Congratulations to Jorge Alejandro Rodríguez Solórzano for winning this year's Étienne Balibar Prize in Cultural and Political Thought, sponsored by the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. The prize has been conferred on Jorge for his essay, 'An Oral History of Ayuuk/ Mixe Political Concepts.'
The Department of Anthropology pays tribute to former student Daniel West, and remembers his passionate intellectual journey. Click here for the full story/
Rosalind Morris has been named co-winner of AES Senior Book Prize, awarded by the American Ethnological Society every two years. Morris shares this year's prize, for Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa (Columbia University Press, 2025), with Danilyn Rutherford. Read about the prize here.
Claudio Lomnitz interrogates the return of slavery, or forced labor, to Mexico and asks why the government is not acting to combat it, in an opinion piece for the Boston Review. Read the article here.