LSA undergraduate contest announcement

[Jillian Cavanaugh]

Hi there-

Would you please post the following? Thanks!

Jillian


On behalf of the SLA Executive Committee, I invite you to participate in
this year's Society for Linguistic Anthropology student essay prize
competition for the best undergraduate paper in linguistic anthropology.
(PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR THE GRADUATE PAPER CONTEST WAS EARLIER
THIS SPRING. THOSE INTERESTED IN THE GRADUATE PAPER CONTEST SHOULD WAIT
UNTIL THE NEXT CONTEST CYCLE IN SPRING 2012) The deadline for the
undergraduate contest is July 30. The SLA will award a cash prize of $500,
as well as $300 in travel reimbursement for the prize winner, in order to
help ensure that they'll be able to attend the AAA conference and accept
their prize in person.


If you are a student who has written a paper that meets the contest
guidelines (see below), please consider submitting it!  If you are a faculty
member who has read a student paper that you feel is worthy of
consideration, please encourage the author to submit it
 
Society for Linguistic Anthropology Annual Undergraduate Student Essay
Competition

The Society for Linguistic Anthropology holds an annual student essay
competition at both undergraduate and graduate levels. THIS IS THE
UNDERGRADUATE SECTION OF THE CONTEST. In order to be eligible for this
award, the entrant 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 its clarity, 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.

Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges.  A prize will be awarded
in this category only if a submission of sufficiently high quality is
received.  The winner or winners will be announced at the SLA business
meeting, which is held during the annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association.  The winner receives an award certificate as
well as a cash prize.

Entries must be submitted electronically in either .pdf or .doc format.
They should be sent to Jillian Cavanaugh (SLA Executive Committee Member at
Large and organizer of this year's competition) at
jcavanaugh at brooklyn.cuny.edu by the deadline of June 30.  The cover sheet
should include: the title of the paper; the author¹s name; the author¹s
email address; the author¹s college or university affiliation; the prize
category (undergraduate or graduate) for which the paper is being submitted;
and the name of the faculty member who served as the student¹s advisor with
respect to the writing of the paper.


Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Associate Professor
Program Chair, Society for the Anthropology of Europe 2011
Member at Large, Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2010-11
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Brooklyn College CUNY
Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
2900 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11210
(718)951-5000 ex. 3803
Jcavanaugh at brooklyn.cuny.edu