Awards & Achievements

(Current year and major previous; note that numerous prior fellowships and grants from NSF, NEH, Wenner-Gren, SSRC, ACLS, etc. are not listed)

Hussein Agrama

  • Carnegie Scholars Program Fellow 2008-10
  • Fulbright Fellowship 1999-2000
  • Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship 1999-2000

Manuela Carniero da Cunha

  • Marc Bloch Lecture, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2004
  • Roquette-Pinto Medal for contributions to Brazilian Anthropology, November 2003
  • Jaboti Prize (May 2003) for the best Brazilian book in the Sciences in 2002 for her Enciclopedia da Floresta: o Alto Juruá: Práticas e Conhecimentos da Populações
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 2001-02
  • Member, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, since 2002
  • Order of Scientific Merit, Govt. of Brazil, 2002
  • Médaille de Vermeil from the French Academy 1993
  • Erico Vanucci Mendes Prize, 1992, for contribution to Brazilian Culture,
  • Awarded by CNPq & SBPC (Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science)

Julie Y. Chu

  • Sharon Stephens Book Prize, American Ethnological Society, 2011 Co-winner for Cosmologies of Credit
  • Honorable Mention, Gregory Bateson Award, Society of Cultural Anthropology, 2011 for Cosmologies of Credit
  • NSF Cultural Anthropology/Law and Social Sciences Program Grant, 2009-2012
  • Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Junior Scholar Grant, 2008-2009
  • Irmgard Coninx Foundation Fellowship, 2007
  • Apgar Award for Teaching Excellence, Wellesley College, 2005-06
  • University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2004-05
  • American Anthropological Association Minority Dissertation Fellowship, 2003-04
  • SSRC International Migration Program Dissertation Fellowship, 2001-02
  • Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2001-02

Jean & John Comaroff

  • Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize, Law and Society Association, 2008 (For “empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of reasearch in law and society”)
  • Anders Retzius Gold Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography presented by the King of Sweden, 2007
  • Conference hosted by the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard, on “Law and Disorder in the Postcolony,” 2003
  • American Historical Review (April 2003: 434-478) “Colonialism and the Possibilities of Historical Anthropology,” review essays considering Of Revelation and Revolution.
  • Special Issue Award, Council of Editors of Learned Journals, for Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism (special Issue of Public Culture 12(2), 2001
  • Special Issue, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2001, Vol 3. no. 1) devoted to Of Revelation and Revolution, Vol. I
  • Gordon Laing Prize, 1993 (best book by a faculty member published by the University of Chicago Press, for Of Revelation and Revolution, Vol. I)

Jean Comaroff

  • Phi Beta Kappa Travelling Scholar, 2009-10
  • Conference hosted by the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers, “Rethinking Africa in a Neoliberal World: Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance Twenty Years Later, 2007
  • Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Calendar year 2003
  • Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1995
  • Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 1997
  • Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1984 & 2002
  • Fellow, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe, 1981-82

John Comaroff

  • Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2003
  • Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1995
  • Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2002
  • President, Association of Political & Legal Anthropology, 1995-97

Shannon L. Dawdy

  • John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 2011-15
  • NEH Collaborative Research Grant, 2009-12
  • NSF Senior Research Award, 2009-10
  • Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Newberry Library, 2007-2008
  • Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, 2007-2008 [declined]
  • John L. Cotter Award in Historical Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, 2008 – for “The Taphonomy of Disaster and the (Re)formation of New Orleans”
  • Distinguished Dissertation Award, Rackham Graduate School, U Michigan, April 2004
  • Distinguished Dissertation Award, History, University of Michigan, December 2003

Michael Dietler

  • Director, University of Chicago Paris Center, 2009-10
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 2007-08
  • Weatherhead Residential Scholar, School of American Research, 2002-03

Judith Farquhar

  • Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 2010
  • Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC 2007-08
  • Future Faculty Mentor Award, Center for Teaching & Learning, Chicago, 2007
  • President, Society for Cultural Anthropology, 2005-2007
  • Wenner-Gren Foundation International Collaborative Research Grant,
  • 2002-05
  • Distinguished Teaching Award (Post BA Instruction) UNC-CH 2000
  • Bowman and Gordon Gray Associate Professorship for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, UNC-CH, 1995-98

