UC Press is honored to have numerous authors among the award winners at the 2017 American Anthropological Association conference. Please join us in congratulating the following #AmAnth17 award winners.
Jason DeLeon, The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
- 2017 MacArthur Fellowship presented by the Jonathan D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- 2017 Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharf Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North America presented by the Society for the Anthropology of North America

- 2017 Robert B. Textor and Family Book Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology presented by the American Anthropological Association
- Honorable Mention, 2017 Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharf Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North America presented by the Society for the Anthropology of North America
- 2017 Sharon Stephens Prize presented by the American Ethnological Society
- 2017 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Book Prize presented by the Association for Feminist Anthropology

- Honorable Mention, 2017 Victor Turner Book Prize presented by the American Anthropological Association
Angela Stuesse, Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South
- 2017 C.L.R. James Book Award presented by the Working Class Studies Association
- 2017 Book Prize Winner presented by the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Stefan Helmreich, Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas
- 2017 J. I. Staley Prize presented by the Society for Advanced Research
Christiana Giordano, Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy
- Second Place, 2016 Victor Turner Book Prize presented by the American Anthropological Association