William A. Douglass Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology

The William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology honors the best book published annually in Europeanist anthropology as determined by a panel comprised of SAE senior members, chaired by the Society's President-elect. Eligible volumes are in English, though can be published in the US or abroad, and must have been published in the calendar year before the prize adjudication. Multi-author volumes are eligible though edited collections of essays are not. The deadline for submission of entries for consideration is May 1. Books submitted for 2009 prize consideration must have been published in 2008. The prize recipient is named shortly before the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, with suitable publicity provided for the winning entry at the annual meeting and on the SAE website. To be considered for the Douglass Prize three copies of eligible volumes (no manuscripts or photocopies will be accepted) should be submitted to the SAE president-elect who is Thomas M. Wilson (twilson@binghamton.edu) .

The Society for the Anthropology of Europe is pleased to announce the 2008 winner of the William A. Douglass Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology.

The winner of the 2008 William A. Douglass Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology has been unanimously chosen by the selection committee of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe:

Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism. Catherine Wanner. Cornell University Press, 2007, 305 pp. $70.00 (paper, $24.95).

The awards committee consisted of Douglas Holmes, Susan Carol Rogers and Thomas M. Wilson, chair.

We congratulate the winner of this prize, which in previous years has been awarded to books authored by Sarah F. Green, Christopher Tilley, Katherine Verdery, Jenny Wright, and Marilyn Silverman.

In 2007 two books were co-awardees:

Mathijs Pelkmans (London School of Economics), Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia. 2006. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Andrea L. Smith (Lafayette College), Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France. 2006. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

The 2009 Prize will be awarded to a book published in calendar year 2008; please see the SAE web site at http://www.h-net.org/~sae/sae/douglass.html for application details