Incomplete Lives
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, [...]
The Ontology of Improvisation
2015 Winner The Ontology of Improvisation Hut/Tent-Building Practices of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao China by Yasmin Cho
Speak Softly to the Dead
2014 Winner Speak Softly to the Dead The Uses of Enchantment in American Home Funerals by Alexa Hagerty
Commodified Sexuality and Mother-Daughter Power Dynamics in the Mekong Delta
2013 Honorable Mention Commodified Sexuality and Mother-Daughter Power Dynamics in the Mekong Delta by Nicolas Lainez
The Gun That Backfires
2013 Winner The Gun That Backfires Violence and the Paradox of Neoliberal Multiculturalism by Ellen Sharp
Audibly Present
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) [...]
Protecting the Archive
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 [...]
A World Unmade
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 [...]
Diabetes and the Occult in Northern Ghana
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 [...]
A Cursing of History, A History of Cursing
2005 Winner A Cursing of History, A History of Cursing by Marc David My paper “A Cursing of History, A History of Cursing: Remembering Collective Time from Zero-Degree in South Louisiana” [...]
