Annual Report for 2008

“Supporting worldwide research in all branches of Anthropology”

2008 Annual Report

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chairman’s Introduction...... 3 President’s Report ...... 4 Program Highlights ...... 6 Institutional Development Grants ...... 8 International Symposia, Workshops, and Sponsored Meetings ...... 10 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellows ...... 17 Wadsworth Fellows...... 22 2008 Grantees Dissertation Fieldwork Grants ...... 26 Post-Ph.D. Research Grants ...... 38 Conference and Workshop Grants...... 42 International Collaborative Research Grants ...... 45 New and Continuing Wadsworth Fellowships...... 46 Initiatives ...... 49 Historical Archives Program...... 50 Major Grant Program Statistics...... 51 Financial Statements ...... 58 Leadership ...... 69 Reviewers during 2007 ...... 70 Staff ...... 72

2 2008 Annual Report Chairman’s Introduction

Seth J. Masters Chairman of the Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees, Officers, and Staff of the Wenner-Gren Foundation are pleased to publish this 2008 annual report.

Wenner-Gren is committed to its support of the global anthropology community, and funds its operations and programs from the investment returns achieved on its endowment portfolio. The broad decline in capital markets as a result of the credit crisis in 2008 has not spared the Foundation. Fortunately, the Foundation'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 the Foundation's superior long-term investment record.

As reviewed in this report, under President Leslie Aiello's leadership and vision we have critically refined and expanded our programs, communications, and global relationships. Our systems and procedures have been enhanced to service an increasing volume of grants applications. And our expanded web site and internet capabilities have enabled us to better communicate worldwide.

Our ability to keep abreast of the issues facing the profession and to measure our success in achieving our goals would not be possible without the collaboration, advice, and contributions from the community we serve. Recognition and gratitude should be especially given to past and present Advisory Committee members as well as to the many others who have participated in the Foundation's programs and activities.

This is my first year as Chairman on the Board and I thank you for such an enriching Wenner-Gren experience.

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

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Leslie C. Aiello, President

2008 has been both an extremely successful and a challenging year for the Foundation. The award of the first two Institutional Development Grants was a major highlight. These grants provide $125,000 over five years to support doctoral training in anthropology departments located in countries where the discipline is underrepresented and where there are limited resources to support academic development. Because of the high quality of the applications received, the Board of Trustees generously approved two Institutional Development Grants in 2008 rather than the anticipated one. The awards went to the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Códoba, Argentina and to the National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (see Program Highlights). The Foundation looks forward to working closely with both of these institutions over the next five years to achieve their development goals.

Other highlights included three meetings sponsored under the International Symposia and Workshop program. One of these meetings was held at the Foundation offices in New York City ("The Anthropologist as Social Critic: Working towards a More Engaged Anthropology” sponsored in association with the American Anthropological Association), one was held in Portugal (“Working Memory and the Evolution of Modern Thinking”), and one in Santa Fe, New Mexico ("Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form” sponsored in association with the School for Advanced Research). The outcomes of all of these meetings will be published as special issues of the Foundation-sponsored journal, Current Anthropology, under our new initiative to publish International Symposia outcomes in a form that is electronically accessable.

An additional meeting (“Sustaining Cultural and Biological Diversity in a Rapidly Changing World: Lessons for Global Policy”) was held at the American Museum of Natural History and sponsored jointly by the Foundation, AMNH, and Terralingua (Salt Spring Island, BC). The Foundation was also represented at a number of anthropological meetings including the American Anthropological Association where we sponsored a Presidential symposium on “Anthropology Put to Work,” ran a grant- writing workshop together with the National Science Foundation and co-organized an evening reception with Dr. Setha Low, the AAA President, and the AAA-sponsored Council on World Anthropologies. The reception highlighted the significance of the diversity of international voices and approaches to the field.

In 2008 the Foundation also partnered with the New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology Section to host monthly evening seminars. This initiative continues in the tradition of the Wenner-Gren supper conferences, which from 1944 until the late 1970s were an important feature the Foundation’s intellectual involvement with the New York Anthropological Community. We are pleased to offer a venue

4 to the NYAS Anthropology Section and look forward to a continuing collaboration in hosting these stimulating events.

