Annual Report for 2009

“Supporting worldwide research in all branches of Anthropology”

2009 Annual Report

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chairman’s Introduction...... 3 President’s Report ...... 4 Program Highlights...... 6 Institutional Development Grants ...... 7 International Symposia, Workshops, and Sponsored Meetings ...... 9 Osmundsen Initiative Grantees...... 17 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellows ...... 18 Wadsworth Fellows...... 22 2009 Grantees Dissertation Fieldwork Grants ...... 26 Post-Ph.D. Research Grants ...... 36 Conference and Workshop Grants...... 39 International Collaborative Research Grants ...... 41 New and Continuing Wadsworth Fellowships...... 42 Initiatives ...... 44 Historical Archives Program...... 45 Major Grant Program Statistics...... 46 Financial Statements ...... 56 Leadership ...... 67 Reviewers during 2009 ...... 68 Staff ...... 70

2 2009 Annual Report Chairman’s Introduction

Seth J. Masters Chairman, Board of Trustees Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

The Wenner-Gren Foundation Board of Trustees, officers, and staff are pleased to publish this 2009 annual report.

Wenner-Gren seeks to support the global anthropology community, and funds its operations and programs from the investment returns achieved on its endowment. Recently, the capital markets have been quite volatile, with a sharp decline as a result of the credit crisis in 2008 followed by a steep recovery in 2009.

Fortunately, Wenner-Gren's management procedures and conservative financial policies have helped us navigate this difficult period better than many peers. Our Budget and Investment Committee, chaired by Bill Cobb, deserves special acknowledgement for delivering superior long-term investment returns with relatively low risk. As a result, the Foundation remains strong, and is positioned to pursue its mission for the foreseeable future.

As reviewed in this report, under President Leslie Aiello's leadership and vision Wenner- Gren continues to enhance its activities. Our Institutional Development Grant program, as well as the International Symposium program seek to extend the Foundation’s profile globally. Our new Osmundsen initiative helps to link anthropological research to broad social or intellectual issues. And we continue to expand our systems and web site to better communicate worldwide.

Wenner-Gren's ability to keep abreast of the issues facing anthropology would not be possible without the collaboration, advice and contributions from the community we serve. I would like to extend thanks to all past and present Wenner-Gren Advisory Committee members, as well as to the many anthropologists who have participated in the Foundation's programs and activities.

Seth J. Masters Chairman, Board of Trustees Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.

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Leslie C. Aiello, President

2009 was a busy year. In addition to the Foundation’s regular activities, a number of initia- tives were put in place to ensure continuing support for Anthropology in the face of challeng- ing fiscal conditions.

Since the mid-1970s, the Foundation has employed a strategy of funding large numbers of relatively small projects rather than fewer costlier, long-term initiatives. This strategy permits a rapid reduction (or increase) in success rates (and expenditure) as the situation requires. In the first half of 2009, the success rates across all of our programs were lowered significantly. For example, the success rate for Dissertation Fieldwork Grants was decreased from 14.0% in 2008 to 10.4% in the first half of 2009. For Conference and Workshop Grants, it was re- duced from almost 60% to 30.0%.

We are pleased that by the second half of 2009 success rates across all of our programs re- turned to normal levels. This is because of improvement in the financial markets but also be- cause of the reduction of the maximum grant amounts for our two largest programs, Disserta- tion Fieldwork and Post-Ph.D. Research Grants. We realize that lower funding levels are a disadvantage to some grantees, but feel that it is desirable to support the largest possible number of deserving projects. We hope to increase maximum grant amounts in the near fu- ture, as conditions improve.

The difficult fiscal situation also provided some unexpected opportunities for the Foundation to increase its engagement with the field. One of these was the introduction of the Osmund- sen Initiative grant program. The Foundation has been concerned for some time that Anthro- pology as a discipline does not have the public profile of some of the other social sciences. The Osmundsen Initiative provides supplementary funds to selected doctoral and postdoc- toral grantees who make a convincing case for the engagement of their research with con- temporary issues of broader social or intellectual concern. The purpose of this initiative is to encourage anthropologists to give serious thought to these issues. It also has the advantage of offsetting to some extent the lower maximum grant amounts for the Dissertation Fieldwork and Post-Ph.D. Research Grant programs.

A second unexpected opportunity was the release of staff time to devote to the development of a historical section for the Wenner-Gren website. The Foundation has a rich history, and

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our goal is to make our extensive archives, including our photo and audio archives, available as educational tools for the field. Considerable progress was made on this initiative in 2009 and the historical section of the website will be launched in 2010.

The Foundation also continued its International Symposium program with a meeting on “The Beginnings of Agriculture: New Ideas and New Data,” organized by T. Douglas Price (U. of Wisconsin) and Ofer Bar-Yosef (Harvard) and held March 6-13 at Hacienda Temozon, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. In addition, it sponsored and organized a symposium at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meetings in February 2009. This was entitled “The Origin of the Human Species” and was chosen by the AAAS as one of two sym- posia for a full-day event on human evolution to commemorate the bicentennial of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.

These larger symposia were in addition to Foundation sponsorship for 18 international an- thropological meetings and events, its presence at a number of national and international meetings, and its support for the second year of the new Institutional Development Grant pro- gram. These as well as other activities are profiled under the “Program Highlights” section of this annual report.

Without a doubt, the beginning of 2009 was one of the most challenging periods during my tenure as President. However, I am gratified that the Foundation’s procedures were suffi- ciently robust to enable successful navigation through this difficult time. The Board of Trustees, Advisory Council and staff also worked diligently to ensure the Foundation’s continued viability and vitality. For this, I am most thankful and look forward to a strong future for the Foundation and to its continued engagement with the field of Anthropology.

Leslie C. Aiello President Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.

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Program Highlights

Program highlights for 2009 include: the introduction of the Osmundsen Initiative; the announcement of a new Institutional Development Grant; the award of the highly competitive Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow- ships; the selection of four international scholars to train under our Wadsworth International and African Fellowship programs; the award of 147 research grants to students and established scholars under our Dissertation Fieldwork, Post-Ph.D. Research and International Collaborative Research Grant programs; and support for 18 conferences and workshops.

Osmundsen Initiative Grant Program

In recent years, the Foundation has been concerned that Anthropology does not have the public profile of some of the other social sciences. The field has also tended to become rather insular and in many cases an- thropological research is presented in a style and language that is not im- mediately assessable to non-anthropologists. The Osmundsen Initiative is designed to encourage Wenner-Gren grantees to give serious thought to these issues.

The Osmundsen Initiative provides up to an additional $5,000 to selected Dissertation Fieldwork and Post-Ph.D. Research grantees who have opted to be considered for this supplementary grant. The main goal of the Osmundsen Initiative is to support the highest quality anthropological research that at the same time demonstrates the unique qualities of an- thropology to make a significant contribution to contemporary social or intellectual issues. It is named in honor of Lita Osmundsen who was president of the Foundation from 1963-1986.

Osmundsen Initiative supplementary grants were made to twelve Dissertation Fieldwork grantees and six Post-Ph.D. Research grantees in 2009.

The breadth of issues addressed by the 2009 Osmundsen grantees is impressive, ranging from the so- cial impacts of climate change to the relationships between agribusiness and food and subsidy policy, migration policy, and rural development policy. Projects address the bioethics of reproductive tourism, the public health implications for indigenous populations who are in transition to modern agriculture, the need to see justice in terms that involve the prevention of violence, and the global relevance (or not) of mental health practice based solely on the US context or of child growth standards based on US norms.

Arguments for the relevance of work in archaeology and biological anthropology were particularly im- pressive. For example, Dr. Meredith Slater (U. Notre Dame) aims to apply anthropological research to address the problem of looting on the Dead Sea Plain of Jordan. Her goal is to answer the question of why looting matters through considering the issue from an impartial perspective of materiality and values in the past and present. The overall objective is to bridge the gap between archaeologists, looters, col- lectors and other stakeholders in relation to stewardship of the archaeological record.

In biological anthropology, Michelle Rodrigues (Ohio State U.) made an interesting case for the rele- vance of her research on stress and sociality in spider monkeys to the development of an evolutionary framework for the understanding of the biological processes that regulate human health. Likewise, Erin Hecht (Emory U.) made a strong case for the value of the anthropological approach in the context of her research on neural adaptations that underlie the evolution of social learning and imitation. She argues that the combination of neuroscience and anthropology will provide unique explanatory power for

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Program Highlights, continued clarifying the functional role of mirror neurons and may add an additional level of explanation to theories about how human culture emerged.

A complete list of the 2009 Osmundsen Initiative grantees can be found beginning on page 17 and descriptions of these projects can be found in the Grantees Database at www.wennergren.org/ grantees/ .

Institutional Development Grants

The Foundation has had a long-standing interest in the international development of anthropology. The Institutional Development Grant program (now in its second year) is a new initiative in this area. Its pur- pose is to support the growth and development of anthropological 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.

One Institutional Development Grant was made in 2009 to Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal, is col- laborating closely with Cornell University’s Depart- ment of Anthropology, with the goal of improving the theoretical and methodological training of its Ph.D. students and upgrading the academic credentials of its faculty who do not currently hold a Ph.D.

The IDG grant will be used to upgrade the current curriculum, provide modest support for research, intensify international exposure and exchange, and build up the library and electronic resources. Currently in Nepal, the research agenda in anthropology is frequently determined by NGOs and development agencies where many of the students and faculty gain their experience. The IDG will allow more freedom for the department itself to determine its academic concerns. A primary aim is to significantly improve the theoretical and methodological capacity of the anthropology department as opposed to applied/development anthropology, thereby allowing the department to be competitive and contribute internationally.

The 2009 IDG provides funds beginning in January 2010. A faculty committee will design the core cur- riculum for the doctoral program, significantly enriching the previous tutorial-only program with three compulsory seminars: one an intensive survey of anthropological theory; another on research design and proposal-writing; and a third on South Asian ethnography. The first exchange doctoral student is ex- pected to arrive at Cornell in August 2010.

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Program Highlights, continued UPDATE: 2008 IDG Recipients

The 2008 recipients have completed the first year of their five-year Institutional Development Grant. The following summarizes their accomplishments.

Anthropological Doctoral Program Museum of Anthropology Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

The Anthropological Doctoral Program at the Museum of Anthropology of Córdoba aims to prepare professionals for research and academic education in Anthropological Sciences, with specialized training in the three classic sub-areas of research: social anthropology, archaeology, and bioanthropology. During 2009 they accomplished the majority of the goals laid out in their original application. These included the completion of all legal and administrative obligations for the accreditation of the doctoral program, acquisition of necessary equipment and library material, development of the course curriculum, enrollment of students and development of a virtual classroom based on the open software platform, Moodle (http://aulavirtual.ffyh.unc.edu.ar). At present there are two virtual rooms in support of the regular courses.

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology School of Social Sciences University of Mongolia

In 2009, the project implementation followed the plans outlined in the original IDG project proposal. The University of Mongolia is in collaboration with the University of Cambridge to develop a new doctoral program. Four University of Mongolia staff members visited Cambridge for curriculum development, which included six fully developed course syllabi to be taught in Mongolia during the 2009/2010 academic year. Books have also been purchased to support the courses as well as computer equipment to supply doctoral students with better facilities.

Four doctoral students began the new program in October 2009 and received stipends from the IDG funds. Two of the students are studying at Cambridge University’s Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit during the Lent term (from mid December 2009 to mid March 2010).

8 2009 Annual Report International Symposia and Workshops

One Wenner-Gren Symposium was held in 2009 on “The Beginnings of Agriculture: New Ideas and New Data,” organized by T. Douglas Price (U. of Wisconsin) and Ofer Bar-Yosef (Harvard), March 6-13 at Hacienda Temozon in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.

The goal of the conference was to develop and explore a rich and productive dialog among schol- ars from diverse branches of archaeology and re- lated disciplines focused on the beginnings of farming. One of the more important aspects of the meeting was the leveling of disciplines that took place. Archaeobotanists, archaeozoologists, and archaeologists, all more or less equally represented, broke down the barriers that sometimes hinder dis- cussion among these specialties and moved onto new ground. The discussions were further enhanced by the presence of a human demographer and an expert on ancient DNA.

For the first time at an international meeting, there was a major emphasis on the origins of agriculture in East Asia. Lesser-known regions such as Papua New Guinea, Africa, and Eastern North America were included in the discussions and much new information was presented from East Asia, Africa, and Cen- tral and South America. The antiquity of domestication has been pushed deeper into the past in many areas. Today, an eerie synchronicity in the timing of the first domesticates around the end of the Pleisto- cene is emerging. Another commonality among the cradles of agriculture is the rich environments in which farming originates. Experiments in domestication do not take place in marginal areas, but amid ancient concentrations of population and resources across the globe.

A full report on this symposium can be found on p. 14 of this report as well as on the Wenner-Gren website (www.wennergren.org/history). The proceedings of the symposium are to be published in a future supplementary issue of Current Anthropology entitled “The Origins of Agriculture” (guest edited by T. Douglas Price and Ofer Bar-Yosef).

The Foundation also sponsored and organized a symposium at the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science meetings in February 2009, entitled: “The Origin of the Human Species.” This symposium was chosen by the AAAS as one of two symposia for a full-day event on human evolution to commemorate the bicentennial of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.

In addition, support was provided for 18 meetings through the Conference and Workshop Grants pro- gram. Among these, Foundation staff attended the Second Conference of the East African Association for Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (August 10- 15, 2009: Arusha, Tanzania) and the International Symposium on Paleoanthropology in Commemora- tion of the 80th Anniversary of the Discovery of the First Skull of Peking Man and the First Conference on Quaternary Research of Asia (October 19-23, 2009, Beijing) organized by the Institute of Vertebrate Pa- leontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 9 2009 Annual Report

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The Foundation also supported and attended the 20th anniversary conference of the Pan-African Anthropological Association on "Anthropology, Anthropologists and the Re-imagining of Development in Africa" (August 16-21, 2009, Cameroon). The Foundation helped to found this association in 1989 and has provided substantial support over the years.

The Foundation is also pleased to have been able to support a workshop application from the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA). This aided the WCAA conference on “Opportunities and Challenges: Toward an Agenda for World Anthropology,” in collaboration with Prof. Gustavo Ribeiro (a past Wenner-Gren Advisory Council member and Wadsworth International Fellow) and was held at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) meeting in July 2009 in Kunming, China.

The Foundation was instrumental in launching the WCAA, which was a direct outgrowth of the 131st Wenner-Gren International Symposium “World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations within Systems of Power,” organized by Arturo Escobar and Gustavo Ribeiro in 2003. The WCAA provides a forum for over 30 anthropological associations from around the world.

Current Anthropology

2009 was the 50th anniversary of Current Anthropology. CA had its origins in 1957 when Paul Fejos, the Foundation’s President at the time, invited Sol Tax to develop a plan that would facilitate immediate and flexible worldwide anthropological exchange. After extensive consultation with anthropologists around the globe, the result was Current Anthropology. The journal first appeared in 1959, was edited by Sol Tax until 1974, and was truly revolutionary for its time. CA was the first journal to encourage debate through invited comments that are published simultaneously with articles, a format which subsequently has been emulated by many other journals. In the early years, it also included tear-out letters to facilitate direct communication with the journal editor. Among other innovations, in 2000 it was the first anthropology journal to post digital supplements to published articles from its website.

