American Anthropological Association Conference 2023

Welcome!

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

This Year’s Award Winners

AAA Resources

New Books and New SUP Authors

Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP Anthropology titles with discount code S23XAAA through our virtual exhibit ».

This Year’s Award Winners

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Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan »

SONIA AHSAN-TIRMIZI

Winner of the 2022 Fatema Mernissi Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).

Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity »

ELISE K. 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.

Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance »

MATTHEW C. CANFIELD

Honorable Mention for the 2023 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology, sponsored by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA).

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 2022 getAbstract International Book Award in the Business Impact Category, sponsored by the getAbstract.

Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis »

EVE DARIAN-SMITH

Winner of the 2022 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, sponsored by the Association for Humanist Sociology.

Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos Aires »

JAUN MANUEL DEL NIDO

Winner of the 2022 Carol R. Ember Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for Anthropological Sciences.

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.

Winner of the 2023 The Maria Elena Martinez Prize, sponsored by the Conference on Latin American History.

Laboring for Justice: The Fight Against Wage Theft in an American City »

REBECCA BERKE GALEMBA

Rebecca Galemba recieved the 2022 Setha M. Low Engaged Anthropology Award, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), for the Just Wages Project, focused on wage theft research and advocacy.

Winner of the 2023 Kate Browne Creativity in Research Award, sponsored by the Society for Economic Anthropology.

Finalist of the 2023 SEA Book Prize, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) - Society for Economic Anthropology.

Crossing the Current: Aftermaths of War along the Huallaga River »

RICHARD KERNAGHAN

Winner of the 2023 LASA Peru Flora Tristán Book Prize, sponsored by the Latin American Studies (LASA) Peru Section.

Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA »

NADIA Y. KIM

Winner of the 2022 ASA AAA Asian America Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association - Asia and Asian America Section.
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.

Winner of the 2023 Distinguished Scholarship Award, sponsored by the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA).

Silver Medal in the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards - Social Change & Social Justice Category.

Winner of the 2023 AAAS Best Book in Social Sciences Award, sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies.

Honorable Mention for the 2023 Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) - Bodies and Embodiment Section.

Winner of the 2023 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP).

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.

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 Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy »

RAÚL PÉREZ

Finalist of the 2022 C. Wright Mills Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP).

Winner of the 2023 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) - Sociology of Culture Section.

Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope »

VICTORIA REYES

Honorable Mention for the 2022 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, sponsored by the Association for Humanist Sociology.

Gold Medal in the Essay Category for the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs).

Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil »

HEATHER F. ROLLER

Winner of the 2022 Friedrich Katz Prize, sponsored by the American Historical Association (AHA).

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 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.

After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador »

IRINA CARLOTA SILBER

Bronze Medal in the Current Events I (Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs) for the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs).

Winner of the 2023 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology, sponsored by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA).

Finalist of the 2023 International Latino Book Award in the Best Academic Themed Book, College Level - English Category, sponsored by the Latino Literacy Now.

Honorable Mention for the 2023 Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Noniction Book Award, sponsored by the International Latino Book Awards and Latino Literacy Now.

Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico »

ELYSE ONA SINGER

Honorable Mention for the 2022 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, sponsored by the Society for Medical Anthropology.

Honorable Mention for the 2023 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Book Prize, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) - Association for Feminist Anthropology.

Honorable Mention for the 2023 Council on Anthropology & Reproduction Book Award, sponsored by the Council on Anthropology & Reproduction (CAR).

The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin »

PHI HONG SU

Honorable Mention for the 2023 Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) - International Migration Section.

Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt »

RANIA KASSAB SWEIS

Winner of the 2022 AMECYS Book Award, sponsored by the Association for Middle East Children and Youth Studies Association (AMECYS).

Paletó and Me: Memories of My Indigenous Father »

APARECIDA VILAÇA

Gold Medal in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - Creative Non-fiction Category.

Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border »

SYLVIA ZAMORA

Winner of the 2023 ASA Section on Latina/o Sociology: Distinguished Contribution to Research Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) - Section on Latino/a Sociology.

Strike Patterns: Notes from Postwar Laos »

LEAH ZANI