Emrah Yildiz (Associate Professor of Anthropology and MENA Studies, Northwestern University) has won the 2026 Malinowski Masson Residence Fellowship for his project “Outsmarting Sanctions: Experiments with Fictitious Commodities between Iran and Turkey”.
ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE 2026 MALINOWSKI MASSON RESIDENCE FELLOWSHIP (MMRF)
The Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology is excited to announce that Emrah Yildiz (Associate Professor of Anthropology and MENA Studies, Northwestern University) has won the 2026 Malinowski Masson Residence Fellowship for his project “Outsmarting Sanctions: Experiments with Fictitious Commodities between Iran and Turkey”. Prof. Yildiz will carry out his project while enjoying a residency at the Malinowski Villa of Oberbozen-Soprabolzano between October-November 2026. First Runner-up for the Fellowship is María Lis Baiocchi (University of Pittsburgh), with the project “Performing like Servants to Become Workers: Household Workers and their Access to Labor Rights in Daily Life in Buenos Aires, Argentina”. Arno Pascht (Ludwig-Maximilian Universität) has been designated Second Runner-up with “Transformations of Foodways in Vanuatu: Conceptualisations and Practices”. The competition received well over 70 applications. The MFEA Coordinators thank the applicants for their great interest and are grateful to the members of the selection committee for their hard work. The MMRF has been made possible through the generosity of the Stiftung Sparkasse and the Malinowski family, along with the additional support from the Anthropological Association South Tyrol and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
Elisabeth Tauber and Dorothy Zinn, Coordinators
The Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology
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