Best Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
2017
Sarah England (Anthropology, Dalhousie University) for her paper “Picturing Halifax: Young Immigrant Women and the Social Construction of Urban Space.�
2016
Vanessa Koh (Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania), “The (Im)Possibilities of Hope.�
2015
Nicholas Healey (Anthropology, University of Victoria), “Controlling Celtic Pasts: The Production of Nationalism in Popular British Archeology of Celtic Peoples.�
2014
Anna E. Wherry (Anthropology, John Hopkins University), “Administering Vicitmhood Bureaucracy and the Production of “The Victim� in Bogota, Columbia.�
2013 (Shared Award)
Elizabeth Doi (University of Pennsylvania), “Behind the Gates: The Wagner Free Institute of Science and its Neighborhood.�
Colin Calvert (Macalaster University), “Apartheid Lives On: Policing Migrants in South Africa.�
2012
Andrea Chiriboga Flor (Clark University), “Occupy Portland�
2011
Nicholas Caverly (New School for Social Research), “Anti-Suburban Desire, Suburban Capital Financial, Politics and Detroit’s (Sub)Urban Migration�
2010
Adom Philogene-Heron (University of Sussex), “Taming the Spider Man: From Anti-Colonial Hero to Neoliberal Icon�
2009 (Shared Award)
Hannah McElgunn (University of Chicago), “The Immortal Oscar Wilde: The Memorial as the Epicenter of Myth�
Colt Michaels (Indiana University), “Looking through the Urban Lens: Parks, Gardens and Green Space�
2008
Chris Parisano (Queens College), “Junked Landscapes and Gypsies: Morality, Exchange, and the Production of Urban Space in Willets Point, Queens�
2007
Amanda Carlson (Wellesley College), “Learning then Living Citizenship�
Best Graduate Student Paper Prize
2017
Alix Johnson (Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz) for her paper, “Compromising Connections: Ambivalent Infrastructure in an On the Way Place.�
2016
Camille Frazier (Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles),“Rising Temperatures and the Visceral Temporality of Urban Development in India’s ‘Air-Conditioned City.�
2015
Catherine Brueger (PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Connecticut), “The Politics of Inclusion: Human Rights Participation and Political Subjectivity in Accra, Ghana.�
2014
Ashley Sherry (PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst), “Studying Policy through Violence: The Social Conditions of Education Reform in Mexico.�
2013 (Shared Award)
Tahereh Aghdasifar (Emory University), “Tehran’s Bra Shops: Tracing the Effects of Neoliberalization of Female Homosocial Space�
Julie Kleinman (Harvard University), “The Stuff of Social Infrastructure: Building an African Hub in Paris�
2012
Claudio Sopranzetti (Harvard University), “The Owners of the Map: Mobility and Mobilization among Motorcycle Taxi Drivers in Bangkok�
2011
Lindsay Bell (University of Toronto), “In Search of Hope: Mobility and Citizenships on the Canadian Frontier�
2010
Marina Gold (Deakin University), “Urban Gardens: Private Property or the Ultimate Socialist Experience?�
2009
Nikhill Anand (Stanford University), � Mumbai’s Water and Its Leaky State�
2008
Hadam Weiss (University of Chicago), “Immigration to Settlement: The Case of Ariel (West Bank)�
2007
Christa Amouroux (Stanford University), “Normalizing Christiania: Project Clean Sweep and The Normalization Plan�
2006
Heide Castaneda (University of Arizona), “Living in the Shadows: Undocumented Migrant Workers in Berlin, Germany�
2005
Susanna Rosenbaum (New York University), “Producing Selves and Places in Los Angeles�
2004
Anne M. Rademacher (Yale University), “Fluid City, Solid State: Urban Environmental Territory in a State of Emergency�
2002
Ben Chappell, (University of Texas at Austin), “Lowriders, Police and Urban Space.�
Best Graduate Student-organized Panel Reviewed by SUNTA for AAA Annual Meeting
2012
Joanne R. Nucho (University of California, Irvine), organizer, “Movement, Mobility, Displacement: Migratory Imaginaries of the City�
2011
No Prize Awarded
2010
Andrea Morrell (CUNY Graduate Center) and Stephanie Campos (CUNY Graduate Center), organizers, “The anthropology of mass incarceration: Global ethnographic perspectives on prisons and policing�
2009
No Prize Awarded
2008
Catherine Fennell (University of Chicago), and Rocio Magana, (University of Chicago), organizers, “Ethnographies of the Record: The Codes of Inclusion