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2017 Winner This thing that I searched so hard for Normativity and transgression in transgender children's narratives by Joshua Franklin We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 Elsie [...]
2017 Winner This thing that I searched so hard for Normativity and transgression in transgender children's narratives by Joshua Franklin We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 Elsie [...]
2016 Winner Incomplete Lives The Unfinished Houses of Undocumented Migrants in Oaxaca, Mexico by Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes We are pleased to announce the 2016 winner. At the AES spring meetings in Washington, [...]
2015 Winner The Ontology of Improvisation Hut/Tent-Building Practices of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao China by Yasmin Cho
2014 Winner Speak Softly to the Dead The Uses of Enchantment in American Home Funerals by Alexa Hagerty
2013 Honorable Mention Commodified Sexuality and Mother-Daughter Power Dynamics in the Mekong Delta by Nicolas Lainez
2013 Winner The Gun That Backfires Violence and the Paradox of Neoliberal Multiculturalism by Ellen Sharp
2012 Honorable Mention Audibly Present Mediating Racial Politics in Afro-Brazilian Radio by Reighan Gillam By Prize Committee members—Caitrin Lynch, chair (Olin C), Elizabeth Ferry (Brandeis U), and Anastasia Karakasidou (Wellesley C) [...]
2012 Winner Protecting the Archive by Sarah E. Vaughn By Prize Committee members—Caitrin Lynch, chair (Olin C), Elizabeth Ferry (Brandeis U), and Anastasia Karakasidou (Wellesley C) We are pleased to announce [...]
2011 Winner A World Unmade Diabetes and the Occult in Northern Ghana by Amy Moran-Thomas The paper discusses how changing diets, changing availability of primary health care, global pharmaceutical and agricultural [...]
2007 Winner Diabetes and the Occult in Northern Ghana by Limor Samimian Darash The Limits of Emergencies and the Time of Event: The Pre-Event Configuration of Biological Threats (see pdf) by [...]
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