<div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center"><a href="http://linguisticanthropology.org/"><img class="" src="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/sla.png" alt="sla" width="377" height="330" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center">The Society for Linguistic Anthropology was proud to award the following <a href="http://linguisticanthropology.org/about/prizes/">prizes</a> at the <a href="http://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1578">114th AAA Annual Meeting</a> in Denver:</p><hr style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><h2 style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;text-align:center">♦</h2><h2 style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;text-align:center"><strong>Sapir Award</strong></h2><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center"><a href="https://wmich.edu/anthropology/directory/wirtz"><img class="" src="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/wirtz-300x200.jpg" alt="wirtz" width="300" height="200" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img class="" src="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/KristinaWirtz_-IMG_6731-Cropped-300x210.jpg" alt="KristinaWirtz_ IMG_6731 Cropped" width="300" height="210" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a><strong><a href="https://wmich.edu/anthropology/directory/wirtz">Kristina Wirtz</a></strong></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center">for</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center"><a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo18009094.html"><strong><em>Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History</em>. University of Chicago Press. (2014)</strong></a></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo18009094.html"><img class="" src="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wirtz-199x300.jpg" alt="Wirtz" width="199" height="300" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center">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.</p><hr style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><h2 style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;text-align:center">♦</h2><h2 style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;text-align:center">Graduate Student Essay Prize</h2><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center"><a href="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/PhotoSLAGradStudentAwardeesAndAlanRumseyIMG_6631Small.jpg"><img class="" src="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/PhotoSLAGradStudentAwardeesAndAlanRumseyIMG_6631Small-300x199.jpg" alt="PhotoSLAGradStudentAwardeesAndAlanRumseyIMG_6631Small" width="300" height="199" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a><strong>The 2015 SLA Graduate Student Essay Prize Panel</strong></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center">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).</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center">~</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center"><a href="http://anthropology.yale.edu/people/andrew-m-carruthers"><img class="" src="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/AndrewCarruthers_-IMG_6728-Cropped-1-300x228.jpg" alt="AndrewCarruthers_ IMG_6728 Cropped (1)" width="300" height="228" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a><strong><a href="http://anthropology.yale.edu/people/andrew-m-carruthers">Andrew Carruthers</a> (Winner)</strong>, Yale, Advisor: <a href="http://www.yale.edu/errington/">Joseph Errington</a></p><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center">“Between Affinity and Equivalence: Undocumented Migration, Commensuration, and Intrusive Phonosonics in the Indonesia-Malaysia Borderlands”</div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center"><p><br></p><p><a href="http://larnold.ucsblinguist.org/"><img class="" src="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/lynettearnold.jpeg" alt="lynettearnold" width="250" height="181" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></p></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center"><p> <strong><a href="http://larnold.ucsblinguist.org/">Lynnette Arnold</a> (Honorable Mention)</strong>, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara; Advisor: Dr. <a href="http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/">Mary Bucholtz</a></p><p>“Collective Remembering, Shared Imagining: The Chronotopic Creation of Transnational Togetherness”</p></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center"><p><br></p><p><a href="https://uci.academia.edu/GregoryKohler"><img class="" src="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/GregoryKohler_-IMG_6729-Cropped-1-300x219.jpg" alt="GregoryKohler_ IMG_6729 Cropped (1)" width="300" height="219" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a><strong><a href="https://uci.academia.edu/GregoryKohler">Gregory Kohler</a> (Honorable Mention)</strong>, University of California, Irvine; Advisor: Dr. <a href="https://uci.academia.edu/KeithMurphy">Keith Murphy</a></p><p>“‘Gregory Dry’: Parody and the Morality of Brand”</p></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center"><p><br></p><p><a href="https://upenn.academia.edu/ALeone"><img class="" src="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/s200_andrea_r..leone_.jpg" alt="s200_andrea_r..leone" width="200" height="200" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a><strong><a href="https://upenn.academia.edu/ALeone">Andrea Leone-Pizzighela</a> (Honorable Mention)</strong>, University of Pennsylvania; Advisor: <a href="http://scholar.gse.upenn.edu/rymes">Betsy Rymes</a></p></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center"><p>“Ideologies of Personhood: A Citizen Sociolinguistic Case Study of the Roman Dialect”</p><p><br></p><hr><h2>♦</h2><h2>Undergraduate Student Essay Prize</h2><p><a href="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/KorinneDunn_-IMG_6724-copy-1.jpg"><img class="" src="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/KorinneDunn_-IMG_6724-copy-1-300x221.jpg" alt="KorinneDunn_ IMG_6724 copy (1)" width="300" height="221" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a><strong>Korinne Dunn (Winner)</strong>, Indiana University; Advisor: <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/faculty/graberk.shtml">Kathryn E. Graber</a></p></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center"><p>“Binders Full of Regret: The Circulation of Blunders in US Presidential Politics"</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://vassar.academia.edu/KiraGreenberg"><img class="" src="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/KiraGreenberg_-IMG_6723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