The Foundation has always subsidized and managed CA to ensure broad international availability despite fiscal or political issues. It is proud that CA continues to be one of the leading journals in the field, even though its original primary purpose -- assisting rapid and spontaneous international scholarly communication -- has largely been superseded by the rise of the Internet.

The December 2009 40th anniversary issue includes a series of papers reflecting on the history of the journal. One of the Foundation’s past Presidents, Dr. Sydel Silverman, reflects on the history and development of CA. Additionally, there are short papers by the past CA editors (Cyril Belshaw, Adam Kuper, Dick Fox, and Ben Orlove) and the journal’s copy-editor from 1964-2007. These papers are available at: http://wennergren.org/history/journals-publications/current-anthropology

10 2009 Annual Report International Symposium Publication Series

Since 2002, the Foundation has published the outputs of its International Symposia in the Wenner-Gren International Symposium series in collabora- tion with Berg Publishers (Oxford, UK). However, academic publishing is changing and to ensure the broadest possible impact of Foundation- sponsored events, future symposia outputs will be published as supplemen- tary issues of Current Anthropology.

Publication in CA has the added advantage of electronic access and contin- ued availability, as well as distribution through various programs such as CENI (the Chicago Emerging Nations Initiative), HINARI, AGORA, and OARE, which provide free (or low-cost) access in many areas of the devel- oping world. The Foundation believes that in the modern age of electronic publishing, the decision to make Wenner-Gren symposium publications available as supplementary issues of Current Anthropology fits the spirit and tradition of both the Foundation’s symposium program and CA, which are dedicated to bringing the results of international anthropological research and debate to the widest possible audience.

The penultimate publication in the Wenner-Gren International Symposium series with Berg Publishers appeared in late 2009.

Ritual Communication. Ellen B. Basso and Gunter Senft (eds.) Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series. Berg Publishers. 2009: Oxford and New York.

This will be followed by the eleventh and final publication in this series, which is to appear in early 2010.

Plagues and Epidemics: Infected Spaces Past and Present. Ann Herring and Alan Swedlund (eds). Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series: Berg Publishers. 2010: Oxford and New York.

A complete list of symposia publications in the Berg series can be found at: www.wennergren.org/history/journals-publications.

The following titles are currently in press as supplementary issues of Current Anthropology and will appear in 2010.

“Working Memory: Beyond Language and Symbolism,” Guest editors: Fred Coolidge and Tom Wynn. (June 2010)

“Engaged Anthropology: Its Diversity and Dilemmas.” Guest editors: Setha Low and Sally Merry (Fall 2010)

11 2009 Annual Report Program Highlights, continued Historical Archives Program

The Foundation gave four Historical Archives Program grants in 2009. Of particular interest is the grant that went to Dr. Carol Ember (Human Relations Area Files, Inc., New Haven, CT) to help support a workshop on digital preservation of primary anthropological data, co-sponsored with the National Science Foundation, and held in Washington, DC in May 2009. This was the third in a series of work- shops co-sponsored by Wenner-Gren and NSF on the question of digital archive preservation (the prior workshops were “Primate Life History Databank,” held in September 2005; and “Databases, Data Ac- cess, and Data-Sharing in Paleoanthropology,” held in April 2007). There is no easy solution to the pres- ervation of electronic archives and databases, but the Foundation, together with NSF, believes that it is import to recognize that the problem exists and to move towards viable solutions

A second grant supported Dr. David H. Price (St. Martin's U., Lacey, WA) to aid preparation of the personal research materials of Dr. Marvin Harris for archival deposit with the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Marvin Harris (1927-2001) was one of the most eminent American anthropolo- gists of second half of the 20th Century and was highly influential in the develop- ment of cultural materialism. After the publication of The Rise of Anthropological Theory in 1968, Harris helped focus the interest of anthropologists on cultural ecology. Many of his publications also gained wide circulation among lay read- ers.

Under the Historical Archives Program, the Foundation has provided long-standing support for the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records (CoPAR). Funding that was initially awarded in 1999 to support a series of CoPAR-related workshops and outreach projects organized by Dr. Don Fowler (U. Nevada-Reno) and Dr. Nancy Parezo (U. Arizona), was concluded in 2009 by Dr. Robert Leopold (Director, National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives) with the launch of the CoPAR website (www.copar.org). Among other resources of value to individuals seeking to pro- tect their personal materials, the website includes an online edition of “Preserving the Anthropological Record” (Sydel Silverman and Nancy J. Parezo, eds.), which was originally published by the Foundation (1992) and distributed free-of-charge. The website also includes a guide to anthropological fieldnotes and manuscripts in archival repositories and a directory of ethnographic archives. Although this website has been a long time coming, it is a useful resource for the field and its location at the Smithsonian should ensure its long-term viability. An article for the Anthropology News (the AAA newsletter) is planned that will publicize the availability of this important resource.

Initiatives Program

An Initiatives grant was made to Marisol de la Cadena (U. of Califorrnia-Davis), to aid the translation and publication in Spanish of the volume resulting from Wenner-Gren Symposium #135 “Indigenous Experience Today,” organized by Dr. de la Cadena and Orin Starn in 2005. This follows the successful translation into Spanish of a prior Wenner-Gren/Berg volume on “World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations within Systems of Power” (Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Arturo Escobar, Eds., Berg, Oxford, 2006). This translation was also funded under the Initiatives program in 2007 and has just appeared in its second edi- tion in Mexico (“Antropologías del mundo”). It also is available online through the Red de Antropologías del Mundo / World Anthropologies Network (www.ram-wan.net). A Portuguese edition is expected in 2010.

12 2009 Annual Report Meetings of the Anthropology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences

The Anthropology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences continued 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. This Initiatives grant has allowed the Anthropology Section to develop and rejuvenate their program. These meetings also help to further integrate the Foundation in the academic life of New York City and continue the Foundation’s tradition of Supper Ken Guest , Pat Antoniello, Paige West, and Glen Conferences, which began in the 1940s. Petersen at the “Making the Market” lecture.

The 2009-2010 NYAS Anthropology Section’s Seminars and Presentations Monday, October 5 2009 Four Ways To Tell The Kuru Story Shirley Lindenbaum, Graduate Center, CUNY

Monday, October 26 2009 Making The Market: Specialty Coffee, Generational Pitches, And Papua New Guinea Paige West, Barnard College and Columbia University Discussant: Glen Petersen, Baruch College, CUNY

Monday, November 9 2009 Panel: New York City Ethnographies

Ethnography on the Darkside: Illuminating the Nightshift Russell Sharman, Brooklyn College, CUNY Ethnographer as Muckraker: Investigatory Anthropology in NYC Melanie Checker, Queens College, CUNY The Business of Social Relations: Aging and Social Resilience among West African Immigrants in New York City Paul Stoller, Westchester University of Pennsylvania

Monday, January 25 2010 The Deep History of "The Animal Question" Brian Boyd, Columbia University

Monday, February 22 2010 Consuming English: Mexican Transmigration, National Belonging, and Linguistic Citizenship Char Ullman, University of Texas at El Paso

Monday, March 22, 2010 An Eric Wolf Panel Panel: (Organizer) Maria-Luisa Achino, NYU Jane Schneider, Graduate Center, CUNY Sharryn Kasmir, Hostra University

Monday, April 19, 2010 All Yah's Children: Race, Spirituality and Neo-Logics of Diasporic Possibility John L. Jackson, Jr., University of Pennsylvania

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2009 Annual Report International Symposia, Workshops, and Sponsored Meetings

“The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas” March 6-13, 2009, Haciend Temozon, Merida, Mexico Organizers: T. Douglas Price and Ofer Bar-Yosef

In the middle of March 2009, a group of 22 archaeologists, archaeobotanists, ar- chaeozoologists, a geneticist, and a physi- cal anthropologist took a six-day trip. We stayed in the same geographic location — a lovely hacienda near Merida in the Yu- catan of Mexico. We were well cared for and fed. But it was an intense and de- manding journey and, at the same time, one of those rare opportunities for like- minded individuals (we use that term loosely) to get together and explore a sub- ject of shared interest, even fascination.

The focal point of the conference was the origins of agriculture. We hoped to bring together new data and new ideas to push FRONT: L. Obbink, C. Freiwald, L. Aiello, F. Marshall, O. Bar- our understanding of this remarkable phe- Yosef, G-A Lee, E. Weiss, A. Belfer-Cohen. nomenon further along. The transition MIDDLE: T. Denham, P. Bellwood, M. Zeder, D. Piperno, G. from hunting to farming is perhaps the Larson, R. Meadow, J-D Vigne, M. Ozdogan most important in our human past. Virtu- BACK: D. Cohen, Z. Zhao, D. Fuller, B. Smith, G. Crawford, D. ally everything we know and do today Price, J-P Bocquet-Appel, N. Goring-Morris stems from this extraordinary transforma- tion.

A multitude of new developments concerned with the origins and spread of agriculture have taken place in recent years. New fieldwork and new sites in new and old places, more radiocarbon dates, and new methods have documented earlier transitions to agriculture in parts of Asia, the south Pacific and the Americas. Studies of microscopic plants remains, especially starch grains and phytoliths, have revolu- tionized identification of domesticated plants. Advances in the genetics of domestication, utilizing ancient DNA to examine the relationships among prehistoric domestics, are beginning to resolve standing ques- tions about where and when. There are at least 10 different places now around the globe with reason- able claims to being an original center of domestication. The time is ripe to assemble his new informa- tion, to sift and winnow, to summarize our current understanding of the origins and spread of agriculture, and to move ahead.

Our group came to the conference with a number of biases — there was an Old World bias, an East Asia bias, a plant bias, a male bias, an age bias, one wag even suggested an anti-camel bias. Some might conclude that our conference was not successful. At the end of our time together, we did not learn why agriculture developed. We did not even agree on whether its causes are global or local. There were two groups, particularists and globalists, who saw explanations of the origins of agriculture largely from one of these two perspectives.

During the meeting itself and looking back now, however, there is a strong feeling that the conference was indeed a success and that each of us came away better informed about the prehistoric transition to farming. A number of factors were involved in that success. The participants were passionate, the ideas

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powerful, the information thought-provoking. We came to learn new facts, examine a wide range of vari- ables, and use our knowledge to evaluate current explanations and to explore new ideas for understand- ing what took place at the origins of agriculture. Above all we wanted to think in new directions about this large, complex, and obstinate issue. Specific, individual knowledge and bias were critical for our discus- sions.

Our goal for the conference was to develop and explore a rich and productive dialog among scholars from diverse branches of archaeology and related disciplines focused on the beginnings of farming. That happened. One of the more important aspects of our meeting was the leveling of disciplines that took place. Archaeobotanists, archaeozoologists, and archaeologists, all more or less equally represented, broke down the walls that sometimes hinder discussion among these specialties and moved onto new ground. We were further informed by the presence of a human demographer and an expert on ancient DNA.

We were a volatile mix of scholars, from many times and places. There was for the first time at an inter- national meeting a major emphasis on the origins of agriculture in East Asia. Lesser known regions such as Papua New Guinea, Africa, and Eastern North America were included in our discussions. Lots of new information was presented from East Asia, Africa, Central and South America. The antiquity of domesti- cation has been pushed deeper into the past in many areas. Today, an eerie synchronicity in the timing of the first domesticates around the end of the Pleistocene is emerging. Another commonality among the cradles of agriculture is the rich environments in which farming originates. Experiments in domestication do not take place in marginal areas, but amid ancient concentrations of population and resources across the globe.

Genetic studies of modern and ancient DNA in domesticated plants and animals are providing remark- able information on species distribution and evolution. Genetic markers for domestication are starting to be identified. At the same time, a note of caution regarding genetic studies permeated the conference and was reiterated by our resident archaeogeneticist.

A number of potentially important variables involved in the shift from foraging to farming were discussed at the conference. These include sedentism, storage, population density, population pressure, resource abundance, resource availability, processing and harvesting technologies, climate and environmental changes, ownership of produce and resource localities, potential domesticates, competition, inequality, risk reduction, nutritional requirements, choice, chance, and a receptive social/cultural context. The most important factors in the transition, from the perspective of the authors in this volume, include available protodomesticates, human sedentism, higher population density, resource abundance, geographic and/ or social constraints, processing and harvesting technology, storage, and wealth accumulation. One of the most interesting phenomena we noted, however, was not pattern but variation. In the one or two places where data on the transition is relatively rich, there appears to be a period of chaos, a zone of variability at the origins of agriculture. There seems to be a time for the auditioning of many new options in human adaptation.

Three recent discoveries from the earliest Neolithic in the Near East completely change our understand- ing of this time and raise enormous new questions. The colonization of the Mediterranean island of Cy- prus by late PPNA and PPNB people carrying domestic plants, as well as domestic and wild animals by boat is an extraordinary story. Excavations at late PPNA-PPNB Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey from the same time period have revealed a series of remarkable shrines or centers associated with large stone architecture and remarkable art. The burial ground of Kafar HaHoresh in Israel documents enor- mous new variability in the treatment of the dead and indications of emerging social inequality at this time.

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Small conferences like this are the ones that we remember, that leave an imprint, that generate mes- sages and ideas that form and transform our views of the past. We believe that the participants in this conference returned home with renewed optimism about the state of research — both data and ideas — on the origins of agriculture. It is our hope that enthusiasm will be conveyed through the continuing work of the participants and will be passed to their colleagues and students. In this way, our conference will have a large impact on the archaeological community and we can help to direct future research along a well lit path.

Any conference such as this one is the result of the efforts of a number of people. We would especially like to thank Leslie Aiello whose presence we enjoyed at the conference and whose constant interest, attention, and frequent participation were much appreciated. Our conference ran remarkably smoothly and enjoyably. Kudos and enormous thanks to Laurie Obbink of Wenner-Gren who is responsible for the logistics and function of these meetings. She has been doing a magnificent job for many years. Carolyn Freiwald of the University of Wisconsin-Madison attended the conference as an invited graduate student assistant and her presence was appreciated by all. Thanks also to the staff of the Hacienda Temozon who went beyond the call of duty to ensure a pleasant stay for all of us with wonderful food, flower- strewn rooms, and much individual attention.

