Chicago 2013 Award Ceremony Attendees (clockwise from top left): Michael Jackson, Lifetime Achievement Award Winner; Kenneth T. Macleish, Victor Turner 3rd Prize Winner; Heidi Kelley, Poetry Honorable Mention Winner; Jon Ben Soileau accepting award on behalf of Glenn Harvey Shepard, Fiction Honorable Mention Winner; Terese Gagnon, Poetry 3rd Prize Winner; Christine Walley, Victor Turner 2nd Prize Winner; Ather Zia, Poetry 2nd Prize Winner; and Xueting Liu, Poetry Honorable Mention Winner. Photo by Julia Offen
Victor Turner Prize
Judges: Ruth Toulson, Angela Garcia and Ather Zia
- First prize: Julie Livingston, Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (Duke, 2012)
Julie Livingston is Professor of History at Rutgers University - Second prize: Christine Walley, Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago (Chicago 2013)
Christine Walley is Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT - Third prize: Kenneth T. Macleish, Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community (Princeton 2013)
Kenneth Macleish is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt
Fiction Prize
Judges: Jessica Falcone, Rachel Newcomb and Cynthia Mahood
- First Prize goes to “The Professional” by Kim Huynh (Australian National University – Canberra)
- Honorable Mention goes to “The Eye of the Needle” by Glenn Harvey Shepard (Museu Paraense EmÃlio Goeldi)
Poetry Prize
Judges: Renato Rosaldo, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, and Kate Harding
- First Prize, “Malalel” by Janis Rodgers
- Second Prize, “The Ex Fighter Returns” by Ather Zia (University of California, Irvine)
- Third Prize, “Normaltown” by Terese V. Gagnon (University of Georgia)
- Honorable Mention (three poems)
“2000/5th Sun/Our Present” by Steven Alvarez (University of Kentucky)
“The Anthropologist Returns” by Heidi Kelley (University of North Carolina, Asheville)
“Waiting for John Nash Outside a Beijing conference Room” by Xueting Liu (University of Chicago)
