CUAA 2025 Award Winners Announcements

2025 Leeds Prize for Best Book in Urban Anthropology 

Winner: Bruce O’Neill (Anthropology, St. Louis University) for his book Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. 

Honorable Mentions: 

• Amy Zhang (Anthropology, New York University) for her book, Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China (2024)
• Joseph Godlewski (Architecture, Syracuse University) for his book, The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements (2024). 

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CUAA Prizes for Best Ph.D. Student Paper and Best Panel Presented by Ph.D. Students and Recent PhDs

2025 Best Graduate Student Paper Winner: Junnan Mu (Harvard University)

Best Panel Presented by Ph.D. Students and Recent PhDs 

2025 CUAA Best Panel Presented by Ph.D Students and Recent PhDs Winners: Idil Onen (Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center), Irina Shirobokova (Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center), Nehal Amer (Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center), and Jesse McLaughlin (Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center).   

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Congratulations to our winners!! 

Winner:
Samantha Maurer Fox

Paper title:
A City of Newcomers: Migration and Solidarity in the Former East Germany

Winner:
Lauren Baumgardt, Rice University

Paper title:
Temporalities of Design and Repair: Reimagining Reclaim the City’s Building Occupation in Cape Town

Honorable Mentions:
Tayeba Batool, University of Pennsylvania

Paper title:
Climate Shaping: “Political” Trees, Landscaping, and a Traffic Circle (in Islamabad, Pakistan)

Winner:
Vanessa Koh

Paper title:
Governing the Ground: Urban Environmental Governance in Singapore

Honorable Mentions:
Matthew Demaio

Paper title:
Accumulating Place: Multiplicities of Movements and Attachments among Palestinian Refugees from Syria

Xuyi Zhao

Paper title:
A Timespace of Zero-COVID: Urban Governance and Community Building in Southwest China