The Diana Forsythe Prize was created in 1999 to celebrate the best book or series of publications in the spirit of Diana Forsythe's feminist anthropological research on work, science, and/or technology, including biomedicine. It is awarded at the AAA meetings by a committee consisting of one representative from SAW and two from the Committee on the Anthropology of Society, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC).

Previous recipients are:

2009  Emily Martin, for Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture (Princeton University Press, 2007).

2008  Joćo Biehl, for Will to Live: Aids Therapies and the Politics of Survival (Princeton University Press, 2007).

2007: Marcia Inhorn, for Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt (Routledge, 2003).

2006: Jan English-Lueck, for Cultures@SiliconValley (Stanford University Press, 2002).

2005: Joe Dumit, for Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity  (Princeton University Press, 2004)

2003: Cori Hayden, for When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico (Princeton University Press, 2003)

2002: Lucy Suchman, for the body of her work

2001: Stefan Helmreich, for Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World (University of California Press, 1998)

2000: David Hess, for the body of his work

1999: Rayna Rapp, for Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Impact of Amniocentesis in America (Routledge, 1999).

Nominations can be sent to Eve Hochwald ehochwald@aol.com