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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
As those of you who were at the Biennial in April may have noticed, the plenaries and the banquet were video recorded. Those recordings have now been edited and uploaded to our new Vimeo channel, which can be found at http://vimeo.com/channels/psychanthro. That URL takes you to all of our videos, and we have also collected ... Read More
As in previous years, the SPA will be sponsoring a series of workshops in which small groups of students convene with faculty member around professional, theoretical, and methodological themes. These workshops offer an opportunity for students to engage in in-depth discussions within a mentoring context related to the proposed workshop theme, and work through specific ... Read More
The SPAs have a great lineup of panels at this year’s AAA meetings. Click here for a preview. And don’t forget about the business meeting on Friday, November 20 from 7:45 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. There will be a cash bar, snacks, and plenty of time to socialize before, during, and after the proceedings. Safe ... Read More
The Society for Psychological Anthropology is pleased to launch a call for nominations for the SPA Student Representative to the Board. The student elected to the position will begin service at the 2015 Denver AAAs during the SPA Board and Business Meetings. If you are, or know of student who may be a good fit ... Read More
The deadline for entries for the SPA’s STIRLING PRIZE FOR BEST PUBLISHED ARTICLE IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY has been extended through Monday, July 20. Articles and chapters from edited volumes published in 2014 and 2015, including those scheduled for publication later in the year, are eligible for consideration. It is easy to submit a publication for ... Read More
Get a sneak peek at the SPA Biennial Meeting with the complete set of abstracts for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and posters. Click here to download the program as a Microsoft Word document. See you in Boston!
