2025 ACYIG Book Prize: Call for Nominations

The Anthropology of Childhood and Youth Interest Group (ACYIG) is pleased to announce our 2025 Book Prize competition. The ACYIG Book Prize Committee will award $300.00 to an anthropologically focused and/or ethnographically focused book published in 2024 or 2025 that is cutting-edge, well-written, and contributes significantly to our understanding of children and/or youth. Books must be single-authored or co-authored monographs; no edited volumes, anthologies, or textbooks will be considered. All books must be in English, though translated monographs will be accepted, and all authors must be members of ACYIG.

The first step in the process is for the author or editor to email the Prize Committee chair their nomination and address the merits of the book in terms of: (1) originality; (2) relevance to the anthropology of childhood and/or youth; (3) potential for significant impact on the field. Once the nomination is confirmed, the next step will be to send copies of the book to the five Book Prize committee members.

The awardee will be chosen by early 2026, and the Book Prize Committee review of the winning volume will be included in the Spring 2026 edition of NEOS, the flagship publication of ACYIG.

Nomination Letter Deadline: Friday September 12, 2025.

Committee confirmation email will be sent by: Friday September 26, 2025.

Books must be sent to Prize Committee by: Friday, October 10, 2025.

• Please send the nomination letter by email to

Ida Fadzillah Leggett, ACYIG Book Committee Chair

Ida.Leggett@mtsu.edu        

• Within the confirmation email, nominators will receive instructions on where to send five copies of the book.
• The ACYIG Book Prize winner will be announced in early 2026.

Questions? Please email Ida Fadzillah Leggett at Ida.Leggett@mtsu.edu