The Christine Wilson Student Paper Award
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) is pleased to invite students to submit papers in competition for the 2010 Christine Wilson Awards presented to outstanding undergraduate and graduate research papers on a topic that spans the perspectives in nutrition or food studies and anthropology.
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. All applicants must be a current member of SAFN. Winners will be recognized and presented with an award at the 2010 AAA meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana 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 students (undergraduate or graduate) enrolled in the 2010-2011 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:
Michael R. McDonald, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Florida Gulf Coast University
C10501 FGCU Blvd.
CFt. Myers, Florida 33965
Email to: mmcdonal@fgcu.edu.
Christine Wilson Award cover sheet (PDF)
Deadline is October 5, 2010.
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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