Oral Presentation Session

Reviewed by: Anthropology and Environment Society

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students, Those Involved in Mentoring Activities

Primary Theme: Environment and Environmental Inequality

(4-0900) Rappaport Student Prize Panel

The purpose of this annual panel, which honors the legacy of Roy Rappaport, one of the pioneers of modern anthropology of the environmental, is to help develop and showcase some of the best student work in this subdiscipline. The papers in the panel are the product of a national competition held early in the year, based on submission of paper abstracts to an expert committee consisting of officers of the Anthropology and Environment section plus distinguished outside members. The five finalists in this competition are invited to develop article-length papers and are awarded partial support to travel to the AAA meetings and present them in the Rappaport Prize panel. One of these papers is selected for the prize, which consists of a cash award and is announced at the AES Business Meeting. The selection is based on originality of the research and analysis, as well as its contribution to the field of environmental anthropology. The papers presented in this annual panel often anticipate new directions that this field will take. The presenters of each of these papers will be paired with a member of the Rappaport prize committee to help them further develop and publish these works, in accordance with the ultimate aim of the prize competition to contribute to the mentoring of graduate students pursuing careers in the anthropology of the environment.

Chair(s)

• Laura Ogden

  Dartmouth College

Organizer(s)

• Patrick Gallagher

  Assistant Professor
  The University of Texas at San Antonio

Presenter(s)

• Katy Overstreet

  PhD candidate
  University of California, Santa Cruz

• Gillian Bogart

  University of California, Santa Cruz

• Brianna Farber

  University of South Carolina

• Andrea Marston

  University of California, Berkeley

• Patrick Nason

  Columbia University

Discussant(s)

• Rick Stepp

  University of Florida

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

  A Plantation Inside the Cow: Capitalist Indigestions and the Rumen Microbial Universe
  Katy Overstreet – University of California, Santa Cruz
• 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

  Making salt, Making Do: Rhythms of Resistance on Timorese Saltscapes
  Gillian Bogart – University of California, Santa Cruz
• 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

  Pollution Made By Nature: The Circulation of Nitrate Knowledge in Iowa Agriculture and Conservation
  Brianna Farber – University of South Carolina
• 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

  Bodies of Flesh and Ore: The Geosocial Formation of Miners and Metal in Highland Bolivia
  Andrea Marston – University of California, Berkeley
• 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

  This is Not a Goldmine: Capital, Conservation, and the Politics of Recruitment in the Deep Bismarck Sea
  Patrick Nason – Columbia University
• 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

  Discussion
  Rick Stepp – University of Florida