APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize Submission Form
Thank you for your interest in submitting your paper to the 2026 Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition! Please use this form to provide your name and contact information, and to submit your paper. To ensure blind review, please remove identifying names and references from the paper and convert it to a pdf file before submitting. You should include the title of the paper as a header and ensure pages are numbered. Please give the file a single-word name that abbreviates the title. Information about the APLA Student Paper Prize can be found on the APLA website (https://politicalandlegalanthro.org/awards/studentprize/). If you have any questions or difficulties completing this application, please contact Leo Coleman at coleman.anthro@gmail.com.
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