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Her first book, \u201cThe Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast\u201d (Duke University Press, 2009), won the 2010 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion. Her second book, \u201cUnsettled: Denial and Belonging among White Kenyans\u201d (University of California Press, 2016), received Honorable Mention in the 2018 American Ethnological Society's Senior Book Prize, and Honorable Mention in the 2017 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing. She is the co-editor, with Norma Mendoza-Denton, of \u201cLanguage in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies\u201d (Cambridge University Press 2020). 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