The Fetish Revisited
2020 Joint Winner The Fetish Revisited Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand Matory Prize Committee: Christopher Krupa (University of Toronto, chair), Sharika Thiranagama (Stanford U), Rihan [...]
Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation
2020 Joint Winner Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair by Deborah A. Thomas Prize Committee: Christopher Krupa (University of Toronto, chair), Sharika Thiranagama (Stanford U), Rihan [...]
Catching Air
2019 Winner Catching Air Risk and Embodied Ocean Health among Dominican Diver Fishermen by Kyrstin Mallon Andrews AES is pleased to award the 2019 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize to Kyrstin Mallon [...]
Guerilla Marketing
2019 Winner Guerilla Marketing Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia by Alexander Fattal Alexander Fattal, "Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia." 2019 University of Chicago Press. Prize Committee Katherine McCaffrey (Mountclair State [...]
Uber and What the People Want
2018 Winner Uber and What the People Want The Populist Persuasion of Algorithmic Management by Juan Manuel Del Nido AES is pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Elsie Clews [...]
Unsettled
2018 Honorable Mention Unsettled Denial and Belonging among White Kenyans by Janet McIntosh Prize Committee: Roberto Gonzalez (San Jose State U, chair), Jacqueline Solway (Trent U), Anne Allison (Duke U), and [...]
The Art of Life and Death
2018 Honorable Mention The Art of Life and Death Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice by Andrew Irving Prize Committee: Roberto Gonzalez (San Jose State U, chair), Jacqueline Solway (Trent U), [...]
Caravan of Martyrs
2018 Winner Caravan of Martyrs Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan by David B. Edwards Prize Committee: Roberto Gonzalez (San Jose State U, chair), Jacqueline Solway (Trent U), Anne Allison (Duke [...]
This thing that I searched so hard for
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 [...]
A Diagram for Fire
2017 Joint Winner A Diagram for Fire Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement by Jon Bialecki Jon Bialecki, "A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic [...]
