Graduate Student - Best Paper Award

In line with the section’s mission statement, nominations for this competition include scholarly papers (research based or theoretical) pertaining to any aspect of Body/Embodiment for any graduate student within the last year (2011). For the graduate student best paper award, only submissions of work completed/published within the last year will be accepted. We seek to support graduate students’ original and best work, thus, we will consider co-authored (including those with faculty), unpublished works or articles published in any journal, or chapters published in recent books. Self-nominations are welcome. To be considered for this competition, all nominees (including co-authors) must be dues-paying members of the section (which requires ASA membership) for the year 2012. Only scholarly essays completed/published between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011 will be considered for awards made in August 2012. Graduate Student Best Paper nominations are due May 11, 2012. Late submissions will not be accepted (no exceptions). The recipient(s) of the award will receive a cash award. Only electronic submissions are accepted and should include a PDF copy of the article, author’s name, institutional affiliation and address, telephone number, and email address. Please send submissions to the chair of the Graduate Student Best Paper Award committee: Michelle Newton- Francis, Assistant Professor of Sociology at American University (mnewtonf@american.edu). Individuals may submit to one award only (Best Publication Award or Graduate Student Best Paper Award), not both.

 
Best Publication on the Body and Embodiment

The section on Body and Embodiment invites submissions for the Best Publication on the Body and Embodiment Award. The 2012 award will be for best book; books must have been published between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2011. Self-nominations are welcome as are co-authored works. To be considered for this competition, all nominees must be dues-paying members of the section (which requires ASA membership) for the year 2012. All section members are eligible. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred; they should include a .PDF copy of the book (or a hard copy by regular mail if PDF is not available), the author’s name, date of publication, publisher, and a brief comment highlighting the principal merits of the work and its scholarly contributions. Please send submissions to the chair of the Best Publication on the Body and Embodiment Award committee: Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY, 365 5th Ave Room 5116, NY NY 10016. Email: (vpitts@gc.cuny.edu). Nominations must be received by the prize committee’s chair no later than May 15, 2012. Late submissions will not be accepted (no exceptions). Individuals may submit to one award only (Best Publication Award or Graduate Student Best Paper Award), not both.