James W. Fernandez

  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2003-04
  • Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1991
  • President, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 1992-94
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1982-83
  • Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, 1988-89
  • Radcliffe-Brown Lecture, The British Academy, 2002
  • Honorary Doctorate, Amherst, 2002

Michael Fisch

  • Harvard Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-10
  • Sincho Foundation Grant for Research in Japan, 2004-06
  • Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbusho) Fellowship, 1998-2001

Raymond D. Fogelson

  • Book Review Editor, American Anthropologist, 1966-70
  • President, Central States Anthropological Society, 1983-84
  • President, American Society for Ethnohistory, 1987-88

Paul Friedrich

  • Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, Yale University, 2007 — honors outstanding alumni of the Yale Graduate School
  • Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 1999
  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1982-83
  • Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Member, The Academy of American Poets

Susan Gal

  • Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2007
  • SSRC International Scholars Fellowship, 2004-05 (awarded 2002)
  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2002-2003
  • Honored by two sessions at the 2002 AAA meetings devoted to exploring the framework she & J. Irvine have developed for the analysis of linguistic differentiation;
  • Fellow of the Collegium Budapest, Summer 2004
  • President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, 1999-2002
  • Heldt Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for the book The Politics of Gender After Socialism (w/ Gail Kligman), 2002

John D. Kelly

  • Chair, Department of Anthropology, 2006-2009
  • Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division, 2002-05
  • Howard Foundation Fellow, 2000-01

Karin D. Knorr Cetina

  • John Desmond Bernal Award from the Society for Social Studies of Science for Distinguished Contributions to the Field, 2009
  • Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 2008-09
  • American Sociology Association (Theory Section), Theory Prize, for the Article (w/ Urs Bruegger) “Global Microstructures: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets,” 2007.
  • Her book, Epistemic Cultures, was awarded the 2001 American Sociological Association Robert K. Merton Award and the 2001 Society for Social Studies of Science Ludwik Fleck Prize (2001)
  • Honorary Doctorate, University of Luzern, 2005
  • Member, German National Academy of Science, 2004-
  • President, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1996-97
  • Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, 1992-93
  • Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 1976-77

Alan D. Kolata

  • Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 2005
  • Chair, Department of Anthropology, 2002-05
  • Manuel Vicente Ballivián Foundation Gold Medal for distinguished service to Bolivian science, 1990
  • Puma de Oro, from the Bolivian National Institute of Archaeology for “distinguished service to Bolivian archaeology.” 1990
  • Director, Center for Latin American Studies, 1994-98
  • Four major NSF grants, two major grants from NEH

Joseph Masco

  • ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship, 2007-2008
  • Rachel Carson Prize, Society for the Social Studies of Science, 2008 for Nuclear Borderlands
  • Robert K. Merton Prize, American Sociology Association, 2006 for Nuclear Borderlands
  • Honorable Mention, John C. Cawelti Award, American Culture Association for Nuclear Borderlands
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Resident Fellowship at the School of American Research, 2004-2005
  • Research and Writing Grant, Program on Global Security and Sustainability,
  • John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1999, 2004
  • Richard Carley Hunt Fellowship, Wenner-Gren Foundation, 2000

William T.S. Mazzarella

  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2010-11
  • Fellow, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Chicago, 2005-2006
  • Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Prize, Society of Humanistic Anthropology, 2004 for Shoveling Smoke
  • Cultural Horizons Prize, Society of Cultural Anthropology, 2004 for “Very Bombay.”
  • NSF Law and Social Science Program Grant, 2003-2004
  • Fulbright-Hays Department of Education Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship,
  • 2003-2004 [declined]
  • American Institute of India Studies Senior Research Fellowship, 2003-2004 [declined]

Kathleen Morrison

  • Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship 2008-10
  • Director of the U of C Center for International Studies, 2004-2007, 2008-2011
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford 2003-04.
  • Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Fellowship for her project “Early Historic Landscapes of the Tungabhadra Corridor, India” 2002-2005
  • National Geographic Society (w/ C. Sinopoli) Grant for “Early Historic Landscapes of the Tungabhadra Corridor, South India,” 2001
  • American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Leave Fellowship, 1999-00

