Congratulations to Professors Morris and Rutherford, and thank you for these extraordinary books! This year's Senior Book Prize committee consisted of Mohamad Junaid, Amira Mittermaier, and Adriana Petryna. Huge thanks to our committee for their work on and commitment to this scholarship.

We are delighted to announce the co-winners of this year's AE Senior Book Prize: Rosalind Morris for Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa & Danilyn Rutherford for Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World.

What are psychiatric medications for? Poramin Tangopasvilaisakul argues that "psychiatric drugs blur the line between medical effects and side effects, or between what happens inside the body and within relationships. [...]