Student Prize
Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D. and J.D.) to send stand-alone papers centering on the analysis of political and legal institutions and processes. Topics may include citizenship; colonialism and post-colonial public spheres; cosmopolitanism; cultural politics; disability; environment; globalization; governance; humanitarianism; medicine, science, and technology; multiculturalism; nationalism; NGOs and civil society; new media; immigration and refugees; resistance; religious institutions; sovereignty; war and conflict. We encourage submissions that expand the purview of political and legal anthropology and challenge us to think anthropologically in new ways about power, politics and law.
APLA awards a cash prize of $350.00, plus travel expenses of up to $650.00 if the prize winner attends the 2013 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (Chicago) to receive the prize in person. The prize winner will be announced in Anthropology News, and the winning paper will be published in the peer-reviewed journal of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
Authors must be enrolled in a graduate program through at least May 1, 2013. Papers should not exceed 8,000 words (including notes and references) and should follow the style guidelines of PoLAR, which are detailed in the American Anthropological Association Style Guide.
Please submit papers as PDF attachments.
Submissions and questions should be sent to Jennifer Hamilton at jhamilton@hampshire.edu
Deadline: May 15th, 2013
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Congratulations to our 2012 winner, Rachel Dotson, for her submission: Citizen-Auditors and Visible Subjects: Mi Familia Progresa and Transparency Politics in Guatemala
and the committee was pleased to award an Honorable Mention to:
Eli Elinoff for “Sufficient” Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Sustainability and the Redistribution of the Sensible in Northeastern Thailand
Past Awardees
- 2012: Rachel Dotson, Citizen-Auditors and Visible Subjects: Mi Familia Progresa and Transparency Politics in Guatemala
- 2011: Chika Watanabe, Return and Repetition in Development Work: Discipline as a Temporal Modality in a Religiously-based Japanese NGO
- 2010: Ceren Ozgul, Legally Armenian: Secular Politics of Multicultural Tolerance and Name Change in the Mid-Level Courts of Istanbul
- 2009: Jessica Johnson, Masculinity, War, and Sacrifice at Home: The Transformative Cultural Politics of an Emerging Church in Seattle, Washington
- 2008: Karine Vanthuyne, Becoming Maya? The Politics and Pragmatics of ‘Being Indigenous’ in Post-genocide Guatemala
- 2007: Mark Schuller, Gluing Globalization: NGOs as Intermediaries in Haiti
- 2006: Tomi Castle, Sexual Citizenship: Articulating Citizenship, Identity, and the Pursuit of the Good Life in Urban Brazil, and Amy L Porter, Fleeting Dreams and Flowing Goods: Citizenship and Consumption in Havana Cuba
- 2005: Jessica Greenberg, Noc Reklamozdera: Democracy, Consumption, and the Contradictions of Representation in Post-Socialist Serbia
- 2004: Greg Beckett, Master of the Wood: Moral Authority and Political Imaginaries in Haiti
- 2003: Christopher Colvin, Constructing the Past, Imagining the Future: Pursuing the Political Through Traumatic Storytelling
- 2002: John Tofik Karam, Intensified Eth(n)ics: Arab Brazilians and Political Representation in Neoliberal Brazil
- 2001: Kimberley Coles, Ambivalent Builders: Europeanization, the Production of Difference, and Internationals in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- 1999: Ayse Parla, The ‘Honor’ of the State: Virginity Examinations in Turkey
- 1998: Nitasha Sharma, Down By Law: Responses and Effects of Sampling Restrictions on Rap
- 1997: Conerly Casey, Suffering and the Identification of Enemies in Northern Nigeria
