SAE 2024 Graduate Student Paper Prize
The Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE) is delighted to announce the results of our 2024 Graduate Student Paper Prize. Seven papers were submitted, and the prize committee selected two co-winners this year:
Allison Taylor Stuewe, PhD Candidate, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, for the paper, “Competing Crises of Reproduction: Iraqi Yezidi Refugee Marriage Decisions in Germany”
and
Lara Şarlak, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, for the paper, “When ‘Collecting’ Collides: Infrastructural Languages and the Dehumanisation of Migrant Recyclers”
Allison Taylor Stuewe, University of Arizona
Lara Şarlak, University of British Columbia
Congratulations to both of the winners, whose work shows extraordinary promise!
Many thanks to the paper prize committee, Jaume Franquesa and Yuson Jung! Thanks, too, to Winnie Lem and Elana Resnick, the mentors who have stepped forward to advise each of our co-winners on the publication process.
Coordinator: Tracey Heatherington, SAE Publications and Projects Chair.
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PAST AWARDEES
2023 SAE Graduate Student Paper Prize:
Winner
Elspeth Davies “Living with Cancer Risk in the UK: New Notions of ‘Care’”
Honorable Mentions
Rim J. Irscheid, “The aftermath of German World Music: Affective Dimensions of Collaborative Cultural Productions across Berlin and Beirut”
Andreas Lekkos “Greening the Future: Land, Change, and the State on a Greek Island”
2021 SAE Graduate Student Paper Prize:
Winner
Céline Eschenbrenner, “The Sound of Difference: Mobility, Alterity and Sound at the French-Italian Border”
Runners-up
Emily Curtin, “Belarus in Motion: The Politics of Fitness in Contemporary Minsk”
April L. Reber, “When Middle-Class Talk Goes Underground: Conspiracy Talk, Authoritarian Spectres, and Speech Rights”
2020 SAE Graduate Student Paper Prize:
Winner
Kelly Alexander, “When Food Waste Goes to Work: The New Flavor of the E.U.’s Circular Economy “
Runner-Up
Antonio Montañes Jiménez, “‘Evangelical Gitanos are a Good Catch: Masculinity, Love, and Christianity in Spain”
Finalists
Tatiana Safonova, “Digging National Soil: The State, Private Gardens, and Corpses in a Hungarian Village”
Evy Vourlides, “Living with Regenerative Design: Examples of Economic Diversity from Austerity Greece”
Olivia Spalletta, “Transient care, disability, and belonging in the Danish welfare state”
