REMINDER: Deadline for SLA undergraduate student essay contest June 30

[Jillian Cavanaugh]

Hello All,
 
This is a reminder:
 
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 2013)
 
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, engagement with relevant literatures, and if it makes a
contribution to linguistic anthropological knowledge. At the time of
submission for this competition, the paper must not have been published or
submitted for publication. 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 deadline for the undergraduate contest is June 30, 2012. 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
 
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 will be announced at the SLA business meeting, which is
held during the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
 
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 June 30 deadline.  The cover sheet should include: the title of the
paper; the author's name; the author's email address; the author's 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 student's advisor with respect to the writing of the
paper. 
 
Thanks-and please spread the word! The deadline is quickly approaching.

Jillian

Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Associate Professor
SLA Member at Large
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

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