Call for Submissions — Leeds Book Prize
Deadline: August 31, 2026
Eligibility
The Anthony Leeds Prize is awarded annually by the Critical Urban Anthropology Association (CUAA), formerly SUNTA, to an outstanding book in urban anthropology published in 2025. The prize is named in honor of the late Anthony Leeds, a distinguished pioneer in the field. The goal of the Leeds Prize is to showcase a monograph that advances methodically and theoretically innovative research in urban and globalized communities.
Textbooks and anthologies are not eligible. The prize will be awarded at the CUAA Business Meeting at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in St. Louis in late November 2026. Part of the prize-winning process requires the winner(s) to make a short statement when they accept the Prize and have their prize acceptance remarks published in City and Society, the CUAA journal. A letter of nomination (from an author, colleague, or publisher) is only required for those authors whose Ph.D. is in a discipline outside of anthropology. The letter must specify the relevance of the book to urban anthropology.
Submission Instructions:
Books must be mailed to the committee members by August 31, 2026:
Bruce O’Neill, 7673 Carswold Drive, Clayton, MO 63105
Jeff Maskovsky, Anthropology Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016
Taku Suzuki, International Studies, Fellows Hall, Denison University, 100 West College Street, Granville, OH 43023
Don Nonini, 2030 Englewood Ave., Durham, NC 27705
Questions? Write to Don Nonini, dnonini@email.unc.edu