PARTICIPANTS:

Leslie C. Aiello. Wenner-Gren Foundation Ofer Bar-Yosef, Harvard University Anna Belfer-Cohen, Hebrew University Peter Bellwood, Australian National University Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, CNRS (Paris) David J. Cohen, Boston University Gary W. Crawford, University of Toronto Tim Denham, Monash University Carolyn Freiwaldm U. Wisconsin (monitor) Dorian Fuller, University College London Nigel Goring-Morris, Hebrew University Greger Larson, Durham University Gyoung-Ah Lee, University of Oregon Fiona Marshall, Washington University Richard H. Meadow, Harvard University Mehmet Özdoğan, Istanbul University Dolores R. Piperno, NMNH - Smithsonian T. Douglas Price, University of Wisconsin Peter Rowley-Conwy, Durham University Bruce D. Smith, NMNH -Smithsonian Jean-Denis Vigne, CNRS (Paris) Ehud Weiss, Bar Ilan University Melinda A. Zeder, NMNH - Smithsonian Zhao Zhijun, Chinese Academy for Soc. Sciences

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Blanchette, Alexander David, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To aid research on “Factory Hog Farming, Capitalist Natures, and the New American Rural Frontier,” supervised by Dr. Joseph Masco

Capelli, Dr. Cristian, U. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom - To aid research on “Human Evolutionary Genetics in Southern Africa: Insights from Namibia Populations”

Chesson, Dr. Meredith Slater, U. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN - To aid research on “Follow the Pots: The Social Lives of Early Bronze Age Artifacts from the Southeastern Dead Sea Plain, Jordan”

Clarke, Dr. Kamari, Yale U., New Haven, CT, - To aid research on “Negotiating Justice: The International Criminal Court at the Intersection of Contests Over Sovereignty”

Deomampo, Daisy Faye, City U. of New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY - To aid research on “The New Global 'Division of Labor': Reproductive Tourism in Mumbai, India,” supervised by Dr. Leith Mullings

Hannig, Anita, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To aid research on “Repair and Return? The Reintegration of Cured Fistula Patients into Their Communities in Rural Ethiopia,” supervised by Dr. Jean Comaroff

Hecht, Erin E., Emory U., Atlanta, GA - To aid research on “Neural Adaptations Underlying the Evolution of Social Learning and Imitation,” supervised by Dr. Lisa A. Parr

London, Douglas Stuart, Arizona State U., Tempe, AZ - To aid research on “Hunter-Gatherers and Dietary Double-Edged Swords: Food as Medicine among the Waorani Foragers of Amazonian Ecuador,” supervised by Dr. Takeyuki Tsuda

Mosko, Dr. Mark Stephen, Australian National U., Canberra, Australia - To aid research on “Trobriand Chieftainship and Social Change: New Directions in the Study of Trobriand Agency and History”

Osterhoudt, Sarah Rae, Yale U., New Haven, CT - To aid research on “Vanilla for the Ancestors: Landscapes, Trade, and the Cultivation of Place in Madagascar,” supervised by Dr. Michael R. Dove

Rignall, Karen Eugenie, U. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY - To aid research on “Expanding Cultivation, Land, and Livelihood Transformations in Southern Morocco,” supervised by Dr. Lisa Cliggett

Rodrigues, Michelle Amanda, Ohio State U., Columbus, OH - To aid research on “Stress and Sociality in a Patrilocal Primate: Do Female Spider Monkeys Tend-and-Befriend?,” supervised by Dr. Dawn M. Kitchen

Sadjadi, Sahar, Columbia U., New York, NY - To aid research on “Psychiatry and Global Dis-ordering of Gender in Childhood,'“ supervised by Dr. Carole Susan Vance

Semaw, Dr. Sileshi, Stone Age Institute, Gosport, IN - To aid the “Gona Palaeoanthropological Research Project”

Tretjak, Kaja, City U. of New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY - To aid research on “U.S. Conservatism in Decline?: Power, Governance, and Knowledge Production in the Contemporary University,” supervised by Dr. Leith Mullings

Walker, Joshua Daniel Lee Zaks, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To aid research on “Crisis or Reconstruction? Street Children and Diamond Miners in Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of Congo,'“ supervised by Dr. Jean Comaroff

Wander, Katherine Susan, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA - To aid research on “Immunocompetence and the Hygiene Hypothesis,” supervised by Dr. Bettina Shell-Duncan

Wiley, Dr. Andrea S., Indiana U., Bloomington, IN - To aid research on “Milk Consumption and Child Growth in Pune, India: A Biocultural Investigation” 17 2009 Annual Report 2009 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Elizabeth Nelson Arkush University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) Project Title: “War, Violent Spectacle, and Political Authority in the Pre-Hispanic Andes”

Abstract: Over the course of four millennia in the pre-Hispanic Andes, collective violence unfolded in a striking variety of forms. More populous and hierarchical societies became increasingly militaristic as they devel- oped larger armies, better logistics, and new ways to govern conquered subjects. Evolving alongside was an ancient system of beliefs about pre- dation, fertility, and fierce supernaturals. Andean leaders extended their power through both military victories and violent, ritualized displays and performances that referenced these old beliefs in new ways: the sacrifice of war captives, the display of human trophies, staged battles, and war- like images. This book project draws on a wealth of information reported piecemeal in the archaeological, historic, and ethnographic literature to delineate the development of Andean collective violence, and crafts an explanatory framework for it based on the changing nature of Andean political authority. In the process, it makes a broader comparative argument that forms of col- lective violence are rooted in the changing balance of constraint, coercion, and attraction in political in- teraction, even as they simultaneously transform the nature of political interaction.

Dr. Dusan Boric University of Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom Project Title: “Whirlpools' Harvesters: Adaptations and Transformations of Mesolithic Foragers in the Danube Gorges”

Abstract: There are few regions in Eurasia with well-documented archaeo- logical sequences that offer abundant settlement and mortuary data for under- standing processes involved in forager-farmer transformations. The Danube Gorges of the central Balkans is one such area. The material record, which spans 4000 years (c. 10000-5500 cal. BC) of Early Holocene foragers' adap- tations and transformations, demonstrates remarkable continuities. This par- ticular archaeological sequence provides an ideal case for a re-examination of current archaeological and anthropological theories about causes and mecha- nisms of culture change in small-scale societies at the time of one of the key turning points in human history. The Danube Gorges is a well-known area due to the unique statuary and architecture found at the type-site of Lepenski Vir. Yet, early excavations of sites in this region remained sporadically published and often were characterized by a low resolution of archaeological recording. This book proposal addresses this long-lasting problem by providing an inte- grative synthesis of: previously unpublished data, results of recent ar- chaeometric analyses (stable and strontium isotope analyses and radiometric dating), and results coming from new excavations I conducted in this region over the past five years. This burgeoning corpus of new data provides the op- portunity for a critical appraisal of conclusions about Mesolithic-Neolithic transitions. In turn, this empiri- cal evidence also opens up new possibilities in theorizing why and how cultures changed in prehistory.

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Dr. Christina Tsune Halperin University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois (USA) Project Title: “State and Household: Tracing Social and Political Relations through the Materiality of Classic Maya Figurines'

Abstract: This book project examines the complex, interconnected, and con- tentious relationship between Maya state and households through the investiga- tion of Classic (AD 300-900) period ceramic figurines. Studies of ancient poli- ties often privilege stone monuments, statements declared in hieroglyphic texts, and ceremonial architecture as both the means of constituting and the constitut- ing features of the state. Household archaeology, on the other hand, is useful in drawing attention to common peoples and other social groups who were often absent from texts and monuments. In linking these realms, this project turns to the study of ceramic figurines, which are recovered archaeologically from both elite and commoner Maya households in the Motul de San José region of Gua- temala, and their comparison with state-sponsored media to examine the intersection of and multi- directional influence between state and household. I approach figurines using the theoretical concepts of (1) materiality, (2) mimesis, and (3) ritual economy, all of which emphasize that while humans pro- duce and shape the material world, the material world recursively affects and shapes humans. Re- search reveals both 'un-official' or popular forms of religious and social expression as well as the ways in which state claims and symbols were incorporated and embodied in localized contexts.

Dr. Yew-Foong Hui Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore Project Title: “Strangers at Home: History, Mobility and Subjectivity Among the Chinese Communities of West Kalimantan, Indonesia”

Abstract: This is a book project based on an anthropological-historical study of Chinese communities from West Kalimantan, Indonesia. While most studies of the Chinese diaspora take China as the point of origin and departure for Chinese over- seas, this study looks at the migratory trajectories of Chinese communities by situ- ating West Kalimantan as the starting point. From this perspective, the book exam- ines events such as the departure of Chinese for Communist China in the 1950s to participate in the socialist construction of the homeland, the mass exodus of Chinese during 1959-1961 as a result of economic nationalism and ethnic discrimi- nation in Indonesia, and the eviction of Chinese from the West Kalimantan hinter- land due to ethnic violence in 1967. Whether such trajectories are inspired by de- sire for a mythical homeland, or actuated through symbolic or real violence, they demonstrate the impact of history and mobility on the Chinese subject. Through such historical events, the notions of 'stranger' and 'home', and what they imply for the Chinese subject, is examined. In turn, this book argues for the centrality of history and mobility in the production of sub- jectivity among the Chinese overseas, particularly in the context of the emergence of post-colonial nation-states.

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Dr. Heather A. Settle Duke University, Durham, North Carlonia (USA) Project Title: “Love in the Last Days of Fidel: Everyday Life in Post-Revolutionary Cuba”

Abstract: I am currently working on a book manuscript titled Love in the Last Days of Fidel. The project begins with an image of Cuba I first encountered during my fieldwork on the island in the early 2000s: Cuba allegorized as a diver launching into the ocean, caught in a moment of suspension between two elements. The allegory spoke to a widespread perception of Cuba internationally as a site of perpetual 'transition' in which, more than a decade after the collapse of worldwide communism, the island's political and economic future remained unclear. Within Cuba, this paradoxical idea was mirrored by the population's subjective sense of a 'crisis' that was made permanent: by a period of extreme hardship and scarcity. This was spurred by the catastrophic loss of socialist aid and trade that continued to be articulated as exceptional and transitory -- a 'Special Period in Peacetime' -- even as selective neoliberal reforms and the embrace of tourism in the name of recovery remade the social landscape in far-reaching and durable ways. My research examines the ways in which the languages and realities of 'crisis' came to re-organize social life in the capital, giving rise to unique formations of urban space and sociality, political affects and ethical understandings.

Dr. Glenn H. Shepard, Jr. Goeldi Museum, Belem, Brazil Project Title: “The Forest of Senses: Explorations of Nature, Culture, and Sensation in the Peruvian Amazon”

Abstract: The Forest of Senses: Explorations of Nature, Culture and Sensation in the Peruvian Amazon. The main writing project will be the preparation of an ethnographic monograph concerning the role of the senses mediating the human experience of cultural difference, nature and the cosmos. The book will draw on ethnographic and ethnobotanical data as well as personal experiences documented during numerous fieldwork stints over almost twenty years, especially during the intensive eighteen months of fieldwork carried out 1995-97 as part of doctoral dissertation work. I will draw on unpublished Ph.D. thesis chapters, previous journal articles, a working chap- ter outline and chapter drafts and direct quotation from ethnographic field notes. I also plan to translate my unpublished doctoral dissertation into Spanish and adapt it for publication in Peru, as a contribution to the Spanish-language ethnography of Amazonia.

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2009 Annual Report 2009 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellows, continued Dr. Carolyn Corrine Szmidt University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Project Title: “Neanderthals and Modern Humans: Investigating Interaction, Dispersal and the Timing of Innovations through Improved Chronology”

Abstract: The aim of the project is to date more accurately and precisely the Middle Paleolithic (Mousterian) to Upper Paleolithic (Aurignacian) transition (ca. 28,000 - 40,000 years ago) in the lar- ger southern France region: Mediterranean, Pyrenean and South- western regions. This was done on ten sites using radiocarbon dating by accelerator mass spectrometry. This key period repre- sents, in Europe, the time of the last Neanderthals and the first modern humans. The extent and nature of potential contact be- tween these species is a fundamental debate of this period and one addressed by this research. Several papers for publication in international journals are planned to present and discuss our re- sults. Among these, we have shown that Mousterian and Aurignacian dates overlap, indicating that the two species are likely to have coexisted and influenced each other. Our results have demonstrated the far greater antiquity of art than the age surmised until now for Europe. They have also placed in absolute time the oldest amber pendants known. Other results push back in time another key cultural innovation of the Aurignacian, that of extensive antler shaping. Methodologically, the importance of only selecting samples indicating good chemical properties and from sound geoarchaeological provenience was dem- onstrated in our research.

Dr. Susan E. Frekko University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) Project Title: "Catalan that Doesn't Hurt the Eyes: Language Standardization, Publics and Technologies of Communication in Barcelona"

Abstract: As Arjun Appadurai has noted, the current era is defined by transnational migration and electronic media, trends which question the nation-state model (according to which national sentiment is understood to correspond with state boundaries). At the same time, the nation-state retains its allure; in places the world over, people often imagine them- selves to live in a nation-state or are in the process of trying to produce one. One aspect of creating or maintaining a nation-state is projecting a national public, whose interests that state is meant to serve. Standard language is a key element of imagining such a community. Efforts to de- fine Catalonia as a nation deserving of a state are complicated by a com- peting ideology, one which views Spain itself as a nation-state and the variability within the Spanish state as cultural rather than national. At the same time, both of these national projects have become problematic in the context of increasing immigration and European political and economic integration. During the term of the fellowship, I will write a book that asks the following question: How does the use of communications technology mediate between language standardization and the projection of a na- tional public? I argue that the use of technologies of communication in Catalonia is both a precondition for and an impediment to the imagination of a Catalan national public. On one hand, these technologies enable language standardization and the mass-mediated circulation of a national “we.” On the other hand, the involvement of the Catalan government in these processes through language policy under- mines a sense of 'naturalness' that publics have in places where the nation-state is taken for granted.

Dr. Frekko was awarded a 2009 Hunt Fellowship but had to withdraw due to the commitments of a new tenure-track faculty position at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. 21 2009 Annual Report 2009 Wadsworth African and International Fellows

Yonatan Sahle Chemere Arba Minch University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Project: to aid training in archaeology at U. of Cape Town, South Africa, supervised by Dr. David R. Braun

Born in Addis Ababa in 1982, I have earned my Master’s degree in Archaeology from Addis Ababa University in 2008. My participation in different archaeological projects conducted in Ethiopia raised my interest especially on the analysis of stone tools. Consequently, I did my graduate research on the ethnoarchaeological investigations of morphological and use-related variability in hide-scrapers in southern Ethiopia.

My Ph.D. project focuses on understanding technological behavior during the early Middle Stone Age (MSA) in the Gademotta area in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia. The research will investigate the dynamics and complexity in technology and related behavioral attributes among inhabitants of one of the earliest known MSA sites in the world. It also aims to look in to the impetus behind the potentially earlier emergence of relatively more complex tool forms and level of technological inventive capabilities among denizens of the region than elsewhere. Ultimately, this inquiry seeks to develop a broader framework for the transition from the Early Stone Age to the MSA.

My interest in studying at the University of Cape Town for my Ph.D. is attributed to its long tradition of ar- chaeological teaching, academic excellence, and research focus on Africa.

Andres Leon Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica Project: to aid training in social-cultural anthropology at CUNY, New York, New York, supervised by Dr. Marc Edelman

For the last three years, I have been working for the University of Costa Rica. I have combined my duties as a lecturer and researcher with work for different Latin American social movements and organizations. I am interested in the process of transformation that Central American rural areas have lived since the 1980s with the application of the Structural Adjustment Programs; especially in what this has meant for peasant communities and their relationship with land. If you look at most of the accounts that have been written about the region in the last three decades, the tendency is to focus on the general transformations and to think about each country and each sector (agriculture for example) in a homogeneous way. I am interested in bringing to the front those particular stories, struggles and realities that have gotten lost behind the generalities; particularly those of the rural poor.

I am entering my second semester in the Anthropology PhD Program at the City University of New York Graduate Center. I chose this institution because of its impressive faculty, its demonstrated strengths in anthropology and political economy, and because of the opportunity to live in such a vibrant and inter- esting city as New York.

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Marina Milic University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Project: to aid training iin archaeology at University College London, London, England, supervised by Dr. Cyprian Broodbank

I received my BA and MA degrees at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. My work on knapped stone tools focuses on technology from prehistoric sites in the Aegean, Balkans, Anatolia and Egypt. My PhD will investigate the nature, direc- tionality and intensity of relations between communities in the Mediterranean, the Balkans and Anatolia throughout the Neolithic of the 6th-5th millennia BC. This research will highlight which communities and regions contributed to colo- nization processes and economic networks, providing insights into the nature of these developments. Exploration of the social dynamics of these Neolithic com- munities through their use of obsidian as common commodity will therefore place specific emphasis on contact, trade networks, mobility and colonization. This will allow comparison between scientific work (obsidian provenancing), technological characteriza- tion of artefacts and GIS modeling of trade networks.

The Institute of Archaeology at UCL has the technology and the research expertise (through Andrew Bevan) in GIS to develop this aspect of my work using cutting-edge software. At UCL I will also have ac- cess to the portable XRF instrument in my fieldwork. Cyprian Broodbank is a leading specialist in Island Archaeology and prehistoric colonization in the Mediterranean offering the intellectual support for draw- ing this data together.

Reddisekhara Yalamala Pondicherry Central University, Pondicherry, India Project: to aid training in social-cultural anthropology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, super- vised by Dr. Robin Oakley

When I became aware of Anthropology during my MA year at the University of Hyderabad, I found that its theories and methods spoke to my own experi- ences of travelling between cultural worlds of caste and class in contemporary India. Since 2005, I have worked among Tribal communities of Andhra Pradesh, and since 2006, I began to specialize in Medical Anthropology. This interest emerged during pursuit of a diploma in International and Reproductive Health at Karnataka University where I had the great fortune to be exploring research skills in Medical Anthropology. It has not been an easy journey to have come this far in my studies as what I have done. Many of the issues of poor housing, lack of decent infrastructure and health problems that I have observed among the tribal people whom I study, my own village people experience on a daily basis. They too are engaged in oscil- lating wage work, economic insecurity and have all the physical and emotional crises associated with the demise of their farming economy and their unwitting inclusion into a rapidly transforming economy of India, fast becoming a dominant world leader. I am excited about developing new critically oriented An- thropological imagination in India that includes the insights of the new generation of low caste Anthro- pologists in India. The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University at- tracted my interest because of the Department’s strong critical health studies and social justice foci, as well as the significant health research infrastructure in the broader University which I hope to tap into and understand ethnographically in relation to health services in India and the role of the anthropologist therein. 23 2009 Annual Report Wadsworth International Fellows who completed their doctorates in 2009

Tapoja Chaudhuri University of Delhi, Delhi, India Project: to aid training in anthropology at U. of Washington, Seattle, WA, supervised by Dr. K. Sivaramakrishnan

Duration: Supported by the Foundation for three years of training from July 2003 to October 2006, and one year of dissertation write-up from April 2008 to April 2009.

I completed my Ph.D. in Environmental Anthropology from the University of Washington in Summer 2009. I am grateful to Wenner-Gren for its generous sup- port during my Ph.D. My dissertation research on community involvement in envi- ronmental resource management in an Indian tiger reserve. Currently I am enrolled as a Visiting Scholar at the South Asia Center of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. I actively participate in vari- ous academic events organized by the Center as well as contribute to the latter’s vibrant multidisciplinary academic milieu through knowledge sharing. I will also be teaching an undergraduate course on culture and environment in India later this year. Since my graduation I have been busy in participating in various academic conferences spanning the fields of anthropology, South Asia studies and geogra- phy. I plan to devote the rest of the year working on articles for publishing in peer-reviewed journals. I look forward to a future of active academic research and teaching in the field of environmental anthro- pology. While remaining true to my anthropological roots, I plan to engage in interdisciplinary dialogues with scholars engaged in understanding some of the pressing questions of environmental governance we are facing worldwide.

Kamal Feriali Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco Project: to aid training in cultural anthropology at U. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, supervised by Dr. Paul J. Magnarella

Duration: Supported by the Foundation for three years of training from June 1997 to December 2000.

I defended a dissertation titled Moroccan Music-induced Spirit Possession Trance: Implications for Anthropology and Allied Disciplines. My work was a field-based study of a syncretic tradition in Morocco involving ritually altered states of consciousness (ASC). My exposure to comparable phenomena in the US such as Pentecostal trance heightened my commitment to anthropology as a science that is both comparative and cross-disciplinary. I contributed fresh theo- retical and methodological insights to ASC studies by integrating input from an- thropology, psychiatry, religion and political sociology. My graduation coincided with important developments in Morocco whose closer partnership with the West began to collide with significant setbacks in human rights domestically. Anthropology, a fledgling and vulnerable field in Moroccan academia, cannot stand on the sidelines. Ironically, some of its underlying classical theses, such as cultural relativism, have sometimes been mobilized by government-annexed intellectuals to justify the clampdown on freedoms. I have detected the urgency of mobilizing Moroccan and Arab World anthropology for defending diversity and dialectic cultural critique of self and other, rather than justifying the imposition of political and religious uniformity. Towards that end, I have part- nered with domestic and world human right bodies to enlist anthropology in defending human dignity. The Wenner-Gren Foundation played a critical role in facilitating the evolving process of my personal maturation, and for that I will remain grateful. 24 2009 Annual Report Wadsworth International Fellows who completed their doctorates in 2009

Kanokwan Tharawan Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand Project: To aid training in anthropology at U. of California, Santa Cruz, CA, supervised by Dr. Lisa Rofel

Duration: Supported by the Foundation for two and a half years of training from April 2002 to December 2004, and one year of dissertation write-up from July 2007 to December 2008.

When I completed my degree in June 2009 from University of California Santa Cruz, I applied and was accepted for a tenure-track teaching position at Mahidol Univer- sity in Bangkok, Thailand. I started my career in the academia beginning on August 3, 2009. Throughout the past seven months, I have enjoyed my time at Department of Health Social Sciences. I have had the opportunity to teach graduate students in areas including anthropology of health and healthcare, anthropology of sexualities, social science theories, and some concepts in sexual and reproductive health and rights. I have explored areas for possible research including health technologies, health equity, and community healthcare. Moreover, I have become one of Mahidol University’s academic advisors and I have provided technical assistance to local organizations in Thai- land. The technical assistance includes training and lectures to healthcare providers on user-friendly healthcare services, community-based health policy development, and social science research methods. I am in the process of developing two research proposals. Therefore, in the next two years, besides con- tinuing my teaching at the department, I anticipate that I will undertake these two currently-being- proposed research projects. In addition, I hope to publish parts of my dissertation and other articles in in- ternational journals.

Zandro Villanueva University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines Project: To aid training in archaeology at U. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, supervised by Dr. William Longacre

Duration: Supported by the Foundation for three years of training from April 2001 to October 2004, and one year of dissertation write-up from March 2007 to January 2008.

After completing my PhD degree at the University of Arizona, I went back to the Philippines to start my career in archaeology. I am currently a professor in archaeology and anthropology at the University of the Philippines and at the De La Salle University respectively. I am also a volunteer archaeologist at the UP-ASP archaeological fieldschool every summer. Part of my teaching goals is to expose the undergraduate students to Philippine archaeological heritage sites, hence, raising their awareness of the importance of site preservation and the role of archaeology in nation building. On the other hand, the summer fieldschool aims to train students of the methods and theories in archaeology, starting from survey to mapping and documentation, to actual excavation and analysis of an archaeo- logical site. My future plans include attending a summer training workshop in Underwater Archaeology sponsored by UNESCO. I also intend to initiate a preliminary archaeological survey in the province where I grew up. In this country, where teaching is not a financially rewarding career, I get the fulfilment in knowing that I get to share the importance of archaeology in a nation that does not value its past, one student at a time.

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Grantee Project Title Institutional Affiliation Bakker, Sarah Aaltje Bakker, Sarah Aaltje, U. of California, Santa Cruz, CA - To California, Santa Cruz, U. of aid research on “Ancient Moderns: Claiming Middle Eastern Christian Identity in the Netherlands,” supervised by Dr. Melissa L. Caldwell

Beck, Raymond Kelly Beck, Raymond Kelly, U. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT - To aid Utah, U. of research on “The Molecular Genetics of Prehistoric Marine Mammal Hunting on San Miguel Island, California,” supervised by Dr. Jack M. Broughton

Behrouzan, Orkideh Behrouzan, Orkideh, M.I.T, Cambridge, MA - To aid research Massachusetts Inst. of on “Prozak Diaries: Alternative Genealogies of Psychiatric Technology Selves, Discourses, and Dealing with Conditions of Impossibility in Post-War Iran,” supervised by Dr. Michael Fischer Beitl, Christine Marie Beitl, Christine Marie, U. of Georgia, Athens, GA - To aid Georgia, U. of research on “Mangroves and Movements: Collective Action, Institutions, and Social-Ecological Resilience on the Ecuadorian Coast,” supervised by Dr. Robert Edward Rhoades Beliaev, Alexandre B. Beliaev, Alexandre B., U. of California, Berkeley, CA - To aid California, Berkeley, U. of research on “Specters of Soviet Affinity: Political Participation Among Latvian Noncitizens,” supervised by Dr. Lawrence Mark Cohen

Berman, Elise Chertoff Berman, Elise Chertoff, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To aid Chicago, U. of research on “Children as Social Players: Children's Conversational Roles as Affected by Concepts of 'Truth' in the Marshall Islands,” supervised by Dr. John Arthur Lucy Berthin, Michael Edwin Berthin, Michael Edwin, London School of Economics, London School of Economics London, United Kingdom - To aid research on “An Ethnographic Examination of Social Robots in Japan,” supervised by Dr. Rita Astuti

Blanchette, Alexander Blanchette, Alexander David, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To Chicago, U. of David aid research on “Factory Hog Farming, Capitalist Natures, and the New American Rural Frontier,” supervised by Dr. Joseph Masco Bou Akar, Hiba Bou Akar, Hiba, U. of California, Berkeley, CA - To aid California, Berkeley, U. of research on “Rebuilding the Center, Expanding the Frontier: Reconstructing Post-War(s) Beirut, Lebanon,” supervised by Dr. Teresa P. Caldeira Boyette, Adam Howell Boyette, Adam Howell, Washington State U., Vancouver, WA Washington State U. - To aid research on “The Learning of Food Sharing Norms among Aka Foragers and Ngandu Farmers of the Central African Republic,” supervised by Dr. Barry Stephen Hewlett Brite, Elizabeth Baker Brite, Elizabeth Baker, U. of California, Los Angeles, CA - To California, Los Angeles, U. of aid research on “The Reconstitution of Knowledge After Political Collapse: Evidence from the Production of Pottery in Ancient Khorezm, Uzbekistan,” supervised by Dr. Monica Louise Smith

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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Canova, Paola Canova, Paola, U. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - To aid research Arizona, U. of on “Rewriting Ethics on Female Bodies: Ayoreo Sex Work and Christianity in the Paraguayan Chaco,” supervised by Dr. James B. Greenberg

Grossman, Kathryn Mary University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Grossman, Kathryn Mary, Chicago, U. of PI - To aid research on “Re-centering the Ninevite 5 Economy: Archaeological Investigations at Hamoukar, Syria,” supervised by Dr. Gil J. Stein Chua, Emily Huiching Chua, Emily Huiching, U. of California, Berkeley, CA - To aid California, Berkeley, U. of research on “’Culture Can Solve Problems': Communitarian Media Ethics and the Cultural Ambitions of Television Production in China,” supervised by Dr. Aihwa Ong

Sadjadi, Sahar Columbia U., New York, NY, Sadjadi, Sahar, PI - To aid Columbia U. research on “Psychiatry and Global Dis-ordering of Gender in Childhood,” supervised by Dr. Carole Susan Vance

Schwab, Manuel Stefan Columbia U., New York, NY, Schwab, Manuel Stefan, PI - To Columbia U. aid research on “Humanitarian Encounters: Social and Economic Transformations in Political and Merchant Groups Navigating Crisis in Sudan,” supervised by Dr. Mahmood Mamdani Conley, Robin Helene Conley, Robin Helene, U. of California, Los Angeles, CA - To California, Los Angeles, U. of aid research on “Discourses of Death: Language, Juries, and 'Future Danger' in Texas Death Penalty Trials,” supervised by Dr. Alessandro Duranti

Deomampo, Daisy Faye Deomampo, Daisy Faye, City U. of New York, Graduate New York, Graduate Center, Center, New York, NY - To aid research on “The New Global City U. of 'Division of Labor': Reproductive Tourism in Mumbai, India,” supervised by Dr. Leith Mullings

Doberne, Jennie Carmel Doberne, Jennie Carmel, U. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA - Virginia, U. of To aid research on “Technologically-Assisted Later Motherhood in Israel,” supervised by Dr. Susan McKinnon

Erie, Matthew Steven Erie, Matthew Steven, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY - To aid Cornell U. research on “China in Africa: Law and Development with 'Chinese Characteristics',” supervised by Dr. P. Steven Sangren

Fattal, Alexander L. Fattal, Alexander L., Harvard U., Cambridge, MA - To aid Harvard U. research on “Guerrilla Marketing: Information Warfare and the Demobilization of FARC Rebels,” supervised by Dr. Kimberly Susan Theidon

Fehrer Ponniah, Kendra Fehrer Ponniah, Kendra C., Brown U., Providence, RI - To Brown U. Christen aid research on “Decentralizing Democracy: Urban Participation in Chavez's Venezuela,” supervised by Dr. Kay B. Warren

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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Fioratta, Susanna Fioratta, Susanna, Yale U., New Haven, CT - To aid re- Yale U. search on “Clean Money for New Mosques: Remittances, Morality, and Contestation in the Republic of Guinea,” super- vised by Dr. Michael McGovern

Fotta, Martin Fotta, Martin, U. of London, London, United Kingdom - To London, U. of aid research on “Gypsies in the Market: Nomadic Economic Strategies of the Calons in Brazil,” supervised by Dr. Roger Sansi-Roca

Gaerrang, XXX Mr. Gaerrang, U. of Colorado, Boulder, CO - To aid research Colorado, Boulder, U. of on “Alternative (to) Development on the Tibetan Plateau: The Case of the Anti-Slaughter Campaign,” supervised by Dr. Emily T. Yeh

Gamez Diaz, Laura Lucia Gamez Diaz, Laura Lucia, U. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA - Pittsburgh, U. of To aid research on “Household Religiosity: Discerning Plural- ism or Integration in Ancient Maya Society,” supervised by Dr. Olivier de Montmollin Garcia, David Ricardo Garcia, David Ricardo, U. of Florida, Gainesville, FL - To aid Florida, U. of research on “Disputing Land Rights, Contesting the Commu- nity: Reconfiguration of Social Structures in Rural Guate- mala,” supervised by Dr. Allan F. Burns

Georgiev, Alexander Georgiev, Alexander Ventsislavov, Harvard U., Cambridge, Harvard U. Ventsislavov MA- To aid research on “Dominance Rank, Mating Effort, and Energy Use in Male Chimpanzees,” supervised by Dr. Richard W. Wrangham

Geraghty, Mark Anthony Geraghty, Mark Anthony, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To aid Chicago, U. of research on “Genocide Ideology, Nation-Building, Counter- Revolution: Spectres of the Rwandan State and Nation,” supervised by Dr. Jean Comaroff

