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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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

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  Heather Swanson
  Patterns of Naturecultures:
  The Redistribution of Pacific Salmon 

   

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  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

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  Bettina Stoetzer
  Tracking the Unheimlich at the Forest Edges of Berlin

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  Jason Rodriguez
  "Cleaning Up" Bodhgaya for Tourism Development

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2008

• Conal Ho
  The "doing" and "undoing" of community: Chinese society in Ghana

• Jun Sunseri
  In Defense of Homescape and Hearth:
  Multi-scalar identity practices of an Indo-Hispanic buffer settlement in Spanish Colonial Northen New Mexico