Past Prize Recipients[i]
2016 SMA Section Interest Group Awards
(PDF: SMA SIG Award Details 2016)
AIDS and Anthropology Research Group
Moher Downing Distinguished Service Award
Janet McGrath (Case Western Reserve University)
Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco
Graduate Student Travel Grant
Parsa Bastani (Brown University)
Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Study Group
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Lesly-Marie Buer (University of Kentucky)
Anthropology and Mental Health Interest Group
Annual Graduate Student Paper Prize
Philippa Fielding (University of Sussex)
Anthropology and Mental Health Interest Group
Annual Professional Paper Prize
Whitney Duncan (University of Northern Colorado)
Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Integrative Medicine
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Venera Khalikova (University of Pittsburg)
Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Integrative Medicine Group
Graduate Student Travel Grant
Maja de Langen
Council on Anthropology and Reproduction
Most Notable Recent Collection (Book)
Silvia De Zordo (University of Barcelona) and Milena Marchesi (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Council on Anthropology and Reproduction
Graduate Student Paper Award
Elyse Singer (Washington University in St. Louis)
Critical Anthropology of Global Health Study Group
Rudolf Virchow Award
Graduate Award Category: Thando Malambo (institutional affiliation is unknown)
Critical Anthropology of Global Health Study Group
Rudolf Virchow Award
Undergraduate Award Category : Maggie Acosta (Bowdoin University)
Disability Research Interest Group Travel Award
(Emerging Scholars in the Anthropology of Disability)
Christine Sargent (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Zhiying Ma (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Dying and Bereavement Special Interest Group
Graduate Student Paper Award
Osman Balkan (University of Pennsylvania)
Medical Anthropology Student Association
Graduate Student Mentor Award
Charles Briggs (University of California, Berkeley)
Science, Technology, and Medicine (STM)
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Tanja Ahlin (University of Amsterdam, ITM/University of Barcelona)
2015 SMA Section Interest Group Awards
Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Study Group (ADTSG)
Annual Graduate Student Paper Prize
Cole Hansen (University of California, Berkeley)
“Seeking Care in the Carceral Shadow: An Ethnography of Community Reentry”
Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Integrative Medicine (CAM/IM) Graduate Student Paper Prize
Rosalynn Vega (University of California, Berkeley)
“Bioconsumer Citizenship and the Danger of Ethnomedical Piracy in the Neoliberal Age”
Council for Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR)
Graduate Student Paper Award
Risa Cromer (City University of New York)
“Saved: Stem Cell Science, Christian Adoption, and Frozen Embryo Politics in the United States”
Critical Anthropology of Global Health (CAGH)
Rudolf Virchow Undergraduate Student Paper Award
Naomi Zucker (Princeton University)
Project/Paper/Accomplishment: Visions of Care: Medicalization and Public Patienthood in São Paulo, Brazil
Critical Anthropology of Global Health (CAGH)
Rudolf Virchow Graduate Student Paper Award
Sarah Raskin (University of Arizona)
“Dental Disease, Stigmatized Suffering: Everyday Experiences of Underserved Patients”
Critical Anthropology of Global Health (CAGH)
Rudolf Virchow Professional Paper Award
Fouzieyha Towghi (University of California, Berkeley)
“Normalizing Off-Label Experiments and the Pharmaceuticalization of Homebirths in Pakistan”
Disability Research Interest Group
Travel Awards to AAA meetings
Kylie Boazman (Central European University)
Michele Friedner (SUNY Stonybrook)
Medical Anthropology Student Association (MASA)
Dissertation Award
Alison Heller (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Interrogating the Superlative Sufferer: Experiencing Obstetric Fistula and Treatment Seeking in Niger”
Medical Anthropology Student Association (MASA)
Mentorship Award
Janelle Taylor (University of Washington)
Science, Technology, and Medicine (STM)
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Christy Spackman (Harvey Mudd College)
“A Disruptive Odor: Smelly Water And The Re-Alignment Of Expert And Lay Knowledge”
