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 Undergraduate Student Mentorship Award
Deadline: July 1, Awarded Annually
Carole H. Browner Graduate 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
Books, Publications, 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
Travel Awards
Contingent Faculty Travel Award
Deadline: September 24, Awarded every year
Student Travel Awards (Five graduate students and one undergraduate)
Deadline: October 1, Awarded every year
Non-SMA awards of interest to medical anthropologists
Society for Applied Anthropology’s prize competitions
Society for Psychological Anthropology prize competitions
Anthropology & Environment Section prizes competitions
Cheiron History of the Social/Behavioral/Human Sciences Book Prize
Section Interest Group Awards
(Currently Active)
Disability Research Interest Group (DRIG) 2025 Disability Anthropology Essay Prize Competition
Deadline: September 1, Awarded every year
Section Interest Group Awards
(Past or Unannounced)
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