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SMA 2025 Awards

    Carole H. Browner Graduate Mentorship Award

    Meredith Marten, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of West Florida

    Carole H. Browner Undergraduate Mentorship Award

    Katherine A. Mason, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Brown University 

    Steven Polgar Professional Paper Prize

    Vaia Y. Sigounas. “Technologies of care and the engineering imaginary: Two approaches to assistive device design for the Global South.”

    Steven Polgar Professional Paper Prize – Honorable mention

    Ugo F. Edu. “Anthropological knowledge under redaction: Meditations on race, health, and aesthetics.”

    Eileen Basker Memorial Prize

    Emily Yates-Doerr. Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm.

    Eileen Basker Memorial Prize – Honorable mention

    Jaya Keaney. Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling.

    The Leah M. Ashe Prize for the Anthropology of Medically Induced Harm

    Ray Qu. “‘You get sick when you go the hospital!’ Sickening landscapes, digital exclusiveness, and iatrogenesis in rural North China.”

    The Leah M. Ashe Prize for the Anthropology of Medically Induced Harm – Honorable mention 

    Johanna Bard Richlin. “From iatrogenesis to vaccine skepticism: US mothers’ negative vaccine perceptions and non-vaccinations practices and reverberations of medical harm.”

    Hazel Weidman Service Award 

    Vincanne Adams, Professor Emeritus, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California San Francisco

    George Foster Practicing Award

    Alison B. Hamilton, VA Health Systems Research, Center for the Study of Healthcare, Innovation, and Implementation Policy. 

    SMA Dissertation Award

    Shivani Kaul. “A Tendrel Logic: Growing Humans Otherwise During the Golden 1000 Days in Bhutan.” 

    New Millennium Book Award

    Angela Garcia. The Way that Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City’s Anexos.

    New Millennium Book Award – Honorable mention

    Gabriela Elisa Morales. Decolonizing Medicine: Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia.