SEAA Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper

GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER – PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT

===Deadline extended to July 15, 2021===

The Society for East Asian Anthropology now invites submissions for the 2021 SEAA Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper.

The prize of $300 is awarded annually for the best graduate student paper on any aspect of East Asian anthropology and/or East Asian anthropology’s contribution to the broader field.

The Prize Committee welcomes all papers dealing with the anthropological study of East Asian societies and cultures, or other societies/cultures and diasporic and transnational communities with historical or contemporary ties to East Asia, including papers that focus on digital media or online ethnography. Papers will be read by a committee of the Society for East Asian Anthropology and judged on original empirical research and contribution to the field; organization, quality, clarity of writing, and cogency of argument. The author of the paper judged to be of the highest quality will receive the prize.

The Outstanding Graduate Student Paper prize committee consists of Committee Chair Nicholas Harkness (Harvard University), Jennifer Prough (Valparaiso University), Timothy Quinn (Rice University), Yifan Wang (Rice University), and Yi Wu (Clemson University).

One email attachment of the manuscript is to be submitted to the Chair of the SEAA Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee at harkness[at] fas.harvard.edu, date marked on or before 15 June 2021. No late entries will be accepted, and submissions will not be returned.

General eligibility criteria:

1. Students must be in a degree-granting program (including MA or PhD) at the time of their submission.
2. Paper must be the original work of the student and previously unpublished.
3. Limit one submission per student.

Manuscript format criteria:

1. All manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced, with one inch margins.
2. Maximum length for the body of the text is up to 7,000 words; the abstract, tables, notes, and references may constitute additional pages.
3. All submissions must follow the standard anthropological format for citations, endnotes, and “References Cited” as outlined in the American Anthropologist style guide.
4. Dissertation or thesis chapters should be reorganized as articles that can stand alone.
5. Authors must include a title and also an abstract of 250 words or less on the first page of the paper.
6. One email attachment of the manuscript is to be submitted to the Chair of the SEAA Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee at harkness[at] fas.harvard.edu (SUBJECT as underlined above), date marked on or before 15 July 2021. No late entries will be accepted, and submissions will not be returned.
7. Entries that do not conform to the above requirements will not be considered.