The number of applications received by the Foundation continued to increase in 2008. Across our six major grant programs (Dissertation Fieldwork Grants, Post-Ph.D. Research Grants, Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships, Conference and Workshop/Grants, International Collaborative Research Grants, and Wadsworth Fellowships) the number of applications received by the Foundation increased by 11% over 2007. The current year is our largest year to date and the Foundation is pleased that this reflects a vibrant international interest in anthropological research. The number of awards made in 2008 was, however, 3% less than in 2007. This decrease was primarily in the Dissertation Fieldwork and Post- Ph.D. Research Grants where the success rates were purposely reduced in the second half of the year. This was a direct response to the then deteriorating financial situation.

The Foundation is dependent entirely on its endowment and our major goal is to fund as many grants as possible while at the same time preserving the endowment for future generations of anthropologists. The primary focus in the last quarter of 2008 was to balance projected grant expenditures for both 2008 and 2009 against the reduced expected income from the endowment. This necessarily involved some difficult (and on-going) decisions in relation to success rates, maximum grant amounts, and possible program closures.

The Foundation survived similar financial conditions in the mid-1970s and as a result has continuingly planned for adverse financial circumstances. Part of the strategy is to fund large numbers of relatively small research projects rather than fewer numbers of costlier, long-term initiatives. This permits a rapid reduction (or increase) in success rates (and expenditure) as the situation requires. Our current strategy is to reduce the success rates across the Foundation’s programs while at the same time to plan in detail for future possible funding reductions as may be necessary.

I would like to thank the Board of Trustees and the Wenner-Gren staff for their ongoing support and trust through these current very trying times. We are all determined to carry on the Foundation's mission to support anthropological research now and in the future. There is no reason to believe that we will not be entirely successful in this endeavor.

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

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Program Highlights

Program highlights for 2008 include the introduction of a new Institutional Development Grant program, the award of the highly competitive Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships, the selection of six international scholars to train under our Wadsworth International and African Fellowship programs, the award of 176 research grants to students and established scholars under our Dissertation Fieldwork, Post-Ph.D. Research and International Collaborative Research Grant programs, and support for 26 conferences and workshops.

Institutional Development Grants

Two Institutional Development Grants were awarded in 2008 to the National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and the Museum of Anthropology at the National University of Córdoba, in Córdoba, Argentina. Information about these institutions and how they are using their IDG grants can be found on pages 9-10.

International Symposia and Workshops

The following two International Symposia were held during 2008.

• “Working Memory and the Evolution of Modern Thinking,” Organizers: Fred Coolidge and Tom Wynn (U. Colorado), March 7-14, 2008, Fortaleza do Guincho, Cascais, Portugal • “Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form” Organizers: Rebecca Hardin (U. Michigan), Damani Partridge (U. Michigan), and Marina Welker (Cornell U.) August 21-27, 2008, School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, New Mexico

Reports on the symposia, along with a list of the attendees and photographs can be found starting on page 10 and on the Wenner-Gren Programs web page under “International Symposia and Publication Series” (http://www.wennergren.org/programs/programs.htm).

In addition to the International Symposia, Wenner-Gren Foundation sponsored a workshop entitled “The Anthropologists as Social Critic” (organized by Setha Low of the CUNY Graduate Center and Sally Merry from NYU), which was also held at the Foundation’s offices in New York. A group photograph and participants list for this workshop can be found starting on page 14.

Initiatives Funding

Two grants were made under the Initiatives program in 2008. The first of these was to Dr. Emily Martin (NYU) to support the launch of a new anthropology publication (Anthropology Now), which is designed to be of interest to laymen and highlight anthropology applied to relevant modern issues. The journal will appear triennially in the winter, spring and fall. Reports from the editors as well as from Paradigm Publishers suggest that the subscription numbers are on target and plans are advancing to ensure that the publication is available not only by subscription but also in relevant book stores and other outlets. The Foundation is pleased to have been involved with the launch of a publication which is attempting to make anthropology accessible to the lay public.

