SMA awards: 2006 Award Winners
New Millennium Book Award: Adriana Petryna for Life Exposed: Biological Citizenship after Chernobyl
Eileen Basker Memorial Prize: Michele Rivkin-Fish for Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention
Rivers Prize (Undergraduate): Hayder Al-Mohammad for “Excremental Encounters: The Case of Basra and the Anthropology of Excrement”: "Postpartum Cases: Tadoka and Mental Health," Amy Saltzman
Charles Hughes Prize (Graduate): Elise Andaya for “The Gift of Health: Cuban Medical Practice, Socialist Morality and the Post-Soviet Economy”
Steven Polgar Prize (Best Article in MAQ, 2005): Vincanne Adams and co-authors Suellen Miller, Sienna Craig, Nyima, Sonam, Droyoung, Lhakpen, & Michael Varner for "The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Clinical Trials Research: Case Report from the Tibetan Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China" (v.19, no.3, pp.267-289)
Career Achievement Award: Arthur Kleinman
George Foster Memorial Prize in the Practice of Anthropology: Spero Manson
MASA Mentor Award: Mac Marshall
CAR Most Enduring Edited Collection Award (Council on the Anthropology of Reproduction): Linda Layne, Editor for Transformative Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in a Consumer Culture
CAR Best Current Edited Collection: Carrie Douglass, Editor for Barren States: The Population Implosion in Europe
CAR Graduate Student Prize: Heide Castaneda for "Pregnancy, Race, and Citizenship: Undocumented Migrant Women in Berlin, Germany" and Elise Andaya for "Reproducing the Revolution: Local Practices and Global Politics in Prenatal Care in Havana, Cuba"
Rudolf Virchow Award, Professional Category (Critical Anthropology of Health Caucus): Charles L. Briggs for “Critical Perspectives on Health and Communicative Hegemony: Progressive Possibilities, Lethal Connections”
Rudolf Virchow Award, Graduate Student Category: Seth Holmes for "Oaxacans Like to Work Bent Over: The Naturalization of Social Suffering among Berry Farm Workers” and Alexa Dietrich for “Corrosion in the System: The Community Health By-Products of Pharmaceutical Production in Northern Puerto Rico”