Bodies in Evidence
2022 Winner Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication by Heather Hlavka and Sameena Mulla Bodies in Evidence is a powerful and brilliant team ethnography that [...]
A History of False Hope
2022 Honorable Mention A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine by Lori Allen Prize Committee: Mythri Jegathesan (Santa Clara University), Tomas Matza (University of Pittsburgh), Ramah McKay (University [...]
The Fetish Revisited
2020 Joint Winner The Fetish Revisited Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand Matory Prize Committee: Christopher Krupa (University of Toronto, chair), Sharika Thiranagama (Stanford U), Rihan [...]
Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation
2020 Joint Winner Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair by Deborah A. Thomas Prize Committee: Christopher Krupa (University of Toronto, chair), Sharika Thiranagama (Stanford U), Rihan [...]
Unsettled
2018 Honorable Mention Unsettled Denial and Belonging among White Kenyans by Janet McIntosh Prize Committee: Roberto Gonzalez (San Jose State U, chair), Jacqueline Solway (Trent U), Anne Allison (Duke U), and [...]
The Art of Life and Death
2018 Honorable Mention The Art of Life and Death Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice by Andrew Irving Prize Committee: Roberto Gonzalez (San Jose State U, chair), Jacqueline Solway (Trent U), [...]
Caravan of Martyrs
2018 Winner Caravan of Martyrs Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan by David B. Edwards Prize Committee: Roberto Gonzalez (San Jose State U, chair), Jacqueline Solway (Trent U), Anne Allison (Duke [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
