Society for Medical Anthropology: awards archives
Basker Prize | Career Achievement Award | CAR Edited Volume Prize | CAR Graduate Student Paper Prize | Graduate Student Mentor Award | Hughes Paper Prize | Polgar Paper Prize | Practicing Anthropology Award | Rivers Paper Prize | Virchow Prize | Prize Committee Reports
Eileen Basker Prize
2007 - Sophie Day for On the Game (University of Michigan Press)
2006 - Michele Rivkin-Fish, Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention (Indiana University Press, 2005)
2005 - Joao Biehl, Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (University of California Press, 2005)
2004 - Sandra Morgen, Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990 (Rutgers U. Press, 2002)
2003 - Caroline Bledsoe and Fatoumatta Banja Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa (U. of Chicago Press, 2002)
2002 - Rhoda Kanaaneh, Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel (University of California Press, 2002)
2001 - Susan Martha Kahn, Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Reproduction in Israel (Duke U. Press, 2000)
2000 - Gelya Frank, Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America
1999 - Adele Clarke, Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and the Problems of Sex (U. of California Press, 1998) and Rayna Rapp, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (Routledge, 1999)
1998 - No prize awarded
1997 - Paul Farmer, Margaret Connors, Janie Simmons (eds.), Women, Poverty and AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Structural Violence (Common Courage Press, 1996)
1996 - No prize awarded
1995 - Marcia Inhorn, Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions (U. Pennsylvania Press, 1994)
1994 - Margarete Sandelowski, With Child in Mind: Studies of the Personal Encounter with Infertility (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1993)
1993 - Barbara Duden, The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-century Germany (Harvard U. Press, 1991); and Margaret Lock, Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America (U. of California Press, 1993)
1992 - Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (U. of California Press, 1992)
1991 - No prize awarded
1990- Faye Ginsburg, Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American community (University of California Press, 1989)
1989 - Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease (Harvard U. Press, 1988)
1988 - Emily Martin, The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction (Beacon Press, 1987)
Career Achievement Award
2007 - Ronnie Frankenberg and Margaret Lock
2006 - Arthur Kleinman
2005 - George Foster
2004 - Cecil B. Helman
CAR Edited Volume Prize (Enduring and Recent)
2006 - Enduring: Linda Layne, Editor for Transformative Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in a Consumer Culture
Recent: Carrie Douglass, Editor for Barren States: The Population Implosion in Europe
2005 - Enduring: Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions, edited by Lynn M. Morgan and Meredith W. Michaels (1999, University of Pennsylvania Press)
Recent: Consuming Motherhood, edited by Janelle S. Taylor, Linda L. Layne and Danielle F. Wozniak (2004, Rutgers University Press)
2004- Enduring: Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction, Edited by Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp (1995, Berkeley: University of California Press)
Recent: Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond Tradition and Modernity?, Edited by Vicki Lukere and Margaret Jolly (2002, University of Hawai'i Press)
2003 - Enduring: Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Edited by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd & Carolyn F. Sargent (1997,
Berkeley: University of California Press)
Recent: Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and
Reproductive Technology, Edited by Marcia Inhorn and Frank Van Balen (2002,
Berkeley: University of California Press)
2002 - Enduring: Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation, Edited by Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb (1988, Berkeley: University of California Press
