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
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
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
- Gold Medal in the Creative Non-Fiction Category for the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs).
AAA Resources
If you have a book proposal in mind, contact Dylan Kyung-lim White, Acquisitions Editor for Anthropology, at dkbwhite@stanford.edu.
