Prizes and Awards
2018 Douglass Prize Winner: Elif M. Babül
On December 15, 2018 by Nadeen ThomasThe 2018 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology was awarded to Elif M. Babül for her book, Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press (2017). Bureaucratic Intimacies makes a deeply original and highly timely contribution to the analysis of the interweaving of international bureaucratic standards and practices within the
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Erasing Polish Anthropology? by Elżbieta M. Goździak and Izabella Main
On December 15, 2018 by Nadeen ThomasAnthropology is no stranger to political attacks. In the United States in 2011, Florida Governor Rick Scott argued that there was no need for more anthropologists in the state. He said he wanted to spend taxpayers’ dollars giving people science, technology, engineering, and math degrees. Ironically, his own daughter studied anthropology. We remember too well