Graduate Student Paper Competition

Deadline: 5/1/10

The Institutional Ethnography Division solicits papers for its 2010 George W. Smith Graduate Student Paper Competition. Papers should advance institutional ethnography scholarship either methodologically or through a substantive contribution. Authors must be currently enrolled graduate students or have completed their degree since September 2009. Prizes include a $100 cash award, registration fees and an opportunity to present the paper at the 2010 SSSP meetings, and a ticket to the SSSP awards banquet. Students who submit papers should be prepared to attend the conference. Send one copy each to: Liza McCoy ( ) and Ali Gabriel ( ). (For an overview of institutional ethnography and the purposes of the IE Division, see http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pageid/1236.)
 

Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar Activism

Deadline: 5/1/10

The Institutional Ethnography Division is pleased to solicit nominations for the 2010 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 one-page statements describing the contributions of nominees to Tim Diamond ( ). The honoree will be recognized with a certificate at the Institutional Ethnography business meeting during the Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.