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Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)

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  1. Robert A. & Beverly H. Hackenberg Prize

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) offers the Robert A. and Beverly H. Hackenberg Prize to recognize SfAA members and community partners whose sustained collaboration has meaningfully improved local communities.

    OtherAnthropology

    Deadline
    Amount
    $2,000

  2. Robert A. & Beverly H. Hackenberg Prize

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) offers the Robert A. and Beverly H. Hackenberg Prize to recognize lasting, meaningful collaborations between SfAA members and community partners that address local needs.

    OtherAnthropology

    Deadline
    Amount
    $2,000

  3. The Comitas Institute Award for Public Knowledge and Engagement

    The Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study and the Society for Applied Anthropology offer two $5,000 prizes recognizing ethnographic research that advances public knowledge and engagement through an impactful publication or multimedia work.

    OtherAnthropology

    Deadline
    Amount
    $5,000

  4. The Comitas Institute Award for Public Knowledge and Engagement

    The Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study and the Society for Applied Anthropology offer two $5,000 prizes recognizing ethnographic research that advances public knowledge and engagement on socially significant human and planetary challenges.

    OtherAnthropology

    Deadline
    Amount
    $5,000

  5. Peter Kong-ming New Student Research Competition

    The Society for Applied Anthropology’s Peter Kong-ming New Student Research Competition recognizes outstanding student research applying the social sciences to health care or human services.

    Research ProjectApplied social and behavioral sciences

    Deadline
    Amount
    $5,250

  6. Peter Kong-ming New Student Research Competition

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) offers the annual Peter Kong-ming New Student Research Competition to recognize outstanding student papers based on original social science field research addressing health care or human services.

    ScholarshipApplied social and behavioral sciences

    Deadline
    Amount
    $3,000

  7. Bronislaw Malinowski Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) presents the annual Bronislaw Malinowski Award to an outstanding individual, or professional collaborators, whose career applies social science to understanding and addressing global societal challenges.

    OtherSocial Sciences

    Deadline
    Amount
    Not listed

  8. Bronislaw Malinowski Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) presents the annual Bronislaw Malinowski Award to an outstanding individual or professional collaborators whose careers apply social science to address global societal challenges.

    OtherSocial Sciences

    Deadline
    Amount
    Not listed

  9. James H. McDonald Leadership Endowment

    The Society for Applied Anthropology’s James H. McDonald Leadership Endowment provides a $3,000 grant to five participants for year-long leadership development focused on strengthening anthropology’s position within higher education.

    TrainingAnthropology

    Deadline
    Amount
    $3,000

  10. Beatrice Medicine Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) offers three $750 Beatrice Medicine Awards to support student travel expenses for attendance at its Annual Meeting, honoring Dr. Beatrice Medicine’s contributions to Native studies, teaching, and advocacy.

    TravelAnthropology and applied social sciences

    Deadline
    Amount
    $2,250

  11. Beatrice Medicine Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) offers three $750 Beatrice Medicine Awards to support student travel to the SfAA Annual Meeting, honoring Dr. Beatrice Medicine’s contributions to anthropology and understanding Native peoples.

    TravelAnthropology and social sciences

    Deadline
    Amount
    $2,250

  12. Del Jones Memorial Travel Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) offers two $750 Del Jones Memorial Travel Awards to support student travel to its Annual Meeting and encourage participation by individuals committed to supporting oppressed or disadvantaged communities.

    TravelAnthropology and applied social sciences

    Deadline
    Amount
    $1,500

  13. Edward H. & Rosamond B. Spicer Travel Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology offers two annual Edward H. and Rosamond B. Spicer Travel Awards of $750 each to help students cover travel expenses for attending the SfAA Annual Meeting.

    TravelAnthropology and social sciences

    Deadline
    Amount
    $1,500

  14. Gil Kushner Memorial Travel Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology offers two $750 Gil Kushner Memorial Travel Awards to support student travel to its Annual Meeting, honoring Gilbert Kushner’s contributions to applied anthropology and the study of cultural persistence.

