<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>It is with much sadness that I inform you that our dear colleague, Michael Silverstein passed away on Friday, July 17, 2020 from brain cancer. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://news.uchicago.edu/story/michael-silverstein-groundbreaking-anthropologist-and-linguist-1945-2020">https://news.uchicago.edu/story/michael-silverstein-groundbreaking-anthropologist-and-linguist-1945-2020</a></div><div><br></div><div>He did so much for our field, and he is so sorely missed. </div><div><br></div><div>With sadness,</div><div><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>Director, Committee on Southern Asian Studies (COSAS), The University of Chicago</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</a></div><div><a href="https://southasia.uchicago.edu/" target="_blank">https://southasia.uchicago.edu/</a><a href="http://chicagotamilforum.uchicago.edu" target="_blank"><br><br></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>