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
Precarious Japan
2014 Honorable Mention Precarious Japan by Anne Allison (Duke University Press, 2013) Committee chair Daniel Goldstein (Rutgers U) and committee members Susan Greenhalgh (Harvard U) and Janice Newberry (U Lethbridge) write: [...]
Haunting Images
2014 Winner Haunting Images A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam by Tine Gammeltoft (University of California Press, 2014) Committee chair Daniel Goldstein (Rutgers U) and committee members Susan Greenhalgh [...]
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
Guerrilla Auditors
2013 Honorable Mention Guerrilla Auditors The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay by Kregg Hetherington Kregg Hetherington,"2013 Honorable Mention: Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay" (Duke 2011). Prize Committee [...]
