SPA meetings 2017
Join us for the next SPA Biennial Meetings from March 9-12, 2017 in New Orleans, LA! The deadline for papers, panels, and workshops is October 30, 2016, and the deadline for posters and multimedia presentations is January 9, 2017. Click here for more info, and see you in NOLA!
Psychological Anthropology Mentoring Workshops
Sign up now for a catered evening of mentoring from leading figures within the Society for Psychological Anthropology and the Society for Medical Anthropology. Any graduate student or postdoc attending the AAA 2016 meetings in Minneapolis, MN may apply to meet with 3-4 mentors. The student will meet with each mentor for 15 minutes at an evening networking reception with the hope of benefitting from sage advice regarding their research and career paths. Students and mentors may also opt to enter into a longer-term mentoring relationship. The workshop will be held on the evening of Thursday, November 17.
For graduate students and postdocs: please submit a short paragraph that includes your name, institution, field specialty/interests, mentoring area of interest (e.g., grant-writing, publishing), degree/post-doc program and SMA and/or SPA affiliation. Submissions are due to Tawni Tidwell by October 1.
We also need mentors: professional members of the SPA and/or SMA. Please indicate your willingness to be a mentor in a short paragraph that includes your name, academic affiliation, researh focus, mentoring areas of expertise/interest (if different or in addition to field specialties), affiliation with SPA and/or SMA, and willingness to be contacted for continued mentorship by mentees after the event. Please send your information to Tawni Tidwell by October 1.
We will do our best to match up students and mentors with similar interests.
Read MoreSPA elections
Don’t forget to vote in the 2016 SPA elections. On the ballot are two items. First, two open positions on the Board are up for grabs. Click here for more information on the four outsanding candidates. Second, the board has voted unanimously to split the Secretary-Treasurer position into two separate positions to handle the recent expansion of SPA activities. However, this amendment to our by-laws requires a majority approval from SPA members. Click here for more information on the proposed changes.
Within the broader American Anthropological Association, a number of positions and resolutions are also being voted on, including the controversial resolution to boycott academic institutions in Israel so be sure to cast your vote.
Members of the AAA can vote here.
Read MoreCall for Applications to the 2016-17 SPA/Lemelson Fellowship Program
The Robert Lemelson Foundation has graciously renewed funding for the SPA/Lemelson Student Fellowship Program for 2016. Consequently, applications are now being accepted for 2016-2017 fellows. Details on the program and application can be found on the SPA/Lemelson Fellowship webpage The deadline for applications is February 28th, 2016. Please let your students and colleagues know about the opportunity!
The Robert Lemelson Foundation and the SPA Board are currently discussing the SPA/Lemelson Conference Fund to try and determine a format that would be mutually beneficial to the two organizations and support the goal of advancing the field. We will not be accepting any applications for conferences and workshops in 2016.
Read MorePrizes!
The winners of the SPA’s annual paper prizes were announced at the AAA meetings in Denver, CO. The Stirling Prize for Best Published Work in Psychological Anthropology went to Kristin Yarris’ Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry article “‘Pensado mucho’ (‘Thinking too much’): Embodied distress among grandmothers in Nicaraguan transnational families.” Suma Ikeuchi received the Condon Prize for Best Student Essay in Psychological Anthropology for “A case for the fantasy of an audience: Debating Christian selfhood in multicultural Japan.” Look for it in an upcoming issue of Ethos! Finally, P. Steven Sangren was awarded the Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology for his article “The Chinese family as instituted fantasy: Or, rescuing kinship imaginaries from the ‘symbolic’” in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Congratulations to Kristin, Suma, and Steven!
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