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Eric R. Wolf Prize Recipients
2022
Matthew Webb, “‘Artisans, Creativity, and Ethics: “Skill Regimes” in a Mumbai Fashion Export House”
2021
Ramsha Usman, “‘Decoding Designers: The Work of Responsibility and Innovation for Accessibility”
2020
Spencer Kaplan, “‘Bringing Your Full Self to Work’: The Fashioning of LGBTQ Bankers on Wall Street”
2018
Juan Manuel del Nido, “Inscription: Wolf’s Power, a Taxi Ficha, and the Reproduction of an Argentine Workers’ Union”
2017
Marcel LaFlamme, “Profession as Timekeeping Device”
2016
Mary Elizabeth Schmid, “Tomatero Circuit of Southern Appalachia-South Florida”
2015
Mary Wilhoit, “EnGendering the State: Women’s Work and Peru’s 2012 Agrarian Census”
2014
Bryan Moorefield, “Exceptional Protections: Contracts, Temporality, and Mexican Guestworkers”
2013
Samuel Weeks, “Longing for ‘Normal’ Post-Fordism: Cape Verdean Labor Power on a Lisbon Periphery in Crisis”
2012
Rachel Wright, “Who’s the Boss? The Matryoshka Power and Governance in Nonprofit Organizations”
2011
June Hee Kwon, “Rhythm of Circulation: Visas, Labor, and the Bodies of Korean Chinese Migrants in the Age of Transnational Commuting”
Jeffrey Hoelle, “The Ranchers of Acre, Brazil: Elite Status and Work in an Environmental State”
2006
Troy Wilson, “Migrant Brokers of the Global Tongue: A Case Study in Guadalajara, Mexico”
2005
Laurie Duthie, “White Collars with Chinese Characteristics: Global Capitalism and the Formation of a Social Identity”
2004
Kelly Feltault, “‘We’re Our Own Boss’: Gendered Class Consciousness and White Privilege among Hooper’s Island Crab Pickers”
2003
Ariana Hernandez-Reguant, “Artistic Labor and Contractual Citizenship in the Cuban Culture Industries”
