2024 Section Awards Winners - The American Anthropological Association

Alcohol Drugs and Tobacco Study Group

Anthropological Responses in Health Emergencies

Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (ATIG)

Archaeology Division

Alfred Vincent Kidder Award

Established in 1950, the Alfred Vincent Kidder Award for Eminence in the Field of American Archaeology was initially given every three years to an outstanding archaeologist specializing in the archaeology of the Americas. The award has been given alternately to specialists in Mesoamerican archaeology (Mexico and Central America) and the archaeology of the Southwestern region — areas that were both central to the pioneering and exemplary work of A. V. Kidder. This year, the award goes to Southwest archaeologist Dr. Catherine Cameron. Dr. Cameron is Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado. In the spirit of A.V. Kidder, Dr. Cameron's archaeological research in the Southwest United States and beyond has advanced our understanding of ancient population dynamics, sociopolitical complexity, migration, and captive women and children.

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Catherine Cameron

Gordon R. Willey Prize

This prize recognizes the best archaeology paper published in the American Anthropologist over a period of three years. Named after Professor Gordon R. Willey, the award recognizes a distinguished archaeologist who served as President of the AAA, in 1961. It encourages archaeologists to pursue Willey’s well-known maxim (even if he did not first pen it!) that archaeology is anthropology or it is nothing. The Archaeology Division will bestow this award at our business meeting on Friday evening. This year, the award goes to Chelsea Armstrong, Anne Spice, Mike Ridsdale, and John R. Welch for their 2003 article, "Liberating Trails and Travel Routes in Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en Territories from the Tyrannies of Heritage Resource Management Regimes," a collaborative study of trails in Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan territories in British Columbia, Canada, drawing upon remote sensing, archaeology, ethnography, and mapping.

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Chelsea Armstrong
Anne Spice
Mike Ridsdale
John R. Welch

Patty Jo Watson Distinguished Lecture

The Patty Jo Watson Distinguished Lecture honors Patty Jo Watson, who made ground-breaking contributions to the study of early agriculture in Southwest Asia and North America, emphasizing gender and the lives of women in our interpretations of the past. The Watson Lecture provides an opportunity for a respected member of the archaeological community to address the archaeology division on matters of current interest and importance. This year's Watson lecture will be delivered on Friday evening by Dr. William White on the topic of "Fighting Elite Capture: Strategies for Using Anthropology for Good."

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William White

CASTAC, SAW, and GAD

Critical Anthropology of Global Health (CAGH)

Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology & Computing

David Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize, winner

The winning paper examines the diagnostic and pedagogical practices of cochlear implant experts working with deaf children in Jordan. Through carefully crafted ethnographic analysis of multi-modal therapeutic dynamics among speech therapists, audiologists, and their patients, the paper reveals the operation of narrow conceptions of language and disability, including the persistence of a speech-centric ethos and a techno-utopic imaginary of implant technologies. The paper pays close attention to paradoxical moments in clinical spaces where such narrow conceptions are reproduced but also contested by patients and their parents. The committee appreciated the rich ethnographic prose accompanied by the well-organized and reader-friendly analytical suggestions, as well as the paper’s synthesis of supporting literature and concepts from linguistic anthropology, STS, and disability studies.

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Timothy Y. Loh, "An Expanded Istifada: Cochlear Implants and Regulating Communication for Deaf Jordanians"

David Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize, honorable mention

The honorary mention considers contradictory and contested notions of “self-sufficiency” among state agricultural researchers and Indigenous farmers in Taiwan, amid precision-agriculture efforts to promote national food security. Drawing on rich, intentional ethnography among these actors, the paper theorizes the tensions between national agricultural self-sufficiency, advanced through monocropping and productivism, and ecological self-sufficiency advanced through Indigenous agricultural practices. The committee was compelled by the paper’s extensive engagement with literatures around ecological knowledge and agricultural geopolitics, as well as the precise and evocative storytelling through which the paper unfolds.