Gohain, Swargajyoti Gohain, Swargajyoti, Emory U., Atlanta, GA - To aid re- Emory U. search on “Contested Boundaries: Region, Religion and Development in the Borderlands of North East India,” super- vised by Dr. Bruce M. Knauft

Gokariksel, Saygun Gokariksel, Saygun, City U. of New York, Graduate Center, New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY - To aid research on “Of Truths, Secrets, and City U. of Loyalties: Politics of Purification of the State in Postsocialist Poland,” supervised by Dr. Katherine Verdery

Goldfarb, Kathryn Elissa Goldfarb, Kathryn Elissa, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To aid Chicago, U. of research on “National-Cultural Ideologies and Medical-Legal Practices: Infertility, Adoption, and Japanese Public Policy,” supervised by Dr. Judith Brooke Farquhar

Grant, Jenna Meredith Grant, Jenna Meredith, U.of Iowa, Iowa City, IA - To aid re- Iowa, U. of search on “Seeing and Believing: The Cultural Politics of Medical Imaging in Cambodia,” supervised by Dr. Erica Stephanie Prussing

28 2009 Annual Report Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Green, Elizabeth Mara Green, Elizabeth Mara, U. of California, Berkeley, CA - To California, Berkeley, U. of aid research on “Everyday Signs: Deaf Sociality and Communicative Practices in Rural Nepal,” supervised by Dr. William F. Hanks

Guffin, Matthew Bascom Guffin, Matthew Bascom, U. of California, Davis, CA - To aid California, Davis, U. of research on “Space and Identity Formation among Programmers in Hyderabad's Urbanizing Periphery,” supervised by Dr. Smriti Srinivas

Haas, Bridget Marie Haas, Bridget Marie, U. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, San Diego, U. of CA - To aid research on “Producing Subjects in the U.S. Political Asylum Process,” supervised by Dr. Janis H. Jenkins

Hannig, Anita Hannig, Anita, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To aid research Chicago, U. of on “Repair and Return? The Reintegration of Cured Fistula Patients into Their Communities in Rural Ethiopia,” supervised by Dr. Jean Comaroff Mohammadi-Doostdar, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA, Mohammadi-Doostdar, Alireza, Harvard U. Alireza PI - To aid research on “Sciences of the Strange and the Sociality of Science in Iran,” supervised by Dr. Steven Charles Caton

Hecht, Erin E. Hecht, Erin E., Emory U., Atlanta, GA - To aid research on Emory U. “Neural Adaptations Underlying the Evolution of Social Learning and Imitation,” supervised by Dr. Lisa A. Parr

Hewlett, Christopher Erik Hewlett, Christopher Erik, U. of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, St. Andrews, U. of United Kingdom - To aid research on “Mobility, Sociality, and Perceptions of Time among the Amahuaca of Lowland Peru,” supervised by Dr. Peter Gow

Hollenback, Kacy Hollenback, Kacy LeAnne, U. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - To Arizona, U. of LeAnne aid research on “Disaster, Technology, and Community: Measuring Responses to Smallpox Epidemics in Historic Hidatsa Villages, North Dakota,” supervised by Dr. Maria Nieves Zedeno Hubbard, Amelia Robin Hubbard, Amelia R., Ohio State U., Columbus, OH - To aid Ohio State U. research on “A Re-examination of Biodistance Analysis Using Dental and Genetic Data,” supervised by Dr. Debra J. Guatelli-Steinberg

Jacobsen, Kristina Jacobsen, Kristina Michelle, Duke U., Durham, NC - To aid Duke U. Michelle research on “Manly Voices: Navajo Country Music and the Politics of Indigeneity,” supervised by Dr. Orin Raymond Starn

Kappeler, Aaron Eugene Kappeler, Aaron Eugene, U. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada - Toronto, U. of To aid research on “Sowing the State: Land Reform and Hegemony in Rural Venezuela,” supervised by Dr. Tania Murray Li 29 2009 Annual Report Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Karis, Timothy Daniel Karis, Timothy Daniel, U. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, San Diego, U. of CA - To aid research on “Home and Hanoi: Migration, Native-place, and Urban Citizenship in the Red River Delta,” supervised by Dr. Suzanne A. Brenner

Kefalas, Christofili Kefalas, Christofili Valentina, U. of Oxford, Oxford, United Oxford U. Valentina Kingdom - To aid research on “Telling Ancestral Narratives: Maori Identity and the Charles Smith Collection,” supervised by Dr. Laura Lynn Peers

Kelly, Tara Beth Kelly, Tara Beth, U. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom - To Oxford U. aid research on “In the Shadow of Their Chemicals: The Sociality of Ethnobotanical Procedures for Treating Malaria Symptoms in Oku, Cameroon,” supervised by Dr. Elisabeth Lee Hsu Kikon, Dolly Kikon, Dolly, Stanford U., Stanford, CA - To aid research on Stanford U. “Blurred Borders: Unsettling the Hill/Valley Divide in Northeast India,” supervised by Dr. James G. Ferguson

Koch, Insa Lee Koch, Insa Lee, U. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom - To Oxford U. aid research on “’Anti-Social Behaviour': Law and Order in the British Working Class,” supervised by Dr. Fernanda Pirie

Koehler, Catherine Marie Koehler, Catherine Marie, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY - To aid Cornell U. research on “Death of a Thousand Cuts: Union Corporate Campaigns, RICO Litigation, and the Struggle to Define Economic Rights in the United States,” supervised by Dr. Vilma Santiago-Irizarry Kortright, Christopher Kortright, Christopher Michael, U. of California, Davis, CA - California, Davis, U. of Michael To aid research on “Experimental Fields and Biotech Futures: The Politics and Histories of Scientific Rice Research,” supervised by Dr. Joseph Dumit

Kroot, Matthew Kroot, Matthew Vinciguerra, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of Vinciguerra To aid research on “Early Villages of the Dead Sea Basin: Transitions in Pre-Pottery Neolithic Social Organization,” supervised by Dr. Henry Tutwiler Wright III

Landry, Timothy Robert Landry, Timothy Robert, U. of Illinois, Urbana, IL - To aid Illinois, Urbana, U. of research on “Vodun on the Move: Positioning Cultural Traditions through Tourist Encounters in Bénin,” supervised by Dr. Alma Gottlieb

Lee, Courtney Anne Lee, Courtney Anne, U. of Colorado, Denver, CO - To aid Colorado, Denver, U. of research on “The Impact of Medical Tourism on Health Care in Costa Rica,” supervised by Dr. Stephen Koester

Liberton, Denise Kristen Liberton, Denise Kristen, Pennsylvania State U., University Pennsylvania State U. Park, PA - To aid research on 'Genetics of Normal Human Facial Variation,' supervised by Dr. Mark David Shriver

30 2009 Annual Report Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Lombard, Louisa Lombard, Louisa Nicolaysen, Duke U., Durham, NC - To aid Duke U. Nicolaysen research on “Raiding Sovereignty in Central African Borderlands,” supervised by Dr. Charles D. Piot

London, Douglas Stuart London, Douglas Stuart, Arizona State U., Tempe, AZ - To Arizona State U. aid research on “Hunter-Gatherers and Dietary Double- Edged Swords: Food as Medicine among the Waorani Foragers of Amazonian Ecuador,” supervised by Dr. Takeyuki Tsuda Lustenberger, Sibylle Lustenberger, Sibylle, U. of Berne, Bern, Switzerland - To aid Berne, U. of research on “Kinship and Homosexuality in the Age of Reproductive Technologies: A Perspective on Jewish Israeli Society,” supervised by Dr. Edouard Conte Machicek, Michelle Lynn Machicek, Michelle Lynn, U. of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK - To Sheffield, U. of aid research on “Elucidating Complexity in Mobile-Pastoralist Societies: A Study in Subsistence Strategies, Environmental Adaptation and Social Practice,” supervised by Dr. Andrew T. Chamberlain Maddux, Scott David Maddux, Scott David, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA - To aid Iowa, U. of research on “Assessing the Reliability of Infraorbital Variables in Phylogenetic Analyses of Later Homo,” supervised by Dr. Robert Gary Franciscus

Madimenos, Felicia Madimenos, Felicia Chrisafo, U. of Oregon, Eugene, OR - To Oregon, U. of Chrisafo aid research on “Lifestyle and Reproductive Effects on Bone Mineral Density in an Ecuadorian Forager-Horticulturalist Population,” supervised by Dr. James Josh Snodgrass

Makram-Ebeid, Dina Makram-Ebeid, Dina Waguih, London School of Economics, London School of Economics Waguih London, United Kingdom - To aid research on “Steel Lives Under Neo-liberalism: Everyday Politics of Labour in Helwan, Egypt,” supervised by Dr. Jonathan P. Parry

Malone, Molly Sue Malone, Molly Sue, U. of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, U. of Canada - To aid research on “Living on the Skagit River: Native American Historical Consciousness and Relationships with the Aquatic Environment,” supervised by Dr. Bruce Granville Miller Mehari, Asmeret Mehari, Asmeret Ghebreigziabiher, U. of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, U. of Ghebreigziabiher FL - To aid research on “Decolonizing the Pedagogy of Archaeology in East Africa,” supervised by Dr. Peter R. Schmidt Moran-Thomas, Amy Moran-Thomas, Amy Lynn, Princeton U., Princeton, NJ - To Princeton U. Lynn aid “An Anthropological Study of the Experience of Parasitic Infection and Diabetes in Belize,” supervised by Dr. Joao Guilherme Biehl

Osborn, Michelle Ann Osborn, Michelle Ann, U. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford U. - To aid research on “Ghetto Governance: An Urban Ethnography of Chieftaincy in Kenya's Kibera Slum,” supervised by Dr. David Pratten 31 2009 Annual Report Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Osterhoudt, Sarah Rae Osterhoudt, Sarah Rae, Yale U., New Haven, CT - To aid Yale U. research on “Vanilla for the Ancestors: Landscapes, Trade, and the Cultivation of Place in Madagascar,” supervised by Dr. Michael R. Dove

Overholtzer, Lisa Marie Overholtzer, Lisa Marie, Northwestern U., Evanston, IL - To Northwestern U. aid research on “Household Spaces and Everyday Practices at Postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico,” supervised by Dr. Elizabeth M. Brumfiel

Ozgul, Ceren Ozgul, Ceren, City U. of New York, Graduate Center, New New York, Graduate Center, York, NY - To aid research on “From Muslim Citizen to City U. of Christian Minority: Legal and Political Implications of 'Double- Conversion' in Turkey,” supervised by Dr. Talal Asad

Peeples, Matthew Allen Peeples, Mathew Allen, Arizona State U., Tempe, AZ - To Arizona State U. aid research on “Social Transformation and Regional Scales of Social Identity in the Cibola World (A.D. 1100-1325),” supervised by Dr. Keith William Kintigh Pfister, Luz-Andrea Pfister, Luz-Andrea, Arizona State U., Tempe, AZ - To aid Arizona State U. research on “The Origins of Leprosy: The Primate Connection,” supervised by Dr. Anne Carol Stone

Polat, Bican Polat, Bican, Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore, MD - To aid Johns Hopkins U. research on “Assessing 'Attachment': A Multi-sited Ethnography of Psychological Conceptions of Emotional Bonding,” supervised by Dr. Veena Das

Rabie, Kareem Rabie, Kareem Mohamed, City U. of New York, Graduate New York, Graduate Center, Mohamed Center, New York, NY - To aid research on “An Occupied City U. of Economy: Development, the Private Sector, Statelessness, and State Formation in the West Bank,” supervised by Dr. Neil Smith Ratnam, Maya Ratnam, Maya, Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore, MD - To aid Johns Hopkins U. research on “Performing Life in the Human-Animal Borderlands: Animal Rights, Ethical Subjects, and the Politics of Exclusion in Contemporary North India,” supervised by Dr. Veena Das Rein, Thomas Robert Rein, Thomas Robert, New York U., New York, NY - To aid New York U. research on “Locomotor Function and Phylogeny: Implications for Interpreting Extinct Hominoid Morphology,” supervised by Dr. Terry Harrison

Rignall, Karen Eugenie Rignall, Karen Eugenie, U. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY - To Kentucky, U. of aid research on “Expanding Cultivation, Land, and Livelihood Transformations in Southern Morocco,” supervised by Dr. Lisa Cliggett

Rodrigues, Michelle Rodrigues, Michelle Amanda, Ohio State U., Columbus, OH - Ohio State U. Amanda To aid research on “Stress and Sociality in a Patrilocal Primate: Do Female Spider Monkeys Tend-and-Befriend?,” supervised by Dr. Dawn M. Kitchen 32 2009 Annual Report Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

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Rotem, Zohar Rotem, Zohar, New School for Social Research, New York, New School U. NY - To aid research on “Becoming Jews and Arabs: Children and the Making of Ethno-national Distinctions in Israel,” supervised by Dr. Lawrence A. Hirschfeld

Schauer, Matthew Philip Schauer, Matthew Philip, U. of Illinois, Chicago, IL - To aid Illinois, Chicago, U. of research on “Warfare on the Inca Frontier: Fortification, Imperialism, and Interaction on the Frontier in Northern Ecuador,” supervised by Dr. Lawrence Harold Keeley

Schuster, Caroline Schuster, Caroline Elizabeth, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To Chicago, U. of Elizabeth aid research on “Making Good Money: Microcredit, Commercial Financing, and Social Regulation in Paraguay's Tri-Border Area,” supervised by Dr. John Comaroff

Seselj, Maja Seselj, Maja, New York U., New York, NY - To aid research New York U. on “Human Growth Evolving: Integrating Dental and Skeletal Growth Proxies to Understand Life History in Fossil Homo,” supervised by Dr. Susan Carol Anton Skrabut, Kristin Joy Skrabut, Kristin Joy, Brown U., Providence, RI - To aid Brown U. research on “Only the ‘Truly Needy' Need Apply: Exploring Formal/Focal Intersections in Peru's Fight Against Poverty,” supervised by Dr. Kay B. Warren

Sood, Anubha Sood, Anubha, Washington U., St. Louis, MO - To aid Washington U., St. Louis research on “Women's Help-Seeking Pathways: Global Policy, the State and Mental Health Practices in India,” supervised by Dr. Rebecca J. Lester

Sopranzetti, Claudio Sopranzetti, Claudio, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA - To aid Harvard U. research on “Constituting Mobilities: Ice-cubes, Newspapers, and Motor-taxis in Bangkok's CBD,” supervised by Dr. Michael F. Herzfeld

Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Sophia Chloe, Columbia U., New Columbia U. Sophia Chloe York, NY - To aid research on “West Bank Waste: Governance and Garbage in Two Post-Oslo Municipalities,” supervised by Dr. Lila Abu-Lughod

Statzel, Rebecca Sophie Statzel, Rebecca Sophie, City U. of New York, Graduate New York, Graduate Center, Center, New York, NY - To aid research on “Paths to City U. of Godliness: The Political Ethics of Intimacy in Contemporary American Evangelicalism,” supervised by Dr. Leith Mullings

Szenassy, Edit Szenassy, Edit, Charles U., Prague, Czech Republic - To aid Charles University research on “Governing Romani Women's Bodies: Between Everyday Reproductive Decisions and Population Politics in Slovakia,” supervised by Dr. Jaroslav Skupnik