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Meetings of the Anthropology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences

A second grant under the Initiatives program was awarded to Dr. Kenneth Guest (City U. of New York, New York, NY) to aid "Network De- velopment and Program Support for the Anthro- pology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences." This Initiatives grant allowed the Anthropology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences to develop and rejuvenate their pro- gram. Throughout the academic year, they held their Monday evening dinner seminars at the Wenner-Gren Foundation offices. These meet- ings have had the added effect of integrating the Foundation in the academic life of the city. This year’s season ended with a half-day sympo- sium at the Foundation on the topic of Jonathan Marks, Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb, Lisa Lucero, “Obama's America: Imperialism, Crisis and/or Rayna Rapp, William Mitchell, and Kenneth Guest. at “The Democracy” which was held May 11th. Public Framing of Science”

The NYAS Anthropology Section will continue to hold its meetings at the Foundation in the 2009-2010 academic year.

The 2008-2009 Anthropology Section’s Seminars and Presentations

“Trafficking the Traffickers - Undercover Ethnography in the Organs Trafficking Underworld” Speaker: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, UC-Berkeley. Oct. 6, 2008 “The Moveable Feast of Economy and Biology: Thirty Years after Sex/Gender” Speaker: Kath Weston, U. Virginia Dec. 8, 2008 : “Working” in Cuba: The Politics of/in Anthropological Research in Contemporary Cuba” Panel: Elise Andaya, SUNY Albany; Todd Ochoa, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Andrea Queely, Tulane U.. Discussant: Donald Rowbotham, CUNY Grad Center Jan. 26, 2009 “Semiotics of the Dead Body: Reflections on Forensic Anthropology” Speaker: Zoe Crossland, Columbia U. Feb. 23, 2009 “The Public Framing of Science” Panel: Jonathan Marks, UNC-Charlotte, and Lisa Lucero, U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Discussant: Rayna Rapp, New York U. March 30, 2009 “Defying and Justifying: Contesting Person-Making Concepts to Kill or Let Live” Speaker: Brackette Williams, U. Arizona May 4, 2009. “Obama's America: Imperialism, Crisis and/or Democracy” A half-day symposium with Peter Kwong, "What's Wrong with the US Immigration Debate"; Jeff Maskovsky, "Main Street, Wall Street, and Racialized Inequality in Obama's America"; Sally Merry, "Human Rights in the Imperial Heartland"; Roopali Mukherjee, "Ghetto Fabulousâ in Obama's America”; Don Robotham, "Liberal Social Democracy, Neoliberalism, and Neoconservatism: Some Genealogies"; Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider, "The United States and the Underworld System: Predatory Crime, Illegal Trafficking, and Sponsored Criminality"; Ida Susser, "Imperial Moralities". Discussants: Setha Low and Frances Fox Piven, May 13, 2009 7 2008 Annual Report Historical Archives Program

One of the highlights of the Historical Archive Program was the grant to Prof. Jorge, Preloran of the University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles to aid preparation of personal research materials for archival deposit with the Smithsonian Institu- tion’s Human Studies Film Archives, Suitland, Maryland. This grant was awarded in 2007 but spanned 2008 with a supplement granted in 2009 to assist the Human Studies Film Archives with the final accession of this prodigious collection.

Prof. Preloran was described by Margaret Mead as "one of the great independent filmmakers who represents a country and its people." His collection includes 46 documentaries on topics in the U.S. and Latin America, eleven of which focus on their protagonists' life-stories. Preloran is cele- brated for having developed a cinematic genre known as ethnobiography, which filmmaker David MacDougall de- scribes as sharing the testimonial qualities of Jean Rouch’s work while being closely related to the life history genre of ethnography. More information can be found on the National Anthropological Archives web site from which this short description was excerpted (http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/ whatsnew.htm). Professor Preloran passed away in April 2009. Our HAP grant was timely in ensuring the preservation of his important archive.

