SVA Lifetime Achievement Awards
Lifetime Achievement Awards are given to individuals whose body of work is recognized for its exemplary impact on the field of anthropology. When a Lifetime Achievement Award is given to someone whose work has been featured in the SVA’s Film, Video and Interactive Media Festival, the awardee will be honored at the Festival’s Award Ceremony.
PAST WINNERS
2023
Sarah Elder
2021
Joanna Cohan Scherer
2019
Jay Ruby
2018
Fadwa El Guindi
2017
Christopher Owen
2016
Paul Hockings
2015
Thomas D. Blakely
2014
Elizabeth Edwards
2009
Richard Chalfen
Asen Balicki
2008
Karl Heider
2005
Robert Gardner
John Melville Bishop
2003
John Marshall