2025

Emily Yates-Doerr, Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm

2024

Duana Fullwiley, Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science

2023

Bettina Stoetzer, Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin

2022

Adriana Petryna, Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change

2021

Alex Blanchette, Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm

2020

Mythri Jegathesan, Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka

2019

Lilly Irani, Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India

2018

Sara Ann Wylie, Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds

2017

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

2016

Eben Kirksey, Emergent Ecologies

2015

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

2014

S. Lochlann Jain, Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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

2009

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

2008

João Biehl, Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival

2007

Marcia Inhorn, Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt

2006

Jan English-Lueck, Cultures@SiliconValley

2005

Joseph Dumit, Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity

2003

Cori Hayden, When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico

2002

Lucy Suchman, for the body of her work

2001

Stefan Helmreich, Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World

2000

David Hess, for the body of his work

1999

Rayna Rapp, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Impact of Amniocentesis in America