From hechtg at umich.edu  Wed Mar  1 14:41:31 2017
From: hechtg at umich.edu (Gabrielle Hecht)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 07:41:31 -0500
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A huge congratulations to Keith!

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za>
> Subject: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award
> Date: March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST
> To: Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu>
> Reply-To: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za>
> 
> WiSER is extremely proud to announce that:
> 
> Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book Award.
> 
> The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. The book shows how the South African obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric citizenship being developed throughout the South.
> 
> The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a scholarly, well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years prior to its nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution to developing new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.
> 
> Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened international interest in the fine details of South African state-building, showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent. The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular, to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global academy.
> 
> Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present was published by Cambridge University Press.
> 
> Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, the state and the development of information systems.
> 
> The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities Lecture and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.
> 
> Our warmest congratulations to Keith.
> 
> Sarah Nuttall
> 
> Director
> 
> 
> - - - - 
> WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building
> University of the Witwatersrand
> Johannesburg, GT 2050
> South Africa
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From herwitz at umich.edu  Wed Mar  1 14:44:10 2017
From: herwitz at umich.edu (Daniel Herwitz)
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Keith you truly deserve this. Bravo.

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu> wrote:

> A huge congratulations to Keith!
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *"WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za>
> *Subject: **WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of
> South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award*
> *Date: *March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST
> *To: *Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu>
> *Reply-To: *"WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za>
>
> *WiSER is extremely proud to announce that: *
>
> *Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The
> Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book
> Award.*
>
> *The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book
> Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in
> South Africa, 1850 to the Present. The book shows how the South African
> obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration
> served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric
> citizenship being developed throughout the South.*
>
> *The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a
> scholarly, well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years
> prior to its nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution
> to developing new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.*
>
> Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened
> international interest in the fine details of South African state-building,
> showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation
> in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent.
> The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad
> interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African
> history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new
> explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of
> Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial
> state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid
> state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The
> book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the
> fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African
> historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written
> and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular,
> to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of
> what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global
> academy.
>
> *Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance
> in South Africa, 1850 to the Present was published by Cambridge University
> Press.*
>
> *Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits
> Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural
> and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining
> industry, the state and the development of information systems.*
>
> *The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities
> Lecture and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.*
>
> Our warmest congratulations to Keith.
>
> Sarah Nuttall
>
> Director
>
> - - - -
> WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building
> University of the Witwatersrand
> Johannesburg, GT 2050
> South Africa
>
> - - - -
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From Maria.Suriano at wits.ac.za  Wed Mar  1 14:54:37 2017
From: Maria.Suriano at wits.ac.za (Maria Suriano)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 12:54:37 +0000
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We are proud of you! Bravo!

Maria

From: Daniel Herwitz [mailto:herwitz at umich.edu]
Sent: 01 March 2017 02:44 PM
To: Gabrielle Hecht
Cc: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za
Subject: Re: [Sugarman] Fwd: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award

Keith you truly deserve this. Bravo.

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu<mailto:hechtg at umich.edu>> wrote:
A huge congratulations to Keith!


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From: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za<mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>
Subject: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award
Date: March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST
To: Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu<mailto:hechtg at umich.edu>>
Reply-To: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za<mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>


WiSER is extremely proud to announce that:

Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book Award.

The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. The book shows how the South African obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric citizenship being developed throughout the South.

The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a scholarly, well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years prior to its nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution to developing new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.

Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened international interest in the fine details of South African state-building, showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent. The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular, to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global academy.

Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present was published by Cambridge University Press.

Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, the state and the development of information systems.

The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities Lecture and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.

Our warmest congratulations to Keith.

Sarah Nuttall

Director

- - - -
WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, GT 2050
South Africa

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From pne at umich.edu  Wed Mar  1 15:09:21 2017
From: pne at umich.edu (Paul N. Edwards)
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Wow, Keith - this is great news! And so well deserved. Congratulations. 

