Category: Jack Goody Award

To celebrate CSSH‘s 60th anniversary in 2018, the journal’s editors organized an annual article award in commemoration of the late Sir Jack Goody (1919-2015). Jack Goody was a frequent author and contributor to the journal over the course of five decades. The award named in his honor is granted to the article that best represents the mission of the journal in a given volume.

2023 Jack Goody Award

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CSSH bestows this year’s Jack Goody Award upon Koh Choon Hwee for her article “The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy” (CSSH 64-3). Congratulations! The award jury, comprised of Michael Meng (History, Clemson University), Marc Garrido (Sociology, University of Chicago), and Ajantha Subramanian (Anthropology, Harvard University), had the following…

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2022 Jack Goody Award

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CSSH awards the 2022 Jack Goody Prize to Matthew Shutzer, for his outstanding article “Subterranean Properties: India’s Political Ecology of Coal, 1870–1975” (CSSH 63-2).

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2021 Jack Goody Award

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CSSH celebrates the essays of Jack Goody Award winner David Mosse and Honorable Mention recipient Amy Chazkel.

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2020 Jack Goody Award

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CSSH awards Jatin Dua the 2020 Jack Goody Prize for his superb essay, “Hijacked: Piracy and Economies of Protection in the Western Indian Ocean.” CSSH also recognizes Marvin Chochotte’s article, “Making Peasants Chèf: The Tonton Makout Militia and the Moral Politics of Terror in the Haitian Countryside during the Dictatorship of François Duvalier, 1957–1971,” with an Honorable Mention.

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Distinguishing Types and Discourses of Indigeneity: A Conversation with Andrew Canessa, Winner of the 2019 Jack Goody Award

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We are delighted to announce (again) that Andrew Canessa has won the 2019 Jack Goody Award for his essay, “Indigenous Conflict in Bolivia Explored through an African Lens: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Indigeneity.”

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