ASA Recognizes 2025 Award Winners

The ASA is delighted to announce award winners for 2025!

Outstanding Monograph Prize: Kathleen Higgins for Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning: Philosophical Reflections on Coping with Loss (University of Chicago Press, 2024) 

Selma Jeanne Cohen Research Prize: Kate Mattingly for Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity (University of Florida Press, 2023)

Honorable Mentions for the 2025 SJC award: Serouj Aprahamian and Megan Nicely

Somaesthetics Research Prize: Stefano Marino for "Pragmatist Aesthetics, Ethics of Taste, and Feminism" in Somapower: Somaesthetics Reads Politics (Brill, 2024)

New Voices (for 83rd annual meeting): Juan Carlos Gonzalez and Mary Gregg

Many thanks to everyone who has applied to be considered for an award from the ASA in the past year, as well as to every person who has served on a review committee. 

To learn more about awards offered in 2026, please CLICK HERE to access the ASA's grants and prizes page.