Harold K. Schneider Paper Prize
The Harold K. Schneider Student Prize in Economic Anthropology
DEADLINE: May 31, 2008
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, should be neither wholly descriptive nor wholly theoretical but, ideally, both and should be edited for clarity.
Manuscripts should be in English only and be no longer than 10,000 words, including endnotes 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 series, “Monographs in Economic Anthropology.” They will also be invited to make presentations at the annual spring meeting of the SEA. The winners' sponsors will receive an SEA volume. All students who submit papers will receive a year's membership in the SEA.
Submissions must include both a single hard copy and an electronic copy. The electronic submission must be sent as a single file attachment in Microsoft Word format. Please do not include your name in any headers or footers, but provide all contact addresses (mail and E-mail) on the title page. All student submissions must be accompanied by a supporting letter from a faculty sponsor. Please indicate whether you are applying in the undergraduate or graduate category.
The submission deadline for the 2008 competition is May 31, 2008. Send hard copies to Dr. Katherine R. Metzo, Chair, Schneider Prize Committee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC, 28223-0001; and send electronic submissions to: kmetzo-at-uncc.edu.
For additional information, please contact Dr. Katherine R. Metzo, at (704) 687-4077.
Past recipients:
2007 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
Nicholas Sitko, University of Colorado
Paper Title: The social life of maize: Neo-liberalism, food security, and non market exchanges in southern Zambia
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Elizabeth Dunn
2007 Graduate Paper Honorable Mention
Cherry Hunsaker, American University
Paper Title: Militia Formation in the Niger Delta: Exploring Action and Reaction to the Oil Industry
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Gretchen Schafft
2007 Undergraduate Prize Winning Paper
Jenee Kresge, George Washington University
Paper Title: Does Starbucks Mean Coffee?: Starbucks and Its Impact on Coffee as a Commodity
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Blenda Femenias
2007 Undergraduate Paper Honorable Mention
Jennifer Pollock, University of Toronto at Scarborough
Paper Title: The Gendered Economics of Soyu: Modernity, Agency & Withcraft Accusations in the Dagbon Naam
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Saul Cohen
2006 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
David Himmelfarb, University of Georgia
Paper Title: Moving People, Moving Boundaries: The Socio-Economic Effects of
Protectionist Conservation, Involuntary Resettlement and Tenure Insecurity
on the Edge of Mt. Elgon National Park, Uganda
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Peter Brosius
2006 Graduate Paper Honorable Mention
Nan Youngnan Kim-Paik, Universityof California, Berkeley
Paper Title: Spectacles of Transparency: The Cultural Politics of Intimacy, Mass
Mediation and Deep Neoliberalism in the State-sponsored Reunions of Families
Separated Between the Two Koreas
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Aihwa Ong
2006 Undergraduate Prize Winning Paper
Taylor Nelms, The Ohio State University
Paper Title: Negotiating the Ideal Family through Conversational Narrative:
Relationships of Exchange in a Quiteño Family
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey H. Cohen
2005 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
Marc Pinkoski, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria (Canada)
Title of Paper: "Trapping Steward: The Task of Julian Steward's Theory"
Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Michael Asch and Dr. Peter H. Stephenson
2005 Undergraduate Prize Winning Paper
Alison M. McBride, Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University
Title of paper: "Women Industrial Workers and Community Development
Organizations in the El Paso-Ciudad Juarez Region: A Study of the Centro de
Orientacion de la Mujer Obrera and La Mujer Obrera"
Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Cohen
2004 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw (Department of Anthropology, Yale University)
Paper Title: Denouement or De Novo? A Social History of the American Clothesline
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. William W. Kelly
2004 Graduate Paper, Honorable Mention
Leila Rodriguez (Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University)
Paper Title: Generations and Motivations: Russian and Other Former Soviet Immigrants in Costa Rica
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey H. Cohen
2002 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
John Tofik Karam, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
"A Cultural Politics of Entrepreneurship in Nation-Making: Phoenician, Turks, and the Arab Commercial Essense in Brazil"
Faculty Sponsor: John Burdick
2002 Undergraduate Prize Winning Paper
Tricia Olsen, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton College
"Women in the Age of Globalization: The Avon Case of Sao Paulo, Brazil"
Faculty Sponsor: Jerome Levi
2001 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
Nitish Jha, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University
"Gendera nd Decision-Making in Balinese Agriculture"
Faculty Sponsor: Robert Hunt
2001 Graduate Paper Honorable Mention
Jim Schechter, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado-Boulder
"Morality in the Eye of the Beholder: 'Moral Peril' in the Sudanese 'Slave' Trade and Contemporary Abolition"
Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Dunn
2001 Undergraduate Prize Winning Paper
Peter Halpin, Jessica Hegel and Chris Molnar, University of Calgary
"Flowers and St. Valentine's Day: Economic Practices in Broader Perspectives"
Faculty Sponsor: Josephine Smart
2001 Undergraduate Paper Honorable Mention
Helene Goldberg, Queens College
"Social Mobility in a Peasant Community in Oaxaca, Mexico"
Faculty Sponsor: Ronald Waterbury
1997 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
Gregory Guest, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia
"La Ruta Cana: The Political Economy of Cane-Alchohol Production in Northwestern Ecuador"
1996 Undergraduate Prize Winning Paper
Anna Greenberg
"Poverty-Oriented Banking: Serving the Needs of Farmers, Herders, and Traders in Northern Senegal. The Case of the Caisses Populaires de Louga."
1996 Honorable Mention Paper
Taralee Alcock
"(Re)-Constructing the Power of the Activity in Sally Cole's Women of the Praia"
1995 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
Daniel Beams, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky
"Cattle, Trade, and Clandestine Slaughter in Oaxaca, Mexico: Securing High Profits Through Malfeasance and Dissemblance of Information"
1994 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
Kathleen Pickering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Political Economy of 'Agrarian Revolt' on the Great Plains, 1862-1900"
1993 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
Holly Wardlow, Emory University
"'Women are our Coffee': Historical Factors and Current Variables in Smallholder Coffee Production in Papua New Guinea "
1993 Undergraduate Prize Winning Paper
Ethan Michelson, McGill University
"In Defense of Collective Farms: Collectivization and De-Collectivization in the People's Republic of China"