Recent: Pragmatic Women and Body Politics, Edited by Margaret Lock and Patricia A. Kaufert (1998, New York: Cambridge University Press)
CAR Graduate Student Paper Prize
2006 - 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"
2005 - Susi Krehbeil, “’Women Do What They Want’: Islam and Permanent Contraception in Northern Tanzania”
2004 - No prize given
2003 - Helene Goldberg, “The Man in the Sperm – Silenced Male Infertility in Israel”
2002 - Elly Teman, “The Medicalization of ‘Nature’ in the ‘Artificial Body’: Surrogate Motherhood in Israel”
2001 - Susan Erikson, “German Prenatal Diagnostic Technology Use a Decade After die Wende: ‘Old’ Differences in the ‘New’ Vaterland”
Graduate Student Mentor Award
2007 - Lenore Manderson
2006 - Mac Marshall
2005 - Mark Nichter
2004 - Joan Ablon
Hughes Paper Prize (Graduate)
2007 - Kate Goldade for "'Health is Hard Here' or 'Health for All'?: The Politics of Blame, Gender, and Health Care for Undocumented Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica"
2006 - Elise Andaya: “The Gift of Health: Cuban Medical Practice, Socialist Morality and the Post-Soviet Economy”
2005 - Jennifer Liu: “Governing Adherence: Medications, HIV, and Power”
2004 - Benjamin Hickler: “Sexually Violent Predators and the Truth about the Future”
Polgar Paper Prize (Professional)
2007 - Robin Root for "'Mixing' as an Ethnoetiology of HIV/AIDS in Malaysia's Multinational Factories"
2006 (MAQ Vol. 19) - Vincanne Adams and Suellen Miller, Sienna Craig, Nyima, Sonam, Droyoung, Lhakpen, & Michael Varner: "The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Clinical Trials Research: Case Report from the Tibetan Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China"
2005 (MAQ Vol. 18) - Michele Rivkin-Fish: "’Change Yourself and the Whole World Will Become Kinder’: Russian Activists for Reproductive Health and the Limits of Claims Making for Women”
2004 (MAQ Vol. 17) - Charles Briggs: “Why Nation-States and Journalists Can’t Teach People to be healthy: Power and Pragmatic Miscalculation in Public Discourses on Health”
Practicing Anthropology Award
2007 - Susan Hunter
2006 - Spero Manson
2005 - Merrill Singer
Rivers Paper Prize (Undergraduate)
2007 - Irit Rasooly for "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”
Virchow Prize (Professional and Graduate Student)
2007 - Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg for "Intimate Apartheid: Ethnic Dimensions of Habitus among Homeless Heroin Injectors", Professional Prize
2007 - Krista Schumacher for "Beyond Cultural Competency: An Analysis of Key Variables Affecting Diabetes Care among Patients at an rrban Indian Health Clinic" , Graduate Student Prize
2006 - Charles L. Briggs for “Critical Perspectives on Health and Communicative Hegemony: Progressive Possibilities, Lethal Connections", Professional Prize
2006 - 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”, Graduate Student Prizes
2005 - Paul Farmer and Arachu Castro, Professional Prize
2005 - João Biehl, Professional Prize
2005 - Michael Westerhaus, Graduate Student Prize
2004 - James Pfeiffer, Professional Prize
2004 - Sarah Willen, Graduate Student Prize
2004 - Hanna Garth, Undergraduate Student Prize
2003 - Barbara Rylko-Bauer and Paul Farmer, Professional Prize
2003 - Cesar Abadia, Graduate Student Prize
2003 - Scott Sang-Hyan Lee, Undergraduate Prize
2002 - Michael Ennis-McMillan, Professional Prize
2002 - Sarah Horton, Student Prize
2000 - Carolyn Smith, First Rudolf Virchow Student Prize
1995 - Donna Goldstein: "AIDS and Women in Brazil: The Emerging Problem", Social Science and Medicine 39(7).
1994 - Hans Baer: "How Critical Can Clinical Anthropology Be?", Medical Anthropology 15(3):299-317.
1993 - Soheir Morsy: "Bodies of Choice: Norplant Experimental Trials on Egyptian Women".
1992 - Mark & Mimi Nichter: "Hype and Weight", Medical Anthropology 13:249-284, 1991.
1991 - Merrill Singer: "Reinventing Medical Anthropology: Toward a Critical Realignment", Social Science and Medicine 30(2):179-187 (1990).
1989 - Lynn Morgan
1990 - John O'Neil
1988 - Ellen Lazarus
1987 - Ronnie Frankenberg
Prize Committee Reports
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