Institutional Development Grants

The National University of Mongolia

The National University of Mongolia plans to radically upgrade the institutional capacity of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and thus firmly es- tablish the field of socio-cultural anthropology in Mon- golia. Through an active partnership with the Depart- ment of Social Anthropology at the University of Cam- bridge a new curriculum and doctoral program will be developed. Mongolian and Cambridge professors will set up a joint committee and design and develop a doctoral program. Furthermore four students from Mongolia will be trained in a temporary joint Ph.D. pro- gram that includes joint supervision from both institu- tions with the students spending time at both institu- tions. These students will then be recruited to return to the faculty at the National University. The department will be working towards the establishment of a sound doctoral program that meets international stan- dards and will be consulting with faculty from the Department of Social Anthropology in Cambridge. Fi- nally the Department plans to build an up-to-date resource collection on socio-cultural anthropology and enhance technical capacity of the department. Four faculty members from the National University of Mongolia have already spent some time at Cambridge in 2009 and begun to jointly develop classes for the program. Students will be recruited to begin their studies in September 2009.

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Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

The Museum of Anthropology at the National University of Córdoba, in Córdoba, Argentina, will offer specialized training in the three classic sub-areas of research: social anthropology, archaeology and bioanthropology. The program will work in collaboration with the Laboratory of Biological Anthropology of the University of Kansas, the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming, and the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology and Sociology at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to develop a doctoral program. Dr. Michael Crawford from the University of Kansas and Director of the Biological Anthropology Laboratory there has already made a preliminary visit to the Department in 2009 and begun to work with the faculty on the project's goals. Doctoral studies will be oriented towards intensive theoretical and practical training to produce professionals who will be able to undertake independent research projects, exercise leadership of scientific research teams, communicate their research results, and teach at the university. The development of a Postgraduate Program in Anthropological Sciences at Córdoba also will provide more opportunities for graduates of other neighboring Argentina provinces, where there is no such possibility of postgraduate training. This also will extend the possibilities of bringing the practice of anthropology to non-academic realms, responding to a growing demand in the region.

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2008 Annual Report International Symposia, Workshops, and Sponsored Meetings

“Working Memory and the Evolution of Modern Thinking” March 7-14, 2008, Fortaleza do Guincho, Cascais, Portugal Organizers: Fred Coolidge and Tom Wynn (University of Colorado)

The last two decades have witnessed an intense and often contentious debate in paleoanthropology concerning the evolution of modern humans and the modern human mind. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of this debate has been its naivety concerning the modern mind itself. Instead of incorporating the great strides made by recent cognitive science in understanding the nature of the brain and cognition, paleoanthropology (with the exception of a few paleoneurologists) has eschewed this literature almost entirely, preferring instead to fall back on vague, ill-defined terms from the common lexicon (e.g. “abstract,” “complex,” and “symbolic”) or, Seated: A. Nowell, A. Belfer-Cohen, A. Sumner, L. Wadley, A. equally as often, on concepts drawn from Aiello, F. Pinto, M. Haidle. Standing: F. Abortiz, S. Ambrose, R. the anthropological literature most Welshon, T. Wynn, E. Reuland, M. Rossano, R. Engle, F. connected to cognitive science: linguistics. Coolidge, I. Davidson, M. Martin-Loeches, P. Barnard. However, when psychologists and cognitive scientists themselves think and write about the modern mind, language is not the only cognitive ability to receive attention. Indeed, it is only one of a number of cognitive abilities considered to be essential to modern thinking. Among these is a set of abilities known as executive functions, which encompass the abilities to plan and strategize. More controversially, recent research in cognitive science has linked executive reasoning ability to Alan Baddeley's concept of working memory, which is the ability to hold information in attention and process it. Executive functions in general, and working memory in particular, have been the focus of voluminous research in cognitive science. Research has established that working memory capacity varies in (but not between) modern populations, and that this variability may be under comparatively simple genetic control. As such it makes a good candidate for a recent evolutionary development.

Anthropologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick Coolidge organized this Wenner-Gren international symposium in order to investigate the hypothesis that working memory capacity evolved over the course of human evolution, and that a final enhancement of working memory capacity occurred in the relatively recent past, enabling the rapid expansion of modern humans at the expense of more archaic forms. For the symposium to be a success it was necessary to bring together two groups of scholars who do not normally interact: cognitive scientists who study working memory and paleoanthropologists who study human evolution. The two groups came together at the Forteleza do Guincho in Cascais, Portugal, between March 7-14, 2008.

Randy Engle and Lyn Wadley led off the formal discussions with, respectively, an account of the status of working memory in psychological research, and a provocative consideration of ways to document working memory in archaeological traces from the Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa. Both grounded their discussions in experimental and/or field data, and in so doing provided an empirical imperative that helped orient all of the subsequent discussions. In the second session linguist Eric

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Reuland, psychologist Matt Rossano, and archaeologist Iain Davidson focused on the possible links between working memory, symbolic thinking, and language, and introduced the significance of transoceanic colonization for documenting working memory. In the third session, papers by Miriam Haidle, Philip Barnard, and Philip Beaman explored alternative cognitive models of decision making, and extended the evolutionary scope of the discussion to include early hominins. The fourth session injected paleoneurology and life history into the discussion via papers by Emiliano Bruner, Francisco Aboitiz, and April Nowell, and the fifth session considered alternative models for understanding the evolution of cognition through papers by Anna Belfer-Cohen, Stanley Ambrose, and Manuel Martin-Loeches. After the free day, philosopher Rex Welshon made a gallant attempt at synthesis, initiating a general discussion that highlighted points of disagreement and possible avenues for resolution. The participants then divided into three groups, each of which focused on a particular point in hominin evolution, addressing the general question of what, if anything, could be concluded about the working memory capacity of the hominin in question.

Several overarching questions emerged from the discussions. Not surprisingly, the nature of working memory itself was a prime concern. By the end the participants had sorted into two basic camps. One preferred to view working memory as a limited capacity buffer (attention, in essence) that can access a number of more specific, perceptually linked stores of information (visuospatial, phonological, auditory, etc.), while the other preferred to grant phonological storage primacy in its ability to store and manipulate words and symbols. The second major topic of discussion addressed how one might recognize or evaluate working memory capacity in the archaeological record. Interestingly the usual list of “modern” patterns favored by some archaeologists (blades, large mammal hunting, personal ornaments, and so on) did not fare particularly well as markers for working memory. Instead, less ballyhooed examples such as hafting, the use of remotely operated traps, and colonization of oceanic islands, received most discussion, attesting to the value of using an explicit cognitive theory to generate appropriate test cases.

Finally, timing the appearance of modern working memory capacity proved less problematic to the cognitive scientists than to the paleoanthropologists. Although the group reached no consensus as to a specific timeline, the majority of the group, both cognitive scientists and anthropologists, appeared comfortable with a timing that granted modern working memory capacity to early Homo sapiens.

PARTICIPANTS Leslie C. Aiello, Wenner-Gren Foundation (USA) Francisco Aboitz, Universidad Catolica de Chile (Chile) Stanley H. Ambrose, University of Illinois (USA) Philip Barnard, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences (UK) Anna Belfer-Cohen, Hebrew University (Israel) Emiliano Bruner, CENIEH (Spain) Frederick L. Coolidge, University of Colorado (USA) Iain Davidson, University of New England (Australia) Randall Engle, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Miriam Haidle, Eberhard Karls University (Germany) Manuel Martin-Loeched, Center UCM-isciii for Human Evolution & Behavior (Spain) April Nowell, University of Victoria (Canada) Eric Reuland, Utrecht University (The Netherlands) Matt Rossano, Southeastern Louisiana University (USA) Lyn Wadley, University of Witwatersrand (South Africa) Rex Welshon, University of Colorado (USA) Tom Wynn, University of Colorado (USA)

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“Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form” August 21-27, 2008, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico Organizers: Rebecca Hardin (University of Michigan), Damani Partridge (University of Michigan), and Marina Welker (Cornell University)