Best,

Paul

> On Mar 1, 2017, at 7:41 , Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> A huge congratulations to Keith!
> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>> From: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za <mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>
>> Subject: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award
>> Date: March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST
>> To: Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu <mailto:hechtg at umich.edu>>
>> Reply-To: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za <mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>
>> 
>> WiSER is extremely proud to announce that:
>> 
>> Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book Award.
>> 
>> The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. The book shows how the South African obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric citizenship being developed throughout the South.
>> 
>> The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a scholarly, well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years prior to its nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution to developing new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.
>> 
>> Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened international interest in the fine details of South African state-building, showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent. The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular, to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global academy.
>> 
>> Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present was published by Cambridge University Press.
>> 
>> Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, the state and the development of information systems.
>> 
>> The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities Lecture and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.
>> 
>> Our warmest congratulations to Keith.
>> 
>> Sarah Nuttall
>> 
>> Director
>> 
>> 
>> - - - - 
>> WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building
>> University of the Witwatersrand
>> Johannesburg, GT 2050
>> South Africa
>> 
>> - - - - 
>> Control the notices you receive from WISER at http://wiser.wits.ac.za/mail <http://wiser.wits.ac.za/mail> or unsubscribe from all our email here <http://wiser.wits.ac.za/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=2324&qid=1076283&h=bb0b569ada713727>. 
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Wonderful news Keith!  Many congratulations indeed.
All best wishes
Sarah

From: Gabrielle Hecht [mailto:hechtg at umich.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, 01 March 2017 2:42 PM
To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za
Subject: [Sugarman] Fwd: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award

A huge congratulations to Keith!


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From: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za<mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>
Subject: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award
Date: March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST
To: Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu<mailto:hechtg at umich.edu>>
Reply-To: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za<mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>

WiSER is extremely proud to announce that:
Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book Award.
The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. The book shows how the South African obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric citizenship being developed throughout the South.
The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a scholarly, well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years prior to its nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution to developing new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.
Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened international interest in the fine details of South African state-building, showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent. The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular, to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global academy.
Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present was published by Cambridge University Press.
Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, the state and the development of information systems.
The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities Lecture and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.
Our warmest congratulations to Keith.
Sarah Nuttall
Director

- - - -
WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, GT 2050
South Africa

- - - -
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Dear Keith,

Congratulations on the The Academy of Science of South Africa award!

Thank you for blessing us with your new frontier on digital humanities on
Africa, for a very long time!

Kindly,
Simeneh
-- 
Simeneh Betreyohannes Gebremariam
PhD Student, Sociocultural Anthropology|
Afroamerican & African Studies|
World Performance Studies|

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu> wrote:

> A huge congratulations to Keith!
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *"WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za>
> *Subject: **WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of
> South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award*
> *Date: *March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST
> *To: *Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu>
> *Reply-To: *"WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za>
>
> *WiSER is extremely proud to announce that: *
>
> *Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The
> Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book
> Award.*
>
> *The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book
> Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in
> South Africa, 1850 to the Present. The book shows how the South African
> obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration
> served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric
> citizenship being developed throughout the South.*
>
> *The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a
> scholarly, well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years
> prior to its nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution
> to developing new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.*
>
> Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened
> international interest in the fine details of South African state-building,
> showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation
> in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent.
> The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad
> interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African
> history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new
> explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of
> Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial
> state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid
> state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The
> book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the
> fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African
> historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written
> and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular,
> to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of
> what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global
> academy.
>
> *Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance
> in South Africa, 1850 to the Present was published by Cambridge University
> Press.*
>
> *Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits
> Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural
> and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining
> industry, the state and the development of information systems.*
>
> *The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities
> Lecture and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.*
>
> Our warmest congratulations to Keith.
>
> Sarah Nuttall
>
> Director
>
> - - - -
> WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building
> University of the Witwatersrand
> Johannesburg, GT 2050
> South Africa
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From jti at umich.edu  Wed Mar  1 16:17:20 2017
From: jti at umich.edu (Judith Irvine)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 09:17:20 -0500
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Many congratulations, Keith! This is wonderful news.

Judy

Sent from my iPad

On Mar 1, 2017, at 8:35 AM, Sarah Charlton <Sarah.Charlton at wits.ac.za>
wrote:

Wonderful news Keith!  Many congratulations indeed.

