The Christine Wilson Student Paper Award
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) seeks submissions for its annual Christine Wilson Awards. One award is given for an outstanding undergraduate research paper and another for outstanding graduate research paper. Papers should reflect a topic that combines perspectives in nutrition or food studies and anthropology. The two winners will be recognized and presented with an award at the 2008 AAA meeting in San Francisco and will receive a year's membership in SAFN. Eligibility is restricted to students enrolled or graduated in the 2007-2008 academic year. 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 will not be accepted. Papers that present new empirical research, evaluate a community nutrition intervention, propose a new conceptual framework, or outline a novel research design or methodological approach are especially welcome. Students are also invited to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentation at a panel at AAA meetings, but winners need not have presented their paper at the meeting. Submitted papers must be no longer than 30 pages, double-spaced. Please mail in triplicate or submit as an email attachment (preferred) to:
Crystal L. Patil
UIC: Department of Anthropology
Lawrence University
1007 W. Harrison Street
BSB 2102 - MC 027
Chicago, IL 60607
Email: awards@nutritionalanthro.org
Deadline is October 15, 2008
Previous Winners
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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