Sol Tax Dissertation Prize
My dissertation has been awarded the Sol Tax Dissertation Prize by the University of Chicago. The Prize is given to the dissertation which "combines highest intellectual merit with relevance to anthropology and action." I am honored by the distinction and humbled by the challenge it highlights.
Whereabouts
I’m on the road again this summer. After visiting Chicago for a few days to attend a conference (New Frontiers of Race organized by Gilberto Rosas, Ramón Gutiérrez and Jonathan Hill), and the doctoral defenses of three of my closet friends and colleagues (Kabir Tambar, Cassie Fennell, and Joe Hankins), I’m back in the desert. If at some point during my research I did fieldwork with your organization, you will most likely see me this summer.
I will be heading out to North Carolina in mid July for a training session on research methods sponsored by the National Science Foundation. New Jersey is the final stop this summer. I have accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Rutgers, which among many other great things means that I will have a more stable address at which I can be contacted.
Department of Anthropology
131 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
magana(at)rci.rutgers.edu
Update (6/15/2009)
I will be traveling to Tangiers, Morocco for the 4th installment of the Rio Bravo Mediterraneo Conference, but I’ll be back for some more of Arizona’s summer heat by the end of the June.
Dissertation Copies
My dissertation is available through ProQuest, but if I promised you a copy and you never got it, please do send me a kind reminder.