The SMA offers multiple 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
Previous 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.