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Annual Report for 2012 Annual Report for 2012 “Supporting worldwide research in all branches of Anthropology” Table of Contents Chairman’s Introduction .............................................................................. 3 President’s Report ....................................................................................... 4 Program Highlights ...................................................................................... 6 Engaged Anthropology Grants .............................................................. 6 Institutional Development Grants .......................................................... 6 Wenner-Gren Symposia Overview ...................................................... 10 Wenner-Gren Symposium Publications and Current Anthropology ........................................................... 11 Initiatives Program ................................................................................ 12 Historical Archives Program ................................................................ 13 International Symposia Reports .......................................................... 14 Meetings of the Anthropology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences ....................................................................................... 21 Osmundsen Initiative Grantees ........................................................... 22 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellows ................................................................... 24 Wadsworth Fellows .............................................................................. 28 2012 Grantees Dissertation Fieldwork Grants ............................................................. 31 Post-Ph.D. Research Grants ................................................................ 41 International Collaborative Research Grants ..................................... 45 Conference and Workshop Grants ...................................................... 46 New and Continuing Wadsworth Fellowships .................................... 49 Engaged Anthropology Grants ............................................................ 51 Initiatives ............................................................................................... 53 Historical Archives Program ................................................................ 54 Major Grant Program Statistics ................................................................ 55 Financial Statements ................................................................................. 62 Leadership .................................................................................................. 76 Reviewers during 2012 .............................................................................. 77 Staff ............................................................................................................. 79 2 Chairman’s Introduction Seth J. Masters Chairman, Board of Trustees Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. This Wenner-Gren 2012 annual report documents the work the Foundation does to promote anthropological research around the world. Our Foundation staff, led by President Leslie Aiello, is both expanding Wenner-Gren’s established grant-making programs, and launching a number of promising new initiatives. As this report documents, 2012 set a new record for the number of applications for Wenner- Gren funding. In addition, our efforts to continue globalizing our programs and increasing the Foundation’s presence on the internet have been bearing fruit. We are excited about the potential these initiatives have to increase Wenner-Gren’s reach and impact for anthropolo- gists around the world. As always, Wenner-Gren funds its operations and programs from the investment returns achieved on its endowment. Amidst volatile capital markets, Wenner-Gren's Investment and Budget Committee has delivered superior long-term investment returns with relatively low risk. As a result, the Foundation remains strong, and is positioned to pursue its mission for the foreseeable future. Finally, Wenner-Gren's ability to keep abreast of the issues facing anthropology would not be possible without the efforts of its dedicated staff, and the strong support from the commu- nity we serve. I would like to extend our deepest gratitude to the past and present Wenner- Gren Advisory Council members, as well as to the many anthropologists who have partici- pated in the Foundation's programs and activities. Seth J. Masters Chairman, Board of Trustees Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. 3 President’s Report Leslie C. Aiello, President 2012 was a year in which the Foundation focused on increased engagement with the field through our grant programs, social media, and our journal, Current Anthropology. Our core grant programs attract- ed almost 1500 applications, a record number. We also introduced a number of initiatives focusing on the history of the Foundation, leading up to the Foundation’s 75th anniversary in 2016. We are pleased that the Foundation continues its mission to provide significant support for Anthropology. One of our main engagement initiatives in 2012 was the launch of the Wenner-Gren Engaged Anthropology Grant (EAG). This program provides funds for past grantees to return to their research locale and disseminate the results of their research in the most appropriate manner. There is a recog- nized need for this type of program in Anthropology and we have been impressed with the enthusiasm that greeted the program launch as well as with the diversity of proposed engagement projects sub- mitted at the first deadline, May 1, 2012. The reporting requirements for this grant include a posting for the Foundation’s blog, which provides an excellent opportunity for the grantees to publicize their re- search and their engagement activities. It also acts to raise the profile of the Foundation as a signifi- cant contributor to this important area of anthropological ethics. We have also introduced other initiatives to reinforce our social media presence and now have just under 1500 twitter followers and 1000 Facebook likes. Some of our new initiatives include blogging about upcoming Foundation-funded conferences, audio recordings of our Wenner-Gren/New York Academy of Sciences seminar meetings, and audio interviews with our Wenner-Gren Symposium or- ganizers. Daniel Salas, the Foundation’s Communications Assistant, continues to blog and tweet about the Foundation and all aspects of the broader discipline. His efforts are rapidly becoming a central feature of anthropology’s online life. There have also been a number of initiatives for Current Anthropology. We have been working with Mark Aldenderfer, CA’s editor, and with University of Chicago Press to increase the number of major papers that can be published annually and thereby to improve the acceptance rate for the journal. At present many good papers must be rejected because there is simply no space to publish them. We have also been working on ways to move towards more open-access material in the subscription- based journal. This has been encouraged by the outstanding success of the open-access Wenner- Gren Symposium Supplementary issues of CA, which top the CA rankings in issue and individual arti- cle access. Initiatives include editor’s choice open access articles in each CA issue and an article pro- cessing fee of $400 (payable by the author) for open-access availability. 4 President’s Report, continued We have also been focusing on the Foundation’s history. The main event in this area was a two -day symposium co-sponsored by the Swedish Wenner-Gren Foundations and ourselves (May 30-31, 2012) on “Reality and Myth: A Symposium on Axel Wenner-Gren“ held at the Wenner- Gren Center in Stockholm, Sweden (see: http://wennergren.org/history/-story-and-people- wenner-gren/people-wenner-gren/axel-wenner-gren). This meeting grew out of research into the politics of Axel Wenner-Gren carried out by Ilja Luciak (Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech) and provided the welcome opportunity for the Swedish and New York foundations, which have been largely independent throughout their existences, to make contact and discuss common areas of interest. Furthermore, we have commissioned two historians of science, Professor Susan Lindee (Penn State) and Dr. Joanna Radin (Yale) to write the definitive history of the Foundation and its impact on the field of anthropology. This is scheduled to appear as part of a Current Anthropology special issue for the 75th anniversary in 2016. Other historical initiatives include a grant to Edgar Krebs (Smithsonian Institution) to research the ethnographic films and col- lections of material culture by Paul Fejos, the Foundation’s first Director of Research. Fejos was a well-known filmmaker in the 1920s and 30s and we are developing plans to show his films at ethnographic film festivals in the anniversary year. Connected with this are plans to introduce a new fellowship in his honor, the Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethnographic Film. The Foundation continues to sponsor Wenner-Gren Symposia on “big” questions in Anthro- pology. In 2012, the following two meetings were held: 1) “Alternative Pathways to Complexity: Evolutionary Trajectories in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age” organized by Steven L. Kuhn (University of Arizona) and Erella Hovers (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and held June 1-8, 2012 at Häringe Slott Palace, near Stockholm, Sweden; and 2) "Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy"
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