We offer this virtual space in addition to our AAA booth to showcase our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of anthropology publishing at SUP.
New Books and New SUP Authors
Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% and free North American shipping off these and other recent SUP Anthropology titles with discount code S22XAAA-FM through our virtual exhibit ».
Conference Photos
Pictured left to right: Elyse Ona Singer with her book Lawful Sins, Marit Tolo Østebø with her book Village Gone Viral, Miguel Pérez with his book The Right to Dignity, Mark Goodale with his book Reinventing Human Rights, Tess Lea and her book Wild Policy, Richard Kernaghan and his book Crossing the Current, Rebecca Berke Galemba and a flyer for her forthcoming book Laboring for Justice, Leah Zani and her book Strike Patterns, and Amahl A. Bishara with a poster of her book Crossing a Line.
This Year’s Award Winners
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique
SA’ED ATSHAN
- Honorable Mention in the 2020 Lee Ann Fujii Book Award, sponsored by the International Studies Association.
- Honorable Mention in the 2021 Ruth Benedict Prize, sponsored by the Association for Queer Anthropology.
Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic
NARGES BAJOGHLI
- Winner of the 2020 Margaret Mead Award, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA).
- Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
- Silver Medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - Current Events I (Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs) category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast
SANJIB BARUAH
- Winner of the Most Accessible and Captivating Work for the Non-Specialist Reader Accolade at the 2021 ICAS Book Prize, sponsored by the International Convention of Asia Scholars.
Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity
ELISE BURTON
- Winner of the 2021 Nikki Keddie Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
- Bronze Medal (tie) in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History (World) Category.
A Decent Meal: Building Empathy in a Divided America
MICHAEL CAROLAN
- Gold Medal in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) – Current Events II (Social Issues/Humanitarian) Category.
- Winner of the getAbstract International Book Award, Business Impact Category
Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico
BIANET CASTELLANOS
- Winner of the 2021 Edward M. Bruner Prize, sponsored by the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (ATIG).
- Winner of the 2022 Gregory Bateson Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for Cultural Anthropology.
- Winner of the 2022 Arthur J. Rubel Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA).
Trading Life: Organ Trafficking, Illicit Networks, and Exploitation
SEAN COLUMB
- Winner of the 2021 Hart–SLSA Prize for Early Career Academics, sponsored by the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA).
- Winner of the 2021 Best Book on Organized Crime Award, sponsored by The International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC).
- Winner of the 2022 ESC Book Award, sponsored by the European Society of Criminology.
Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico
A.S. DILLINGHAM
- Winner of the 2022 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize, sponsored by the American Society for Ethnohistory.
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals
KATJA GUENTHER
- Winner of the 2021 Animals & Society Distinguished Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Animals & Society.
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran
NILOOFAR HAERI
- Winner of the 2021 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies, sponsored by the American Academy of Religion (AAR).
- Winner of the 2021 Fatema Mernissi Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
- Shortlisted for the 2022 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA).
The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World
ANDREW HOFFMAN
- Distinguished Winner of the the 2022 Responsible Research in Management Award, sponsored by the Academy of Management Fellows and co-sponsored by Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM).
Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India
RAVINDER KAUR
- Longlisted in the 2021 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, sponsored by the New India Foundation.
Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
NADIA KIM
- Silver Medal in the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards - Social Change & Social Justice Category.
- Winner of the 2022 ASA AAA Asian America Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association - Asia and Asian America Section.
- Honorable Mention in the 2022 ASA Section on Latina/o Sociology Best Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) - Section on Latino/a Sociology.
- Honorable Mention in the 2022 Sociology of Emotions Outstanding Recent Contribution Award, sponsored by the American Sociology Association (ASA) - Section on Sociology of Emotions.
- Winner of the 2022 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) - Race, Gender, and Class Section.
- Winner of the 2022 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, sponsored by Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University.
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy
GABRIELE KOCH
- Winner of the 2022 John Whitney Hall Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) - Northeast Asia Council.
The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity
DARRYL LI
- Winner of the 2021 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, sponsored by the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (a unit of the American Anthropological Association).
The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast
ARKOTONG LONGKUMER
- Longlisted in the 2021 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, sponsored by the New India Foundation.
Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe
FABIO MATTIOLI
- Winner of the 2021 Ed A. Hewett Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research.
- Honorable Mention in the 2021 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, sponsored by the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (a unit of the American Anthropological Association).
Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel
HAGGAI RAM
- Co-winner of the the 2021 Best Book in Israel Studies Award, sponsored by Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and Concordia University Library.
- Winner of the 2020-21 Rorabaugh Book Prize for the Best Book in the History of Alcohol and Drugs, sponsored by the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS).
Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army
MARIA RASHID
- Shortlisted in the 2020 IPS Book Award, sponsored by the ISA International Political Sociology Section.
- Winner of the 2022 Bernard Cohn Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) - South Asia Council.
Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines
VICTORIA REYES
- Silver Medal in the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) - Australia/New Zealand: Best Regional Non-Fiction category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
- Honorable Mention in the 2020 PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) - Political Economy of the World System Section (PEWS).
- Honorable Mention in the 2020 PSWC Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) - Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section (PSWC).
- Honorable Mention in the 2020 ASA Sociology of Law Distinguished Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) - Sociology of Law Section.
- Winner of the 2019-20 Emory Elliot Book Award, sponsored by Center for Ideas and Society at University of California, Riverside.
- Honorable Mention in the 2021 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences.
- Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
- Runner-Up in the 2021 Edwin H. Sutherland Award, sponsored by the American Society of Criminology.
Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil
HEATHER ROLLER
- Winner of the 2022 Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize for the Best Book in Social Sciences, sponsored by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section.
- Winner of the 2022 Friedrich Katz Prize, sponsored by the American Historical Association (AHA).
Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia
ZAINAB SALEH
- Winner of the 2022 Arab American Book Awards, sponsored by the Arab American National Museum.
How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey
CATERINA SCARAMELLI
- Honorable Mention in the 2021 Albert Hourani Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
LONDA SCHIEBINGER, HANNAH JONES, ANN GRIMES, and ANDREA SMALL
- Notable Distinction for the 2022 Design Education Initiative Award, sponsored by the Core77 Design Awards.
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
SOPHIA STAMATOPOULOU-ROBBINS
- Winner of the 2020 Albert Hourani Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
- Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
- Winner of the 2020 MES Book Award, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) - Middle East Section.
- Winner of the 2021 Julian Steward Award, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) - Anthropology and the Environment Section.
Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene
Edited by ANNA TSING, JENNIFER DEGER, ALDER SAXENA KELEMAN and FEIFEI ZHOU
- Named one of the 2020 Power 100, Art Review's annual ranking of the most influential people in art.
- Gold Medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - Best Adult Non-Fiction Informational E-Book category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis
GOWRI VIJAYAKUMAR
- Winner of the 2022 Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) - Global Division.
- Winner of the 2022 ASA Global and Transnational Sociology Section Best Scholarly Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association - Global and Transnational Sociology Section.
- Winner of the 2022 Transnational Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) - Asia and Asian America Section.
- Honorable Mention in the 2022 Sociology of Sexualities Distinguished Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) - Sociology of Sexualities Section.
Paletó and Me: Memories of My Indigenous Father
APARECIDA VILACA
- Gold Medal in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - Creative Non-fiction Category.
AAA Resources
If you have a book proposal in mind, contact Dylan Kyung-lim White, Acquisitions Editor for Anthropology, at [email protected].
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