Junior Scholar Award
The Annual Junior Scholar Award of the Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association will be awarded each year at the Association's annual meeting.
The award is for scholars beginning their careers who are either untenured and/or within five years of having obtained a Ph.D. The purpose of this $250 award is to encourage talented junior scholars to continue working in the domain of anthropology and environment by recognizing their exemplary scholarship. Judging will be based on refereed journal articles, which must be at least in galley or page-proof stage of publication.
We invite anthropologists and colleagues in other disciplines to nominate candidates for the award based on their knowledge of the field and the work of junior scholars. Authors are also invited to nominate their own articles. Nominated articles should be sent to Lisa Cligget (cligget@email.uky.edu), together with brief memos that nominate the author(s) and identify the key contributions and qualities of the nominated work.
Nominations are due by October 1, 2010.
Conflict of Interest Statement: All A&E award committees follow NSF guidelines regarding potential conflict of interest between applicants and reviewers.
Junior Scholar Award Winners
| 2008 | Molly Doane | The Political Economy of the Ecological Native. American Anthropologist 109 (3): 452-462, 2007. |
| 2007 | Ken Bauer | Common Property and Power: Insights from a Spatial Analysis of Historical and Contemporary Pasture Boundaries among Pastoralists in Central Tibet, Journal of Political Ecology, Vol. 13, 2006 |
| 2006 | Genese Sodikoff | Land and Languor: Ethical Imaginations of Work and Forest in Northeast Madagascar, History and Anthropology, Vol. 15, no. 4, December 2004 |
| Paul Nadasdy | Transcending the Debate over the Ecologically Noble Indian, Ethnohistory, Vol. 52, no. 2, Spring 2005 | |
| 2004 | Cori Hayden | From market to market: Bioprospecting’s idioms of inclusion. American Ethnologist 30(3): 359-371, 2003. |
| Melissa Checker | `We All Have Identity at the Table’: Negotiating Difference in a Southern African American Environmental Justice Network. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power/ 11(2):171-194, 2004. | |
| 2003 | Hugh Raffles | Local Theory: Nature and the Making of an Amazonian Place. Cultural Anthropology 14(3):323-60, 1999. |
| David McDermott Hughes | Cadastral politics: the making of community-based resource management in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Development and Change 32(4):741-68, 2001. | |
| 2002 | Michael Paolisso | Blue Crab and Controversy on the Chesapeake Bay: A Cultural Model for Understanding Watermen's Reasoning about Blue Crab Management. Human Organization 61(2):226-239, 2002. |
| Paige West | Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations and the Nature of Ethnographic Inquiry. Social Analysis 45 (2):55-77, 2001. |