The Stirling Award, The Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology, and the Condon Prize for Best Student Essay in Psychological Anthropology are now open for submission/nominations!
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Dear SPA Members,
We are aware that AAA sections and members are making determinations about whether or not to attend the 2024 AAA meeting in Tampa. As you probably know, some members and sections are boycotting the meeting over concerns about safety, and
there are broad concerns about Florida legislation and policies on gender, race, education, and immigration.
The SPA Board is not taking an official position on a boycott. We think that ethical and political decisions whether to attend the AAA meeting are best made by SPA members.
In light of an anticipated reduced in-person attendance for this meeting, we have modified plans for the SPA Business and Board Meetings. These will be conducted virtually to allow for broader attendance. The SPA will still review submissions for SPA sponsorship, including invited sessions, to be held on-site at the AAA. The AAA general call submission portal is scheduled to open on March 16th and close on April 24th.
Please note that four months after the AAA, we will have the Biennial Meeting of the SPA from April 3rd-6th, 2025. Besides a broad exchange of research across the field of psychological anthropology, this meeting affords us the time to be together with
colleagues and friends in a way that is much treasured by the SPA membership.
At the Biennial, our SPA Prizes will be awarded for the Stirling Award, the Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology, the Condon Prize for Best Student Essay in Psychological Anthropology, and the SPA Lifetime Achievement Award. The Biennial will take place at the Santa Ana Pueblo’s Tamaya Hyatt Resort and Spa, New Mexico (owned by the Santa Ana Pueblo and managed by Hyatt). Some will recall that we convened our 2019 SPA Biennial Meeting at this location. The Tamaya Hyatt has beautiful views of the Santa Ana Pueblo landscape between the Sandia Mountains and the Rio Grande River, along with hiking trails, a horse rescue, a fitness center, and spa treatments.
Please feel free to contact Bridget Haas bmh7@case.edu or Janis Jenkins jhjenkins@ucsd.edu if you have any questions.
Best,
The SPA Board (Whitney Duncan, Yehuda Goodman, Bridget Haas, Janis H. Jenkins, Vincent Laliberté, Ted Lowe, Chikako Ozawa-de Silva, Aidan Seale-Feldman, C. Jason Throop, Jo Weaver, Hua [Miranda] Wu)
The SPA invites you to submit manuscripts to their Culture, Mind, and Society (CMS) Book Series, published by Palgrave Macmillan (part of the Springer Nature Group).
The SPA and Palgrave-Macmillan aim at publishing innovative research that explores the interface of human subjects (emotions, thoughts, and experiences) and their material, social, cultural, and political milieus. Psychological Anthropology is broadly defined in this book series. It includes all research in the diverse fields of psychology, biomedicine, psychiatry, and anthropology that examines human emotions, cognitions, ideas, actions, interactions, and their work in social micro-level sites and in connection with broad social fields, organizations, institutions, nation-states, and other power structures.
The series welcomes proposals for either monographs or edited volumes – in the form of short books (25,000-50,000 words) or full-length (70,000-120,000).
Please see the series description and guidelines on the Palgrave website: https://link.springer.com/series/14947.
Palgrave distributes and promotes the book series online and through other channels. All titles are included in an eBook subject collection, which attracts over 50 million users from 15,000 institutions worldwide and offers tangible benefits in making our books highly downloaded and cited, hence amplifying the reach of our work. In addition to this, on publication, all titles will feature on a product page on SpringerLink, including ‘Look Inside’ functionality, full book and individual chapter download functionality, social media sharing buttons, and Bookmetrix indicating citations, readers, and downloads. On this page, customers can view all product details, access sample content, and order your book in both print and electronic form.
Palgrave editors regularly attend international conferences and meetings, including the AAA and EASA, to promote recent publications in the series as well as the Anthropology program more broadly.
Potential authors can contact Clelia Petracca, Commissioning Editor at Palgrave Macmillan (clelia.petracca@palgrave.com) or Yehuda Goodman, our book series editor and a SPA board member (ygoodman@huji.ac.il).
Thank you,
Clelia Petracca
Commissioning Editor,
Palgrave Macmillan,
The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW
(T) +44 (0)2070144190 (M) +44 (0)7443138748 Twitter: @PalgravePsych
Note: The above call for manuscript submission to the CMS book series is approved and supported by the SPA Board.”
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 SPA Biennial Meeting will be convened at the Tamaya Resort, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico. Meeting dates are April 3rd-6th, 2025. All are warmly welcomed to attend and participate. More information will be available in coming months.
Janis H. Jenkins, President, SPA
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2023 Condon Prize
The 2023 Condon Prize for Best Student Essay in Psychological Anthropology was awarded to Maija-Eliina Sequeira, from the University of Helsinki, for her essay “Learning about time: Reflections on the socialisation of time-thinking among children in Colombia and Finland.”
Information regarding new submissions will be available in coming months.
2023 submissions have closed. There will be an announcement for 2025 Whiting Awards in early 2025.
The SPA announces the Beatrice and John Whiting SPA Biennial Travel Grants to facilitate participation in the SPA Biennial Meetings. The SPA Biennial Meetings represent one of the most important ways in which the SPA promotes and supports the continued growth of the field of psychological anthropology, and these travel grants provide financial assistance to individuals who might not otherwise be able to attend.
Eligibility:
1. Grants are open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows.
2. All applicants must be making a presentation at the conference in the form of a paper, poster, photo essay or ethnographic film.
3. Individuals who are participating solely as a session chair, discussant or workshop participant are not eligible.
4. Awardees must attend at least two full days of the conference.
5. Awardees need not be current members of the SPA.
6. Individuals are not eligible to receive the award if they also are receiving any other funding from the SPA to attend the biennial meeting, such as an International Early Career Scholar Travel Grant, or travel support provided to the SPA Board’s graduate student representative.
Awards of approximately $400 will be awarded to individuals to facilitate their participation in the SPA Biennial Meetings. The number of awards will vary according to the funding available in any given year.
If you have any questions, please contact The Beatrice and John Whiting SPA Biennial Travel Grant Committee Chair, Ted Lowe (elowe@soka.edu).
Application
Follow the Link: https://forms.office.com/r/4PxBNP1u5e to complete an application
Or you can scan the QU code in the attached PDF with your phone or tablet device
You will also need to have an advisor/mentor send an email in support of this application to the committee. Please send these to Ted Lowe, committee chair, at elowe@soka.edu
These support emails should also arrive by March 12, 2023.
Find the Application details and QR Code at:
https://mcusercontent.com/c4c1279d96abc5934a4acc7c2/files/446f023b-8a4e-3278-f360-c4635998f0c6/The_Beatrice_and_John_Whiting_SPA_Biennial_Travel_Grants.pdf