Taneja, Anand Vivek Taneja, Anand Vivek, Columbia U., New York, NY - To aid Columbia U. research on “The Sacred as History: Jinns and Justice in the Ruins of Delhi,” supervised by Dr. Partha Chatterjee

33 2009 Annual Report Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Tookes, Jennifer Lynne Tookes, Jennifer L. S., Emory U., Atlanta, GA - To aid Emory U. Sweeney research on “Rice and Peas in the Diaspora: Nutrition and Food Choice among Barbadian Immigrants in Atlanta,” supervised by Dr. Peter J. Brown

Tretjak, Kaja Tretjak, Kaja, City U. of New York, Graduate Center, New New York, Graduate Center, York, NY - To aid research on “U.S. Conservatism in City U. of Decline?: Power, Governance, and Knowledge Production in the Contemporary University,” supervised by Dr. Leith Mullings Trever, Lisa Senchyshyn Trever, Lisa Senchyshyn, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA - To Harvard U. aid research on “The Agency of Images: Mural Painting and Architectural Sculpture on the North Coast of Peru,” supervised by Dr. Thomas Bitting Foster Cummins

Tuttle, Brendan Rand Tuttle, Brendan Rand, Temple U., Philadelphia, PA - To aid Temple U. research on “Lives Apart: Diasporan Return, Youth, and Intergenerational Transformation in South Sudan,” supervised by Dr. Jessica R. Winegar Uribe, Simon Uribe, Simon, London School of Economics and Political London School of Economics Science, London, United Kingdom - To aid research on “The State at the Frontier: A Historical Ethnography of a Road in the Putumayo Region of Colombia,” supervised by Dr. Sharad Chari Veilleux, Carrie Cecilia Veilleux, Carrie Cecilia, U. of Texas, Austin, TX - To aid Texas, Austin, U. of research on “Effects of Nocturnal Light Environment on the Evolution of Nocturnal Primate Color Vision,” supervised by Dr. Edward Christopher Kirk

Verinis, James Peter Verinis, James Peter, Binghamton U., Binghamton, NY - To New York, Binghamton, State aid research on “New Immigrant Farmers and the U. of Globalization of the Greek Countryside,” supervised by Dr. Thomas M. Wilson

Villagra, Analia Villagra, Analia, City U. of New York, Queens College, New York, Queens College, Flushing, NY - To aid research on “Cadê o Mico? (Where is City U. of the Tamarin?): Locating Monkeys in the Politics of Land and Conservation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,” supervised by Dr. John Francis Collin Walker, Joshua Daniel Walker, Joshua Daniel Lee Zaks, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL Chicago, U. of Lee Zaks - To aid research on “Crisis or Reconstruction? Street Children and Diamond Miners in Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of Congo,” supervised by Dr. Jean Comaroff

Wander, Katherine Wander, Katherine Susan, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA - Washington, U. of Susan To aid research on “Immunocompetence and the Hygiene Hypothesis,” supervised by Dr. Bettina Shell-Duncan

Warrener, Anna Warrener, Anna Gabriella, Washington U., St. Louis, MO - Missouri, St. Louis, U. of Gabriella To aid research on “Pelvic Shape and Locomotor Cost: An Empirical Test of Biomechanical Models of the Hip,” supervised by Dr. Herman Pontzer 34 2009 Annual Report Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Williams, Erin Marie Williams, Erin Marie Shepard, George Washington U., Wash- George Washington U. Shepard ington, DC - To aid research on “Influences of Material Prop- erties and Biomechanics on Stone Tool Production,” super- vised by Dr. Alison S. Brooks

Wobber, Victoria Eliza- Wobber, Victoria Elizabeth, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA - To Harvard U. beth aid research on “Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees and Bonobos: Novel Perspectives on the Evolution of Human Cognition,” supervised by Dr. Richard W. Wrangham

Yehia, Elena Walid Yehia, Elena Walid, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC - North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U. To aid research on “Sectarian Difference Beyond Sectarian- of ism: The Mediating Labors of 'Alternative' Media in Beirut,” supervised by Dr. Arturo Escobar

Young, Bonnie Nadyne Young, Bonnie Nadyne, U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM New Mexico, Albuquerque, U. - To aid research on “Effects of Genetic Ancestry and Socio- of Cultural Factors on Susceptibility to Tuberculosis in Mexico,” supervised by Dr. Keith L. Hunley

35 2009 Annual Report Post-Ph.D. Research Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Brunnegger, Sandra Brunnegger, Dr. Sandra, U. of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridge, U. of United Kingdom - To aid research on “Culture and Human Rights in Colombia: Negotiating Indigenous Law”

Capelli, Cristian Capelli, Dr. Cristian, U. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford U. To aid research on “Human Evolutionary Genetics in Southern Africa: Insights from Namibia Populations”

Chesson, Meredith Slater Chesson, Dr. Meredith Slater, U. of Notre Dame, Notre Notre Dame, U. of Dame, IN - To aid research on “Follow the Pots: The Social Lives of Early Bronze Age Artifacts from the Southeastern Dead Sea Plain, Jordan”

Clarke, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Dr. Kamari, Yale U., New Haven, CT, - To aid Yale U. research on “Negotiating Justice: The International Criminal Court at the Intersection of Contests Over Sovereignty”

Crockford, Catherine Crockford, Dr. Catherine, St. Andrews U., St. Andrews, St. Andrews, U. of United Kingdom - To aid research on “The Social Mind and Social Relationships of Wild Chimpanzees: An Experimental and Hormonal Approach”

Gaudio, Rudolf Pell Gaudio, Dr. Rudolf Pell, Purchase College, Purchase, NY - New York College, Purchase, To aid research on “New Black City: Pidgin English and State U. of Modern Citizenship in Nigeria's Capital”

Grier, Colin Foster Grier, Dr. Colin Foster, Washington State U., Pullman, WA - Washington State U. To aid research on “Reconstructing the Economics of Complexity in the Coast Salish Region of the Northwest Coast”

Haws, Jonathan Adam Haws, Dr. Jonathan Adam, U. of Louisville, Louisville, KY - Louisville, U. of To aid research on “The Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition in Portugal: The View from Lapa do Picareiro”

Irving, Andrew Irving, Dr. Andrew, U. of Manchester, Manchester, United Manchester, U. of Kingdom - To aid research on “New York Stories”

Jensen-Seaman, Michael Jensen-Seaman, Dr. Michael Ignatius, Duquesne U., Duquesne U. Ignatius Pittsburgh, PA - To aid research on “Comparative Proteomics of Hominoid Seminal Plasma”

Judd, Margaret Ann Judd, Dr. Margaret Ann, U. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA - To Pittsburgh, U. of aid research on “Life and Death Courses at the Byzantine Monastery at Mount Nebo, Jordan”

36 2009 Annual Report Post-Ph.D. Research Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Klaus, Haagen Dietrich Klaus, Dr. Haagen Dietrich, Utah Valley U., Orem, UT - To Utah Valley University aid research on “The Andean Encounter in Eten: Postcontact Biological Variation, Ethnogenesis, and Microevolution in Colonial Peru”

Lock, Margaret Marion Lock, Dr. Margaret Marion, McGill U., Montreal, Canada - To McGill U. aid research on “Biosociality and Genetic Testing for Susceptibility Genes”

Manthi, Fredrick Kyalo Manthi, Dr. Fredrick Kyalo, National Museums of Kenya, National Museums of Kenya Nairobi, Kenya - To aid research on “A Further Investigation for Microfauna in the Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Sites of Northwestern Kenya”

Mithen, Steven John Mithen, Prof. Steven John, U. of Reading, Reading, United Reading, U. of Kingdom - To aid research on “Excavation of Structure 60 at the Early Neolithic Site of WF16, Southern Jordan”

Moberg, Mark Alfred Moberg, Dr. Mark Alfred, U. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL - South Alabama, U. of To aid research on “Society without the State: Neoliberalism and Fair Trade Organizations in Dominica”

Moreau, Luc Georges Moreau, Dr. Luc Georges, Romisch-Germanisches Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, Neuwied, Germany - To aid research Zentralmuseum on “Spatial Behavior in the Aurignacian: New Excavations at Breitenbach, Germany”

Mosko, Mark Stephen Mosko, Dr. Mark Stephen, Australian National U., Canberra, Australian National U. Australia - To aid research on “Trobriand Chieftainship and Social Change: New Directions in the Study of Trobriand Agency and History”

Munro, Natalie Dawn Munro, Dr. Natalie Dawn, U. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT - To Connecticut, U. of aid research on “The Franchthi Cave Fauna: Socio- Economic Change from the Upper Paleolithic through the Neolithic in Greece”

Paley, Julia Felice Paley, Dr. Julia Felice, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - To aid Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of research on “Investigating Aid Agency Policy Toward Indigenous Peoples: Transformations in U.S. Democracy Promotion”

Pontzer, Herman Pontzer, Dr. Herman, Washington U., St. Louis, MO - To aid Washington U., St. Louis research on “Metabolic Cost of Living in Bonobos”

Pryce, Thomas Oliver Pryce, Thomas Oliver, Oxford U., Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford U. To aid research on “The 'Iron Kuy': Ethnoarchaeological Investigations of Technological Continuity and Socio- Economic Interaction with the Angkorian Empire”

37 2009 Annual Report Post-Ph.D. Research Grants

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Semaw, Sileshi Semaw, Dr. Sileshi, Stone Age Institute, Gosport, IN - To aid Stone Age Institute the “Gona Palaeoanthropological Research Project”

Sharon, Gonen Sharon, Dr. Gonen, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, Israel - To aid Hebrew U. research on “Behavior, Subsistence Strategies and Paleo- environmental Background of Middle Palaeolithic Hominids in the Northern Dead-Sea-Rift”

Steudel, Karen Steudel, Dr. Karen, U. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - To aid Wisconsin, Madison, U. of research on “Walking Versus Running: Morphology and the Ability to Thermoregulate While Locomoting in a Hot Environ- ment”

Swedell, Larissa Swedell, Dr. Larissa, City U. of New York, Queens College, New York, Queens College, City Flushing, NY - To aid research on “Brothers in Arms or Rivals U. of in Waiting? The Role of Follower Males in Hamadryas Soci- ety”

Turner, Bethany Lynn Turner, Dr. Bethany Lynn, Georgia State U., Atlanta, GA - To Georgia State U. aid research on “Analysis of Ancient Imperialism in the Cuzco Region of Peru: A Bioarchaeological, Life History Approach”

Waweru, Veronica Njoki Waweru, Dr. Veronica Njoki, Stony Brook U., Stony Brook, NY New York, Stony Brook, State - To aid research on “Chronology of Holocene Innovations and U. of Inventions in West Turkana, Kenya”

Wick, Livia Celine Wick, Dr. Livia Celine, American U. of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon - American U. of Beirut To aid research on “War Based Mental Health and the Con- struction of Subjects: An Ethnographic Study of Psycho-Social Interventions in Lebanon and Palestine”

Wiley, Andrea S. Wiley, Dr. Andrea S., Indiana U., Bloomington, IN - To aid Indiana U., Bloomington research on “Milk Consumption and Child Growth in Pune, India: A Biocultural Investigation”

38 2009 Annual Report Conference and Workshop Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Bailey, Douglass W. Bailey, Dr. Douglass W., San Francisco State U., San Fran- San Francisco State U. cisco, CA - To aid workshop on “Constructed Bodies of Japa- nese and European Prehistory,” 2010, U. of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, in collaboration with Dr. John Mack

Bellwood, Peter S. Bellwood, Dr. Peter Stafford, Australian National U., Can- Australian National U. berra, Australia - To aid “19th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association,” 2009, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi, in collaboration with Dr. Giang Hai Nguyen El-Tom, Abdullahi Os- El-Tom, Dr. Abdullahi Osmon, National U. of Ireland, National U. of Ireland, man Maynooth, Ireland - To aid conference on “EASA 2010: Cri- Maynooth sis and Imagination,” 2010, National U. of Ireland Maynooth

Engelbrecht, Beate Engelbrecht, Dr. Beate, U. of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany Gottingen, U. of - To aid workshop on “Cultural Heritage and Collaborative Ethnographic Film Work,” 2010, Gottingen, in collaboration with Dr. Peter Crawford

Escobar, Arturo Escobar, Dr. Arturo, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC - North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U. To aid workshop on “The Remaking of Politics: Anthropologi- of cal Engagements with Indigenous-Popular Mobilizations in Latin America,” 2010, Bogota, Colombia, in collaboration with Dr. Mario Blaser Gokcumen, Omer Gokcumen, Dr. Omer, Harvard Medical School/ Brigham & Brigham and Women's Hospital Women's Hospital, Boston, MA - To aid workshop on “Genetic Anthropology at Fine-Scales,” 2009, Honolulu, Ha- waii, in collaboration with Dr. Krishna R. Veeramah

Goldin, Liliana R. Goldin, Dr. Liliana, Florida International U., Miami, FL - To Florida International U. aid “70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthro- pology,” 2010, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Guichon, Ricardo Anibal Guichon, Dr. Richard A., U. Nacional del Centro de la Provin- Centro de la Provincia de Bue- cia Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina - To aid “III Pa- nos Aires, U. del leopathology Association Meeting in South America,” 2009, Necochea, Argentina, in collaboration with Dr. Sheila M.F. Mendonca de Souza Kuijt, Ian Kuijt, Dr. Ian, U. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN - To aid Notre Dame, U. of workshop on “To Have and to Hold: Food Storage and the Emergence of Social Differentiation,” 2010, Amerind Founda- tion, Dragoon, AZ Matthews, Christopher N. Matthews, Dr. Christopher, Hofstra U., Hempstead, NY - To Hofstra U. aid workshop on “Dynamics of Inclusion in Public Archae- ology,” 2010, African Burial Ground National Park, New York, NY, in collaboration with Dr. Carol McDavid Moore, Jerry D. Moore, Dr. Jerry D., California State U. Dominguez Hills, California State U., Dominguez Carson, CA - To aid workshop on “Divergent Trajectories to Hills Prehistoric Social Complexity in the Equatorial Andes: Un Taller Móvil,” 2010, Quito, Ecuador, in collaboration with Dr. Francisco Valdez

39 2009 Annual Report Conference and Workshop Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Muller, Birgit Muller, Dr. Birgit, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sociales, Paris, France - To aid workshop on “The Anthro- Sciences Sociales pology of International Institutions: Mechanisms of Govern- ance,” 2010, EHESS, in collaboration with Dr. Susan Wright

Nicolis, Franco Nicolis, Dr. Franco, Archaeological Heritage Office, Trento, Autonomous Province of Italy - To aid “15th Annual Meeting of the European Associa- Trento tion of Archaeologists,” 2009, Riva del Garda, Italy, in col- laboration with Dr. Anthony Filmer Harding Nkwi, Paul Nchoji Nkwi, Dr. Paul N., U. of Yaounde, Yaounde, Cameroon - To Yaounde, U. of aid 20th anniversary conference of PAAA on “Anthropology, Anthropologists and the Re-imagining of Development in Africa,” 2009, U. of Buea, Cameroon, in collaboration with Dr. Antoine Socpa Pinto, Paulo Gabriel Hilu Pinto, Dr. Paulo, U. Federal Fluminense, Brazil - To aid Federal Fluminense, U. da Rocha workshop on “Islamic Ethnographies: Describing Religious Practices in the Muslim World,” 2009, Catholic U. of Louvain- la-Neuve, Belgium, in collaboration with Dr. Baudoin Dupret

