The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) announces its 2014 Whiteford Graduate Student Award in Applied and Public
Anthropology in honor of Michael B. Whiteford and Scott Whiteford. The
award is intended to help a graduate student attend the SLACA Spring
bi-annual meeting. The 2015 meeting will be held in Oaxaca Mexico, March 26-28. The prize consists of US $1000 to support a student registered in a graduate program in Latin American, the Caribbean or the United States. We encourage anthropology departments to support students entering the
competition by providing additional conference travel funds.
The Whiteford Graduate Student Award was created through the enduring
support of Michael B and Scott Whiteford who have donated all of the
royalties from their book Crossing Currents: Continuity and Change in Latin
America to the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology since
its publication in 1998. With their contributions, SLACA has supported
Latin American scholars by helping them travel to present their work at the
annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. We are proud to
extend the Whitefords’ generosity to students’ emerging scholarship at the
spring SLACA meeting.
Papers submitted to the award’s committee are limited to a maximum length
of six thousand words, including bibliography. Papers can be from any
subfield of anthropology, but they must have an applied component and be
based on field research carried out in Latin America, the Caribbean, or
among first-generation migrants from these areas. The papers can be written
in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese. The student must hold a current
membership in SLACA. Awards will be announced at the 2015 SLACA meeting in
Oaxaca, Mexico (March 26-28, 2015).
The paper may be submitted as early as Dec. 1, 2014 with a final deadline
of January 5, 2015. Please submit papers electronically (as MS Word Files
or PDFs) to Francisco Fernández, Jury Chair, at frepettorama@gmail.com<mailto:
