Professor Gabrielle Hecht awarded the 2024 E. Ohnuki-Tierney Book Award for Historical Anthropology by the American Anthropological Association

The E. Ohnuki-Tierney Book Award for Historical Anthropology is a bi-annual award. To be considered for this award, a book should be an outstanding example of scholarship that focuses on “culture as historical processes.” The research must take into account an historical period of suitable length that is necessary and sufficient for the project undertaken. The research should be grounded in both ethnographic and historical materials, and shows critical uses of social theory, broadly defined.

Professor Hecht was awarded this prize for her book Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures.