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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

  • Fulbright (various)

            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)