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 [...]
2023 Honorable Mention
The Generic Plants of Plant-Based Renewables, or the Continuation of Plantation Logics within Green Capitalism by Katie Ulrich AES would also like to recognize Katie Ulrich, doctoral candidate in [...]
Bodies in Evidence
2022 Winner Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication by Heather Hlavka and Sameena Mulla Bodies in Evidence is a powerful and brilliant team ethnography that [...]
