<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Dear All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">the <a href="http://www.medanthro.net/interest-groups/drig/" target="_blank">Disability Research Interest Group</a> is now accepting applications for our 2017 travel award.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">2017 Call for Papers </em></strong></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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 <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">one-time</em> awards to honor emerging scholarship in Disability Anthropology.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">To be considered for one of two $100 awards, please submit the following no later than July 1, 2017:</p><ol style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em 3em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">An email including your name, affiliation (or independent scholar status), and contact information with the following attached:</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Your current CV;</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The title and abstract of your 2017 AAA presentation;</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">A statement of no more than 300 words of your contributions to the anthropology of disability.</li></ol><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Past DRIG Award Recipients </em></strong></p><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em 3em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">2016 – Zhiying Ma, Christine Sargent</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">2015 – Kylie Boazman, Michele Friedner</li></ul></div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">​</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thank you for your time,</span><font size="2" color="#0b5394"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><br></div></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The DRIG Steering Committee</b></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Molly Bloom</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Michele Friedner</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Faye Ginsburg</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Christine Sargent</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Heather Thomas</font></div></div></div></div></div>
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