Margaret Mead Award is an award in the field of

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...

presented (solely) by the

Society for Applied Anthropology The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) is a worldwide organization for the Applied Social Sciences, established "to promote the integration of anthropological perspectives and methods in solving human problems throughout the world; to advocate ...

from 1979 to 1983 and jointly with the American Anthropological Association afterwards. This award was named after anthropologist

Margaret Mead Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard C ...

, who had a particular talent for bringing anthropology fully into the light of public attention. It is awarded annually but once became every-other-year from 1991 to 1999. The Margaret Mead Award is presented to a younger scholar for a particular accomplishment such as a book, film, monograph, or service, which interprets anthropological data and principles in ways that make them meaningful and accessible to a broadly concerned public. The award is designed to recognize a person clearly associated with research and/or practice in anthropology. The awardee's activity will exemplify skills in broadening the impact of anthropology, the skills for which Margaret Mead was admired widely.

Recipients

The recipients of the award are as follows.Previous recipients
1979 -

John Ogbu John Uzo Ogbu (May 9, 1939 – August 20, 2003) was a Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor known for his theories on observed phenomena involving race and intelligence, especially how race and ethnic differences played out in educational ...

1980 - Brigitte Jordan 1981 -

Nancy Scheper-Hughes Nancy Scheper-Hughes (born 1944) is an anthropologist, educator and author. She is the Chancellor’s Professor Emerita of Anthropology and the director and co-founder (with Margaret Lock) of the PhD program in Critical Medical Anthropology at ...

1982 - Mary Linsday Elmendorf 1983 - Ruthann Knudson 1984 - Sue E. Estroff 1985 - Susan C.M. Scrimshaw 1986 - Jill Korbin 1987 - Myra Bluebond-Langner 1988 - Alex Stepick III 1989 - Mark Nichter 1990 - Wenda Trevathan 1991 -

Will Roscoe Will Roscoe (February 8, 1955) is an American activist, scholar, and author based in San Francisco, California. Early life Will Roscoe was born on February 8, 1955. He grew up in Missoula, Montana. Gay activism Roscoe helped found the Lambda Alli ...

1993 - Leo R. Chavez 1995 -

Katherine Ann Dettwyler Katherine Ann Dettwyler is an American anthropologist and advocate of breastfeeding. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Delaware. In 2017, she gained media attention for her comments regarding Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old college ...

1997 -

Philippe Bourgois Philippe Bourgois (born 1956) is professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the founding chair of the Department of ...

1999 -

Paul Farmer Paul Edward Farmer (October 26, 1959 – February 21, 2022) was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he was a University Professor and the chair of the Department of Glob ...

2000 - Kathryn M. Dudley 2001 - Mimi Nichter 2002 - Tobias Hecht 2003 - Marc Sommers 2004 - Donna Goldstein 2005 - Luke Eric Lassiter 2007 -

João Biehl João Guilherme Biehl is a Brazilian anthropologist who is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, where he is also the Co-Director of the Program of Global Health and Health Policy and where he holds an Old Dominio ...

2008- Daniel Jordan Smith 2009 - Sverker Finnström 2010 - Jessaca Leinaweaver 2011 - Frances Norwood 2012 - Erin Finley 2013 - Sera Young 2014 - Seth M. Holmes 2015 - Mark Schuller 2016 - Jason De Leon 2017 - Sameena Mulla 2018 - Jennifer Mack 2019 - Claudio Sopranzetti 2020 - Narges Bajoghli and Ashanté M. Reese (co-winners)

External links

SfAA Mead Award

References

{{reflist Awards established in 1979 Anthropology awards

Recipients

See also

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