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 Founda on does to promote anthropological research around the world. As we approach out 75th anniversary in 2016, we're excited that the Founda on is se ng new milestones for the quality and quan ty of the research we support.
Our Founda on staff, led by President Leslie Aiello, con nues to grow Wenner‐Gren’s established grant‐making programs. As documented in this annual report, 2013 set a new record for the number of applica ons for Wenner‐Gren funding. In addi on, we con nue 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 gra tude to the past and present Wenner‐Gren Advisory Council members, as well as to the many anthropologists who have par cipated in Wenner‐Gren programs and ac vi es.
As always, Wenner‐Gren funds its opera ons and programs from the investment returns achieved on its endowment. Wenner‐Gren's Investment and Budget Commi ee has delivered superior long‐term investment returns with rela vely low risk. As a result, the Founda on remains strong, and is posi oned to pursue its mission for the foreseeable future.
Seth J. Masters Chairman, Board of Trustees Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.
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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,
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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 in the process of developing initiatives that are focused on publicizing the Foundation and its history, on setting the agen- da for the future of anthropology, and on developing broader Foundation-lead public anthropological initiatives.
More about the Foundation activities in 2013 can be found in the “Program Highlights” section of this annual report. However, I would like to congratulate the 2013 recipient of the Institutional Development Grant (IDG), the Universite d'Etat d' Haiti, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Site visits were also made to three prior IDG recipients: Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Mongolia; Anthropologi- cal Doctoral Program at the Museum of Anthropology, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina; and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. We are pleased that the IDG program has made a positive difference to these diverse anthropology programs.
I would also like to congratulate the 2013 Wadsworth Fellows (Edmore Chitukutuku, Ana Majkic, Elisa- beth Nebie, Daniel Perera, Elina Petersone-Gordina, and Xinyuan Wang) and those Wadsworth Fellows who completed their doctorates in 2013 (Foreman Bandama, Habiba Chirchir, Iza Kavedzija, Rossio Motta, Alejandro Patino Contreras, Yonatan Sahle, and Catalina Constantina Tesar). These are out- standing young anthropologists and we are pleased to be able to help them achieve their doctorates.
I would also like to congratulate the 2013 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellows (Drs. Julie Soleil Archambault, Ulla Dalum Berg, Janne Karina Flora, Jaume Franquesa, Lucille Elizabeth Harris, Alexander Montgomery Nading, Padmapani Lim Perez, Martin Christian Hugo Skrydstrup, and Tanya Smith). The Hunt Fellow- ship is our most competitive program and these young scholars deserve particular recognition of their success.
And last but not least, I would like to thank the entire Wenner-Gren community for making 2013 such a productive year. This includes our Board of Trustees, the academic Advisory Council, the Wenner-Gren administrative staff, and our team of over 60 international anthropologists who review our applications and insure that the Wenner-Gren Foundation continues to support the highest quality anthropological research. Without the commitment of all involved we would not have been able to achieve the success- es that we have in 2013.
Leslie C. Aiello President Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. 5 In Memoriam: Deborah Wadsworth
The Wenner‐Gren Founda on is saddened to report the passing of Deborah Wadsworth, member of the Board of Trustees, on December 24, 2013.
Deborah was a close friend of the Founda on for many years before formally joining the Wenner‐Gren Board in 2006. Her compassion and commitment to the Founda on was steadfast, as was her belief in the poten al of anthropology to make a difference in the world.
The Founda on is forever grateful for her many contribu ons and friendship over the years, and extends condolences to all who were fortunate to have known her.
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Program highlights for 2013 include: the announcement of a new Institutional Development Grant; eight new Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships; the selection of six international scholars to train under our Wadsworth International and African Fellowship programs; the awarding of 177 research grants to students and established scholars under our Dissertation Fieldwork, Post-Ph.D. Research and International Collaborative Research Grant programs; support for 32 conferences and workshops; and support for 28 projects under our newest funding program, Engaged Anthropology Grants.
Institutional Development Grants The Foundation has had a long-standing interest in the international development of anthropology. The Institutional Development Grant program’s purpose is to support the growth and development of anthro- pological doctoral programs in countries where the discipline is underrepresented and where there are limited resources for academic development. The grant provides $25,000 per year and is renewable for a maximum of five years, providing a total of $125,000.
2013 IDG Recipient: Universite d'Etat d' Haiti Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
The 2013 Institutional Development Grant was awarded to Universite d'Etat d' Haiti (UEH), Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.
The Department of Anthropology and Sociology of the Faculty of Ethnology at the UEH is a department that offers a Bachelors of Science degree in Anthropology and Sociology. In the 2013-2014 academic school year, the Faculty established a Masters program in social anthropology. In 2014, it has begun working to build a doctoral program in anthropology in conjunction with the Doctoral School of UEH.
Support from this Institutional Development Grant will allow the EUH Faculty of Ethnology to create a true Department of Anthropology that links with the four sub-disciplines (biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, archeology and linguistics). With Bachelor’s and Master’s level degrees already in place, the Faculty of Ethnology’s long-term objective includes a doctoral program in cultural anthropology that could develop alongside team-based research in a number of areas such as medical anthropology, economic anthropology, political anthropology, legal anthropology, and urban anthropology. We will strengthen the research in the Faculty especially that which is underway since 2012 with a team from the LADIREP (Language, Discourse, and Representations) laboratory, working on a project called “Ethnology in Haiti: Writing the History of the Discipline to Support its Renewal.”
UPDATES from Prior IDG Recipients
2012 IDG Recipient: Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
2013 was the first year of the IDG for the Department of Social Anthropology, Addis Ababa University. They had five initiatives for the year: 1) to bring senior professors from partner institutions; 2) to provide top-up funds for doctoral student research; 3) to support an annual workshop for doctoral students; 4) to purchase books and fieldwork materials; and 5) to provide funds for a competitive travel grant for students.
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UPDATES from Prior IDG Recipients
Achievements were made in all of these areas in spite of the fact that the University failed to provide promised matching funding. In particular, Prof. Georg Kulte (Byreuth University) and Dr. Richard Kuba (Frankfurt University) provided courses on legal pluralism and research methodology, and later in the year Prof. Kulte returned for a seminar on “Culture, Society and Environment.” Funds also were used to support fieldwork for ten doctoral students and a successful PhD Students’ Workshop was held in July 2013 at which the students had the opportunity to present the results of their fieldwork (see photo). Orders for the purchase of books and fieldwork materials have also been made. Funds were also made available for two students to travel to Frankfort University in February 2014. The Addis organizers Participants from the PhD Students Workshop emphasized two major challenges for the IDG held July 2013 at Addis Ababa University, the program. The first was attracting (the once promised) 2012 Institutional Development Grant recipient. support from the university and the second was to insure support from the partner institutions in teaching and advising doctoral students. In 2013, Frankfurt University offered support and negotiations are underway with Byreuth and Florida for support in 2014.
2011 IDG Recipient: Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam
This was the second year of the IDG grant for the Department of Anthropology, the Vietnam National University. After intensive planning in 2012, with institutional partners from University of Toronto, University of Kyoto, and the Australian National University, an application for the doctoral program was submiitted to the VNU Director for assessment. This application has now been approved and the first doctoral students will be admitted to the program in 2014.
Achievements in 2013 included acquiring 227 books for the anthropology library, translating 17 articles and book chapters that will eventually comprise a reader for a course on “History and Theory in Anthropology,” and organizing a series of seminars focusing on research being carried out in the department and on methods and techniques in anthropological research. Professor Michael Dickhardt (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Goettingen) was an active participant. Plans for 2014 include implementation of the doctoral program, further translation of anthropological materials, and continued symposium and conference organization (in collaboration with the Vietnam Association of Anthropology and Ethnography).
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UPDATES from Prior IDG Recipients
2010 IDG Recipient: University of the Philippines Quezon, Philippines
For the third year for its IDG grant, focus was on building the capacity for conducting geochemical analysis of archaeological materials. The Archaeological Studies Program (ASP) supported three doctoral students: Jack G.L. Medrana, whose project (“Pain and the Lower Senses in the Philippine Archaeological Past”)attempts presents a post-processual approach of the human body and its archaeological contexts with a focus on the Ille Cave site assemblage;. Emile Robles (“Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Archaeology and Environments in Mindoro and Plawan, Philippines”); and Lee Neri (“Philippine Obsidian Sourcing and Characterization: Illuminating the Acquisition Patterns in the Past”). For 2014, the program will focus on zooarchaeology and the PhD Research Fellowship recipient will be Janine Ochoa, who will work in collaboration with Dr. Philip Piper from the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University. In addition to Wenner-Gren support, the Archaeological Studies Program acknowledges Dr. William Longacre (emeritus U. Arizona) for his generous donation of archaeology books and journals to the ASP Library in August 2013.
2009 IDG Recipient: Tribhuvan University Kathmandu, Nepal
2013 was the fourth year of the Dor Bahadur Bista Project (DBBP) for Advanced Training in Anthropology which is being carried out in collaboration with Cornell University. One of the highlights of the DBBP is the opportunity for Tribhuvan doctoral students to spend a year at Cornell. In 2013, Mr. Jiban Mani Paudel was chosen a the Cornell Visiting Fellow to finalize his dissertation draft on “Farming and Livestock among the Nashon People of Manang: An Anthropological Study of Local Knowledge and Perception on Climate Change” under the supervision of Prof. Kathryn March. Two earlier Cornell Visiting Fellows — Mr. Uddhav Rai and Mr. Bhanu Timseena — submitted the doctoral disserations. Both are faculty members of the Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Tribhuvan. Additional support went towards supporting faculty research, field research, and conference travel. Funding decisions were made by the IDG-WG Committee (whose members included Drs. March and Holmberg from Cornell). The faculty award went to Mr. Nabin Rawal, to aid support of his study, “DOTS and Docile Bodies: Anthropological Explorations into a TB Bacillus Infected Body.” The doctoral research grant was awarded to Mr. Kapil Dahla, to support his proposal, “Health, Health Seeking and Practices and Consultation with Service Providers: An Anthropological Study of Teral Brahmin Women from Rautahat, Nepal.” In their concluding remarks, Tribhuvan’s DBBP administrators reiterated the importance of Cornell Visiting Fellowships to the project, as well as their sincere thanks to Professors Holmberg and March for their support. Dr. Mark Aldenderfer carried out a site visit in December 2013 and confirmed the overall success of this IDG initiative
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2008 IDG Recipient: Anthropological Doctoral Program Museum of Anthropology National University of Cordoba (Argentina)
2013 was the fifth and final year of IDG support to the University of Cordoba, Argentina. In his final report, Dr. Andrés Laguens, the co-ordinator of the program, emphasized the significance of the IDG program, which not only made possible the development of the Cordoba doctoral program, but also provided opportunities for national and international networking for both staff and students. In particular, the Cordoba doctoral program has grown in academic reputation to the extent that two international agreements have been established, one with the Doctorate and Masters programs in Anthropology and Sociology at the Unversidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (funded by the Ministry of Education of both countries) and the other with the Universidad del Norte, Chile. These agreements insure a continuation of the program with new possibilities for international mobility. During the five years of the IDG program, a total of 72 students have been enrolled in the three subject areas of the doctorate, of which four students have already successfully completed their doctoral studies and obtained teaching and research positions.
2008 IDG Recipient: Dept. of Social and Cultural Anthropology School of Social Sciences University of Mongolia
2013 was also the fifth and final year of IDG support for the University of Mongolia. Goals for the final year of funding were to: 1) continue to expand the program by enrolling two new doctoral students; 2) send additional students on the exchange with Cambridge; 3) further expand the department’s resource collection in line with student needs; and 4) carry out the final evaluation of the doctoral program. All of these goals were achieved. Furthermore, Ms. Tsetsentsolmon and M. Lhagvademchig who have been supported by the grant for the longest period will submit their theses in the first semester of 2014. Both hold lectureships in the department and the department stresses that they will be a valuable contribution to the human resources available to anthropology at the University of Mongolia. Three of the doctoral students, including Ms. Tsetsentsolmon, visited Cambridge during 2013 and Ms. Tsetsentsolmon together with Dr. U. Bulag (the Cambridge liaison for the IDG program) organized the 13th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, held in Ulaanbaatar in the summer of 2013. This meeting hosted over 500 scholars interested in the anthropology of Tibet and also provided the context for meetings between the Cambridge and Mongolian IDG partners and the opportunity for Dr. Mark Aldenderfer to carry out a site visit for the IDG program.
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Wenner-Gren Symposia Overview
Wenner-Gren Symposia are week-long workshops that involve a small group of invited scholars who meet for intensive discussion and debate that address “big” questions in anthropology. Symposia are administered and fully supported (both financially and logistically) by the Foundation, and are based on a format that was developed and refined at Burg Wartenstein castle, the Foundation’s European confer- ence center from 1958 to 1980.
Wenner-Gren symposia are held at venues in the US and abroad that allow for an intimate meeting in a congenial environment with minimal distraction. The Foundation tries to sponsor two symposia each year with the papers published in an open-access supplementary issue of the Foundation’s journal, Current Anthropology.
The following two Wenner-Gren Symposia were held in 2013.
“The Anthropology of Chris anity: Unity, Diversity, New Direc ons” March 8-15, 2013 Tivoli Palacio de Seteais, Sintra, Portugal.
Organized by Joel Robbins (University of California, San Diego).
A detailed description of “The Anthropology of Christianity” can be found on page 15.
"Poli cs of the Urban Poor" September 20-26, 2013 Hotel Villa Luppis, Rivarotta di Pasiano, Italy.
Organized by Shalini Randeria (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland) and Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University).
A detailed description of this Wenner-Gren Symposium an be found on page 18.
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Wenner-Gren Symposium Publications and Current Anthropology
The Foundation now publishes the results of its symposia as supplementary issues of Current Anthropology, and is pleased to make them freely available to online readers as open-access publications. In 2013, the following two supplementary issues were published, bringing the total number of Wenner-Gren Symposium supplementary issues to eight.
“Potentiality and Humaness: Revisiting the Anthropological Object in Contemporary Medicine” Guest editors: Klaus Hoyer (U. Copenhagen, Denmark) and Karen-Sue Taussig (U. Minnesota, USA), published in October, 2013.
Current Anthropology, Vol. 54, S7, pp. S1-S177.
Wenner-Gren Symposium #144 was held October 28– November 4, 2011, at the Hotel Rosa dos Ventos, Teresópolis, Brazil.
”Alternative Pathways to Complexity: Evolutionary Trajectories in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age” Guest editors: Steven L. Kuhn (U. Arizona, USA) and Erella Hovers (Hebrew U., Israel), published December 2013,
Current Anthropology, Vol. 54, S8, pp. S178-S406.
Wenner-Gren Symposium #145 was held June 1-8, 2012, at Haringe Slott Palace in Stockholm, Sweden.
Starting with “Working Memory: Beyond Language and Symbolism (Vol. 51, S1, June 2010),” all supplementary symposia issues of Current Anthropology are published online with “open access,” meaning anyone can download these articles. “Open access” epitomizes the Wenner-Gren mission to promote anthropology, by providing the freshest research from all branches of the discipline, to individuals and organizations lacking the resources to maintain subscriptions. And it is a matter of considerable pride that Current Anthropology has become the first mainstream anthropology journal to make a significant amount of content available online free-of-charge.
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Initiatives Program
History of Wenner-Gren Foundation
Under the Initiatives program, support was given to Dr. Susan Lindee (U of Pennsylvania) and Dr. Joann Radin (Yale) to aid archival research and writing on “A History of the Wenner-Gren Foundation and its Impact in Anthropology.” This initiative is part of the Foundation’s preparations for its 75th anniversary in 2016. The results of Drs. Lindee and Radin’s research will appear in a special commemorative open-access issue of Current Anthropology that will be published in 2016. .
The Wenner-Gren Foundation offices at 14 East 71st Street in New York City, circa 1950.
New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology Section Lecture Series
The Foundation is also pleased to use Initiatives Grants funding to continue support for the New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology Section, to enable its guidance committee and members to continue their popular monthly seminar series, which is held in the Foundation offices.. The Initiatives Grant helps to defray the costs associated with bringing speakers to the event as well as hospitality expenses. The current Initiatives Grant of $15,000 (awarded in 2012) is expected to support four An NYAS Anthropology Panel in the current Wenner-Gren Founda- years of the seminar series. tion offices at 470 Park Avenue South in New York City.
The Foundation considers the NYAS Anthropology seminars to be an important way to integrate the Foundation into the anthropological community in New York, and promotes upcoming lectures on its website and blog, and posts audio recordings of the presentation and discussion period on the Wenner-Gren blog usually on the day following the presentation.
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Historical Archives Program
Five Historical Archives Program grants were awarded in 2013:
Francis P. Conant (1927–2011), whose papers and research materials were deposited with the National Anthropological Archives (NAA) in Suitland, Maryland (USA), was a cultural anthropologist who pioneered the use of satellite-delivered remote sensing data to improve agriculture and health conditions in remote areas of Africa. He joined the faculty at Hunter College in 1962, became a founding member of Hunter’s Department of Anthropology the following year, and later headed its Human Ecology and Remote Sensing Laboratory. In addition to his contributions to the development of remote sensing technologies in anthropology, Conant’s work included the application of anthropological methods to sex and gender studies and, towards the end of his career, the study of malaria and AIDS in Africa. .
Alfred E. Dittert, Jr.’s (1922-2006) research materials were archived with the School of Human Evolution & Social Change at Arizona State University in Tempe. Dittert was a member of ASU’s Department of Anthropology rom 1967 until his retirement in 1987. He was a widely respected teacher in the classroom and field schools. He authored numerous publications, both scholarly and popular, on a variety of topics in southwestern archaeology. Among the best known is Generations in Clay, which he wrote with Fred Plog. After his retirement, Dittert continued working on a number of archaeological and ethnological projects that were important to him, including extensive work on water claims for the Pueblo of Acoma.
Ivan Karp (1943–2011), whose materials were archived with the NAA, was a social anthropologist and leading scholar of social theory. The NEH Professor at Emory University, Karp served previously as Curator of African Ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History, and as a professor at Indiana University and Colgate University. Karp founded the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship at Emory, fostering ongoing collaboration with colleagues in universities, museums, and other cultural institutions in South Africa through the Institutions of Public Culture program.
