2023 Prizes & Awards Winners

ABA

Dr. Ira E. Harrison Legacy Award

• Cheryl Rodriguez
• Irma Mclaurin

ABA Presidential Service Award

• Jemima Pierre
• Aisha Beliso-De Jesús
• Mieka Brand Polanco
• Karen G. Williams
• Lee D. Baker

AD

Patty Jo Watson Distinguished Lecturer

• Sonya Atalay, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Gordon R. Willey Prize

• Tsim D. Schneider, UC-Santa Cruz

Student Diversity Travel Grants

• Tony J. Chamoun, Syracuse University
• Cheng Liu, Emery University

Student Membership Award

• Diane Slocum, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

ADT

• Winners to be announced

AFA

2023 AFA Career Award Winner

• Lila Abu-Lughod

Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize Winner

• Julia Kowalski’s Counseling Women: Kinship against Violence in India (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

Honorable Mention

• Elyse Singer’s Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2022)
• Maya Mikdashi’s Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in Lebanon (Stanford University Press, 2022)

Forman Award Winners

• Gaia Guatri (undergrad winner)
• Alison Hanson (grad winner)

Dissertation Award Winner

• Caroline Hodge, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, for the project, “Bodies of Knowledge: Constructing Reproductive Bodies in Contraceptive Counseling after Dobbs”

Zora Neale Hurston Travel Award Winners

• Shilpa Parthan Menon, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Illinois Chicago
  “Public Funds and Privatized Risk: Trans Reproductive Labor and Neoliberal Welfare in South India”
• Noha Fikry, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Toronto
  “Rooftop reciprocities: Extending kitchens & feeding wandering animals in Egypt”
• Precious Adejumobi, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon
  “Medicine on the Bus: Alternative Healthcare for Women on Transportation Routes in Lagos, Nigeria”

AfAA

Nancy “Penny” Schwartz Undergraduate Essay Award

• Winner: Lindsey Kaufman, Washington University in St. Louis: “Informal Bedside Care in Zambia: A Response to Colonial Economic Starvation and Hospital Understaffing”
• Honorable Mention: Pristina Koon, University of Michigan: “The Language of Justice: Examining Socio-and Metalinguistic Factors of the Special Court for Sierra Leone”

Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Essay Award

• Winner: Agathe Leborgne, Sciences Po and École du Louvre: “Water deities: Icons for the African-American diaspora? Interpretations and reuse of pan-African entities in Nona Faustine’s, Wangechi Mutu’s and Tabita Rezaire’s works”
• Honorable Mention: Zoë Berman, University of Chicago: “Ubunyarwanda and the Evolution of Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda”

AMH

AMHIG Graduate Student Paper Award

• Brittany Franck, “On the Possibilities of Care in the Field: Methodological Reflections from Peer Research”

APLA

APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology

• Winner: After Stories: Transnational Intimacies in Postwar El Salvador by Irina Carlota Silber
• Honorable Mentions: In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua by Sophie Chao and Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance by Matthew Canfield

AQA

Ruth Benedict Book Prize Committee

• Winner: Omar Kasmani for Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Duke, 2022)
• Honorable Mention: Joseph Russo for Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas (Duke, 2023)

AQA Distinguished Achievement Award

• Dr. William Leap (Emeritus Professor, American University)

The Tale of a Suffocated Fish: Heteronormativity, Islamic Exegesis, and the Impossibility of Queer Possibilities

• Febi R. Ramadhan
• Doctoral Candidate
• Department of Anthropology
• Northwestern University

ARHE

ARHE Policy Brief Professional Award

• Dr. Magdalena Stawkowski,

ARHE Policy Brief Student Award

• Taylor J. Arnold

ASAP

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award

• Sam Dinger “Coordinating care and coercion: styles of sovereignty and the politics of humanitarian aid in Lebanon”

CAE

George and Louise Spindler Award

• Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Carlos Montezuma Professor & Dean, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University

CAE Outstanding Book Award

• Brooke Schwartz Bocast, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Montana State University

CAE Outstanding Book Honorable Mention

• Sally Wesley Bonet, Associate Professor of Educational Studies, Colgate University

