Ieva Jusionyte, the Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, has received the R. R. Hawkins Award from the Association of American Publishers for her book, Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border (University of California Press, 2024).
Since 1976, the Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards) have recognized the best professional and scholarly publications from scholars in numerous fields of study each year. The R. R. Hawkins Award, the association’s top prize, recognizes the year’s outstanding scholarly publication across all disciplines.
Alongside the Hawkins Award and 41 PROSE category awards, the association grants PROSE Awards for Excellence in four fields: biological and life sciences, humanities, physical sciences and mathematics, and social sciences. Dr. Jusionyte’s Exit Wounds also received the PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences and the PROSE Category Award in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology.
At Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Dr. Jusionyte studies the conceptual and material relationship between the state and various forms of violence. She uses ethnography as a method and a form of storytelling to examine the narratives, aesthetics, and practices that underlie security. In addition to her latest book, she is the author of Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border (University of California Press, 2018) and Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border (University of California Press, 2015).
Dr. Jusiounyte received her bachelor’s degree in political science from Vilnius University in Lithuania. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in anthropology from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.