John Bodley Student Travel Award

February 1, 2020

Society Announces 2020 John Bodley Student Travel Award

The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce the results of the Competition for the John Bodley Student Travel Award for 2020.  The winner is Marian Thorpe.  She will receive a travel scholarship of $500 to offset the expenses of attending the 80^th Annual Meeting of the Society in Albuquerque, NM, March 17-21, 2020.

Thorpe will present her paper, Being Seen by the State: Embracing Neoliberal Multicultural Recognition in Western Panama on Wednesday, March 18.  Ms. Thorpe is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University.

The John Bodley Student Travel Award was initiated by former students, and honors an international scholar whose career focused on the impact of development on indigenous peoples. More recently, his research turned to the issue of scale as a way to best understand the contemporary concentration of wealth and power.

Please contact the SfAA Office for additional information.  A more detailed biography of each of the awardees will be featured on the SfAA website.