CMA Student Travel Awards

The CMA Travel Awards are designed to support student travel to the annual AAA meeting to present papers and/or posters. Students and recent PhDs (those who have defended within the year of the award) are eligible to apply. CMA will award two prizes of $500 each. Prize-winners will be announced at the AAA Annual Meeting and presented with a certificate of the award.

Applications:
• Deadline: September 1, 2011
• A brief letter of application must indicate the applicant’s status as a student or recent PhD holder, and explain how this paper/poster relates to their ongoing graduate work or current work as a recent PhD.
• Applicants must include a copy of the abstract for the paper or poster, the name and abstract for the session in which they will be presenting, and proof of acceptance for presentation at AAA.
• All applicants must also submit a letter of endorsement from a present or former academic advisor at their most recent institution of study.

Evaluation Criteria:
• Creativity: Is the paper or poster a unique and novel contribution to museum anthropology?
• Commitment: Does the student demonstrate a commitment to the field of museum anthropology?
• Impact: Does the paper or poster have the potential to develop into a work that could more broadly impact the field of museum anthropology?

Process and Rules:
• A three-person prize committee of CMA members, headed by a committee chair, will be constituted by the current CMA President at the annual AAA Board of Directors meeting each year.
• The committee will be formally announced by January 15 annually, with the addresses of each committee member publicized.
• Applicants will hear from the committee by October 1 as to the committee’s decision.

Instructions:
To enter work in the 2011 competition, send an electronic copy (PDF) by the deadline of September 1, 2011, to each of the following Student Travel Prize

Committee members:
Trudy Nicks
Senior Curator
Department of World Cultures
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen’s Park
Toronto, ON
M5S 2C6
trudyn@rom.on.ca

Joshua Bell
Curator of Ethnology- Globalization
Dept. of Anthropology – MRC 112
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012
bellja@si.edu

Morgan B. Perkins
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
State University of New York at Potsdam
44 Pierrepont Avenue
Potsdam, NY 13676
perkinmb@potsdam.edu

Any questions should be directed to the prize committee chair at trudyn@rom.on.ca