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Congratulations to Professor Samantha Maurer Fox, who has won the 2024 Critical Urban Anthropology Association's City & Society Best Paper Prize. The prize was given for Professor Fox's paper, entitled 'A City of Newcomers: Migration and Solidarity in the Former East Germany.'
Congratulations to Elizabeth Povinelli, who has been awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the University of Antwerp/Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts, citing her contributions to critical theory, anthropology, decolonization and the arts.
Claudio Lomnitz's recent book, Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico, was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement (by Benjamin T Smith) as well as the Latin American Review of Books (by Gavin O'Toole) and was the subject of the KPFA radio program "Books and Letters."
In a contribution to the festschrift for James T Siegel and an anniversary volume devoted to Freud's Group Psychology, Rosalind Morris takes up the question of accusation, in history and in the academy ("Allegories and Algorithms of the Purge: Thinking with James Siegel, Once Again," in Indonesia), and the different itineraries of white melancholia in the US and South Africa ("The Lessons of an Absent Teacher" in Then and Now: On the Crowd, the Subject and the Collective).
The journal, Focaal, listed Mahmood Mamdani's Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton UP, 1996) and our alumna Xenia Cherkaev’s, Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice (Cornell UP 2023) among its list of most important works. Congratulations to both!
Congratulations to Minny Lee, who has won the 2024 American Anthropological Association's Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition's Christine Wilson Graduate Award. The prize was given for a chapter of Minny's MA thesis, entitled 'Korean Buddhist Temple Food: The Embodiment of Buddhist Philosophy and Buddhist Practice.'
PhD candidate Aamer Ibraheem published a book chapter, "Reincarnated: Common Sense and the Poetics of Elsewhere" in the edited volume "Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media", eds.Helga Tawil-Souri and Dina Matar. He also delivered a public talk titled "Present Interruptus: Sovereignty's Reincarnation in the Golan Heights," as part of the public Scholar Colloquia at the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe.
In her 'Afterword' to When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance, by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, with Sean Carleton, and a foreword by Pamela Palmater, Audra Simpson reflects on surviving and resisting settler colonialism.
Marilyn Ivy's essay, titled 'What the Writer Found There: David Peace's Occupied City' appears in boundary 2's dossier devoted to David Pierce's 'Tokyo Trilogy' and asks how one reads fiction about perpetually unsolved, unresolved historical crimes.
Lesley Sharp has received a Wenner-Gren research grant to pursue work on "Deathcare in Carceral America: Reformed Masculinity and the Post-Carceral Lives of Former Prison Hospice Volunteers."
Stamatopoulou-Robbins's study is part of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs series, dedicated to a calculation of direct and indirect consequences of war.
Congratulations to M. Constantine, Xenia Cherkaev, Chloé Faux, and Jasmine Pisapia, on their new postdoctoral fellowships!
Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, has been selected by Princeton University's anthropology department to deliver the 2025 Clifford Geertz Lectures, to take place on March 20, 2025.