Department Awards

Art Keene Student Leadership Award For Exemplary Leadership in Service in Activism

Students are nominated by faculty and selected by a committee towards the end of the Spring semester

The Nat Smith Community Service Award For Outstanding Accomplishments in Service

Students are nominated by faculty and selected by a committee towards the end of the Spring semester

Natalie F.S. Woodbury Distinguished Service Award For Scholastic Achievement and University Service

Students are nominated by faculty and selected by a committee towards the end of the Spring semester

Sylvia Forman Writing Prize

This prize is awarded to the writer of an essay in anthropology. The jury expects that most competitors will elect to submit a redraft of a paper that they submit for Anthropology 364, but you may submit a paper from another anthropology course, an honor thesis, or an original anthropological essay. Each competitor may only submit one paper. 

Calls for submissions go out towards the end of the spring semester. Award is given at the end of the year Departmental Luncheon.