Call for Submissions: 2025 Robert M. Netting Prize

The Culture and Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association is soliciting paper submissions from students for the 2025 Robert M. Netting Prize. The winner will receive a $1,000 prize and mentorship from the Co-Editors of Culture, Agriculture, Food, & Environment (CAFE) journal, with the goal of revising the paper for publication.

Submissions should draw on relevant literature from any subfield of anthropology, and present data from original research related to livelihoods based on either crop, livestock, forestry, or fisheries production or any broader systems of management linked to agricultural and environmental resources.

Papers should be limited to a maximum of 6,500 words, exclusive of endnotes, appendices, and references, and should follow the American Anthropologist format style. Papers already published or accepted for publication are not eligible. Only one submission is allowed per author. Those submitting papers need not be members of the American Anthropological Association but must be enrolled students. (Students graduating in the Spring of 2025 are still eligible).

The submission deadline is September 12th.

To submit, please send the paper as a Word document to Dr. Andrea Rissing <arissing@asu.edu> with the subject line "Netting Submission." The paper should include no identifying information; in the body of the email please include applicant's name and department affiliation.