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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Congratulations Keith, well deserved.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Wonderful news Keith! Many congratulations indeed.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A huge congratulations to Keith! </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif"">Subject: WiSER’s Keith Breckenridge wins the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)’s first Humanities Book Award</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif"">Date: </span>
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</b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif"">Gabrielle Hecht <<a href="mailto:hechtg@umich.edu" target="_blank">hechtg@umich.edu</a>></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WiSER is extremely proud to announce that:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:firebrick">Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)’s inaugural Humanities
Book Award.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:indigo">The award will be presented to Professor Keith Breckenridge for his book
</span></strong><em><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:indigo">Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present</span></b></em><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:indigo">.
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.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:dimgray">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.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><em><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:indigo">Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present</span></u></b></em><em><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:indigo">
was published by Cambridge University Press.</span></b></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:dimgray">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.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><em><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:firebrick">The prize will be awarded at the inaugural ASSAf Annual Humanities Lecture and Book Award event on 9 March 2017 in Pretoria.</span></b></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Our warmest congratulations to Keith.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sarah Nuttall</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Director</span></p>
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