2025 Awards Recipients
Feminist Anthropology Career Awarde
Marcia C. Inhorn
Professor, Yale University
Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize for Best First Book in Feminist Anthropology
Dissertation Grant
Awardee: Sahana Ghosh
A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands (University of California Press, 2023)
Kassandra Sparks
University of California, Berkeley.
Dissertation Title: “Theaters of Perversity: The BDSM Sex Economy in New York City”
Sylvia Forman Awards
Undergraduate Awardee
Lương Ngọc Chung, Fulbright University Vietnam. Paper Title: “’An lòng người sống, yên lòng người chết’: Rituals for pregnancy loss in contemporary Vietnam”
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Bavan Pushpalingam, University of Toronto Scarborough. Paper Title: “Cooking in the Shadow of Shells: Bunkers, Foodwork and the Gendered Labour of Memory and Survival in Tamil Eelam and the Diaspora”
Graduate Awardee
Mine Egbatan, University of Arizona. Paper Title: “Divided Politics: Rights, Joy, Piety, and Gender in Disability Activism in Turkey”
Graduate Honorable Mention
Gaia Guatri, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Paper Title: “Bridging the Distance? Digital Platforms, Emotional Labor, and the Reconfiguration of Family among Rural Migrant Women in China”
Graduate Honorable Mention
Ramsha Usman, University of California, Santa Barbara. Paper Title: “‘I never seem to leave’: Work, Rest, and Crip Temporality in a Biomedical Welfare Hospital”
Zora Neale Hurston Travel Award
Adrian Cato
PhD Candidate in African American Studies. Emory University