| ELECTION OF AT-LARGE ACMS BOARD MEMBERS, TWO THREE-YEAR TERMS
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| | | As discussed at the ACMS AGM in Denver in March and described in recent issues of the ACMS newsletter "This Month in Mongolian Studies", ACMS is now forwarding this ballot to the ACMS membership to elect two new At-Large Board Members to serve three-year terms.
Please respond to this mailing by voting "Yes" or "No" to each of the two nominees for these two positions listed in alphabetical order (a brief biographical description of each nominee is also included below). As noted, write-in candidates are also welcome.
ALL BALLOTS NEED TO BE RETURNED TO ACMS BY August 23, 2019
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| | 1. Bryant Harden
2. Marissa Smith
3. Write-In Candidate
BRYANT HARDEN is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. He has an MA from the University of Warwick in England, and a BA from Mercer University in Macon, GA. A Former Peace Corps volunteer in Hovd, he serves on the Board of "Friends of Mongolia," a Washington, DC-based NGO consisting of former Peace Corps volunteers to Mongolia that supports small grants and scholarships for Mongolian students. Also, he recently co-directed a summer service program to Mongolia for 16 Mercer University undergraduates, introducing them to the country for the first time.
MARISSA J. SMITH is a former ACMS Cultural Heritage Fellow in Mongolia. She earned her PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, based on her dissertation titled "Treasure Underfoot and Far Away: Mining, Foreigners and Friendship in Contemporary Mongolia". Earlier she studied Anthropology at both Princeton (MA) and Beloit College (BA). She has written extensively on Mongolia; been awarded a variety of study fellowships related to Mongolia; and taught Anthropology at De Lanza College and Palo Alto University in California.
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For more information visit the ACMS website |
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