[Linganth] Announcing the SLA’s Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize

[Dave Paulson]

*SLA Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize*

The Society for Linguistic Anthropology would like to invite submissions of
graduate student papers for the *SLA’s Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize*.
Papers should be submitted by the deadline, March 20, 2015.

The winner and finalists will be invited to participate in an SLA-sponsored
panel at the 2015 AAA meetings in Denver
<http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/index.cfm>, along with this year’s
competition judges (names TBA). The winner will receive a *$500 prize* and
a grant of up to *$300 to cover expenses for travel* to the AAA meeting to
accept the award.

*Eligibility*: In order to be eligible for the award, the applicant must
have been a graduate 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.  At the time of submission for this competition,
the paper must not have been published or submitted for publication.



*Submissions*: The paper should be suitable for submission to the Journal
of Linguistic Anthropology (
http://linguisticanthropology.org/journal/submissions/) and must not exceed
25 double-spaced pages, not including bibliography.  The paper must be
submitted to jim.wilce at gmail.com in either .pdf or .doc format by the *March
20 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; and the name of the faculty member who served as
the student’s advisor with respect to the writing of the paper.



Please contact Jim Wilce, SLA board member-at-large, with any questions:
jim.wilce at gmail.com.

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-- 
Dave Paulson
Department of Anthropology <http://www.temple.edu/anthro/index.html> - Temple
University <http://temple.edu/>
Social Chair, Anthropology Graduate Students Association
Research Fellow, Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society
<http://www.temple.edu/vietnamese_center/fellows/>
SLA Web Assistant, Society for Linguistic Anthropology
<http://linguisticanthropology.org/>
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