Newsletter - Winter 2002

The 2002 Harold K. Schneider Student Prize in Economic Anthropology

The Harold K. Schneider Prize Competition is a student paper competition established by the Society for Economic Anthropology to honor its first president and to encourage new scholars in the field of economic anthropology. Harold Schneider, Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, was known for both his path breaking research and his dedication as a teacher. Each year, the Society for Economic Anthropology invites both undergraduate and graduate students to submit papers on any aspect of economic anthropology or economic archaeology. Papers should contain a central thesis or argument, and should be neither wholly descriptive nor wholly theoretical but, ideally, both.

Manuscripts should be no longer than 10,000 words, including footnotes and in American Anthropologist style. The winners in both the undergraduate and graduate categories will each receive a cash prize, a certificate of achievement, a year's membership in the SEA, and the most recent volume in the SEA's Monographs in Economic Anthropology series. They will be invited to present their papers at the annual spring meeting of the SEA in 2002. The winners' sponsors will receive an SEA volume along with a certificate recognising their excellence in teaching. All students who submit papers will receive a year's membership in the SEA.

If submitting a hard copy, please send four copies. Electronic submissions must be sent as a single file attachment in Microsoft Word format. Please do not include your name in any headers or footers. All submissions must be accompanied by a supporting letter from a faculty sponsor.

The submission deadline for the 2002 competition is June 15, 2002. Send papers to Laura Finsten, Chair, Schneider Prize Committee, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA L8S 4L9. For additional information, please contact Laura Finsten at 905 (525-9140 ext. 23916 or by email at finsten@mcmaster.ca.

2001 Schneider Prize Winners

The 2001 Schneider Prize for graduate students has been awarded to Ntish Jha of Brandeis University (faculty sponsor Robert Hunt) for "Gender and Decision-Making in Balinese Agriculture." Honorable mention was given to Jim Schechter of the University of Colorado, Boulder (faculty sponsor Elizabeth Dunn) for "Morality in the Eye of the Beholder: 'Moral Peril' in the Sudanese 'Slave' Trade and Contemporary Abolition." The undergraduate prize was awarded to Peter Halpin, Jessica Hegel and Chris Molnar of the University of Calgary (faculty adviser Josephine Smart) for "Flowers and St. Valentine's Day: Economic Practices in Broader Perspectives." Honorable mention was given to Helene Goldberg of Queens College (faculty sponsor Ronald Waterbury) for "Social Mobility in a Peasant Community in Oaxaca, Mexico."