The ADTSG Graduate Student Paper Prize is awarded annually for best graduate student paper in the anthropology of alcohol, drugs, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, or other psychoactive substance use. The author of the winning paper receives a cash award of $100, and their name is announced at the Society for Medical Anthropology awards ceremony at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Authors may represent any anthropological sub-discipline.
Graduate Student Paper Prize Winners
2021
- Benjamin Holt
Cannabis Vaporizing in Sonoma County: User Perceptions and Behavior
2020
- Parsa Bastani
Feeling at Home in the Clinic: Therapeutics and Dwelling in an Addiction Rehabilitation Center in Tehran, Iran
2019
- Sarah Brothers
A Good ‘Doctor’ is Hard to Find: Assessing Uncredentialed Expertise in Assisted Injection
2018
- Sydney Silverstein
A Second Chance: Re-enactment, Excess Meaning, and the Social Worlds of PBC in Iquitos
2017
- Allison Schlosser
“Stay in Your Square”: (Bounded) Intimacy and Moral Personhood in Addiction Treatment
Honorable Mention:
- Henry Bundy
From Mundane Medicines to Euphorigenic Drugs: How Pharmaceutical Pleasures Are Found, Foregrounded, and Made Durable
2016
- Lesly-Marie Buer
“I’m Stuck”: Women’s Navigations of Social Networks and Prescription Drug Misuse in Central Appalachia
Honorable Mention:
- James Ziegler
Learning to Experience Medicine: Different Models from Medicinal Cannabis
2015
- Cole Hansen
Seeking Care in the Carceral Shadow: An Ethnography of Community Recovery
2014
- Hayley Murray
Risk Practices Amongst Recreational Drug Users at Music Festivals in Amsterdam
2013
- Nayantara Sheoran
“Stratified Contraception”: Imagined Cosmopolitanism versus Lived Tangibility of Emergency Contraceptive Pills in Contemporary India
Honorable Mention:
- Marc Blainey
Forbidden Therapy: Santo Daime and the Disputed Status of Entheogens in Western Society
2012
- Saiba Varma
Love in the Time of PTSD: Loss, Longing, and Addiction in Kashmir