Congratulations to our 2023 Winners!
New Voices Book Prize
Piers Kelly for The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines
Scott MacLochlainn for The Copy Generic: How the Nonspecific Makes our Social Worlds
Honorable Mention: Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas for Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires
John Gumperz Graduate Student Paper Prize
Co-Winners
Timothy Y. Loh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Paper Title: al-lugha al-‘umm/’arabi mukassar: Competing Discourses about Jordanian Sign Language (LIU) in Amman
Faculty Advisor: Stefan Helmreich
Jiarui Sun (University of Chicago)
Paper Title: Digital Rituals in Danmu: The Enregisterment of Online Nationalism in China
Faculty Advisor: Constantine Nakassis
Honorable Mentions
Katherine Arnold-Murray (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Paper Title: Settle for Biden: The Scalar Production of a Normative Presidential Candidate on Instagram
Faculty Advisor: Kira Hall
Sarah Rosenau (University of Pittsburgh)
Paper Title: Appropriating Appropriation: Mock Koreaboo
Faculty Advisor: Scott Kiesling (Kira Hall)
Undergraduate Student Prize
Course Paper Winner
Joelle Jackson (Indiana University)
Paper Title: (Re)animating Treasured Texts: Volunteers’ Visibility and Voice in Participatory Archival Transcription
Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Graber
Senior Thesis Winner
Allyson Emmett (Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame)
Paper Title: Gender and Linguistic Change: Perceptions of English Influencing Changes in Spanish in the U.S.
Faculty Advisor: Nell Haynes
Honorable Mentions
Thayer H. Ackerman (Appalachian State University)
Paper Title: The Chronotopes of Columbia
Faculty Advisor: Mary-Caitlin Valentinsson
JS Brown (Appalachian State University)
Paper Title: Cultivating Time and Space in Digital Advertising and Corporate Branding
Faculty Advisor: Mary-Caitlin Valentinsson