The Bronislaw Malinowski Award is an award given by the US-based Society for Applied Anthropology

Society for Applied Anthropology

The Society for Applied Anthropology is a U.S.-based professional association for applied anthropology, established "to promote the integration of anthropological perspectives and methods in solving human problems throughout the world; to advocate for fair and just public policy based upon sound...

 (SfAA) in honor of Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), an original member and strong supporter of the Society. Briefly established in 1950, the award has been presented annually since 1973.

It is given to an outstanding senior scholar in recognition for a lifetime commitment to the application of the social sciences to contemporary social issues. The acceptance addresses of the awardees are usually published in the society’s journal, Human Organization.

Past recipients of the Malinowski Award

Year	Recipient	Nationality
1973	Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán was a Mexican anthropologist known for his studies of marginal populations. His work has focused on Afro-Mexican populations...	Mexico
1974	Everett C. Hughes	USA
1975	Gunnar Myrdal Gunnar Myrdal Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the...	Sweden
1976	Edward H. Spicer Edward H. Spicer Edward H. "Ned" Spicer was an American anthropologist who specialized in studying American Indian tribes of the American Southwest as a participant-observer...	USA
1977	Sol Tax Sol Tax Sol Tax was an American anthropologist. He is best known for his studies of the Meskwaki, or Fox, Indians, for "action-anthropological" research titled the Fox Project, and for founding the academic journal Current Anthropology. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1935.Tax...	USA
1978	Juan Comas Juan Comas Juan Comas was born in the small town of Alayor, Spain, located in the center of the Menorca Island in the Mediterranean Sea, 150 miles southeast of Barcelona. He was born on January 23, 1900....	Mexico
1979	Laura Thompson Laura Thompson Laura Thompson is a Canadian musician and music columnist for CBC Newsworld's daily arts wrap, CBC News: The Scene.Thompson is also a producer on The Scene and a member of Toronto-based pop band The Good Soldiers.-External links:*...	USA
1980	Fei Xiaotung	People's Republic of China
1981	Raymond Firth Raymond Firth Sir Raymond William Firth, CNZM, FBA, was an ethnologist from New Zealand. As a result of Firth's ethnographic work, actual behaviour of societies is separated from the idealized rules of behaviour within the particular society...	UK
1982	George M. Foster George M. Foster (anthropologist) George M. Foster was an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for contributions on peasant societies and as one of the founders of medical anthropology....	USA
1983	Omer Stewart	USA
1984	Alexander Leighton Alexander Leighton Alexander Leighton was a Scottish medical doctor and puritan preacher and pamphleteer best known for his 1630 pamphlet that attacked the Anglican church and which led to his torture by King Charles I.-Early life:...	USA
1985	Elizabeth Colson	USA
1986	Philleo Nash Philleo Nash Philleo Nash was a government official, educator, anthropolologist, and Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1959-1961 as a Democrat.-Early life and family:...	USA
1987	Margaret Lantis	USA
1988	Fred Richardson	USA
1989	Lauriston Sharp Lauriston Sharp Lauriston Sharp was a Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University. He was the first person appointed in anthropology at the university, and he created its area studies Southeast Asia Program, research centers in Asia and North and South America, a...	USA
1990	St. Claire Drake	USA
1991	Conrad Arensberg	USA
1992	Margaret Clark Margaret Clark Margaret Clark is the former mayor of Rosemead, California. Having previously served five terms, she now serves on the Rosemead city council.When she was re-elected mayor in 2009, she stated: "I'll look at each project that comes before us individually," she said. "The council sets policy... We...	USA
1993	Ronald Frankenberg Ronald Frankenberg Ronald Frankenberg is a noted British anthropologist, known for his study of conflict and decision-making in a Welsh village. He was a student of Max Gluckman and a member of the Manchester School of British Social Anthropology.-External links:*...	UK
1994	Claudio Esteva Fabregat	Spain
1995	Michael M. Cernea Michael M. Cernea Michael M. Cernea is a Romanian social scientist who introduced sociological and anthropological approaches into the World Bank. He worked as the World Banks Senior Adviser for Sociology and Social Policy until 1997...	USA
1996	Bea Medicine	USA
1997	Ward Goodenough Ward Goodenough Ward H. Goodenough is a U.S. Anthropologist, who has made contributions to kinship studies, linguistic anthropology, cross-cultural studies, and cognitive anthropology. Born May 30, 1919, in Cambridge Massachusetts, he attended Groton School in Groton Massachusetts. He then earned a B.A. in 1940...	USA
1998	Robert & Beverly Hackenberg	USA
1999	Thayer Scudder Thayer Scudder Thayer Scudder , an American social anthropologist, is an Anthropology Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology...	USA
2000	Maria Eugenia Bozzoli	Costa Rica
2001	Walter Goldschmidt	USA
2002	Pertti Pelto	FIN
2003	Carlos Vélez Ibáñez	USA
2004	John W. Bennett	USA
2005	Paul L. Doughty	USA
2006	Michael Horowitz Michael Horowitz *For the British poet, see Michael Horovitz.*For the U.S. electrical engineer see Michael J. HorowitzMichael Horowitz is an American author and archivist in San Francisco....	USA
2007	Gretel Pelto	USA
2008	Orlando Fals Borda Orlando Fals Borda Orlando Fals Borda was a Colombian researcher and sociologist, one of the most important Latin American thinkers, and one of the founders of participatory action research. Together with Father Camilo Torres Restrepo, in 1959 he set up the first sociology faculty in Latin America at the National...	Colombia
2009	Thomas Weaver	USA