This symposium emerged from our interests in how corporations are increasingly taking on roles typically associated with nation-states, shaping governance, and managing daily life. Thanks to the support of a pioneering collaboration between the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the School for Advanced Research, we brought together anthropologists and corporate practitioners from a wide range of institutions and career paths both within and beyond the academy, including corporate leaders, financial planners, shareholder activists, environmental and labor advocates, and NGO consultants. Over six days of intense discussion and informal debate, it became clear that older concepts, such as public sphere, private Seated: L. Aiello, C. Coumans, G. Vargas-Cetina, S. Merry, sector, or state and civil society, are M. Welker, D. Partridge, R. Hardin Standing: J. Brooks, L. inadequate to understand the nexus of NGO, Obbink, M. Woodard, T. Mokgatlha, R. Monks, J. Conley, K. corporate, nation-state, and community Gullo, J. Cattelino, S. Cook, S. Bohlin, J. Lynch, B. Burda, J. Guyer, D. Wood connections that are progressively shaping contemporary lives.

As we convened, the ramifications of real estate and financial market slides were increasingly appearing in media narratives of crisis that ranged from apocalyptic imaginings of global meltdown to intimate personal tales of the hardships and agonizing decisions that come with job loss and evaporating retirement savings. As organizers, we felt that expanding our contributions to social studies of corporations was a relevant and urgent task. We were interested in developing an intellectual toolkit that not only attended to these shifts related to global financial markets and corporate formations, but also to our personal and bodily investments in them.

In sessions on “Autobiographical Insights,” “Genealogies of Corporate Forms,” “Reinventions of Corporations,” “Long-Range Governance,” and “Volatility,” we identified six key directions for anthropological contributions to the study of corporate forms. We began by documenting the emergent trends and institutions that mark the current moment. As became clear in our discussion, corporate forms have become more widespread and varied, but so too have collaborations, alternatives, and movements of opposition. Second, we focused on the temporalities of corporations by committing to historical approaches and by attending to the implications of financial time horizons such as market cycles, and quarterly performance measures that govern corporate institutions. Although corporations have an air of immortality, we found that most are short-lived. Third, we aimed to develop a precise and conceptually powerful language for understanding corporate phenomena. This entailed carefully distinguishing between vernacular and analytic categories, cultivating an awareness of how we harness different linguistic registers in corporate fieldwork settings and academic writing, and noting where our terminology may fail us. We confronted these questions directly during sessions as we were compelled to explain and translate between different languages of specialization. Fourth, we asked what

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production, the making and use of accounting metrics, and the structures of responsibility these metrics entail. Fifth, we attended to how corporations shape subjectivities, examining carefully the cultural practices, moral beliefs, and emotional investments that animate corporate executives, collaborating NGOs, as well as workers and consumers. Finally, we aimed to disaggregate the corporation by always keeping in sight the fact that corporate forms are imperfect social institutions, full of internal contradictions and competing agendas, rather than monolithic, rational, coherent, fully self-present and self-knowing actors.

Papers from the symposium along with commentaries that capture the dynamic of our dialogue are currently in preparation for a special issue of Current Anthropology. These papers draw on research and work experiences in such diverse contexts as Maggie's Organics clothing line and women's textile cooperatives in Nicaragua; the Royal Bafokeng Nation's management of platinum extraction in South Africa; the social networks and branding of “survivorship” in cancer camps; Hewlett-Packard's e- inclusion efforts from Silicon Valley to India and Costa Rica; logging companies and conservation organizations in the Congo basin of Africa; the Social Investment Forum; the World Bank's Chad- Cameroon oil extraction project; and the Seminole Nation's acquisition of Hard Rock International.

In the end, we hope that this will be the beginning of an open-ended, critically engaged, and far ranging discussion.

