The Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award
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The Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award supports graduate students’ proposed, ongoing, or completed research to advance food justice, food security, food sovereignty, and the right to food.
Funder: Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $750 cash prize plus one-year membership in AAA and SAFN
Summary: Recognizes graduate student research advancing food justice, food security, food sovereignty, and food as a human right.
Key Information: Applicants must complete their coursework and research proposal by the submission deadline.
Description
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) administers this annual award to honor Dr. Thomas Marchione’s legacy as a scholar-activist. It supports graduate students whose proposed, ongoing, or completed research continues and expands his work on food justice, food security and access, and food as a human right, in domestic or international contexts.
The program emphasizes active, productive engagement with food security and food sovereignty, concern for poor and undernourished people, and a willingness to work on behalf of food sovereignty. It favors research exploring sustainable approaches to fulfilling the right to food, with preference for students actively engaged in the central issues of Marchione’s career.
