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Call for Nominations for the 2024 Rubel Prize
2024 Arthur J. Rubel Book Prize Competition
SLACA is pleased to announce the third annual competition for the Arthur J. Rubel Book Prize, generously endowed by Carole H. Browner in honor of her late husband. Professor Arthur J. Rubel (1924-2001) had enduring intellectual achievements in research at the intersections of culture, health, and illness. His early training in epidemiology taught him the value of applying systematic techniques to the study of social phenomena; his classic monograph, Susto, A Folk Illness (1984), is an enduring example. From the start, Art’s intellectual commitment was to research that would foster dialogue between medical anthropology and the larger discipline.
The Arthur J. Rubel Book Prize will be publicly awarded at the SLACA Annual Business Meeting in November, and the winner will be invited to give an online lecture to the SLACA membership and the public.
Nominations for the Arthur J. Rubel Book Prize must meet the following criteria:
- Nominated books must be authored by current SLACA members. This membership requirement is waived for authors who are not tenure track faculty, underemployed, or at Latin American institutions, on the understanding that they will join SLACA if they are awarded the prize.
- Submissions must have been published during the 2024 calendar year.
- Submissions must focus primarily on Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinx peoples.
- Submissions must focus on one or more of the main themes of Prof. Rubel’s work: complementary/alternative medicine, healing, health, migration, ethnicity, border studies, or the anthropology of Mexico.
- Submissions may be written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
- Books may be nominated for both the SLACA Book Prize and the Arthur J. Rubel Prize, if they meet the criteria for both. Each award has a separate prize committee.
Books may be nominated for both the SLACA Book Award and the Arthur J. Rubel Award, if they meet the criteria for both. Each award has a separate awards committee.
Please submit nominations for the 2024 Arthur J. Rubel Book Prize via this link no later than April 4, 2025. Email Ken Seligson (SLACA Awards Councilor) at kseligson@csudh.edu if you have any questions.
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 del Libro “Arthur J. Rubel,” generosamente donado por Carole H. Browner en honor a su esposo. El profesor Arthur J. Rubel (1924-2001) el legado de las investigaciones del profesor Rubel perdura en las intersecciones de la cultura, la salud y la enfermedad. Su formación en epidemiología le enseñó el valor de aplicar técnicas sistemáticas al estudio de los fenómenos sociales; su monografía clásica, Susto, A Folk Illness (1984), es un ejemplo perdurable. Desde el principio, su compromiso intelectual fue la investigación que fomentaría el diálogo entre la antropología médica y la disciplina más amplia.
El Premio del Libro Arthur J. Rubel se otorgará públicamente en la Reunión Anual de la membresía de SLACA en noviembre, y invitará al ganador a dar una conferencia en línea a los miembros de SLACA y al público.
- Las nominaciones para el Premio del Libro Arthur J. Rubel deben cumplir con los siguientes criterios:
- Los/as autores/as deben ser miembros de la AAA y de SLACA. Este requisito de membresía no se aplica a los autores que