Honorable Mention

Aaron Su, "The Dilemma of 'Self-Sufficiency': Indigenous Agriculture and the Limits of Scientific Collaboration in Settler-Colonial Taiwan"

Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine

Council for Museum Anthropology

Council of Anthropology and Education

Outstanding Book Award

This award recognizes the author of an outstanding book that has made a significant contribution to the field of anthropology and education published within the past two years.

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Ariana Mangual Figueroa
Rosanne Liu

Heath Travel Award

Awarded to new scholars (graduate students or recent graduates within 4 years of receiving doctorate) who are selected to present a CAE-sponsored paper or poster at the place-based annual meetings. The stipends are intended to help defray expenses associated with participating IN PERSON in the annual meetings.

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Ariel Borns
Kuo Zhang
Amanda Muise
Yoosong Lee
Rachel Hicks
Kelsey Dalrymple
Elizabeth Dubberly
Abbie Cohen

Concha Delgado Gaitán Presidential Fellows Award

This endowed fellowship program honors pioneering anthropologist of education Concha Delgado-Gaitan who, early in her career, distinguished herself as an ethnographer of literacy, linguistic diversity, social justice, and family negotiation of educational systems. These fellowships support the professional development and mentoring of educational anthropologists early in their academic careers.

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David Smith
Sophia Ángeles
Kelsey Dalrymple
Anthony Harb

CAE/SEE Award

The annual CAE/SEE travel award is in partnership with the book series, Studies in Educational Ethnography (published by Emerald Publishing).

Selected scholars are provided with a $300 stipend to support that selected author’s travel to the conference. The selected recipient also receives a complimentary copy of a book of their choice from the Studies in Educational Ethnography series.

If the selected winner is in the early stages of their career, the editorial team of SEE arranges for the scholar to be paired with an expert member of the book series’ Editorial Advisory Board or other senior scholar in the field to provide the scholar with feedback on and support on improving their paper. If suitable, the author will also be invited to submit the paper to a future volume of Studies in Educational Ethnography.

Winner

Rachel Hicks

George and Louise Spindler Award

Established as a tribute to George and Louise Spindler in recognition of their significant and ongoing contributions to the field of educational anthropology. The purpose of this award is to honor scholars/practitioners whose achievements in educational anthropology as researchers or as practitioners have been distinguished, exemplary, and inspirational.

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Thea Renda Abu El-Haj

Douglas Foley Early Career Award

Established to honor an individual in the early stages of their career in educational anthropology, this award is named in honor of Douglas Foley, whose critical-ethnographic scholarship on US culture, race, and inequality in schools advanced the field of educational anthropology and helped move it in the direction of social and racial justice.

Winner

Sophia Rodriguez

Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR)

General Anthropology Division

GAD Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship

The Cross-Field Award is awarded annually by GAD for a peer-reviewed journal article published in the preceding three years that demonstrates exemplary scholarship from any theoretical or methodological perspective including applied research that transcends two or more fields of anthropology, broadly construed, or is interdisciplinary in nature. The Award carries an honorarium of $1000. In a moment when climate breakdown has many considering geological time frames like the Anthropocene, Sophia Roosth’s exemplary article, “The Sultan and the Golden Spike” has us critically considering periodization as narration. Based on fieldwork in present-day Oman, Roosth’s historiographic and ethnographic work has us time traveling across the present day to the 1970s, 1950s, 1830s, and millions and billions of years ago and draws unexpected connections between Oman and Death Valley, Siberia, China, Namibia, and the Czech Republic. Following Roosth, historical temporality should not be perceived as a concretization and the fixing of time periods, but rather the active and agentic making of connections between concepts and things.

