Edie Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing (first book)
Laura McTighe with Women with a Vision, Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South
Author Contact info:
Laura McTighe – lmctighe@fsu.edu
Deon Haywood – deon@wwav-no.org
Camille Roane – camille@redcypress.coop
Press Awards Contact:
Olivia Schmitz – olivia.schmitz@duke.edu
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Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing
First Place:
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease
Author Contact info:
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús – beliso.dejesus@princeton.edu
Press Awards/Marketing Manager:
Laura Sell – lsell@duke.edu
Second Place:
Naisargi N. Davé, Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being
Author Contact info:
Naisargi N. Davé – naisargi.dave@utoronto.ca
Press Awards:
Olivia Schmitz – olivia.schmitz@duke.edu
Third Place (tie):
Casey Golomski, God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End
Author Contact info:
Casey Golomski – casey.golomski@unh.edu
Press Awards:
kms681@press.rutgers.edu
Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
Thank you to the 2025 Judges
Richard Handler (chair)
Damina Khaira
Dionisios Kavadias
Justin Armstrong
Gabriela Morales
Sara Snyder Hopkins
