Grad Student Paper Prize in the Anthropology of CAM/IM

The Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Integrative Medicine (IM) special interest group of the SMA requests submissions for a new Graduate Student Paper Prize in the Anthropology of CAM or IM. The group was organized in 2006 to encourage to anthropological study of CAM and IM as emergent socio-medical phenomena having global ramifications in the 21st century. Our … Read More

Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Grad Student Paper Competition

The Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR), an interest group of the Society for Medical Anthropology, is pleased to announce its 13th annual award competition for the best graduate student paper on anthropology and reproduction. Submissions from all anthropological subdisciplines are encouraged (deadline: September 1, 2013). Criteria on which the papers will be judged: Ethnographic … Read More

SMA/EASA Conference Offers Global Network Travel Grants (Deadline: March 1)

The aim of the joint SMA/EASA conference in Tarragona, Spain is for these two networks to meet, but also to engage colleagues from areas of the world where professional medical anthropology networks and societies are not well formed, especially in Africa, South America, Asia and the Pacific. We have been awarded funds from the Wenner-Gren … Read More