Current Graduate Students: Awards & Honors

 See links at the bottom of the page for Awards & Honors of prior years 

SPRING 2008

PRIZES

• Daniel F. Nugent Dissertation Prize (Historical Anthropology)

Yiching WU 
The Other Cultural Revolution: Social Protest and the Politics of Class in China, 1966-1969

• Sol Tax Dissertation Prize  (For the Dissertation which "combines highest intellectual merit with relevance to anthropology and action"

Andrea Karin Muehlebach
The Moral Neo-Liberal: Welfare State and Ethical
Citizenship in Contemporary Italy 

• Roy D. Albert Prize  (Best MA essay in Anthropology)                        

Caroline Elizabeth Schuster  
"Banking on Indigeneity: The Politics of Microcredit in
Argentina's Altiplano"   

• Bestor Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology (AAA) (Outstanding graduate paper)
  
  Kathryn Elissa Goldfarb
  Making the Oral Contraceptive 'for Me' in Japan: Signifyng Subjects with Bodies
  
  
• Ruth Murray Essay Prize - Center for Gender Studies (Honoring the best essays written in the areas of women's studies, feminist criticism or gender studies) 

John Lewis Osburg
" ‘Entertaining is my job': Masculinity, Sexuality, and
Leisure among Chengdu's New Rich Entrepreneurs"

• Nicholson Center Award  (Best undergraduate essay in the field of British Studies) 

Danae Konstantinos Roumis 
False Perceptions and Falciparum: A Political Ecology
of Malaria in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania"

PRE-FIELD FELLOWSHIPS

•  National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships

Kathryn Anne Ludwig  (Mesoamerica/Linguistics)

• Social  Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Geneviève Godbout (Latin America)
Joshua Daniel Lee Zaks WALKER (DR Congo)
Shirley Ceensem Yeung (Europe) 

• DFI (Diversifying Faculty in Illinois) 

David Munaver Bholat             

• Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS/Title VI) ACADEMIC YEAR

Natalja Denise Czarnecki (East Europe-Polish) 
Sean Michael Dowdy  (South Asia-Hindi)
Danielle Josselyn Flam (East Asia-Chinese) 
Sarah A. Kautz  (East Asia-Japanese)
Owen Nathaniel Kohl (CEERES-Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian)
Nelly Samoukova  (East Europe-Polish)
LaShandra Patrice Sullivan (Latin America-Portuguese)
Tatiana Tchoudakova (East Europe-Uzbek)
Gabriel Omar Tusinski (Latin America-Portuguese)
Brian Christopher Wilson (South Asia-Urdu)

• American Institute of Indian Studies Academic Year Language Fellowship 

Julie Alyssa Hanlon (Tamil in Madurai)

SUMMER 2007 GRANTS  (Pre-field)

• Social Science Research Council - Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowships

 Anna Jabloner (Science Studies)

• West African Research Association (WARA) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

Kathryn Elizabeth McHarry (Senegal)

• Mellon/Mays Travel and Research Grant

Jonathan Daniel Rosa

• US Department of State Critical Language Scholarship

Erin Elizabeth Pappas (Russian in Russia)

• ACLS Southeast Europe Language Training Grant

Benjamin Eugene White (Albanian in Arizona)

• Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships (various) - SUMMER

William John Feeney (Japanese in Japan)
Ali(son) Michelle Feser (Middle East-Arabic/Middlebury)
Danielle Josselyn Flam (Chinese - Beijing Language/Culture Univ)
Chelsey Louise Kivland (Latin America - Haitian Creole - Boston U)
Sarah A. Kautz (Japanese - Middlebury)
Owen Kohl (East Europe - BCS in Russ/EE Summer Lang Inst Pittsburgh)
Malavika Reddy (Thai - U Wisconsin -- FLAS via SEASSI)
Joseph Jay Sosa (Portuguese - Rio de Janeiro)
LaShandra Patrice Sullivan (Portuguese - Rio de Janeiro)
Gabriel Omar Tusinski (Indonesian - U Wisconsin -- FLAS via SEASSI)

• Kathryn Wasserman Davis Fellowship, Middlebury College

Claudia Gastrow (Brazil) (for Sum. Portuguese at Middlebury)

• Provost's Summer Fellowships

Yazan Haitham Doughan  (Jordan) 
Kathryn Elissa Goldfarb (Japan)
Elizabeth Gaines Anderson Fagan (Armenia)
Kathryn Jane Franklin  (Armenia)
Chelsey Louise Kivland  (Haiti)
Mary Theresa Frances Leighton  (Bolivia/Chile)
Benjamin Peter Luley (France)
Madeleine Theresa McLeester (Calumet)
David Bartholomew Pacifico  (Peru)
Matthew David Rich  (Bangladesh)
Melissa Sara Rosenzweig  (Turkey)
Lisa Simeone (France)
Joshua Daniel Lee Zaks Walker (DR Congo)

• Committee on Southern Asian Studies (COSAS) ($3600 each)

Julie Alyssa Hanlon (375236) (Excavation in Lattes, France)
Adam Carl Sargent (375274) (Hindi in Varanasi)
Gabriel Omar Tusinski (368590) (Prefield research E. Timor)

• Center for East Asian Studies Small Research Travel Grants ($3000 each)

Danielle Josselyn Flam (China)
Kiho Kim (China)

• African Studies Student Research Fund

Robert Winslow Blunt (Kenya)
Kerry Ryan Chance (South Africa)
Claudia Gastrow (Angola)
George Paul Meiu (Kenya)

