Form to be Signed by a Graduate Student's Doctoral Committee to Support the Student's Application for a Formal Publishing Contract under the University of California Press/Center for Public Anthroplogy's International Competition

We, the undersigned in order to facilitate __________________________________ applying for the University of California Press/Center for a Public Anthropology’s award of a formal publishing contract prior to the completion of a dissertation attest by our signatures below, that (a) we are members of his or her doctoral committee and (b) support the writing of his or her doctoral dissertation in a form readable by a broad, public audience rather than as a standard academic dissertation.

For clarification regarding what the University of California Press/Center for a Public Anthropology competition defines as “”readable by a broad, public audience” please refer to http://www.publicanthropology.org/Bookseries/-overview.htm. The statement provides style guidelines as well as models to emulate. Prospective applicants wishing to compete for the award, the statements suggests, should ask themselves: Are they writing for the same audiences as Fadiman, Ehrenreich or Diamond? Are they dealing with problems of broad import that others, beyond the academy, find compelling? Will their relatives and friends find the manuscript absorbing?

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