2014 SMA Section Interest Group Awards
AIDS and Anthropology Research Group
Moher Downing Distinguished Service Award
Brooke G. Schoepf (Harvard University)
Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Study Group
Annual Graduate Student Paper Prize
Hayley Murray (University of Amsterdam)
“Risk Practices amongst Recreational Drug Users at Music Festivals in Amsterdam”
Complimentary and Alternative Medicine and Integrative Care
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Emery Eaves (University of Arizona)
“Modes of Hoping: Understanding Hope and Expectation in the Context of a Clinical Trial of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Chronic Pain”
Council for Anthropology and Reproduction
Graduate Student Paper Award
Gareth Thomas (Cardiff University)
“Douglas, Dirt, and Down Syndrome: Classifying a Complex Condition in UK Antenatal Care”
Council for Anthropology and Reproduction
Graduate Student Paper Award – Honorable Mention
Lydia Zacher Dixon (University of California, Irvine)
“Obstetrics in a Time of Violence: Mexican Midwives Critique Routine Hospital Practices”
Critical Anthropology of Global Health
Rudolph Virchow Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
Savannah Harshbarger (Brown University)
“For the Right Reasons: The Ethics of Medical Voluntourism and Perspectives of ‘Global Health Trip’ Student Participants”
Critical Anthropology of Global Health
Rudolph Virchow Graduate Student Paper Prize
Kimberly Sue (Harvard University)
“Pills, Prisons, and Pharmaceutical Logics: Addiction Treatment and Drug Use in American Prisons and Jails”
Critical Anthropology of Global Health
Rudolph Virchow Professional Paper Prize
Stacy Leigh Pigg (Simon Fraser University)
“On Sitting and Doing: Ethnography as Action in Global Health”
Critical Anthropology of Global Health
Rudolph Virchow Professional Paper Prize – Honorable Mention
Brian McKenna (University of Michigan, Dearborn)
“Paulo Freire’s Blunt Challenge to Anthropology: Create a Pedagogy of the Oppressed for Your Times”
Medical Anthropology Student Association
Mentorship Award
Juliet McMullin (University of California, Riverside)
Science, Technology, and Medicine
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Danya Glabau (Cornell University)
“The Moral Life of Epinephrine”
Jennifer J. Carroll (University of Washington)
“For Lack of Wanting: Discourses of Desire in Ukrainian Opiate Substitution Therapy Programs”
2013 SMA Section Interest Group Awards
AIDS and Anthropology Research Group
Clark Taylor Professional Paper Prize
Betsey Brada (Princeton University)
“How to Do Things to Children with Words: Language, Ritual, and Apocalypse in Pediatric HIV Treatment in Botswana”
AIDS and Anthropology Research Group
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Molly McGown (University of Illinois, Chicago)
“Syphilis, Medical Authority, and Trouble with Translations in Central Uganda”
Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Study Group
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Nayantara Sheoran (George Mason University)
“Stratified Contraception: Imagined Cosmopolitanism Versus Lived Tangibility of Emergency Contraceptive Pills in Contemporary India”
Complimentary and Alternative Medicine and Integrative Care
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Nicholas Barlett (USC Dornsife)
“Idling After Mao: Opiate Addiction and Compulsory Labor as Treatment”
Council for Anthropology and Reproduction
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Nayantara Sheoran (George Mason University)
“Stratified Contraception: Imagined Cosmopolitanism Versus Lived Tangibility of Emergency Contraceptive Pills in Contemporary India”
Sebastian Mohr (University of Copenhagen)
“Containing Sperm: Managing Legitimacy. Lust, Disgust, and Hybridity in Sperm Donation”
Critical Anthropology of Global Health
Rudolph Virchow Professional Paper Prize
Susan L. Erickson (Simon Fraser University)
“Global Health Business: The Production and Performativity of Statistics in Sierra Leone and Germany”
Critical Anthropology of Global Health
Rudolph Virchow Graduate Student Paper Prize
Rachel Irwin (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
“In Dialogue with all Relevant Stakeholders?: Rituals, Roles, and Relationships Amongst the World Health Organization, the Transnational Food Industry, and Civil Society”
