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Section Awards

American Ethnological Society

  • The Sharon Stephens First Book Award
  • Senior Book Prize
  • Elsie Clews Parsons Award For Best Graduate Student Paper
  • AES Small Grant Award for Graduate Student Research
  • AES Student Diversity Travel Grant
  • Awards web page

Anthropology and Environment Society

  • Roy A Rappaport Graduate Student Award in Environmental Anthropology
  • Junior Scholar Award
  • Julian Steward Book Award
  • Next Generation Award
  • Awards web page

Archaeology Division

  • The Gordon R. Willey Prize for Excellence in Archeological Research
  • The Patty Jo Watson Distinguished Lecturer
  • Alfred Vincent Kidder Award
  • Student Membership\ Award
  • Student Diversity Travel Grant
  • AD Grant Program for Archiving Digital Data
  • Awards web page

Association for Africanist Anthropology

  • Nancy Schwartz Undergraduate Student Paper Award
  • Elliott P. Skinner Book Award
  • Distinguished Lecture
  • Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Student Paper Award
  • Awards web page

Association for Feminist Anthropology

  • Zora Neale Hurston Travel Grant
  • Sylvia Forman Undergraduate Student Paper Award
  • Sylvia Forman Graduate Student Paper Award
  • Dissertation Award
  • AFA Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize
  • AFA Career Award
  • Awards web page

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

Association for Queer Anthropology

  • Ruth Bennedict Prize Best Anthology
  • Ruth Benedict Prize Outstanding Monograph
  • Kenneth W Payne Student Prize
  • Awards web page

Association of Black Anthropologists

  • Vera Green Award
  • The John L Gwaltney Native Anthropology Scholarship
  • Legacy Scholar Awards
  • Johnnetta B Cole Student Travel Award
  • Margaret Clark Award for Student Papers
  • Awards web page

Association of Indigenous Anthropologists

  • Lifetime Achievement Award

Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists

Biological Anthropology Section

  • W. W. Howells Book Prize in Biological Anthropology
  • Student Prize
  • Awards web page

Central States Anthropological Society

  • Student Paper Prize Undergraduate Student Award
  • Student Paper Prize Graduate Student Award
  • Leslie A. White Award
  • Beth Wilder Dillingham Award
  • Awards web page

Council for Museum Anthropology

  • The Michael Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology
  • Lifetime Achievement/Distinguished Service Award
  • CMA Student Travel Award
  • CMA Book Award
  • Awards web page

Council on Anthropology and Education

  • Outstanding Dissertation Awards
  • George and Louise Spindler Award
  • Early Career Fellowship
  • Awards web page

Culture and Agriculture

  • Robert M. Netting Undegraduate Student Paper Prize in Culture and Agriculture
  • Robert M. Netting Graduate Student Paper Prize in Culture and Agriculture
  • Awards web page

Evolutionary Anthropology Society

  • Travel Award
  • Best Student Paper Presentations
  • Best New Investigator

General Anthropology Division

  • General Anthropology Award for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship
  • Diane Forsythe Prize
  • New Directions Award
  • CASTAC David Hakken Prize
  • Awards web page

Middle East Section

  • Outstanding Student Paper Prize
  • MES Book Award
  • Distinguished Scholar
  • Awards web page

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology

National Association of Student Anthropologists

  • Emerging Leaders in Anthropology Award
  • Carrie Hunter Tate Award Undergraduate Student
  • Carrie Hunter Tate Award Graduate Student
  • Awards web page

Society for Anthropological Sciences

  • Student Travel Award
  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize
  • Carol. R. Ember Book Prize
  • Awards web page

Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges

  • SACC Teacher of the Year
  • SACC Student Award for Creativity, Leadership or Community Service
  • SACC Student Award for Academic Excellence
  • Awards web page

Society for Cultural Anthropology

Society for East Asian Anthropology

  • The Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize
  • David Plath Media Award
  • SEAA Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper
  • Awards web page

Society for Economic Anthropology

  • SEA Book Prize
  • Harold K Schneider Prize
  • Halperin Award for Graduate Research
  • M. Estellie Smith Award
  • Awards web page

Society for Humanistic Anthropology

  • Edie Turner First-Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing
  • Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing
  • Ethnographic Poetry Competition
  • Ethnographic Fiction Competition
  • Awards web page

Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

  • Whiteford Graduate Student Award in Applied Anthropology
  • Roseberry-Nash Award
  • SLACA Book Prize
  • Awards web page

Society for Linguistic Anthropology

  • The Sapir Book Prize
  • SLA Student Essay Prize
  • SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service
  • SLA Interdisciplinary Public Engagement Award
  • Awards web page

Society for Medical Anthropology

  • WHR Rivers Undergraduate Student Paper Competition
  • The Steven Polgar Professional Paper Competition
  • Science and Medicine in South Asia Graduate Student Paper Prize
  • New Millennium Book Award
  • MASA Graduate Student Mentor Award
  • Dissertation Award
  • George Foster Memorial Prize in the Practice of Medical Anthropology
  • Eileen Basker Memorial Prize
  • Charles Hughes Graduate Student Paper Competition
  • Career Achievement Award
  • Hazel Weidman Award for Exemplary Service to SMA
  • CAR – Graduate Student Paper Prize
  • CAR – Edited Collection Most Enduring Collection
  • CAGH Rudolf Virchow Award, Professional Category
  • CAGH Rudolf Virchow Award, Graduate and Undergraduate Student Paper Awards
  • Alcohol, Drug and Tobacco Study Group’s Annual Graduate Student Paper Prize
  • Alcohol, Drug and Tobacco Student Group Graduate Student Travel Award
  • AIDS and Anthropology Research Group’s Distinguished Service Award & Paper Prizes
  • Awards web page

Society for Psychological Anthropology

  • Stirling Prize for Best Work in Psychological Anthropology
  • Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Condon Prize for Best Student Essay
  • Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology
  • Awards web page

Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness

  • Distinguished Lecturer
  • Distinguished Article Award

Society for the Anthropology of Europe

  • William A. Douglas Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology
  • Student Paper Competition Graduate Student
  • SAE Council of European Studies Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Award
  • Awards web page

Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition

Society for the Anthropology of North America

  • Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America
  • SANA Book Prize
  • St. Clair Drake Travel Grant
  • Eleanor “Happy” Leacock Travel Grant
  • Awards web page

Society for the Anthropology of Religion

  • SAR Student Paper Prize
  • Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion
  • Awards web page

Society for the Anthropology of Work

  • SAW Book Award
  • Eric R Wolf Prize
  • Diana Forsythe Prize (Awarded jointly with CASTAC, a Committee of GAD)
  • Conrad Arensberg Award
  • Awards web page

Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology

  • SUNTA Senior Scholor/Lifetime Award
  • Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
  • Graduate Student Paper Prize
  • Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology
  • Awards web page

Society for Visual Anthropology

  • Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Collier Award for Books Featuring Still Photography
  • Awards web page