2024 Awards Recipients
Senior Book Prize
Awardee: Elise Andaya
Pregnant at Work: Low-Wage Workers, Power, and Temporal Injustice (NYU Press, 2024)
Honorable Mention: Shenila Khoja-Moolji
Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dissertation Grant
Gehad Abaza
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara. Dissertation Title: “Contentions of (Un)Belonging: Gender, Homemaking, and Statecraft in Abkhazia”
Sylvia Forman Awards
Undergraduate Awardee
Yael Sarig, Brown University. Paper Title: “Diabetes and Disordered Eating: Embodied Subjectivity and Experiments of Gendered Morality in Biomedical Care”
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Emma Seppeler, SUNY Geneseo. Paper Title: “Lives in Transition: Exploring the Contradictions of an Anthropologist-Daughter”
Graduate Awardee
Shahana Munazir, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Paper Title: “Khidmat as Understanding: Muslim Women, Marriage, and Ethics of Care in Muslim Households”
Graduate Honorable Mention
Anusha Hariharan, UNC at Chapel Hill. Paper Title: “‘Our Friendship is Our Politics’: Feminist Intimacies and the Everyday in Southern India”
Graduate Honorable Mention
Ziqi Xie, Boston University. Paper Title: “Doctors as Moral Pioneers and Moral Guardians Between Family and Reproductive Governance in Pro-natalist China”
Zora Neale Hurston Travel Award
Philesha Colquitt
PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology. Washington University in St. Louis, US
Rashmi Kumar
PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Annalise Gardella
PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology. University of Oregon, US