Society for Cultural Anthropology

The Cultural Horizons Prize

Call for 2011 Graduate Student Jury Members!

The SCA has long been distinguished by having the largest graduate student membership of any section of the AAA. Recognizing that doctoral students are among the most experimentally minded--and often among the best read--of ethnographic writers, this award asks of SCA's graduate student readers, "Who is on your reading horizon?"

This spirit gave rise to the "Cultural Horizons Prize," awarded yearly by a jury of doctoral students for the best article appearing in Cultural Anthropology. The winner of the 2010 Horizons Prize was Nancy Ries for her article, "Potato Ontology: Surviving Postsocialism in Russia." The SCA is now soliciting volunteers to serve on the doctoral student jury for 2011. The work involves reading through the 2010 volume of Cultural Anthropology over the summer, and delivering a collective decision by early August. Each member of the jury will receive a modest honorarium to help defray costs of attending the 2011 AAA meetings, in order to present the award to the recipient. Selection of the jury aims to cover the widest range of interests consonant with SCA membership, as well as SCA's spirit of interdisciplinarity grounded in the ethnographic tradition.

To apply, please send:
1. a paragraph-length statement of research interests and qualifications;
2. a current curriculum vitae;
3. a short note of recommendation from a dissertation committee member.

Applications may be posted or emailed to:
Kath Weston
Department of Anthropology
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400120
Charlottesville, VA 22904
<weston@virginia.edu>
The deadline is April 25, 2011

Cultural Horizons Prize winners include:

Saba Mahmood (U Chicago), 2002
Paul K. Eiss (Carnegie Mellon), 2003
William Mazzarella (U Chicago), 2004
Sarah Jain (Stanford U), 2005
Peter W. Redfield (UNC, Chapel Hill), 2006
Shao Jing (Nanjing U), 2007
Ilana Feldman (George Washington U), 2008
Omri Elisha (Queen's College, CUNY), 2009
Nancy Reis (Colgate University), 2010

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