Reeves, Madeleine Fran- Reeves, Dr. Madeleine Frances, U. of Manchester, Man- Manchester, U. of ces chester, UK - To aid workshop on “Rethinking the Political in Central Asia: Perspectives from the Anthropology of the State,” 2009, Buxton, UK, in collaboration with Dr. Johan Rasanaygam Reuter, Thomas Anton Reuter, Dr. Thomas A., Monash U., Clayton, Victoria, Austra- Monash U. lia - To aid WCAA conference on “Opportunities and Chal- lenges: Toward an Agenda for World Anthropology,” 2009, Kunming, China, in collaboration with Dr. Gustavo Ribeiro

Sundar, Nandini Sundar, Dr. Nandini, Delhi U., Delhi, India - To aid workshop Delhi, U. of on “Civil War in South Asia: Ethnographic Perspectives,” 2010, Delhi U., in collaboration with Dr. Aparna Sundar

40 2009 Annual Report International Collaborative Research Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Ciochon, Russell L. Ciochon, Dr. Russell, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and Zaim, Dr. Iowa, U. of Zaim, Yahdi Yahdi, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia - To Institut Teknologi Bandung aid collaborative research on “Site Formation And Taphonomy of the Late Pleistocene Hominin Site of Ngandong, Java (Indonesia)” Covert, Herbert H. Covert, Dr. H. Hadley, U. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and Colorado, Boulder, U. of Hoang, Duc Minh Hoang, Dr. Duc Minh, Inst. of Tropical Biology, Ho Chi Minh Inst. Of Tropical Biology City, Vietnam - To aid collaborative research on “Behavioral Ecology of Sympatric Colobines at Ta Kou and Nui Ong Nature Reserves” Craig, Sienna R. Craig, Dr. Sienna, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; and Dartmouth College Ao, Tsochen Ao, Dr. Tsochen, Arura Group, Qinghai Province, PR China - Arura Group To aid collaborative research on “Tibetan Medicine Between Local and Global Worlds: Standardization, Commodification, and Clinical Use” Lemorini, Cristina Lemorini, Dr. Cristina, U. di Roma 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy Rome, U. of Skakun, Natalia & Skakun, Dr. Natalia, Acad. of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russian Acad. Of Sciences Russia; et al. - For collaborative research on “Developing a FTIR Spectra Collection for Interpreting Prehistoric Activities”

Taylor, Tonya N. Taylor, Dr. Tonya, Columbia U., New York, NY; & Chibanda, Columbia U. Chibanda, Dickson Dr. Dickson, U. of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe - To aid U. of Zimbabwe collaborative research on “Cultural Conceptions of Depression Among Traditional Healers and People Living with HIV/AIDS in Harare, Zimbabwe” Varela-Silva, Maria I. Varela-Silva Dr. Maria, Loughborough U. Loughborough Loughborough U. Dickinson-Bannack, Leicestershire, UK; and Dickinson-Bannack, Dr. Federico, U. U. Merida Federico Merida, Mexico - To aid collaborative research on “Nutritional Status and Health Outcomes in a Dual-Burden Population of Maya in Yucatan”

41 2009 Annual Report New and Continuing Wadsworth Fellowships

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Amugongo, Sarah Amugongo, Sarah K., U. of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya - To aid California, Berkeley, U. of Kigamwa dissertation write up in physical-biological anthropology at U. of California, Berkeley, CA, supervised by Dr. Leslea Jane Hlusko.

Bushozi, Pastory M. Bushozi, Pastory, U. of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, U. of Tanzania - To aid dissertation write up in archaeology at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada supervised by Dr. Pamela Rae Willoughby

Campbell, Tessa Jane Campbell, Tessa J., U. of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Cape Town, U. of Africa - To aid training in physical-biological anthropology at U. Cape Town, South Africa, supervised by Dr. Rebecca Ackermann

Chemere, Yonatan Sahle Chemere, Yonatan Sahle, Arba Minch U., Addis Ababa, Cape Town, U. of Ethiopia - To aid training in archaeology at U. of Cape Town, South Africa, supervised by Dr. David R. Braun

Danborno, Barnabas Danborno, Barnabas, Ahmadu Bello U., Zaria, Nigeria - To Ahmadu Bello U. aid short-term training at U. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, supervised by Dr. Michael Herman Crawford

Evteev, Andrej Evteev, Andrej Alekseevich, Moscow State U., Russia - To Moscow State U. Alekseevich aid short-term training at The U. of York, York, England, supervised by Dr. Paul O'Higgins

Henig, David Henig, David, U. of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic - West Bohemia (Pilsen), U. of To aid training in social-cultural anthropology at U. of Durham, United Kingdom, supervised by Dr. Stephen M. Lyon

Jillani, Ngalla E. Jillani, Ngalla Edward, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, National Museums of Kenya Kenya - To aid training in physical-biological anthropology at U. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, supervised by Dr. Paul R. Manger

Kavedzija, Iza Kavedzija, Iza, U. of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia - To aid training Zagreb, U. of in social-cultural anthropology at U. of Oxford, Oxford, England, supervised by Dr. Inge Daniels

Khedher, Rayed Khedher, Rayed, Faculte des Sciences Humaines et University of Tunis Sociales de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia - To aid training in social- cultural anthropology at U. of California, Los Angeles, CA, supervised by Dr. Sondra Hale

Koshulap, Iryna Koshulap, Iryna, Central European U., Budapest, Hungary - Central European U. To aid library residency at Duke U., Durham, NC, supervised by Dr. Irene Silverblatt

42 2009 Annual Report Wadsworth Fellowships, cont.

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Legoas, Jorge Legoas, Jorge, Colegio Andino, Cusco, Peru - To aid Colegio Andino dissertation write-up in social-cultural anthropology at U. Laval, Quebec, Canada, supervised by Dr. Marie-Andree Couillard

Leon, Andres Leon, Andres, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Costa Rica, U. of Rica - To aid training in social-cultural anthropology at CUNY, New York, New York, supervised by Dr. Marc Edelman

Margvelashvili, Ann Margvelashvili, Ann, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgian State Museum Georgia - To aid training in physical-biological anthropology at U. of Zurich, Switzerland, supervised by Prof. Christoph Peter Eduard Zollikofer

Milic, Marina Milic, Marina, U. of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia - To aid Belgrade, U. of training in archaeology at University College London, London, England, supervised by Dr. Cyprian Broodbank

Mususa, Patience Mususa, Patience N., Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia - Copperbelt U. Ntelamo To aid training in social-cultural anthropology at U. of Cape Town, South Africa, supervised by Dr. Fiona Ross

Pechin, Juan Enrique Pechin, Juan Enrique, U. of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, U. of Argentina - To aid library residency at Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany, supervised by Dr. Claudia Lozano

Pereira Figueroa, Karen Pereira Figueroa, Karen, U. Del Valle de Guatemala, Valle de Guatemala, U. del Guatemala - To aid training in archaeology at U. Florida, Gainesville, FL, supervised by Dr. Susan D. Gillespie

Regehr, Vera Dorothea Regehr, Vera Dorothea, U. Catolica 'Nuestra Senora de la Catolica de Nuestra Senora de Asuncion', Asuncion, Paraguay - To aid training in social- la Asuncion, U. cultural anthropology at U. Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico, supervised by Dr. Roger E. Magazine

Shidrang, Sonia Shidrang, Sonia, National Museum of Iran, Tehran, Iran - To National Museum of Iran aid training in archaeology at U. of Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France, supervised by Dr. Jacques Jaubert

Tesar, Catalina Tesar, Catalina Constantina, National School of Political National School of Political Constantina Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania - To Studies and Public aid training in social-cultural anthropology at U. College Administration, Bucharest London, London, England, supervised by Michael Sinclair Stewart Yalamala, Reddisekhara Yalamala, Reddisekhara, Pondicherry Central University, Pondicherry U. Pondicherry, India - To aid training in social-cultural anthropology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, supervised by Dr. Robin Oakley

43 2009 Annual Report Initiatives

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

de la Cadena, Marisol De la Cadena, Marisol, U. of California, Davis, CA - To aid California, Davis, U. of the translation and publication in Spanish of volume resulting from Wenner-Gren Symposium “Indigenous Experience Today”

Luciak, Ilja A. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA - Dr. Ilja A. Luciak, P.I. - To aid research on “The Politics of Axel Wenner-Gren”

44 2009 Annual Report Historical Archives Program

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Ember, Carol R. Ember, Dr. Carol R., Human Relations Area Files, Inc., New Yale U. Haven, CT - To aid workshop on digital preservation of primary anthropological data, co-sponsored with the National Science Foundation, Washington, DC - Historical Archives Program Leone, Mark P. Leone, Dr. Mark P., U. of Maryland, Collage Park, MD - To Maryland, College Park, U. of aid preparation of personal research materials for archival deposit with McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD - Historical Archives Program

Price, David H. Price, Dr. David H., St. Martin's U., Lacey, WA - To aid Smithsonian Inst., Washington, preparation of the personal research materials of Dr. Marvin DC Harris for archival deposit with the National Anthropological Archives, Suitland, MD - Historical Archives Program

Wintle, Pamela Wintle, Dr. Pamela, Human Studies Film Archives, Suitland, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, MD - To aid final accession of the personal research DC materials of Dr. Jorge Preloran -- Historical Archives Program Accession Supplement

45 2009 Annual Report Major Grant Program Statistics

The Foundation has six 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 and the Conference and Workshop Grants fund academic meetings in the discipline.

Over the six major grant programs, the Foundation received 1353 applications and made 169 awards in 2009.

Summary of 2009 Application and Approvals Applications Approved % Approved Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 870 103 11.8% Post-Ph.D. Research Grant 246 30 12.2% Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship 135 8 5.9% Conference and Workshop Grants 49 18 36.7% Int. Collaborative Research Grant 29 6 20.7% Wadsworth Fellowships* 24 4 16.7%

Grand Total 1353 169

* This does not include Wadsworth Short-Term Fellowship data.

Application Numbers

The number of applications decreased by 66 (4.6%) in relation to 2008 when 1419 were received. The number of awards decreased by 49 (22.5%) over the 218 awards made in 2008. The decrease in applications is primarily in the Dissertation Fieldwork and Post-Ph.D. Research Grant programs (DF = 870 in 2009, 893 in 2008; PPhD = 246 in 2009, 260 in 2008).

Application numbers for the individual research programs 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 525 560 491 592 570 642 692 787 893 870 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship 70 51 62 61 93 102 89 120 129 135 Post-Ph.D. Research Grant 252 236 232 252 220 208 220 242 260 246 Grand Total 847 847 785 905 883 952 1001 1149 1282 1251

The decrease in awards occurred uniformly across the programs, representing the reduced success rate in the first half of 2009 put in place in direct response to the then deteriorating financial situation.

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The following table shows the success rates across the various grant programs in 2008 and 2009 as well as the seasonal success rates for the first and second half of 2009 (2009/1 and 2009/2). The Foun- dation is pleased that the higher success rates of 2008 were matched in the second half of 2009 (2009/2).

DF PPhD Hunt ICRG Conference

G Appl % G Appl % G Appl % G Appl % G Appl % 2008 125 893 14.0% 40 260 15.4% 10 129 7.8% 11 51 21.6% 26 44 59.1% 2009 103 870 11.8% 30 246 12.2% 8 135 5.9% 6 26 23.1% 18 49 36.7%

2009/1 56 539 10.4% 15 145 10.3% 3 70 4.3% 2 17 11.1% 9 30 30.0% 2009/2 47 331 14.2% 15 101 14.9% 5 65 7.7% 4 12 33.3% 9 19 47.4% DF = Dissertation Fieldwork Grants; PPhD = Post-Ph.D. Research Grants; Hunt = Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow- ships; ICRG = International Collaborative Research Grants; Conference = Conference and Workshop Grants.

This was possible for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant and Post-Ph.D. Research Grant programs largely because of the reduction in the grant maximums from $25,000 (in 2009/1 and before) to $15,000 for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant and $20,000 for the Post-Ph.D. Research Grant (in 2009/2). It was possible for the other smaller programs because of the general improvement in the financial markets.

Additional information on application and success rate statistics in an historical perspective can be found beginning on page 51 of this report. This includes application and success rate data by gender and by citizenship and domicile as well as historical data for the Conference and Workshop Grant program.

Resubmissions

Over the past few years, improvements to the Foundation’s internal procedures have made it possible for declined applicants to resubmit at the next biannual application deadline. Resubmitted applications tend to have a higher success rate than first-time applications. In 2009 Dissertation Fieldwork the suc- cess rate for resubmissions was 14.7% and for first-time applicants 10.7%. The same is true for Post- Ph.D. Research Grant resubmissions (resubmissions = 14.3%, first-time applicants = 11.7%).

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Osmundsen Initiative

The Osmundsen Initiative was introduced in May 2009 (2009/2) and provides up to $5,000 in addition to the Dissertation Fieldwork and Post-Ph.D. Grant maximums, which were reduced for that deadline. The Osmundsen Initiative encourages applicants to think about the broader implications and importance of their research. To apply for the Osmundsen Initiative an applicant merely answers an additional question on the application form and provides a budget detailing how the funds would be used to enhance their research.

In 2009/2 approximately one-third of the applicants also applied for the Osmundsen Initiative (Dissertation Fieldwork = 33.8%, Post-Ph.D. Research = 34.7%).

Although Osmundsen Initiative applications are not taken into consideration in award of the basic Dis- sertation Fieldwork or Post-Ph.D. Research grant, those who do apply for the Osmundsen have a higher success rate than those who do not (see following table). The differential is particularly large for the Dis- sertation Fieldwork applicants. This may indicate better overall research preparedness by those appli- cants who also apply for the Osmundsen.

2009/2 Appl. G %

Dissertation Fieldwork No OI application 219 26 11.9% OI application 112 21 18.8% Overall success rate 14.2%

Post-Ph.D. Research No OI application 66 9 13.6% OI application 35 6 17.1% Overall success rate 14.9% Appl. = number of applications; G = number of Grants; % = Success rate; OI = Osmundsen Initiative.

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English Speakers and the English-speaking Environment

In recent years there has been concern over the success rates for applicants who are not based in the United States. Success rate statistics for citizenship and domicile can be found beginning on page 55. Over the past two years, statistics have also been gathered according to whether or not the applicants are native English speakers working in an English-speaking environment (see following table).

