[wapadc] 2017 Praxis Awardees

Dear WAPA members:

Please join us in congratulating this year's recipients of the Praxis Award. An especially robust competition this cycle resulted in five awardees: one winner and four honorable mentions. Details about the awardees and their projects can be found on the WAPA website at http://wapadc.org/2017-Praxis-Award-Recipients.

The 2017 Praxis Award goes to Luisa Cortesi, Yale University, for the competition entry, "Dug-well Revival: Tradition, Knowledge, and Equity in Drinking Water in North Bihar, India."

 

 

Honorable Mentions were presented to the following:

 

Cathleen Crain, Nathaniel Tashima, Reiko Ishihara-Brito, and Erick Lee Cummings, LTG Associates, Inc.

Project: A Video Ethnographic Study: Raising Healthy Children in Poverty and Examples of Excellence in Addressing Childhood Wellness

 

Adam B. Seligman, Rahel R. Wasserfall, and David W. Montgomery, CEDAR (Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion) Program

Project: Learning to Live with Difference: Taking Anthropology Out of the Classroom and Into the World

 

Thurka Sangaramoorthy and the Project Team

Project: Marcellus Shale Public Health Study

 

Olive M. Minor, International Rescue Committee

Project: Socio-cultural Barriers and Enablers in the Ebola Response

 

Awardees have been invited to present their projects at the April 10 WAPA monthly meeting. Updates will provided on the meeting in due course.