The Institutional Ethnography Division is pleased to solicit to solicit nominations for the 2013 Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism.  This award recognizes the activities of an individual or group who has made substantial contributions to institutional ethnographic scholar-activism in either a single project or some longer trajectory of work.  The contributions may involve IE research conducted and used for activist ends, or it may involve activist efforts which have drawn upon or contributed to IE scholarship.  The award committee invites members of the division to send a one-page statement describing the contributions of the nominee to Suzanne Vaughan at svaughan@asu.edu by May 1, 2013.