Winner

Sophia Roosth

GAD Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship Honorable Mention

The Cross-Field Award is awarded annually by GAD for a peer-reviewed journal article published in the preceding three years that demonstrates exemplary scholarship from any theoretical or methodological perspective including applied research that transcends two or more fields of anthropology, broadly construed, or is interdisciplinary in nature. Hiroko Kumaki’s article, “Suspending Nuclearity,” offers the term “ecologics” as an analytic lens to bring attention to the ways in which the material, social, and moral ecologies have been negotiated and reorganized after the nuclear accident of Fukushima. By challenging practices that imposed market logics of containment and equivalence on their living environment, Kumaki’s interlocutors residing near the nuclear disaster site enacted alternatives cultivating socioecological relations that facilitated trust and care in their communities.

Honorable Mention

Hiroko Kumaki

New Directions Prize (Group) Co-Winner

The GAD New Directions Award calls attention to the myriad ways anthropologists are expanding anthropological perspectives in the twenty-first century. It recognizes the accomplishments of both individuals and groups/collectives across diverse media and formats as forms of public anthropology. Common to these is the responsible presentation of anthropological information for a larger public beyond the academy as well as a demonstrated commitment to ethical considerations and methodological rigor. The King of Bangkok is a notable departure from conventional anthropological representation that still manages to remain faithful to—and even enhance—ethnographic principles and precision, while allowing its conceptual framework a far broader appeal than would have been possible with a standard style of ethnographic reportage. This work has already enjoyed a phenomenal success as a national bestseller for 18 weeks in Thailand and earns this important recognition by the anthropological community. The King of Bangkok is authored by Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri, and Chiara Natalucci.

Winner

King of Bangkok by Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri, and Chiara Natalucci

New Directions Prize (Group) Co-Winner

The Police Torture and Community Healing Project demonstrates a deep commitment to social justice and community engagement by applying anthropology to address the urgent issue of police violence and racialized governance. The project promotes awareness and discussion of the issues of police violence and community healing in public forums by utilizing ethnographic tools aimed at catalyzing collective reflections about self, world, and justice—with a social focus on educational outreach for school-aged youth. Chelsey Carter and Laurence Ralph lead the project.

Winner

The Police Torture and Community Healing Project by Chelsey Carter and Laurence Ralph

New Directions Prize (Individual)

The GAD New Directions Award calls attention to the myriad ways anthropologists are expanding anthropological perspectives in the twenty-first century. It recognizes the accomplishments of both individuals and groups/collectives across diverse media and formats as forms of public anthropology. Common to these is the responsible presentation of anthropological information for a larger public beyond the academy as well as a demonstrated commitment to ethical considerations and methodological rigor. Dr. Finkelstein’s ongoing work as an anti-Zionist Jewish public intellectual, for which she was fired from her tenured position at Muhlenberg College, exemplifies the kind of engagement and courage needed now in anthropology. Dr. Finkelstein demonstrates the relevance and significance of anthropologically informed analysis to the most difficult and consequential debates of our time.

Winner

Maura Finkelstein

New Directions Prize Honorable Mention (Individual)

As a host of the New Books in Anthropology Podcast, Reighan Gillam has conducted a total of 57 interviews ranging in length from about 40 minutes to an hour and 20 minutes. Dr. Gillam’s podcast episodes reaches an audience of about 2,500 per episode which makes it one of the top 3% podcasts in the New Books Network, a sprawling soundscape with 70 to 100 new episodes per week. The task is gargantuan and the General Anthropology Division recognizes Dr. Gillam's dedication to expanding the reach of anthropological writing.

