The SMA offers several annual and biannual prizes.
Career Awards
Deadline: July 1, Awarded in Even Years
George Foster Practicing Medical Anthropology Award
Deadline: July 1, Awarded in Odd Years
Hazel Weidman Award for Exemplary Service to the Society for Medical Anthropology
Deadline: July 1, Awarded in Odd Years
Carole H. Browner Graduate Student Mentorship Award
Deadline: July 1, Awarded Annually
Carole H. Browner Undergraduate Student Mentorship Award
Deadline: July 1, Awarded Annually
The Leah M. Ashe Prize for the Anthropology of Medically–Induced Harm
Deadline: July 1, Awarded Annually
Book, Dissertation, and Paper Prizes
Charles Hughes Graduate Student Paper Prize
Deadline: July 1, Awarded on Even Numbered Years
Deadline: July 1, Awarded Every Year
Deadline: July 1, Awarded on odd numbered years
Deadline: July 1, Awarded on Odd Numbered Years
Steven Polgar Professional Paper Prize
Awarded every year
WHR Rivers Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
Deadline: July 1, Awarded on Odd Numbered Years
AAA/SMA Annual Meeting
Contingent Faculty Travel Award
Deadline: September 24, Awarded every year
Five graduate students and one undergraduate
Deadline: October 1, 2021, Awarded every year
2020 Recipients of SMA Awards
2019 Recipients of SMA Awards
2018 Recipients of SMA Awards
2017 Recipients of SMA Awards
Past SMA Award Recipients from Previous Years
Awards offered by SMA’s Special Interest Groups
- AIDS and Anthropology Research Group Service Award and Paper Prizes
- Critical Anthropology of Health Caucus Rudolf Virchow Prize Paper
- Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Edited Collection Prize
- Council on Anthropology and Reproduction: Annual Graduate Student Paper Prize competition
- Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Study Group (ADTSG) Graduate Student Paper Prize
- Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Study Group (ADTSG) Graduate Student Travel Award
- Science and Medicine in South Asia graduate paper prize
Other Medical Anthropology open competitions*
- Society for Applied Anthropology’s prize competitions
- Condon Prize for Best Student Essay in Psychological Anthropology
- Society of Psychological Anthropology prize competitions
- Anthropology & Environment Section prizes competitions
- The Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights
- Peter K. New Student Prize, Society for Applied Anthropology
- NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (NDPA) Program
- Cheiron History of the Social/Behavioral/Human Sciences Book Prize
- The Global Health Excellence in Media Award
Resources
Award Chairs please download the Award Reporting Forms here.
*If you would like to provide information regarding a non-SMA competition or award, please contact us at webmaster@medanthro.net