Call for Nominations!

DEADLINE August 10, 2024

The Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE) has established an annual award to recognize the author of an outstanding dissertation recently completed in the field of anthropology and education.  It is named after esteemed educational anthropologist, Frederick Erickson, Professor Emeritus, UCLA GSEIS. The award recipient will receive $500.

Nomination

Any member of CAE in good standing can nominate a recently completed dissertation for this award.

Eligibility

A nominated dissertation should have been successfully defended no earlier than 3 calendar years prior to the year in which it is nominated. 

Deadline

Nominations should be uploaded through the Google survey by August 10, 2024. Please direct questions to CAE Dissertation Award Committee Chair, Edmund ‘Ted’ Hamann, ehamann2@unl.edu

Nomination Materials

Google Survey will ask for:

1. Nominee’s name, email address, and current role/position
2. Nominee’s dissertation title, institution from which nominee received the PhD, dissertation chair(s), and year degree was conferred
3. Nominator’s name, title/position, institution, and email address
4. Upload a 15-20-page (5,000 words maximum) abstract of the dissertation written by the nominee that includes (in whatever format is most appropriate for the dissertation) the researcher’s positionality/relation to the work, an overview of the methods, description of major findings, and implications/conclusions, including an articulation of the work’s contributions to the field of educational anthropology;
5. Upload a letter (3 pages maximum), from the nominator summarizing the strengths of the dissertation, including the strength of anthropological theory and method, scholarly excellence, the relevance to educational anthropology, innovative or insightful approaches, and implications for research and practice in the field of educational anthropology; 

Evaluation Guidelines

The dissertation award committee will be guided by such considerations as: 

1. The issue addressed in the study bridges the theories and practices of anthropology and education; 
2. The author-researcher applies anthropological methods and concepts in han