Recent Award Winners

Reclaiming the Discarded:
Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump

Kathleen M. Millar

Winner, Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) Best Book Award

Honorable Mention, Sharon Stephens Prize, presented by the American Ethnological Association

Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Best Book in the Social Sciences

Finalist, 2018 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize

Honorable Mention, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize / Best Book in Social Sciences, presented by the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association

Empire of Neglect:
The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism

Christopher Taylor

Winner of the 2019 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, presented by the American Studies Association

Experimental Beijing:
Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art

Sasha Su-Ling Welland

Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize presented by the Society for East Asian Anthropology (American Anthropological Association).

The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery:
Biocapitalism and Black Feminism's Philosophy of History

Alys Eve Weinbaum

Winner, 2019 Sarah A. Whaley Prize, presented by the National Women's Studies Association

Honorable Mention, 2019 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Prize, presented by the National Women's Studies Association

The Great Woman Singer:
Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music

Licia Fiol-Matta

Co-Winner, 2019 United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies Book Award, presented by the Modern Language Association

Infrahumanisms:
Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood

Megan H. Glick

Winner, 2019 Alison Piepmeier Prize, presented by the National Women's Studies Association

Black Feminism Reimagined:
After Intersectionality

Jennifer C. Nash

Winner, 2019 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Prize, presented by the National Women's Studies Association

The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen:
Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History

Noenoe K. Silva

Winner of the Ka Palapala Po'okela Award in the "Aloha from Across the Sea" category from the Hawaii Book Publishers Association

Decolonizing Extinction:
The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation

Juno Salazar Parreñas

Winner of the 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Book Prize, presented by the Association for Feminist Anthropology

Honorable Mention, 2019 Diana Forstyhe Prize, presented by the General Anthropology section of the American Anthropological Association

Tropical Riffs:
Latin America and the Politics of Jazz

Jason Borge

Winner of the Robert M. Stevenson Award, presented by the American Musicological Society

The Pursuit of Happiness:
Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism

Bianca C. Williams

Winner of the Second Annual Nelson Graburn Book Award, presented by the Anthropology Tourism Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association

None Like Us:
Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life

Stephen Best

Honorable Mention, 2019 ASAP Prize, presented by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present

Tell Me Why My Children Died:
Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice

Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs

Winner, Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, presented by the American Anthropological Association

Co-Winner, 2017 New Millennium Book Award, presented by the Society for Medical Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association

The Fetish Revisited:
Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make

J. Lorand Matory

Winner, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Studies from the American Academy of Religion

Fugitive Modernities:
Kisama and the Politics of Freedom

Jessica A. Krug

Finalist, 2019 Frederick Douglass Book Prize

Finalist, 2019 Harriet Tubman Prize

Is it Still Good To Ya?:
Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967–2017

Robert Christgau

Finalist, 2018 National Book Critic's Circle Award

Bright Signals:
A History of Color Television

Susan Murray

Winner of the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award, presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Asian Video Cultures:
In the Penumbra of the Global

Joshua Neves and Bhaskar Sarkar, editors

Winner of the Best Edited Collection Award, presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Domesticating Democracy:
The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia

Susan Helen Ellison

Winner, 2019 Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (ALPA) Book Award