Call for Papers

Paper Prize

Robert M. Netting Best Student Paper Prize

The Culture and Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association solicits papers for the Robert M. Netting Prize and Graduate Fellowship. The winner will receive a prize award and mentorship from the Co-Editors of Culture, Agriculture, Food, & Environment (CAFE), with the goal of revising the paper for publication.

Submissions  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.

See announcements for the latest details on submitting.

Previous Winners

2022

  • Gabrielle Robins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "'The Smell Makes Us Hungry': When Food Isn't Medicine in Highland Madagascar."

2020 (co-winners)

  • Brad Jones, Washington University, "Skilled Landscapes: Towards a Political Ecology of Agricultural Skilling"

  • Noha Fikry, American University in Cairo, "Pigeon-Rearing and Food-Preparing: Rooftops as Spaces of Nurturance in Contemporary Egypt"

2017

  • Graduate award: Andrea Rissing (Emory University) “Profitability vs. Making It: The Agrarian Realms of Market and Community.”

  • Undergraduate award: Nako Kobayashi (Connecticut College) “Work for Farmers, Food for Storks.”

2014

  • Graduate award: Manoj Misra, University of Alberta

  • Undergraduate co-awardees: Kristin Gjelsteen, University of Puget Sound, and Jacqueline Garvin, University of British Columbia