Marks Wins Prize for Cross-Field Scholarship

Jon Marks has won the 2012 prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship from the General Anthropology Division (GAD) of the American Anthropological Association. The GAD supports innovative scholarship that transcends boundaries that divide the various fields of anthropology. It awards the Cross-Field Award each year for a peer-reviewed journal article published in the preceding three years that “demonstrates exemplary scholarship from any theoretical or methodological perspective including applied research that transcends two or more fields of anthropology, broadly construed, or is interdisciplinary in nature.”

Marks received the prize for his article “What is the Viewpoint of Hemoglobin, and Does it Matter?” published in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 31, 2009.  This article exemplifies the interdisciplinarity of his work, and of anthropology in general, says Janet Levy, chair of anthropology. The award will be made at the AAA’s annual meeting in November in San Francisco. (Pictured: Marks receiving the 2012 First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal.)