Call for Submissions: SANA Travel Grants to Attend the SANA 2025 Spring Meeting
SANA’s travel grants are available for members presenting at the SANA Spring Meeting, to be held in Portland, Oregon, March 26-29, 2025, in collaboration with the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). See below for details of each.
St. Clair Drake Travel Grant
SANA’s St. Clair Drake Travel Grant will support student travel to the 2025 Spring 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 January 15, 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 two years 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.
Past St. Clair Drake Travel Grant Recipients
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 2025 Spring 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 January 15, 2025.
Additional Guidelines
- 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!) and on the program for the meeting.
- Travel grants will not be awarded to any individual two years 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.
About the Eleanor “Happy” Leacock Travel Grant
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.