Announcement: 2025 HOAIG Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize

The History of Anthropology Interest Group (HOAIG) of the American Anthropological Association is pleased to announce the inaugural competition for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in the History of Anthropology. HOAIG is an interest group of the AAA’s General Anthropology Division that provides a gathering place for discussions of the history of anthropology and the human sciences. This prize will be awarded to a paper about the history of anthropology, broadly construed.

We encourage students to submit papers they have written based on original, primary source research, or that analyze ideas, texts, contexts, or figures (whether marginalized or centralized) in the discipline’s history. Papers may reflect the influence of global anthropologies, Indigenous studies, Black studies, Science and Technology Studies, information science, the history, sociology, or philosophy of science, or other scholarly fields on the history of anthropology. They may challenge conventional histories of the discipline and its traditional geographic and institutional centers. The winning author will a receive a $100 award, and recognition by HOAIG at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (November 19-23 in New Orleans, LA).

Eligibility Criteria

1. Applicants must be in a degree-granting program (including master’s and doctoral programs) or have graduated during the 2024 or 2025 calendar years.
2. Papers must be the original work of the author. Course papers, dissertation chapters, and journal articles in preparation, under review, or accepted/published during the 2025 calendar year are eligible for consideration.
3. Papers must be 5,000-12,000 words including bibliography and references. Images should be embedded within the document itself and citations and references should be consistent with Chicago style.
4. Papers should submitted as a Word document (.doc/docx) along with a 1-2 page CV for the author.
   

Submission (paper and CV) must be emailed by Friday, September 26, 2025 to Andrew Newman (Andrew.Newman@wayne.edu). Please reach out to the same email for questions about the award. HOAIG looks forward to your contributions!