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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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), [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
2017 Joint Winner Paper Tiger Law Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India by Nayanika Mathur Nayanika Mathur, "Paper Tiger: Law Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India." 2017 [...]
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, [...]
2016 Honorable Mention The Outcast Majority War, Development, and Youth in Africa by Marc Sommers (University of Georgia Press, 2015) Prize Committee: Marc Edelman (co-chair, CUNY), Shalini Shankar (co-chair, Northwestern U), [...]
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