All best wishes

Sarah



*From:* Gabrielle Hecht [mailto:hechtg at umich.edu <hechtg at umich.edu>]
*Sent:* Wednesday, 01 March 2017 2:42 PM
*To:* sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za
*Subject:* [Sugarman] Fwd: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of
Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award



A huge congratulations to Keith!



Begin forwarded message:



*From: *"WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za>

*Subject: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South
Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award*

*Date: *March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST

*To: *Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu>

*Reply-To: *"WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za>



*WiSER is extremely proud to announce that: *

*Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book
Award.*

*The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his
book **Biometric
State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South
Africa, 1850 to the Present**. The book shows how the South African
obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration
served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric
citizenship being developed throughout the South.*

*The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a scholarly,
well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years prior to its
nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution to developing
new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.*

Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened
international interest in the fine details of South African state-building,
showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation
in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent.
The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad
interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African
history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new
explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of
Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial
state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid
state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The
book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the
fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African
historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written
and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular,
to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of
what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global
academy.

*Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in
South Africa, 1850 to the Present** was published by Cambridge University
Press.*

*Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits
Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural
and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining
industry, the state and the development of information systems.*

*The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities Lecture
and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.*

Our warmest congratulations to Keith.

Sarah Nuttall

Director


- - - -

WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, GT 2050
South Africa


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From drpeters at umich.edu  Thu Mar  2 04:41:58 2017
From: drpeters at umich.edu (Derek Peterson)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 21:41:58 -0500
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Dear Keith: 

This is very good news, and I am really delighted to hear it. It?s a fitting recognition for a very good book. 

Many congratulations?

Derek 




> On 1 Mar 2017, at 09:17, Judith Irvine <jti at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> Many congratulations, Keith! This is wonderful news.
> 
> Judy
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Mar 1, 2017, at 8:35 AM, Sarah Charlton <Sarah.Charlton at wits.ac.za <mailto:Sarah.Charlton at wits.ac.za>> wrote:
> 
>> Wonderful news Keith!  Many congratulations indeed.
>> All best wishes
>> Sarah
>> ? <>
>> From: Gabrielle Hecht [mailto:hechtg at umich.edu <mailto:hechtg at umich.edu>] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, 01 March 2017 2:42 PM
>> To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za <mailto:sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za>
>> Subject: [Sugarman] Fwd: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award
>>  
>> A huge congratulations to Keith! 
>> 
>> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>  
>> From: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za <mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>
>> Subject: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award
>> Date: March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST
>> To: Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu <mailto:hechtg at umich.edu>>
>> Reply-To: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za <mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>
>>  
>> WiSER is extremely proud to announce that:
>> Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book Award.
>> The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. The book shows how the South African obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric citizenship being developed throughout the South.
>> The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a scholarly, well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years prior to its nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution to developing new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.
>> Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened international interest in the fine details of South African state-building, showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent. The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular, to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global academy.
>> Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present was published by Cambridge University Press.
>> Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, the state and the development of information systems.
>> The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities Lecture and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.
>> Our warmest congratulations to Keith.
>> Sarah Nuttall
>> Director
>> 
>> - - - - 
>> WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building
>> University of the Witwatersrand
>> Johannesburg, GT 2050
>> South Africa
>> 
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From dwcohen at umich.edu  Thu Mar  2 04:46:42 2017
From: dwcohen at umich.edu (David Cohen)
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 15:46:42 +1300
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Way to go Keith. A stellar book. A vital intervention.

Congratulations

David

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 2, 2017, at 01:42, Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu> wrote:

A huge congratulations to Keith!

Begin forwarded message:

*From: *"WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za>
*Subject: **WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South
Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award*
*Date: *March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST
*To: *Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu>
*Reply-To: *"WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za>

*WiSER is extremely proud to announce that: *

*Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book
Award.*

*The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book
Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in
South Africa, 1850 to the Present. The book shows how the South African
obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration
served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric
citizenship being developed throughout the South.*

*The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a scholarly,
well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years prior to its
nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution to developing
new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.*

Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened
international interest in the fine details of South African state-building,
showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation
in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent.
The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad
interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African
history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new
explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of
Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial
state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid
state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The
book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the
fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African
historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written
and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular,
to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of
what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global
academy.

*Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in
South Africa, 1850 to the Present was published by Cambridge University
Press.*

*Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits
Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural
and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining
industry, the state and the development of information systems.*

*The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities Lecture
and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.*

Our warmest congratulations to Keith.

Sarah Nuttall

Director

- - - -
WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, GT 2050
South Africa

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From: Innocentia.Mhlambi at wits.ac.za (Innocentia Mhlambi)
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Halala Keith!

From: Gabrielle Hecht [mailto:hechtg at umich.edu]
Sent: 01 March 2017 02:42 PM
To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za
Subject: [Sugarman] Fwd: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award

A huge congratulations to Keith!


Begin forwarded message:

From: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za<mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>
Subject: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award
Date: March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST
To: Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu<mailto:hechtg at umich.edu>>
Reply-To: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za<mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>

WiSER is extremely proud to announce that:
Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book Award.
The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. The book shows how the South African obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric citizenship being developed throughout the South.
The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a scholarly, well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years prior to its nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution to developing new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.
Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened international interest in the fine details of South African state-building, showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent. The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular, to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global academy.
Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present was published by Cambridge University Press.
Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, the state and the development of information systems.
The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities Lecture and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.
Our warmest congratulations to Keith.
Sarah Nuttall
Director

- - - -
WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, GT 2050
South Africa

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From Dilip.Menon at wits.ac.za  Thu Mar  2 09:09:49 2017
From: Dilip.Menon at wits.ac.za (Dilip Menon)
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 07:09:49 +0000
Subject: [Sugarman]
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Dear Keith, Richly deserved. Loved the book
.
D

Dilip M Menon

Dilip M Menon PhD (Cantab.)
Mellon Chair In Indian Studies
Director, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa
University of Witwatersrand
36 Jorissen Street, Braamfontein
Johannesburg 2050, South Africa
27-763983407
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From: David Cohen [dwcohen at umich.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2017 4:46 AM
To: Gabrielle Hecht
Cc: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za
Subject: Re: [Sugarman] Fwd: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award

Way to go Keith. A stellar book. A vital intervention.

Congratulations

David

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 2, 2017, at 01:42, Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu<mailto:hechtg at umich.edu>> wrote:

A huge congratulations to Keith!

Begin forwarded message:

From: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za<mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>
Subject: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award
Date: March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST
To: Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu<mailto:hechtg at umich.edu>>
Reply-To: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za<mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>


WiSER is extremely proud to announce that:

Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book Award.

The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. The book shows how the South African obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric citizenship being developed throughout the South.

The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a scholarly, well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years prior to its nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution to developing new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.

Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened international interest in the fine details of South African state-building, showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent. The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular, to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global academy.

Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present was published by Cambridge University Press.

Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, the state and the development of information systems.

The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities Lecture and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.

Our warmest congratulations to Keith.

Sarah Nuttall

Director

- - - -
WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, GT 2050
South Africa

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From keith at breckenridge.org.za  Thu Mar  2 10:30:09 2017
From: keith at breckenridge.org.za (Keith Breckenridge)
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 10:30:09 +0200
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Thanks everyone.  I'm very aware of the great books that have been written
here in the last three years, many of them by my esteemed colleagues.  It
is wonderful to be marked out for special notice like this.  Unnatural good
fortune.  But I'll enjoy it, don't worry.

-------
Keith Breckenridge  *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and
Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits,
 Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Phone +27(0)11-7174272 | Web:
wiser.wits.ac.za
| <http://wiser.wits.ac.za> *Biometric State*, CUP, Sept 2014
<http://goo.gl/nJKK5N> | Co - Editor, Journal of African History
<http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=AFH>.

