PhD Pupil Irene Routté has just lately obtained each the Lester P. Monts Award for Excellent Graduate Analysis from U-M’s African Research Middle, in addition to an honorable point out from the 2022 Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Essay Award contest from The Affiliation for Africanist Anthropology. Routté’s essay, “Will You Take Care? Bio-Area, Racial Assemblages and the U.S. Youth Refugee Resettlement Welfare System,” is an ethnographic case examine of an unaccompanied refugee minor from Nigeria throughout his first yr in care underneath america Workplace of Refugee Resettlement. This essay was additionally awarded the Faculty’s Henry Meyer award.