    TravelAnthropology

    Deadline
    Amount
    $1,500

  15. Human Rights Defender Travel Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), supported by a donation from Michael Cavendish, offers one $750 Human Rights Defender Travel Award to help a student attend the SfAA Annual Meeting.

    TravelApplied anthropology and social sciences

    Deadline
    Amount
    $750

  16. John Bodley Student Travel Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology offers one $750 John Bodley Student Travel Award to help defray travel expenses for a student presenting a paper or poster at the SfAA Annual Meeting.

    TravelAnthropology and applied social sciences

    Deadline
    Amount
    $750

  17. Michael M. Cernea Travel Award for Applied Research on Forced Displacement and Involuntary Resettlement

    The Society for Applied Anthropology’s Michael M. Cernea Resettlement Fund provides one $750 travel award to support a student’s attendance at the SfAA Annual Meeting and presentation of applied research on forced displacement and involuntary resettlement.

    TravelAnthropology and applied social sciences

    Deadline
    Amount
    $750

  18. Student Endowed Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) offers one $750 Student Endowed Award to help defray travel costs for attendance at its Annual Meeting; the award also includes a one-year SfAA membership with subscriptions to Human Organization and Practicing Anthropology.

    TravelAnthropology, applied social sciences, and related fields

    Deadline
    Amount
    $750

  19. Beatrice Medicine Award - Student Travel Award (SfAA)

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) offers the Beatrice Medicine Student Travel Award—three awards of $750 each—to support student travel to the SfAA Annual Meeting for presenters with accepted paper or poster abstracts.

    TravelAnthropology / Applied Social Sciences

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $750

  20. Comitas Award for Significant Applications of Anthropology

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) offers the Lambros Comitas Award for Significant Applications of Anthropology to fund applied, community-driven projects that address persistent community issues and promote equitable solutions, providing up to $10,000 in direct costs (no indirect costs allowed).

    Research ProjectAnthropology

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $10,000

  21. Comitas Institute Award for Public Knowledge and Engagement

    The Comitas Institute Award for Public Knowledge and Engagement, offered jointly by the Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study and the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), recognizes ethnographic research that generates public knowledge and advances understanding of contemporary human problems and solutions.

    Research ProjectAnthropology

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    Not listed

  22. Comitas Institute Award for Public Knowledge and Engagement

    Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study, in partnership with the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), offers the Comitas Institute Award for Public Knowledge and Engagement to honor ethnographic research that generates public knowledge, fosters engagement, and advances understanding of contemporary human problems and solutions.

    Research ProjectAnthropology

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    Not listed

  23. Del Jones Memorial Travel Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) offers the Del Jones Memorial Travel Award, providing two $750 travel grants to support student attendance at the SfAA Annual Meeting and to honor Del Jones's contributions.

    TravelApplied Anthropology / Social Sciences

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $750

  24. Del Jones Memorial Travel Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) awards the Del Jones Memorial Travel Award to support student attendance at the SfAA Annual Meeting, offering two travel grants of $750 each to students presenting accepted papers.

    TravelAnthropology

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $750

  25. Edward H. & Rosamond B. Spicer Travel Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology offers the Edward H. & Rosamond B. Spicer Travel Award, providing two $750 awards to support student travel to the SfAA Annual Meeting.

    TravelAnthropology

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $750

  26. Erve Chambers Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) offers the Erve Chambers Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Award to recognize and encourage innovative student research on tourism and heritage, with cash prizes of $300 (first place) and two $150 honorable mentions.

    ScholarshipAnthropology; Tourism and Heritage

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $600

  27. First Book Proposal Prize in Critical Disaster Studies

    The Society for Applied Anthropology’s Risk and Disasters Topical Interest Group solicits single‑author nonfiction book proposals in critical disaster studies that foreground antiracist and decolonial approaches and are grounded in original ethnographic field research; the winner receives $1,250, mentorship, and a preliminary book contract with Berghahn Books (Catastrophes in Context series).