Winner

Reighan Gillam

Middle East Section

Middle East Section 2024 Distinguished Service Prize

We award the 2024 Distinguished Service prize to Zeina Zaatari, Director of the Arab American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago for her extraordinarily generous and visionary service to the field of Middle East Anthropology: her institution-building at a time of emergency, her teaching and training of scholars over many years including through workshop organizing and public events programming, her caring mentoring of students at UIC and beyond, and her brave and pathbreaking scholarship on multifaceted women’s activism in Southern Lebanon. She is a founding and leading member of the Arab Families Working Group. She is President-Elect of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS). Perhaps most importantly in this moment, she has built the ARABAMCC into an exemplary campus cultural center in the United States. Not only does it serve the needs of Arab and Muslim American students, but also it educates faculty, staff, students, and other local groups about the Middle East and its diasporas—a massive contribution that goes beyond the usual responsibilities of university cultural centers. It serves as a model for this urgent work for universities across the country. At a critical time for Arab American and Muslim students, Dr. Zaatari has been a life-changing mentor whose work addresses and embraces the tremendous diversity within our Arab and Muslim American communities. She is an “utterly committed” teacher, as one letter-writer remarked. In the last year, she has served as a kind of “first responder similar to COVID-19 medical first responders.” As another letter-writer said, “Zeina has worked non-stop to support our students and community, and to create a safe, welcoming, and comfortable place for Arabs, Muslims, and others to talk, process, and grieve.” We are proud to recognize Dr. Zaatari’s incredible work.

Winner

Zeina Zaatari

Middle East Section 2024 Student Paper Award

The MES student paper prize goes to Thayer Hastings for “The Inheritances of Non-Citizenship: Immobility and the Family in the Bir Ona Borderland.”

Drawing from a broader doctoral project, Hastings investigates the entrenched issue of non-citizenship among Palestinian residents of Jerusalem. The chapter vividly traces how this precarious status of exclusion and disenfranchisement is inherited across generations, leaving Palestinian families in a perpetual quest for the ""center of life"" criteria imposed by governing Israeli authorities. Bringing together political and legal anthropology with historical analysis, Hasting’s ethnography is attentive to the nuanced distinctions of non-citizenship, highlighting the specific repercussions of ‘statuslessness’ of Palestinians for whom this lack of personal status constitutes an immanent and everyday condition of statelessness, restricting access to healthcare, education, employment, and freedom of movement. Arriving at a critical time when the lethal consequences of non-citizenship for Palestinians are in full display worldwide, Hastings advances our understanding of statelessness, particularly Palestinian statelessness, as a global phenomenon.

Winner

Thayer Hastings for “The Inheritances of Non-Citizenship: Immobility and the Family in the Bir Ona Borderland.”

Middle East Section 2024 Student Paper Award Honorable Mention

Honorable mention goes to Leen Alfatafta for “Motherly Affects: Coming Together with Iman Mersal’s How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts”

Leen Alfatafta offers a well-crafted, theoretically sophisticated, and persuasively argued paper that examines the ways mothering/hood emerges as a “relationally dispossessive” practice in Iman Mersal’s How to Mend, challenging traditional binaries that limits prevailing understandings of what it means to be a mother. Informed by feminist studies, terrorism studies, and theories of embodiment and affect, Alfatafta reads Mersal’s work as an “archive of affect” deftly illustrating how the meaning of mothering/hood is not contained but is co-produced through the speculative, affective act of reading. While tracing this speculative exchange between the reader and the text, this paper also locates it within broader sociocultural histories and power structures such as capitalism, patriarchy, and racism. Ultimately, Alfatafta aims to shift the scholarly discussions from what mothering/hood is to what it might be(come).

Honorable Mention

Leen Alfatafta for “Motherly Affects: Coming Together with Iman Mersal’s How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts”

Middle East Section 2024 Photography Prize

Shonara Awad's photography captures the militarization of Palestinian life on an everyday basis in Israeli-occupied Hebron, and the tensions and fears that this creates for Palestinians of all ages. Nevertheless, Palestinians insist on praying, going to school, and moving through their own city. Awad also shows us the complex visual textures of Hebron, including Palestinian vernacular architecture--old, new, and patched together--as well as the infrastructures of occupation as materially contested and critiqued through anti-apartheid graffiti.

