Leeds Book Prize 2025

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 2024. 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 New Orleans in late November 2025. 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, 2025:

Deniz Yonucu, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, GPS School Office, Room 2.03 Henry Days Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU United Kingdom

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, Ohio 43023

Don Nonini, Department of Anthropology, 301 Alumni Bldg., CB #3115, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115