Jing Xu Awarded the SPA's Condon Prize

Graduate Student, Jing Xu has been awarded the Society for Psychological Anthropology's Richard G. Condon Prize for the best student essay in psychological anthropology. She will be awarded $500 and one year’s free membership in the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Her essay, "Becoming a Moral Child amidst China's Moral Crisis" will be published in Ethos.

The prize is named for the late Richard G. Condon, whose work included the study of adolescence, family, and change among the Canadian Inuit. Psychological anthropology is defined broadly to include interrelationships among psychological, social and cultural phenomena. Essays will be judged on their relevance to psychological anthropology, organization and clarity, and their theoretical and methodological strengths.