SMA awards: Eileen Basker Memorial Prize For Studies in Gender and Health
The SMA welcomes nominations for the 2008 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, awarded annually for a significant contribution to scholarship on gender and health by scholars from any discipline or nation, for a specific book, article, film, or exceptional PhD thesis produced within the preceding three years. Winners receive a $500-$1000 cash award and are recognized at the SMA business meeting during the AAA.
The Basker Prize is awarded to the work judged to be the most courageous, significant, and potentially influential contribution to scholarship in the area of gender and health.
Nominations are invited from one or more individuals in the form of a letter indicating the impact of the particular work on the field. Self-nomination is not permitted. Publishers of nominated books are expected to supply three copies of the relevant work to the Prize Committee.
Enquiries and nominations should be sent to the chair of the Basker Prize Committee:
Dr. Carolyn Sargent
Department of Anthropology, SMU
Dallas, Texas, 75252 USA
email csargent@smu.edu.
The closing date for submissions is June 30, 2008.
The 2007 Prize went to Sophie Day for for On the Game.
The 2006 Prize went to Michele Rivkin-Fish for Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention (Indiana University Press 2005).
The 2005 Prize was awarded to Joao Biehl for his book Vita: Life in a zone of social abandonment (University of California Press, 2005).
The 2004 Prize went to Sandra Morgen for her book Into our own hands: The women’s health movement in the United States, 1969-1990 (Rutgers University Press, 2002).
The 2003 Prize was shared by Caroline Bledsoe and Fatoumatta Banja for Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa Africa (The University of Chicago Press, 2002).
Other previous winners include: Rhoda Kanaaneh for Birthing the Nation; Susan Kahn for Reproducing Jews; Gelya Frank for Venus on Wheels; Adele Clarke for Disciplining Reproduction; Rayna Rapp for Testing Women, Testing the Fetus; Nancy Scheper-Hughes for Death Without Weeping; Margarete Sandelowski for With Child in Mind; Barbara Duden for The Woman Beneath the Skin; Margaret Lock for Encounters with Aging; Marcia Inhorn for The Quest for Conception; Paul Farmer, Margaret Connors, Janie Simmons, and others for Women, Poverty and AIDS; Faye Ginsburg for Contested Lives; Joan Jacobs Brumberg for Fasting Girls; and Emily Martin for Woman in the Body.