Awards and Recognition
Scheper-Hughes' first book, Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland (1979), a study of madness among bachelor farmers, won the Margaret Mead Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology in 1980.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes was awarded the first Berkeley William Sloane Coffin Jr. Award in April 2007. The award recognizes moral leadership among members of the community at University of California, Berkeley. The award is named for William Sloane Coffin, a chaplain at Yale University, and an activist in the civil rights and peace movements.
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