Congratulations to everyone who won an award from the Society for Medical Anthropology or one of its interest groups in 2011! (Unfortunately we don’t have a list which includes the titles of all winning submissions):
New Millenium Book Award:
- Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker, The Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report
The Eileen Basker Prize given for an extended case study on gender and health.
MASA Dissertation Award
- Kenneth MacLeish, “What Makes the War”: Everyday Life in a Military Community“
- Honorable Mention: Emily Wentzell, “Composite masculinities: Aging, illness, erectile dysfunction and Mexican manhood“
MASA Mentoring Award given in recognition of excellence in graduate student mentorship:
- Frances Barg (UPenn)
Polgar Prize given to the “best” article published in the preceding volume of the MAQ.
- Sarah Horton and Judith C. Barker “Examining the Cumulative Effects of Oral Health Disparities for Mexican American Farmworker Children” MAQ 24(2): 199-219
WHR Rivers Prize (undergraduate):
- Shannon Ward (Wellesley)
Virchow Awards (Critical Anthropology of Global Health – CAGH)
- Professional Award: Sharon Abramowitz (U of Florida)
- Graduate Student Award: Amy L Moran-Thomas (Princeton U); Honorable Mention: Laura Eichelberger (U of Arizona)
- Undergraduate Award: Claire Wagner (Dartmouth College); Honorable Mention: Joshua Franklin (Princeton U)
AIDS and Anthropology Research Group Prizes (AARG)
- The Clark Taylor Prize: Richard Eves (Australian National U)
- The Graduate Student Paper Prize: Jennifer Carroll (U of Washington), “Addiction, Gender, and the Limits of Public Health Solutions to IV Drug Use in Ukraine“
- The Undergraduate Student Paper Prize: Ryan Whitacre (UC Berkeley), “Ethical and Efficacious Interventions: HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, Behavioral-Pharmaceutical Slippage & Biomarkers“
The Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR) Graduate Student Paper Awards
- Meghana Joshi
- Chen-I Kuan
- Honorable Mention: Rachel Olson
The Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Study Group Paper competition (ADTSG)
- Brian Anderson (Stanford University)
Science, Technology & Medicine (STM) Interest Group Graduate Student Prize
- Amy Moran-Thomas (Princeton U)
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