Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Paper Award

Call for Papers: Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Paper Prize 2024

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The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology invites submission of papers for the annual Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Paper Prize. The competition honors the work of two distinguished anthropologists, June Nash and William Roseberry, for their multiple contributions to the anthropological understanding of Latin America. The paper should draw on relevant anthropological literature and present data from original research in any field of Latin American and Caribbean anthropology.

The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology invites submission of papers for the annual Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Paper Prize. The competition honors the work of two distinguished anthropologists, June Nash and William Roseberry, for their multiple contributions to the anthropological understanding of Latin America. The paper should draw on relevant anthropological literature and present data from original research in any field of Latin American and Caribbean anthropology.

The award will be presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Tampa, FL, November 20-24, 2024. A cash prize of $1,000 accompanies the award. Additionally, the authors of the First Place and Honorable Mention are provided personalized mentoring with the editors of The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology to aid them in the revision of their papers for submission to JLACA.

All participants in the competition are guaranteed placement and encouraged to participate in the SLACA sponsored JLACA “Roseberry-Nash Mentoring Program” held at the Meetings of the AAA. This mentoring and writing workshop is designed to help student authors develop the presentation of their research into a successful scholarly journal article that contributes to the study of the region.

All participants in the competition are guaranteed placement and encouraged to participate in the SLACA sponsored JLACA “Roseberry-Nash Mentoring Program” held at the Meetings of the AAA. This mentoring and writing workshop is designed to help student authors develop the presentation of their research into a successful scholarly journal article that contributes to the study of the region.

Requirements
* Contestants must be enrolled in a graduate program in Anthropology at the time of submitting the paper.
* Paper length: maximum 8,000 words.
* Languages: English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
* Must hold a student membership in the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) if awarded a prize (membership is not required at time of submission)

Submissions

Papers must be submitted on or before October 15, 2024, to Ken Seligson, SLACA Prizes Councilor. Please email papers as attached documents to kseligson@csudh.edu. Submissions should be formatted as an MS Word file and should include a) a de-identified copy of the submission, without name or other identifiers or contact information and b) a copy of the submission with the name of the author and other identifying information included.

Convocatoria: Premio Roseberry-Nash para estudiantes de posgrado 2024

La Sociedad para la Antropología Latinoamericana y Caribeña (SLACA; por sus siglas en inglés), una sección de la Asociación de Antropología Americana (AAA), anuncia la apertura de su convocatoria para el Premio anual Roseberry-Nash y solicita la entrega de trabajos académicos inéditos y originales (no previamente publicados) para el concurso del 2024.

El premio reconoce a dos antropólogos distinguidos, June Nash y William Roseberry, por sus importantes contribuciones a la antropología de América Latina. El escrito deberá presentar los resultados de una investigación original y estar vinculado con cualquier campo de estudio de la antropología de América Latina y el Caribe.

Los resultados se anunciarán formalmente durante la Reunión de Negocios de SLACA, la cual se realizará durante el congreso anual de la Asociación de Antropología Americana (AAA) que tendrá lugar en Tampa, Florida del 20 al 24 de Noviembre del 2024. El premio consiste en US $1,000. Así mismo, el ganador tendrá la oportunidad de trabajar con los editores del Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JLACA) en la publicación del trabajo en esta revista académica.

Requisitos

* Estudiantes deben estar inscritos en un programa de posgrado de antropología en el momento de envíar el trabajo.
* El escrito debe contar con un máximo 8000 palabras.
*Se aceptan trabajos en inglés, portugués, y español.
*No es requisito ser miembro de la Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) para la entrega de trabajos, pero si el trabajo es seleccionado como ganador, su autor/a deberá volverse miembro de SLACA (ver la página web de SLACA para más detalles:  http://www.aaanet.org/sections/slaca/membership-information/)

Entrega de trabajos

La fecha límite para la entrega de trabajos es el 15 de octubre del 2024. Los escritos deberán ser enviados por correo electrónico a Ken Seligson a la siguiente dirección de correo electrónico: kseligson@csudh.edu.
Los trabajos deben ser enviados en formato de MS Word, en dos copias. Solicitamos dos copias a) una copia sin nombre de autor u otra información que identifique al autor; b) una copia con el nombre de autor, y datos de contacto.

Prêmio Roseberry-Nash de Melhor Paper de Pós-Graduação — Edição 2024

Chamada para Papers

A Sociedade para Antropologia da América Latina e do Caribe (SLACA) convida para submissão de papers para da Competição Roseberry-Nash de Melhor Paper de Pós-Graduação. A competição é dedicada à obra de dois notáveis antropólogos, June Nash e William Roseberry, por suas múltiplas contribuições ao entendimento antropológico da América Latina.

