Student Achievements
2015 Graduate Awards
New Job Placements
The Bernard J. Siegel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Written Expression by a Ph.D. Student in Anthropology Helen Clare Human
Maria Fernanda Escallon Black Studies Dissertation Fellow, Black Studies Department, University of California Santa Barbara
The Robert Bayard Textor Award for Outstanding Creativity in Anthropology Veysel Firat Bozcali
Helen Human International Scholarship and Fellowship Advisor, Washington University in St. Louis
The Anthropology Prize for Academic Performance Eleanor Alice Power
Lindsay Montgomery Postdoctoral scholar, Denver museum of nature and science
The Anthropology Prize for Outstanding Graduate Research and Publication Allison Jane Mickel Jenna Dawn Rice Jenna Dawn Rice The Annual Review Prize for Service to the Department Samuel Thomas Holley-Kline Samuel Peter Maull The Anthropology Prize for Academic Performance by a Masters Student Laura Gayle Marsh
Adrian Myers Archaeologist, AMEC Environment & Infrastructure Lisa Poggiali Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism, University of Pennsylvania Elly Power
Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute
Hantian Zhang
Quantitative researcher, MSCI, Inc.
Kathryn Takabvirwa (Continued from page 27)
President: “When you disagreed with people in Marikana, you killed them… When people had problems in Relela, you killed them. When people had problems in Mothutlung, demanding water, you killed them. When Tatane protested against this state, you killed him...” Malema’s indictment of the President continued: “Mr. President you taught our people that everything… must be resolved through violence. And therefore you must take full responsibility… You have lost control of the country because you have lost control of your own family. Your own son continues to say [that] these people must be killed. You stand up here and you do not say anything” (transcribed from the original video). Violence against foreigners will continue in South Africa as long as those who lead fail to speak clearly against it. As long as Presidents and Kings misuse their podiums, and men stand by or join in, as mobs kill unarmed men and women. These waves of violence against immigrants have left so many of us shaken. And which is worse, horrific though the violence is today, it is not new. Xenophobic attacks have been part of the story of South Africa at least since 1994, probably before then. Black African foreigners in South Africa have been targets of violence for at least two decades; attacks happen, outrage follows, promises are made, calm, then the cycle repeats itself,
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again and again. When will it end? The last Zimbabwean census stakes our population at 12 million. Yet, migration reports suggest there could be up to 1.5 million Zimbabweans in South Africa. That is an 8:1 ratio. For every eight Zimbabweans in Zimbabwe, there is some loved one in South Africa, in jeopardy. So again, I must ask: when will it end? I have been trying to unsee the images that have been in the news, that are burned now into my memory, of fathers and mothers engulfed in flames simply for being in South Africa and being black and non-South African. Thus, I leave you the image on page 29, instead, of a chair that my beloveds sit in whenever they come home. They are among the 3 million in South Africa, in jeopardy for being foreign, being Zimbabwean. Devoted to South Africa, their second home, they believe still that there is a place for them yet in the Rainbow Nation. South Africa is lucky to have them. They can’t be here because they must be there. I will sit in this chair and wait for them to come home, as I finish off my fieldwork. Yet, for so many, whose beloveds will not be coming home, their chairs will remain empty.