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 [...]
Pretty Modern
2011 Honorable Mention Pretty Modern Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil by Alexander Edmond Alexander Edmond, "Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil." 2010 Duke University Press. Prize [...]
Spiritual Economies
2011 Joint Winner Spiritual Economies Islam, Globalization and the Afterlife of Development by Daromir Rudnyckyj Daromir Rudnyckyj, "Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization and the Afterlife of Development." 2010 Cornell University Press. Prize [...]
Cosmologies of Credit
2011 Joint Winner Cosmologies of Credit Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China by Julie Chu Julie Chu,"Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China." [...]
Just One Child
2010 Honorable Mention Just One Child Science and Policy in Deng’s China by Susan Greenhalgh (University of California Press, 2008) The AES awarded an Honorable Mention to Susan Greenhalgh for [...]
