THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Honors and Prizes
Lichtstern Dissertation Prize
Rachel Howard
“The Ends of the American Dream.”
Daniel F. Nugent Dissertation Prize (Historical Anthropology)
Perry Wong
“Mayan In Cunn: Dialectics of Symbolism”
Sol Tax Prize (best dissertation “with relevance to anthropology and action”)
(For the Dissertation which “combines highest intellectual merit with relevance to anthropology and action”)
Jiyea Hong
“Echoes of Conservation: Producing Biocultural Diversity and Cultivating Subjectivity in Ethinic China”
Myungji Lee
“The Edge of Authority: Muslim Women and Bureaucratized Islamic Education in Polarized Turkey”
Roy D. Albert Prize (Best MA essay in Anthropology)
Alaina Wibberly
“From Survey to Surveillance in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands.”
Alyssa Mendez
“Saving Agrafa: A Defense of Land, Life and Freedom in an Age of Climate Change” “
Lichtstern Dissertation Prize (Best Dissertation with honors in Anthropology)
Omar Kutty
“Proprietar Livelihood in Delhi Sanitation Workforce”
Daniel F. Nugent Dissertation Prize (Historical Anthropology)
Emma Pask
“Bats at the Texas-Mexico Border”
Sol Tax Dissertation Prize
(For the Dissertation which “combines highest intellectual merit with relevance to anthropology and action”)
Emma Gilheany
“Indigenous landscape perspectives, sovereignty, US militarization, Toxic ecologies and climate change in Nunatsiavut”
Roy D. Albert Prize (Best MA essay in Anthropology)
Robert Offer-Westort
"A Rhetoric of Incommensuration: Beja Unparallel Translation and the Cosmopolitan Subject."
Richard Saller Dissertation Prize (Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago)
Alexander Shams
“Constructing Islamic Modernity: Power, Religion and Masculinity in Post-Revolutionary Iran”
Lichtstern Dissertation Prize with honors (best dissertation in Anthropology)
Fadi Hakim
“Togetherness: Language, Relationality, and the Politics of Exchange in Kupang, Eastern Indonesia”
Daniel F. Nugent Dissertation Prize (Historical Anthropology)
Saadia Mirza
“The Liminal Terra Firma: Inhabiting More-than Human Environmental Sensing”
Sol Tax Dissertation Prize (best dissertation “with relevance to anthropology and action”
(For the Dissertation which “combines highest intellectual merit with relevance to anthropology and action”)
Taylor Lowe
“Design Activism and Dhammacratic Political Aesthetics in Thailand”
Richard Saller Dissertation Prize (Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago)
Raffaella Taylor-Seymour
"Intimate Rites: Remaking Ancestors and Queerness in Zimbabwe."
Lichtstern Dissertation Prize with honors (best dissertation in Anthropology)
Andrew Atwell
“National-Religious Activism and Moral Imagination in Israel’s Social Periphery: An Ethnography of ‘Social Settlement’ ”
Saadia Mirza
“The Liminal Terra Firma: Inhabiting More-than Human Environment Sensing”
Richard Saller Dissertation Prize (Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago)
Hiroko Kumaki
“Reasonably Exposed: Politics and Ethics of Living Fukushima”
Lichtstern Dissertation Prize (Best PhD Dissertation in Anthropology)
Inés Escobar Gonzalez
“Settlers of the Debtare Society: Home, Property, and Social Relations after Mexico’s Housing Reform”
Daniel F. Nugent Dissertation Prize (Historical Anthropology)
Alison Michele Feser
“Reproducing Photochemical Life in the Imaging Capital of the World”
Sol Tax Dissertation Prize (For the Dissertation which “combines highest intellectual merit with relevance to anthropology and action”)
Sonia Alexandrene Porelle Grant
“Patchwork: Land, Law, and Extraction in the Greater Chaco”
Hannah Renee McElgunn
“Language at the Center of the Universe: An Ethnography of the Hopi Language”
Roy D. Albert Prize (Best MA essay in Anthropology)
Blair Michelle Bainbridge
“Toward No Place in Particular: Detection, Dispossession and Noise Management in the American Southwest”
Shubham Shivang
“The Internal Life of Texts: Mani Kaul and the Aesthetics of Emergence”
Richard Saller Dissertation Prize
Division of the Social Science, University of Chicago
Gretchen Elisabeth Pfeil
“Sarax and Sutura:Alms and the Value of Discretion in Dakar, Senegal”
Lichtstern Dissertation Prize (Best PhD Dissertation in Anthropology)
Haeden Eli Stewart
“In the Shadow of Industry: The Lively Decay of Mill Creek Ravine”"
Daniel F. Nugent Dissertation Prize (Historical Anthropology)
Britta Elisabeth Ingebretson
“Curating Value: The Politics of Language and Leisure in Huangshan, China”
Sol Tax Dissertation Prize (For the Dissertation which “combines highest intellectual merit with relevance to anthropology and action”)
Not Awarded
Roy D. Albert Prize (Best MA essay in Anthropology)
Emma Catherine Gilheany
“Colonial Constructions of Nunatsiavut: Infrastructures, Archives, Ice”