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu> wrote:

> A huge congratulations to Keith!
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *"WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za>
> *Subject: **WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of
> South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award*
> *Date: *March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST
> *To: *Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu>
> *Reply-To: *"WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za>
>
> *WiSER is extremely proud to announce that: *
>
> *Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The
> Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book
> Award.*
>
> *The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book
> Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in
> South Africa, 1850 to the Present. The book shows how the South African
> obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration
> served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric
> citizenship being developed throughout the South.*
>
> *The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a
> scholarly, well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years
> prior to its nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution
> to developing new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.*
>
> Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened
> international interest in the fine details of South African state-building,
> showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation
> in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent.
> The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad
> interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African
> history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new
> explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of
> Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial
> state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid
> state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The
> book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the
> fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African
> historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written
> and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular,
> to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of
> what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global
> academy.
>
> *Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance
> in South Africa, 1850 to the Present was published by Cambridge University
> Press.*
>
> *Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits
> Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural
> and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining
> industry, the state and the development of information systems.*
>
> *The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities
> Lecture and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.*
>
> Our warmest congratulations to Keith.
>
> Sarah Nuttall
>
> Director
>
> - - - -
> WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building
> University of the Witwatersrand
> Johannesburg, GT 2050
> South Africa
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From nrhunt at ufl.edu  Thu Mar  2 10:22:39 2017
From: nrhunt at ufl.edu (Hunt,Nancy)
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 08:22:39 +0000
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This is superb news, Keith!!!

Many congratulations on this splendid book and this well-deserved prize.

Very best
Nancy Hunt

On Mar 2, 2017, at 03:41, Derek Peterson <drpeters at umich.edu<mailto:drpeters at umich.edu>> wrote:

Dear Keith:

This is very good news, and I am really delighted to hear it. It?s a fitting recognition for a very good book.

Many congratulations?

Derek




On 1 Mar 2017, at 09:17, Judith Irvine <jti at umich.edu<mailto:jti at umich.edu>> wrote:

Many congratulations, Keith! This is wonderful news.

Judy

Sent from my iPad

On Mar 1, 2017, at 8:35 AM, Sarah Charlton <Sarah.Charlton at wits.ac.za<mailto:Sarah.Charlton at wits.ac.za>> wrote:

Wonderful news Keith!  Many congratulations indeed.
All best wishes
Sarah

From: Gabrielle Hecht [mailto:hechtg at umich.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, 01 March 2017 2:42 PM
To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za<mailto:sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za>
Subject: [Sugarman] Fwd: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award

A huge congratulations to Keith!


Begin forwarded message:

From: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za<mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>
Subject: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award
Date: March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST
To: Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu<mailto:hechtg at umich.edu>>
Reply-To: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za<mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>

WiSER is extremely proud to announce that:
Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book Award.
The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. The book shows how the South African obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric citizenship being developed throughout the South.
The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a scholarly, well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years prior to its nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution to developing new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.
Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened international interest in the fine details of South African state-building, showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent. The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular, to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global academy.
Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present was published by Cambridge University Press.
Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, the state and the development of information systems.
The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities Lecture and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.
Our warmest congratulations to Keith.
Sarah Nuttall
Director

- - - -
WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, GT 2050
South Africa

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Halala Keith

From: Keith Breckenridge [mailto:keith at breckenridge.org.za]
Sent: 02 March 2017 10:30 AM
To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za
Subject: Re: [Sugarman] Fwd: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award

Thanks everyone.  I'm very aware of the great books that have been written here in the last three years, many of them by my esteemed colleagues.  It is wonderful to be marked out for special notice like this.  Unnatural good fortune.  But I'll enjoy it, don't worry.

-------
Keith Breckenridge  W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits,  Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Phone +27(0)11-7174272 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za |<http://wiser.wits.ac.za> Biometric State, CUP, Sept 2014<http://goo.gl/nJKK5N> | Co - Editor, Journal of African History<http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=AFH>.

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu<mailto:hechtg at umich.edu>> wrote:
A huge congratulations to Keith!


Begin forwarded message:

From: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za<mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>
Subject: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award
Date: March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST
To: Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu<mailto:hechtg at umich.edu>>
Reply-To: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za<mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>


WiSER is extremely proud to announce that:

Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book Award.

