ICTMD PRIZES 2024

Prize Committee: Brian Diettrich (Chair), Lee Tong Soon, Nicola Scalda-ferri, Sean Williams, Sunhee Koo Article Prize Subcommittee: Sunhee Koo (Chair), Marko Kolbl, Lawrence Witzleben Book Prize Subcommittee: Sean Williams (Chair), Frederick Lau, Frank Gunderson, Michael Iyanaga Documentary Film or Video Prize Subcommittee: Nicola Scaldaferri (Chair), George Murer, Patrick Alcedo Student Paper Prize Subcommittee: Brian Diettrich (Chair), Marcia Ostashewski, Lonan O Briain BEST ARTICLE Winners Cassandre Balosso-Bardin. 2023. The ICTMD Book Prize Subcommittee is pleased to award the 2024 prize to Christina J. Woolner for her book, Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland, published by the University of Chicago Press. Using clear, beautiful writing, Woolner embraces the multivocal performance and content of love songs, in an Islamic environment where gender equality is not always a given, with scholarly analysis and ethnographic rigour. The Book Prize Subcommittee is also delighted to award an Honourable Mention to Stephane Aubinet, for his book, Why Sdmi Sing: Knowing Through Melodies in Northern Norway, published by Routledge.