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Awards/Honors

(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)

Jessica R. Cattelino
Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2008
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2008-09
Western History Association, Arrell M. Gibson Award for the year's best essay on Native American History, 2005 (For "Casino Roots: The Cultural Production of 20th Century Seminole Economic Development")
School of American Research Weatherhead Dissertation Fellowship, 2003-04
American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship, 2002-03

Julie Y. Chu
NSF Cultural Anthropology and the Law and Social Sciences Program Grant, 2009-2011
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
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
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
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 2007-08
Weatherhead Residential Scholar, School of American Research, 2002-03

Judith Farquhar
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

Kesha D. Fikes
SSRC/ACLS Fellow, Spring-Summer 2007
Fellow, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Chicago Aut 2006-Win 2007
Ford Minority Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2002-03
Wenner-Gren Post-Doctoral Research Grant 2001-02

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
Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 2005-06
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)
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
Resident Scholar Award, Woodrow Wilson School for International Studies,
2007-2008 [declined]
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
Visiting Scholarship, American Academy of Arts & Sciences/Harvard, 2004-2005 [declined]
Research and Writing Grant, Program on Global Security and Sustainability,
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1999.
Richard Carley Hunt Fellowship, Wenner-Gren Foundation, 2000.
Honorable Mention, DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History, for "States of Insecurity:
Plutonium and Post-Cold War Anxiety in New Mexico, 1991-96," 2001

William T.S. Mazzarella
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
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
Outstanding Dissertation Award, Maxwell School, Syracuse Univ., 2007
Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2003-2004
NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2003-2004

Danilyn Rutherford
Principle Researcher, West Papua Study Group for "The Dynamics and
Management of Internal Conflicts in Asia" sponsored by the East-West Center Washington and the Carnegie Corporation of New York 2002-04
Research & Writing Grant, Program for Global Security and
Sustainability, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 2002-03
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1999

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 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
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

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