Overview

SANA’s St. Clair Drake Travel Grant will support student travel to the AAA 2025 Annual Meeting with grants of $500. All currently enrolled graduate students who are SANA members and presenting at the meeting are eligible. To apply, submit your paper abstract and session information, university and program affiliation, and contact information in the body of an email to SANATravelGrants@gmail.com by Monday, September 28, 2025.

Additional Guidelines

  • The grant is awarded on a competitive basis and reviewed by a committee comprised of SANA board members and past recipients.
  • Preference will go to students whose meeting participation considers the politics of everyday life in North America such as those pertaining to race, ethnicity, class, gender, and/or sexuality.
  • This travel grant is intended for currently enrolled graduate students without a PhD.
  • Applicants must be SANA members (join here for only $10) 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.

Who was St. Clair Drake?

Margot D. Weiss has written a biography on the pioneering social anthropologist and activist. Read it here.

Application Timeline

Applications Open: Spring of award year

Award Frequency: Annual

Ceremony: AAA Annual Meeting

Contact

For questions about applications or eligibility, contact SANA.

Past Recipients

Year Recipient Institution & Research
2025 Emma Tran UCLA — “Girls Who Grow Up With Ghosts: A Hauntological Approach in the Study of Right-Wing Politics Among Vietnamese Americans”
2025 Camille Samuels UC Irvine — “Vying for Black California Gold: Black Angelenos Struggle for Ecological and Social Protection Against Los Angeles’s Most Haunted Industry”
2025 Sydney Giacalone Brown University — “A Rural Agrarian Reckoning: Multigenerational Farmers Seeking to Repair Soil, Agriculture, and Rural America Itself”
2023 Tannya Islas UC Irvine — “Borderfields: Agriculture and Migrant Experiences of Climate Change Across the US and Mexico”
2023 Madison Aubey UCLA — “Identity and Resistance in the Material Culture of Black Mobile”
2019 Melinda Gonzalez
2019 Rebecca Richart (runner-up)
2018 Bailey Duhé
2017 Kessie Alexandre Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University — “Between Gray and Green: Telling Times of Decay and Resilience through Urban Greening”
2017 Brieanne Berry Ph.D. Student, Anthropology & Environmental Policy Program, University of Maine — “They Come From Away: On the Commoditization of Maine’s Discard Markets”
2017 Sarah Molinari PhD Student, Anthropology Program, CUNY Graduate Center — “Contested Debt, Popular Protest, and the Question of Sovereignty During Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis”
2017 Eva Weiss Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Temple University — “Love Triangle: Migrants, Citizens, and ICE Agents in an Era of Mass Deportation”
2016 Jessica Katzenstein Brown University — “Militarizing the Crisis: Effects of Military Equipment on U.S. Law Enforcement”
2016 Rebecca Hasselbeck UC Irvine — “Off to the Races: Migrant Lives, Work, and Legal Status in the Horse Racing Industry”
2016 Maja de Langen University of Amsterdam — Panel (Roundtable): “Keywords for Imaging Studies in Medicine and Life Sciences”
2016 Allison Taylor Stuewe University of Arizona — “Invoking the Arab Muslim Terrorist Specter on the US-Mexico Border”