CAE Frederick Erickson Outstanding Dissertation Award

• Amelia Simone Herbert, Assistant Professor of Education and Urban Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University

CAE Frederick Erickson Outstanding Dissertation Award Honorable Mention

• Molly Hamm-Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education, University of South Florida

CAE Douglas Foley Early Career Award

• Jen Stacy, Associate Professor of Liberal Studies, California State University Dominguez Hills

CAE Concha Delgado Gaitán Presidential Fellows

• Dr. Michelle Aguilera, Assistant Professor, Early Literacy Education, University of California Santa Cruz
• Dr. Eulalia Gallegos, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chicanx History, University of Idaho
• Dr. Molly Hamm-Rodríguez, Assistant Professor, Social Foundations, University of South Florida
• Dr. Valeriya Minakova, Recent PhD Graduate, Pennsylvania State University
• Dr. Griselda Solano, Two-Way, Emergent Bilingual Support Teacher/ Interventionist , Denton ISD

CAE Shirley Brice Heath New Scholar Awards

• Keisha Wiel, Temple University
• Andrea Vasquez, University of California Santa Cruz
• Pamela Reyes Galgani, University of Wisconsin Madison
• Fatima Raja, University of California Santa Cruz
• Eulalia Gallegos Buitron, University of Idaho
• Alejandra Sanmiguel-López, University of Texas at El Paso
• Philip White, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
• Jonathan Marino, University of Wisconsin Madison

CAR

 Paper prize winner

• Alyssa Basmajian, “Reproductive Gerrymandering, Bureaucratic Violence, and the Erosion of Abortion Access in the United States.”

Monograph prize winner

• Claire Wendland, “Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles”

Monograph prize honorable mentions

• Vania Smith-Oka
  Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals
• Elyse Singer
  Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance
• Cecilia Van Hollen
  Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Gender, Inequality and Health in South India

CASTAC

Diana Forsythe Prize

• Bettina Stoetzer’s Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin (Duke UP 2022).

David Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize:

• Winner: “Compositing the Body: Ethics of Mediation Among Professional Photographic Retouchers;” Matthew Raj Webb, New York University
• Honorable Mention: “Facing Blockchain’s Double Bind: Trustless Technologies and “IRL Friends” in Berlin’s NFT Community;” Spencer Kaplan, Yale University

DB

Emerging Scholar Award

• Katrina Fuller, “Care is a Pendulum: Deathcare Practices in New York City at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic.”

GAD

Exemplary Cross-Fields Scholarship Prize

• Winners: Jessica Hendy, Matthäus Rest, Mark Aldenderfer, and Christina Warinner, article in Current Anthropology, “Cultures of Fermentation.”
• Honorable Mention: Jelena Golubović, Kathleen Ingls, and Cheyanne Connell, article in American Ethnologist, “Gendered disruptions in academic publishing during COVID-19.”

New Directions Prize (Individual):

• Xenia Cherkaev

New Directions Prize (Group):

• International Space Station Archaeological Project (Wendy Salmond, Justin Walsh, Alice Gorman, Paola Castaño, Rao Hamza Ali, Amir Kanan Kashefi, and Erik Linstead)
• Juno Salazar Parreñas, Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation

MES

MES Book Award

• Winner: Nomi Stone, Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire

MES Student Paper Prize

• Winner: Hazal Aydın, “Open Body, Theatrical Intimacy and Sexual Harassment: Understanding Gendered Embodiments Through Turkey’s Theatre Industry.”
• Honorable mention: Tony J. Chamoun, “Violent Histories in a Diasporic Register: Between Bodily Durabilities, Sacrificial Others, and Racialized Strangers”

2023 Photography Prize

• Winner: Çağla Ay
• Honorable Mentions: Peter Habib, Rita Reis

NAPA

NAPA Volunteer of the Year

• Reshama Damle

NAPA Undergraduate Student Paper Award

• Sara Gace

NAPA Graduate Student Paper Award

• Justin Lee Haruyama

RUSH

RUSH Student Paper Prize

• Winner: Alyssa Basmajian, “Reproductive Gerrymandering, Bureaucratic Violence, and the Erosion of Abortion Access in the United States.”
• Honorable Mention: Yuki X. Chen, BA student at The City University of New York for paper, “Beyond Colorblind Medicine: A Case for Medical Anthropology”