    FellowshipAnthropology; Disaster Studies

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $1,250

  28. Gil Kushner Memorial Travel Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) offers the Gil Kushner Memorial Travel Award, providing two $750 awards to support student travel to the SfAA Annual Meeting for presentations addressing the persistence of cultural groups.

    TravelAnthropology

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $750

  29. Gil Kushner Memorial Travel Award - SfAA

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) offers the Gilbert Kushner Memorial Travel Award to provide travel support—two awards of $750 each—for students presenting at the SfAA Annual Meeting on research related to the persistence of cultural groups.

    TravelAnthropology

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $750

  30. Human Rights Defender Travel Award (SfAA)

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), supported by a donation from Michael Cavendish, offers the Human Rights Defender Travel Award—a single $750 award to help a student attend the SfAA Annual Meeting.

    TravelAnthropology

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $750

  31. Pelto International Award — Travel scholarship to attend SfAA Annual Meeting

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) offers the Pelto International Award, a travel scholarship to bring an international scholar or practitioner in applied social sciences to the SfAA Annual Meeting.

    TravelSocial Science

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    Not listed

  32. Pelto International Award — Travel scholarship to attend SfAA Annual Meeting

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) sponsors the Pelto International Award, a nomination-based travel scholarship that brings an international applied social science scholar or practitioner to the SfAA Annual Meeting in honor of Pertti “Bert” Pelto’s commitment to global academic networks.

    TravelSocial Science

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    Not listed

  33. Peter K. New Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) administers the Peter Kong‑ming New Student Research Competition to recognize outstanding single‑authored student research in applied social and behavioral sciences, with emphasis on studies related to health care or human services.

    ScholarshipApplied social and behavioral sciences; health and human services

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $3,000

  34. Peter K. New Award (Peter Kong-ming New Student Research Competition)

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) administers the annual Peter K. New Student Research Competition to recognize outstanding single‑authored student research that applies the social sciences to health care or human services; awards include $3,000 (first place, plus an engraved trophy, $350 travel stipend and two nights’ lodging), $1,500 (second) and $750 (third), with travel stipends and lodging for top winners.

    OtherSocial and behavioral sciences (health care and human services)

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $3,000

  35. Peter K. New Student Research Competition (Peter K. New Award)

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) annually awards the Peter K. New Student Research Competition to recognize outstanding single‑authored student research in the applied social and behavioral sciences, with emphasis on work relevant to health care or human services; prizes include $3,000 and a trophy for first place (plus travel stipend and lodging), with smaller cash and travel awards for second and third place.

    OtherApplied Social and Behavioral Sciences (Health & Human Services)

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $3,350

  36. Student Endowed Award

    The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Student Committee offers one $750 Student Endowed Award to help cover student membership and travel to the SfAA Annual Meeting and includes a one‑year SfAA membership with subscriptions to Human Organization and Practicing Anthropology.

    TravelAnthropology, Applied Social Sciences

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $750

  37. Student Endowed Award (SfAA)

    Offered by the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Student Committee, the Student Endowed Award provides one $750 award to help cover student membership and travel costs to attend the SfAA Annual Meeting and includes a one‑year SfAA membership with subscriptions to Human Organization and Practicing Anthropology.

    TravelAnthropology; Applied Social Sciences

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $750
5 closed programsDeadline passed before Oct 12, 2026

  1. J. Thomas May Memorial Internship

    Closed
    Amount
    $2,250

  2. Comitas Award for Significant Applications of Anthropology

    Closed
    Amount
    $10,000

  3. Sol Tax Distinguished Service Award

    Closed

  4. Sol Tax Distinguished Service Award

    Closed

  5. Erve Chambers Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Award

    Closed
    Amount
    $600

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