Past Prize Recipients[i]
2021
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
2019
The 2019 winner is Natalie Nogueira (Harvard College) for her paper “The Pharmaceuticalization of Therapeutic Jurisprudence”
2017
Taylor Silverman, “Timing Illness: Physician and Patient Perspectives on Movement Disorder Trajectories”
2015
Ann Soliman, “Cultural Barriers Related to Late-Stage Presentation of Breast Cancer in Morocco”
Hanna Amanuel, Honorable Mention, “”Morir en Camino”: How women’s narratives can inform a rights-based approach to obstetric health care in rural Chiapas”
2013
Anna Wates (Oxford University), “Interdependence in a Ghanaian Community: Negotiating Disability as Subjectivity”
2011
Shannon Ward, “Narrative, Embodiment, and Choice: Identity, Reproduction, and Abortion”
2008
Alex Gertner, “The Limitations of a Biomedical Understanding of Health in the Conception and Implementation of Housing as a Structural Intervention for HIV/AIDS in New York City”
2007
Irit Rasooly, “Planting Healthy Stores in Food Deserts: An Anthropological Study of Obesity, Consumption, and Public Health in East Baltimore”
2006
Hayder Al-Mohammad, “Excremental Encounters: The Case of Basra and the Anthropology of Excrement”
2005
Amy Saltzman, “Postpartum Cases: Tadoka and Mental Health”
2004
Tiffany Star Behringer, “Changing Paradigms of the One Child Policy: Exploring the Cultural Model of Reproduction and Gender Role of Chinese Immigrant Women”
2003
Jennifer Staple, “Forging Activist Identities in the Kalaupapa Community of Leprosy Patients”
2001
Sunita Puri, “Immigration, Isolation, and (Community) Identity”
More information about the Rivers Award and its upcoming deadlines can be found here.
[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