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Annual Report for 2013 Annual Report for 2013 “Supporting worldwide research in all branches of Anthropology” Table of Contents Chairman’s Introduction .............................................................................. 3 President’s Report ....................................................................................... 4 In Memoriam: Deborah Wadsworth ............................................................ 6 Program Highlights ...................................................................................... 7 Institutional Development Grants .......................................................... 6 Wenner-Gren Symposia Overview ...................................................... 11 Wenner-Gren Symposium Publications and Current Anthropology ........................................................... 12 Initiatives Program ................................................................................ 13 Historical Archives Program ................................................................ 14 International Symposia Reports .......................................................... 15 Meetings of the Anthropology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences ....................................................................................... 20 Osmundsen Initiative Grantees ........................................................... 21 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellows ................................................................... 24 Wadsworth Fellows .............................................................................. 28 2013 Grantees Dissertation Fieldwork Grants ............................................................. 32 Post-Ph.D. Research Grants ................................................................ 44 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships ........................................................... 48 International Collaborative Research Grants ..................................... 49 Conference and Workshop Grants ...................................................... 50 New and Continuing Wadsworth Fellowships .................................... 53 Engaged Anthropology Grants ............................................................ 55 Initiatives ............................................................................................... 58 Historical Archives Program ................................................................ 59 Major Grant Program Statistics ................................................................ 60 Financial Statements ................................................................................. 67 Leadership .................................................................................................. 81 Reviewers during 2013 .............................................................................. 82 Staff ............................................................................................................. 84 2 Chairman’s Introduction Seth J. Masters Chairman, Board of Trustees Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. I am pleased to present the 2013 Wenner‐Gren annual report, which documents the work the Foundaon does to promote anthropological research around the world. As we approach out 75th anniversary in 2016, we're excited that the Foundaon is seng new milestones for the quality and quanty of the research we support. Our Foundaon staff, led by President Leslie Aiello, connues to grow Wenner‐Gren’s established grant‐making programs. As documented in this annual report, 2013 set a new record for the number of applicaons for Wenner‐Gren funding. In addion, we connue to globalize our programs and increase our presence on the internet ‐‐ which helps to increase Wenner‐Gren’s reach and impact for anthropologists around the world. Wenner‐Gren's ability to remain at the leading edge of anthropological research would not be possible without the efforts of its dedicated staff, and the strong support from the community we serve. I would like to extend our deepest gratude to the past and present Wenner‐Gren Advisory Council members, as well as to the many anthropologists who have parcipated in Wenner‐Gren programs and acvies. As always, Wenner‐Gren funds its operaons and programs from the investment returns achieved on its endowment. Wenner‐Gren's Investment and Budget Commiee has delivered superior long‐term investment returns with relavely low risk. As a result, the Foundaon remains strong, and is posioned to pursue its mission for the foreseeable future. Seth J. Masters Chairman, Board of Trustees Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. 3 President’s Report Leslie C. Aiello, President 2013 was another busy year for the Foundation. Among many activities and initiatives, we made a num- ber of changes to our funding programs and put considerable thought into new initiatives in light of our upcoming 75th anniversary in 2016. We also enjoyed an “abundance of riches” in relation to the number of funding applications received, which were up by 10.3% in comparison to 2012 (1621 applications in 2013; 1470 in 2012). We made 251 grants across our programs and gave out just under $5,000,000 in direct support of the field. One of our major initiatives was the launch in November 2013 of the Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethnographic Film. This new fellowship is in honor of the first Director of Research of the Foundation, Paul Fejos, who was a pioneering ethnographic film maker. He was also instrumental in the establish- ment of the Foundation in 1941, convincing Axel Wenner-Gren to provide the original endowment. Gen- erations of anthropologists have benefited from his confidence in the then young field of Anthropology and this new fellowship is in honor of his lasting contribution. Other program changes include a complete revamp of the web pages for the Wenner-Gren Symposia, which should clarify the application and selection process for this popular program and also ensure a continued flow of high quality applications engaging the central issues of contemporary anthropology. In order to help with the increasing application numbers, we have also restricted the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship to a single application deadline per annum. The Osmundsen Initiative has also been termi- nated in favor of the newly introduced Engaged Anthropology Grant, which serves the same fundamen- tal purpose as the Osmundsen and is both easier to administer and better understood by our applicants. A formal “Confidentiality and Conflict of Interest Policy” has also been introduced to insure transparency and credibility in our peer review process. We have designed and introduced new publicity material and continued to develop our web presence. Particular initiatives in this area include an expanded section on the blog for Wenner-Gren-funded con- ferences and for our biannual symposia. The final reports for the Engaged Anthropology Grant also ap- pear as blog posts and this is helping to set the standard for anthropologists in the context of our ethical responsibility to engage with and give back to the communities with whom we work. A further web initia- tive is the introduction of a “Financial and Statistics Highlights” link in the “About” section of the site. This provides easy to understand information on aspects of Foundation grant giving. Current Anthropology continues to enjoy a strong position at the forefront of anthropological publishing and in 2013 was ranked fifth among all indexed anthropological journals, which is considerably higher than its main general anthropology comparators (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the American Anthropologist). We congratulate the CA editor, Mark Aldenderfer, and his team for an out- standing performance. In 2013 effort was also put into establishing open access alternatives for CA, 4 President’s Report, continued clarifying the instructions for authors and improving the CA websites. We realize that academic publish- ing is rapidly changing and have also paid considerable attention to assessing the position of CA in the rapidly changing academic publishing environment. We are also pleased with the success of our open-access supplementary issues of CA, which publish papers from our Wenner-Gren Symposium series. As of the end of 2013 we have published eight sup- plementary issues, which together have been accessed over 350,000 times. Our most popular issue on the Origins of Agriculture, published in 2011, has been accessed over 100,000 times. Wenner-Gren Symposia continue to highlight important current anthropological issues and debates. The following two symposia were held in 2013: 1) The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions organized by Joel Robbins (University of California-San Diego, now at Cambridge University, UK) and held March 8-15, 2013, at Tivoli Palácio de Seteais, Sintra, Portugal, and 2) Politics of the Ur- ban Poor organized by Shalini Randeria (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland) and Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University) and held September 20-26, 2013 at Hotel Villa Luppis, Rivarotta di Pasiano, Italy. We have another four symposia scheduled and look for- ward to the continuing success of program, which is central to the Foundation’s mission to foster the creation of an international community of research scholars in anthropology, and to provide leadership at the forefronts of the discipline. Our planning for the 75th anniversary of the Foundation in 2016 continues and we are
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