The 2014 APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize committee was Gabrielle Hosein, Mark Schuller, and Chika Watanabe. This year we added … More
Category: Announcements
APLA’s Inaugural Book Prize Awarded to Lori Allen!
APLA BOOK PRIZE WINNER 2014 We are happy to announce the winner and honorable mention for our 2014 APLA Book … More
APLA’s revamped online presence!
Photo by Gullevek. As you might have noticed, our APLA website has a new design! Just to remind you, our … More
Happy Hour Salon: “Producing Political and Legal Knowledge Through Cross-Disciplinary Engagements” at the AAA Meetings
Save the date! Happy Hour Salon: “Producing Political and Legal Knowledge Through Cross-Disciplinary Engagements” When: Wednesday, December 3, 6-8 pm. … More
Graduate Students: these workshops during the AAAs are for you!
APLA Graduate Student Workshops at AAA 2014 Call for participants… Each year during the AAA meetings, the Association for … More
HIV/AIDS, policing sex work and public health in India: an interview with Simanti Dasgupta
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology is featuring interviews with our members who participated in Law and Society Association’s … More
New LSA Ethnography, Law & Society Collaborative Network
At the recent LSA meetings in Minnesota, a group of ethnographically-oriented researchers (including graduate students, post-docs, and faculty) came together … More
Graduate Student Paper Prize!
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition Deadline: August 1, 2014 The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Board invites … More
Meet the new APLA Board Members!
APLA election outcomes are out! Catherine Besteman (Colby College) is now our President-Elect, Roberto Gonzales (San Jose State University) will … More
APLA at LSA Meetings ’14: Law and Inequalities – Global and Local
APLA members are launching a new Collaborative Research Network (CRN) on Ethnography, Law and Society through the Law and Society … More
PoLAR in Search of a New Editor!
Call for Nominations: Editor(s) of Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Board … More
Presidential Address Now Published!
Don’t miss Susan Coutin and Sally Merry’s joint APLA-AES 2013 Presidential Address now published in American Ethnologist: Technologies of truth … More
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D. and J.D.) to send stand-alone papers … More
Another of our 2013 AAA meetings mentoring workshops: mobility, law and citizenship
“Mobility, Law & Citizenship” Workshop, by Véronique Fortin, UC Irvine. On November 21st 2013, a small group of scholars gathered … More
New APLA Book Prize!
In 2014 APLA is launching its new Book Prize to recognize the innovative, cutting edge and thought provoking work that … More
APLA Business Meeting at AAA 2013
Don’t miss APLA’s business meeting substantive discussion on broadening anthropology’s reach! Saturday November 23rd, 12:15-1.30 pm, Chicago Hilton, Marquette Room.