Call for Nominations for the 2008 Diana Forsythe Prize
The Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) and the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC), a committee of the General Anthropology Division, announce a call for nominations for the 2008 Diana Forsythe Prize. The Diana Forsythe Prize was created in 1998 to celebrate the best book or series of published articles in the spirit of Diana Forsythe's feminist anthropological research on work, science, and/or technology, including biomedicine. It is awarded annually at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association by a committee consisting of one representative from the Society for the Anthropology of Work and two from the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and
Computing. Nominations can be sent to Chris Furlow at mailto:furlow@ufl.edu . Self-nominations are welcomed. To be eligible, books must have been published in the last five years (copyright of 2003 or later) and nominations should be submitted by August 1, 2008 (early nominations appreciated). Previous recipients are:
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).
Call for Nominations for the 2008 Diana Forsythe Prize