2008 2009 Dissertation Fieldwork Grant Appl. G % Appl. G % Non-English/Non-English** 51 2 3.9% 52 2 3.8% Non-English/English 174 29 16.7% 182 31 17.0% English/Non-English 2 0 0.0% 5 0 0.0% English/English 666 94 14.1% 631 70 11.1% Total 893 125 14.0% 870 103 11.8% Post Ph-D. Research Grant Non-English/Non-English 43 7 16.3% 45 3 6.7% Non-English/English 25 7 28.0% 33 4 12.1% English/Non-English 8 1 12.5% 11 2 18.2% English/English 184 25 13.6% 157 21 13.4% Total 260 40 15.4% 246 30 12.2% Hunt Post-Doctoral Fellowship Non-English/Non-English 17 2 11.8% 28 1 3.6% Non-English/English 16 2 12.5% 30 1 3.3% English/Non-English 4 0 0.0% 10 1 10.0% English/English 92 6 6.5% 67 5 7.5% Total 129 10 7.8% 135 8 5.9% * English-speaking countries are defined as: USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand ** Native Language/Language of Domicile, Appl. = # of Applications, G = # of Approves, % = Success Rate

The lowest success rates are for Dissertation Fieldwork applicants that are non-native-English speakers working in non-English speaking environments. Additional research shows that over the past five years Dissertation Fieldwork applicants from Eastern Europe/the old Soviet Union and Meso-America have higher success rates (17.4% and 16.7% respectively) than applicants based in the USA (see table be- low). Although the numbers are relatively small, this suggests that factors other than language may be responsible for the impression that seasonal and annual success rates for this cohort are low. For the Post-Ph.D. Research Grant and the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, it is frequent that applicants from non-English speaking countries have higher success rates than those based in the US or other English- speaking countries.

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English Speakers and the English-speaking Environment

Across the three Individual Research Grant programs (Dissertation Fieldwork, Post-Ph.D. Research and the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) the highest success rates are from South Africa (25.0%), Meso- America (20.0%), the Near East (16.7%) and South America (15.7%). The US has a success rate of 15.0% (see below, Grand Total by Success Rate).

Dissertation Fieldwork Grant by Success Rate Post-Ph.D. Research Grant by Success Rate Approve Total % Approve Total % South Africa 3 11 27.3% Meso-America 2 5 40.0% E Eur & old Sov U. 4 23 17.4% South Africa 2 7 28.6% Meso-America 1 6 16.7% Near East 5 21 23.8% US 412 2737 15.1% Australia & Pacific 8 35 22.9% UK 45 324 13.9% South America 5 24 20.8% South America 4 31 12.9% Canada 14 68 20.6% Canada 21 173 12.1% US 110 629 17.5% India Sub-Cont. 1 11 9.1% Africa w/o S Africa 1 6 16.7% W Europe w/o UK 7 102 6.9% UK 11 71 15.5% Australia & Pacific 2 38 5.3% W Europe w/o UK 15 103 14.6% East Asia 1 22 4.5% E Eur & old Sov U. 3 31 9.7% Near East 0 7 0.0% East Asia 2 26 7.7% Africa w/o S Africa 0 3 0.0% India Sub- Cont. 0 8 0.0%

Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship by Success Rate Grand Total by Success Rate Approve Total % Approve Total % East Asia 1 6 16.7% South Africa 5 20 25.0% South America 2 15 13.3% Meso-America 3 15 20.0% Near East 1 8 12.5% Near East 6 36 16.7% W Europe w/o UK 3 32 9.4% South America 11 70 15.7% UK 6 68 8.8% US 544 3628 15.0% Canada 2 23 8.7% Canada 37 264 14.0% US 22 262 8.4% UK 62 463 13.4% Australia & Pacific 1 21 4.8% Australia & Pacific 11 94 11.7% Africa w/o S Africa 0 7 0.0% E Eur & old Sov U. 7 60 11.7% E Eur & old Sov U. 0 6 0.0% W Europe w/o UK 25 237 10.5% India Sub- Cont. 0 6 0.0% East Asia 4 54 7.4% Meso-America 0 4 0.0% Africa w/o S Africa 1 16 6.3% South Africa 0 2 0.0% India Sub- Cont. 1 25 4.0%

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Dissertation Fieldwork Application Numbers, Approvals and Success Rate

1000 30.0%

25.0% 800 20.0% 600 15.0% 400 Number 10.0% Success Rate Success 200 5.0%

0 0.0% 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Approvals 89 86 88 87 75 100 109 122 125 103 Applications 525 560 491 592 570 642 692 787 893 870 Success Rate 17.0% 15.4% 17.9% 14.7% 13.2% 15.6% 15.8% 15.5% 14.0% 11.8%

Application numbers, approvals and success rates by sub-discipline

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Archaeology Approvals 16 16 17 19 9 10 12 8 15 12 Applications 86 97 81 92 92 106 98 91 110 113 Success Rate 18.6% 16.5% 21.0% 20.7% 9.8% 9.4% 12.2% 8.8% 13.6% 10.6% Linguistics Approvals 5 4 5 2 5 7 5 9 4 2 Applications 21 14 12 20 22 30 22 35 29 21 Success Rate 23.8% 28.6% 41.7% 10.0% 22.7% 23.3% 22.7% 25.7% 13.8% 9.5% Physical-Biological Approvals 17 13 9 12 13 12 22 15 19 17 Applications 61 48 54 67 75 83 111 105 127 115 Success Rate 27.9% 27.1% 16.7% 17.9% 17.3% 14.5% 19.8% 14.3% 15.0% 14.8% Social-Cultural Approvals 51 53 57 54 48 71 70 90 87 72 Applications 357 401 344 413 381 423 461 556 627 621 Success Rate 14.3% 13.2% 16.6% 13.1% 12.6% 16.8% 15.2% 16.2% 13.9% 11.6%

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Post-Ph.D. Research Application Numbers, Approvals and Success Rate

300 30.0%

250 25.0%

200 20.0%

150 15.0%

Number 100 10.0% Success Rate Success 50 5.0%

0 0.0% 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Approvals 39 37 37 37 31 32 43 44 40 30 Applications 252 236 232 252 220 208 220 242 260 246 Success Rate 15.5% 15.7% 15.9% 14.7% 14.1% 15.4% 19.5% 18.2% 15.4% 12.2%

Application numbers, approvals and success rates by sub-discipline

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Archaeology Approvals 7 13 12 12 11 8 17 10 17 13 Applications 72 64 69 64 69 50 74 59 89 75 Success Rate 9.7% 20.3% 17.4% 18.8% 15.9% 16.0% 23.0% 16.9% 19.1% 17.3% Linguistics Approvals 0 2 1 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 Applications 5 12 8 11 10 5 4 5 5 9 Success Rate 0.0% 16.7% 12.5% 18.2% 0.0% 20.0% 25.0% 20.0% 40.0% 11.1% Physical-Biological Approvals 15 7 9 5 8 9 12 15 10 8 Applications 44 38 29 43 31 40 52 59 54 56 Success Rate 34.1% 18.4% 31.0% 11.6% 25.8% 22.5% 23.1% 25.4% 18.5% 14.3% Social-Cultural Approvals 17 15 15 18 12 14 13 18 11 8 Applications 131 122 126 134 110 113 90 119 112 106 Success Rate 13.0% 12.3% 11.9% 13.4% 10.9% 12.4% 14.4% 15.1% 9.8% 7.5%

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Hunt Postdoctoral Application Numbers, Approvals and Success Rate

160 30.0% 140 25.0% 120 20.0% 100 80 15.0%

Number 60 10.0%

40 Success Rate 5.0% 20 0 0.0% 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Approvals 136157211498108 Applications 70 51 62 61 93 102 89 120 129 135 Success Rate 18.6% 11.8% 24.2% 11.5% 22.6% 13.7% 10.1% 6.7% 7.8% 5.9%

Application numbers, approvals and success rates by sub-discipline

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Archaeology Approvals 2 3 0 2 4 4 1 2 1 4 Applications 11 15 9 9 14 14 13 18 21 21

Success Rate 18.2% 20.0% 0.0% 22.2% 28.6% 28.6% 7.7% 11.1% 4.8% 19.0% Linguistics Approvals 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 Applications 3 4 3 4 2 1 4 5 3 6 Success Rate 33.3% 0.0% 33.3% 25.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 16.7% Physical-Biological Approvals 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 2 0 Applications 6 3 4 6 4 12 12 11 16 12

Success Rate 16.7% 0.0% 25.0% 0.0% 25.0% 16.7% 8.3% 0.0% 12.5% 0.0% Social-Cultural Approvals 9 3 13 4 16 8 7 6 7 3 Applications 50 29 46 42 73 75 60 86 89 96

Success Rate 18.0% 10.3% 28.3% 9.5% 21.9% 10.7% 11.7% 7.0% 7.9% 3.1%

53 2009 Annual Report APPLICATIONS, APPROVAL AND SUCCESS RATES BY GENDER Data for the Dissertation fieldwork Grant, Post-Ph.D. Research Grant and Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship are pooled

Application Numbers, Approvals and Success Rate by Gender - Female

900 30.0% 800 25.0% 700 600 20.0% 500 15.0% 400 Number 300 10.0% 200 Success Rate 5.0% 100 0 0.0% 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Approvals 77 69 84 69 68 84 101 107 106 86 Total Applications 466 503 461 514 503 575 607 732 814 759 Success Rate 16.5% 13.7% 18.2% 13.4% 13.5% 14.6% 16.6% 14.6% 13.0% 11.3%

Application Numbers, Approvals and Succe ss Ra te by Ge nder - Male

900 30.0% 800 25.0% 700 600 20.0% 500 15.0% 400 Number 300 10.0% 200 Success Rate 5.0% 100 0 0.0% 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

A ppr ovals 64 60 56 62 59 62 60 67 69 55 Total Applications 381 344 324 391 380 377 394 417 468 492 Success Rate 16.8% 17.4% 17.3% 15.9% 15.5% 16.4% 15.2% 16.1% 14.7% 11.2%

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WENNER-GREN FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Leslie C. Aiello (2005)* Ira Berlin (2007) William L. Cobb, Jr. (2000) Joan Girgus (2002) Henry Gonzalez (2009) John Immerwahr (2004) Darcy Kelley (2005) Ruth Kennedy Sudduth (1998) Seth J. Masters (2000) Lauren Meserve (2008) Ellen Mickiewicz (2000) William B. Petersen (2001) Lorraine Sciarra (2004) Ted Seides (2009) Deborah Wadsworth (2006) Marissa Wesely (2008)

OFFICERS

Seth J. Masters Chairman John Immerwahr Vice-Chairman William L. Cobb, Jr. Treasurer Leslie C. Aiello President Maugha Kenny Secretary and Vice-President for Finance

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Niko Bresnier Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (2008) University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Christopher (Kit) Davis Dept. of Anthropology, (2007) School of Oriental and African Studies, UK Darna Dufour Dept. of Anthropology (2008) University of Colorado, USA Linda Fedigan Dept. of Anthropology (2007) University of Calgary, Canada Paul Lane Dept. of Archaeology (2006) University of York, UK Susana Narotzky Dept. of Social Anthropology (2006) Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Joe Watkins Dept. of Native American Studies (2007) University of Oklahoma, USA

LEGAL COUNSEL Debevoise & Plimpton

ACCOUNTANTS Owen J. Flanagan & Company

*(numbers in parenthesis represent the year the term of service began)

67 2009 Annual Report Reviewers (during 2009)

Adams, Vincanne , University of California, San Francisco, CA (USA) Aiello, Leslie, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, NY (USA) Aisher, Alexander, University of Sussex, Falmer, East Sussex, United Kingdom Allison, Anne, Duke University, Durham, NC (USA) Amrute, Sareeta, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (USA) Anagnost, Ann S., University of Washington, Seattle, WA (USA) Andrade, Xavier, FLASCO, Quito, Ecuador Bellier, Irene, CNRS, Paris, France Bentley, Gillian R., Durham University, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom Bogin, Barry A., Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom Boyer, Dominic C., Rice University, Houston, TX (USA) Burnham, Philip C., University College London, London, United Kingdom Cahn, Peter S., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA) Cameron, Noel, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom Cattelino, Jessica, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (USA) Crapanzano, Vincent, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY (USA) di Leonardo, Micaela, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (USA) Doane, Molly, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL (USA) Dwyer, Leslie, Haverford College, Haverford, PA (USA) Eerkens, Jelmer W., University of California, Davis, CA (USA) Elliston, Deborah, SUNY, Binghamton, NY (USA) Feldman, Ilana, George Washington University, Washington, DC (USA) Gardiner Barber, Pauline, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (Canada) Garland, Elizabeth, Union College, Schenectady, NY (USA) Geschiere, Peter, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Gezon, Lisa L., University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA (USA) Gillespie, Kelly, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Gledhill, John E., University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom Glick, Douglas, SUNY, Binghamton, NY (USA) Goddard, Victoria, University of London, London, United Kingdom Graham, Laura R., University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (USA) Grine, Frederick E., Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (USA) Hale, Charles R., University of Texas, Austin, TX (USA) Hirschkind, Charles K., University of California, Berkeley, CA (USA) Ho, Engseng, Duke University, Durham, NC (USA) Hollan, Douglas Wood, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (USA) Holliday, Trenton W., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (USA) Hunt, Kevin D., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (USA) Junge, Benjamin, SUNY, New Paltz, NY (USA) Junghans, Trenholme, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY (USA) Kingfisher, Catherine, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB (Canada) Klima, Alan M., University of California, Davis, CA (USA) Kreid, Judy, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, NY (USA) Larsen, Clark S., Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (USA) LaViolette, Adria J., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (USA) Lempert, Michael, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (USA) Limbert, Mandana, Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY (USA) Lindenbaum, Shirley, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY (USA) Lindholm, Charles, Boston University, Boston, MA (USA)

68 2009 Annual Report Reviewers, cont.

Lynch, Caitrin, Olin College, Needham, MA (USA) Malkin, Victoria, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, NY (USA) Messick, Brinkley M., Columbia University, New York, NY (USA) Mills, Barbara J., University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (USA) Mills, Mary Beth, Colby College, Waterville, ME (USA) Moore, Henrietta L., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom Muse, Michael, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, NY (USA) Nadasdy, Paul, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA) Piperata, Barbara, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (USA) Pollard, Joshua, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Price, Charles, University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill, NC (USA) Rapp, Rayna, New York University, New York, NY (USA) Remis, Melissa Jane, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (USA) Robb, John E., Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom Robinson, Chris, Bronx Community College, CUNY, Bronx, NY (USA) Rouse, Carolyn M., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (USA) Schick, Kathy D., Stone Age Institute, Gosport, IN (USA) Shipley, Jesse, Haverford College, Haverford, PA (USA) Silverman, Sydel, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY (USA) Silverstein, Michael, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (USA) Silverstein, Paul, Reed College, Portland, OR (USA) Simpson, Audra, Columbia University, New York, NY (USA) Smith, Adam T., University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (USA) Smith, Michael E., Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (USA) Spyer, Patricia, New York University, New York, NY (USA) Stone, Anne C., Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (USA) Sung, Wen-Ching, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (Canada) Toussaint, Sandy, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia Ward, Carol, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (USA) Wernke, Steven A., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (USA) West, Paige, Columbia University, New York, NY (USA) Wilce, James M., Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (USA) Wortham,Stanton, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (USA) Zeitlyn, David, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

69 2009 Annual Report Staff

Leslie C. Aiello President Natasha Fenelon Applications Program Assistant Maritza Figueroa Accountant Maugha Kenny Vice-President for Finance Judith Kreid Foundation Anthropologist—International Programs Mark Mahoney Resources Coordinator Victoria Malkin Foundation Anthropologist Flor Moran-Santiago Finance and Administrative Assistant Michael Muse Foundation Anthropologist—International Programs Mary Elizabeth Moss Grants Curator Laurie Obbink Conference Program Associate Elizabeth Rojas Applications Program Administrator Mark Ropelewski Conference and International Programs Assistant

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