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Dear Colleagues teaching Linguistic Anthropology to undergraduates!</div>
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Did you have a student write an exceptional course paper or undergraduate thesis? Nominate them or encourage them to nominate themselves for the Society of Linguistic Anthropology Annual Undergraduate Student Essay Prize! Feel free to circulate the language
below among your colleagues and students.</div>
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Submissions for the Society of Linguistic Anthropology Annual Undergraduate Student Essay Prizes
<b>is open. </b>The deadline is less than one month away: <b>June 15, 2025.</b></div>
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In order to be eligible for this award, the applicant must have been an undergraduate 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. The paper may be an undergraduate thesis or a course paper. A thesis
submission must not exceed 8000 words. A course paper must not exceed 4000 words, including bibliography. At the time of submission for this competition, the paper must not have been published or submitted for publication.</div>
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The undergraduate winner will receive a cash award, a certificate of accomplishment, and a small travel grant to the AAA meeting in New Orleans. </div>
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Submissions should be in English. Membership in SLA is not required for submission, although it is required for prize winners who wish to present their papers at the AAA conference.</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Inquiries about the undergraduate prize should be directed to: </span><span style="color: rgb(47, 90, 174);"><u><a href="mailto:slaundergradessayprize@gmail.com" id="OWA264cf132-8dcf-014f-714b-286ddbc54a05" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(47, 90, 174);">slaundergradessayprize@gmail.com</a></u></span></div>
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To submit a paper for consideration using this form: <span style="color: rgb(47, 90, 174);"><u><a href="https://forms.gle/tvtnPcyrvJ6nZJg4A" id="OWAca6ec888-7534-81c3-c3e8-1b32ee106760" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(47, 90, 174);">Undergraduate
prize submission form</a></u></span></div>
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Karl Swinehart </div>
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Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies</div>
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Department of Comparative Humanities</div>
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New publications: </div>
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<a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5v68t3wk" id="OWAfa042971-b9fe-2af4-26d6-40ea773c3a12" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5v68t3wk" data-auth="NotApplicable">"Text, Transit, and Transformation"</a> <i>American Indian Culture
and Research Journal </i></div>
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<i><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/voice-and-nation-in-plurinational-bolivia-9781350324756/" id="OWA9c67b3d8-6153-9aff-db77-04059de2d6ac" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/voice-and-nation-in-plurinational-bolivia-9781350324756/" data-auth="NotApplicable">Voice
and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia</a></i> (Bloomsbury)</div>
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