Joann Kealiinohomoku (born 1930) received an HAP grant to deposit her research collection with the Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collection at Arizona State University. Kealiinohomoku is an American anthropologist and educator, and co- founder of the dance research organization Cross-Cultural Dance Resources. Some of her best-known works are "An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance" (1970) and "Theory and Methods for an Anthropological Study of Dance" (1976). An associate professor of anthropology at Northern Arizona University, she was named professor emerita in 1987. In 1997, she received the first annual award for "Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research" from the Congress on Research in Dance.
Owen Lynch (1931–2013), whose research materials were deposited with the National Anthropological Archives, was the Charles F. Noyes Professor of Anthropology at New York University from 1974 until his retirement in 2003. Previously he taught in the anthropology faculty of SUNY Binghamton. His contributions to urban anthropology and to the study of the Dalit community (formerly known as Untouchables), emotions in Indian life, and the politics of emancipation led to his recognition as one of the outstanding scholars of South Asia. His works demonstrated his personal belief that anthropology could be a force of social action and justice. He was a central figure in shaping both the anthropological community and the South Asianist community in New York City.
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“The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions” March 8-15, 2013, Tivoli Palacio de Seteais, Sintra Portugal Organizer: Joel Robbins (University of California, San Diego)
This symposium aims to address the question of how an intellectual movement such as the anthropology of Christianity negotiates the transition from its initial emergence – when the field is wide open and novel insights and arguments appear to be easy to find – to a second stage in which it consolidates its gains while also finding a way to maintain its energy and creativity going forward. Non- existent fifteen years ago, the anthropology of Christianity has rapidly grown into a large and vigorous field of debate. In the last few years, it has also begun to see the emergence of its second generation of contributors, made up mostly of people in the early Front: Chris Hann, Leslie Aiello, Simon Coleman, Maya Mayblin, stages of their careers. These Bambi Schieffelin, Joel Robbins, Caroline Humphrey, Webb Keane, scholars have brought new topics to Laurie Obbink.Middle: Annelin Eriksen, Naomi Haynes, Tanya the fore and have pushed for attention Luhrmann, Courtney Handman, Aparecida Vilaça, Janet Hoskins, Ruth Marshall Back: Matthew Engelke, Jon Bialecki, Andreas to be paid to branches of the Christian Bandak, John Barker tradition that had been relatively understudied during the first wave. Furthermore, with the maturing of the field has come the growth of conversations between its participants and those from other areas of anthropology. By bringing together representatives of the generation that founded the anthropology of Christianity and younger scholars, by inviting those studying Christian traditions largely ignored during the first wave of work in the field, and by explicitly focusing on conversations with those whose primary research is in other parts of anthropology, this symposium aims both to identify and integrate the most important findings of the field to this point and to develop new approaches and ideas that will allow it to continue to flourish.
As an intellectual endeavor launched with a high degree of self-consciousness, the anthropology of Christianity has arguably been marked by an unusually high degree of coherence and shared sense of key issues. Questions about the specificity of Christian understandings of transcendence, language, cultural change, religious experience, morality, and individualism have all received sustained attention from anthropologists working in many different parts of the world. The tight integration of the field has been beneficial in many ways, allowing cross-regional conversations to develop more quickly and productively than they often do in contemporary anthropology. One urgent task for the anthropology of Christianity at this stage is to consolidate the most important findings from these early areas of shared concern, and to synthesize these findings into a clear understanding of what is unique about the anthropological understanding of Christianity.
Even as the precocious coherence of the anthropology of Christianity has played a critical role in its rapid success, however, there are reasons to suggest that the moment is ripe for the field to begin to open its conversation up by focusing more on the diversity of Christian traditions, identifying new problems for comparative consideration, and further developing the links between the anthropology of Christianity and other areas of anthropology.
The time is right for this effort to open up the anthropology of Christianity for three reasons. First,
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although calls to acknowledge the diversity of the Christian tradition have been part of the anthropolo- gy of Christianity since its inception, in practice too little attention has been paid to this issue. In part this has followed from the need to stabilize Christi- anity as an object of study around which anthropo- logical discussions could develop, and in part it has been rooted in the fact that most of the research in the first wave of the anthropology of Christianity has been carried out with groups that spring from the Pentecostal and charismatic traditions. Both of these obstacles that in the past tended to push is- sues of diversity to the background have now been removed, and discussions that go beyond simply pointing to the fact of diversity and instead put it to Symposium participants on the “free day” excursion use in the development of new comparative argu- to Fatima. ments are ready to begin.
The second reason it is a good moment to open up the anthropology of Christianity is that a generation of scholars have begun to enter the conversation that has been trained while the field has already been a going concern, and the interests of its members are less shaped by the demands of getting a new sub- ject off the ground. While attentive to the debates that marked the first generation, they have also begun to raise new questions having to do with such issues as schism and denominational competition, Chris- tian formations of time, space and urban life, and Christian constructions of gender (a topic that despite some early interest has been left surprisingly undeveloped). One of the goals of the conference is to foster dialogue between members of this new generation and those from the original cohort of anthropol- ogists studying Christianity, both to encourage an expansion of the common discussion created by the first generation and to search for novel approaches at the intersection of generational interests.
A final reason that the time is ripe for an exploration of new directions in the anthropology of Christianity is that certain of its key findings have become part of mainstream discussion in other areas of anthropol- ogy. This has been true, for example, of work on language, change, religious experience, and morali- ty. In order to further develop such links, conference participants will include several anthropologists who have not studied Christianity ethnographically, but who are conversant with important aspects of the anthropology of Christianity and can explore how they might be deepened by, and contribute to, discus- sions on related topics outside the field.
The symposium is organized into several kinds of sessions. 1) One set focuses on reviewing what has been securely established concerning topics that dominated early work in the anthropology of Christianity. These papers will not, however, simply take the form of reviews of previous work. Each participant will connect the issue about which they write with emerging debates about Christian diversity, and explore the bearing of their focal topic on one or more themes that have become important in new empirical work. 2) Another session considers head-on the issue of Christian diversity and its bearing on the anthro- pology of Christianity. Participants here not only explore the issue of diversity, but also consider its Participants gathered around the table used to con- bearing on one or more of the topics of study that vene sessions over the course of six days of meetings. have been or are coming to be important in the
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Participants here will not only explore the issue of diversity, but also con- sider its bearing on one or more of the topics of study that have been or are coming to be important in the anthropology of Christianity, and which are the foci of other sessions. 3) Several sessions are devoted to pushing forward comparative conversations around new topics that have just begun to receive attention, and participants will consider potential links between the discussion of these topics and those around more developed themes in the field. 4) A final kind of session invites scholars who do not study Chris- tianity themselves, but who have worked on topics important to the anthro- pology of Christianity and have shown an interest in the field, to discuss substantial links that have been or can be made to other currents in con- temporary anthropology.
PARTICIPANTS:
Leslie C. Aiello (Wenner-Gren Foundation, USA) Andreas Bandak (University of Copehagen, Denmark) Symposium organizer, Joel John Barker (University of British Columbia, Canada) Robbins, in session. Jon Bialecki (University of California-San Diego, USA) Simon Coleman (University of Toronto, Canada) Matthew Engelke (London School of Economics, UK) Annelin Eriksen (University of Bergen, Norway) Courtney J. Handman (Reed College, USA) Christopher M. Hann, (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) Naomi Rae Haynes, monitor (University of Edinburgh, UK) Janet A. Hoskins (University of Southern California, USA) Jianbo Raymond Huang (Renmin University of China, PRC) Caroline Humphrey (University of Cambridge, UK) Webb Keane (University of Michigan, USA) Tanya Luhrmann (Stanford University, USA) Ruth Marshall (University of Toronto, Canada) Maya Mayblin (University of Edinburgh, UK) Joel L. Robbins, organizer (University of California-San Diego, USA) Bambi Schiefflin (New York University, USA) Aparecida M. Vilaca (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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“Politics of the Urban Poor” September 20-26, 2013, Hotel Villa Luppis, Rivarotta di Pasiano, Pordenone, Italy Organizers: Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University) and Shalini Randeria (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
We propose a symposium on the modalities of politics in the lives of the poor with specific ref- erence to the urban form. The literature on the urban poor has been strongly shaped by and connected to public policy interventions that generated such internal divisions as those be- tween the deserving and the undeserving poor, or between the proletariat seen as the engine of history and the lumpen proletariat, who are seen as those who are unable to engage in politics at all. Concepts like social capital moved from academic theorizing to the policy world in the context of framing of policies to help the poor move out of what was called the “poverty trap.” One of the consequences of this way of seeing the poor is that while agency Ground: Javier Auyero (kneeling), Carlos Forment, Melani is given to some kinds of poor, others are seen Cammett, Jonathan Spencer Seated: Shalini Randeria, in policy discourses as populations to be man- Leslie Aiello, Veena Das. Standing: James Williams, Tere- aged through both policing and paternalistic sa Caldeira, Harri Englund, Hayder Al-Mohammad, Asef interventions by the state. Though theoretical Bayat, Sylvain Perdigon, Valeria Procupez, Fiona Ross, AbdouMaliq Simone, Gerardo Leibner, Harini Amarasuriya, interventions such as subaltern studies did Filip De Boeck much to reclaim collective agency on behalf of those who are defined as subordinate, there was a concentration on moments of rebellion. As far as everyday life is concerned, there seems an implicit agreement with Hannah Arendt’s position that the poor are so caught in ensuring basic survival that they cannot exercise the freedom necessary for col- lective action that she calls the domain of politics. Thus following this kind of a conceptualization prob- lems relating to the poor are seen confined to studies of administration. However, we also do not wish to romanticize the poor but rather in recognizing that poverty might corrode the capacity for collective or individual action, we are interested in more realistic accounts of the functioning of politics in the every- day lives of the poor.
We propose a symposium on the politics of the poor in which both categories — that of the poor and that of politics — are put under pressure conceptually and ethnographically. Inviting anthropologists and scholars from related fields who have used ethnography in their own research on the urban poor in South Asia, Africa, Middle East, and Latin America, we pose the following questions in order to generate comparative ethnographies that can foreground the relation between urban transformations, poverty, and modalities of democratic politics.
First, what is the relation between governmentality and politics in relation to basic amenities such as wa- ter, sanitation, electricity, and housing? Can we speak of a politics of need contra Arendt and many oth- ers who assume that need belongs to the realm of administration and not politics?
Second, what lines of solidarity and antagonism run within the communities of the poor defined by locali- ty, kinship, and work? Instead of posing a dualism between the poor seen as unitary collective subjects and another subject (state, market), which stands out and is marked as the oppressor, we might ask how differences internal to the poor are implicated in the forging of political action?
Third, are there forms of inaction that might also count as politics, especially if life has been experienced as continually marked by violence? What kind of theory of action do we need to account, for instance,
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for political subjectivities that have emerged after civil wars, riots, or experiences of displacement? How does urban decay and the complete corrosion of institutions, lead to either a negation of politics or forms of collective action (protests, gang violence) that become ends in themselves?
Finally, what kinds of traces are left in the languages that circulate in communities engaged in the kinds of politics that are assumed in the first three questions? How do material traces link with linguistic traces? We want to go beyond such issues as politics of representa- tion and instead ask what kind of affective geographies Participants on their “free day” tour of Venice. of communication and expression can we discern in the everyday life of the poor. We are interested in asking whether regional histories and geographies as well as the diversity of intellectual traditions, leads to important differences in the very conceptualization of these issues? In what way do conceptual and political commitments as well as the artifacts through which facts are made visible shape the ques- tions we ask, what questions get asked, and what issues get eclipsed? Do regional comparisons gen- erate new questions? We are not committed beforehand to establish that the poor exercise agency or that the lines of conflict are clearly drawn between state and community; or that democracy has failed; or that the poor are so caught up in survival that the only forms of politics available to them are forms of clientelism. These are open questions and we hope that the symposium will show many pathways through which such issues can be addressed with innovations in how we collect empirical data and how conceptual innovations might be made in relation to the pressure of the conjoining of facts and values. Since the ethnographic method is now used across disciplines, the symposium would also give us an opportunity to reflect on potential contribution as well as the limitations of this method.
What guides economic practice in the lives of ordinary people? How do these dynamics differ from those predicted by mainstream economic models? Can anthropology bridge the gap between main- stream models and everyday practices? Can we propose a unified theoretical framework of the econo- my that integrates these diverse realities?
PARTICIPANTS:
Leslie C. Aiello (Wenner-Gren Foundation, USA) Hayder Al-Mohammed (Keele University, UK) Harini Amarasuriya (Open University of Sri Lanka) Javier A. Auyero (University of Texas, USA) Asef Bayat (University of Illinois, USA) Teresa Pires do Rio Caldeira (University of California, USA) Melani Cammett (Brown University, USA) Veena Das, organizer (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Filip de Boeck (University of Leuven, Belgium) Harri Englund (University of Cambridge, UK) Carlos Forment (New School University, USA) Gerardo Liebner (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Sylvain Perdigon (American University of Cairo, Egypt) Valeria Procupez (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Shalini Rendaria, organizer (Graduate Institute of Int’l & Development Studies, Switzerland) Vijayendra Rao (The World Bank, USA) Fiona C. Ross (University of Cape Town, South Africa) AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths College, UK) Jonathan Spencer (University of Edinburgh, UK) James Williams (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates)
19 Meetings of the Anthropology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences
The Anthropology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences continues to hold their Monday evening dinner seminars at the Foundation’s offices, thanks in part to funding provided through an Initiatives grant originally awarded in 2008 and renewed in 2012. This Initiatives grant not only allows the Anthropology Section to develop and rejuvenate their program, the meetings serve to further integrate the Foundation into the academic life of New York City as well as continue the tradition of Wenner-Gren “supper conferences” that began in the 1940s. Brian Boyd, Daniel Lende, Genese Sodikoff, and Rayna Rapp
The 2013-2014 NYAS Anthropology Section’s Presentations
October 10, 2013—Panel Discussion “Shirley Lindenbaum’s ‘Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands’ 30 Years Later” Speakers: Paige West (Columbia University), Rayna Rapp (New York University), and Shirley Lindenbaum, (CUNY Graduate Center)
October 21, 2013 “Nuclear Disaster, Environmental Health, and Human Rights in the Marshall Islands” Speaker: Barbara Rose Johnson (Center for Political Ecoology); Discussant: Glenn Alcalay (William Patterson University)
November 11, 2013 “Life in Slow Motion: Energetics, Aging, and Evolution in Humans and Other Primates” Speaker: Herman Pontzer (Hunter College, CUNY); Discussant: Susan Anton (New York University)
December 9, 2013 “Erupting Ruins: Dialetics of the Urban Landscape” Speaker: Shannon Dawdy (University of Chicago); Discussant: Zoe Crossland, Columbia University
February 10, 2014 “Re-Registering Moroccans: Mediatized Temporalities and the Politics of Recognition in State Storytelling“ Speaker: Becky Schulthies (Rutgers University): Discussant: Sonia Neela Das (New York University)
March 24, 2014—Panel Discussion “Culture and the Brain” Speakers: Daniel Lende (University of South Florida) and Rayna Rapp (New York University)
April 28, 2013 “Capitalism and Cloves: Islamic Plantations in 19th Century Zanzibar” Speaker: Sarah K. Croucher (Wesleyan University); Discussant: Mandana Limbert (Queens College, CUNY)
20 Osmundsen Initiative Recipients for 2013
The Osmundsen Initiative—named in honor of Lita Osmundsen, president of the Foundation from 1963 to 1986—provides up to an additional $5,000 to se- lect Dissertation Fieldwork and Post-Ph.D. Research grantees, for project com- ponents that are designed specifically to demonstrate the unique qualities of anthropology to make a significant contribution to contemporary social or intel- lectual issues.
