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
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: [...]