Winner

Shonara Awad

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology

Society for Cultural Anthropology

Gregory Bateson Book Prize

For: Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being (Duke University Press)
In this conceptually brilliant and beautifully written book, Naisargi Davé takes us on a path toward an ethics of indifference. Grappling with the long standing and fraught question of how anthropology deals with difference, Davé makes a strong and compelling case for why indifference is actually desirable: it enables the respect for otherness as such, for not imposing a form of “compulsory intimacy.” Davé does this by thinking through both playful and disquieting interspecies encounters in India. Drawing on a queer and unapologetically idiosyncratic approach, Indifference parses big questions around caste, purity, innocence and anthropomorphism, challenging us to think how indifference can provide a new portal to understanding them. Each chapter gives us an unexpected insight: indifference to consistency in action (saving a dog from maggots, only to be indifferent to it getting hit by a car) leads us to a form of politics that is open, playful, creative; indifference to dirt (after touching animal genitalia) undermines caste’s commitments to purity and disgust; and indifference to innocence (in relation to bestiality and husbandry) opens a language by which to refuse violence.
The committee commends Davé for her exquisite writing skills, which make philosophy so accessible; for thinking with concepts in a way that is both grounded in and yet supersedes context; and for opening the field of Anthropology to a new set of questions around the ethics of relationality.

Winner

Naisargi Davé

Gregory Bateson Book Prize Honorable Mention

For: Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility (University of California Press)
In this masterful and disturbing book, Shannon Cram asks us to consider how we come to fight for the fiction of environmental clean-up, in the face of nuclear contamination that exceeds technical control and promises to outlive our political institutions. Unmaking the Bomb is the product of decades of engaged presence, engaged thought, at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and Cram manages to distill this knowledge, and the rage it produces into a profound and chilling text. Her feminist approach to the technoscientific models and metrics that sanitize the nuclear weapons industry interrupts their false promise of control through ethnographic, auto-ethnographic and archival turns to the realities they fail to fully apprehend. The result is a book that is as deep as it is uncomfortable. The committee commends Cram for her dexterity in moving across scales, methods, and vantage points to produce a devastating truth (no longer) hiding in plain sight.

Honorable Mention

Shannon Cram

Gregory Bateson Book Prize Honorable Mention

For: Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Accessible Worlds (Duke University Press)
In Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Accessible Worlds, Arseli Dokumaci offers us a theory and method for surviving a world where the conditions that make life possible are being destroyed and distributed unequally—a way of building and inhabiting livable worlds against all odds. This innovative and thoroughly interdisciplinary ethnography builds conversations between disability studies, performance studies, visual ethnography, and auto ethnography to reveal the creative force behind the affordances that people make to stretch the ever-shrinking habitus of ability, if only momentarily. Dokumaci employs disability studies as a methodology and forms two major theoretical concepts that have will have wide applicability: Activist Affordances and Shrinkage. At a time when the very fabric of life is targeted with war, genocide, ecological devastation and global pandemics, Activist Affordances insists on the every-day genius, beauty, and stubbornness of survival. The committee commends Dokumaci for the theoretical and methodological effervescence of Activist Affordances, its contributions to anthropology, and for reminding us that all along, we have been finding ways to inhabit this breaking world and that we must continue to do so, together.

Honorable Mention

Arseli Dokumaci

The Bateson Book Prize Jury was composed of Miriam Ticktin (Chair of the Committee; CUNY Graduate Center); Julie Livingston (NYU); and Maya Mikdashi (Rutgers University).

Cultural Horizons Prize

The committee has selected David C. Thompson’s “Evasion: Prison Escapes and the Predicament of Incarceration in Rio de Janeiro” and Tarini Bedi’s “Bumpy Roads, Dusty Air: Gadbad and the Sensate Ecologies of Driving Work in Contemporary Mumbai” as this year’s winners of the Cultural Horizons prize. While The co-winners of this year’s award demonstrate innovativeness in distinct ways for anthropological research, both articles hinge upon the fact that it matters how one lives through deleterious conditions and structural violence. The descriptive commitment of each author, not to a romanticized exit from these conditions, but to seeing anew the difficult and creative work which sustains a life with others struck a deep chord with this committee as a horizon for the discipline.

