SMA Awards

The SMA offers several annual and biannual prizes.

Career Awards

Career Achievement Award

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

 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize

Deadline: July 1, Awarded Every Year

New Millennium Book Award 

Deadline: July 1, Awarded on odd numbered years

SMA Dissertation Award 

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

Student Travel Awards 

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.

1. SMA_W9_Form
2. SMA Award Form – V2
3. SMA Award Form – V2

*If you would like to provide information regarding a non-SMA competition or award, please contact us at webmaster@medanthro.net