**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 1, 2025**

2025 Announcement

The Editorial Board of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry announces the Early Career Development Award for the most outstanding paper submitted by an early career scholar. The award includes publication in the journal with an expedited review process and publication timeline (publication by December 2025) and a $500 cash prize. You will also be featured in a blogpost on our blog.

Deadline for submission is April 1, 2025. Submissions must include AWARD in the title box and a cover letter that indicates the title of the paper, why a Career Development Award would be helpful at this stage, and a statement that the author’s terminal degree was received in 2015 or later. Papers not meeting these requirements will pass into the regular review process for the journal and will not receive consideration for the award nor an expedited review even if the paper meets eligibility criteria. Papers with multiple authors can be considered but each co-author must meet the 10-year since terminal degree criteria for an early career scholar.

Note that the authors must respond to reviewers within a month of receiving reviews to make the expedited timeline feasible.

A decision on the winner will be made by November 1 in time for recognition at the Springer Nature journal booth at the 2025 American Anthropological Association conference and publication in the December 2025 issue. The paper will also be archived online in a new Award Paper collection where all awardees will appear in future years.

The criteria for eligibility and evaluation are as follows:

Authors (and co-authors) will be within 10 years of receiving an MD, PhD, PSY-D or equivalent degree. This must be indicated for all authors in the cover letter with year of receipt of the terminal degree and the awarding institution. Papers will focus on topics/themes and methodological approaches that are within the aims and scope (follow link for description) of the journal Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (CMP). Only papers that fit the criteria for Original Research Articles or Perspectives Papers (follow link for description) will be considered. We will not consider papers that are Clinical or Cultural Case Studies nor Commentaries, Opinions or Book Reviews for this award.

Papers should be written in clear language, have a concise argument, use social science theory and methodologies, involve original research or clinical practice, and make an innovative and outstanding contribution to the fields covered by CMP.

Papers should not be under consideration elsewhere.

Papers should conform to the stylistic format and ethical values (including human subjects review) of the journal and be no longer than 8,000 words (not including references). Please consult the journal website for further details on the submission process. As mentioned, you will submit to the journal platform as usual. Questions related to the award (but not the papers) can be directed to our Prize Committee Chair, Dr. Caroline Brettell at cbrettel@smu.edu.

Previous Winners

Vincent Laliberte’, McGill University, 2024, for “When Multispecies Ethnogrphy Encounters Shelter-Based Clinic: Uncovering Ecological Factors for Cultural Psychiatry”