Richard G. Condon Prize for the best student essay in psychological anthropology
| Past Condon Prize Winners | |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Parsa Bastani. “Feeling at Home in the Clinic: Therapeutics and Dwelling in an Addiction Rehabilitation Center in Tehran, Iran.” |
| 2019 | No prize awarded |
| 2018 | Courtney Cecale, “Moral Modes of Attention: From Addict to Ultramarathon Runner” |
| 2017 | Matthew McCoy, "I Will Not Die On This Street:” Thinking Things Over in Conflicted Belfast” |
| 2016 | Amir Hampel, “Equal Temperament: Autonomy and Identity in Chinese Speaking Clubs” |
| 2015 | Suma Ikeuchi, "A case for the fantasy of an audience: Debating Christian selfhood in multicultural Japan" |
| 2014 | Nofit Itzhak, "Making Selves and Meeting Others in Neo-Shamanic Healing" |
| 2013 | Jing Xu, "Becoming a Moral Child amidst China's Moral Crisis" |
| 2012 | Sara Lewis, "Trauma and the Making of Flexible Minds in the Tibetan Exile Community" |
| 2011 | Saiba Varma, "The Silent Bio in Psychosocial: Counselors and Psychiatrists in Indian-administered Kashmir" |
| 2010 | Sonya E. Pritzker, "The Part of Me that Wants to Grab: Embodied Experience and Living Translation in U.S. Chinese Medical Education" |
| 2009 | Kristin Yarris, "The pain of 'thinking too much': Dolor de cerebro and social hardship among rural Nicaraguan women" |
| 2008 | no prize awarded |
| 2007 | Sarah Henning David, "What's Not to Know? A Critique of Pascal Boyer's theory of religion through a reexamination of Emile Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life" |
| 2006 | Michael Baran, "Girl, you are not Morena" Merav Shohet, "Narrating anorexia: 'Full' and 'struggling' genres of recovery" |
| 2005 | no prize awarded |
| 2004 | Julia Cassiniti, "Cultural Psychology of Buddhism in Thailand" |
| 2003 | no prize awarded |
| 2002 | Eileen Anderson-Fye, "Never Leave Yourself: Ethnopsychology as Mediator of Psychological Globalization among Belizean Schoolgirls" |
| 2001 | Diana Smay, "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): The Disease of Ritual." |
| 2000 | no prize awarded |
| 1999 | Chris McCollum, "The Cultural Patterning of Self Understanding: Evidence from Middle-Class Americans' Stories of Falling in Love." |
| 1998 | no prize awarded |
| 1997 | Keith McNeal, "Queens in America: An Exploration of Cultural Models, Gay Drag,and Gender Ambivalence" |
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...
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