Call for Papers

Paper Prize

Robert M. Netting Best Student Paper Prize

Inviting graduate and undergraduate students to submit papers for [year TBD] the Robert M. Netting Award.

Graduate and Undergraduate winners will receive cash awards of $750 and $250, respectively, and have the opportunity for direct consultation with the editors of our section’s journal, CAFÉ (Culture, Agriculture, Food, and Environment), toward the goal of revising the paper for publication.

Submissions should draw on relevant literature from any subfield of Anthropology, and present data from original research related to livelihoods based on crop, livestock, or fishery production and forestry and/or management of agricultural and environmental resources. Papers should be single-authored, limited to a maximum of 7,000 words, including endnotes, appendices, and references, and should follow the American Anthropologist format style.

Papers already published or accepted for publication are not eligible. Only one submission per student is allowed. Those submitting papers need not be members of the American Anthropological Association but must be enrolled students. (Students graduating in the Spring of the given year are eligible).

The submission deadline is TBD.

Submissions should be sent to TBD.

Previous Winners

2022

  • Gabrielle Robins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "'The Smell Makes Us Hungry': When Food Isn't Medicine in Highland Madagascar."

2020 (co-winners)

  • Brad Jones, Washington University, "Skilled Landscapes: Towards a Political Ecology of Agricultural Skilling"

  • Noha Fikry, American University in Cairo, "Pigeon-Rearing and Food-Preparing: Rooftops as Spaces of Nurturance in Contemporary Egypt"

2017

  • Graduate award: Andrea Rissing (Emory University) “Profitability vs. Making It: The Agrarian Realms of Market and Community.”

  • Undergraduate award: Nako Kobayashi (Connecticut College) “Work for Farmers, Food for Storks.”

2014

  • Graduate award: Manoj Misra, University of Alberta

  • Undergraduate co-awardees: Kristin Gjelsteen, University of Puget Sound, and Jacqueline Garvin, University of British Columbia