The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. The book shows how the South African obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric citizenship being developed throughout the South.

The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a scholarly, well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years prior to its nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution to developing new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.

Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened international interest in the fine details of South African state-building, showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent. The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular, to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global academy.

Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present was published by Cambridge University Press.

Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, the state and the development of information systems.

The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities Lecture and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.

Our warmest congratulations to Keith.

Sarah Nuttall

Director

- - - -
WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, GT 2050
South Africa

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From: saks.lucia at gmail.com (Lucia Saks)
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 13:23:21 +0200
Subject: [Sugarman] congrats
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Congratulations Keith. A great achievement indeed.

Kind Regards

Dr Lucia Saks

Head of Post Graduate School

AFDA Cape Town Campus



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From cynthia.kros at yahoo.com  Thu Mar  2 14:23:04 2017
From: cynthia.kros at yahoo.com (Cynthia Kros)
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 12:23:04 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Sugarman] congrats
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Yes, well done, Keith! And also well deserved.
Best wishes
Cynthia 

    On Thursday, March 2, 2017 1:23 PM, Lucia Saks <saks.lucia at gmail.com> wrote:
 

 Congratulations Keith. A great achievement indeed.
Kind RegardsDr Lucia SaksHead of?Post Graduate School?AFDA Cape Town Campus?lucia at afda.co.za?|?Website?|?Facebook?|?TwitterTel.?+27 21 448 7600?| Fax.?+27 21 448 7610
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From Neil.Klug at wits.ac.za  Thu Mar  2 17:40:04 2017
From: Neil.Klug at wits.ac.za (Neil Klug)
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 15:40:04 +0000
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Congratulations Keith, well deserved.

All the best
Neil
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From: Sarah Charlton [Sarah.Charlton at wits.ac.za]
Sent: 01 March 2017 03:34 PM
To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za
Subject: Re: [Sugarman] Fwd: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award

Wonderful news Keith!  Many congratulations indeed.
All best wishes
Sarah

From: Gabrielle Hecht [mailto:hechtg at umich.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, 01 March 2017 2:42 PM
To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za
Subject: [Sugarman] Fwd: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award

A huge congratulations to Keith!


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From: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za<mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>
Subject: WiSER?s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)?s first Humanities Book Award
Date: March 1, 2017 at 06:18:16 EST
To: Gabrielle Hecht <hechtg at umich.edu<mailto:hechtg at umich.edu>>
Reply-To: "WISER" <info.wiser at wits.ac.za<mailto:info.wiser at wits.ac.za>>

WiSER is extremely proud to announce that:
Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)?s inaugural  Humanities Book Award.
The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. The book shows how the South African obsession with Francis Galton's universal fingerprint identity registration served as a 20th century incubator for the current systems of biometric citizenship being developed throughout the South.
The ASSAf Humanities Book Award is presented to a writer/s of a scholarly, well-written work of non-fiction, published up to three years prior to its nomination. The book should be noteworthy in its contribution to developing new understanding and insight of a topic in the Humanities.
Chosen from among 58 entries, this book is claimed to have reawakened international interest in the fine details of South African state-building, showing that our history can reveal and explain patterns of state-formation in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and our peer states on this continent. The book, as reviewers have commented, engages problems that have broad interdisciplinary significance, reworking them to place South African history at the centre of a new global explanation. It has produced new explanations of the roots of Galton's eugenics, of social Darwinism, of Gandhi's distinctive anti-progressivism, of the limits of the colonial state's will to know, of the surveillance capacities of the apartheid state, and the current global enthusiasm for biometric social welfare. The book does this by combining very wide comparative reading with the fine-grained archival research that has been the hall-mark of South African historiography for two generations. It is carefully and fluently written and encourages South African social scientists, historians in particular, to be comparative, and theoretically ambitious, deploying the detail of what we know best about our own society to shape debates in the global academy.
Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present was published by Cambridge University Press.
Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. He writes about the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, the state and the development of information systems.
The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities Lecture and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.
Our warmest congratulations to Keith.
Sarah Nuttall
Director

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