Call for judges for SLA graduate student essay contest

[Jillian Cavanaugh]

Hi All,

This is a call for volunteers willing to serve as judges for this year¹s SLA
graduate student essay contest.  As in the recent past, we would like to
have a panel of judges, drawn from our membership. Judges must be SLA
members who are not currently eligible to enter the prize competition
themselves (in essence, this means that current students and those who have
been students within the past two years are not eligible to serve as
judges). If you would like to be a judge, please contact me at
jcavanaugh at brooklyn.cuny.edu as soon as possible, and no later than Friday,
Feb. 11. In order to avoid conflicts of interest, please do not volunteer if
one of your own students/advisees intends to enter the prize competition.  

This year¹s graduate student contest will follow a slightly different format
and have an earlier deadline than in past years. Please see below for a
description.

Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition:  March 15 deadline

This year we will be conducting the SLA graduate student paper prize
competition a little differently than in the past (note, the undergraduate
student paper prize competition is not affected by this and will be
announced as usual).  The SLA is calling for graduate students to submit
papers to the section by March 15th; the winner and finalists will then be
invited to participate in an SLA-sponsored workshop at the 2011 AAA meetings
in Montreal, along with two senior linguistic anthropologists (to be
announced), to conduct a discussion based on the papers¹ research results. 
In order to be eligible for the award, the applicant must have been either a
graduate or 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 clarify, significance to the field, and
substantive contribution.  The paper should be suitable for submission to
the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology and must not exceed 25 double-spaced
pages, not including bibliography.  At the time of submission for this
competition, the paper must not have been published or submitted for
publication.

Thanks, and look forward to hearing from you.

Jillian


Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Associate Professor
Member-at-Large, Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Program Chair, Society for the Anthropology of Europe 2011
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Brooklyn College CUNY
2900 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11210
(718)951-5000 ex. 3803
Jcavanaugh at brooklyn.cuny.edu