2007 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize Announcement
Submission deadline for papers is April 15, 2007
The AES is pleased to announce the reinstatement of the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize for best graduate student essay presented at the 2007 AES spring meeting.
The prize, which began in about 1970 and was discontinued in the 1980s, was commemorated by a silver medallion made by a Hopi silversmith. The design of this medallion utilizes a spider symbol common to Hopi pottery design. It appears on this website as the AES logo.
The prize is given every other year for the best graduate student paper delivered at the spring meeting. The Elsie Clews Parsons Prize was most recently awarded in Spring 2005 to Marc David (UNC, Chapel Hill).
Graduate students interested in applying for the 2007 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize should mail three copies of the complete paper to be preented at AES/CASCA in Toronto to:
Fran Rothstein, AES Board Secretary
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice,
Towson University, Towson, MD 21252-0001
Papers must be received by April 15, 2007.
Papers should be no longer than 35 double-spaced pages, previously unpublished, and should conform to American Ethnologist style guidelines.
Inquiries may be sent to Fran Rothstein at FRothstein@towson.edu (but please do not send papers electronically.