In 2013, the following 29 projects received supplementary funds under this pro- gram:
Allen, Dr. Susan Elizabeth U. of Cincinna , Cincinna , OH ‐ To aid research on “Seeds of Complexity: Archaeobotanical Perspec ves on State Forma on in Southern Greece” Ayuandina, Sherria Puteri Washington U., St. Louis, MO ‐ To aid research on “Restoring Virginity: Hymenoplasty, Value Nego a ons, and Sexual Knowledge among Migrant Muslim Women in the Netherlands,” supervised by Dr. John R. Bowen Balakian, Sophia Ann U. of Illinois, Urbana, IL ‐ To aid research on “The Fraudulent Family: Kinship, Knowledge, and Uncertainty in Refugee Rese lement from Nairobi,” supervised by Dr. Alma Go lieb Brooks, Andrew Timothy City U. of New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY ‐ To aid research on “Uncommon Wealth: Fracking and the Dynamics of Social Structure in Rural Pennsylvania,” supervised by Dr. Michael Blim Brumm, Dr. Adam Robert U. of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia ‐ To aid research on “A World Apart: Earliest Human Occupa on of the Maros Karsts in South Sulawesi, Indonesia” Bu , Wagas Hameed U. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA ‐ To aid research on “Antagonism, In macy, and Tolerance: The Morality of Religious Syncre sm among Chris an Minori es in Lahore, Pakistan,” supervised by Dr. Steven M. Parish Cortesi, Luisa Yale U., New Haven, CT ‐ To aid research on “Living in Floods: Knowledges and Technologies of Disastrous Waters in North Bihar, India,” supervised by Dr. Michael Dove G'sell, Brady Lyford, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI ‐ To aid research on “Rela onal Subjects: Women's Child‐Support Claims and the Remaking of Poli cal Iden ty,” supervised by Dr. Adam Ashforth Greenleaf, Maron Estelle Stanford U., Stanford, CA ‐ To aid research on “Making More Than a Market: Carbon Credits and Distribu ve Poli cs in Acre, Brazil,” supervised by Dr. Lisa Curran Itzhak, Nofit U. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA ‐ To aid research on “Nego a ng the Poli cs and Ethics of Compassion: Chris an Humanitarianism in Rwanda and France,” supervised by Dr. Thomas J. Csordas Jones, Kyle Ellis Purdue U., West Lafaye e, IN ‐ To aid research on “'Uni ng All of Peru Isn't Easy': Youth and Transurban Spaces of Hip Hop in Peru,” supervised by Dr. Brian C. Kelly Jung, Dr. Yuson Wayne State U., Detroit, MI ‐ To aid research on “Just Food for Detroit: Groceries, Ethics, and Governance in the Resilient City” 21 Osmundsen Initiative Recipients, continued
Kurt, Firat Columbia U., New York, NY ‐ To aid research on “The Experts of Human Solidarity: Understanding and Governing Poverty in Neoliberal Turkey,” supervised by Dr. Rosalind Morris Lepofsky, Dr. Dana Sue Simon Fraser U., Burnaby, Canada ‐ To aid research on “Ancient Mariculture Among the Coastal First Na ons of Bri sh Columbia: Integra ng Archaeological, Ecological, and Tradi onal Knowledge” Levi , Emily Katherine Cornell U., Ithaca, NY ‐To aid research on “Changing the Tax Base Changes Everything: The Fiscal Dimensions of Ci zenship and Sovereignty in Upstate New York,” supervised by Dr. Paul Nadasdy MacDougall, Susan Oxford U., Oxford, UK ‐ To aid research on “Virtuous Selves and Keeping House: Women and Ideals of Social Progress in Jordan,” supervised by Dr. Morgan Clarke Mata‐Miguez, Jaime U. of Texas, Aus n, TX ‐ To aid research on “Assessing the Gene c Impact of Aztec and Spanish Imperialism in Mesoamerica,” supervised by Dr. Deborah A. Bolnick McNamee, Dr. Calla U. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ‐ To aid research on “Floodplain Agriculture in the Santa Clara River Valley: A Mul disciplinary Study of Human‐environmental Interac on and the Casas Grandes Phenomenon” Meek, Laura Anne U. of California, Davis, CA ‐ To aid research on “Curing Drugs: Pharmaceu cal Capaci es in the Context of Radical Uncertainty in Tanzania,” supervised by Dr. James H. Smith Nado, Kris n Lynn Arizona State U., Tempe, AZ ‐ To aid research on “Dietary Prac ces, Socioeconomic Status, and Social Mobility at Teo huacan, Mexico,” supervised by Dr. Jane Ellen Buikstra Pontzer, Dr. Herman, City U. of New York, Hunter College, New York, NY ‐ To aid research on “Energy Expenditure and Life History Among Hominoids” Rhine, Dr. Kathryn Angela U. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS ‐ To aid research on “Cultures of Collision: Road Traffic Accidents and the Poli cs of Trauma Care in Nigeria” Scaramelli, Caterina Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology, Cambridge, MA ‐ To aid research on “Swamps Into Wetlands: Water, Conserva on Science and Na onhood in Turkey,” supervised by Dr. Stefan Helmreich Sekine, Emily Laura New School U., New York, NY ‐ To aid research on “The Unsteady Earth: Predic ng Nature's Uncertain es in Post 3.11 Japan,” supervised by Dr. Hugh Raffles Valles, Dario Northwestern U., Evanston, IL ‐ To aid research on “Provedoras Unidas: La na Migrant Family Child Care Providers Nego a ng Poverty, Power & Organized Labor in Neoliberal Los Angeles,” supervised by Dr. Micaela di Leonardo Weichselbraun, Anna Maria U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL ‐ To aid research on 'Regula ng the Nuclear: The Textual Produc on of Technical Independence at the Interna onal Atomic Energy Agency,' supervised by Dr. Joseph Maco Weiner, Talia Rose U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL ‐ To aid research on 'Home of the Blues: The Poli cal Economy of Mood Disorder Self‐management in 21st Century Chicago,' supervised by Dr. Jennifer Cole
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Yount‐Andre, Chelsie Jeanne e Northwestern U., Evanston, IL ‐ To aid research on “Giving, Taking, and Sharing: Reproducing Economic Morali es and Social Hierarchies in Transna onal Senegal,” supervised by Dr. Caroline Bledsoe Zogas, Anna Baker U. of Washington, Sea le, WA ‐ To aid research on “'Invisible Injury': Mild Trauma c Brain Injury and Disability Compensa on in the U.S. Military Healthcare System,” supervised by Dr. Lorna A. Rhodes
23 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellows for 2013
Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships support the writing-up of already completed research, and are awarded to scholars in the earlier stages of their careers, when they frequently lack the time and resources to de- velop their research for publication. In 2013, eight Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships were awarded.
Ulla Dalum Berg Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey “Mediated Migrations: Technology, Mobility, and Belong- ing between the Andes and the US“
Abstract: During the fellowship period I will complete a book manuscript titled "Mediated Migrations: Technology, Mobility, and Belonging Between the Andes and the US," which employs ethnographic methods and anthropological theories of ex- change and circulation, social formations, and cultural forms to understand the multiple ways in which mobility and technology mediate and reconfigure the social in contexts of transnational migration and neoliberal globalization.
Drawing on long-term ethnographic research of Peruvian migrants in the US and their non-migrating family members in Peru, the research which forms the basis of the book analyzes participants' many- facetted engagement with media as social and cultural practice during periods of prolonged separation from their families and describes the multiple challenges of mobilizing, crossing, and living across inter- national borders. By focusing on the processes of sociocultural mediation that shape the circulation of migrants bodies, remittances, travel documents, and a range of media objects and forms between the Peruvian Andes and the United States the project investigates how mobility and technology intersect to produce new forms of migrant subjectivity and structures of belonging.
Janne Karina Flora University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK “Relatedness, Loneliness and Longing in Greenland”
Having been bestowed the names of recently deceased relatives, each person on the Island is a reincarnated or “returned” person. Names are like souls that denote personhood and personal characteristics. And with the name, each re- turned person inherits the social roles and positions in their deceased name- sakes' kinship networks, thus bridging the gap between life and death. Return however, necessitates feelings of absence, longing, and loneliness.
This project is based on extensive ethnographic research in a small village in northwest Greenland. It explores kinship and relatedness through the lens of loneliness and longing and asks: what does loneli- ness do to kinship? The project argues that loneliness is not merely a mirror-side, but rather an integral part of kinship and relatedness; one which Islanders frequently engage and manage in “doing” kinship and rendering it meaningful.
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Dr. Jaume Franquesa University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York “Dignity and Power: Energy, Nature, and the State in Rural Spain”
My book "Dignity and Power: Energy, Nature, and the State in Rural Spain" aims to contribute to the anthropological comprehension of energy transitions through a historically informed, socially situated study of the development of renewable energy in Spain. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in southern Cata- lonia, the book analyzes the institutional arrangements, cultural mediations, and social relations of production through which the energy from wind is har- nessed.
My research shows that energy transitions are complex, multilayered process- es that open possibilities for new social arrangements, while also highlighting the ways that such new social arrangements rework inherited relationships of power. I analyze the contradictory tensions pervading this process, patent in the fact that wind energy development has created new ecological imbalances between producing and consuming regions, despite marking a clear step forward in environmental terms.
The book explores local resistance to wind farm installation, and analyzes the cultural categories that frame these movements, placing special emphasis on the notion of dignity. Deeply rooted in historical peasant struggles, a range of local actors mobilizes the notion of dignity to express criticism against the increasing centralization of the country's energy model, thus providing crucial insights into the rela- tionship between renewables and democratic decision-making.
Lucille Elizabeth Harris Independent Scholar, Boise, Idaho “Families, Bands, and the Social Construction of Leadership in Complex Hunter-Gatherer Villages on the Northern Plateau“
The research that forms the basis of the proposed book project focuses on the changing nature of social organization associated with the growth and breakup of large nucleated hunter-gatherer winter settlements in the Mid-Fraser region of south-central British Columbia, ca. 2000-600 cal. B.P. These communities are frequently cited as textbook examples of socially stratified hunter-gatherers with wealth-based forms of inequality. However, little evidence was found to support this interpretation and an alternative framework for understanding social and political dynamics in these communities was offered. This framework posits that the process of village formation and aban- donment is indicative of a shifting balance of power between band political structures and extended family autonomy. Band political structures are argued to have predominated during the aggregated village period and operated to maintain relative equality between families by ensuring equal access to resources. The breakup of these communities is indicative of the reassertion of extended family auton- omy during a period of highly stressed resource conditions.
The book manuscript, for which fellowship funds are sought, examines more closely how leadership is constructed in the Interior Salish societies of the region, more fully developing the model introduced in my dissertation, and applies that model to archaeological data from the nucleated villages. Important- ly, this emerging narrative is situated within hunter-gatherer and complex hunter-gatherer theory and in so doing challenges how we define hunter-gatherer complexity and how we identify it in the material record.
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Alexander Montgomery Nading Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania “Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and The Politics of Entanglement in Nicaragua's Age of Dengue”
Dengue is the world's most prevalent mosquito-borne disease, infecting over 250 million people each year. The proposed book project, Mosquito Trails, profiles a group of state-employed community health workers, or "brigadistas," who led house-to-house dengue control campaigns in a low -income district of Managua, Nicaragua. As in other dengue endemic countries, operatives of the Nicaraguan state routinely entered homes, documented the presence of mosquitoes, and reported their findings to authorities. This mission seemed simple, but brigadistas learned that "inspections" required a blend of disciplinary authority and relational empathy. Neighbors could not completely shield themselves from mosquitoes, just as they could not avoid violence, water shortages, or other "symptoms" of urban poverty. Facing this realization, brigadistas conceived of health not as an absence of mosquitoes but as a management of connections among humans, their dwellings, and the nonhumans that shared them. Brigadistas used epidemiological and ecological science to learn with their bodies and environments, rather than simply to regulate them. Mosquito Trails bridges biopolitical and relational approaches to the anthropology of life, revealing how biomedical and environmental technologies that may seem like tools of governmental discipline can actually complement, rather than contradict, people's endeavors to remain alive to the world around them.
Padmapani Lim Perez University of the Philippines, Baguio, Philippines “Deep-Rooted Hopes, Green Entanglements: Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Nature-Conservation in Indonesia and the Philippines”
This study examines the on-the-ground impact of the discourses of indig- enous peoples' rights and nature-conservation in the context of two na- tional parks or protected areas in Ngaju Dayak settlements in Central Ka- limantan, Indonesia, and in Kalanguya ancestral domains in Benguet, the Philippines, respectively. It is a systematically comparative, multi-sited ethnography of what takes place between key actors in the processes of implementing environmental policies, laws, and programs among indige- nous peoples. It examines how indigenous people interact with laws that regulate their access to land and resources, and how they interact with agents of environmentalism. The book I am writing will be an accessibly written analysis of the com- mon implementation practices of nature-conservation projects that work with indigenous peoples. This ethnography of environmentalist action will be coupled with a description and analysis of the on-the- ground implications of indigenous peoples' rights as an emergent form of social-environmental justice on the Ngaju Dayak, the Kalanguya, their livelihood, their everyday lives, and aspirations. In addition, two academic articles will: 1) expound on an innovative method for comparative studies in visual eth- nography; and, 2) reflect on the paradoxes and ethical dilemmas of representing the other and using local narratives to create an environmentalist message.
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Martin Christian Hugo Skrydstrup Independent Scholar, Copenhagen, Denmark “Once Ours: Dramas of Repatriation and States of Redemption”
What form of property do museum objects embody? How should we understand the coming into being of the institution of "cultural property" and the contemporary praxis of "retention," "return," "restitution," and "repatriation?” In my field research, I interrogated these interrelated questions vis-a -vis two distinct cultural property polities: the American NAGPRA regime, which is renowned for a uniform legalistic approach, and the Danish ad hoc ethical modality, which has come to be known under the rubric of UTIMUT. My archival and ethnographic research focused predominantly on the "experts" of each regime trusted to make findings and deliberate disputes. What emerged was two distinctively different technologies of recognition of claimants, where NAGPRA grappled with definitions of indigeneity, specifically with regard to Hawaii, UTIMUT circumvented this question and only recognized other metropolitan museums as legitimate claimants. I found that the undergirding doctrine of NAGRPA was restoration of "prior possessions," whereas in UTIMUT the operating modality was "patrimonial partage" (ie a form of division of collections) according to curatorial criteria of preservation and display. I argue that these two operating modalities index different colonial legacies and define the materiality of the objects in question. I show that NAGPRA produce claims, whereas UTIMUT silence claims. Ultimately, I demonstrate that the transactional orders of each cultural property polity simultaneously expose the guilt and consciousness of the postcolonial nation-state and offer prospects for State legitimacy by way of redeeming colonial legacies. During the fellowship, I will complete a book manuscript based on this research tentatively entitled: "Once Ours: Dramas of Repatriation and States of Redemption." (photo credit: Christian Lindgren)
Tanya Smith Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts “The Evolution of Human Life History”
For over 150 years, scientists have puzzled over remains of our fossil ancestors, classifying them in varying degrees of "human- like" or "ape-like." Teeth are common in fossil assemblages, and they preserve precise records of daily growth and age at death, remaining unchanged for millions of years. Importantly, tooth formation is used to reconstruct the scheduling of growth and development (life history) in fossils. My research will: 1) reassess the relationship between first mo- lar eruption and life history while controlling for evolutionary relationships; 2) longitudinally document tooth eruption and life history in living wild chimpanzees; and 3) assess the evolution of human develop- ment through a cutting-edge study of early hominin juveniles. This project will critically examine funda- mental theories about the predictive value of molar eruption ages, directly test the association between tooth eruption and life history within our closest living relative, and yield the most comprehensive devel- opmental assessment of hominins predating Neanderthals. Four research articles will be published, fol- lowed by a review article that integrates these findings and articulates a vision for the future of hominin life history reconstruction. Understanding the evolution of growth and development is crucial for under- standing unique human attributes such as long childhoods and extended post-reproductive periods.
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Edmore Chitukutuku U. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Wadsworth African Fellow to aid training in socio-cultural anthro- pology at U. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, super- vised by Dr. Kelly Gillespie
I hold a Bachelor of Social Science degree in Anthropology and Sociolo- gy from Great Zimbabwe University (2007), as well as B.A Honours (2011) and an M.A from Wits (2013). I have worked for CARE Interna- tional as a humanitarian field officer, and as Assistant Lecturer at the Great Zimbabwe University. I was also a sessional lecturer in the department of Anthropology at Wits in 2011, as well as in the Wits International Human Rights Exchange Programme department in 2012.
My research interest is understanding political violence as a complex social phenomenon in society, as well as healing and reconciliation in the aftermath of political conflicts. My Honours, and Masters re- search tried to make sense of political violence in rural Zimbabwe through understanding rural life and livelihoods. My PhD research will focus on youth militia violence in rural Zimbabwe.
Wits has been my university of choice because of the diversity it offers in anthropology. Wits’ anthropol- ogy department has accomplished academics and researchers who help me to understand why anthro- pologists ask the questions they do, and to get the interrelations of our scholarship with the questions that we face every day as citizens and as members of organizations and communities. This environment has further enhanced my genuine interest in thinking about the terms in which we can understand the organization of social and political life. The Wits anthropology department hosts colloquia every week where they invite scholars from all over the world to present and debate emerging research and aca- demic issues. The seminar offers a brilliant academic engagement forum that refreshes and enlightens our understanding of social phenomenon.
Ana Majkic U. of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Wadsworth International Fellowship to aid training in archaeology at U. Bordeaux 1, Talence, France, supervised by Dr. Francesco D'Errico
During my studies of archaeology at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, I focused on Paleolithic archaeology and developed a special interest in hominins' cognitive abilities. In particular, I was fascinated by the debate on the emergence of symbolically mediated behavior (SMB) and modern cultures. My PhD research project aims to expand my previous work on the origins of SMB, by examining the earliest possible manifestations of symbolic behaviors in the Balkans, as evidenced in the archaeological record. I plan to accomplish this by analyzing different categories of material culture - pigment, engraved and perforated objects, personal ornaments - from a number of Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic sites in Serbia and adjacent regions. A variety of analytical techniques, including optical microscopy, SEM, TEM, XRF, XRD, Raman, Pixe-Pige, will be applied to study this material. The equipment to conduct these analyses is available at the CNRS laboratory PACEA, affiliated with the University of Bordeaux 1.
Scholars working in this laboratory have the expertise to guide my training and research, and critically evaluate results stemming from my analyses. Dr. Francesco d`Errico's extensive theoretical and analytical background on the emergence of symbolic behavior will guarantee a high quality education as well as facilitate publication of findings in international, peer-reviewed journals. This will allow inclusion of the relevant data from the Balkans into the wider debate concerning hominins cognition and origins of modern culture. The aim of my PhD research is to understand the time and mode of the emergence of symbolic behavior in the Balkans, and contribute, by building on such results, to the understanding of the events and processes that have led humans to develop such an innovative behavior in this region of Europe. 28 Wadsworth International Fellows, continued
Elisabeth Nebie U. Libre du Burkina, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Wadsworth International Fellowship to aid training in social anthropology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, supervised by Dr. Colin West
I am interested by the cultural politics of natural resource management in Burkina Faso. In 2010, I received a BA in International Public Relations from Université Libre du Burkina where my ‘mémoire’ examined how Burkina Faso tackles cli- mate change as a socio-cultural issue in the international arena. In 2011, I re- ceived a Fulbright Scholarship for a Master’s degree in International Develop- ment and Social Change at Clark University in Worcester, Massachussets where I graduated in 2013. My stay at Clark increased my interest in the cultural dimensions of natural re- source management, especially water. Water is a resource that connects human beings, but how does water scarcity impact self-identification and relationships among people?
I have been accepted to the doctoral program in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in order to explore this question. Through its pan-campus theme “Water in Our World”, UNC- CH makes major breakthroughs in water research and establishes lasting initiatives. I am particularly interested in working with Dr. Colin Thor West, whose work has concentrated on household adaptations to climate change in Burkina Faso. I would like to build on his research and add ‘joking relationships’, power and gender relations to the debate.
Burkina Faso lacks well-trained anthropologists and, more importantly, female professors and research- ers. The few anthropology courses use texts written by ‘outsiders’ about customs and practices in Burki- na Faso. It is time for contemporary ethnographies by Burkinabe anthropologists to be part of the curric- ulum. I am determined to motivate the creation of an anthropology department at the University of Oua- gadougou and be part of a research unit to help write contemporary ethnographies of Burkinabe. I am very honored to be a Wadsworth International Fellow and look forward to contributing to anthropological debates and research.
Daniel Perera U. of Texas, Austin, Texas Wadsworth International Fellowship to aid training in social cultural anthro- pology at U. of Texas, Austin, TX, supervised by Dr. Cecilia Balli
I am a first-generation Guatemalan from a family of Catholic Colombians and Se- phardic Jewish immigrants from Bulgaria and Palestine. I grew up in Guatemala City during a time of great political violence, coming of age after the signing of the Peace Accords (1996). I received my BA in International Studies and History (2003) from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For several years, I was part of the coordinating council of Unitierra (2003-2008), a grassroots think- and do-tank in Oaxaca, Mexico inspired by the ideas of Ivan Illich and the autono- mist political practices of the indigenous peoples of Oaxaca and Chiapas.
