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Sharon Stephens Prize

Every two years the AES invites nominations for its bi-annual Sharon Stephens Prize, awarded for a junior scholar's first book. The prize ($1000) goes to a work that speaks to contemporary social issues with relevance beyond the discipline and beyond the academy. Ethnographies and critical works in contemporary theory--single-authored or multi-authored but not edited collections--are eligible. The next Sharon Stephens Prize will be awarded at the AES business meeting at the 2013 AAA annual meeting.

 

2013 Competition: 

Nomination letters are required and must come from scholars; self-nomi­nations and nominations from presses are not invited. Please send nominating letter and book by April 30, 2013 to each of the three Sharon Stephens Prize committee members (three copies total of both letter and book): Marisol de la Cadena, University of California, 328 Young Hall, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8522; Daniel Goldstein, Rutgers University, Ruth Adams Bldg. 303, 131 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901; Daromir Rudnyckyj, PAOR-University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3045 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3P4 Canada.

Direct questions to Marisol de la Cadena, Sharon Stephens Prize Committee Chair, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

1 2011 Joint Winner: Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization and the Afterlife of Development Daromir Rudnyckyj
2 2011 Joint Winner: Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China Julie Chu
3 2011 Honorable Mention: Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil Alexander Edmond
4 2009 Joint Winner: Lydia's Open Door: Mexico's Most Modern Brothel Patty Kelly
5 2009 Joint Winner: Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia Winifred Tate
6 2007 Joint Winner: The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics Charles Hirschkind
7 2007 Joint Winner: Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State Julia Elyachar
8 2005 Joint Winner: Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco" Gaston Gordillo
9 2005 Joint Winner: Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas Kim Gutschow
10 2003 Joint Winner: Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl Adriana Petryna
11 2003 Joint Winner: Advocacy After Bhopal - Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders Kim Fortun
12 2003 Honorable Mention: In Amazonia - A Natural History Hugh Raffles

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