Announcing the 2021 SMA Award Winners!

2021 SMA Award winners

 

The Society for Medical Anthropology is delighted to celebrate the 2021 award winners who were announced at last week’s SMA awards ceremony! Our heartfelt congratulations to all awardees whose work demonstrates the vibrancy and urgent importance of medical anthropology scholarship in today’s world.

 

 

Joint winners of the 2021 New Millennium Book Award

• Salih Can Açiksöz: Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey (University of California Press)

 

• Scott Stonington: The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand (University of California Press)

 

 

2021 New Millennium Book Award honorable mentions

• Elizabeth Fein: Living on the Spectrum: Autism and Youth in Community (New York University Press)

 

• Deborah Nadal: Rabies in the Streets: Interspecies Camaraderie in Urban India (Penn State University Press)

 

 

Winner of the 2021 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize

• Adrienne Strong: Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania (University of California Press)

 

 

2021 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize Honorable Mentions

• Rebecca Lester: Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America (University of California Press)

 

• Lucy van de Wiel: Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging (New York University Press)

 

 

Winner of the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR) Book Prize

• Christa Craven: Reproductive Losses: Challenges to LGBT Family Making (Routledge)

 

 

Joint winners of the George Foster Practicing Medical Anthropology Award

• Craig Janes

 

• Robert A. Hahn

 

• James Pfeiffer

 

 

Joint winners of the Hazel Weidman Award for Exemplary Service to SMA

• Virginia R. Dominguez

 

• Mark Nichter

 

 

Winner of the @MedAnthStudent Annual Graduate Student Mentorship Award

• Andrea Sankar

 

 

Winner of the Steven Polgar Paper Prize

• Yesmar Oyarzun, Rice University: “Plantation Politics, Paranoia, and Public Health on the Frontlines of America’s COVID-19 Response“

 

 

Winner of the SMA Dissertation Award

• Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin, Yale University: “After-After-Lives: Aging, Care, and Dignity in Postgenocide Rwanda”

 

 

SMA Dissertation Award Honorable Mention

• Lina Pinto-García: “MARAÑA -Leishmaniasis and the Pharmaceuticalization of War in Colombia”

 

 

Winner of the W.H.R. Rivers Undergraduate Paper Prize

• Jessica L. Ding, Harvard College: “Negotiating Doctor-Patient Relationships: Lessons for Caregiving from Integrative Medicine in Shanghai, China”

 

• Advisors: Joseph P. Gone & Arthur M. Kleinman, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

 

 

Winner of the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR) Graduate Student Prize

• Anne-Sophie Gignac, University of Montreal: “Irreversible Sterilization: Identity of Childfree Women Between Agency and Biopower”

 

 

Joint winners of the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group (AARG) Clark Taylor Professional Paper Prize

• Jennifer L. Syvertsen: “Sharing Research, Building Possibility: Reflecting on Research with Men Who Have Sex with Men in Kenya”

 

• Amaya Perez-Brumer, University of Toronto: “PrEP Science and the Political Economy of Queer Risk Data: Making Markets and Inequities”

 

 

Winner of the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group Graduate Student Prize

• Tankut Atuk, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: “Pathopolitics: Pathologies and Biopolitics of PrEP“

 

Winner of the Anthropology and Mental Health Interest Group Graduate Student Paper Prize

• Gerpha Gerlin, Northwestern University: “‘There’s Got to be More to Life than Feeling Like This’: Navigating Mental Illness Recovery Alone, Together, and in-Between”

 

 

Winner of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Integrative Medicine Group (CAM/IM) Graduate Student Paper Prize

• Sarah Staub, University of Florida: “From Unproven Potion to Promising Treatment: The Transformation of Artemisia-based Herbal Remedies for COVID-19”

 

 

Winner of the @ADTstudygroup Graduate Student Paper Prize

• Benjamin Holt, San Francisco State University: “Cannabis Vaporizing in Sonoma County: User Perceptions and Behavior”

 

 

Winner of the @ADTstudygroup Travel Award

• Joshua Falcon, Florida International University

 

 

Winners of @SocMedAnthro Travel Awards

• Gerpha Gerlin, Northwestern University

 

• Joshua Woods, Vanderbilt University