2011 Awards and Honors
PRIZES
Richard Saller Dissertation Prize (Division of the Social Sciences)
Nicholas Hensley Harkness
The Voices of Seoul: Sound, Body, and Christianity in South Korea
Daniel F. Nugent Dissertation Prize (Historical Anthropology)
Alexandra Marie Hartnett
Legitimation and Dissent: Colonialism, Consumption, and the Search for Distinction in Galway, Ireland, ca 1250-1700
Sol Tax Dissertation Prize (Dissertation which "combines highest intellectual merit with relevance to anthropology and action")
Andrew Peter Graan
Watching the World Watch: News Media and the Everyday Politics of International Oversight in Post-Conflict Macedoina
Jonathan Daniel Rosa
Looking Like a Language, Sounding like Race: Making Latino Panethnicity and Managing American Anxieties
American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education /
Educational Testing Service Outstanding Dissertation Award
Rocío Magaña
Bodies on the Line: Life, Death, and Authority on the Arizona-Mexico Border
Roy D. Albert Prize (Best MA essay in Anthropology)
Joseph Julian Ziems Weiss
"Challenging Reconciliation: Disagreement and Indeterminacy in Canada's Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission"
American Anthropological Association David M. Schneider Award
(for innovative work by a graduate student in the fields of kinship, culture theory, and American culture)
Averill Jacob Leslie
"The Kinship of Kallikaks: Henry Goddard's Ad Hoc Charting of a Pathogenic Family and its Foil"
Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Christine Wilson Award (Awarded at AAA 2010)
Megan Elizabeth Edwards
"Virginia Ham: The Local and Global of Colonial Foodways"
Oliver Cromwell Cox and Ernest Everett Just Award
(Best BA Thesis that focuses on issues of diversity and inequality)
(Ms) Hoda Abdi Hassan
"Double Discrimination: Perspectives on Disability and Gender in Kenya"
PRE-FIELD FELLOWSHIPS
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
Karma Franklin Frierson
Matthew Murphy Furlong
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS/Title VI) - Academic Year
Christopher Paul Bloechl (Latin America - Yucatec Maya)
Natalja Denise Czarnecki (CEERES - Georgian)
Eric Michael Hirsch (Latin America - Quechua?)
Kelly Lynn Wilcox (South Asia - Hindi)
DFI (Diversifying Faculty in Illinois)
David Munaver Bholat (Britain/banking)
Kathryn Ann Ludwig (US urban)
LaShandra Patrice Sullivan (Brazil)
Center for Arabic Studies Abroad (CASA) Fellowship (Cairo)
Kristin Gee Hickman
Qatar Scholarship, Arabic Language Program, Qatar University in Doha
(Administered through the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown)
Kristin Gee Hickman [decline]
SUMMER 2010 GRANTS (Pre-field)
Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships - Summer
Natalja Denise Czarnecki (Russian)
Eric Michael Hirsch (Quechua at U. Illinois)
Emma Elizabeth Hite (Mongolian at ACMS Ulaanbaatar)
Kevin Bryce Lowry (Mongolian at Indiana U)
Kelly Lynn Wilcox (Hindi at Wisconsin)
West African Research Association (WARA) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Lauren Nicole Coyle (Ghana)
Some Institute of Advanced Study (SIAS) Summer Institute Fellowship
"Regulating the World Society: Law, Governance, and the Quest for Global Justice"
Lauren Nicole Coyle (Ghana)
Human Rights Program Summer Internship (U Chicago)
Yaqub Hilal (Jerusalem)
Lauren Nicole Coyle (Ghana)
African Language Studies Fund
Lauren Nicole Coyle (Ghana)
Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship in (Greek/Roman) Archaeology
Karim Mata (Roman Rhineland)
Nicholson Center for British Studies Research Fellowship
Jessica Sarah Robinson Robinson (Archival Research in London)
Center for East Asian Studies: Chinese Studies Pre-Dissertation Research Grants
Britta Elisabeth Ingebretson (Bejing and other locations)
Xiao-bo Yuan (Nanjing)
American Philosophical Society - Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
Krsitin Gee Hickman (Egypt)
Department of Anthropology Leiffer Pre-Field Research Fellowships
Lee Cabatingan (Cuba)
Zebulaon York Dingley (Kenya)
Genevieve Godbout (Antigua)
Kristin Micole Mahealani Hara (Cambodia)
Britta Elisabeth Ingebrfetson (China)
Kevin Bryce Lowry (Western Mongolia)
