serif;line-height:inherit;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 30px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 35px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:square;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><li style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 5px;vertical-align:baseline">2016 – Zhiying Ma, Christine Sargent</li><li style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 5px;vertical-align:baseline">2015 – Kylie Boazman, Michele Friedner</li></ul></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Molly Bloom</font><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">PhD Student </font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Department of Anthropology</font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">UCLA</font></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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