Now awarded every year, we alternate between single-author monographs and edited volumes. Originally, the CAR Book Award was every other year and only considered edited volumes.

The Council on Anthropology & Reproduction (CAR) Award is one of very few awards given to edited volumes, yet it helped establish and foment topics of reproduction as central fields of anthropological inquiry. The Most Notable Recent Collection Award seeks to recognize and celebrate recent (published usually within 3 years of the nomination deadline) collections of anthropological works addressing: human reproduction, reproductive technologies, population policy, birth control and contraception, pregnancy, the study and application of genetics, childbirth, adoption, and the roles of parents, among others.

We now also accept submissions for single-author monographs on the same range of topics as the edited volumes, evaluated following the same criteria. Please read this year’s call for nominations carefully to know if it is an edited volume or monograph year.

Entries are evaluated on a variety of factors including: overall contribution to anthropology & reproduction, usefulness for teaching, current and historical value for both academic and advocacy work, the strength of the nomination letters, the quality and depth of analysis within the chapters, and the coherence of the volume as a whole.

Nomination letters may be brief, but should explain the impact of the book on your own work, teaching, and students, and how you consider the work to be influential within the field.

For 2023, we will be considering both monographs and edited volumes and will be awarding a prize in each category.

To submit nomination letters or with any questions, please email committee co-chairs Julie Johnson-Searcy (jsearcy@butler.edu) and Angela Castañeda (acastaneda@depauw.edu)

Deadline for nominations follows the SMA annual award cycle and is July 1st.

Typically awarded every year.

An award for the best graduate student paper on anthropology and reproduction, based on original research. Submissions from all subdisciplines of anthropology are encouraged. Papers are judged on ethnographic richness, anthropological methodology, linkage to the scholarship in anthropology and reproduction, effective use of theory and data, originality and creativity, organization, coherence of argument, and quality of writing.

Deadline for Nomination is July 1, 2023. Award will be announced at the CAR and SMA business meetings at the American Anthropological Association meetings in November 2023.

For more information and to submit your work, please email the Co-Chairs, Cecilia Van Hollen (cv372@georgetown.edu) and Megan Cogburn (megandcogburn@ufl.edu)