Thompson’s article engages with key concepts in Black and Trans Studies to reckon with his interlocutors’ movements “across rather than against a set of tensions shaped by slavery and incarceration” (52). Thompson offers a nuanced exploration of the complex dynamics surrounding prison escapes in Brazil's penal system. Through the lives of two incarcerated Black travestis, Thompson illuminates the figure of evasion (evasão) – the act of temporarily fleeing prison custody, often with the intention to return. This practice reveals fault lines in Brazil's project of incarceration, blurring our distinctions between confinement and freedom.

Situating evasion within a broader genealogy of negotiating landscapes of captivity, Thompson’s ethnography reverberates with echoes of the long history of Black fugitivity and focuses on how his interlocutors live with captivity, shifting what punishment “could and could not take” from them (49). From the apartment on the third floor where evadidos (escapees) find temporary refuge just a short walk from the prison itself, Thompson shows us how prison walls become porous and freedom intertwines with confinement in unexpected ways. By examining evasion not as a dramatic flight or institutional failure, but as an ordinary and expected occurrence, the article illuminates how incarcerated individuals inhabit the carceral state.

Winner

David C. Thompson

Cultural Horizons Prize

Bedi’s articles introduces the concept of “sensate ecologies” to capture the often overlooked sensory and ecological dimensions of labor as drivers navigate through the ecological onslaught, or gadbad, of urban driving. Bedi’s ethnographic detail vividly captures how drivers navigate these interdependencies, providing a richly textured account that brings the reader into the lived reality of Mumbai’s streets. The narrative unfolds through the ecologies themselves, as illustrated by the distribution of shifts—and thus exposure to smog—between Karim and his nephew, the transfer of dhooli from the car to the construction site’s earth, and the transformation of naka into a surface of worship.
Bedi reveals the ecologies of the roads—dirt, naka debris, water, heat, shade, smog, and pigeon excretions—that are home to the chillia drivers, and are experienced differently by passengers and the ride-share taxi industry. By centering the perspective of urban drivers within a polluted ecology, Bedi offers a rethinking of environmentalist critique, urging us to pay attention to the different orientations, particularly the ethical and pragmatic ones, towards compromised ecologies. The taxi-drivers emerge here not just as precarious workers contributing to pollution but live through it and are shaped by it, building a meaningful life on the road.

From prisons in Brazil to roads in Mumbai, both spaces lack definitive exits or conclusive liberation. Bedi’s focus on a collective ethical orientation of living in and with ecological onslaught sees the roads as home without clear boundaries between beginning and end. Thompson, on the other hand, delineates the “rhythm” of captivity and draws our attention to “the unstable edges” and the potential within. The dhairya practiced by urban drivers in Bedi’s work engages in dialogue with the open-ended uncertainty Thompson presents regarding Hillary's direction at the end of the article. These two articles unravel a mix of two approaches, whether attending to the space within captivities of structural violence or at the edges of unbuilding these containments, to studying lives in an impossible world—perhaps even creating a slice of possibility within the impossibility.

Winner

Tarini Bedi

Society for Economic Anthropology

Harold K. Schneider Undergraduate Paper Prize

The Society for Economic Anthropology Harold K. Schneider Paper Prize honors excellent student papers, both undergraduate and graduate. The 2024 undergraduate awardee is Sophia Peng (Rice University, supervisor Victoria Massie).

Winner

Sophia Peng

Harold K. Schneider Graduate Paper Prize

The Society for Economic Anthropology Harold K. Schneider Paper Prize honors excellent student papers, both undergraduate and graduate. The 2024 graduate awardee is Caroline Celeste White-Nockleby (MIT, supervisor Stephan Helmreich). Honourable Mentions are Ziya Kaya (University of Arizona, supervisor Brian Silverstein) AND Natalia Gómez Muñoz (University of Bologna, supervisor Marc Andrew Brightman).

