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 [...]
Addiction by Design
2013 Winner Addiction by Design Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schüll Natasha Dow Schüll,”Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas” (Princeton 2012). Prize committee Marisol de la [...]
Audibly Present
2012 Honorable Mention Audibly Present Mediating Racial Politics in Afro-Brazilian Radio by Reighan Gillam By Prize Committee members—Caitrin Lynch, chair (Olin C), Elizabeth Ferry (Brandeis U), and Anastasia Karakasidou (Wellesley C) [...]
Protecting the Archive
2012 Winner Protecting the Archive by Sarah E. Vaughn By Prize Committee members—Caitrin Lynch, chair (Olin C), Elizabeth Ferry (Brandeis U), and Anastasia Karakasidou (Wellesley C) We are pleased to announce [...]
Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous
2012 Honorable Mention Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World by Dorothy Hodgson (Indiana University Press, 2011) What happens to marginalized groups from Africa when they ally with [...]
Rainforest Warriors
2012 Winner Rainforest Warriors Human Rights on Trial by Richard Price (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) From the Publisher: Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, [...]
A World Unmade
2011 Winner A World Unmade Diabetes and the Occult in Northern Ghana by Amy Moran-Thomas The paper discusses how changing diets, changing availability of primary health care, global pharmaceutical and agricultural [...]
