2012 – Hans Lucht (University of Copenhagen), Darkness Before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today (University of California Press, 2011)
2010 – Trevor Marchand (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), The Masons of Djenné (Indiana University Press, 2009)
Honorable Mention: Jon Holtzman (Western Michigan University), Uncertain Tastes: Memory, Ambivalence and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya (University of California Press, 2009)
Honorable Mention: Ivor L. Miller (Boston University), Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba (University of Mississippi Press, 2009)
2009 – Ben W. Jones (University of East Anglia), Beyond the State in Rural Uganda (University of Edinburgh Press, 2009)
2008 – Deborah James (London School of Economics and Political Science), Gaining Ground?: “Rights” and “Property” in South African Land Reform (Routledge, 2007)
Honorable Mention: Sabine Jell-Bahlsen (Ogbuide Films), The Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology: Ogbuide of Oguta Lake (Africa World Press, 2008)
Honorable Mention: Mwenda Ntarangwi, David Mills, and Mustafa Babiker (editors), African Anthropologies: History, Critique, and Practice (Zed Books, 2006)
Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Student Essay Award
2012 – George Paul Meiu (University of Chicago), “Beach-Boy Elders and Young Big Men: Queering the Temporalities of Aging in Kenya’s Ethno-Erotic Economies”
Honorable Mention: Mohamed Abumaye (University of California, San Diego), “Silenced into Non-Existence: A Living History of Somali Orality”
2011 – Erica Fontana (University of California, San Diego), “Online African Art: Representation, Circulation, and Access”
2010 – David Platzer(Johns Hopkins University), “African Literature and Its Institutions”
Honorable Mention: Naomi Haynes (University of California, San Diego), “Pentecostalism and the Morality of Money: Religious and Economic Value on the Zambian Copperbelt”
2009 – Lauren Adrover (Northwestern University), “Festive Currencies of Value: Culture, Commodification, and Performative Action in Ghana”
Honorable Mention: Scott Matter (McGill University), “Neopatrimonialism, Land Tenure Transformation, and Violence at Enoosupukia, Kenya”
2008 – J.R. Osborn (University of California, San Diego), “Writing Culture with Arabic Letters: The School of Khartoum and Contemporary Calligraphic Art”
Nancy “Penny” Schwartz Undergraduate Student Essay Award
2012 – Divya Bhat (University of California, San Diego), “Survival Strategies as Islands of Security: Social Change and Development in the Congo”
Honorable Mention: Courtney Dehn-Gurbacki (McGill University), “The Mediation of Large-Scale Farmland Deals: A Tanzanian Case Study”
2011 – Sean Brimmer (College of the Holy Cross), “Urban Africa Exposed: Inversion and the Restructuring of Kinship, Gender, and Style”
2010 – Narisa Silver(University of California, San Diego), “Continuity and Change in the Ethiopian Jewish Community of Israel”
2009 – Josephine Pang(University of California, San Diego), “A Gendered Critique of Social/Sexual Networks: The Case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Uganda”
2008 – Natalie Spritzer(University of California, San Diego), “Health Care for All in Ghana”
Honorable Mention: Ryan Hewey (Central Connecticut State University), “Negrotown: An Archaeology of African Agency from Colonial Connecticut”
African Scholars Travel Grant
1999 – Babatunde Omoniyi (Thames Valley University), “Names and Naming in the Arsenal of Contemporary Yoruba Political Campaign Warfare”
