[URBANTH-L]Request for nominations
David W. Haines
dhaines1 at gmu.edu
Mon Mar 20 15:33:33 EST 2006
2006 Lourdes Arizpe Award
Policy, Anthropology and Environmental Issues
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS PROFESSIONAL OR STUDENT CATEGORY
The AAA Environment & Anthropology Section,
through its Lourdes Arizpe Award, has created an
opportunity to recognize recent outstanding
achievement in the application of anthropology to
environmental issues and discourse in
international or domestic arenas across all
ecological and policy applications. The creation
and naming of this award highlights the critical
need for anthropological knowledge and
perspective in addressing current environmental
issues with larger implications for matters of
global concern. The scope of the award is broad,
and includes the government arena, the private
and the non-profit sectors. The Lourdes Arizpe
Award combines a practical component (results)
with a knowledge-base component (advancement of
knowledge) for outstanding contributions from
specialists in any recognized field of anthropology.
The Award:
The Lourdes Arizpe Award is a biennial award that
honors individual anthropologists or anthropology
students, teams, or organizations involving
anthropologists, which have made outstanding
contributions in the application of anthropology
to environmental issues and
discourse. Nominations should focus on the
contributions and accomplishments of the
individual, team or organization in the arena of
practice, policy, and application beyond
academia. The award can be for work in
international or domestic arenas across
all-ecological and policy applications, from
community-based work to national policy to global
applications. There must be evidence of impact or
results of the work within the past three years
prior to the nomination. The Lourdes Arizpe
Award consists of two award categories: 1) for
post-degree professionals; and 2) for students,
defined as individuals who were enrolled at an
academic institution at the time of the work for
which the award is proposed. It is envisioned
that both awards will be made biennially in each
category post-degree professional and studennt.
Those receiving the award are not required to be
United States citizens or members of the American
Anthropological Association; they may be
specialists in any recognized field of
anthropology. The deadline for nominations is
June 12, 2006. The recipients for the
Professional and the Student categories of the
Lourdes Arizpe Award will be presented in a
ceremony and reception at the 2006 meeting of the
American Anthropological Association, in San Jose, California.
The Award Application Process:
Nominations may be made by any anthropologist,
including self-nominations. Nomination packages should include four copies of:
1) A cover letter with original signature from
the nominator indicating the body of work or
action for which the nominations is being made;
2) Three letters of support from individuals
knowledgeable regarding the work of the
nominee(s) and its impact (it would be useful for
at least two of these letters to be from individuals outside of academia); and
3) Any materials that support the candidacy of
the nominee. Examples of support materials that
support the student nominee may include but are
not limited to: booklets, DVD, video, or news
articles about the impacts of the activities or
project. Materials may be submitted either
electronically or in hard copy, but the
nomination cover letter must have an original signature.
The Selection Process:
Award nominations will be reviewed and award
selection made by a four-person committee
appointed by the Anthropology and Environment Section of the AAA.
Award Venue:
The Lourdes Arizpe Awards will be presented in a
ceremony and reception hosted by the Anthropology
and Environment Section at the annual AAA
meetings. The Professional award consists of a
certificate of recognition and a handcrafted
medal symbolic of the human-environment
relationship. The Student award consists of a
certificate of recognition and one yearâs
membership in the A & E Section of the AAA.
Who is Lourdes Arizpe?
Lourdes Arizpe is a cultural anthropologist,
specializing in culture, migration, rural
development and global environmental change
through fieldwork research and has also been
involved in international academic and policy
activities. Her books include Parentesco y
EconomÃa en una Sociedad Nahua, AntropologÃa
Breve de Mexico, The Cultural Dimensions of
Global Change: An Anthropological Approach, and
Culture and Global Change: Social Perspectives of
Deforestation in the Lacandona Rain Forest. She
was a member of the U.N. World Commission on
Culture and Development. As Assistant Director
General of UNESCO for culture she directed all
cultural programs in Unesco and was scientific
director of the World Culture Reports. She was
also Director of the Anthropological Research
Institute of the National University of Mexico.
She has served as a member of the Advisory
Committee on the Environment (ACE) of ICSU
(International Council of Scientific Unions). She
has served on the Joint Latin American Committee
of the Social Science Research Council and the
Executive Committee of the Latin American Studies
Association. Her honors also include Fulbright
and Guggenheim fellowships, the medal for
distinguished activities in the field of culture
from the Ministry of Culture in Pakistan, and
membership in the Royal Anthropology Institute in
England. A founding member of the Academia
Mexicana de Derechos Humanos, she also has served
as President of the International Union of
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. At
present, she is President of the International
Social Science Council and a Professor at the
Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research (National University of Mexico).
Please send the materials noted above to the
Chairperson of the Committee: P.J. Puntenney
<pjpunt at umich.edu>, 1989 W. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 by June 12, 2006
Previous Awardees
2004 J. Peter Brosius (University of Georgia-Athens)
George M. Guilmet (Cultural Resources Management Consultant)
Carla Guerron-Montero, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
University of Delaware
46 West Delaware Avenue
Newark, DE 19716
Phone: (302) 831-3362
Fax: (302)831-4002
Email: cguerron at udel.edu
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