Annual Student Paper Competition for 2009 

Last revised: Thursday, January 22, 2009

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The Society for the Anthropology of Europe is holding its seventeenth annual student paper competition. One prize of $400 will be awarded for a graduate-level student paper.

Deadline for submissions is May 15, 2009. 

SPECIFICS

  1. Papers must deal with some aspect of European anthropology and/or European anthropology's contribution to the broader field. This rule will be interpreted liberally to include papers of a comparative and/or theoretical nature.

  2. All submissions must follow the standard anthropological format for citations, endnotes, and "References Cited" as outlined in the American Anthropologist style guide.

  3. All manuscripts must be word processed or typed, double-spaced, with one inch margins, using 12 point font.

  4. Maximum length for the body of the text is 10,000 words; the abstract, tables, notes, and references may constitute additional pages.

  5. Authors should include a title and also an abstract of 100 words or less on the first page of the paper.

  6. All papers will be e-mailed to SAE Publications and Special Projects Chair, Thomas Taaffe at tomtaaffe@gmail.com, in pdf format, along with a separate cover sheet document, listing the author's name, paper title, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, university affiliation and academic status (undergraduate or graduate) also in pdf format. The cover sheet document must remain a separate file from the manuscript. The author's name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript.
    Entries that do not conform to the above requirements will not be accepted.

  7. These documents should be submitted as email attachments to the SAE Publications and Special Projects Chair, Thomas Taaffe, by May 15, 2009. No late entries will be accepted. Neither faxed nor postal submissions will be accepted.

  8. One prize of $400 will be awarded to the best graduate paper. In any one year, a prize may not be awarded at the discretion of committee members.

  9. The winner will be invited to revise and submit her or his article to the Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe for possible publication.


    10. CONTACT INFO
    Thomas Taaffe
    Chair, SAE Student Paper Award Committee
    17 Walnut St.
    Northhampton, MA 01060 USA

    Inquiries about the competition should be e-mailed tomtaaffe@gmail.com