Christopher Nicholas Sheklian (Turkey)
Anna Maria Weichselbraun (Vienna)
Joseph Julian Ziems Weiss (British Columbia)
Center for Latin American Studies Tinker Travel Grants
Lee Cabatingan (Cuba)
Christopher Paul Bloechl (Yucatan)
Genevieve Godbout (Antigua)
Christopher Micheal Grant (Caroibbean)
Meghan Morris (Cuba)
Committee on Southern Asian Studies (COSAS) Pre-Dissertation Research Travel Grant
Julie Alyssa Hanlon (India)
Sheflai Jha (India)
FIELD RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
Fulbright (various)
Adela Amaral - IIE Fulbright (Mexico)
Sean Michael Dowdy - Mellon/IIE* (India)
Anna Katherine Guengerich - Mellon/IIE* (Peru)
Gregory Duff Morton - IIE Fulbright (Brazil) [declined]
Joseph Jay Sosa - Mellon/IIE* (Brazil)
Brian Christopher Wilson - IIE Fulbright (India/Goa)
(*IIE Graduate Fellowships for International Study funded by Mellon / "Fulbright Hays")
Social Science Research Council - International Dissertation Research Fellowships
Lauren Nicole Coyle (Ghana)
Claudia Gastrow (Angola)
Gregory Duff Morton (Brazil)
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Jonah Michael Fares Augustine (Bolivia)
Lauren Nicole Coyle (Ghana)
Kathryn Jane Franklin (Armenia)
Claudia Gastrow (Angola)
Frederick Benjamin Ketchum (Germany)
Maureen Elizabeth Marshall (Stable Isotope Analysis)
Karim Mata (Netherlands)
Gregory Duff Morton (Brazil)
Michal Ran-Rubin (Israel)
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants
Lauren Nicole Coyle (Ghana)
Gregory Duff Morton (Brazil)
David Bartholomew Pacifico (Peru)
Melissa Sara Rosenzweig (Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey)
Inter-American Foundation Grassroots Development Fellowship Program
Gregory Duff Morton (Brazil)
EPA-STAR (Environmental Protection Agency - Science to Achieve Results) Fellowships for Graduate Environmental Study
Lauren Nicole Coyle (Ghana)
Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship
William John Feeney (Japan)
American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowships
Sean Michael Dowdy (Assam)
Shefali Jha (Hyderabad)
Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies
Frederick Benjamin Ketchum (Germany)
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship
Lauren Nicole Coyle (Ghana)
University of Chicago SSD Travel Fellowships
Filipe Lemos Calvão (Brazil?)
Tatiana Chudakova (Russia)
Kathryn Elissa Goldfarb (Japan)
Anna Katherine Guengerich (Peru)
Jeffrye Sterling Kahn (Florida/Iowa)
Averill Jacob Leslie (Vermont)
POST-FIELD/DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Chelsey Louise Kivland (Haiti)
Bretchen Elisabeth Pfeil (Senegal)
Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship
Mark Anthony Geraghty (Rwanda)
Josephine De Kármán Dissertation Fellowship
Elina Inkeri Hartikainen (Brazil)
Carter G. Woodson Institute Predoctoral Residential Research Fellowship
Elina Inkeri Hartikainen (Brazil)
Spencer/NAE Dissertation Fellowship
Kelda Ann Jamison (Turkey/Kurdish Literacy)
Benjamin Bloom Dissertation Fellowship
Kelda Ann Jamison (Turkey) Honorary (Won Spencer)
Institute for Turkish Studies Dissertation Fellowship
Kelda Ann Jamison (Turkey)
TIAA-CREF Ruth Simms Hamilton Research Fellowship
Chelsey Lousie Kivland (Haiti)
Oppenheimer Memorial Trust (South Africa)
Bernard Michael Dubbeld (South Africa)
William Rainey Harper Dissertation-Year Fellowship
Kelda Ann Jamison (Turkey) First Alternate
Michael and Ling Markovitz/Provost's Dissertation-Year Fellowship
Filipe Lemos Calvão (Angola) First Alternate
Mellon Foundation/Social Sciences Dissertation-Year Fellowship
Anita Hannig (Ethiopia)
James C. Hormel Dissertation in Sexuality Studies (U of C)
Sarah Lynn Luna (US/Mexico Border)
Center for East Asian Toyota Dissertation Writing Fellowship
Kathryn Elissa Goldfarb (Japan)
Committee on Southern Asian Studies (COSAS)
Nitya Deepa Das Acevedo (India)
Meredith Lindsay McGuire (India)
Matthew David Rich (Bangladesh)
Department of Anthropology Mark Hanna Watkins Post-Field Fellowships
Alexander David Blanchette (Oklahoma Panhandle)
Mary Theresa Frances Leighton (Peru/Bolivia)
Joshua Daniel Lee Zaks Walker (DR Congo)
Department of Anthropology Mark Hanna Watkins Dissertation Fellowship
Elayne Mary Oliphant (France)