Richard Randolph Award

The Richard Randolph Award is an essay competition based on field or lab research. It has been named after Emeritus Professor Richard Randolph in recognition of his invaluable role as a founding member of the UCSC Anthropology Department and his leadership in starting the UCSC Anthropology Graduate Program. Open to UCSC archaeology, cultural, and physical anthropology graduate students.

This essay should be of publishable quality and follow the American Anthropologist guidelines. The award will be based on the overall quality, rigor, and originality of the work and on demonstration of effective field or lab practice. Essays will be peer-reviewed by the Richard Randolph Award Committee.

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2023

• Gillian Bogart
  Plastic Futures: Indonesia's Industrial Patchwork Saltscapes
  

  Alison Hanson
  Scripting Sexual Violence: The Language of Trauma, Consent, and Support on Campus

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2022

• Monica Mikhail
  (Re)making time in the body through logics of care in the Bolivian Coptic Orthodox Church

  Lachlan Summers
  Portraits in Absentia: Earthly Absurdities and Meaningless National Stories in Mexico City

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2021

• Darcey Evans
  Pathogenic Politics: Salmon Bodies and Toxic Geographies of Settler-Colonialism
  
  Suraiya Anita Jetha
  Plass til Alle: Equality, Race, and Reproduction in the Norwegian Social Democracy

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2020

• Joseph Klein
  Earth Displacements:  Draining the Swamp in Southeast Sulawesi

  Daniel Schniedewind
  Freedom Rangers

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2019

• Krisha Hernandez 
  Land and Ethnographic Practices—(Re)Making Toward Healing

  Jon Nyquist
  Weakening ties and widening gaps: Fiery landscape attachments and how they can be lost

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2018

• Stephie McCallum
  The Memory of Metals

  Katy Overstreet
  How to Taste Like a Cow: Cultivating Shared Sense in Wisconsin Dairy Worlds

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2017

• Kali Rubaii 
  Living Sectarianism in and from Anbar Province, Iraq

  Lizzy Hare 
  If This, Then What?  Modeling Ecological Futures in the U.S. Midwest

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2016

• Celina Callahan-Kapoor
  Living Without Diabetes in “Diabetesville, USA”: Knowing an Illness Through Proxies

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2015

• Sarah Kelman
  Bumipreneurship in the Techno-Future: Contradictions and Paradoxes of Malaysia’s Startup Ecosystem

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2014

• Nellie Chu
  Global Supply Chains of Desires and Risks: The Crafting of Migrant Entrepreneurship in Guangzhou, China

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2013

• J. Brent Crosson
  On Turning in the Grave: Obeah, Law, and the Lash of the Dead in the Southern Caribbean

  Micha Rahder
  A Known Place

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2012

• William Girard
  Enacting a Pentecostal Discourse of Development:
  Prosperity, Place, and the Holy Spirit in Zion Ministries

  Rosa Ficek
  Rutas Internas (Internal Routes)

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2011

• Heather Swanson
  Patterns of Naturecultures: The Redistribution of Pacific Salmon
• Colin Hoag
  On the Importance of Time to the Anthropology of Bureaucracy: Between Prospection and Retrospection at the South African Department of Home Affairs

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2010

• Bettina Stoetzer
  Tracking the Unheimlich at the Forest Edges of Berlin

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2009

• Jason Rodriguez
  "Cleaning Up" Bodhgaya for Tourism Development

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2008

• Jun Sunseri
  In Defense of Homescape and Hearth: Multi-scalar Identity Practices of an Indo-Hispanic Buffer Settlement in Spanish Colonial Northen New Mexico