Global Studies professor Levi Vonk’s new book, Border Hacker, was named the Honorable Mention for this year’s Victor Turner Prize, the most prestigious book prize awarded by the American Anthropological Association.

Jury members praised Border Hacker’s innovative methodology, saying, “We have never seen anything quite like this book and had many generative debates about it. Is it an ethnography? Journalism? A nonfiction novel? We were not able to say definitively, but its experimental style pushes ethnography in new directions, especially in regard to the richness of the multi-narrator method it develops, as well as its inventive ethnographic refusal.”

Victor Turner was a committed ethnographer and anthropological pioneer who spent his last years in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. Levi and his co-author, Axel Kirschner, are honored to be connected to his legacy in some small way.