Society for Medical Anthropology

SMA awards: 2010 Award Winners

 

--Career Awards-----

• Career Achievement Award:

  • Stephen L. Schensul

• George Foster Memorial Prize

  • Awarded in odd calendar years, next award in 2011

• MASA Mentoring Award:

  • Byron Good and Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good

--Book and Dissertation Prizes-----

• Eileen Basker Memorial Prize:

  • Elly Teman - Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self.

• Charles Hughes Prize (Graduate):

  • Emily Yates-Doerr for Nutrition and Logic of Care in Guatemala

• Steven Polgar Prize (Best Article in MAQ, 2008):

  • Marja-Liisa Honkasalo for Grips and Ties: Agency, Uncertainty and the Problem of Suffering

• Rudolph Virchow Award (Critical Anthropology of Global Health):

  • Professional: Clarence Gravlee for his paper, How Race Becomes Biology: Embodiment of Social Inequality

  • Graduate Student: Emily Yates-Doerr for her paper, The Opacity of Reduction: Nutritional Black-Boxing and the Meanings of Nourishment

  • Undergraduate Student: Dara Carroll for her paper, Power and Dependence: Interactions Between Informal Caretakers and Patients with Mental Illness in Uganda

• New Millennium Book Award**:

• MASA Dissertation Award**:

• Rivers Prize (Undergraduate)**:

**awarded in odd calendar years, next award in 2011