• African Language Studies Fund

Kerry Ryan Chance (South Africa)
Ania Hannig (Ethiopia
Joshua Daniel Lee Zaks Walker (DR Congo)

• Human Rights Program Internship (UC)

Balogun Theodore Rose (Liberia)

• NSF Summer Institute on Research Design in Cultural Anthropology

David Munaver Bholat (Money/Banking)

• Center for Latin American Studies Tinker Travel Grants (Latin America/Iberia)

Jonah Michael Augustine (376365) (Bolivia, $875)
Anna Katherine Guengrich (350387) (Peru, $1200)
Mary Theresa Frances Leighton (368253)  (Bolivia, $875)
David Bartholomew Pacifico (377174)  (Peru, $1350)
Jonah Simcha Rubin  (350281)  (Spain, $1200)
Joseph Jay Sosa (383813)  (Brazil, $1400)
LaShandra Patrice Sullivan (351423)  (Brazil, $1400)

• Department of Anthropology Leiffer Pre-Field Research Fellowships

Michael Anthony Di Giovine (Italy) 
Anita Hannig (Ethiopia) 
Averill Jacob Leslie (Vermont)
Tatiana Tchoudakova (Buryatia) 
Gabriel Omar Tusinski (East Timor)
Brian Christopher Wilson  (India) 

FIELD RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

• Fulbright (various)

Kerry Ryan Chance - Fulbright-Hays (South Africa)
Alan Frederick Greene - Fulbright-Hays (Armenia)
Elina Inkeri Hartikainen - Fulbright-Hays (Brazil)
Chelsey Louise Kivland - Fulbright-Hays (Haiti)
Maureen Elizabeth Marshall - Fulbright-Hays (Armenia)
Meredith Lindsay McGuire - Fulbright-Hays (India)
Matthew David Rich - Fulbright-Hays (Bangladesh)

• Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

Kerry Ryan Chance (South Africa)
Elina Inkeri Hartikainen (Brazil)
Brian Arthur Horne (Russia)
Chelsey Louise Kivland (Haiti)
Kathleen Lorne McDougall (South Africa)
Erik Lee Skjon (Mozambique)

• Social Science Research Council - International Dissertation Research Fellowship

Filipe Lemos Calvão (Angola)
Kerry Ryan Chance (South Africa)
Marcos Alexander Mendoza (Argentina/Patagonia)
Elayne Mary Oliphant (France)

• NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants

Alan Frederick Greene (Armenia)
Chelsey Louise Kivland (Haiti)
Laurence A. Ralph  (US) (Law/SocSci)
Gustavo Rivera, Jr. (Brazil)
Jonathan Daniel Rosa  (US)
Steven B. Kosiba (Archaeology/Peru)
Erik Lee Skjon (Mozambique)

• American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship

Meredith Lindsay McGuire  (India)

• American Institute of Bangladesh Studies Junior Research Fellowship

Matthew David Rich (Bangladesh)

•  Program for Cultural Cooperation Between SPAIN's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities

Byron Ellsworth Hamann  (Spain/Mexico)

• American Philosophical Society - Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research (Max possible $5000)

Kerry Ryan Chance  (362183) (South Africa)

• University of Chicago Special Overseas Fellowships ($1000-$2000)

Brian Arthur Horne (Russia)
Mary Theresa Frances Leighton (Chile)

• Janco/Orin Williams Travel Grants (Social Science Division)

Michelle Anne Lelièvre (Nova Scotia)
Hu LIN (China)

POST-FIELD/DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar Program

Rocío Magaña (US/Mexico Border) [PostDoc]

• Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Beatrice Ann Jauregui (351250) (India)

• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships

Joseph Doyle Hankins (Japan)
Kabir Tambar (Turkey)                

• Josephine de Kármán Fellowship

Catherine Kuhn Fennell (US Urban)

• Collegium Budapest Junior Fellowship

João Filipe Gonçalves (Cuba)

• American Educational Research Association (AERA) Dissertation Fellowship

Jonathan Daniel Rosa (Chicago Education) [decline]

• Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture

Hadas Weiss (Israel)

• William Rainer Harper/Provost's Dissertation-Year Fellowship

Jolie Nicole Nahigian (US)

• Michael and Ling Markovitz Dissertation-Year Fellowship

Sarah Brohard Muir (Argentina)

• Mellon Foundation/Social Sciences Dissertation-Year Fellowship

Larisa Jasarevic  (Bosnia)

• Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture Dissertation Year Fellowship

Rebecca Sara Graff (Chicago Archaeology)

• Center for East Asian Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowships

Hu LIN (China)
Shunsuke Nozawa  (Japan)

• Committee on South Asian Studies Dissertation-Year Fellowships

Andrew Michael Bauer (India) 
Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury (Bangladesh)
Peter Joseph Graif  (Nepal)
Beatrice Anne Jauregui (India) (1 Qtr)
Urmila Nair  (India/Tibet in Exile)                    

• Institute for Turkish Studies

Jeremy Francis Walton (Turkey)

• Martin Marty Center Junior Fellowship

Jeremy Francis Walton  (Turkey)

• Department of Anthropology Mark Hanna Watkins Dissertation-Year Fellowships

Andrew Peter Graan (Macedonia/Media)

• Department of Anthropology Mark Hanna Watkins Post-Field Fellowships  

Lauren Anne Wynne (Yucatan)

• SSCD Dissertation Teaching and Research Fellowships

Gretchen Elisabeth Pfeil (Senegal)
Marston Hunt Morgan (New Caledonia)
Betsey Behr Brada (South Africa)

Awards and Honors - Prior Years

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