Prize for Best Graduate Student CUAA Session at AAA 2025

CUAA is pleased to announce a prize for the best panel organized and presented by Ph.D. students or recent Ph.D. graduates at the November 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. This prize (and a check for $1,000) will be awarded at the CUAA Business Meeting at the AAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

Prize: $1,000 to be shared among panelists

Guidelines to be eligible for this award:

The panelists and panel-organizers must all either be current Ph.D. students or have received their Ph.D. degrees within 3 years prior to when the panel was accepted, and not currently hold a full-time tenure-track position (although a discussant or chair may hold such a position).

The panel must have been submitted by the April 16, 2025 deadline for the General Call for submissions to the AAA Program, and be accepted for inclusion on the CUAA Program in New Orleans.

If the organizers are interested in being considered for this award, they should write to Omnia Khalil, CUAA 2025 Best Panel Prize Committee Chair, at okhalil@ccny.cuny.edu and submit session and paper abstracts, notification of their acceptance on the AAA Program as a CUAA session, and a cover letter indicating that they wish to be considered for the competition, no later than October 1, 2025.