Eleanor “Happy” Leacock Travel Grant

Building on SANA’s history of support for those whose work and/or identities places them outside the disciplinary mainstream, the Eleanor “Happy” Leacock Travel Grant provides $500 for conference travel for the rapidly increasing number of scholars who labor in positions outside the tenure-track system. If you are a SANA member presenting at the AAA 2025 Annual Meeting and are an independent scholar, faculty at a community college, and/or working in a contingent capacity for a college or university, including part-time instructors, adjunct instructors, and full-time, non-tenure-track instructors, you are eligible. To apply, submit your paper abstract and session information, institutional affiliation and employment details, and contact information in the body of an email to SANATravelGrants@gmail.com by Friday, September 26, 2025.

• Please ensure your email illustrates that your current employment is in accordance with the award’s guidelines.
• The grant is awarded on a competitive basis and reviewed by a committee comprised of SANA board members and past recipients.
• Submissions should relate to the study of North America and, in keeping with Leacock’s contributions to feminist, urban, and activist anthropology, address issues of inequality based on gender, race, class, ethnicity, and/or sexuality.
• Applicants must be SANA members (join here—just $15 for associates!) and on the program for the meeting.
• Travel grants will not be awarded to any individual twice in a row.
• SANA is an intentionally inclusive community of anthropologists and encourages everyone eligible to apply for this grant regardless of society’s labels or anthropology’s disciplinary boundaries.

In 2013, SANA introduced a new prize, the Eleanor “Happy” Leacock Travel Award. This grant honors Eleanor “Happy” Leacock’s outstanding career as an independent scholar and her labor as a semi-employed faculty member prior to securing full-time employment at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. In 1972, she was appointed Professor and Chair of Anthropology at City University of New York’s City College, where she was instrumental in rebuilding the department. Leacock simultaneously assumed her position at CUNY’s Graduate Faculty, training and inspiring a new generation of activist anthropologists.