Announcing the 2023 SAE-CES fellowship winner….
On May 26, 2023 by Ognjen KojanićThe SAE is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2023 SAE-CES Pre-dissertation Research Fellowship is Giorgia Mirto of Columbia University, with a project entitled “The Political Life of Border Death in South Italy”. This annual award provides $5000 support for doing short-term pre-dissertation fieldwork in the social-cultural anthropology of contemporary Europe, as well as a travel grant to the CES conference and other forms of early career support (for full details, follow this link). Mirto’s project will explore the “translation” of corpses of people attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea, engaging classic anthropological themes of death and ritual together with an attention to questions of social activism and the production of truth.
This year’s alternate winner was Clara Beccaro of The New School, with a project “Stop aux Mutilations Intersexes!”: The Politics of Intersex Activism in France”. The members of the Evaluating Committee were Michał Buchowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Frida Hastrup (University of Copenhagen), and Dorothy Zinn (Chair, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano).