2021

Honorable Mention: Kathryn Graber
Title: Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia (Cornell University Press)

The committee also gives honorable mention to Kathryn Graber’s Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia. Based on her extensive data from media producers and consumers in Buryatia, Russia, Mixed Messages seamlessly weaves together analysis, positionality, and policy recommendations. Graber presents a complex picture of the Buryat language for the reader; by embracing the contradictions of her interlocutors, the author enhances a well-written and highly engaging ethnographic narrative.

Winner: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova