2023 Book Prize Winners
Congratulations to our 2023 Winners! New Voices Book Prize Piers Kelly for The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines Scott MacLochlainn for… Read More »2023 Book Prize Winners
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SLA Book Prizes 2021: Edward Sapir Book Prize, New Voices Book Prize
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2021 The Society for Linguistic Anthropology announces two book prize competitions in 2021. Books must have been published between January 2018 and December… Read More »SLA Book Prizes 2021: Edward Sapir Book Prize, New Voices Book Prize
Edward Sapir Book Prize 2019, Reminder
Edward Sapir Book Prize 2019 Submission Deadline: May 15, 2019 The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded to… Read More »Edward Sapir Book Prize 2019, Reminder
Edward Sapir Book Prize 2019
Edward Sapir Book Prize 2019 Submission Deadline: May 15, 2019 The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded to… Read More »Edward Sapir Book Prize 2019
2017 Sapir Book Prize Winners Announced
This year’s recipient for the Edward Sapir Book Prize, awarded at the American Anthropological Association Meeting in Washington D.C., was Kathryn Woolard. She received the… Read More »2017 Sapir Book Prize Winners Announced
Edward Sapir Book Prize 2016
Submissions are now open for the 2016 Edward Sapir Book Prize for a book that makes the most significant contribution to our understanding of language in society, or the ways in which language mediates historical or contemporary sociocultural processes. Submission Deadline: May 15, 2016
2015 SLA Prize Winners
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology was proud to award the following prizes at the 114th AAA Annual Meeting in Denver: ♦ Sapir Award Kristina Wirtz… Read More »2015 SLA Prize Winners
Edward Sapir Book Prize 2015 – Open for Submissions
Edward Sapir Book Prize 2015 Submission Deadline: May 15, 2015 The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded to a book… Read More »Edward Sapir Book Prize 2015 – Open for Submissions
2014 SLA Prize winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Society for Linguistic Anthropology prizes.
See the full list of this year’s prize winners, plus past years’ winners on the SLA Prizes page.
UPDATE on SLA Edward Sapir Book Award
The following 16 books have been submitted and are now being considered for the Edward Sapir Book Award. Winner(s) will be announced to the SLA… Read More »UPDATE on SLA Edward Sapir Book Award
Submissions Open Sapir Book Prize 2013
Submissions are now open for the 2013 edition of the Sapir Prize. Deadline: May 1, 2013.
Call for submissions for the Sapir Book Prize (2012)
Submissions are now open for the 2012 Edward Sapir book prize.
Sapir Book Prize 2010 Awarded
At the 2010 annual business meeting of the Society for Linguistic Anthropoology, the Sapir Book Prize was awarded to Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross, by William F. Hanks, published in 2010 by the University of California Press. Hanks holds the Distinguished Chair in Linguistic Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Call for submissions for the Sapir Prize (2010)
The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded in alternate years to a book that makes the most significant contribution to… Read More »Call for submissions for the Sapir Prize (2010)
Call for submissions for the Sapir Prize (2009)
Call for submissions for the Sapir Prize
Call for submissions for the Sapir Prize
The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded in alternate years to a book that makes the most significant contribution to… Read More »Call for submissions for the Sapir Prize