[wapadc] Praxis Award recipients

Dear WAPA members:

WAPA would like to congratulate the slate of winners from the 2017 Praxis Award competition.There was one winner overall and four honorable mentions. There was a very strong field of applications this year, reflecting both the reach of the award and the excellent work being done by practitioners in different contexts.

The awards were presented on Dec. 1 at the AAA meeting in Washington.

Praxis Award:

Luisa Cortesi, Yale University

Project:  Dug-well Revival: Tradition, Knowledge, and Equity in Drinking Water in North Bihar, India

Honorable Mentions:

 

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

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

 

Additional information about the projects can be found in the Praxis Award recipients document (PDF format) found on the WAPA website. The links to the document can be found on the recipient overview page:  https://wapa.wildapricot.org/praxisrecipients:

If you know any of the awardees, please send your congratulations in due course. Feel free to forward this announcement on as relevant.

WAPA would like to thank the jurors for this year's award: Mari Clarke, Charlie Cheney, Laura McNamara, and Riall Nolan.

The 2017 Praxis Committee is Sue Taylor, Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts, Adam Koons, Jim Stansbury, and Terry Redding.