The Society for Cultural Anthropology has recognized Lisa Messeri PhD ’11 with the 2025 Gregory Bateson Prize for her book In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles (Duke University Press, 2024).
Awarded annually, the Bateson Prize commends an anthropological monograph that is interdisciplinary, experimental, and innovative. This year’s jury notes that Lisa and the two scholars who received honorable mentions “invite us to reflect on world-making at a time when harm, the instability of reality, and existence under oppressive settler-colonial regimes are expanding and taking new and intensified forms.”
Lisa currently serves as associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Yale University Department of Anthropology. The HASTS community congratulates her for this well-earned recognition.
Photograph courtesy of Yale University Department of Anthropology