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2017 Annual Report.Pub Annual Report For 2017 “Supporting worldwide research in all branches of Anthropology” Table of Contents Chair’s Introduction ..................................................................................... 3 President’s Report ....................................................................................... 4 Program Highlights SAPIENS & Institutional Development Grants ..................................... 6 Wenner-Gren Symposia Overview ...................................................... 10 Current Anthropology Supplementary Issues .................................... 11 Historical Archives Program ................................................................ 12 International Symposia Reports .......................................................... 14 Meetings of the Anthropology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences ....................................................................................... 18 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellows ................................................................... 19 Fejos Postdoctoral Fellows............................................................... ... 23 Wadsworth Fellows .............................................................................. 26 2018 Grantees Dissertation Fieldwork Grants ............................................................. 32 Post-Ph.D. Research Grants ................................................................ 41 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships ........................................................... 46 Fejos Postdoctal Fellowships in Ethnographic Film ......................... 47 Conference and Workshop Grants ...................................................... 48 New and Continuing Wadsworth Fellowships .................................... 51 Engaged Anthropology Grants ............................................................ 53 Initiatives in Public Awareness of Anthropology ............................... 55 Initiatives ............................................................................................... 56 Historical Archives Program ................................................................ 57 Major Grant Program Statistics ................................................................ 58 Financial Statements ................................................................................. 67 Leadership .................................................................................................. 81 Reviewers during 2018 .............................................................................. 82 Staff ............................................................................................................. 84 2 Chair’s Introduction Lorraine Sciarra Chair, Board of Trustees Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. This year has been a significant year for the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Foundation celebrated its 75th anniversary with a host of special events and programs while also undergoing a major shift in its leadership. 2016 was Dr. Leslie Aiello’s last full year as Foundation President and in May 2016 Seth Masters stepped down as Chair of the Board. Leslie became President in 2005 and Seth became Board Chair in 2008. Together they secured the foundation’s finances and invigorated its work. Nothing illustrates this better than this past year’s accomplishments including Leslie’s written history of the Foundation and the establishment of SAPIENS, the online news magazine for Anthropology sponsored by Wenner-Gren. I would like to acknowledge and to thank Leslie and Seth for their extraordinary service and leadership. I would also like to welcome the Foundation’s new President, the eminent scholar, Dr. Danilyn Rutherford, who is uniquely qualified to lead the Foundation at this time. We eagerly look forward to the Foundation’s future, including embarking on a formal strategic planning process this year. Lorraine Sciarra Chair, Board of Trustees Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. 3 President’s Report Danilyn Rutherford President Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. The period covered by this report was a year of transition. In June 2017, Leslie Aiello stepped down from the presidency of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, a position she held with care, imagination, and a keen organizational eye for over twelve years. I assumed the presidency in July 2017, joining Lorraine Sciarra, who just a year earlier had become the new chair of our board. Change of all kinds was in the wind. We were searching: for a new editor for Current Anthropology, our academic journal; for a new grants management system for our long-suffering applicants and reviewers; for new office space; for consultants to guide us through a new strategic plan. For me personally, 2017 meant discovering a new city, getting to know new colleagues, and adjusting to a job with a rhythm very different from that of academic life. I’ve fallen in love with all three – the city, the colleagues, and the job. It truly has been a privilege to do this work. At the end of the summer of 2017, I came upon a planning document Sydel Silverman wrote in 1987 when she was the incoming president. In it, she laid out five features of Wenner-Gren’s identity. She framed three in terms of our commitments: to basic research, to the internationalism of anthropology, and to an inclusive vision of the discipline. The last two focused on our actions: building the research infrastructure and providing leadership for the field. I though back over the year I spent shadowing Leslie as she hosted board meetings and symposia and navigated the review process. It was as if I’d discovered her secret recipe. There are all kinds of ways to describe Wenner-Gren– in terms of the size of our endowment, our expenditures on overhead, the kinds of levels of funding we provide. But what defines us is an ethic. An ethic of service to a discipline that by a stroke of historical fortune has a grant agency dedicated to meeting its needs. The following reports outline the ways in which Wenner-Gren served anthropology during 2017. Here are a few highlights. We gave away $2,726,651 in funding in our Dissertation Fieldwork Grant and Postdoctoral Research Grant programs. Around the world, 137 doctoral students and 40 postdoctoral researchers are undertaking research with our support. When all is said and done, we’ll know more about everything from raw materials procurement from the Pinilla del Valle Neanderthals to race, family, and nation in college football. Nine recent doctorates are using Hunt Fellowships to support them while they write books; five are using Fejos Fellowships to complete films; with our Wadsworth International and Wadworth Africa Fellowships, seven graduate students from countries without a well-established tradition of anthropology are studying for their PhDs. Conferences have happened or are happening with our support: in Florianopolis, Cairo, Stockholm, Penang, and many other places. There have been or will be workshops on topics ranging from the anthropology of media in contemporary Turkey to the human occupation of the Nile Valley between 75,000 to 15,000 years ago. 2017 saw the publication of three special issues of Current Anthropology based on Wenner-Gren symposia, along with four regular issues. Our magazine for non-anthropologists, SAPIENS, came out weekly and was read nearly 2 million times. SAPIENS staff worked with 47 anthropologists to craft articles that exposed broad publics 4 President’s Report, continued to their ideas. Next year, there will be even more news to share. Here at Wenner-Gren, we are excited about the future. For now, please enjoy the following tour of the forms wonderful work in anthropology took in 2017. Danilyn Rutherford President Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. 5 Program Highlights for 2017 Program highlights include: updates on the SAPIENS news portal; progress reports from Institutional Development Grant recipients; organizers’ statements from two Wenner-Gren Symposia held during the year; descriptions of this year’s Historical Archives Program grants, Hunt and Fejos Postdoctoral Fellow- ships, and new awards made to international scholars to train under our Wadsworth African and International Fellowship programs. SAPIENS: Anthropology/Everything Human SAPIENS, the Wenner-Gren news portal for anthropology, hit its stride in 2017. In January 2017, an important milestone was reached when the website was accessed 1,000,000 times. By the end of August, the number was 2,000,000. Over the course of the calendar year, 122 articles were read more than 1.7 million times. Aside from a significant readership, SAPIENS has garnered honors: from the 2017 New Directions Group Prize by the American Anthropological Association General Anthropology Division, to a recommendation from the New York Times’s column “What We’re Reading.” Within the discipline, its reputation is equally stellar. At the American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting in November 2017, Chip Colwell and Amanda Mascarelli offered a workshop on writing for the public that quickly sold out. SAPIENS has more than 62,000 Facebook likes and nearly 10,000 Twitter followers. It has attracted a growing number of partners, who syndicate its work. Institutional Development Grants The Foundation has a long-standing interest in the international development of anthropology. The Insti- tutional Development Grant program’s purpose is to support the growth and development of anthro-
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