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UNIVERSITY OF
MICHIGAN: DEPARTMENT
OF ANTHROPOLOGY

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Catching up with Kudos

INTEREST

 Irisa Arney
Welcome back to the Fall 2015 semester. We have a lot of Anthropology Department members to recog-
 Haydar Darici nize this time around. Thank you so much for working hard to send us your kudos. We hope you enjoy the
newsletter and share it with others. Continue to send us your Department of Anthropology kudos at
 Katherine Dimmery
kitchenk@umich.edu. It is our hope that no one will be forgotten. So, if we missed anyone who should re-
 Ashley Dimmig
ceive recognition, please let us know, and we will share their wonderful news in our next issue.

 John Doering-White

 Georgia Ennis

 Chelsea Fisher

 Matan Kaminer

 Nama Khalil


Prashanthan Naidu

Warren Thompson
Our 2015 Rackham International Research Award Grantees
 Nishita Trisal
Irisa Arney, Anthropology PhD. Uganda, Kenya -- East African Miocene Catarrhine Evolutionary Ecology

Haydar Darici, Anthropology & History PhD. Turkey -- The Politics of Childhood: Mobilization of Kurdish Children
 Anna Forringer-Beal
in Contemporary Turkey

 Ivan Cangemi Katherine Dimmery, Asian Languages & Cultures and Anthropology PhD. UK--England, France, Germany, China --
The Collapsing Word: Cultural Revival and the Aesthetics of Text and Song
 Lavrentia Kara-
maniola Ashley Dimmig, History of Art PhD. Austria, Poland, Germany -- Ephemeral Edifices: Imperial Tents in the Late
Ottoman Period
 Rachna Reddy
John Doering-White, Social Work & Anthropology PhD/Community Organization, Community & Social Systems
 Yasmin Cho
MSW. Mexico -- Infrastructures of Care and Violence: Unauthorized Migration Through Mexico

Georgia Ennis, Anthropology PhD. Ecuador -- Mediating Endangerment: Local Media and Indigenous Language Revi-
 Webb Keane
talization

 Jini Kim Chelsea Fisher, Anthropology PhD. Mexico -- The Origins of Sustainable Agrarian Cities in Ancient Mexico

 Vanessa Diaz Matan Kaminer, Anthropology PhD. Thailand, Laos -- Background Research on Migrants from Issan (Thailand) to
Israel
 Katherine Martineau
Nama Khalil, Anthropology PhD. Egypt -- Media War: Emerging Expressive Cultural Practices in Contemporary Egypt
 Geoffrey Hughes
Prashanthan Naidu, Anthropology PhD. Timor-Leste -- Sensory Experience and Cultural Identity Among the Mam-
bai of East Timor
 Bethany Hansen

Warren Thompson, Anthropology PhD. Paraguay -- Avenging Thy Neighbor: Ethical Conflict in the Ache Mission
Encounter

Nishita Trisal, Anthropology PhD. India -- Counterinsurgent Finance: Debt, Uncertainty, and Governance in Kashmir
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T Phi Kappa Phi inductee, Anna Forringer-Beal, was selected to receive a 2015 Beinecke Scholarship.

Ivan Cangemi has been awarded a Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

Congratulations to Lavrentia Karamaniola for her fellowship award from the Institute for Humanities.
H
Yasmin Cho, a new member of our department, is a recipient of the Center for Chinese Studies Postdoctoral
Fellowship for the year 2015-2016.

U Rachna Reddy was awarded a Young Explorers grant from National Geographic for her proposed project, The
Development of Male-Female Social Relationships in Wild Chimpanzees.

Geoffrey Hughes has accepted a position as a LSE Fellow with The London School of Economics. He also has

M an article, Infrastructures of Legitimacy: The Political Lives of Marriage Contracts in Jordan, in the May issue of American
Ethnologist.

A research fellowship with the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, at the Lincoln
Park Zoo, has been granted to Bethany Hansen, who will begin her new position in late October.
B

S Faculty Achievements!
Professor Webb Keane gave the Bioannual Roy A. Rappaport Memorial Lecture of the Society for Anthropol-
ogy of Religion on April 18th.

U
Alumni Stepping Stones!
P Congratulations to Jini Kim for the successful defense of her dissertation, The Politics of Survival and Care in
Homeless Japan, in May! She received her Ph.D. in August and has begun a two-year post-doc position in the
Dept. of East Asian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin), Germany!

! After a superb dissertation defense, Vanessa Diaz has begun a tenure-track position in the Department of
Communications at California State University, Fullerton.

Katherine Martineau has accepted a tenure-track position, at Binghamton University (SUNY), in

the Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies.

KUDOS!