Monica Wilson Prize 2 | Anthropology Southern Africa

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The Monica Wilson Prize was introduced in 2009 to commemorate the contribution of Monica Wilson to Anthropology. The prize is awarded to the best student essay submitted by a postgraduate student as a paper at the annual Anthropology Southern Africa conference. The prize-winning essay is selected based on the work that best addresses the theme of the annual conference or excellently exemplifies the spirit of discovery in ethnographic work. The winner is announced at the annual ASnA conference dinner, and receives a monetary prize and publication in the ASnA Journal.

Previous Winners

Kezra Bradshaw - 2024

Essay title not currently available.

Zaakiyah Rabbaney - 2024

Essay title not currently available.

Karabo-Maya Rodwell - 2022

Dear Mr Sobukwe: Examining Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe’s Pan African vision and how it has influenced youth movements in South Africa today

Tian Chen - 2021

Essay title not currently available.

Tian Chen - 2019

Re-imaging a Cosmopolitan Reality: Overseas Chinese Academics in South Africa

Shanee Giani - 2018

The Trade-off of sleep: A Negotiation with the self

Saibu Mutaru - 2017

Conducting Anthropological Fieldwork: Ethical dilemmas of ‘data larceny’ and ‘multiple respondent’

Christi Kruger - 2015

(Dis)empowered Whiteness: Un-whitely Spaces and the Production of the Good White Home

Adriaan Steyn - 2014

The truck driver's watch – Time and the working lives of long haul truck drivers

Ala Alhourani - 2013

Aesthetic and Performance of Unity and Diversity of Muslims in Cape Town

Kate Abney - 2013

Like a ghost standing up’ TB patient perspectives on stigma and N-95 respirator masks

Adam Perry - 2012

Sustainable and informal: a case study in the shadows of housing policy in Masiphumelele, Cape Town

Kenneth Tafira - 2011

Is Xenophobia Racism?

Phefumula Nyoni - 2010

New insights on trust, honor and networking in informal entrepreneurship: Zimbabwean Malayishas as informal remittance couriers.

Steve Ouma Akoth - 2009

Essay title not currently available.

Nina Botha - 2009

Essay title not currently available.

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