The Christine Wilson Student Paper Award
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) seeks submissions for its annual Christine Wilson Awards given for outstanding undergraduate and graduate research papers on a topic that combines perspectives in nutrition or food studies and anthropology.
Students are also invited to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentation at a panel at AAA meetings, but students need not have presented their paper at the meeting. Winners will be recognized and presented with an award at the 2009 AAA meeting in Philadelphia, PA and receive a year's membership in SAFN.
Papers may report on research undertaken in whole or in part by the author. Papers must have as their primary focus an anthropological approach to the study of food and/or nutrition and must present original research. Literature reviews are not eligible. Papers that present new empirical research, evaluate a community nutrition intervention, propose a new conceptual framework, or outline a novel research design or methodological approaches are especially welcome.
Eligibility is restricted to enrolled students or graduates in the 2008-2009 academic year. The text of papers should be no longer than 20-25 pages, double-spaced. Please delete identifying information and submit with the Christine Wilson Award cover sheet (PDF).
Please submit as an email attachment (preferred) or mail in triplicate to:
Crystal L. Patil
UIC: Department of Anthropology
1007 W. Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607
Email to: awards@nutritionalanthro.org and cpatil@uic.edu.
Christine Wilson Award cover sheet (PDF)
Deadline is October 5, 2009.
Previous Winners
2008
Graduate Student Paper Prizes
White Rice, Black Africa: Dissonance in Interpreting the Impact of Imported Food and Non-Communicable Disease in Northern Ghana
Amy Moran-Thomas, Princeton University
2008
Graduate Student Paper Prizes
Organics for the Land-Grant, Sustainability for the Community: Developments in the Palouse
Troy Wilson, Washington State University
2008
Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
Lamb, Pasta, and Changing Traditions: A Case Study of Icelandic Dietary Modernization
Ashlan Falletta-Cowden and Sveinn Sigurdsson
2007
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Public Schools, Private Foods: Mexicano Memories of Culture and Conflict in American School Cafeterias
Melissa Salazar, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Davis
2007
Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
How Chinese Babies were fed Twenty Years Ago: A Parent-Child Recall Study
Yuanyuan Zhang, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University
2006
Packaged and Processed Foods: Energy and Mates
by Lindsay Marshall (undergraduate), James Madison University
2005
Social Identity and Food Choice in the Southeastern United States
by Sarah M. Szurek (graduate), University of Alabama Paper was published in Nutritional Anthropology 26-27(1-2): 23-37
2004
Social Patterning of Intracultural Diversity in Food Knowledge in Southern Brazil
by Christine N. Newkirk (graduate), University of Connecticut
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