Timothy Loh, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Anthropology, recently received the David M. Schneider Award. This award is given annually to a graduate student essay that demonstrates a fresh and innovative take on kinship, social theory, and/or American culture. 

Loh’s winning essay is part of a newer project on sign language and deaf people in Singapore. He considers kinship through the lens of language, taking deaf Singaporeans as a case to examine how kinship metaphors about language—and attendant language policies—have material consequences for deaf people’s sense of belonging within the nation-state.

Congratulations, Timothy!