Graduate student Benita Menezes has received the inaugural M. Estellie Smith Memorial Fund award. Her project was “The Politics of Dispossession: Neoliberal Subjects, Law and the Market in Rural Maharashtra, India.”

The award honors Dr. Smith, who was a past president of the Society of Economic Anthropology (SEA). The fund provides graduate students small grants specifically to supplement dissertation fieldwork expenses and subsequent travel money to present their findings at the SEA annual conference.

Read more about the award and memorial fund on the Society for Economic Anthropology website.