The Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North America

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2016-2017     The land of open graves : living and dying on the migrant trail by Jason De León ; with photographs by Michael Wells and Shapeshifters : Black girls and the choreography of citizenship by Aimee Meredith Cox; honorable mention: They leave their kidneys in the fields : illness, injury and illegality among U.S. farmworkers by Sarah Bronwen Horton
2013-2014     We are the face of Oaxaca : testimony and social movements by Lynn Stephen; honorable mention: Mohawk interruptus : political life across the borders of settler states by Audra Simpson; honorable mention: Making war at Fort Hood : life and uncertaintly in a military community by Kenneth MacLeish
2011-2012     Tobacco capitalism : growers, migrant workers, and the changing face of a global industry by Peter Benson; honorable mention: Hound pound narrative : sexual offender habilitation and the anthropology of therapeutic intervention by James Waldram
2011     The accidental slaveowner : revisiting a myth of race and finding an American family by Mark Auslander; Honorable mention: Reproducing race : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization by Khiara M. Bridges
2009     High stakes : Florida Seminole gaming and sovereignty by Jessica R. Cattelino; Honorable mention: Liquidated : an ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho
2007     Local democracy under siege : activism, public interests, and private politics by Dorothy Holland, Catherine Lutz, Don Nonini, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique Murillo; Honorable mention: The farmworkers' journey by Ann Aurelia López; Imagining transgender : an ethnography of a category by David Valentine
2005     The near northwest side story : migration, displacement, and Puerto Rican families by Gina Perez