I recently received my MA in Latin American Studies (2013) from The University of Texas at Austin. My thesis focuses on elite retrenchment in response to the political and symbolic gains of black and indige- nous peoples in postwar Guatemala. I characterize the emerging neoliberal governance project as “post -multicultural.” My doctoral research interrogates the relation between whiteness, violence, securitiza- tion, affect, and evolving forms of social belonging in Guatemala. I draw from visual anthropology in or- der to examine the production, circulation and uptake of media artifacts, aesthetic forms and practices that might alternatively reflect the ascendancy of whiteness and the affirmation of life projects otherwise. As both a critical and an expressive component of my ethnography, I also seek to produce audiovisual artifacts in collaboration with my research subjects. 29 Wadsworth International Fellows, continued
I have chosen UT-Austin for my graduate studies because it is one of the premier research institutions for investigating Guatemala and the broader Mesoamerican region. As pioneers in Activist Anthropolo- gy, faculty at UT foster research that is critical, rigorous and epistemologically innovative while remain- ing committed to the struggles for social change that its subjects and stakeholders undertake. The de- partment also pushes the envelope in ethnographic writing, encouraging literary and audiovisual experi- mentation for more nuanced research-creation.
Elina Petersone-Gordina U. of Latvia, Riga, Latvia Project: To aid training in physical biological anthropology at Durham U., Durham, UK, supervised by Dr. Charlotte Roberts
I developed an interest in bioarchaeology and ancient disease during my under- graduate studies in Archaeology and Ancient History at Newcastle University, UK. After graduating (2009), I went on to complete the MSc program in Palaeo- pathology at Durham University (DU), UK (2011). My Master’s research focused on a wealthy post-medieval (17th – 18th century AD) cemetery population from Jelgava, Latvia. The evi- dence for possible nutritional stress found during the skeletal analysis suggested that this population was possibly subject to short-term stress episodes, especially during childhood. The results of this re- search were recently published in the International Journal of Paleopathology .
My PhD research at DU will continue to study post-medieval cemetery populations of Latvia, focusing on evidence of health stress, as well as diet, and will be based on an urban cemetery recently excavated in Riga. I chose Durham for my PhD studies due to the expertise of staff in bioarchaeology and palaeo- pathology, especially Professor Charlotte Roberts, who has published widely on palaeopathology and has taught bioarchaeology and palaeopathology for over 20 years. Moreover, archaeological research in general at DU was rated the best in the UK by the Research Assessment Exercise in 2008.
My reasons for wanting to pursue a higher degree in bioarchaeology are closely tied with the current status of the discipline in my home country and the urgent need for improvement. The study of archaeo- logical human remains in Latvia is underrepresented in archaeological research. It is impossible to study bioarchaeology at a higher degree level, and there are very few scholars working on human remains from archaeological sites. I have formed close relationships with the two existing bioarchaeologists in Latvia, Dr Guntis Gerhards and Dr Gunita Zariņa, and together we intend to improve the significance and visibility of the discipline in Latvia.
Xinyuan Wang U. of China, Beijing, PRC Project: To aid training in social cultural anthropology at U. College London, London, UK, supervised by Dr. Daniel Miller
My research interest in Digital Anthropology developed during my master’s degree at UCL. UCL’s Digital Anthropology programme is the world’s first programme focusing on the use of digital media from an anthropological perspective. My master disser- tation, which received a Distinction, analyzed particularly the usage and social impact of social media among Taiwanese in London.
My doctoral research pertains to a deeper examination of the use and social impact of digital media among Chinese rural migrants. Hitherto, anthropological research has only in very few instances taken on a specific enquiry of the welfare of Chinese rural migrants from a media usage perspective. Today,
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China has 130 million rural migrants. Under a system of rigid household registration, even today, rural migrants do not have the same rights or access to the same services (healthcare, education, housing, etc.) compared with their urban counterparts. One of the major problems rural migrants face is that they have been uprooted from their social networks back in their home villages, which has further deprived them from essential support. This study thus aims to lead to a comprehensive understanding of social consequences of social media among Chinese rural migrants.
My PhD supervisor Professor Daniel Miller is a leading anthropologist in the field of Material Culture and Digital Anthropology. My PhD research is integrated in his European Research Council project under the title Social Networking Sites and Social Science. This project is based on a comparative ethnographic study in seven different countries (www.gsmis.org). I am now doing my 15 months fieldwork at a small factory town in southeast China. Meanwhile, since 2012, I have undertaken the translation of the book Digital Anthropology (Heather & Miller 2012) into Chinese, to be published by Chinese People’s publishing house, the most prestigious publishing house in China.
31 Dissertation Fieldwork Grants for 2013
The Wenner-Gren Foundation awarded 133 Dissertation Fieldwork Grants in 2013.
Grantee Project Title Institutional Affiliation Aga, Aniket Pankaj Aga, Aniket Pankaj, Yale U., New Haven, CT ‐ To aid research on Yale U. “Gene cally Modified Poli cs: Transgenic Agriculture, Contested Knowledge, and Democra c Prac ce in India,” supervised by Dr. K. Sivaramakrishnan
Astorino, Claudia Marie Astorino, Claudia Marie, City U. of New York, Lehman College, New New York, Herbert H. Lehman York, NY ‐ To aid research on “Does Human Sex Indicator College, City U. of Morphology in the Skull Co‐vary With Age and Ancestry?,” supervised by Dr. Eric Delson
Ayuandini, Sherria Puteri Ayuandina, Sherria Puteri, Washington U., St. Louis, MO ‐ To aid Washington U., St. Louis research on “Restoring Virginity: Hymenoplasty, Value Nego a ons, and Sexual Knowledge among Migrant Muslim Women in the Netherlands,” supervised by Dr. John R. Bowen
Bajoghli, Narges New York U., New York, NY, Narges Bajoghli, PI ‐ To aid research on New York U. “Restaging the Revolu on: Military Media and the Contested Legacies of Revolu on in Iran,” supervised by Dr. Faye Ginsburg
Baker, Jennifer Lynne Baker, Jennifer Lynne, George Washington U., Washington, DC ‐ To George Washington U. aid research on “NR2C1: A Possible Proximate Mechanism for Brain Enlargement in the Hominin Clade,” supervised by Dr. Bernard Wood
Balakian, Sophia Ann Balakian, Sophia Ann, U. of Illinois, Urbana, IL ‐ To aid research on Illinois, Urbana, U. of “The Fraudulent Family: Kinship, Knowledge, and Uncertainty in Refugee Rese lement from Nairobi,” supervised by Dr. Alma Go lieb
Bardolph, Dana Nicole Bardolph, Dana Nicole, U. of California, Santa Barbara, CA ‐ To aid California, Santa Barbara, U. of research on “Exploring Migra on, Iden es, and Inequali es through Foodways in the Moche Valley of North Coastal Peru,” supervised by Dr. Amber VanDerwarker Beasley, Melanie Marie Beasley, Melanie Marie, U. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA ‐ To California, San Diego, U. of aid research on “Paleoenvironment and Seasonal Varia on in Rainfall at Allia Bay, Kenya 3.97 MA,” supervised by Dr. Margaret Schoeninger
Bekelman, Traci Allison Bekelman, Traci Allison, U. of Colorado, Boulder, CO ‐ To aid Colorado, Boulder, U. of research on “Using the Protein Leverage Hypothesis to Understand Socioeconomic Varia on in Diet and Body Size,” supervised by Dr. Darna Dufour
Bergey, Chris na Marie Bergey, Chris na Marie, New York U., New York, NY ‐ To aid research New York U. on “The Effects of Interspecific Hybridiza on on MHC Diversity in Wild Baboons,” supervised by Dr. Todd Disotell
Blair, James Joseph Allen Blair, James Joseph Allen, City U. of New York, Hunter College, New New York, Hunter College, City U. York, NY ‐ To aid research on “Extrac ng Indigeneity: Self‐ of Determina on and Energy in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas),” supervised by Dr. Marc Edelman
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation
Bloch, Lindsay Carolyn Bloch, Lindsay Carolyn, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC ‐ To North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U. of aid research on “U litarian Coarse Earthenware Produc on and Acquisi on in the Colonial and Early Federal Chesapeake Region,” supervised by Dr. Anna Sophia Agbe‐Davies
Blumenthal, Sco Adam Blumenthal, Sco Adam, City U. of New York, Graduate Center, New York, Graduate Center, City New York, NY ‐ To aid research on “Reconstruc ng Woody Cover U. of and Habitat Heterogeneity in Modern and Ancient East African Environments with Stable Isotopes,” supervised by Dr. Thomas W. Plummer Borea Labarthe, Giuliana Borea Labarthe, Giuliana, New York U., New York, NY ‐ To aid New York U. research on “Recas ng the Contemporary: A New Art Scene for the New Lima,” supervised by Dr. Fred Myers
Bozcali, Veysel Firat Bozcali, Veysel Firat, Stanford U., Stanford, CA ‐ To aid research on Stanford U. “Borderwork: Oil Smuggling Court Cases in the Turkish‐Iranian Borderland,” supervised by Dr. James Ferguson
Brant, Erika Marie Brant, Erika Marie, U. of Virginia, Charlo esville, VA ‐ To aid Virginia, U. of research on “Ancestors and Aggrandizers: Modeling Poli cal Power and Ancestor Venera on in a Post‐collapse Andean Society (AD 1000‐1450),” supervised by Dr. Stephen Plog
Brooks, Andrew Timothy Brooks, Andrew Timothy, City U. of New York, Graduate Center, New York, Graduate Center, City New York, NY ‐ To aid research on “Uncommon Wealth: Fracking U. of and the Dynamics of Social Structure in Rural Pennsylvania,” supervised by Dr. Michael Blim
Buier, Natalia Cornelia Buier, Natalia Cornelia, Central European U., Budapest, Hungary ‐ Central European U. To aid research on “Past Remembered, Present Opposed: Historical Memory and Labor Conten on in the Spanish Railway Sector,” supervised by Dr. Don Kalb
Bu , Waqas Hameed Bu , Wagas Hameed, U. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA ‐ To California, San Diego, U. of aid research on “Antagonism, In macy, and Tolerance: The Morality of Religious Syncre sm among Chris an Minori es in Lahore, Pakistan,” supervised by Dr. Steven M. Parish
Cartelli, Philip Aaron Cartelli, Philip Aaron, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA ‐ To aid research Harvard U. on “Marseille‐J4: The (Re)produc on of Space in a French Mediterranean Port City,” supervised by Dr. Mary Steedly
Cas llo, Eric Rafael Cas llo, Eric, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA ‐ To aid research on “The Harvard U. Effects of Varia on in Lumbar Curvature of the Lower Back: A New Viscoelas c Model for Interpre ng Varia on in Hominin Lumbar Lordosis,” supervised by Dr. Daniel Lieberman
Cortesi, Luisa Cortesi, Luisa, Yale U., New Haven, CT ‐ To aid research on “Living Yale U. in Floods: Knowledges and Technologies of Disastrous Waters in North Bihar, India,” supervised by Dr. Michael Dove
d'Avignon, Robyn Whitney d'Avignon, Robyn Whitney, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI ‐ To aid Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of research on “Graneries of Gold: Labor and Entrepreneurship on Senegal's Mineral Fron er,” supervised by Dr. Gabrielle Hecht
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation
Daniell, Rachel Jean Daniell, Rachel Jean, Graduate Center, City U. of New York, New New York, Graduate Center, City York, NY ‐To aid research on “Documen ng Contested Pasts: The U. of Produc on of History and the U.S. 'War on Terror',” supervised by Dr. Victoria Sanford
Darici, Haydar Darici, Haydar, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI‐ To aid research on Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of “The Poli cs of Childhood: Mobiliza on of Kurdish Children in Contemporary Turkey,” supervised by Dr. Andrew Shryock
Da atreyan, Ethiraj Gabriel Da atreyan, Ethiraj Gabriel, U. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA ‐ Pennsylvania, U. of To aid research on “Central Peripheries: Migrant Youth, Popular Culture, and the Making of 'World Class' Delhi,” supervised by Dr. John L. Jackson Jr. Di Rosa, Dario Di Rosa, Dario, Australian Na onal U., Canberra, Australia ‐ To aid Australian Na onal U. research on “Remembering the Colonial Past: Histories and Histo‐ rici es of Kerewo People (Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea),” supervised by Dr. Christopher Hugh Lewis Ballard Douglas, Aimee Catherine Douglas, Aimee Catherine, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY ‐ To aid research Cornell U. on “Cra , Crea vity, and Managing the 'Excesses of Modernity' in Sri Lanka,” supervised by Dr. Viranjini Munasinghe
Dowdy, Sean Michael Dowdy, Sean Michael, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL ‐ To aid research Chicago, U. of on “How 'Strangers' Account: Cosmoeconomics in Contemporary Assam, India,” supervised by Dr. John D. Kelly
Duarte, Columba Gonzalez Duarte, Columba Gonzalez, U. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada ‐ To Toronto, U. of aid research on “The Monarch Bu erfly Assemblage: A Transna‐ onal Study of Environmental Knowledge, Poli cs and Conserva‐ on Networks,” supervised by Dr. Hilary Cunningham
Duke, Guy Stephen Duke, Guy Stephen, U. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada ‐ To aid re‐ Toronto, U. of search on “Consuming Iden es: Culinary Prac ce in the Late Moche Jequetepeque Valley, Peru,” supervised by Dr. Edward Rueben Swenson
Elish, Madeleine Clare Elish, Madeleine Clare, Columbia U., New York, NY ‐ To aid re‐ Columbia U. search on “Shi ing Soldiers and the Social Logic of Drone War‐ fare,” supervised by Dr. Paul Kockelman
Erensu, Sinan Erensu, Sinan, U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MI ‐ To aid research Minnesota, Minneapolis‐St.Paul, on “Making of Green Energy: Cultural Poli cs of Nature in the U. of Turkish Black Sea Coast,” supervised by Dr. Michael Goldman
Fernandez Garcia, Sandra Fernandez Garcia, Sandra, UNED, Madrid, Spain ‐ To aid research on “Meanings and Senses in Process: An Ethnography of Emerging Prac ces of Ar s c‐technological Produc on in Urban Contexts,” supervised by Dr. Angel Diaz de Rada Brun
Field, Amy Leigh Field, Amy Leigh, New York U., New York, NY ‐ To aid research on New York U. “Capital, Creatures, and Care: Farm Animal Protec on Law and Human‐Animal Rela onships in Eastern Germany,” supervised by Dr. Sally Engle Merry
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Flamenbaum, Rachel Nora Flamenbaum, Rachel Nora, U. of California, Los Angeles, CA ‐ To California, Los Angeles, U. of aid research on “Transforma onal Technology and Language in the 'New Ghana',” supervised by Dr. Elinor Ochs
Fojas, Chris na Laiz Fojas, Chris na Laiz, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ‐ To aid Tennessee, Knoxville, U. of research on “Modeling Prehistoric Health in Middle Tennessee: Mississippian Popula ons on the Threshold of Depopula on,” supervised by Dr. Dawnie Wolfe Steadman Froehlich, Marlen Froehlich, Marlen, Max Planck Ins tute, Seewiesen, Germany ‐ To Max Planck Inst. aid research on “The Development of Gestural Signaling in Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes),” superivsed by Dr. Simone Pika
G'sell, Brady Lyford G'sell, Brady Lyford, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI ‐ To aid Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of research on “Rela onal Subjects: Women's Child‐Support Claims and the Remaking of Poli cal Iden ty,” supervised by Dr. Adam Ashforth
Garrido Escobar, Francisco Garrido Escobar, Francisco Javier, U. of Pi sburgh, Pi sburgh, PA ‐ Pi sburgh, U. of Javier To aid research on “New Perspec ves on the Inca Road: Local Mining and Globaliza on in the Prehistoric Chilean Desert,” supervised by Dr. Marc Bermann
George, Ian Douglas George, Ian Douglas, U. of Missouri, Columbia, MO ‐ To aid Missouri, U. of research on “Mapping the Cerebrocerebellar Language Network and its Role in Human Neuroevolu on,” supervised by Dr. Kris na Aldridge
Gilbert, David E. Gilbert, David, E., Stanford U., Stanford, CA ‐ To aid research on Stanford U. “Social Mobiliza ons in Indonesia's Conten ous Forestlands,” supervised by Dr. William H. Durham
Giusto, Salvatore Giusto, Salvatore, U. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada ‐ To aid Toronto, U. of research on “Neomelodic Notes: Commodified Aesthe cs and Illicit Poli cal Economy in Naples, Italy,” supervised by Dr. Andrea Muehlebach
Gouez, Aziliz Anne Gouez, Aziliz, U. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK ‐ To aid research Cambridge, U. of on “Dwelling in Debt: Mortgage Debt and the Making of the Future in Contemporary Ireland,” supervised by Dr. Nikolai Ssorin‐ Chaikov
Greenfield, Dana Emily Greenfield, Dana Emily, U. of California, San Francisco, CA ‐ To aid California, San Francisco, U. of research on “Crossing the 'Valley of Death': Biomedical Innova on and Entrepreneurship in a Public University,” supervised by Dr. Vincanne Adams
Greenleaf, Maron Estelle Greenleaf, Maron Estelle, Stanford U., Stanford, CA ‐ To aid Stanford U. research on “Making More Than a Market: Carbon Credits and Distribu ve Poli cs in Acre, Brazil,” supervised by Dr. Lisa Curran
Gupta, Hemangini Gupta, Hemangini, Emory U., Atlanta, GA ‐ To aid research on Emory U. 'A er‐Work: Class, Gender and Public Culture in Neoliberal Bangalore, India,' supervised by Dr. Carla Freeman
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Hagerman, Kiri Louise Hagerman, Kiri Louise, U. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA ‐ To California, San Diego, U. of aid research on “Domes c Ritual and Iden ty in the Teo huacan State: Exploring Processes of Social Integra on Through Figurines,” supervised by Dr. Guillermo Algaze
Hanson, Kari Lynne Hanson, Kari Lynne, U. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA ‐ To aid California, San Diego, U. of research on “Mosaic Evolu on of Subcor cal Structures and Neural Circuits in the Striatum,” supervised by Dr. Katerina Semendeferi
Heckert, Carina Michelle Heckert, Carina Michelle, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, TX ‐ To Southern Methodist U. aid research on “Gender Rela ons, Illness Experiences, and HIV/ AIDS Care in Santa Cruz, Bolivia,” supervised by Dr. Nia Parson
Heuson, Jennifer Lynn Heuson, Jennifer Lynn, New York U., New York, NY ‐ To aid New York U. research on “Sounding Western: Producing Na onal Sensory Heritage through Sound in South Dakota's Black Hills,” supervised by Dr. Marita Sturken
Hirsch, Eric Michael Hirsch, Eric Michael, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL ‐ To aid research on Chicago, U. of “Inves ng in Indigeneity: Development, Promise, and Public Life in Andean Peru's Colca Valley,” supervised by Dr. Jus n Richland
Huffman, Michaela Huffman, Michaela, Ohio State U., Columbus, OH ‐ To aid research Ohio State U. on “The Peopling of South America: Analysis of Dental Non‐metric Traits to Evalutate Migra on Scenarios,” supervised by Dr. Debra Guatelli‐Steinberg
