Cultural Horizons Prize

SCA is proud to award the fourth annual Cultural Horizons Prize to

Sarah Jain (Stanford U)
for her article

"Dangerous Instrumentality:
The Bystander as Subject in Automobility"
(CA 19, no. 1 (January 2004):61-94).

2005's doctoral jury--Zeynep Gursel (UC Berkeley), Rebecca Howes-Mischel (NYU), and Matthew Wolf-Meyer (U Minnesota)--praised the essay as "a brilliant example of how an interdisciplinary approach can put anthropology productively in conversation with such diverse disciplines as legal studies, design, urban planning, and history. . . . Jain attends to diverse historical voices," and situates them historically/culturally, effectively challenging the dominant anthropological believe that one needs to 'be there' to be properly anthropological."

For the full text of the jury's commendation, click here.

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About the Cultural Horizons Prize:

The SCA has long been distinguished by having the largest graduate student membership of any section of the AAA. Recognizing that doctoral students are among the most experimentally minded--and often among the best read--of ethnographic writers, this award asks of SCA's graduate student readers, "Who is on your reading horizon?"

This spirit gave rise to the Cultural Horizons Prize, awarded yearly by a jury of doctoral students for the best article appearing in Cultural Anthropology.

Cultural Horizons Prize winners include:

Saba Mahmood (U Chicago), 2002
Paul K. Eiss (Carnegie Mellon), 2003
William Mazzarella (U Chicago), 2004
Sarah Jain (Stanford U), 2005
Peter W. Redfield (UNC, Chapel Hill), 2006
Shao Jing (Nanjing U), 2007
Ilana Feldman (George Washington U), 2008
Omri Elisha (Queen's College, CUNY), 2009