Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Essay Award

Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA)

This award is for graduate students. To apply for the award, applicants must submit an essay in Africanist anthropology. This award is given based on applicants' originality of scholarship, creativity of insight, and quality of writing; clear potential for contribution to the fields of Africanist anthropology, African studies, or African diaspora studies; and clear potential for continued innovative research, leading toward a dissertation or major publication on the part of the author. Special consideration will be given to work that incorporates emerging perspectives or interdisciplinary methodologies, which promote the further understanding of sub-Saharan Africa and the African diaspora by a broader audience.

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