Cultural Horizons Prize

SCA is proud to award the fourth annual Cultural Horizons Prize to

Sarah Jain (Stanford U)
for her article

"Dangerous Instrumentality:
The Bystander as Subject in Automobility"
(CA 19, no. 1 (January 2004):61-94).

2005's doctoral jury--Zeynep Gursel (UC Berkeley), Rebecca Howes-Mischel (NYU), and Matthew Wolf-Meyer (U Minnesota)--praised the essay as "a brilliant example of how an interdisciplinary approach can put anthropology productively in conversation with such diverse disciplines as legal studies, design, urban planning, and history. . . . Jain attends to diverse historical voices," and situates them historically/culturally, effectively challenging the dominant anthropological believe that one needs to 'be there' to be properly anthropological."

For the full text of the jury's commendation, click here.

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About the Cultural Horizons Prize:

The SCA has long been distinguished by having the largest graduate student membership of any section of the AAA. Recognizing that doctoral students are among the most experimentally minded--and often among the best read--of ethnographic writers, this award asks of SCA's graduate student readers, "Who is on your reading horizon?"

This spirit gave rise to the Cultural Horizons Prize, awarded yearly by a jury of doctoral students for the best article appearing in Cultural Anthropology.

  Prize winners include:

Saba Mahmood (U Chicago), 2002
Paul K. Eiss (Carnegie Mellon), 2003
William Mazzarella (U Chicago), 2004
Sarah Jain (Stanford U), 2005
Peter W. Redfield (UNC), 2006