Current Graduate Students: Awards & Honors
SPRING 2006
PRIZES
- Julien Mezey Dissertation Award, Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities
Enid Gabriella Coleman
The Social Construction of Freedom in Free and Open Source Software: Hackers, Ethics and the Liberal Tradition
- Daniel F. Nugent Dissertation Prize (Historical Anthropology)
Alan Thomas Durston (for 2005)
Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650
Thomas Hays Guthrie (for 2006)
Recognizing New Mexico: Heritage Development and Cultural Politics in the Land of Enchantment
- Sol Tax Dissertation Prize (For the Dissertation which "combines highest
intellectual merit with relevance to anthropology and action")
Enid Gabriella Coleman
The Social Construction of Freedom in Free and Open Source Sofware: Hackers, Ethics and the Liberal Tradition
- Roy D. Albert Prize (Best MA essay in Anthropology)
Jeffrey Sterling Kahn
Policing 'Evil': Witch Prisons and the Witch Hunt Franchise in the People's Republic of Benin
- Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Student Paper Prize
Jessica Rachel Greenberg
Noć Reklamoždera: Democracy, Consumption, and the Crisis of Representation in Post-Socialist Serbia. Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
- Association for the Study of Nationalities Graduate Student Paper Award
Jessica Rachel Greenberg
'Goodby Serbian Kennedy': Zoran Ðinđić and the New Democratic Masculinity. East European Politics and Societies (20)1: 126-151.
- Nicholson Center for British Studies BA Essay Prize
Eliza Clark Riffe
'A Matter of Life and Death': The Irish-American Archivist as a Cultural Biographer of Things
PRE-FIELD FELLOWSHIPS
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
Michal Ran (Senegal)
Balogun Theodore Rose (Sierre Leone)
- Jacob K. Javits Fellowoship
Caroline Elizabeth Schuster (Latin America - Southern Cone)
Michal Ran (Senegal)
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Alexander David Blanchette (US - Industrial Agriculture)
- Dolores Zohab Liebmann Fellowship
Alan Frederick Green (Archaeology/Caucasus)
- Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS/Title VI) ACADEMIC YEAR
Phoebe Rene France (Latin America-Portuguese)
Alan Frederick Green (East Europe-Russian)
Meghan Ree Hammond (Latin America-Portuguese) (decline)
Nicholas Hensley Harkness (East Asia-Korean)
Larisa Jasarevic (CEERES-Czech) (will decline for IREX)
Maureen Elizabeth Marshall (East Europe-Russian)
Marina Mikhaylova (East Europe-Polish)
Matthew David Rich (South Asia-Bengali)
Nelly Samoukova (East Europe-Polish)
Tatiana Tchoudakova (East Europe-Uzbek)
Gabriel Omar Tusinski (Latin America-Portuguese)
Lauren Anne Wynne (Latin America-Maya) (decline)
- Inter-University Program in Beijing (Tsinghua) Young Scholar Fellowship
Lily Hope Chumley (Academic year language study in Beijing)
Lauren Shan Keeler (Academic year language study in Beijing) [decline]
SUMMER 2007 GRANTS (Pre-field)
- Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships (various) - SUMMER
Lily Hope Chumley (East Asia-Chinese-Tsinghua) [decline]
Kathryn Elissa Goldfarb (East Asia-Japanese-Middlebury)
Nicholas Hensley Harkness (East Asia-Korean-Ewha)
Kathryn Elizabeth McHarry (Wolof - via Indiana Univ.)
Tracey Alexandra Rosen (East Asia-Chinese-Tsinghua)
Caroline Elizabeth Schuster (Latin America-Guarani-Paraguay)
Tatiana Tchoudakova (East Europe-Buryat)
Gabriel Omar Tusinski (Indonesian, via U Wisconsin SEASSI)
- Foreign Language Enhancement Program
Kathryn Elizabeth McHarry (Wolof, Indiana University)
Matthew David Rich (Sanskrit, SASLI-Wisconsin)
- Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture Travel Grants
Simon James May (Britain)
LaShandra Patrice Sullivan (Angola)
- Human Rights Program Internship
Kerry Ryan Chance (Centre for Civil Society, Durban, South Africa)
- AGEP/SBE Summer Collaborative Research Grant
Anthony Keith Alvarez (Archaeology)
- Vance Lancaster Research Grant in Lesbian and Gay Studies
Sarah Lynn Luna (US/Mexico border)
- Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship in Archaeology
Melissa Sara Rosenzweig (Israel)
- Council for European Studies/Society for the Anthropology of Europe Prefield Fellowship
Tracy Alexandra Rosen (Greece)
- Center for East Asian Studies Small Research Travel Grants
Nicholas Hensley Harkness (Korea)
- Center for Latin American Studies Travel Grants (Latin America/Iberia)
Zachary James Chase (Peru)
João Felipe Gonçalves (Cuba)
Elina Inkeri Hartikainen (Brazil)
Jeffrey Stirling Kahn (Haiti)
Mary Theresa Frances Leighton (Peru)
Marcos Alexander Mendoza (Argentina)
Tien-Ann Shih (Spain)
Lauren Anne Wynne (Yucatan)
- COSAS Language Study and/or Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowships
Matthew David Rich (Bangladesh)
- African Language Studies Fund
Kerry Ryan Chance
Kathleen Lorne McDougall
Kathryn Elizabeth McHarry
Gretchen Elisabeth Pfeil
LaShandra Patrice Sullivan
- Department of Anthropology Leiffer Pre-Field Research Fellowships ($2000 max.)
Filipe Lemos Calvao (Angola)
João Felipe Gonçalves (Cuba)
Nicholas Hensley Harkness (Germany)
Brian Arthur Horne (Russia)
Zada Nicole Johnson (New Orleans)
Simon James May (Britain)
Eitan Yadid Wilf (Boston)
- American Institute of Indian Studies Summer Language Program in India
Urmila Nair (Tibetan in Dharmasala)
- Fuerstenberg Fellowship (U Chicago)
Erik Lee Levin (Latin America)
FIELD RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
Betsey Behr Brada Fulbright-Hays (Botswana)
Erik Christopher Brodnax Fulbright Hays (Senegal)
Peter Joseph Graif Fulbright Hays (Nepal)
Azande Mangeango Fulbright Hays (Sudan)
Tracey Alexandra Rosen Fulbright Hays (Greece)
Tine-Ann Shih Fulbright Hays (Peru)
Rihan WenXin Yeh Fulbright-Hays (Mexico)
Rihan WenXin Yeh IIE Fulbright (Mexico) [decline]
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Rocío Magaña (Mexico)
Azande Mangeango (Sudan)
- NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants
Santiago Giraldo (Archaeology/Colombia)
Jeffrey Sterling Kahn (Law/Society, Haiti)
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Grants to Individuals in East Asian Archaeology and Early History
Hu LIN (Archaeology/China)
- IREX-IARO (International Research & Exhang Board - Individual Advanced Research Opportuities
Larisa Jasarevic (Bosnia-Herzagovina)
- American Research Institute in Turkey
Jeremy Francis Walton (Turkey)
- Dan David Prize Scholarship
Eitan Yadid Wilf (Filed work in Boston)
- Nicholson Center Long-Term Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship
Simon James May (922870) (Britain)
- Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Doctoral Research Grant
Catherine Kuhn Fennell (Chicago)
- Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Research Grant
Katherine Kuhn Fennell (Chicago)
- Smithsonian Institution Center for Materials Research and Education Short-Term Research Grant
MaryFran Heinsch (Eurasia Kura-Araxes Ceramics)
- University of Chicago Special Overseas Fellowships ($500-$2000)
Laura-Zoe Humphreys (Cuba)
Urmila Nair (India/Tibet in Exile)
- Janco Travel Grants (Social Science Division)
Royal Omar Ghazal (Oman)
POST-FIELD/DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Kimberly Alison Arkin (France)
- Dumbarton Oaks Juntion Fellowship in Pre-Columbian Studies
Byron Ellsworth Hamann (Mexico/Spain)
- Carter G. Woodson Institute Predoctoral Residential Research Fellowship
Yarima Bonilla (Guadaloupe)
- Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture Dissertation Fellowship
Sean Timothy Mitchell (Brazil)
- American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise Israel Scholar Award
Alejandro Ivan Paz (Israel)
- Mellon Foundation/University of Chicago Dissertation-Year Fellowships
Diana Bocarejo (Colombia)
- Committee on South Asian Studies Dissertation-Year Fellowships
Jayson McKenzie Beaster-Jones
Peter Gavin Johansen
Omar Kutty
Namita Sugandhi
- Center for East Asian Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowships
Anya Bernstein (Taiwan)
- Department of Anthropology Mark Hanna Watkins Dissertation-Year Fellowship
Catarina Alexandra Krizancic (Tahiti)
(Also First Alternate for the SSD Harper Dissertation Fellowship)
- Department of Anthropology Mark Hanna Watkins Post-Field Fellowship
Courtney J. Handman (PNG)
John Lewis Osburg (China)
- SSCD Dissertation Teaching and Research Fellowships
Steven Brian Kosiba (Peru)
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