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Chair's Welcome 2015—2016 Newsletter Chair’s Welcome Greetings and best wishes been successful in recruit- to all the friends and alum- ing an extraordinary group ni of the Department of An- of new faculty to our pro- thropology at gram over the last Graduate student Kat Catlin is featured in Field Notes, the Polar Northwestern. As year. Last fall, we Field Services Newsletter. Read we come to the welcomed Dr. Katie end of another Amato to the Depart- academic year, it ment as an Assistant Undergraduate Melissa Jones is time to reflect Professor in biologi- is awarded the Fletcher Award for Outstanding Under- on the tremendous cal anthropology. graduate Research for re- accomplishments Katie’s work on com- search on the unconquered of our faculty, stu- parative and evolu- Maya in Belize. Read More. dents, and staff. tionary perspectives First year graduate student Ashley During a time when many on the gut microbiome is on Agbasoga is awarded the Tepoztlan- Anthropology programs are the cutting edge of science Northwestern Graduate Fellowship. experiencing retrenchment in bioanthropology and will Read More. and declining enrollments, expand the focus of our hu- our Department continues man biology program. to grow and thrive. Indeed, In September, three new the size and strength of our tenure-line Assistant Pro- Department have increased fessors will be joining us: dramatically, in terms of Drs. Adia Benton, Sera Professor Thom McDade is faculty, graduate and un- elected Fellow by the Ameri- Young, and Emrah Yildiz. dergraduate students, re- can Association for the Ad- Adia Benton is a medical vancement of Science, the search activity and extra- anthropologist who has world’s largest general scien- mural funding. As one of tific society. Read More. Doctoral candidate Jessica done groundbreaking work the leading Anthropology Pouchet’s work in Tanzania is on HIV/AIDS and the une- featured on CNN. Read More. programs in the country, ven distribution of health our goal is to extend our care delivery in Africa. Adia position as the nation’s sig- will play an active role in nature four-field program, strengthening the Depart- elaborating the Depart- ment’s medical anthropolo- ment’s distinctive vision for gy focus, while also contrib- research and education. uting to the Global Health Below is a small sampling and African Studies pro- of the impressive achieve- grams. Professor Mary Weismantel receives the Alumnae of North- Undergraduate student Odette ments over the last year: (continued on page 2) western University award for Zero helps Guatemalans avoid Faculty hiring. We have Curriculum Development. Read diabetes. Read More. More. Department of Anthropology Newsletter—Page 1 Chair’s Welcome, continued Sera Young is a nutritional anthropologist with an impressive Fellowships, 26 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants and research program that is examining issues of food security 29 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Research Awards. Our students and maternal-child health in East Africa. Sera’s research and also have had great success in job placement, securing post- teaching will expand the Department’s strengths in the areas doctoral fellowships and tenure-line positions in academia as of nutritional anthropology and global health. well as prominent research positions in the non-profit and Emrah Yıldız is a cultural anthropologist whose research is at policy worlds. the cutting edge of scholarship in both anthropology and Mid- Undergraduate Program. The Department’s undergradu- dle East and North African (MENA) studies. Emrah’s work ate program continues to flourish, attracting strong students examines the mobility of people in the Middle East, Islamic to all the core subfields of our major. The current size of our ritual, and commerce across borders and states. He will be undergraduate program is double what is was 10 years ago. jointly appointed with the MENA Program, further enriching The growth of our major is attributable to the excellent teach- the Department’s engagement with this important region. ing and mentoring of our faculty, and our Department’s strong Faculty Achievements in Research & Teaching. This commitment to undergraduate research and training. Each year’s program review provided us with an opportunity to year, all of our seniors carry out original research which is directly assess how dramatically the scope and impact of the often funded by undergraduate research grants. These pro- Department’s research and teaching have expanded. Over the jects regularly garner awards and recognition within the Uni- last decade the Department has averaged almost a million versity and at national conferences. Moreover, we find that dollars in external grant funding per year, more than four this training in research and scholarly writing contributes to times the funding level in the early 2000’s. During this peri- the success of our majors in a variety of different career tracks od, our faculty have produced more than 700 publications, (e.g., medicine and the health sciences, law, business, gradu- including refereed papers in the highest impact journals of ate school/academia). anthropology and