Iacobelli, Nicholas Peter Iacobelli, Nicholas Peter, U. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA ‐ To Pennsylvania, U. of aid research on “Health at the Margins: Sovereignty, Punishment, and Recogni on in a Pennsylvania Prison,” supervised by Dr. Philippe Bourgois Ibrahim, Ahmed Sharif Ibrahim, Ahmed Sharif, City U. of New York, Graduate Center, New New York, Graduate Center, City York, NY ‐ To aid research on “Scriptural Interpreters in Somalia: U. of and Anthropology of Islam,” supervised by Dr. Vincent Crapanzano
Ihmoud, Sarah Emily Ihmoud, Sarah Emily, U. of Texas, Aus n, TX ‐ To aid research on Texas, Aus n, U. of “Policing the In mate in Contemporary Israel,” supervised by Dr. Charles R. Hale
Ikeuchi, Suma Ikeuchi, Suma, Emory U., Atlanta, GA ‐ To aid research on Emory U. “Brazilian Birth, Japanese Blood, and Transna onal God: Iden ty and Resilience among Pentecostal Brazilians in Japan,” supervised by Dr. Chikako Ozawa‐de Silva
Itzhak, Nofit Itzhak, Nofit, U. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA ‐ To aid California, San Diego, U. of research on “Nego a ng the Poli cs and Ethics of Compassion: Chris an Humanitarianism in Rwanda and France,” supervised by Dr. Thomas J. Csordas
Jones, Kyle Ellis Jones, Kyle Ellis, Purdue U., West Lafaye e, IN ‐ To aid research on Purdue U. “’Uni ng All of Peru Isn't Easy': Youth and Transurban Spaces of Hip Hop in Peru,” supervised by Dr. Brian C. Kelly
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Kassamali, Sumayya Kassamali, Sumayya, Columbia U., New York, NY ‐ To aid research Columbia U. on “Death, Disappearance, Martyrdom: Warscapes of Contemporary Lebanon,” supervised by Dr. Brinkley Messick
Kelkar, Shreeharsh Kelkar, Shreeharsh, Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology, Massachuse s Inst. of Technology Cambridge, MA ‐ To aid research on “Pla ormizing Higher Educa on: Computer Scien sts and the Making of MOOC Infrastructure,” supervised by Dr. Graham Jones Kennedy, John Michael Kennedy, John Michael, Columbia U., New York, NY ‐ To aid Columbia U. research on “Coming of Age in Pales ne: Childhood and Youth Between Two Genera ons,” supervised by Dr. Lila Abu Lughod
Kennedy, Jonathan Ryan Kennedy, Jonathan Ryan, Indiana U., Bloomington, IN ‐ To aid Indiana U., Bloomington research on “Fan and Tsai: Food, Iden ty, and Global Connec ons in the Market Street Chinatown,” supervised by Dr. Laura Lee Scheiber Ke , Robert John Ke , Robert John, U. of California, Irvine, CA ‐ To aid research on California, Irvine, U. of “Subterranean Science: Oil, Archaeology and the Making of Southern Mexico,” supervised by Dr. Mei Zhan
Kim, Chris ne Soo‐Young Kim, Chris ne Soo‐Young, Columbia U., New York, NY ‐ To aid Columbia U. research on “Prescience Studies: Economic Forecas ng and the Making of a Future in Greece,” supervised by Dr. Elizabeth Povinelli
Kim, Jaymelee Jane Kim, Jaymelee Jane, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ‐ To aid Tennessee, Knoxville, U. of research on “Transi onal Jus ce in a Non‐Transi oning Society: Perceived Efficacy of Canada's Jus ce and Reconcilia on Efforts,” supervised by Dr. Tricia Redeker‐Hepner Koontz, Cassandra Koontz, Cassandra Sarabeth, Vanderbilt U., Nashville, TN ‐ To aid Vanderbilt U. Sarabeth research on “Networks of Violence: Bioarchaeology of Structural Violence and Imperial Ar cula on in Middle Horizon Arequipa, Peru,” supervised by Dr. Tiffiny Tung Kuchenbuch, Paul Henrik Kuchenbuch, Paul Henrik, Max Planck Ins tute, Seewiesen, Max Planck Inst. Germany ‐ To aid research on “Gesture Acquisi on of Bonobos (Pan paniscus) in the Wild,” supervised by Dr. Simone Pika
Kurt, Firat Kurt, Firat, Columbia U., New York, NY ‐ To aid research on “The Columbia U. Experts of Human Solidarity: Understanding and Governing Poverty in Neoliberal Turkey,” supervised by Dr. Rosalind Morris
Lau, Chi Chung Lau, Chi Chung, New School for Social Research, New York, NY ‐ To New School U. aid research on “Imita on by Design: The Poli cs of Shanzhai in Contemporary China,” supervised by Dr. Hugh Raffles
Lee, Seung‐Cheol Lee, Seung‐Cheol, Columbia U., New York, NY ‐ To aid research on Columbia U. “Financialized Ethics: Governing Individual Bankruptcy in South Korea,” supervised by Dr. Elizabeth Povinelli
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Levi , Emily Katherine Levi , Emily Katherine, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY ‐To aid research on Cornell U. “Changing the Tax Base Changes Everything: The Fiscal Dimensions of Ci zenship and Sovereignty in Upstate New York,” supervised by Dr. Paul Nadasdy
Lewis, Elizabeth Martha Lewis, Elizabeth Martha, U. of Texas, Aus n, TX ‐ To aid research Texas, Aus n, U. of on “The Everyday In macy of Difference: A Biography of the Dea lind Spectrum,” supervised by Dr. Kathleen Stewart
Lewis, Laura Victoria Lewis, Laura Victoria, U. of Oxford, Oxford, UK ‐ To aid research on Oxford U. “Small Tools, Big Ques ons: A Comparison of the Earliest Microlithic Technologies in Two Sub‐Con nents,” supervised by Dr. Michael Petraglia Li, Jin Li, Jin, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI ‐ To aid research on Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of “Reassembling Religion: Tibetan Buddhism in Post‐Communist China,” supervised by Dr. Erik Mueggler
Liebert, Melissa Ann Liebert, Melissa Ann, U. of Oregon, Eugene, OR ‐ To aid research Oregon, U. of on “Psychosocial Stress and Culture Change among Indigenous Amazonian Shuar: Integra ng Developmental, Biological, and Cogni ve Perspec ves,” supervised by Dr. Lawrence S. Sugiyama
Liebman, Adam Daniel Liebman, Adam Daniel, U. of California, Davis, CA ‐ To aid research California, Davis, U. of on “Turning Trash into Treasure: Waste, Commodity Values, and Environmentalism in Postsocialist China,” supervised by Dr. Li Zhang
Lin, Emily Xi Lin, Emily Xi, Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachuse s Inst. of Technology MA ‐ To aid research on “Disability's Star‐Children: Au sm and the Remaking of Urban China's Moral Order,” supervised by Dr. Stefan Helmreich
Liu, Roseann Liu, Roseann, U. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA ‐ To aid research Pennsylvania, U. of on “Educa ng for Jus ce: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and a Charter School's Pursuit of Racial Equality,” supervised by Dr. Kathleen D. Hall
MacCourt, Anna Elisabeth MacCourt, Anna Elisabeth, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI ‐ To aid Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of research on “Lord of the Universe ... Among Equals: The Challenges of Kingship in Late Early Historic and Early Medieval India,” supervised by Dr. Carla Sinopoli
MacDougall, Susan MacDougall, Susan, Oxford U., Oxford, UK ‐ To aid research on Oxford U. “Virtuous Selves and Keeping House: Women and Ideals of Social Progress in Jordan,” supervised by Dr. Morgan Clarke
Macias, Marisa Elena Macias, Marisa Elena, Duke U., Durham, NC ‐ To aid research on Duke U. “Func onal Integra on of the Hominin Forelimb,” supervised by Dr. Steven E. Churchill
Maharawal, Manissa Maharawal, Manissa McCleave, City U. of New York, Graduate New York, Graduate Center, City McCleave Center, NY ‐ To aid research on “The New 'Lost' Genera on: U. of Radical Youth, Economic Crisis and Protest Post‐ Occupy,” supervised by Dr. Setha Low
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Marquez, Arturo Marquez, Jr., Arturo, Northwestern U., Evanston, IL ‐ To aid Northwestern U. research on “A Senegalese Odyssey: Migra on and Mental Health in Catalonia, Spain,” supervised by Dr. Rebecca A. Seligman
Marsh, Katharine Ruth Marsh, Katharine Ruth, Brown U., Providence, RI ‐ To aid research Brown U. on “Spiritual Care on the Move: Ethics of Care, Migrant Integra on, and African Pentecostalism in the United Kingdom,” supervised by Dr. Daniel Jordan Smith Mata‐Miguez, Jaime Mata‐Miguez, Jaime, U. of Texas, Aus n, TX ‐ To aid research on Texas, Aus n, U. of “Assessing the Gene c Impact of Aztec and Spanish Imperialism in Mesoamerica,” supervised by Dr. Deborah A. Bolnick
Ma oli, Fabio Ma oli, Fabio, City U. of New York, Graduate Center, New York, New York, Graduate Center, City NY ‐ To aid research on “Produc ve Debts: The Financializa on of U. of Urban Life and the Magic of Debts in Skopje, Macedonia,” supervised by Dr. Katherine Verdery
McLachlan, Amy Leia McLachlan, Amy Leia, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL ‐ To aid research Chicago, U. of on “Cul va ng Futures: Botanical Economies and Knowledge Ecologies in Migrant Colombian Amazonia,” supervised by Dr. Joseph P. Masco
McLeester, Madeleine McLeester, Madeleine Theresa, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL ‐ To aid Chicago, U. of Theresa research on “Reconstruc ng the Calumet: Landscape Forma on and Transforma on During the Protohistoric and Historic Periods,” supervised by Dr. Kathleen Morrison Meek, Laura Anne Meek, Laura Anne, U. of California, Davis, CA ‐ To aid research on California, Davis, U. of “Curing Drugs: Pharmaceu cal Capaci es in the Context of Radical Uncertainty in Tanzania,” supervised by Dr. James H. Smith
Meierhoff, James Walter Meierhoff, James Walter, U. of Illinois, Chicago, IL ‐ To aid research Illinois, Urbana, U. of on “Historic Tikal: Refugee Exploita on of the Last Maya Fron er,” supervised by Dr. Joel Palka
Middleton, Emily Ruth Middleton, Emily Ruth, New York U., New York, NY ‐ To aid New York U. research on “Ecogeographical Influences on Trunk Modularity in Recent Humans: Coloniza on and Morphological Integra on,” supervised by Dr. Susan C. Anton
Miranda, Almita Abigayl Miranda, Almita Abigayl, Northwestern U., Evanston, IL ‐ To aid Northwestern U. research on “Living 'Here and There' in Legal Limbo: Migra on, Legality, and Mixed‐Status Families in the Post‐NAFTA Era,” supervised by Dr. Micaela di Leonardo
Mixter, David Williams Mixter, David Williams, Washington U., St. Louis, MO ‐ To aid Washington U., St. Louis research on “Surviving Collapse: Inves ga ng Ancient Maya Responses to the End of Divine Kingship at Actuncan, Belize,” supervised by Dr. David Freidel
Morris, Meghan Lisa Morris, Meghan Lisa, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL ‐ To aid research Chicago, U. of on “Rela ons of Dispossession: Property and Sovereignty in Colombia's Land Res tu on Program,” supervised by Dr. Stephan Palmie
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Mustafa, Aiman Mustafa, Aiman, Emory U., Atlanta, GA ‐ To aid research on “News Emory U. Making and the Poli cs of Muslim Minority Publics in Mumbai, India: An Ethnographic Account,” supervised by Dr. David Nugent
Nado, Kris n Lynn Nado, Kris n Lynn, Arizona State U., Tempe, AZ ‐ To aid research Arizona State U. on “Dietary Prac ces, Socioeconomic Status, and Social Mobility at Teo huacan, Mexico,” supervised by Dr. Jane Ellen Buikstra
Nahas, Nathalie Samir Nahas, Nathalie Samir, U. of Virginia, Charlo esville, VA ‐ To aid Virginia, U. of research on “Civil Marriage Not Civil War: Kinship, Secularism, and the Na on‐State in Lebanon,” supervised by Dr. Susan McKinnon
Newman, Jessica Marie Newman, Jessica Marie, Yale U., New Haven, CT ‐ To aid research Yale U. on “Abor on, Nego a on, and Ac vism in Morocco,” supervised by Dr. Marcia C. Inhorn
Nsabimana, Natacha Nsabimana, Natacha, Columbia U., New York, NY ‐ To aid research Columbia U. on “Violence, Subject Forma on and Humanitarian Discourse in Post‐Gacaca Rwanda,” supervised by Dr. Mahmood Mamdani
Or z Rivarola, Alejandra Or z Rivarola, Alejandra, New York U., New York, NY ‐ To aid New York U. research on ?Development, Morphology and Homology: A Comprehensive Examina on of Hominin Upper and Lower Molars,” supervised by Dr. Shara Elaine Bailey
Otu, Edwin Kwame Otu, Edwin Kwame, Syracuse U., Syracuse, NY ‐ To aid research on Syracuse U. “Reluctantly Queer: Sassoi, and the Shi ing Paradigms of Masculinity and Sexual Ci zenship in Postcolonial Ghana,” supervised by Dr. Susan Snow Wadley
Park, Joowon Park, Joowon, American U., Washington, DC. ‐ To aid research on American U. “Belonging in a House Divided: Violence and Ci zenship in the Rese lement of North Koreans to South Korea,” supervised by Dr. Adrienne Pine
Pleshet, Noah Orion Pleshet, Noah Orion Handmer, New York U., New York, NY ‐ To aid New York U. Handmer research on “Man, Dog, Dingo: Canine Conjunctures and Indigenous Transforma ons in Central Australia,” supervised by Dr. Fred Myers
Ponce, Tilsa Ponce, Tilsa, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA ‐ To aid research on Harvard U. “'Potato Kings:' Indigenous Elites Challenging Social and Spa al Mobility in the Andes,” supervised by Dr. Gary Urton
Pren ce, Michael Morgan Pren ce, Michael Morgan, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI ‐ To aid Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of research on “Restructuring Corpora ons From Below: The Re‐ emergence of Hierarchy among South Korea's Conglomerates,” supervised by Dr. Ma hew Hull Quinn, Colin Patrick Quinn, Colin Patrick, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI ‐ To aid Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of research on “Inequality in the Presence of Death: Mortuary Rituals in Bronze Age Transylvania,: supervised by Dr. John O'Shea
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Rafiq, Mohamed Yunus Rafiq, Mohamed Yunus, Brown U., Providence, RI ‐ To aid research Brown U. on :Shaykhs and the State: The Incorpora on of Tanzanian Shaykhs in Biopoli cal Projects in Pre and Post‐Ujamaa Era,” supervised by Dr. Daniel Jordan Smith
Rasidjan, Maryani Palupy Rasidjan, Maryani Palupy, U. of California, San Francisco, CA ‐ To California, San Francisco, U. of aid research on “Reproduc ve Difference: The Construc on of Race in the Indonesian Family Planning Program in Papua,” supervised by Dr. Vincanne Adams
Ravindran, Tathagatan Ravindran, Tathagatan, U. of Texas, Aus n, TX ‐ To aid research on Texas, Aus n, U. of “New Indigenei es in the Rebel City: Poli cs and Everyday Social Rela ons in El Alto, Bolivia,” supervised by Dr. Charles R. Hale
Reisnour, Nicole Joanna Reisnour, Nicole Joanna, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY ‐ To aid research on Cornell U. “Sounding the Immaterial: The Sonic Poli cs of Adat and Agama in Post‐Authoritarian Bali,” supervised by Dr. Mar n Fellows Hatch
Robertson, Mary Denise Robertson, Mary Denise, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL ‐ To aid Chicago, U. of research on “Marke ng 'Race': Inves ga ng Racial Iden es and Cultural Exper se in South African Marke ng Research,” supervised by Dr. William Mazarella
Rosinger, Asher Yoel Rosinger, Asher Yoel, U. of Georgia, Athens, GA ‐ To aid research Georgia, U. of on “Hydra on Strategies, Nutri on, and Health During a Lifestyle Transi on in the Bolivian Amazon,” supervised by Dr. Susan Tanner
Rosso, Daniela Eugenia Rosso, Daniela Eugenia, U. Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France ‐ To aid Bordeaux, U. research on “Technological and Physicochemical Characteriza on of MSA Pigments from Porc‐Epic Cave (Dire Dawa, Ethiopia),” supervised by Dr. Francesco D'Errico
Scaramelli, Caterina Scaramelli, Caterina, Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology, Massachuse s Inst. of Technology Cambridge, MA ‐ To aid research on “Swamps Into Wetlands: Water, Conserva on Science and Na onhood in Turkey,” supervised by Dr. Stefan Helmreich
Schilling, Thomas Schilling, Thomas Charles, Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology, Massachuse s Inst. of Technology Cambridge, MA ‐ To aid research on “Salvage Cartography: Mapping Futures for Devastated Landscapes in Bri sh Columbia,” supervised by Dr. Chris ne Walley
Seaver, Nicholas Patrick Seaver, Nicholas Patrick, U. of California, Irvine, CA ‐ To aid California, Irvine, U. of research on “Compu ng Taste: The Making of Algorithmic Music Recommenda on,” supervised by Dr. William M. Maurer
Sehdev, Megha Sharma Sehdev, Megha Sharma, Johns Hopkins U., Bal more, MD ‐ To aid Johns Hopkins U. research on “Voice, Document, Image: Eviden ary Genres in Indian Domes c Violence Law,” supervised by Dr. Veena Das
Sekine, Emily Laura Sekine, Emily Laura, New School U., New York, NY ‐ To aid New School U. research on “The Unsteady Earth: Predic ng Nature's Uncertain es in Post 3.11 Japan,” supervised by Dr. Hugh Raffles
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Serna Jeri, Angelica Serna Jeri, Angelica, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI ‐ To aid Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of research on “Wri ng Prac ces in the Colonial Archive: An Ethnohistory of Literacy in Colonial Peru,” supervised by Dr. Gustavo Verdesio
Sethi, Aar Sethi, Aar , Columbia U., New York, NY ‐ To aid research on Columbia U. “Chronicles of Deaths Foretold?: Farmers' Suicides in Chha sgarh, India,” supervised by Dr. Rosalind Morris
Shayduk‐Immerman, Shayduk‐Immerman, Olesya, U. of California, Berkeley, CA ‐ To aid California, Berkeley, U. of Olesya research on “Reinven ng the Jewish Way: How the Soviet State Created the Jewish Movement by Restric ng it,” supervised by Dr. Alexei Yurchak
Smith, Carolyn A. Smith, Carolyn, U. of California, Berkeley, CA ‐ To aid research on California, Berkeley, U. of “Weaving pikyav(to‐fix‐it): Karuk Basket Weaving Prac ce in‐ Rela on to the Everyday World,” supervised by Dr. Rosemary Joyce Valdez, Natali Theresa Valdez, Natali Theresa, U. of California, Irvine, CA ‐ To aid research California, Irvine, U. of on “An cipa ng the Reproduc on of Obesity: An Examina on of Standardiza on, Specula on, and Temporality,” supervised by Dr. Michael Montoya
Valles, Dario Valles, Dario, Northwestern U., Evanston, IL ‐ To aid research on Northwestern U. “Provedoras Unidas: La na Migrant Family Child Care Providers Nego a ng Poverty, Power & Organized Labor in Neoliberal Los Angeles,” supervised by Dr. Micaela di Leonardo
Warner, John Giffen Warner, John Giffen, City U. of New York, Graduate Center, New New York, Graduate Center, City York, NY ‐ To aid research on “Fluid Markets: Ci zenship, State U. of Power, and the Informal Water Economy in Contemporary Yemen,” supervised by Dr. Michael Blim
Webb, Meghan Farley Webb, Meghan Farley, U. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS ‐ To aid Kansas, U. of research on “‘Yojkanäj Wawe' (We Remain Here): Transna onal Surveillance's Effect on the Wives of Kaqchikel Migrants,'“supervised by Dr. Brent E. Metz
Weichselbraun, Anna Maria Weichselbraun, Anna Maria, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL ‐ To aid Chicago, U. of research on “Regula ng the Nuclear: The Textual Produc on of Technical Independence at the Interna onal Atomic Energy Agency,” supervised by Dr. Joseph Maco
Weiner, Talia Rose Weiner, Talia Rose, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL ‐ To aid research on Chicago, U. of “Home of the Blues: The Poli cal Economy of Mood Disorder Self‐ management in 21st Century Chicago,” supervised by Dr. Jennifer Cole Whi , Clayton Abel Whi , Clayton Abel, U. of Bri sh Columbia, Vancouver, Canada ‐ Bri sh Columbia, U. of To aid research on “Climate Change and Spa al Transforma ons in the Bolivian Highlands,” supervised by Dr. Gaston R. Gordillo
Yount‐Andre, Chelsie Yount‐Andre, Chelsie Jeanne e, Northwestern U., Evanston, IL ‐ Northwestern U. Jeanne e To aid research on “Giving, Taking, and Sharing: Reproducing Economic Morali es and Social Hierarchies in Transna onal Senegal,” supervised by Dr. Caroline Bledsoe
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Zogas, Anna Baker Zogas, Anna Baker, U. of Washington, Sea le, WA ‐ To aid Washington, U. of research on “'Invisible Injury': Mild Trauma c Brain Injury and Disability Compensa on in the U.S. Military Healthcare System,” supervised by Dr. Lorna A. Rhodes
Zuckerman, Charles Henry Zuckerman, Charles Henry Pearson, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of Pearson ‐ To aid research on “The Ethics of Exchange: Gambling and Interac on in Luang Prabang, Laos,” supervised by Dr. Michael Lempert
43 Post-Ph.D. Research Grants for 2013
The Wenner-Gren Foundation awarded 37 Post-PhD. Research Grants in 2013.
Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation
Allen, Susan Elizabeth Allen, Dr. Susan Elizabeth, U. of Cincinna , Cincinna , OH ‐ To aid Cincinna , U. of research on “Seeds of Complexity: Archaeobotanical Perspec ves on State Forma on in Southern Greece”
Bishara, Amahl Alexis Bishara, Dr. Amahl Alexis, Tu s U., Medford, MA ‐ To aid research Tu s U. on “Space, Infrastructure, and a Fragmented Public Sphere: A Pales nian Exchange Across a Divide”
Brinkworth, Jessica Fawn Brinkworth, Dr. Jessica Fawn, U. of Montreal, Montreal, Canada ‐ Montreal, U. of To aid research on “The Evolu onary Impact of Plague on Human Immune System Func on”
Brumm, Adam Robert Brumm, Dr. Adam Robert, U. of Wollongong, Wollongong, Wollongong, U. of Australia ‐ To aid research on “A World Apart: Earliest Human Occupa on of the Maros Karsts in South Sulawesi, Indonesia”
Clark, Jamie Lynn Clark, Dr. Jamie Lynn, U. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK ‐ To aid research Alaska, Fairbanks, U. of on “The Sibudu Fauna: Implica ons for Understanding Behavioral Variability in the Southern African Middle Stone Age”
Concha‐Holmes, Amanda Concha‐Holmes, Dr. Amanda Dawn, U. of Florida, Gainesville, FL ‐ Florida, U. of Dawn To aid research on “Entangled Lives: Human Encounters with Rhesus Macaques on Florida's Silver River”
Edelman, Marc Edelman, Dr. Marc, City U. of New York, Graduate Center, New New York, Graduate Center, City York, NY ‐ To aid research on “Poli cal Conten on in the UN U. of Intergovernmental Working Group on Peasants' Rights”
Foerster, Steffen Foerster, Dr. Steffen, Duke University, Durham, NC ‐ To aid Duke U. research on “Social Bonds and the Evolu on of Primate Socie es: Insights from Female Chacma Baboons”
Grasseni, Cris na Grasseni, Dr. Cris na, U. of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy ‐ To aid Bergamo, U. of research on “Seeds of Trust: A Compara ve Analysis of Solidarity Economy Networks in Lombardy (Italy) and Massachuse s (USA)”
Haggis, Donald Charles Haggis, Dr. Donald Charles, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC ‐ North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U. of To aid research on “The Archaeology of the Archaic Cretan Household (700‐500 B.C.)”
Halvaksz, Jamon Alex Halvaksz, Dr. Jamon Alex, U. of Texas, San Antonio, TX ‐ To aid Texas, San Antonio, U. of research on “Large Scale Mining Development and Agricultural Change in Papua New Guinea”
Har gan, John Har gan, Dr. John, U. of Texas, Aus n, TX ‐ To aid research on Texas, Aus n, U. of “Races of Corn and the Cul va on of Biodiversity in Mexico”
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation
Herrmann, Virginia Rimmer Herrmann, Dr. Virginia Rimmer, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH ‐ Dartmouth College To aid research on “Urban Plan and Sociopoli cal Change at Iron Age Sam'al (Zincirli Höyük, Turkey)”
Jung, Yuson Jung, Dr. Yuson, Wayne State U., Detroit, MI ‐ To aid research on Wayne State U. “Just Food for Detroit: Groceries, Ethics, and Governance in the Resilient City”
Kamilar, Jason Michael Kamilar, Dr. Jason Michael, Midwestern U., Glendale, AZ ‐ To aid Midwestern U. research on “The Evolu on of Primate Hair Morphology: A Compara ve Approach”
Kistler, Logan Kistler, Dr. Logan, Pennsylvania State U., University Park, PA ‐ To Pennsylvania State U. aid research on “Inves ga ng Gourd and Squash Domes ca on and Natural History in the Human Context Using Archaeogenomics” Larkin, Brian Larkin, Dr. Brian, Barnard College, New York, NY ‐ To aid research Barnard College on “The Media System of Empire”
Lepofsky, Dana Sue Lepofsky, Dr. Dana Sue, Simon Fraser U., Burnaby, Canada ‐ To aid Simon Fraser U. research on “Ancient Mariculture Among the Coastal First Na ons of Bri sh Columbia: Integra ng Archaeological, Ecological, and Tradi onal Knowledge”
Levine, Nancy E. Levine, Dr. Nancy E., U. of California, Los Angeles, CA ‐ To aid California, Los Angeles, U. of research on “Displacement and Rese lement: New Lives for Tibetan Pastoralists in Gansu Province”
Mar nez‐Reyes, Jose Mar nez‐Reyes, Dr. Jose Eduardo, U. of Massachuse s, Boston, Massachuse s, Boston, U. of Eduardo MA ‐ To aid research on “Mahogany Intertwined: Enviromateriality Between the Maya Forest, Fiji, and the Gibson Les Paul”
McNamee, Calla McNamee, Dr. Calla, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ‐ To aid Tennessee, Knoxville, U. of research on “Floodplain Agriculture in the Santa Clara River Valley: A Mul disciplinary Study of Human‐environmental Interac on and the Casas Grandes Phenomenon”
Moore, Amelia Moore, Dr. Amelia, U. of Miami, Miami, FL ‐ To aid research on Miami, U. of “Redeveloping the Ephemeral Islands in an Era of Planetary Change: The Poli cs and Aesthe cs of Sustainable Design in the Bahamas”
Piperno, Dolores Rita Piperno, Dr. Dolores Rita, Smithsonian Ins tute, Washington, DC ‐ Smithsonian Inst., Washington, DC To aid research on “Teosinte Domes ca on, Phenotypic Plas city, and Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Environments”
Pontzer, Herman Pontzer, Dr. Herman, City U. of New York, Hunter College, New New York, Hunter College, City U. York, NY ‐ To aid research on “Energy Expenditure and Life History of Among Hominoids”
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation
Puy Maeso, Arnald Puy Maeso, Dr. Arnald, Ins tut Mila i Fontanals, Barcelona, Spain ‐ Ins tut Mila i Fontanals To aid research on “Building Up Intensive Labour Areas: Terraces, Irriga on and Agrarian Change in the Ricote Valley (Murcia, Spain) A er 711 AD”
Quinn, Elizabeth Anne Quinn, Dr. Elizabeth Anne, Washington U., St. Louis, MO ‐ To aid Washington U., St. Louis research on “Milk with Al tude: Inves ga ons Into Milk Composi on and Physiology Among Tibetans”
Rhine, Kathryn Angela Rhine, Dr. Kathryn Angela, U. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS ‐ To aid Kansas, U. of research on “Cultures of Collision: Road Traffic Accidents and the Poli cs of Trauma Care in Nigeria”
Roth‐Gordon, Jennifer Roth‐Gordon, Dr. Jennifer, U. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ ‐ To aid Arizona, U. of research on “Bodies of Privilege: Cul va ng Wealth and Whiteness in Rio de Janeiro”
Rothstein, Frances Marilyn Rothstein, Dr. Frances Marilyn, Montclair State U., Montclair, NJ ‐ Montclair State U. To aid research on “When Migrants Return: Who Returns, Why and How They Reintegrate”
Ruff, Christopher Bri on Ruff, Dr. Christopher Bri on, Johns Hopkins U., Bal more, MD ‐ To Johns Hopkins U. aid research on “Locomotor Behavior and Limb Bone Structure in Gorilla”
Shankar, Shalini Shankar Dr. Shalini, Northwestern U., Evanston, IL ‐ To aid Northwestern U. research on “The Business of Spelling: Branded Bees, Neoliberal Socializa on, and Racialized Stereotypes”
Smith, Andrea Lynn Smith, Dr. Andrea Lynn, Lafaye e College, Easton, PA ‐ To aid Lafaye e College research on “Celebra ng Sullivan: Se ler Historical Consciousness in Northeastern Pennsylvania”
Tucker, Christopher Joshua Tucker, Dr. Christopher Joshua, Brown U., Providence, RI ‐ To aid Brown U. research on “Andean Sounds, Indian Selves: Music, Media, and Indigenous Experience in Highland Peru”
Uno, Kevin Toshio Uno, Dr. Kevin Toshio, Columbia U., New York, NY ‐ To aid Columbia U. research on “Elephant Molars as Archives of Environmental Seasonality in Hominin Paleoenvironments”
Voss, Barbara Lois Voss, Dr. Barbara Lois, Stanford U., Stanford, CA ‐ To aid research Stanford U. on “Social Iden ty and Consumer Prac ces in Late Victorian‐Era California”
Wilmsen, Edwin Norman Wilmsen, Dr. Edwin Norman, U. of the Witwatersrand, Witwatersrand, U. of Johannesburg, South Africa ‐ To aid research on “Po ery, Clays, and Lands: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Social Dimensions of Po ery in Botswana”
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation
Wirtz, Kris na Wirtz, Dr. Kris na, Western Michigan U., Kalamazoo, MI ‐ To aid Western Michigan U. research on “On Becoming Bilingual: Children's Linguis c Repertoires, Ideologies, and Iden es in a Dual Language Elementary School”
47 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2013
The Wenner-Gren Foundation awarded eight Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships in 2013.
Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Berg, Ulla Dalum Berg, Dr. Ulla Dalum, Rutgers U., Piscataway, NJ ‐ To aid research Rutgers U. and wri ng on “Mediated Migra ons: Technology, Mobility, and Belonging between the Andes and the US” ‐ Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship
Flora, Janne Karina Flora, Dr. Janne Karina, U. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK ‐ To aid Cambridge, U. of research and wri ng on “Relatedness, Loneliness and Longing in Greenland” ‐ Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship
Franquesa, Jaume Franquesa, Dr. Jaume, U. of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY ‐ To aid research New York College, Buffalo, State and wri ng on “Dignity and Power: Energy, Nature and the State U. of in Rural Spain” ‐ Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship
Harris, Lucille Elizabeth Harris, Dr. Lucille Elizabeth, Independent Scholar, Boise, ID ‐ To aid research and wri ng on “Families, Bands, and the Social Construc‐ on of Leadership in Complex Hunter‐Gatherer Villages on the Northern Plateau” ‐ Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship Nading, Alexander Mont‐ Nading, Dr. Alexander Montgomery, Franklin & Marshall College, Franklin and Marshall College gomery Lancaster, PA ‐ To aid research and wri ng on “Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and The Poli cs of Entanglement in Nicaragua's Age of Dengue” ‐ Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship
Perez, Padmapani Lim Perez, Dr. Padmapani Lim, U. of the Philippines, Baguio, Philip‐ Philippines, U. of the pines ‐ To aid research and wri ng on “Deep‐Rooted Hopes, Green Entanglements: Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Nature‐Conserva on in Indonesia and the Philippines” ‐ Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship
Skrydstrup, Mar n Chris‐ Skrydstrup, Dr. Mar n Chris an Hugo, Independent Scholar, Co‐ an Hugo penhagen, Denmark ‐ To aid research and wri ng on “Once Ours: Dramas of Repatria on and States of Redemp on” ‐ Hunt Post‐ doctoral Fellowship
Smith, Tanya M. Smith Dr. Tanya, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA ‐ To aid research and Harvard U. wri ng on “The Evolu on of Human Life History” ‐ Hunt Postdoc‐ toral Fellowship
48 International Collaborative Research Grants for 2013
The Wenner-Gren Foundation awarded six International Collaborative Research Grants in 2013.
Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Colloredo‐Mansfeld, Rudolf Colloredo‐Mansfeld, Dr. Rudolf, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC; & Quiroga, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U. of Dr. Diego, U. San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador ‐ To aid research on Quiroga, Diego “Territories, Stewardship, & Place‐Based Economies in Andean San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador Communi es: Building Par cipatory Research Capacity”
Di Fiore, Anthony Francis Di Fiore, Dr. Anthony Francis, U. of Texas, Aus n, TX; and Link, Dr. Texas, Aus n, U. of Andres, U. de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia ‐ To aid collabora ve Link, Andres research on “Sociality of the Dispersing Sex: Female Social U. de Los Andes. Bogota, Rela onships in a Patrilineal Primate” Columbia
Galaty, Michael Leslie Galaty, Dr. Michael, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS; & Millsaps College Papathanasiou, Dr. Anastasia, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Athen Papathanasiou, Anastasia Greece ‐ To aid collabora ve research on “The Diros Project: Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Greek‐American Collabora ve Archaeological Research & Training Athens, Greece At Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave” Hayashida, Frances Mariko Hayashida, Dr. Frances Mariko, U. of New Mexico, Albuuerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque, U. of NM; and Troncoso, Dr. Andres, U. of Chile, San ago, Chile ‐ To aid Troncoso, Andres collabora ve research on “Agriculture and Empire in the High‐ U. of Chile, San ago, Chile Al tude Atacama”
McFarlin, Shannon C. McFarlin, Dr. Shannon, George Washington U., Washington, DC; George Washington U. and Ndagijimana, Mr. Felix, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Inst. Ndagijimana, Felix Musanze, Rwanda ‐ To aid collabora ve research on “Postnatal Fossey Gorrilla Fund Inst., Ontogeny Of Wild Gorillas” Musanze, Rwanda
Reeves, Madeleine Frances Reeves, Dr. Madeleine, U. of Manchester, Manchester, UK; and Manchester, U. of Aitpaeva, Dr.Gulnara, Aigine Cultural Research Centre, Bishkek, Aitpaeva, Gulnara Kyrgyzstan ‐ To aid collabora ve research on “Conviviality And Aigine Cultural Research Center, Conten on In Southern Kyrgyzstan: An Infrastructural Approach” Bishkek, Kurgyzstan
49 Conference and Workshop Grants for 2013
The Wenner-Gren Foundation awarded 32 Conference and Workshop Grants in 2013.
Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Abbots, Emma‐Jayne Abbots, Dr. Emma‐Jayne, U. of Wales, Lampeter, Wales, UK ‐ To Wales, U. of aid workshop on “Embodied Encounters: Exploring the Materiali‐ es of Food Stuffs,” 2014, U. of Wales, in collabora on with Dr. Louise Steel
Ambaye, Yohannes Haile‐ Ambaye, Dr. Yohannes Haile‐Selassie, Cleveland Museum Natural Cleveland Museum of Natural Selassie History, Cleveland, OH ‐ To aid workshop on “Paleobiology, Taxon‐ History omy, & Paleoecology of Early Australopithecus,” 2013, Cleveland, in collabora on with Dr. Zeresenay Alemseged
Andersson Strand, Eva Andersson Strand, Dr. Eva, U. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Den‐ Copenhagen, U. of mark ‐ To aid workshop on “Tradi onal Tex le Cra : An Intangible Cultural Heritage?,” 2014, Jordan Museum, Amman, Jordan, in collabora on with Dr. Jihad Kafaki
Barkai, Ran Barkai, Dr. Ran, Tel‐Aviv U., Tel‐Aviv, Israel ‐ To aid workshop on Tel Aviv U. “The Origins of Recycling: A Paleolithic Perspec ve,” 2013, Tel‐ Aviv and Carmel, in collabora on with Dr. Manuel Vaquero
Ben Hounet, Yazid Ben Hounet, Dr. Yazid, College de France, Paris, France ‐ To aid Lab. d'Anthropologie Sociale workshop on “Truth, Inten onality and Evidence: Anthropological Approaches to Crime and Tort,” 2014, Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat, Morrocco
Boivin, Nicole L. Boivin, Dr. Nicole Lise, U. of Oxford, Oxford, UK ‐ To aid confer‐ Oxford U. ence on “Proto‐Globalisa on in the Indian Ocean World: Mul dis‐ ciplinary Perspec ves,” 2013, Oxford
Chipumuro, Todne Thomas Chipumuro, Dr. Todne, U. of Vermont, Burlington, VT ‐ To aid Vermont, U. of workshop on “The Sacred Social: Inves ga ons of Spiritual Kinship among the Abrahamic Faiths,” 2014, U. of Virginia, Charlo esville, in collabora on with Dr. Asiya Malik
Chua, Liana Cheng Lian Chua, Dr. Liana Cheng Lian, Brunel U., London, UK ‐ To aid work‐ Brunel U. shop on “Who Are We? Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in An‐ thropology,” 2014, Cambridge U., in collabora on with Dr. Na‐ yanika Mathur
Coupaye, Ludovic Coupaye, Dr. Ludovic, U. College London, London, UK ‐ To aid College London, U. workshop on “Epistemologies of Technology and Techniques,” 2013, U. College London, in collabora on with Dr. Guido Frison
De Neve, Geert R. De Neve, Dr. Geert, U. of Sussex, Brighton, UK ‐ To aid workshop Sussex, U. of on “Accoun ng for Health and Safety in the Global Garment Indus‐ try,” 2014, U. of Sussex, in collabora on with Dr. Rebecca Pren ce
Gilbert, Andrew Gilbert, Dr. Andrew, McMaster U., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ‐ To McMaster U. aid workshop on “Towards an Anthropology of Interna onal Inter‐ ven on,” 2013, McMaster U.
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Harris, Clare Elizabeth Harris, Dr. Clare, U. of Oxford, Oxford, UK ‐ To aid conference on Oxford U. “The Future of Ethnographic Museums,” 2013, Pi Rivers Muse‐ um, U. of Oxford, in collabora on with Dr. Michael O'Hanlon
Hayden, Cori P. Hayden, Dr. Cori, U. of California, Berkeley, CA ‐ To aid workshop California, Berkeley, U. of on “Good Copy // Bad Copy,” 2013, Germany, in collabora on with Dr. Julia Hornberger
Jessee, Erin Jessee, Dr. Erin, U. of Bri sh Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada ‐ To Bri sh Columbia, U. of aid workshop on “Approaching Perpetrators: Ethnographic In‐ sights on Ethics, Methodology, and Theory,” 2014, U. of Bri sh Columbia Koizumi, Junji Koizumi, Dr. Junji, Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, Tokyo, Japan ‐ To aid “JASCA 50th Anniversary Conference + IUAES Inter‐Congress,” 2014, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan, in collabora on with Ms. Eisei Kurimoto Lilley, Ian A. Lilley, Dr. Ian A., U. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia ‐ To aid Queensland, U. of “20th Congress of the Indo‐Pacific Prehistory Associa on,” 2014, Siem Reap/Angkor Wat, Cambodia, in collabora on with Mr. Ka‐ seka Phon
Mbua, Emma Nguvi Mbua, Dr. Emma Nguvi, Na onal Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Na onal Museums of Kenya Kenya ‐ To aid “East African Associa on for Paleoanthropology and Paleontology 4th Conference,” 2013, Mombasa, Kenya, in collabora on with Dr. Briana Pobiner Mitchell, Peter John Mitchell, Dr. Peter, U. of Oxford, UK ‐ To aid workshop on Oxford U. “Advancing Archaeology & Heritage in Lesotho: Lessons from the Metolong Dam Cultural Resource Management Project,” 2014, Na onal U. of Lesotho, Roma, in collabora on with Dr. Rachel King
Moraga, Mauricio Moraga, Dr. Mauricio, U. de Chile, San ago, Chile ‐ To aid “XIII Chile, U. of Mee ng of the La n American Associa on of Biological Anthropol‐ ogy (ALAB),” 2014, San ago, in collabora on with Dr. Sergio Flores
Mothulatshipi, Sarah Mothulatshipi, Dr. Sarah, U. of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana ‐ Botswana, U. of Mantshadi To aid “Biennial Mee ng of the Associa on of Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA): Thirty Years On,” 2013, U. of Botswana, in collabora on with Dr. Cynthia Mooketsi
Mussi, Margherita Mussi, Dr. Margherita, U. of Rome, Rome, Italy ‐ To aid workshop Rome, U. of on “The Emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa,” 2013, U. of Rome, in collabora on with Dr. Rosalia Gallo
Rostain, Stephen Rostain, Dr. Stephen, CNRS Paris, France & IFEA, Quito, Ecuador ‐ Centre Na onal de la Recherche To aid “3rd Interna onal Congress of Amazonian Archaeology,” Scien fique 2013, Quito
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Ryzewski, Krysta Helene Ryzewski, Dr. Krysta Helene, Wayne State U., Detroit, MI ‐ To aid Wayne State U. workshop on “Archaeologies of the Present: Cri cal Engagements with Post‐industrial Urban Transforma ons,” 2014, Wayne State U., in collabora on with Dr. Laura McAtackney
Sadr, Karim Sadr, Dr. Karim, U. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Witwatersrand, U. of Africa ‐ To aid “14th Pan African Archaeological Congress (PAA),” 2014, U. of the Witwatersrand, in collabora on with Dr. Amanda Esterhuysen
Schmidt, Peter R. Schmidt, Dr. Peter, U.of Florida, Gainesville, FL ‐ To aid 'Workshop Florida, U. of on Community Archaeology and Heritage Work in Africa: Issues, Lessons, and the Future,” 2014, U. of Florida, in collabora on with Dr. Innocent Pikirayi
Shankland, David Peter Shankland, Dr. David, Royal Anthropological Ins tute, London, UK Royal Anthropological Ins tute ‐ To aid RAI conference on “Anthropology and Photography,” 2014, Bri sh Museum, London
Sora, Gustavo Alejandro Sora, Dr. Gustavo Alejandro, Na onal U., Cordoba, Argen na ‐ To CONICET aid “X Reunion de Antropología del Mercosur,” 2013, Na onal U. of Cordoba
Stovel, Emily Marie Stovel, Dr. Emily, Ripon College, Ripon, WI ‐ To aid “’Sigamos Inter‐ Ripon College actuando': Interna onal Workshop on Central Andean Ceramic Knowledge,” 2013, Argen na, in collabora on with Dr. Beatriz Cremonte
Tarducci, Monica Lucia del Tarducci, Dr. Monica Lucia del Valle, U. of Buenos Aires, Buenos Buenos Aires, U. of Valle Aires, Argen na ‐ To aid “I Coloquio La noamericano de An‐ tropología Feminista,” 2013, U. of Buenos Aires, in collabora on with Dr. Deborah Edith Daich
Torvinen, Andrea Lynn Torvinen, Dr. Andrea Lynn, Arizona State U., Tempe, AZ ‐ To aid Arizona State U. workshop on “Ceramic Metatypology for Northwest Mexico,” 2014, Aus n, TX, in collabora on with Dr. Ben Albert Nelson
Van Tilburg, Hans Konrad Van Tilburg, Dr. Hans Konrad, NOAA Office of Na onal Marine Sanctuaries, Honolulu, HI ‐ To aid “Asia Pacific Regional Confer‐ ence on Underwater Cultural Heritage,” 2014, U. of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, in collabora on with Dr. Jun Kimura
Villo e, Sebas en Georges Villo e, Dr. Sebas en, U. Bordeaux, Talence, France ‐ To aid work‐ Bordeaux, U. shop on “Entheseal Changes and Reconstruc on of Human Behav‐ ior: Towards Standardiza on,” 2013, U. of Coimbra, Portugal, in collabora on with Dr. Charlo e Henderson
52 New and Continuing Wadsworth Fellowships for 2013
The Wenner-Gren Foundation awarded six new and 17 continuing Wadsworth Fellowships during 2013.
Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Asryan, Lena Asryan, Lena, Artsakh State U., Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, Artsakh State University Azerbaijan ‐ To aid write up in archaeology at U. of Rovira, Tarragona, Spain, supervised by Dr. Andreu Olle Canellas
Bandama, Foreman Bandama, Foreman, U. of Zimbabwe, Mt. Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe, U of Zimbabwe ‐ To aid disserta on write up in archaeology at U. of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, supervised by Dr. Shadreck Chirikure
Chitukutuku, Edmore Chitukutuku, Edmore, U. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Witwatersrand, U. of Africa ‐ To aid training in socio‐cultural anthropology at U. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, supervised by Dr.
Cruz, Resto I Sirios Cruz, Resto, Ateneo de Manila U., Quezon City, Philippines ‐ To aid Ateneo de Manila U. training in social‐cultural anthropology at U. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh UK, supervised by Dr. Janet Carsten
Guner, Ezgi Guner, Ezgi, Sabanci U., Istanbul, Turkey ‐ To aid training in social‐ Sabanci U. cultural anthropology at U. of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, supervised by Dr. Mahir Saul
Jilo, Samuel Dira Jilo, Samuel Dira, Hawassa U., Hawassa, Ethiopia ‐ To aid training Hawassa U. in social/cultural anthropology at Washington State U., Vancouver, WA, supervised by Dr. Barry Hewle
Jopela, Albino Pereira de Jopela, Albino, U. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa ‐ Witwatersrand, U. of Jesus To aid training in archaeology at U. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, supervised by Dr. Benjamin Smith
Lam, Chau Minh Lam, Chau Minh, Vietnam Na onal U., Ha Noi, Vietnam ‐ To aid Vietnam Na onal U. training in social/cultural anthropology at U. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, supervised by Dr. Susan Bayly
Majkic, Ana Bogdan Majkic, Ana, U. of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia ‐ To aid training in Belgrade, U. of archaeology at U. Bordeaux 1, Talence, France, supervised by Dr. Francesco D'Errico
Mawere, Munyaradzi Mawere, Munyaradzi, U. Pedagogica, Xai‐xai, Gaza, Mozambique ‐ Pedagogica, U. To aid training in social/cultural anthropology at U. of Cape Town, South Africa, supervised by Dr. Lesley Green
Milic, Marina Milic, Marina, U. of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia ‐ To aid write up in Belgrade, U. of archaeology at University College London, London, England, supervised by Dr. Cyprian Broodbank
Morales, Ana Morales, Ana, U. de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica ‐ To aid Costa Rica, U. of training in physical‐biological anthropology at U. of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, supervised by Dr. Geoffrey McCafferty
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Nebie, Elisabeth Kago Nebie, Elisabeth, U. Libre du Burkina, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Universite Libre du Burkina ‐ To aid training in social anthropology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, supervised by Dr. Colin West
Or z Vallejos, Jose Raul Or z Vallejos, Jose, U. del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Valle de Guatemala, U. del Guatemala ‐ To aid training in archaeology at U. of Arizona, Tucscon, AZ, supervised by Dr. Takeshi Inomata
Pan, Yi Pan, Yi, Sichuan U., Sichuan, P.R. China ‐ To aid training in Sichuan U. archaeology at U. of Washington, Sea le, WA, supervised by Dr. Marcos Llobera
Perera, Daniel Alejandro Perera, Daniel, U. of Texas, Aus n, TX ‐ To aid training in social Texas, Aus n, U. of cultural anthropology at U. of Texas, Aus n, TX, supervised by Dr. Cecilia Balli
Petersone‐Gordina, Elina Petersone‐Gordina, Elina, U. of Latvia, Riga, Latvia ‐ To aid training Latvia, U. of in physical biological anthropology at Durham U., Durham, UK, supervised by Dr. Charlo e Roberts
Rijal, Bicram Rijal, Bicram, Tribhuvan U., Kir pur, Nepal ‐ To aid training in Tribhuvan U. social/cultural anthropology at Simon Fraser U., Burnaby, BC, Canada, supervised by Dr. Stacy Pigg
Taddesse, Habtamu Taddesse, Habtamu, Aksum U., Aksum, Ethiopia ‐ To aid training in Aksum U. Mekonnen archaeology at Simon Fraser U., Burnaby, Canada, supervised by Dr. Angela D'Andrea
Wang, Jing Wang, Jing, Concordia Welfare and Educa on Founda on, Hong Concordia Welfare and Educa on Kong, P.R. China ‐ to aid training in social/cultural anthropology at Founda on Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, OH, supervised by Dr. Melvyn Goldstein
Wang, Xinyuan Wang, Xinyuan, U. of China, Beijing, P.R. of China ‐ To aid training China University in social cultural anthropology at U. College London, London, UK, supervised by Dr. Daniel Miller
54 Engaged Anthropology Grants for 2013
The Wenner-Gren Foundation awarded 28 Engaged Anthropology Grants in 2013.
Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation
Blanche e, Alexander Blanche e, Dr. Alexander, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL ‐ To aid Chicago, U. of David engaged ac vi es on “Porkopolis: A Visual Anatomy,” 2013, Great Plains.
Bla , Samantha Heidi Bla , Ms. Samantha, Boise State U., Boise, ID ‐ To aid engaged Boise State U. ac vi es on “Toward a Collabora ve Indigenous Bioarchaeology: Engaging Communi es in the Relavance, Shared Knowledge, and Interpreta on of Prehistoric North America,” 2014, Ohio & W. VA
Cardenas, Roosbelinda Cardenas, Dr. Roosbelinda, Rutgers, U., New Brunswick, NJ ‐ To aid Rutgers U. engaged ac vi es on “Ar cula ons of Blackness: Reconstruc ng Ethnic Poli cs in the Midst of Violence,” 2013, Bogota and Tumaco, Colombia
Crofoot, Margaret Chatham Crofoot, Dr. Margaret, U. of California, Davis, CA ‐ To aid engaged California, Davis, U. of ac vi es on “Exploring the Jungle in the Backyard,” 2014, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
Deomampo, Daisy Faye Deomampo, Ms. Daisy, Fordham U., New York, NY ‐ To aid Fordham U. engaged ac vi es on “Policy, Health, and Women's Rights: An Engaged Project on Transna onal Surrogacy in India,” 2014, Mumbai, India
Drah, Bright Bensah Drah, Dr. Bright, Independent Scholar, Alberta, Canada ‐ To aid engaged ac vi es on “Strengthening Female Poli cal Leadership for Orphans' Interven ons Through Community‐Based Research: The Role of the Anthropologist,” 2013, Manya Krobo, Ghana Ellio , Denielle Aschell Ellio , Dr. Deniele, York U., Toronto, Canada ‐ To aid engaged York U. ac vi es on “Medicine, Morality and the Market: A Workshop,” 2014, Kisumu/Maseno, Kenya
Fairbairn, Andrew S. Fairbairn, Dr. Andrew, U. of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia ‐ To Queensland, U. of aid engaged ac vi es on “Community Resources for Understanding the First Village Landscapes of the Konya Plain, Turkey,” 2013, Hayiroglu VIllage, Konya Province, Turkey
Firat O'Hearn, Bilge Firat O'Hearn, Dr. Bilge, Istanbul Technical U., Instanbul, Turkey ‐ Istanbul Technical U. To aid engaged ac vi es on “Techno‐Bureaucra c Engagements with Turkish Europeaniza on in Brussels,” 2013, Brussels, Belgium
Goner, Ozlem Goner, Dr. Ozlem, City U. of New York, Staten Island, NY ‐ To aid New York, College of Staten engaged ac vi es on “Engaging with Mul ple Histories: Island, City U. of Ethnographic Research at a Time of History‐Making,” 2013, Dersim, Turkey Hillewaert, Sarah Marleen Hillewaert, Dr. Sarah, U. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada ‐ To aid Toronto, U. of engaged ac vi es on “Working Towards the Promo on of Young Women's Educa on and Professional Development in Lamu (Kenya),” 2014, Lamu, Kenya
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation
Jordan, Michael Paul Jordan, Dr. Michael, Texas Tech U., Lubbock, TX ‐ To aid engaged Texas Tech U. ac vi es on “Engaging the Kiowa Community: A Collabora ve Approach to Sharing Research on Historical Consciousness and Intellectual Property Rights,” 2013, Oklahoma
Leighton, Mary Theresa Leighton, Ms. Mary, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL ‐ To aid engaged Chicago, U. of Frances ac vi es on “Archaeology as a Transna onal Science: South American Perspec ves on Globaliza on and Scien fic Collabora ons,” 2014, San ago, Chile and La Paz Bolivia
London, Douglas Stuart London, Dr. Douglas, Adelphi U., Garden City, NY ‐ To aid engaged Adelphi U. ac vi es on “Engagement Grant Follow‐Up to: Hunter‐Gatherers and Double‐Edged Dietary Swords ‐ Food as Medicine Among the Waorani Foragers of Amazonian Ecuador,” 2013, Ecuador
Lyons, Kris na Marie Lyons, Kris na, U. of Califorina, Davis, CA ‐ To aid engaged ac vi es on “Soil Prac oners and Vital Spaces: Agricultural Ethics and Life Processes in the Colombian Amazon,” 2013, Bogota, and Putumayo, Colombia
MacCarthy, Michelle Dawn MacCarthy, Dr. Michelle, U. of Bergen, Bergen Norway ‐ To aid Bergen, U. of engaged ac vi es on “100 Years of Massim Ethnography: Malinowski's Legacy,” 2013, Alotau, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
Madimenos, Felicia Madimenos, Dr. Felicia, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY ‐ To aid engaged Ithaca College Chrisafo ac vi es on “Engaging Shuar Communi es Through Collabora ve Health Educa on: Enhancing Par cipant Agency in Indigenous Health Research,” 2013, Morona‐San ago, Ecuador Makram‐Ebeid, Dina Makram‐Ebeid, Ms. Dina, Max Planck Inst., Halle, Germany ‐ To aid Max Planck Inst. Waguih engaged ac vi es on “The Poli cs of Labour in Egypt: An Engaged Anthropology with Young People in al‐Tibbin, Helwan,” 2014, Al‐ Tibbin, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt
McGill, Alicia Beth McGill, Dr. Alicia, Indiana U., South Bend, IN ‐ To aid engaged Indiana U., South Bend ac vi es on “Cul va ng Heritage Dialogue: An Engaged Anthropology Program with Belizean Teachers, Youth, and Na onal Actors,” 2013, Belize
Nucho, Joanne Randa Nucho, Joanne, U. of California, Irvine, CA ‐ To aid engaged California, Irvine, U. of ac vi es on “Imagining the City: Ethnographic Film Workshop in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon,” 2013, Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon
Overholtzer, Lisa Marie Overholtzer, Dr. Lisa, Wichita State U., Wichita, KS ‐ To aid Wichita State U. engaged ac vi es on “Aztec Replica House Museum Exhibit at Xaltocan, Mexico,” 2013, Xaltocan, Mexico
Rignall, Karen Eugenie Rignall, Dr. Karen Eugenie, Georgetown U., Washington, DC ‐ To Georgetown U. aid engaged ac vi es on “Transforming Landscapes, Transforming Communi es in a southern Moroccan Oasis,” 2014, Rabat and Kelaa Mgouna, Morocco
Samet, Robert Nathan Samet, Dr. Robert, U. of Massachuse s, Amherst, MA ‐ To aid Massachuse s, Amherst, U. of engaged ac vi es on “Engaging Journalism: The Venezuelan Press in Times of Poli cal Uncertainty,” 2014, Caracas, Venezuela
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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation
Sauer, Jacob James Sauer, Dr. Jacob, Vanderbilt U., Nashville, TN ‐ To aid engaged Vanderbilt U. ac vi es on “Presen ng the Archaeological Past to Mapuche Communi es and the Public in South‐Central Chile,” 2014, Chile
Scher, Philip Wyman Scher, Dr. Philip, U. of Oregon, Eugene, OR ‐ To aid engaged Oregon, U. of ac vi es on “Working With Heritage: A Workshop for Teachers of History in Barbados,” 2014, Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies
Sherpa, Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Dr. Pasang Yangjee, Penn State U., State College, PA ‐ To Pennsylvania State U. aid engaged ac vies on “Engagement in Cul va ng Mutually Beneficial Collabora ons to Understand Climate Change Impacts Between Academic Scholars & Sherpas of Everest Region, Nepal”
Starzmann, Maria Theresia Starzmann, Dr. Maria, Free U. of Berlin, Berlin, Germany ‐ To aid Freie U. engaged ac vi es on “The Stories Of Stones: Community Engagement And A Children's Archaeology In Turkey,” 2013, Urfa and Ankara,Turkey
Trever, Lisa Senchyshyn Trever, Dr. Lisa, U. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA ‐ To aid California, Berkeley, U. of engaged ac vi es on “Panamarca Scholarly Exchange and Community Engagement Project,” 2014, Peru
57 Initiatives Program for 2013
The Wenner-Gren Foundation provided funding for two projects under its Initiatives Program in 2013.
Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation
Lindee, Mary Susan Lindee, Dr. Susan, U. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA ‐ To aid Pennsylvania, U. of research on “A History of the Wenner‐Gren Founda on and its Impact in Anthropology” ‐ Ini a ves Grant
Mullings, Leith Mullings, Dr. Leith, American Anthropological Associa on, American Anthropological Arlington, VA ‐ To aid “The Public Educa on Ini a ve of the Associa on American Anthropological Associa on: Migra on and Displacement” ‐ Ini a ves Grant
58 Historical Archives Program for 2013
The Wenner-Gren Foundation awarded five Historical Archives Program grants in 2013.
Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation
Brunson‐Hadley, Judith Brunson‐Hadley, Dr. Judith L., Olympia, Washington ‐ To aid Arizona State U. prepara on of Alfred E. Di ert, Jr.'s research materials for archival deposit with the SHESC ‐ Archaeological Research Ins tute, Arizona State U., Tempe, AZ ‐ Historical Archives Program Conant, Veronika A. Conant, Veronika A., New York, NY ‐ To aid prepara on of the Smithsonian Inst., Washington, DC personal research materials of Dr. Francis P. Conant for archival deposit with the Na onal Anthropological Archives and the Human Studies Film Archives ‐ Historical Archives Program Friedlander, Eva Friedlander, Dr. Eva, New York, NY ‐ To aid prepara on of the Smithsonian Inst., Washington, DC personal papers and research materials of Dr. Owen Lynch for archival deposit with the Na onal Anthropological Archives, Suitland, MD—Historical Archives Program Kealiinohomoku, Joann W. Kealiinohomoku, Joann W., Flagstaff, AZ ‐ To aid prepara on of Arizona State U. personal research materials for archival deposit with the Cross‐ Cultural Dance Resources Collec on at Arizona State U., Tempe, AZ ‐ Historical Archives Program
Kratz, Corinne A. Kratz, Dr. Corinne A., Tesuque, NM ‐ To aid prepara on of the Smithsonian Inst., Washington, DC personal research materials and professional papers of Dr. Ivan Karp, for archival deposit with the Na onal Anthropological Archives, Suitland, MD ‐ Historical Archives Program
59 Major Grant Program Statistics for 2013
The Foundation has seven major grant programs. Dissertation Fieldwork Grants, Post Ph.D. Research Grants, and International Collaborative Research Grants are given to individuals at various stages of career to carry out research projects. The Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded to young scholars to provide time for publication of major pieces of research. The Wadsworth Fellowships allow scholars to receive doctoral training in Anthropology that is not available in their home countries. The Conference and Workshop Grants fund academic meetings in the discipline, and the new Engaged Anthropology Grant allows grantees to return to their research locale to share their research results.
Over the seven major grant programs in 2013 the Foundation received 1621 applications and made 240 awards for an overall success rate of 14.8% This compares with a total of 1470 applications and 219 awards in 2012 (success rate = 14.9%) and 1428 applications and 219 awards in 2011 (success rate 16.2%).
Summary of 2013 Application and Approvals Applications Approved % Approved Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 977 133 13.6% Post-Ph.D. Research Grant 267 37 13.9%
Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship 185 8 4.3%
Conference and Workshop Grants 65 32 49.2%
Int. Collaborative Research Grant 56 7 12.5% Wadsworth Fellowships 22 6 37.3% Engaged Anthropology* 52 28 53.8% Grand Total 1621 251 15.5% *Data for the Engage Anthropology Grant represent only one grant season
Application Numbers
Overall 2013 application numbers were up by 151 (10.3%) in comparison to 2012. With the exception of the Wadsworth Fellowships, this increase occurred across the Foundation’s major funding programs. The exceptional percentage increase in the Engaged Anthropology Grant (188.9%) results from the fact that the numbers recorded for 2012 represent only one application season (the inaugural season for this new program), while the numbers in 2013 represent two seasons. The longer term trajectories for the Foundation’s largest programs (see next page) show a steady increase over the past decade for Hunt applications, and a gradual increase for the Dissertation Fieldwork applications since 2010 (note that the rapid increase prior to 2008 reflects the change in Foundation policy to allow declined applicants to reapply at the next biannual deadline).
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Success Rates
The overall success rates for 2013 are on par with the 2012 success rates. There is a fixed budget for the Hunt Fellowship, Wadsworth Fellowship, International Collaborative Research Grant and the En- gaged Anthropology Grant. Fluctuations in the success rates for these programs reflect fluctuations in the numbers of applications received. .
Percent Approvals 2009 - 2013
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 11.8% 17.5% 15.3% 12.7% 13.6%
Post-Ph.D. Research Grant 12.2% 15.7% 15.1% 14.6% 13.9%
Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship 5.9% 6.7% 7.0% 5.0% 4.9%
Conference and Workshop Grants 36.7% 64.3% 62.5% 56.6% 49.2% International Collaborative Re- search Grant 20.7% 16.3% 18.4% 14.6% 11.3%
Wadsworth Fellowships 16.7% 26.1% 18.8% 33.3% 27.3%
Engaged Anthropology Grant 71.4% 53.8%
Grand Total 12.5% 17.5% 16.2% 14.9% 15.5%
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Dissertation Fieldwork Grants
Application numbers, approvals and success rates by sub-discipline
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Archaeology Approvals 9 10 12 8 15 12 21 18 14 17 Applications 92 106 98 91 110 113 104 125 132 132 Success Rate 9.8% 9.4% 12.2% 8.8% 13.6% 10.6% 20.2% 14.4% 10.6% 12.9% Linguistics Approvals 5 7 5 9 4 2 6 6 7 4 Applications 22 30 22 35 29 21 32 38 37 28 Success Rate 22.7% 23.3% 22.7% 25.7% 13.8% 9.5% 18.8% 15.8% 18.9% 14.3% Physical-Biological Approvals 13 12 22 15 19 17 18 21 15 18 Applications 75 83 111 105 127 115 113 110 102 117 Success Rate 17.3% 14.5% 19.8% 14.3% 15.0% 14.8% 15.9% 19.1% 14.7% 15.4% Social- Cultural Approvals 48 71 70 90 87 72 105 97 82 94 Applications 381 423 461 556 627 621 609 658 659 700 Success Rate 12.6% 16.8% 15.2% 16.2% 13.9% 11.6% 17.2% 14.7% 12.4% 13.4%
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Post-Ph.D. Research Grants
Application numbers, approvals and success rates by sub-discipline
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Archaeology Approvals 11 8 17 10 17 13 12 12 15 12 Applications 69 50 74 59 89 75 56 62 69 65 Success Rate 15.9% 16.0% 23.0% 16.9% 19.1% 17.3% 21.4% 19.4% 21.7% 18.5% Linguistics Approvals 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 3 Applications 10 5 4 5 5 9 8 3 9 10 Success Rate 0.0% 20.0% 25.0% 20.0% 40.0% 11.1% 0.0% 0.0% 11.1% 30.0% Physical-Biological Approvals 8 9 12 15 10 8 9 9 8 7 Applications 31 40 52 59 54 56 53 48 44 59 Success Rate 25.8% 22.5% 23.1% 25.4% 18.5% 14.3% 17.0% 18.8% 18.2% 11.9% Social-Cultural Approvals 12 14 13 18 11 8 17 15 12 15 Applications 110 113 90 119 112 106 108 126 125 133 Success Rate 10.9% 12.4% 14.4% 15.1% 9.8% 7.5% 15.7% 11.9% 9.6% 11.3%
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Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships
Application numbers, approvals and success rates by sub-discipline
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Archaeology Approvals 4 4 1 2 1 4 2 2 2 1 Applications 14 14 13 18 21 21 25 20 31 31 Success Rate 28.6% 28.6% 7.7% 11.1% 4.8% 19.0% 8.0% 10.0% 6.5% 3.2% Linguistics Approvals 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 Applications 2 1 4 5 3 6 9 8 7 6 Success Rate 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 16.7% 11.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% Physical-Biological Approvals 1 2 1 0 2 0 2 2 1 1 Applications 4 12 12 11 16 12 8 17 16 22 Success Rate 25.0% 16.7% 8.3% 0.0% 12.5% 0.0% 25.0% 11.8% 6.3% 4.5% Social-Cultural Approvals 16 8 7 6 7 3 5 5 5 7 Applications 73 75 60 86 89 96 108 84 106 126 Success Rate 21.9% 10.7% 11.7% 7.0% 7.9% 3.1% 4.6% 6.0% 4.7% 5.6%
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APPLICATIONS, APPROVAL AND SUCCESS RATES BY GENDER Data for the Dissertation fieldwork Grant, Post-Ph.D. Research Grant and Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship are pooled
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80 Wenner-Gren Foundation Leadership in 2013
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Leslie C. Aiello (2005)* Ira Berlin (2007) Cass Cliatt (2012) Rebecca Duseau (2013) Joan Girgus (2002) Henry Gonzalez (2009) John Immerwahr (2004) Meredith Jenkins (2012) Darcy Kelley (2005) Seth J. Masters (2000) Lauren Meserve (2008) Ellen Mickiewicz (2000)** William B. Petersen (2001) Barbara Savage (2010) Lorraine Sciarra (2004) Ted Seides (2009) Deborah Wadsworth (2006)*** Marissa Wesely (2008)
OFFICERS
Seth J. Masters Chairman John Immerwahr Vice-Chairman Lauren Meserve Treasurer Leslie C. Aiello President Maugha Kenny Secretary and Vice-President for Finance
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Cynthia Beall Dept. of Anthropology (2012) Case Western Reserve University, USA Steve Caton Dept. of Anthropology, (2011) Harvard University, USA Susan Brownell Dept. of Anthropology (2012) University of Washington, USA Eduardo Goes Neves Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (2011) Sao Paolo University, Brazil Anne Pusey Dept. of Evolutionary Anthropology (2011) Duke University, USA Shalini Randeria Ethnologies Seminar (2010) University of Zurich, Switzerland Nathan Schlanger INRAP—National Institute for Archeological Research (2010) Paris, France
LEGAL COUNSEL Debevoise & Plimpton
ACCOUNTANTS O’Connor Davies, LLP
*(numbers in parenthesis represent the year the term of service began) **term ended in May 2013 ***passed away December 2013
81 Wenner-Gren Foundation Reviewers (during 2013)
Abadie, Roberto, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Aiello, Leslie, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, NY (USA) Aisher, Alexander, Sussex University, Sussex, United Kingdom Alemseged, Zeresenay, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA (USA) Amrute, Sareeta, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (USA) Andrade, Xavier, FLASCO, Quito, Ecuador Askew, Marc R. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Bharadway, Aditya, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland Chamberlain, Andrew T., University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom Chilton, Elizabeth S., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (USA) Cords, Marina, Columbia University, New York, NY (USA) Coupland, Gary G., University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Doane, Molly, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL (USA) Dombrowski, Kirk, John Jay College, CUNY, New York, NY (USA) Dwyer, Leslie, Haverford College, Haverford, PA (USA) Eisenlohr, Patrick, University of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany Elliston, Deborah, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY (USA Falls, Susan, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (USA) Fine-Dare, Kathleen S., Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO (USA) Fitting, Elizabeth, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada Fong, Vanessa, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA) Fuentes, Agustin, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (USA) Garland, Elizabeth, Union College, Schenectady, NY (USA) Gaudio, Rudolf P., Purchase College, New York, NY (USA) Gillespie, Kelly, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Glick, Douglas, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY (USA) Goldstein, Daniel M., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (USA) Haeri, Niloofar, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (USA) Hayden, Corinne, University of California, Berkeley, CA (USA) Hicks, Dan, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Hodgson, Dorothy L., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (USA) Hovers, Erella, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Jaffe, Alexandra M., California State University, Long Beach, CA (USA) Junge, Benjamin, SUNY, New Paltz, NY (USA) Junghans, Trenholme, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY (USA) Kasmir, Sharryn, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY (USA) Kosmatopoulos, Nikolas, Columbia University, New York, NY (USA) Kreid, Judy, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, NY (USA) Kuzawa, Christopher, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (USA) Larsen, Clark Spencer, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (USA) Lem, Winnie, Trent University, Peterborough, ON (Canada) Limbert, Mandana, Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY (USA) Lomnitz, Claudio, Columbia University, New York, NY (USA) Lowe, Celia, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (USA) Makris, Gerasimos, Panteion University, Athens, Greece Malkin, Victoria, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, NY (USA) Minc, Leah D., Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (USA) Muller, Birgit, EHESS, Paris, France Muse, Michael, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, NY (USA) O’Rourke, Dennis H., University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (USA) Pels, Peter P. J., University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands Peteet, Julie M., University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (USA) Politis, Gustavo, National University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina Price, Charles, University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill, NC (USA)
82 Wenner-Gren Foundation Reviewers, continued
Quam, Rolf Michael, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY (USA) Robinson, Chris, Bronx Community College, CUNY, Bronx, NY (USA) Robotham, Donald K., Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY (USA) Rodriguez, Mariela E., University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Rumsey, Alan, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Sarro, Ramon, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Sawalha, Aseel, Fordham University, New York, NY (USA) Shipley, Jesse, Haverford College, Haverford, PA (USA) Silliman, Stephen W., University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (USA) Silverman, Sydel, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY (USA) Simpson, Audra, Columbia University, New York, NY (USA) Sinopoli, Carla M., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (USA) Siu, Helen Fung Har, Yale University, New Haven, CT (USA) Snodgrass, James J., University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (USA) Sofaer, Joanna R., University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom Stiner, Mary C., University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (USA) Stone, Anne Carol, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (USA) Strong, Pauline Turner, University of Texas, Austin, TX (USA) Sundar, Nandini, Delhi University, Delhi, India Sussman, Robert W., Washington University, St. Louis, MO (USA) Tovar, Patricia, City University of New York, New York, NY (USA) Villmoare, Brian A., George Washington University, Washington, DC (USA) Wright, Rita P., New York University, New York, NY (USA) Yan, Yunxiang, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
83 Wenner-Gren Foundation Staff in 2013
Leslie C. Aiello President Maritza Burgos Assistant Controller Natasha Fenelon Applications Program Assistant Maugha Kenny Vice-President for Finance Judith Kreid Foundation Anthropologist—International Programs Mark Mahoney IT & Archives Mary Elizabeth Moss Grants Administrator Michael Muse Foundation Anthropologist—International Programs Laurie Obbink Conference Program Associate Elizabeth Rojas Program Administrator Mark Ropelewski Program Administrator Daniel Salas Communications Assistant
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