2023 Awards Recipients
Feminist Anthropology Career Award
Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University
Rosaldo Book Prize
Awardee: Julia Kowalski
Counseling Women: Kinship against Violence in India (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Honorable Mention: Maya Mikdashi
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in Lebanon (Stanford University Press, 2022)
Honorable Mention: Elyse Singer
Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2022)
Forman Awards
Undergraduate Awardee
Gaia Guatri, University of Sussex. Paper title: “Diverse and United: Indonesian Domestic Workers’ Precarity, Resilience and Resistance in Hong Kong During the Covid-19 Pandemic”
Graduate Awardee
Alison Hanson, University of California at Santa Cruz. Paper title: “Scripting Sexual Violence: The Language of Trauma, Consent, and Support on Campus”
Dissertation Grant Award
Caroline Hodge, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. Dissertation Advisor: Adriana Petryna. Dissertation Title: “Bodies of Knowledge: Constructing Reproductive Bodies in Contraceptive Counseling after Dobbs”
Zora Neale Hurston Student Travel Award
Shilpa Parthan Menon
PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Illinois Chicago “Public Funds and Privatized Risk: Trans Reproductive Labor and Neoliberal Welfare in South India“
Precious Adejumobi
Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, “Medicine on the Bus: Alternative Healthcare for Women on Transportation Routes in Lagos, Nigeria”
Noha Fikry
PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Toronto, “Rooftop reciprocities: Extending kitchens & feeding wandering animals in Egypt”