SLA 2012 Undergraduate Student Essay Contest Announcement

[Jillian Cavanaugh]

Hello All,

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 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

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, 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.

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.  

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 <http://jcavanaugh@brooklyn.cuny.edu/>  by
the deadline of June 30.  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!

 

Jillian

 

 

Jillian R. Cavanaugh

Associate Professor

Member-at-Large, Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Department of Anthropology and Archaeology 

Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center CUNY 

2900 Bedford Ave.

Brooklyn NY 11215

(718)951-5000 ex. 3803

Jcavanaugh at brooklyn.cuny.edu

 

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