<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues, <div><br></div><div>A memorial scholarship fund to honor our recently deceased colleague, Michael Silverstein has been set up by his family. The fund is dedicated to providing equal access to graduate education in anthropology at the University of Chicago. Below I have forwarded along a message from his widow and information about the fund for those who might be interested to donate. </div><div><br></div><div>All best, </div><div>Constantine Nakassis</div><div><br><div style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt">Dear Colleagues, Friends, and Students of Michael Silverstein -</div><div style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt">Thanks to the many of you who have sent your condolences and shared memories of Michael. They have helped sustain us. </div><div style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt">A number of you have asked about making a donation in Michael's name. To honor that request, we came up with the idea of creating a memorial fund that captures what he cared about -- graduate education and equal access to education. The details on that memorial fund are in the attached letter. </div><div style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt">Please excuse any duplication of this email or information as we try to reach all the people whose lives were touched by Michael.</div><div style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt">With gratitude for your presence in his life,</div><div style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt">Mara Tapp</div><div style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt">
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;color:rgb(32,32,32)">Announcing </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;color:rgb(138,0,28)">The Michael Silverstein Memorial Scholarship Fund
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<p><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Georgia;font-size:11pt">Dear Friends and Colleagues,</span><br></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(32,32,32)">The University of Chicago community was saddened by the recent loss of Michael Silverstein,
The Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and of
Psychology and in the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities.
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(32,32,32)">To honor the memory of this groundbreaking scholar, the Division has established </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;font-weight:700;color:rgb(138,0,28)">The
Michael Silverstein Memorial Scholarship Fund</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(32,32,32)">. <</span><a href="https://giving.uchicago.edu/site/Donation2?idb=1275503813&1838.donation=form1&df_id=1838&mfc_pref=T&1838_donation=form1&set.Designee=2641" style="font-size:12pt">https://giving.uchicago.edu/site/Donation2?idb=1275503813&1838.donation=form1&df_id=1838&mfc_pref=T&1838_donation=form1&set.Designee=2641</a>></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(32,32,32)">The Michael Silverstein Memorial Fund is devoted to expanding access to anthropology at the
University of Chicago and diversifying the scholarship within it. In honor of Michael
Silverstein's pioneering contribution to the study of language, Native North America and
Aboriginal Australia, and politics within the United States, as well as his half century of
teaching at the University of Chicago, the memorial fund will prioritize support for alumni of
the Chicago Public Schools and for members of historically underrepresented communities
within anthropology. The Michael Silverstein Memorial Fund is devoted to doctoral research
that expands the scope, inclusion, and contribution of anthropology as a mode of social inquiry. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(32,32,32)">Please
direct any questions regarding this fund to </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;font-weight:700;color:rgb(138,0,28)">Yasmin
Omer (</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:yasminomer@uchciago.edu">yasminomer@uchciago.edu</a>)</span><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Georgia;font-size:11pt">. </span></p>
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<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">--------------------------------</span><br></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><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>