Nancy D. Munn

  • Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1972-73
  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1992-93
  • Westermark Lecture, University of Helsinki, 2003

Ralph W. Nicholas

  • Norman Maclean Faculty Award, University of Chicago Alumni Assn. 2007 for outstanding contributions to teaching and student life
  • President, American Institute of India Studies, 2003-present
  • Dean of the College, University of Chicago, 1987-1992
  • Deputy Provost, University of Chicago, 1982-1987
  • Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1977
  • Editor, Journal of Asian Studies, 1973-1975

Stephan Palmié

  • Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2010
  • Senior Fellowship, Collegium Budapest, 2009 [declined]
  • President, Society for the Anthropology of Religion, 2007-
  • Honorable Mention, Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Award, Caribbean Studies Association, 2004 for Wizards and Scientists
  • Professeur invité, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , Paris 2001
  • Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research grant, 1996
  • W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow, Harvard, 1995
  • German National Research Foundation Habilitations Fellowship, 1994
  • German Research Foundation (DFG) Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1990

François G. Richard

  • NSF Senior Research Award, 2011
  • Residential Fellow, Franke Institue for the Humanities, University of Chicago, 2009-10
  • Outstanding Dissertation Award, Maxwell School, Syracuse Univ., 2007
  • Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2003-2004
  • NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2003-2004

Marshall Sahlins

  • Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1991
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1976
  • Honorary Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland, 1996; Fellow, British Academy, 1998
  • Gordon Laing Prize (best book by a faculty member published by the University of Chicago Press), 1978 for Culture and Practical Reason; 1998 for How ‘Natives’ Think; J.I. Stanley Prize, School of American Research, 1998 for Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii (w/P. Kirch)
  • Huxley Lecturer & Medalist, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1998; Radcliffe-Brown Lecture, The British Academy, 1988
  • Phoenix Prize, Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 1998
  • Honorary Doctorates from Université Libre de Bruselles, 1985; University of Paris X-Nanterre, 1999; University of Michigan, 2001; St. Andrews University, Scotland 2003;
  • Universidad Federale de Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2006
  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1967-68
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1963-64

Robin Shoaps

  • University of Southern California Center for Religion and Civic Culture Grant, 2010-11.
  • Visiting Faculty Fellow, Center for Ethics, University of Toronto, 2009-10
  • University of Chicago Women’s Board Grant, 2006
  • Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship, 2000-01

Michael Silverstein

  • Member, American Philosophical Society, 2008
  • John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Prize, 1982; Fellow, 1982-87
  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1979-80
  • Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1991
  • Phi Beta Kappa Traveling Scholar, 1989-90
  • Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 2000
  • Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard, 1966-72

Adam Smith

  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2010-11
  • Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2010-11
  • Fellow, Howard Foundation, 2006-2007
  • Fulbright Fellowship, 2006-2007 [declined]
  • Franke Institute Residential Faculty Fellowship Winter-Spring 2004.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities/American Councils for International
  • Education Collaborative Research Grant 2003
  • Wenner-Gren International Collaborative Research Grant 2003
  • Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, 1997-1999

Raymond T. Smith

  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1983-84

George W. Stocking, Jr.

  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1984-85
  • American Anthropological Association’s Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology, December 1998
  • Getty Scholar, Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities 1988-89
  • Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1992-93
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford 1976-77
  • Huxley Lecturer & Medalist, Royal Anthropological Institute, 1993
  • Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1994

Kaushik Sunder Rajan

  • American Institute for Indian Studies Senior Fellowship, 2009-10
  • NSF Post-doctoral Fellowship, Kennedy School, Harvard, 2002-03

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1990-91
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1995-96
  • Fellow, National Humanities Center, Triangle Park, 1985-86

Russell H. Tuttle

  • Editor, International Journal of Primatology
  • Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2006
  • American Anthropological Association/McGraw-Hill Award for Excellence in
  • Undergraduate Teaching (Spring 2003)
  • Medallion of the Collège de France 1995
  • Medal of the Foundation Singer-Polignac, 1990
  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1985-86
  • NSF research grants 1966-70, 1970-77, 1985-88
  • Wenner-Gren Foundation grants 1965, 1966, 1969