[Linganth] SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service: Call for Nominations!!

[SLA Online]

*Dear All,*

*SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service: Call for Nominations*
The submission deadline is *October 1, 2019.*


Created and awarded for the first time by the *SLA in 2014
<http://linguisticanthropology.org/about/prizes/>*, this award honors an
SLA member or members for work that effectively impacts public awareness of
social issues involving language and communication and/or represents a
significant service to a particular community outside of the academy.  Such
work may be in any medium including but not limited to books, reports,
exhibits, pedagogical materials/curricula, documentary films, newspaper or
magazine articles, blogs, digitized or broadcast media, and
lectures.  Eligible work must have published, presented, or aired during
the five years immediately preceding the submission deadline.  A Selection
Committee appointed by the SLA President will consider all applications and
may request additional materials as needed. Awards will be announced at the
Annual SLA Business meeting.


*1.     **Applicants may self-nominate or be nominated.  **Each nomination
should include a**description of the work for which the nominee is being
considered, providing **the details, extent, and scope of the project, in a
statement of at least 500 words.  Please also include, whenever possible,
evidence of impact (such as the effectiveness of a public outreach project)
or testimonials to community service by community members (2-3 pages
suggested length). *

*2.     **To facilitate the process, please submit all a**pplication
materials in the form of PDF files and make sure that key materials
submitted in other languages are translated into or summarized in English
to facilitate their optimal evaluation.*

*3.    **Since an individual’s representative work is eligible for five
years, this evidence of accomplishment, with any relevant updates, may be
considered in more than one annual award cycle.  This means that applicants
who have been unsuccessful in a given cycle may reapply based on the same
materials so long as they do so within the five-year eligibility window; we
also ask that if necessary their application be reformatted as per 1 and 2
above.*

*4.     **Send nominations or inquiries to asifagha at sas.upenn.edu
<asifagha at sas.upenn.edu>*




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*Society for Linguistic Anthropology Online*
Digital Media Director: Elizabeth Falconi  (University of West Georgia)
SLA Social Media Manager: Diego Arispe-Bazan (Northwestern University)
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