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Diana Forsythe Prize Recipients
2019
Winner
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Lilly Irani, Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India |
Honorable Mention
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Juno Salazar Parreñas, Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation |
2018
Winner
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Sara Ann Wylie, Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds |
Honorable Mention
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Sophia Roosth, Synthetic: How Life Got Made |
2017
Winner
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Sareeta Amrute, Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin |
Honorable Mention
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Emilia Sanabria, Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil |
2016
Winner
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Eben Kirksey, Emergent Ecologies |
Honorable Mention
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Everett Yuehong Zhang, The Impotence Epidemic: Men’s Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China |
2015
Winner
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Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Face of Anonymous |
2014
Winner
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S. Lochlann Jain, Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us |
Honorable Mention
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Adriana Petryna, When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects |
2013
Winner
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Heather Paxson, The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America |
2012
Winner
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Rene Almeling, Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm |
2011
Winner
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Alexander Edmonds, Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil |
2010
Winner
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Elly Teman, Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self |
