Past Recipients of the SEA Book Prize

2003 Winner

Karen Tranberg Hansen (Northwestern University) -- Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing in Zambia. University of Chicago Press (2000).

2003 Honorable Mention
(unranked in alphabetical order)

Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld (University of Iowa) -- The Native Leisure Class: Consumption and Creativity in the Andes. University of Chicago Press (1999).

Marc Edelman (City Univeristy of New York) -- Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica. Stanford University Press (1999).

William Fisher (College of William and Mary) -- Rain Forest Exchanges: Industry and Community on an Amazonian Frontier. Smithsonian Institution Press (2000).

Carla Freman (Emory University) -- High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identity in the Caribbean. Duke University Press (2000).

Past Recipients of the Harold K. Schneider Paper Prize

2002 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
John Tofik Karam, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
"A Cultural Politics of Entrepreneurship in Nation-Making: Phoenician, Turks, and the Arab Commercial Essense in Brazil"
Faculty Sponsor: John Burdick

2002 Undergraduate Prize Winning Paper
Tricia Olsen, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton College
"Women in the Age of Globalization: The Avon Case of Sao Paulo, Brazil"
Faculty Sponsor: Jerome Levi

2001 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
Nitish Jha, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University
"Gendera nd Decision-Making in Balinese Agriculture"
Faculty Sponsor: Robert Hunt

2001 Graduate Honorable Mention Paper
Jim Schechter, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado-Boulder
"Morality in the Eye of the Beholder: 'Moral Peril' in the Sudanese 'Slave' Trade and Contemporary Abolition"
Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Dunn

2001 Undergraduate Prize Winning Paper
Peter Halpin, Jessica Hegel and Chris Molnar,
University of Calgary
"Flowers and St. Valentine's Day: Economic Practices in Broader Perspectives"
Faculty Sponsor: Josephine Smart

2001 Undergraduate Honorable Mention Paper
Helene Goldberg, Queens College
"Social Mobility in a Peasant Community in Oaxaca, Mexico"
Faculty Sponsor: Ronald Waterbury

1997 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
Gregory Guest, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia
"La Ruta Cana: The Political Economy of Cane-Alchohol Production in Northwestern Ecuador"

1996 Undergraduate Prize Winning Paper
Anna Greenberg
"Poverty-Oriented Banking: Serving the Needs of Farmers, Herders, and Traders in Northern Senegal. The Case of the Caisses Populaires de Louga."

1996 Honorable Mention Paper
Taralee Alcock
"(Re)-Constructing the Power of the Activity in Sally Cole's Women of the Praia"

1995 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
Daniel Beams, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky
"Cattle, Trade, and Clandestine Slaughter in Oaxaca, Mexico: Securing High Profits Through Malfeasance and Dissemblance of Information"

1994 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
Kathleen Pickering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Political Economy of 'Agrarian Revolt' on the Great Plains, 1862-1900"

1993 Graduate Prize Winning Paper
Holly Wardlow, Emory University
"'Women are our Coffee': Historical Factors and Current Variables in Smallholder Coffee Production in Papua New Guinea "

1993 Undergraduate Prize Winning Paper
Ethan Michelson, McGill University
"In Defense of Collective Farms: Collectivization and De-Collectivization in the People's Republic of China""