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Brian Bauer CV BRIAN S. BAUER Ph.D. Department of Anthropology (MC 027) 1007 West Harrison Street, Room 2102 University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Il 60607-7139 [email protected] EDUCATION University of Chicago Ph.D., Anthropology/Archaeology, 1990. University of Michigan CIC Traveling Scholar, 1984. Cambridge University Masters of Philosophy, Archaeology, 1981. Vassar College BA, Anthropology (With Honors), 1980. Dissertation: State development in the Cuzco Region: Archaeology research on the Incas in the province of Paruro. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Development of complex societies, archaeological and ethnohistorical theory and method, Andean civilizations, European-American contact UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS 2002-present Full Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago 1998-02 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UIC 1995-98 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UIC 1994-95 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UIC 1994 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Cuzco MUSEUM APPOINTMENTS 1995-present Adjunct Curator, Department of Anthropology, The Field Museum 1990-95 Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, The Field Museum MAJOR UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICES 2009-present: Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology 2015-present:UIC Graduate College Awards Committee for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Division. 2015- 2016: Faculty Liaison to the Office of Social Science Research 2006 Member, Provost search committee for Dean of LAS 2004 Member, All-Campus Promotion and Tenure Committee 2003 Member, Provost search committee for Dean of LAS 2002 Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2002 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Anthropology. 2001 CIC Leadership Training Fellowship. (Nominated by LAS Dean, Stanley Fish) 2000 Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago 1 MAJOR PUBLIC SERVICE 2004 Reorganized the Andahuaylas City Museum, in Andahuaylas, Peru. Awarded the Medalla de Oro of the City of Andahuaylas at the opening of the museum. This museum is now an educational and tourist destination in the Department of Apurimac. NATIONAL RESEARCH GRANTS 2014 National Geographic Grant for "The Mine of Death: An archaeological investigation of mercury mining in colonial Peru." (CRE Grant #9491-14 $20,000) 2009-11 National Science Foundation Research Grant for “Shrine Worship among the Incas” (three year grant: BCS 0910432: $96,000). 2008 National Geographic Grant for “Shrine worship among the Incas” (8468-08 $20,000). 2007-08 National Endowment for the Humanities Writing Fellowship for “The Chanka Research Project: the development of native lords in the Andes” ($40,000 FA-53142). 2005 National Geographic Grant for The Royal Inca Mummy Project (Phase 3) (EC 0251-05: $20,400). 2004 National Geographic Grant for The Royal Inca Mummy Project (Phase 2) (EC 0209-04: $23,000). 2001-03 National Science Foundation Research Grant for The Chanka Archaeological Project (three year grant: NSF 0107074: $87,853). 2000 National Endowment for the Humanities Writing Fellowship for The Cuzco Valley Archaeological Project (FA-35942: $30,000). 1998-01 National Science Foundation Research Grant for The Cuzco Valley Archaeological Project (SBR 9806971: $43,323). 1998 National Endowment for the Humanities for The Cuzco Valley Archaeological Project (FT- 43222; $4,000). 1998 National Geographic Grant for Cuzco Valley Archaeological Project. ($18,000). 1994-96 National Science Foundation Research Grant for The Cuzco Ceque System Research Project. (three year grant SBR-9307513: $36,000). 1994 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for The Cuzco Ceque System Research Project. ($9,000). 1993 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Writing Fellowship for The Cuzco Ceque System Research Project (FB-30115-93: $21,000). 1992 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research Grant for The Cuzco Ceque System Research Project. (RO-22282-9; $16,280). 1986 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for dissertation research in Peru. ($16,000). 1986 Organization of American States Fellowship for dissertation in Peru. ($4,500). MAJOR HONORS 2016-17 Dumbarton Oaks Senor Research Fellowship for “The Lord of Vilcabamba” (ca. $60,000) 2011 UIC Researcher of the Year Award (UIC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research). 2004 Gordon R. Willey Prize for the best archaeology paper published in the American Anthropologists (2002-2004), by the Society for American Anthropologists. Bauer, Brian S. and R. Alan Covey “Processes of State Formation in the Inca Heartland (Cuzco, Peru).” American Anthropologist, 10(3): 846-864. 