SAE

SAE’s Douglass Book Prize 2023

• Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih, “Traces of Violence: Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France”
• Bettina Stoetzer, “Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race and Urban Nature in Berlin”

SAFN

Inaugural Future of Food Anthropology Fellows

• Dr. Vanessa Casteñeda is Assistant Professor of Afro-Latin American Studies at Davidson College
• Carolyn Mason is a PhD student in Medical Anthropology at Southern Methodist University

Christine Wilson Awards

• The graduate paper winner is Amanda Kaminsky, University of Michigan, with “Artisanal Slaughter: The Challenges of Goat Meat in Vermont”
• The undergraduate paper winner is Hunter McKenzie Calvert, Oregon State, with “Relationships as Infrastructure: Understanding student food insecurity and motivating OSU community solutions”

Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award

• The Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award winner is Erica Zurawski, the University of California Santa Cruz, with her project titled “Spatial Food Justice: Policy Mobilities of the ‘Food Desert’ Concept and the Socio-Legal Production of Inequitable Food Landscapes”

SAFN Student Research Award

• Winner to be announced

SANA

2023 Lifetime Achievement Award

• Winner: Dr. Lynn Bolles

SAW

Conrad M. Arensberg Award

• Winner: Harsha Walia

SAW Book Award

Winners: 

• Laboring for Justice: The Fight Against Wage Theft in an American City by Rebecca Berke Galemba
• The Eyes of the World by James H. Smith

Honorable mention: 

• A Man Among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism by Jordanna Matlon

Eric R. Wolf Prize

Winner:

• “Who Made Mead? The Native Research Assistant as Intellectual” 
  Amrina Rosyada, Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University

Honorable mention:

• “Working When Time Allows: The Value of Artisanal Work in the Chiapas Highlands” 
  Rachel Barber, Doctoral student in the Social Sciences program at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social in Guadalajara, Mexico
• “Motherland and Mother Earth: Indo-Fijian Claims to Belonging Through Agricultural Labor and ‘Hard Work'”
  Ipsita Dey, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at Princeton University

SCA Business Meeting

Gregory Bateson Book Prize

• Jafari Allen, Darren Byler, and Maya Mikdashi

Cultural Horizons Prize

• Ruth Elizabeth Goldstein

SEA

• Christopher Krupa of the University of Toronto for A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press (2022).

SEAA

Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize

• Heather Anne Swanson. Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon. (University of Washington Press, 2022)

SHA

Victor Turner Prize

• 1st Prize: Alan Mikhail, My Egypt Archive, Yale University Press
• 2nd Prize: Naveeda Khan, River Life and the Uprising of Nature, Duke University Press
• 3rd Prize: Michael Jackson, The Genealogical Imagination: Two Studies of Life over Time, Duke University Press
• Honorable Mention: Levi Vonk with Alex Kirschner, Border Hacker: A Tale of Treachery, Trafficking, and Two Friends on the Run, Bold Type Books

Edie Turner Prize

• Munira Khayyat, A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon, University of California Press
• Joseph C. Russo, Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas, Duke University Press
• Bharat Jayram Venkat, At the Limits of Cure, Duke University Press

SHA Ethnographic Poetry Competition

• 1st place: Two Row Repair II & III (two poems) – DEBRA VIDALI
• 2nd place: Cootie Catcher (single poem) – YIXUAN WANG
• 3rd place: Two Lovers, God, and Everything in Between (single multi-part poem) – FEBI RAMADHAN
• Highly Commended: Anti-trauma (set of three poems) – SUSAN HARIS

SIG

Graduate Student Paper Prize

• Alex Rewegan, “Cannabinoids in the (Reproductive) System: Historicizing the Sciences of Cannabis and Pregnancy.

Graduate Student Travel Award

• Sugandh Gupta, “‘The Goddess will take care of me’: Competing Faiths of Drug recovery in Jammu and Kashmir, India.”

