Diana Forsythe Prize Recipients

Recipients from 1999–2008 • Recipients from 2019–Present

2018

Winner

Sara Ann Wylie, Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds

Honorable Mention

Sophia Roosth, Synthetic: How Life Got Made

2017

Winner

Sareeta Amrute, Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin

Honorable Mention

Emilia Sanabria, Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil

2016

Winner

Eben Kirksey, Emergent Ecologies

Honorable Mention

Everett Yuehong Zhang, The Impotence Epidemic: Men’s Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China

2015

Winner

Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Face of Anonymous

2014

Winner

S. Lochlann Jain, Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us

Honorable Mention

Adriana Petryna, When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects

2013

Winner

Heather Paxson, The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America

2012

Winner

Rene Almeling, Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm

2011

Winner

Alexander Edmonds, Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil

2010

Winner

Elly Teman, Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self

2009

Winner

Emily Martin, Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture