We are pleased to announce Award Recipients and invite entries for the upcoming competitions. Click on the titles below for details and information on our calls for entries. sae book prize The 2011 Douglass Prize has been awarded to Kristen Ghodsee (Bowdoin College), for her book, Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria (Princeton University Press, 2010). Caroline Brettell and Susan Carol Rogers served on the committee chaired by Jeffrey Cole. The 2010 Douglass Book Prize was awarded to Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman, for their book, The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood, translated by Rachel Gomme and published by Princeton University Press. Peter Allen and Bill Kelleher served on the award committee chaired by Deborah Reed-Danahay In 2010, Honorable Mention is given to Karin Sanders for her book, Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination, published by Chicago University Press. The 2009 Prize was awarded to Ruth Mandel for her ethnography Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany, published in 2008 by Duke University Press. sae student paper competitions this year’s competition featureS an exciting format to foster mentorships between graduate students and senior sae members. Information on the 2010 session. Call for participation in the 2011 competition. The recipient of the 2011 SAE Graduate Paper Competition is Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Harvard), with a paper entitled: "Segmentation across Borders: Contested Casting between Sicilians and Tunisians.” pre-dissertation fellowships The recipient of the 2011 SAE/CES Pre-dissertation Fellowship is Tyler Boersen, a PhD student at the New School for Social Research. His project is entitled Visible Labor: The Making of a Precarious Workers Movement in Greece. Neringa Klumbyte and Othon Alexandrakis served on the committee chaired by Jeffrey Cole. The deadline for this year's competition is February 1, 2012 CO-SPONSORED EVENTS The COUNCIL FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY recently announced this call for papers: Ces in barcelona june 2011 CES recently held its 17th International Meetings in Montreal, Canada. SAE was pleased to co-sponsor sessions on: EUROPEAN IN/SECURITIES For information on SAE-sponsored panels in Barcelona, contact neringa klumbyte. congratulations and welcome to new sae officers incoming november 2011! Tracey Rosen Marcy Brink-Danan Kristen Ghodsee Jaro Stacul information and announcements: Web updates continue on the Ethnographic Gallery and resources for teachers. If you have something to contribute, please send us relevant attachments. Our regular column in Anthropology News is edited by the SAE secretary. Thanks to Vasiliki Neofotistos for all her hard work over the past year! Please contact Othon Alexandrakis to volunteer your suggestions for future columns. Book_Prize.html2010_Student_Paper_Submissions.html2010_Student_Paper_Submissions.html2011_Student_Paper_Submissions.htmlPre-diss_award.htmlActivities_files/CallforPapersCES2011ForImmediateRelease.docCES_2010.htmlmailto:rolandmo@pacbell.net?subject=teaching%20resources%20for%20SAE%20websitemailto:othonalexandrakis@TRENTU.CA?subject=SAE%20Anthropology%20News%20Columnmailto:othonalexandrakis@TRENTU.CA?subject=SAE%20Anthropology%20News%20Columnshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9

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SAE Student paper winner 2009,

Maryna Basylevych






Seth Murray, SAE student rep with the 2009 SAE-CES Pre-dissertation Fellow, Lindsey West



2009 Conference photos by

Ermitte St. Jacques


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