SAE is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Graduate Student Essay Competition!

SAE is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Graduate Student Essay Competition.

This year’s committee consisted of Elana Resnick (University of California Santa Barbara), Anna Tuckett (Brunel University, London) as well as Julie Kleinman (Fordham University), who is also the outgoing Projects and Publications Chair at SAE.

Here is the list of winning papers:

WINNER: Céline Eschenbrenner (Tulane University), “The Sound of Difference: Mobility, Alterity and Sound at the French-Italian Border” (mentor: Naor Ben Yehoyada)

RUNNERS-UP:
Emily Curtin (CUNY Grad Center), “Belarus in Motion: The Politics of Fitness in Contemporary Minsk” (mentor: Marek Mikuš)
April L. Reber (UC Santa Cruz), “When Middle-Class Talk Goes Underground: Conspiracy Talk, Authoritarian Spectres, and Speech Rights (mentor: Emanuela Grama)

SAE sends its warmest congratulations to the students whose work has been recognized in this competition and extends our deepest thanks to the colleagues who dedicated their time to the prize committee, as well as those that have agreed to serve as mentors.