University Professor Emory Elliott

Made possible by a generous donation  from Georgia Elliott, the Emory Elliott Book Award honors the book published by a CHASS faculty member during the previous academic year that, in the judgment of the selection committee, best exemplifies the values that characterized Professor Elliott and his contributions to life and letters.

Among these many contributions are the capacity to recognize complexity together with the passion to clarify, the ability to contribute to a conversation rather than to summarize agreements already established, and the intent to further a tradition of creative and scholarly munificence.

2012 Winner: Priya Srinivasan: Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor

2011 Winner: Michelle Raheja: Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film