Past Prize Recipients[i]
2018
Anita Hannig (Brandeis University)
Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital.
Carolyn Sufrin (Johns Hopkins University) Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars
2017
Robert Wyrod (University of Colorado Boulder)
AIDS and Masculinity in the African City: Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood.
2016
Joanna Kempner (Rutgers University)
Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health
Honorable mention
Kelly Ray Knight addicted.pregnant.poor
Claire Snell-RoodNo One Will Let Her Live
2015
Tine Gammeltoft (University of Copenhagen)
“Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam”
Sameena Mulla (Marquette University)
“The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention”
2014
Sarah Pinto (Tufts University)
“Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India”
2013 Alexander Edmonds (University of Amsterdam)
Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil
2012
Carole Browner and Carolyn Sargent
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives
2011
Leslie Reagan (University of Illinois)
“Dangerous Pregnancies”
Ida Susser (Hunter/CUNY)
“AIDS, Sex, and Culture”
2010
Elly Teman
“Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self”
2009
Janelle Taylor
“The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram: Technology, Consumption, and the Politics of Reproduction”
2008
Matthew Gutmann
“Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico”
Kathy Davis
“The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Border”
2007
Sophie Day
“On the Game”
2006
Michele Rivkin-Fish
“Women’s Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention”
2005
Joao Biehl
“Vita: Life in a zone of social abandonment”
2004
Sandra Morgen
“Into our own hands: The women’s health movement in the United States, 1969-1990”
2003
Caroline Bledsoe and Fatoumatta Banja
“Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa”
2002
Rhoda Kanaaneh
“Birthing The Nation”
2001
Susan Kahn
“Reproducing Jews”
2000
Gelya Frank
“Venus On Wheels”
1999
Rayna Rapp
“Testing Women, Testing The Fetus”
Adele Clarke
“Disciplining Reproduction”
1998
Emily Martin
“The Woman In The Body”
1997
Paul Farmer, Margaret Connors, and Janie Simmons
“Women, Poverty, and Aids”
1996
No Prize (As Per Decision Of The Selection Committee)
1995
Marcia Inhorn
“Quest For Conception”
1994
Margarete Sandelowski
“With Child In Mind”
1993
Barbara Duden
“The Woman Beneath The Skin”
Margaret Lock
“Encounters With Aging”
1992
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
“Death Without Weeping”
1991
No Prize
1990
Faye Ginsburg
“Contested Lives”
1989
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
“Fasting Girls”
1988
Emily Martin
“The Woman In The Body”
[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