Award Information
This award was set up in 2009 as part of the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the CASCA Women’s Network. Its goal is to encourage research into gender and gender issues from a feminist perspective by emerging scholars in social/cultural anthropology in Canada.
Value
The award is $250
Eligibility
Are you a graduate student in Canada whose work takes a feminist perspective and engages with gender issues? Then please consider submitting your CASCA paper to be considered for the Women’s Network Graduate Student Prize for this year’s conference.
- Candidates must be registered full-time in a graduate program in Anthropology at a Canadian university, or have graduated from such a program less than one year ago.
- Candidates must be presenting at CASCA (papers stemming from a presented poster can also be submitted)
Criteria
The adjudicating committee look for papers that:
- Explicitly engage with gender, and clearly demonstrate that engagement in their treatment of the topic
- Take a feminist perspective, with reference to relevant feminist literature
- Are not merely descriptive and show evidence of original critical analysis
Submission
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Please watch for the Call for Submissions which will outline the current submission process and deadline for receipt of your paper. For consideration, your paper:
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Must be received by the deadline
- Must not exceed 10 pages in length
- Can be submitted in either English or French
- Must include an abstract
- Must indicate the university at which the candidate is registered and their current year in the program
The deadline for submissions is March 23.
The prize-winning paper will be published (following peer review) in the Canadian anthropology journal, Anthropologica.