1998 University Scholar for outstanding teaching and research [University of Illinois at Chicago, Springfield, and Urbana-Champaign]. 1992 Honorable Mention for Ph.D. dissertation by the Society for American Archaeology. 1980 Maguire Fellowship for study in Western Europe (Cambridge University) 2 OTHER RESEARCH GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS: 2018 HOPE Award for Undergraduate Teaching (Honoring Our Professors' Excellence: Campus Housing), UIC 2016 Institute for the Humanities (UIC), The Lord of Vilcabamba ($2500) 2015 International travel award from the Office of the Dean of LAS ($800) 2014 Office of Social Science Research (UIC) for research assistant ($9,000) Institute for the Humanities (UIC) for “Continued Archival Research on Mercury Mining In Colonial Peru” ($ 4,016) 2013 Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (UIC) for The Huancavelica Archaeological Project ($20,000) Institute for the Humanities (UIC) for field research ($6000). 2012 Office of Social Science Research (UIC) for field research ($8000) 2008 Brennan Foundation grant for field research ($5,000). 2007 Office of Social Science Research (UIC) for field research (ca. $ 2,500) 2005 Faculty Writing Fellowship, The Institute for the Humanities, The University of Illinois at Chicago. 2004 John Heinz III Charitable Trust, for the Chanka Archaeological Project ($7,200). 2002 Institute for the Humanities (UIC) for publication support ($1,500). 2001 Brennan Foundation grant for field research ($5,000). John Heinz III Charitable Trust, for the Chanka Archaeological Project ($7,900). Institute for the Humanities (UIC) for publication support ($1,500). Research Sabbatical, for one semester ($25,000). 2000 Campus Research Board, (IVCR-AAH) UIC, for field research ($14,500). Office of Social Science Research (UIC) for field research ($2,212). MUCIA International Program Development Travel Grant ($1,000). Nuveen Center for International Affairs Development Fund ($500). 1999 Field Museum of Natural History Collections Study Grant ($3,500). Institute for the Humanities (UIC) for publication support ($1,500). 1998 Office of Social Science Research Grant, UIC for Cuzco Valley Archaeological Project ($1,500). Institute for the Humanities (UIC) for publication support. ($1,500). 1997 John Heinz III Charitable Trust, for the Cuzco Valley Archaeological Project ($8,000). Campus Research Board (UIC) for field research ($14,475). Institute for the Humanities (UIC) for museum research ($905). UIC foreign travel funds. ($1,082). Office of Social Science Research (UIC) for field research ($1,500).Humanities Faculty Writing Fellowship, for The Islands of the Sun and the Moon project, ($ 40,000). 1996 Pollock/Dudley Award for Solar Observations at the Origin Place of the Sun. David Dearborn and Brian Bauer) ($1,757). Research Funds from UIC for The Island of the Sun Archaeological Project ($30,000). Faculty Writing Fellowship, The Institute for the Humanities, The University of Illinois at Chicago. 1996 Office of Social Science Research Grant, UIC for The Shrines of the Inca Heartland. ($2,100). Skaggs Foundation Research Grant for The Cuzco Valley Archaeological Project ($20,000). Wenner-Gren Research Grant for The Island of the Sun Archaeological Project (Charles Stanish and Brian Bauer) ($8,585). 1992 Pollock/Dudley Award for “Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes.” (David Dearborn and Brian Bauer) ($1,500). 1991 Guttman Foundation Grant for The Cuzco Ceque System Research Project ($5,000) Collections Study Grant, American Museum of Natural History ($500). 1990 Skaggs Foundation Research Grant for The Cuzco Ceque System Research Project ($12,500). 3 1986 Skaggs Foundation Research Grant for The Pacariqtambo Archaeological Project ($7,500). 1985 Skaggs Foundation Research Grant for The Pacariqtambo Archaeological Project ($10,000). Tinker Fellowship, travel grant, Peru ($1,500). 1984 CIC Traveling Scholar at University of Michigan. 1983 Mellon Travel Grant travel grant, Peru ($1,500). 1981 Garrod Grant from Cambridge University for research in Peru ($1000). 1979 Illinois Institute of Archaeology scholarship. BOOKS AND LARGE MONOGRAPHS: Bauer, Brian S, Javier Fonseca Santa Cruz, and Miriam Aráoz Silva 2015 Vilcabamba and the archaeology of Inca resistance. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California: Los Angeles. Bauer, Brian S. 2011 Estudios Arqueológicos sobre los Incas. With contributions by David S. P. Dearborn, Bradford M. Jones, Matthew Seddon, and Charles Stanish. Translated by Gabriel E. Cantarutti. Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos, “Bartolomé de Las Casas” Cuzco, Perú. Bauer, Brian S., Lucas C. Kellett and Miriam Aráoz Silva 2010 The Chanka: Archaeological Research in Andahuaylas (Apurimac), Peru. With contributions by: Sabina Hyland and Carlo Socualaya Dávila. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California: Los Angeles Bauer, Brian S. (editor)
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