Bo Byeong Seo (Australian National University)
“The Inscription of Birth: Antenatal Care for Shan Migrant Women and Issues of Legibility”
Critical Anthropology of Global Health
Rudolph Virchow Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
Thea Lange (Mount Holyoke College)
“Rebiologizing Race in the Classroom and the Clinic: How the Conflation of Race and Genetics is Reifying Race as Biology”
Medical Anthropology Student Association
Graduate Student Mentor Award
Marcia Inhorn (Yale University)
Science, Technology, and Medicine
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Emily Wanderer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Unseen Biologies: Infectious Disease and Biosecurity in Mexico”
2012 SMA Section Interest Group Awards
AIDS and Anthropology Research Group
Distinguished Service Award
Merrill Singer (University of Connecticut)
Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Study Group
Annual Graduate Student Paper Prize
Saiba Varma
“Love in the Time of PTSD: Loss, Longing, and Addiction in Kashmir”
Critical Anthropology of Global Health
Rudolph Virchow Professional Paper Award
Sarah Willen (University of Connecticut)
“Do ‘Illegal’ Migrants have a ‘Right to Health’? Engaging Ethical Theory as Social Practice at a Tel Aviv Open Clinic”
Critical Anthropology of Global Health
Rudolph Virchow Graduate Student Paper Award
Nora J. Kenworthy
“The Body Sac(RED): Public Treatment and Private Interests in Lesoto’s Transnational Garment Sector”
Critical Anthropology of Global Health
Rudolph Virchow Undergraduate Student Paper Award
Victoria Koski-Karell
“Knowledges of the Unknown: Living with (Bad) Cholera in North Haiti”
Medical Anthropology Student Association
Graduate Student Mentor Award
Peter J. Brown
Science, Technology, and Medicine
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Natalie Porter
“Bird Flu Biopower: Strategies for Multispecies Coexistence in Viet Nam”
Kathryn Goldfarb
“Replacement and Remediation: Loss and the Pleasures of the Genealogical”
Science, Technology, and Medicine
Most Notable Recent Collection
Carole Browner and Carolyn Sargent
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Marcia Inhorn
Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with New Biotechnologies
2011 SMA Section Interest Group Awards
MASA (Medical Anthropology Student Association)
Mentorship Award
Frances Barg; University of Pennsylvania
MASA (Medical Anthropology Student Association)
Dissertation Award
Kenneth MacLeish; University of Texas, Austin
“What Makes the War: Everyday Life in a Military Community”
2010 SMA Section Interest Group Awards
MASA (Medical Anthropology Student Association)
Mentorship Award
Byron Good and Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good; Harvard University
2009 SMA Section Interest Group Awards
MASA (Medical Anthropology Student Association) Dissertation Award
Sera Lewise Young; Cornell University
“A Biocultural Study of the Relationship between Pica and Anemia”
MASA (Medical Anthropology Student Association)
Mentorship Award
Carole Browner; UCLA
2008 SMA Section Interest Group Awards
MASA (Medical Anthropology Student Association) Dissertation Award
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song; Case Western Reserve University
“Lived experiences of Behavioral and Emotional Disorders in U.S. Children and Families”
MASA (Medical Anthropology Student Association)
Mentorship Award
Joseph Dumit; University of California, Davis
2007 SMA Section Interest Group Awards
MASA (Medical Anthropology Student Association) Dissertation Award
Junko Kitanaka
“Society in Distress: The Psychiatric Production of Depression in Contemporary Japan”
MASA (Medical Anthropology Student Association)
Mentorship Award
Lenore Manderson
2006 SMA Section Interest Group Awards
MASA (Medical Anthropology Student Association)
Mentorship Award
Mac Marshall
2005 SMA Section Interest Group Awards
MASA (Medical Anthropology Student Association)
Mentorship Award
Mark Nichter; University of Arizona
2004 SMA Section Interest Group Awards
MASA (Medical Anthropology Student Association)
Mentorship Award
Joan Ablon
[i] We are still compiling records. We have incomplete information for some recipients and incomplete records prior to 2012. If you have corrections or additional information to offer please contact us at webmaster@medanthro.net