Annual Student Achievement Award

Purpose:

The National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) is offering the Third Annual Student Achievement Award to recognize student achievements in the area of practicing and applied anthropology. The Award recognizes students who have excelled in these fields and it provides opportunities, particularly for students who have worked in team projects in applied contexts, to present their work and be recognized, in print, and at the annual AAA meeting.

Awards:

1) Three cash prizes will be awarded: $300 First Prize; $100 First Runner up; $50 Second Runner up;

2) All three papers will be published in a special issue of the NAPA Bulletin series;

3) Students will be awarded a certificate of recognition and will be acknowledged at the annual AAA meeting.

Eligibility:

Students must be enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate degree program at the time they submit their paper. Submissions must be original work of publishable quality. The work may be undertaken alone or in collaboration with others, but for papers with one or more co-authors, an enrolled student must be the paper’s first author.

Requirements and Criteria:

Papers must be between 20 and 30 pages in length, including bibliography and any supporting materials or appendices. The paper should conform to author guidelines of the American Anthropologist. Papers must be the product of research relevant to practicing and applied anthropology, including, but not limited to: examinations of community impact, contributions to identifying and improving local/service needs, or communicating anthropological theory and methods to non-anthropologists in collaborative research endeavors in a variety of settings—including non-profit agencies, indigenous communities, or corporations in business and industry.

Papers will be judged according to the following criteria. The papers should:

• Clearly state the problem or issue being investigated, while also acknowledging divergent or alternative viewpoints on the problem or issue.
• Clearly state the practical implications of the research for addressing or understanding real-world problems, as well any resulting recommendations, appropriate solutions or outcomes.
• Be mechanically sound, including strong grammatical writing, proper formatting, and appropriate citations in the body and bibliography of the paper. (Papers should be double-spaced, with 12 pt type.)

For more information, refer to the webpage.

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