Winner

Caroline Celeste White-Nockleby

Honourable Mentions

Ziya Kaya (University of Arizona, supervisor Brian Silverstein)
Natalia Gómez Muñoz (University of Bologna, supervisor Marc Andrew Brightman)

M. Estellie Smith Award

The Society for Economic Anthropology M. Estellie Smith Award honors M. Estellie Smith’s application of social science knowledge to real world issues. The 2024 M. Estellie Smith Awardee is Kanikka Sersia, Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID), for her paper "The making of algorthmic labour in the platform economy”.

Winner

Kanikka Sersia

Rhoda Halperin Pre-Dissertation Award

The Society for Economic Anthropology Rhoda Halperin Pre-Dissertation Award recognizes Rhoda Halperin’s career that integrated theory and social activism, while encouraging students’ professional development. The 2024 Rhoda Halperin Pre-Dissertation Awardee is Chyanne Yoder, University of Maine, for her paper “After-Livelihoods: Laborers’ Political, Economic, and Social Experiences in a Chemical Recycling Zone on the Coastal Bend”.

Winner

Chyanne Yoder

Kate Browne Award

The Society for Economic Anthropology Kate Browne Award recognizes economic anthropology scholars who demonstrate unusual creativity in the work of an original research project. The 2024 Kate Browne Awardee is Claudio Sopranzetti, for his contribution to the graphic novel The King of Bangkok (with collaborators Sara Fabbri and Chiara Natalucci).

Winner

Claudio Sopranzetti

Society for Medical Anthropology

Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE)

Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA)

Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival

Honorable Mention: Jean Rouch Award

The Jean Rouch Award recognizes films that make exemplary use of ethnofiction techniques or that are produced in a collaborative manner embodying the spirit of Rouch's ""anthropologie partagée"" (shared anthropology).

Honorable Mention

Polen Ly for the film Further and Further Away

Honorable Mention: Best Feature

This award recognizes the film longer than forty-five minutes that best embodies the ethnographic inquiry and cinematic craft celebrated through the festival.

Honorable Mention

Yinan Wang for the film Decoupling

Honorable Mention: Best Short

This award recognizes the film shorter than forty-five minutes that best embodies the ethnographic inquiry and cinematic craft celebrated through the festival.

Honorable Mention

Yasmin Moll for the film Hanina/Homesick

Honorable Mention: Best Student Film

This award recognizes the most outstanding film made by a student enrolled in an accredited educational institution.

Honorable Mention

Chandni Brown for the film Sahan Shakti - Fortitude

Best Student Film (two-way tie)

This award recognizes the most outstanding film made by a student enrolled in an accredited educational institution.

Winner

Tatiana Rojas Ponce for the film #Darien
Emil Victor Hvidtfeldt for the film Dragging Chains

Best Interactive Media

This award recognizes media work—including VR installations, iDocs, websites, games, podcasts—that best embodies the creative and collaborative spirit of multimodal anthropologies.

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Ruwe Collective for the project The Earth Above: A Deep Time View of Australia's Epic History

Best Feature

The Best Feature award recognizes the film longer than forty-five minutes that best embodies the ethnographic inquiry and cinematic craft celebrated through the festival.

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Thiago Zanato for the film Èṣù and The Universe / Exu e o Universo

Best Short Film

The Best Short award recognizes the film shorter than forty-five minutes that best embodies the ethnographic inquiry and cinematic craft celebrated through the festival.

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2024 Diana Forsythe Prize

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The Council for Museum Anthropology Student Travel Awards

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Steven Polgar Prize

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Eileen Basker Memorial Prize

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The Leah M. Ashe Prize for the Anthropology of Medically–Induced Harm

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Charles Hughes Graduate Student Paper Prize

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Carole H. Browner Undergraduate Student Mentorship Award

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Carole H. Browner Annual Graduate Student Mentorship Award

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