SLA

The New Voices Book Prize

Winners

• Piers Kelly, The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines (2022, Oxford University Press)
• Scott MacLochlainn, for The Copy Generic: How the Nonspecific Makes Our Social Worlds (2022, University of Chicago Press)

Honorable Mention

• Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas, Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires (2022, Duke University Press)

Gumperz Graduate Essay Prize

Co-winners

• Timothy Y. Loh
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Faculty advisor: Stefan Helmreich
  Title of paper: al-lugha al-’umm/‘arabi mukassar: Competing discourses about Jordanian Sign Language (LIU) in Amman
• Jiarui Sun
  University of Chicago
  Faculty advisor: Constantine Nakassis
  Title of paper: Digital Rituals in Danmu: The Enregisterment of Online Nationalism in China

Runners up

• Katherine Arnold-Murray
  University of Colorado, Boulder
  Faculty advisor: Kira Hall
  Title of paper: Settle for Biden: The scalar production of a normative presidential candidate on Instagram
• Sarah Rosenau
  University of Pittsburght [sp?] (formerly University of CO, Boulder)
  Faculty advisor: Scott Kiesling (formerly Kira Hall)
  Title of paper: Appropriating Appropriation: Mock Koreaboo

SLA Undergraduate Paper Prize

Senior Thesis winner

• Allyson Emmett
  Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame
  Faculty advisor: Nell Haynes
  Name of paper: Gender & Linguistic Change: Perceptions of English Influencing Changes in Spanish in the U.S.

Course paper winner

• Joelle Jackson
  Indiana University (Bloomington)
  Faculty advisor: Kathryn Graber
  Name of paper: (Re)animating Treasured Texts: Volunteers’ Visibility and Voice in Participatory Archival Transcription

Honorable mentions in both categories

• JS Brown
  Appalachian State University
  Faculty advisor: Mary-Caitlin Valentinsson
  Name of paper: Cultivating Time and Space in Digital Advertising and Corporate Branding
• Thayer H. Ackerman
  Appalachian State University
  Faculty Advisor: Mary-Caitlin Valentinsson
  Name of paper: The Chronotopes of Columbia

SMA

New Millennium Book Award

• Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg, “Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America”

Eileen Basker Memorial Prize

• Natali Valdez, “Weighing the Future: Race Science and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era”

The Leah M. Ashe Prize for the Anthropology of Medically–Induced Harm

• Katinka Hooyer, “The trauma pitch: how stigma emerges for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking disability compensation”

The Steven Polgar Professional Paper Competition

• Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin, “Death in an Ordinary Time: Reflections from Rwanda.”

Hazel Weidman Award for Exemplary Service

• Marcia Inhorn

SMA Dissertation Award

• Paula Martin, “Practicing Gender: The Meanings and Uses of Gender Affirming Care for Youth in the United States.”

Rivers Paper Prize

• Sumin Yoon, “Gifted Care: Reconfiguring HIV/AIDS Caregiving in the Post-Treatment Era.”

Carole H. Browner Graduate Student Mentorship Award

• Jennifer Hirsch

Carole H. Browner Undergraduate Student Mentorship Award

• Bharat Jayram Venkat

Contingent Faculty Travel Award

• Sachin Ghimire, “Social sufferings across the Nepal-India border; Fortification and marginality in the mist of COVID-19.”
• Tanya Ahlin,”Transnational Care Collectives: Digital technologies in remote elder care”

SPA

Stirling Prize

• Merav Shohet, for Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam (first book)
• Chikako Ozawa-de Silva, for The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan (established author)

Boyer Prize

• BOOK: Jeannette Mageo The Mimetic Nature of Dream Mentation: American Selves in Re-formation and
• ARTICLE: Katherine Mason “Blenders, Hammers, and Knives: Postpartum Intrusive Thoughts and Unthinkable Motherhood,” published in Anthropology and Humanism in March 2022

Condon Prize

• Pablo Seward Delaporte “‘Life Started Hitting her Like This, This, This’: Vulnerability, Relationality, and the Making of Hard Corporeal Selves”

Lifetime Achievement awards

• Thomas Csordas
• Tanya Luhrmann