O prêmio será anunciado durante o encontro anual da Associação Americana de Antropologia (AAA) em Tampa, Florida, 20-24 de novembro de 2024. Um valor em dinheiro no valor de US$ 1000 acompanha o prêmio.

O paper deve dialogar com literatura antropológica relevante e apresentar dados de pesquisa original em qualquer campo de estudos na área de antropologia da América Latina e do Caribe.

Requisitos:

*os competidores devem estar matriculados em um programa de pós-graduação em antropologia no momento da submissão do paper.
*Extensão do paper: 8000 palavras máximo.
*Idiomas: inglês, português e espanhol.
*O vencedor deverá estar associado à Sociedade para Antropologia da América Latina e do Caribe (SLACA) na condição de estudante para receber o prêmio (não é necessário estar inscrito no momento da submissão).

Os papers devem ser submetidos até 15 de outubro de 2024 para Ken Seligson, SLACA Prizes Councilor. Os papers devem ser enviados por e-mail para kseligson@csudh.edu. As submissões deverão estar no formato MS Word e deverão incluir a) uma cópia não-identificada da submissão, sem nome ou outras formas de identificação e contato; e b) uma cópia da submissão com o nome do(a) autor(a) e outras informações de identificação incluídas.

SLACA Announces 2023 Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Paper Award Winners

2023 Roseberry Nash Graduate Student Award

The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) is excited to announce that Chris Batterman Cháirez (University of Chicago) has been awarded the Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Paper prize for the paper, “Intimidad, incertidumbre, impase: una etnografía de la escucha y el ordinario en el Lago de Pátzcuaro, Michoacán.”

Alexandra Reichert (Vanderbilt University) received the Honorable Mention for “’They Study for Six Years. We Study for Generations:’ Renegotiating Birth, Power, and Interculturalidad in the Ecuadorian Amazon.”

Thanks to all who submitted their work for consideration as well as to the members of the committee for helping us select the winners.

Previous Winners

SLACA Roseberry-Nash Prize Winners

2022

Winner: Anna Kirstine Schirrer, “Ancestral Lands, Ancestral Rights: International Jurisprudence and Collective Property in the Wake of the Plantation”

Honorable Mention: Joshua Mayer, “Vigilance for Decolonization? Afro-Indigenous Responses to Dispossession in Nicaragua.”

2020

Winner: Vladimir Carballo Acuña, “Tallar las políticas mineras: la indeterminación en el diseño infraestructural de las esmeraldas y de la formalización minera en Colombia.”

Honorable Mention: Adela Zhang, “The Color of Modernity: Aesthetic Populism and Citizen Security Infrastructures in Lima.”

2019

Winner: Daniel Salas, “Practices of Double Currency: Value and Politics in Rural Cuba.”

Honorable Mention: Felipe Fernández Lozano, “Diseños para escalar la infraestructura. A propósito de la intervención estatal en el casco urbano de Buenaventura, Colombia.”

2018

Winner: Jennifer Cearns, “The ‘Mula Ring’: networks of material circulation and exchange through the Cuban world.”

Honorable Mention: Werner B. Hertzog, “The Economics of Nativist Cycles: Credit, Liquidity, and the Highland Chiapas ‘Cargo Bubble,’ 1940-1970.”

2017

Winner: Luis Alfredo Briceño González, “Agencia indígena y recuperación de territorio: caso del líder yukpa Sabino Romero en la Sierra de Perijá.”

2016

Not awarded.

2015

Winner: Monica Salas Landa, “Modernist Ruins, Fragmented Debris: The Unmaking Of Monumentality in the Northern lowlands of Veracruz, Mexico.”

Honorable Mention: Sydney M. Silverstein, “Inside a Uniform Imaginary: Gender, Politics and Aesthetics in Peruvian Technical Education.”

2014

Winner: Kyrstin Mallon Andrews, “Sinks for the Press: Cholera and State Performance of Power at the Dominican Border,”

2013

Winner: Yana Stainova, “Social Fragility and the Sonorous Gift: The Social Resonance of Classical Music in the Youth Orchestras of Venezuela’s El Sistema.”

Honorable Mention: Justin Perez, “His Death a New Political Movement May Find Life: Cyber Hagiography and Antidiscrimination Law in Chile.”

2012

Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Paper Award

Winner: Joseph Wilkberger (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Beyond Remittances.”

2010

Winner: Nell Haynes (American University), “Pinning Down the Chola: Bolivian Wrestling and Social Change.