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sans-serif;line-height:21px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px">Sincerely,</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"> </p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px">Constantine V. Nakassis</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px">Secretary-Treasurer, Society for Linguistic Anthropology</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">--------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr">Constantine V. Nakassis<div>Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, </div><div>Associate Faculty in the Departments of Cinema and Media Studies and Comparative Human Development, The University of Chicago</div><div><div>Treasurer, Society for Linguistic Anthropology</div></div><div>email: <a href="mailto:cnakassi@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">cnakassi@uchicago.edu</a>, office: 773 834 4810</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/constantine-v-nakassis" target="_blank">https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/constantine-v-nakassis<br></a></div><div><a href="http://nakassis.com/constantine" target="_blank">http://nakassis.com/constantine</a><br></div><div><a href="http://chicagotamilforum.uchicago.edu" target="_blank">http://chicagotamilforum.uchicago.edu<br><br></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>