general science and 21 field-defining books Your support has been critical to our success. Each year, gen- with top university presses. erous contributions from the friends and alumni of the De- In light of these contributions, our faculty have been recog- partment allow us to support summer research projects, field nized with prestigious distinctions within the university and school participation, language training, and conference travel across our discipline. Just in the last year some of the most for both our graduate and undergraduate students. In addi- notable achievements have been: Thom McDade being en- tion, this year a new endowment created by Tim and Eliza dowed as the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Anthropology Earle is allowing the Department to provide full funding for and elected as a fellow of the American Association for the two outstanding doctoral dissertation projects. The inaugural Advancement of Science (AAAS; Section H), Jessica Winegar recipients of the Earle Dissertation Awards are: Vanessa Wa- being appointed as the Harold H. and Virginia Anderson ters (“Prosperity on the Periphery: Christian Social Welfare in Chair, Cynthia Robin and Mark Hauser being elected as fel- Coastal West Africa”) and Bilal Nasir (“Secular Power in the lows of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Rebecca Selig- Counterterror State: Social Science, Islamic Ethics, and Ra- man being tenured and promoted to Associate Professor, and cial Solidarity in the War on Terror”). Shalini Shankar being promoted to full Professor. I sincerely thank all of our donors for their generosity and Our faculty also continue to be among the best teachers and commitment to the Department. Your contributions are mak- mentors in the College. Over the last year, several of our fac- ing a tremendous difference in supporting the transformative ulty have been honored with prestigious teaching awards -- work of our faculty and students. Helen Schwartzman received the Weinberg Award for Excel- With my warmest regards, lence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research, Cynthia Robin was recognized with the Karl Rosengren Undergraduate Men- toring Award, and Noelle Sullivan was selected for the Associ- William R. Leonard ate Student Government Faculty Honor Roll. Abraham Harris Professor and Chair of Anthropology Graduate Program. Our graduate students continue do to us proud, as our program is now among the strongest in the country. Particularly notable is our students’ success with external grants and fellowships. Over the last decade our stu- dents have received an impressive 23 NSF Graduate Research Department of Anthropology Newsletter—Page 2 Faculty Awards and Honors Faculty Around the World Thom McDade was named Carlos Monte- Helen Schwartzman just returned from spending the zuma Professor of Anthropology. Thom was month of May in Stockholm as a Guest Professor at the also elected Fellow by the American Associa- Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (Score) tion for the Advancement of Science, the at Stockholm University and the Stockholm School of world’s largest general scientific society. Economics. During her time at Score she gave a Public Seminar and a Workshop (with Renita Thedvall) on "Meetings: Everywhere and Nowhere." Helen was also invited to visit Lund University where she gave a talk Bill Leonard delivered the Distinguished at the Sociology Seminar Series on May 20 on the topic, Lecture to the Biological Anthropology Sec- "The Dance and Drama of Meetings: An Anthropological tion of the American Association of Anthro- Perspective." In July Helen and Renita Thedvall (from pologists at the 2015 National Conference. Score) will Co-Chair a day-long session on "Meetings: The title of his talk was Paleodiets and The ‘Infrastructure' of Work in Local and Global Set- Hominin Engergetics: Evolutionary Perspectives on Hu- tings" at the 14th Biennial Conference of the European man Nutrition. Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) to be held in Milan. Mark Hauser was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London, a ven- erable and distinguished group, founded in 1707, with interests in the material past and offices, archives and library alongside the Royal Academy and Royal Society in central Lon- don. Prof. Hauser joins Tim Earle, Matthew Johnson and Cynthia Robin as Fellows. Jessica Winegar was named the Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Chair. Helen Schwartzman Cynthia Robin has received the Karl Rosengren Faculty Mentoring Award for mentoring undergraduate research. Noelle Sullivan was selected for the 2015- 16 Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll. Robert Launay as Santa in the field Department of Anthropology Newsletter—Page 3 Faculty Books—Jessica Winegar Jessica Winegar pub- economic pressures that shape and outside groups, to hurdles in lished a book in 2015 how U.S. scholars research and sharing expertise with the pub- called Anthropology’s teach about the Middle East. lic. Anthropology's Politics offers a Politics: Disciplining The book shows how Middle complex portrait of how academic the Middle East politics and U.S.
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