The Kathleen M. Adams Student Paper Award recognizes a student for making an innovative contribution to the anthropology of tourism and/or heritage, broadly conceived. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply for this award. All students are encouraged to apply, but the winner must become a member of CHAT to accept the award.
The author of the winning paper will be recognized by CHAT at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (conference attendance is not required), and will be paired with a mentor in the student’s area of interest. The winning author is expected to serve on the selection committee in the following year.
To be eligible, the submitted paper should not exceed 8,000 words (inclusive of references) and must not have been published or submitted for publication. This year’s award is open to papers completed any time after June 1st, 2025. Please self-nominate!
To apply, please submit your paper to Jake Dean (jakewdean@ucsb.edu) by June 15th:
- In the subject line of your email, write “[AUTHOR’S SURNAME], Kathleen M. Adams Student Paper Award”
- In the body of the email, provide the author’s full name, affiliation (undergraduate/graduate, department, university), and the title of the paper.
- Attach the paper in Word or PDF format.
Past Winners
- 2025 – Jessica Hiroshima Misiorek, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Making the Japanese and the Foreign: Discourses of Overtourism, Nihonjinron, and Mixed and Multicultural Japanese Identity”
- 2023 – Subhajit Pal, University at Albany, SUNY, “The Politics of Convergence of Touristic Space-Making and Settler Common Sense”