Sharon Stephens Prize

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2017     Paper tiger : law, bureaucracy, and the developmental state in Himalayan India by Nayanika Mathur; A diagram for fire : miracles and variations in an American charismatic movement by Jon Bialecki
2015     Mohawk interruptus : political life across the borders of settler states by Audra Simpson; honorable mention: Renegade dreams : living through injury in gangland Chicago by Laurence Ralph
2013     Addiction by design : machine gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schüll; Honorable Mention: Guerrilla auditors : the politics of transparency in neoliberal Paraguay by Kregg Hetherington
2011     Spiritual economies : Islam, globalization and the afterlife of development by Daromir Rudnyckyj; Cosmologies of credit : transnational mobility and the politics of destination in China by Julie Chu; Honorable Mention: Pretty modern : beauty, sex, and plastic surgery in Brazil by Alexander Edmond
2009     Lydia's open door : Mexico's most modern brothel by Patty Kelly; Counting the dead : the culture and politics of human rights activism in Colombia by Winifred Tate
2007     The ethical soundscape : cassette sermons and Islamic counterpublics by Charles Hirschkind; Markets of dispossession : NGOs, economic development, and the state by Julia Elyachar
2005     Landscapes of devils : tensions of place and memory in the Argentinean Chaco by Gaston Gordillo; Being a Buddhist nun : the struggle for enlightenment in the Himalayas by Kim Gutschow
2003     Life exposed : biological citizens after Chernobyl by Adriana Petryna; Advocacy after Bhopal : environmentalism, disaster, new global orders by Kim Fortun; Honorable Mention: In Amazonia : a natural history by Hugh Raffles