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The SPA wants to hear from you!

Dear SPA members, 

The Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA) wants to hear from you!

Beginning Fall 2024, we are launching a new section in our triannual newsletter: Testimonials. We hope this will be an informal opportunity to share your research with others and demonstrate the diverse interests and approaches of psychological anthropology. 

We’d love to know: What most excites you about your current or future research projects? How has the SPA been a meaningful space for you and your work? What does psychological anthropology mean to you and in the context of your work? Why does psychological anthropology matter, and for whom? If interested, please share with us a short statement (no more than 100 words) and an anchor image (a headshot, photo from the field, or other related image).

Please email your submissions to AJ Jones at jaudrey@wustl.edu by September 25th for full consideration for our Fall 2024 newsletter. Submissions after this date may be included in the Spring 2025 edition.

We look forward to collecting and sharing your work!

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2023 SPA Condon Prize: Call for Submissions

The Society for Psychological Anthropology solicits entries for the Richard G. Condon Prize for the best student essay in psychological anthropology. The winner will be awarded $500 and a one year membership in the Society for Psychological Anthropology. The winning essay will be published in Ethos after working with the Editor for final preparation of the manuscript. 

The prize is named for the late Richard G. Condon, whose work included the study of adolescence, family, and change among the Canadian Inuit. Psychological anthropology is defined broadly to include interrelationships among psychological, social and cultural phenomena. Essays will be judged on their relevance to psychological anthropology, organization and clarity, and their theoretical and methodological strengths. The author must have been an undergraduate or graduate student during academic year 2022-2023. The author need not be a current member of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. The winner will be recognized at the SPA Business Meeting at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in November.

Papers submitted for consideration must follow these guidelines:

  • Submissions must not be published in any form, or currently under review for publication in any outlet in the U.S. or abroad.
  • Submissions must not exceed 9,000 words inclusive of all references, endnotes and acknowledgements.
  • Submissions must be formatted according to the American Anthropological Association style guide.
  • Submissions must reflect the primary work of the student submitting the entry. If a paper has been authored by multiple authors, student status of all authors must be clearly stated, and contribution effort documented in detail.
  • Submitted papers must be emailed as a single Microsoft Word document to the Chair of the committee, Whitney Duncan, at whitney.duncan@unco.edu by June 1, 2023.

To submit, in the email to Dr. Duncan:

  • Subject line of the email should read “Condon Prize Submission.”
  • In the body of the email, provide the author’s name, permanent (not institutional) mailing

address, email address, student affiliation (university and department), and the title of

the paper that is attached. 

  • Confirm student status in the body of the email and provide an estimated date of

graduation. 

  • Ensure that no evidence of the author’s identity is evident in any way in the text of the

Word document or by reference in the paper. 

Questions? Please direct all questions via email to Dr. Duncan (whitney.duncan@unco.edu) and/or Dr. Sonya Pritzker, SPA Secretary (sepritzker@ua.edu)  

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2022 SPA Condon Prize Committee Announcement

2022 SPA Condon prize committee announcement

The Society for Psychological Anthropology solicits entries for the Richard G. Condon Prize for the best student essay in psychological anthropology. The winner will be awarded $500 and a one year membership in the Society for Psychological Anthropology. The winning essay will be published in Ethos after working with the Editor for final preparation of the manuscript.

The prize is named for the late Richard G. Condon, whose work included the study of adolescence, family, and change among the Canadian Inuit. Psychological anthropology is defined broadly to include interrelationships among psychological, social and cultural phenomena. Essays will be judged on their relevance to psychological anthropology, organization and clarity, and their theoretical and methodological strengths. The author must have been an undergraduate or graduate student during academic year 2021-2022. The author need not be a current member of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. The winner will be recognized at the SPA Business Meeting at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.

2022 Condon Committee Members:

Whitney Duncan
Department of Anthropology
University of Northern Colorado

Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Department of Anthropology
University of Central Florida

Courtney Cecale (former prize winner!)

Department of Anthropology

University of North Texas

Papers submitted for consideration must follow these guidelines:

  1. The submitted paper must not be published in any form, or currently under review for publication in any outlet in the U.S. or abroad.
  2. Papers must not exceed 9,000 words inclusive of all references, endnotes and acknowledgements.
  3. Papers must follow the American Anthropological Association style guide.
  4. Submitted papers must be emailed as a single Microsoft Word document to the Chair of the committee, Whitney Duncan at whitney.duncan@unco.edu. Do not submit papers directly to other committee members. The deadline is June 1, 2022.
  5. To submit, in the email to Dr. Duncan:
  • Subject line of the email should read “Condon Prize Submission.”
  • In the body of the email, provide the author’s name, permanent (not institutional) mailing address, email address, student affiliation (university and department), and the title of the paper that is attached.
  • Confirm student status in the body of the email and provide an estimated date of graduation.
  • Ensure that no evidence of the author’s identity is evident in any way in the text of the Word document or by reference in the paper.

Please send your submissions to Whitney Duncan at whitney.duncan@unco.edu by June 1, 2022.

Please direct any questions to Neely Myers, SPA’s Secretary, at namyers@smu.edu.

All award and selection committees abide by the SPA’s Conflict of Interest Statement and Recusal Policy.