[Linganth] 2015 SLA Prize Winners

[Dave Paulson]

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The Society for Linguistic Anthropology was proud to award the following
prizes <http://linguisticanthropology.org/about/prizes/> at the 114th AAA
Annual Meeting
<http://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1578> in
Denver:
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♦*Sapir Award*

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<https://wmich.edu/anthropology/directory/wirtz>*Kristina Wirtz
<https://wmich.edu/anthropology/directory/wirtz>*

for

*Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and
History. University of Chicago Press. (2014)*
<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo18009094.html>

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<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo18009094.html>

The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded to a
book that makes the most significant contribution to our understanding of
language in society, or the ways in which language mediates historical or
contemporary sociocultural processes. Beginning in 2012, the Sapir Prize
has been awarded annually.
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♦Graduate Student Essay Prize

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<http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/PhotoSLAGradStudentAwardeesAndAlanRumseyIMG_6631Small.jpg>*The
2015 SLA Graduate Student Essay Prize Panel*

>From left to right: Alan Rumsey (representing, along with Frances Trix and
Jim Wilce, this year's judges), and the four honorees: Gregory Kohler
(Honorable Mention), Lynnette Arnold (Honorable Mention), Andrew Carruthers
(Winner), and Andrea Leone-Pizzighela (Honorable Mention).

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<http://anthropology.yale.edu/people/andrew-m-carruthers>*Andrew Carruthers
<http://anthropology.yale.edu/people/andrew-m-carruthers> (Winner)*, Yale,
Advisor: Joseph Errington <http://www.yale.edu/errington/>
“Between Affinity and Equivalence: Undocumented Migration, Commensuration,
and Intrusive Phonosonics in the Indonesia-Malaysia Borderlands”


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 *Lynnette Arnold <http://larnold.ucsblinguist.org/> (Honorable Mention)*,
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara;
Advisor: Dr. Mary Bucholtz
<http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/>

“Collective Remembering, Shared Imagining: The Chronotopic Creation of
Transnational Togetherness”


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<https://uci.academia.edu/GregoryKohler>*Gregory Kohler
<https://uci.academia.edu/GregoryKohler> (Honorable Mention)*, University
of California, Irvine; Advisor: Dr. Keith Murphy
<https://uci.academia.edu/KeithMurphy>

“‘Gregory Dry’: Parody and the Morality of Brand”


[image: s200_andrea_r..leone] <https://upenn.academia.edu/ALeone>*Andrea
Leone-Pizzighela <https://upenn.academia.edu/ALeone> (Honorable Mention)*,
University of Pennsylvania; Advisor: Betsy Rymes
<http://scholar.gse.upenn.edu/rymes>

“Ideologies of Personhood: A Citizen Sociolinguistic Case Study of the
Roman Dialect”


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♦Undergraduate Student Essay Prize

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<http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/KorinneDunn_-IMG_6724-copy-1.jpg>*Korinne
Dunn (Winner)*, Indiana University; Advisor: Kathryn E. Graber
<http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/faculty/graberk.shtml>

“Binders Full of Regret: The Circulation of Blunders in US Presidential
Politics"


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<https://vassar.academia.edu/KiraGreenberg>*Kira Greenberg
<https://vassar.academia.edu/KiraGreenberg> (Winner), *Vassar
College; Advisor: Benjamin Smith
<https://anthropology.vassar.edu/bios/besmith.html>

"#SixSeasonsAndAMovie: An Analysis of Fanfiction as a Form of Virtual
Mediation of the Fan Community of *Community**”*
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*Margaret Tennis (Honorable Mention), *Brown University; Advisor: Paja
Faudree <https://vivo.brown.edu/display/pfaudree>

“Russian to Conclusions: The Western Media’s Ideological Approach to
Language in Ukraine”
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*Rose Underhill
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/rose-underhill-938645bb>(Honorable Mention)*,
U Mass Amherst; Advisors: Jacqueline Urla
<https://www.umass.edu/anthro/people/jackie-urla>, Jonathan Rosa
<https://twitter.com/drjonathanrosa>

“Traditional Speech and Alternative Culture: Intersections of Age, Class,
and Persona in Baltimore (Hon)”


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CONGRATULATIONS to these scholars for continuing to improve the field of
linguistic anthropology!

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-- 
Dave Paulson
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology
<http://www.temple.edu/anthro/index.html> - Temple University
<http://temple.edu/>
Research Fellow, Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society
<http://www.temple.edu/vietnamese_center/fellows/>
SLA Web Assistant, Society for Linguistic Anthropology
<http://linguisticanthropology.org/>
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