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The winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2024 is Maria-Theres Schuler for her book Disability and Aid. An Ethnography of Logics and Practices of Distribution in a Ugandan Refugee Camp (Brill, 2023). Maria-Theres Schuler is a social anthropologist, journalist, and filmmaker with expertise in global inequality, corporate responsibility and social movements. Disability and Aid is an important book written with a commendable ethnographic sensibility. Of potential interest to experts and students of humanitarian, development and disability studies, as well as anthropology and African studies, the book provides a nuanced investigation of the dynamics of aid to disabled people in a Ugandan refugee camp.
Maria-Theres Schuler's dissertation has already been honoured with the 2019 prize for practice-relevant development research from the Development Economics Committee of the "Verein für Socialpolitik" and the Mercator Award 2020 from the University of Zurich in the Humanities and Social Sciences category. The researcher wrote her dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Mareile Flitsch and Prof. Susan Reynolds Whyte, honorary doctor of UZH, as part of the r4D programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF and the Disability and Technology project funded therein. The project was carried out in collaboration with Prof. Dr Herbert Muyinda and Prof. Dr David Kyaddondo of Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, a partner university of UZH. Congratulations!
The book launch will take place on Thursday, 21 March 2024, at 7 pm in the auditorium of the Ethnpgraphic Museum UZH. Maya Brändli, ethnologist and radio journalist, will talk to Maria-Theres Schuler about her book and her research. (Event in German)
Interview with Maria-Theres Schuler in the Journal Blog Public Anthropologist
The r4d programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation
The Disability & Technology research group at the UZH
Völkerkundemuseum UZH
