Requires Nomination
AAA Engaged Anthropology Award
Submission Deadline: Closed
This award honors individual anthropologists (or multi-disciplinary groups or organizations with at least one anthropologist) or projects which have demonstrated a deep commitment to social justice and community engagement by applying anthropology to effectively address a pressing issue facing people and the planet.
Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology
Submission Deadline: Closed
This award is presented annually by the AAA to its members whose careers demonstrate extraordinary achievement that have well served the anthropological profession.
AAA Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology
Submission Deadline: Closed
This award given annually was established in 1997 to recognize teachers who have contributed to and encouraged the study of anthropology.
Anthropology in Media Award (AIME)
Submission Deadline: Closed
This award given annually was established in 1987 to recognize the successful communication of anthropology to the general public through the media.
Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology
Submission Deadline: Closed
This award given annually was established in 1998 to encourage and reward excellent contributions in the use of anthropological perspectives, theories, models and methods in an anticipatory mode.
SfAA/AAA Margaret Mead Award
Submission Deadline: Closed
This $1,000 award is presented annually to a younger scholar for a particular accomplishment such as a book, film, monograph, or service, which interprets anthropological data and principles in ways that make them meaningful and accessible to a broadly concerned public.
Gender Equity Award
Submission Deadline: Closed
This award recognizes individuals whose service to the discipline brings to light and investigates practices in anthropology that are potentially sexist and discriminatory based on gender presentation.
Alfred Vincent Kidder Award for Eminence in the Field of American Archaeology
Submission Deadline: Closed
Established in 1950, this award is given biennially to an outstanding archaeologist specializing in the archaeology of the Americas.
Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology
Submission Deadline: Closed
This biennial award was established to honor exemplary anthropologists for outstanding recent achievements that have contributed to the development of anthropology as an applied science and have had important impacts on public policy.
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Requires Application
Carole H. Browner Latin American Studies Fellowship Fund for Travel (LASFFT)
Submission Deadline: March 15
This award establishes a restricted need-based fund to be used solely for the purpose of supporting the travel for graduate and undergraduate students from Mexico, Central, and South America to the American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meeting.
Palestine-Israel Fellowship Fund for Travel (PIFFT)
Submission Deadline: Closed
PIFFT is designed to support Palestinian scholars. It may also support those dissenting Israeli scholars whose academic freedom is limited.
Submission Deadline: April 6
Awarded annually and established to provide a unique opportunity for anthropologists early in their careers to learn about AAA and leadership opportunities and to encourage future leadership in the association. A $500 travel subsidy will be provided to attend the Annual Meeting.
AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship
Submission Deadline: Closed
The AAA invites minority doctoral candidates in anthropology to apply for a dissertation writing fellowship of $10,000 awarded annually.
David M. Schneider Award
Submission Deadline: Closed
Throughout his life, David Schneider's work on kinship, culture theory and American culture was provocative and iconoclastic. This $1,000 award will be given annually in recognition of work that treats one or more of these topics in a fresh and innovative fashion.
Conrad M. Arensberg Award
Submission Deadline: Closed
The AAA is excited to announce the Conrad M. Arensberg Award. This award will honor individuals who have furthered the study of anthropology as a natural science.
Other AAA Awards
Selected by the current president annually and presented at the Annual Meeting.
Selected by a panel of past presidents, and established in 1969, a Distinguished Lecturer is named biennially to recognize intellectual contributions in anthropology. The text of the recipient's lecture, presented at the Annual Meeting, is published in American Anthropologist.
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