Scholars@Duke
Anne Allison

Anne Allison

Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
anne.allison@duke.edu
Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
230 Friedl Building, East Campus, Durham, NC 27708-0091

Academic Honors

John Whitney Hall Book Prize

National Association for Asian Studies · February 1, 2025 The Association for Asian Studies, the Northeast Asia Council, and the John Whitney Hall Prize Committee selected Being Dead Otherwise (Duke University Press), to receive the 2025 Hall Prize. Prize: $1000

The award consists of a printed citation and a $1000 award.

Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Speaker

School Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago · April 2024

Traditional Fulbright Scholarship

National Council for International Exchange of Scholars · 1999

Society for Psychological Anthropology-Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology

National American Anthropological Association · 1994

News Items

Published April 17, 2023
Anne Allison on Examines Emerging Burial Practices in Japan
Published October 31, 2014
Allison Book Honored by American Ethnological Society
Published February 20, 2014
Cultural Anthropology Journal Goes Open Access
Published November 25, 2013
Book Review: Anne Allison’s ‘Precarious Japan’
Published November 20, 2013
Anne Allison: Economic downturn creates lonely lives in Japan