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 [...]
Paper Tiger
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 [...]
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 Outcast Majority
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), [...]
Land’s End
2016 Winner Land's End Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier by Tania Murray Li (Duke University Press, 2014) Prize Committee: Marc Edelman (co-chair, CUNY), Shalini Shankar (co-chair, Northwestern U), Tine Gammeltoft [...]
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
Renegade Dreams
2015 Honorable Mention Renegade Dreams Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago by Laurence Ralph Laurence Ralph. "Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago." 2015 University of Chicago Press. Prize Committee [...]
Mohawk Interruptus
2015 Winner Mohawk Interruptus Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States by Audra Simpson Audra Simpson, "Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States." 2014 Duke University Press. [...]
Speak Softly to the Dead
2014 Winner Speak Softly to the Dead The Uses of Enchantment in American Home Funerals by Alexa Hagerty
