Awards
  • Forsythe Prize
    • Diana Forsythe Prize
      The Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC) of the General Anthropology Division and the Society for the Anthropology of Work are pleased to announce that Joao Biehl is the recipient of the 2008 Diana Forsythe Prize for his book Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival published by Princeton University Press.  The prize was presented at the Business Meeting and Distinguished Lecture of the General Anthropology Division on Friday evening at the AAA meetings in San Francisco.

      • The Diana Forsythe Prize was created in 1998 to celebrate the best book or series of published articles in the spirit of Diana Forsythe's feminist anthropological research on work, science, and/or technology, including biomedicine.  It is awarded annually at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association by a committee consisting of one representative from the Society for the Anthropology of Work and two from the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC).
  • GAD Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship
    • Call for Nominations
      The General Anthropology Division (GAD) has long supported innovative scholarship that transcends boundaries between the various fields of anthropology.   In this spirit, GAD is pleased to announce the return of the GAD Award for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship.  

      • GAD’s Cross-Field Scholarship Award, presented annually at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association, carries an honorarium of $1000. It will be awarded to a peer-reviewed journal article published in the preceding three years that demonstrates exemplary cross-field scholarship from any theoretical or methodological perspective, including applied research that encompasses two or more subfields of anthropology, or that is interdisciplinary in nature.

    • Nominations will be accepted until August 1, 2009.  Self-nominations are welcome.
    • To nominate an article published in 2006 or later for the 2009 GAD Award for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship or to obtain additional information, please contact Chris Furlow at furlow@ufl.edu
    • Previous Student Winners:
      Carlos E A Coimbra Jr. (2003)
      Nancy M Flowers
      Francisco M Salzano
      Robert N Proctor (2004)
      Kohler Johnson (2006)
      Cowan Johnson (2006)
  • General Anthropology Division Student Session Prize
    • The General Anthropology Division announces a call for submissions of proposals for the new General Anthropology Division's Student Session Prize. The Prize awards $200 to each participant to be used for meetings-related expenses in an all-student session that successfully passes review by the General Anthropology Division and makes it onto the 2009 AAA meeting program.

    • To be eligible, all participants in the session (including discussants, if any) must be students at the time of submission, and the session must address either cross-field or interdisciplinary research (broadly construed) or the teaching of anthropology. In addition, all submissions must pass through the General Anthropology Division's peer-evaluation procedure along with all other panel proposals and make it onto the AAA program as a GAD-reviewed session.

    • To submit a proposal for the AAA meetings, please submit your all-student panel through the AAA website specifying GAD as the reviewing section and send an additional proposal including a session outline listing all participants, the session abstract, and individual paper abstracts to the GAD Program Chair during February—March of each year.