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Reminder: Rudolf Virchow Award Submissions and Nominations Due 8/1
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Dear colleagues, Greetings! Please consider submitting (or nominating) a paper to the Virchow Awards competition. There is one more week until the deadline! There are 3 categories of awards: professional, graduate student, and undergraduate student. Please note a correction from the original announcement in the Professional Award category -- submissions for this category can be published in 2021 or 2022. *** 2022 Rudolf Virchow Awards *** Rudolf Virchow, a 19th century German physician, was a founder of social medicine. His contributions centered on his recognition that multiple intersecting factors - social, political, and economic – produce disease and illness. He argued that the circumstances and deprivations of poverty increase people's susceptibility to disease and result in reduced life expectancy and quality of life. He eloquently articulated the limits of medicine in the absence of material security, a sentiment which informed his view that nation-states play an important role in ensuring health security for a citizenry. Virchow viewed advocacy as an essential part of health praxis, and, in keeping with this legacy, the Critical Anthropology for Global Health (CAGH) Special Interest Group honors Virchow's work with three awards. The annual Rudolf Virchow Awards are given by the Critical Anthropology for Global Health Caucus, a special interest group of the Society for Medical Anthropology. The Professional Award honors a recently published article, and the Graduate and Undergraduate Student Awards honor recent student papers that have not yet benefited from editorial review. Winning submissions combine a critical anthropology focus with rich ethnographic data, and best reflect, extend, and/or advance critical perspectives in medical anthropology. Submissions The submission deadline for the 2022 Rudolf Virchow Awards is August 1, 2022. Awards are made in the following categories: 1) Professional, 2) Graduate Student, and 3) Undergraduate Student (see below). We encourage you to submit your own work and/or to nominate papers of your students or articles of colleagues. If you wish to submit a paper for consideration, please e-mail the paper and a cover letter of introduction to the Virchow Awards Committee at caghvirchow@... by August 1, 2022. Hard copies are no longer accepted. Confirmation of receipt will be sent. To ensure a prompt and fair review, papers will not be accepted after the August 1, 2022 11:59 pm PST deadline. Professional Award Category The professional award will be awarded for an article or chapter published during 2021 or 2022 in a peer-reviewed journal (print or online) or peer-reviewed edited volume. Articles may be singly- or co-authored. Technical reports and other contracted works are not considered for this award. Professional articles must be submitted electronically in Adobe PDF format as they appeared in print. Graduate Award Category The graduate student award will be awarded for a paper that was written in 2021 or 2022 and that has not yet been subjected to editorial review. Papers that have been submitted to a journal or edited volume, but that have not yet benefited from review may be included in this category. Theses and dissertations will not be accepted. However, a summary no longer than 30 pages double-spaced (inclusive of references) of a thesis or a dissertation that can stand on its own, or a chapter that has been revised to stand on its own will be considered for this award. Papers from students who have graduated are still accepted in this category as long as the paper was written in 2021 or 2022. Graduate student papers must be submitted in Adobe PDF or Word format with a title-only first page. File sizes must be less than 2MB. The document must exclude the author's name, author's advisor, and university affiliation throughout. The cover letter should include this information. Only papers, not interactive media, will be considered for this award. Undergraduate Award Category The undergraduate student award will be awarded for a paper written in 2021 or 2022 while the student was still an undergraduate. Honors theses are not accepted. However, a shortened version no longer than 30 pages double-spaced (inclusive of references) of the thesis or a chapter from the thesis that has been revised to stand on its own will be considered for this award. Undergraduate student papers must be submitted in Adobe PDF or Word format with a title-only first page. File sizes must be less than 2MB. The document must exclude the author's name, author's advisor, and university affiliation throughout. The cover letter should include this information. Only papers, not interactive media, will be considered for this award. ----- Talia Weiner, LPC, PhD (pronouns: she/her) Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology University of West Georgia |
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