The BAS strongly encourages nominations of books for the W.W. Howells Book Prize in Biological Anthropology. The Howells Prize was inaugurated in 1993 in honor of Prof. emeritus William White Howells of the Peabody Museum (Harvard). Prof. Howells is a past president of the American Anthropological Association and a distinguished scholar who has published several landmark books in physical anthropology.

The prize is awarded by the Biological Anthropology Section of the AAA to honor a book in the area of biological anthropology. Books may be single or multiply-authored, but not edited. They should have been published within the last 3-4 years, and once nominated will remain on the list for 3-5 years depending on their date of publication. Nominated works should represent the highest standard of scholarship and readability. They should inform a wider audience of the significance of physical/biological anthropology in the social and biological sciences, and demonstrate a biocultural perspective.

Please send your nominating letters and either copies or references of published reviews to Karen B. Strier, Chair of the Book Prize Committee, by e-mail (kbstrier@wisc.edu or post (Dept. of Anthropology, UW-Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706).