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Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2019 Undergraduate Student Essay Contest

Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2019 Undergraduate Student Essay Contest

Deadline: June 24, 2019

Calling all linguistic anthropology undergraduates! 

Do you have a stellar research paper that you would like to share with the wider professional community of linguistic anthropologists? 

Submit to SLA’s Annual Student Essay Contest!

Every year the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) confers an award for a distinguished undergraduate research paper.  

The selected winner will be awarded $500, a certificate of accomplishment, and a $300 travel grant to the AAA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, November 20th – 24th, 2019.  In addition, the winning essay will be considered for publication in our signature journal, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.  Essays will be judged on the basis of research contributions to the field of linguistic anthropology, clarity, organization, and engagement with existing scholarship.  If this sounds like a paper you have, and it has been written within the last two years, and has not previously been published, then considering submitting your essay to the SLA contest.

Deadline June 24, 2019

 

Guidelines:

  • Submit an original, single-authored paper based on your own research while in an undergraduate degree-granting program.
  • Submissions cannot be no more than 2 years old.
  • Submissions cannot be previously published or currently under review/submitted for publication elsewhere.
  • Students may only win this award and recognition once. Past winners and honorable mentions may not submit revised papers or new papers for consideration.
  • Submit one document only.
  • Maximum 25 double-spaced pages [inclusive of footnotes and citations]

 

The first page of your essay should include the following information:

  • Author’s name
  • Author’s email address
  • Title of the paper
  • Author’s college or university when the paper was written
  • Author’s current university, college, and/or place of employment
  • Author’s undergraduate degree and date of degree
  • Name of the faculty instructor/advisor for the paper
  • The course that the paper was written for (if it was written for a course)
  • The date (month/year) that the paper was written

Deadline:  June 24, 2019

Submit to:

slaundergradcontest2019@gmail.com

 

 

Questions? Contact Prof. Courtney Handman (chandman@austin.utexas.edu)