2023 Awards
2023 Roseberry Nash Graduate Student Award
Winner
Chris Batterman Cháirez (University of Chicago), “Intimidad, incertidumbre, impase: una etnografía de la escucha y el ordinario en el Lago de Pátzcuaro, Michoacán”
Honorable Mention
Alexandra Reichert (Vanderbilt University), “’They Study for Six Years. We Study for Generations:’ Renegotiating Birth, Power, and Interculturalidad in the Ecuadorian Amazon”
2023 Graduate Student Award in Applied and Public Anthropology
Winner
Alana Ackerman (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign) “Resettlement Denied: Persecution, Refuge, and the Violent Entrapment of Colombian Refugees in Quito, Ecuador”
Honorable Mention
Chris Batterman Cháirez (University of Chicago), “Archives: Weaving Time and Singing History”
2022 Awards
2022 SLACA Book Prize
Winner
Christopher Krupa (University of Toronto) A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Honorable Mentions
2022 Arthur J. Rubel Book Prize
Winner
Elyse Ona Singer (University of Oklahoma) Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico (Stanford University Press)
Honorable Mentions
Levi Vonk (University of Virginia) with Axel Kirschner, Border Hacker: A Tale of Treachery, Trafficking, and Two Friends on the Run (Hachette Book Group)
2022 Roseberry Nash Graduate Student Award
Winner
Anna Kirstine Schirrer (Columbia University) “Ancestral Lands, Ancestral Rights: International Jurisprudence and Collective Property in the Wake of the Plantation”
Honorable Mention
Joshua Mayer (UCLA) “Vigilance for Decolonization? Afro-Indigenous Responses to Dispossession in Nicaragua”
2021 Awards
2021 SLACA Book Prize
Winner
Yana Stainova (McMaster University) Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela (University of Michigan Press)
Honorable Mention
2021 Arthur J. Rubel Book Prize
Winner
M. Bianet Castellanos (University of Minnesota) Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico (Stanford University Press)
Honorable Mention
2020 Awards
SLACA Book Prize
Winner: Matilde Córdoba Azcárate (UC San Diego), Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power and Labor in Contemporary Yucatán (UC San Diego)
Honorable Mention: Hanna Garth (Princeton University), Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal (Stanford University Press)
Roseberry Nash Graduate Student Award
Winner: Luísa Reis Castro (USC), “Mosquitos in Paradise: The geopolitics of knowledge and more-than-human work in the Northeast of Brazil.“
2019 Awards
SLACA Book Prize
Roseberry Nash Graduate Student Award
Winner: Vladimir Carballo Acuña (Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico), “Tallar las políticas mineras: la indeterminación en el diseño infraestructural de las esmeraldas y de la formalización minera en Colombia”
Honorable Mention: Adela Zhang, (Stanford University), “The Color of Modernity: Aesthetic Populism and Citizen Security Infrastructures in Lima.”
2018 Awards
SLACA Book Prize
Winner: Kathleen M. Millar (Simon Fraser University), Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor in Rio’s Garbage Dump (Duke University Press).