2025 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize Winner
AES is delighted to announce the 2025 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize winner, Emily Fjaellen Thompson, PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, for the essay “The [...]
2025 Honorable Mention
AES would like to recognize Paige Edmiston, currently a postdoctoral fellow with the VA Seattle Center of Innovation and University of Washington School of Public Health, with an honorable [...]
Intimate Strangers
2025 Winner Intimate Strangers: Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth by Veronika Siegl Prize Committee: Doreen Lee, Chair (Northeastern University), Eleana Kim (University of California, [...]
Money, Value, and the State
2025 Honorable Mention Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa by Kevin P. Donovan Prize Committee: Doreen Lee, Chair (Northeastern University), Eleana Kim (University of [...]
In the Shadow of the Palms
2023 Winner In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua by Sophie Chao Prize Committee: Erica James (Chair), Winifred Tatke (Colby College) and Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore [...]
2024 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize Winner
AES is delighted to announce the 2024 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize winner, Naomi Zucker, currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, for the essay [...]
The Small Matter of Suing Chevron
2024 Joint Winner The Small Matter of Suing Chevron by Suzana Sawyer Prize Committee: Daromir Rudnyckyj (University of Victoria, chair), Sameena Mulla (Emory U), and Brandon Hunter-Pazzara (Georgetown U) This [...]
Horizon Work
2024 Joint Winner Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change by Adriana Petryna Prize Committee: Daromir Rudnyckyj (University of Victoria, chair), Sameena Mulla [...]
Unsettling
2024 Honorable Mention Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border by Gilberto Rosas Prize Committee: Daromir Rudnyckyj (University of Victoria, chair), Sameena Mulla (Emory U), [...]
2023 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize Winner
Ethics, Epistemologies, and Humanitarianism: Exploring Alternative Ways of Knowing about Missing Persons in Post-War Azerbaijan by Leyla Jafarova AES is delighted to announce the 2023 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize [...]