Participants: Leslie C. Aiello, Wenner-Gren Foundation (USA) Steven J. Bohlin, School for Advanced Research (USA) James F. Brooks, School for Advanced Research (USA) Bená Burda, Maggie's Organics/Clean Clothes, Inc. (USA) Jessica R. Cattelino, U. California, Los Angeles (USA) John Conley, U. North Carolina (USA) Susan E. Cook, Royal Bafokeng Nation Phokeng, (South Africa) Catherine Coumans, Mining Watch (Canada) Krista Gulla, U. Michigan (USA) Jane Guyer, Johns Hopkins U. (USA) Rebecca D. Hardin, U. Michigan (USA) Sarah Lochlann Jain, Stanford U. (USA) Jane Lynch, U. Michigan (USA) Sally Engle Merry, New York U. (USA) Thabo Mokgatlha, Royal Bafokeng Nation, Phokeng (South Africa) Robert A. G. Monks, Lens Governance Advisors (USA) Damani Partridge, U. Michigan (USA) Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, U. Autonoma de Yucatan (Mexico) Marina Welker, Cornell U. (USA) David Carrico Wood, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship (USA) Michael Woodard, Jubilee House Community (Nicaragua)

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International Workshops and Sponsored Meetings “The Anthropologist as Social Critic: Working towards a More Engaged Anthropology” January 22-25, 2008, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, NY Organizers: Setha Low (Graduate Center-CUNY) and Sally Merry (New York University)

This conference brings together academic, prac- ticing, and advocacy anthropologists to examine the historical role of anthropology as social critic, its theoretical and methodological foundations, and its current practice through each participant’s professional experiences. Scholars were asked to consider what an engaged anthropology means, and how it can be promoted by focusing on the role of the anthropologist as social critic

As a discipline, anthropology has pursued many paths toward an engaged approach over the past two decades. These avenues include: 1) locating anthropology at the center of the public policy- making process (public policy advocacy); 2) con- necting the academic part of the discipline with Seated: Kit Davis, Sally Merry, Setha Low, Ida Susser, the wider world of social problems (public Norma Gonzalez Standing: Barbara Rose Johnston, anthropology); 3) bringing anthropological Victoria Malkin, Jonathan Spencer, John Jackson, Merrill knowledge to the media’s attention (media Singer, Martha Lincoln, Alan Smart, Helen Siu, Signe anthropology); 4) becoming activists concerned Howell, Maria Teresa Sierra, Kamran Ali, Michael with social change (social activism); 5) sharing Herzfeld, Leslie Aiello knowledge production and power with community members (community empowerment); 6) providing empirical approaches to social assessment and ethical practice (ethics); and 7) linking anthropological theory and practice to create new solutions (practicing anthropology). These are all important initiatives but do not address the role of anthropology as social critic. Although the discipline has a long and rich history of commenting on modern society and its foibles, this activity now languishes.

Anthropologists have a proud history of speaking out against racism, war, neglect of the rights of work- ers, and the oppression of women, to give some examples. Contemporary anthropological knowledge has a great deal to contribute to understanding violence, contemporary conflict, ideas of race and ra- cism, and human rights. Our theories enable trenchant critiques of global capitalism, nationalism and ethnic conflict, militarism, and the use of women as silent bearers of national tradition. Our core con- cept, culture, is on everyone’s lips, but its meanings are often colonial-era representations of primitive- ness rather than anthropologically based visions of meaning and practice. In some parts of the world, anthropological knowledge is more widely sought for public debate and more highly valued than it is in the U.S.

Yet, reclaiming this role requires rethinking anthropology in the modern world. For a number of years the discipline — particularly in the U.S. — has not engaged with ethical issues such as human rights or global inequality. For example, anthropologists refused to support human rights as a social justice ideology for many years, both because they feared its similarity to the universalizing ideologies of colonialism and Christian missions and because they viewed themselves as social scientists who were unable to make moral judgments about the normative structures of other societies. One of the most critical and unresolved issues in the discipline is how anthropologists can make ethical judgments while at the same time developing soundly based theoretical analyses and producing new anthropological

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knowledge. Related concerns also include the way academic institutions define and reward scholarship and the kind of public face that the discipline holds.

This conference was organized to consider three dimensions of Anthropology’s diminished role as social critic: 1) the past role of the field as a public voice of critique; 2) the situation in countries where anthropology now has a larger presence as social critic; and 3) intellectual and theoretical barriers to developing a more engaged and socially critical anthropology as well as strategies to promote such endeavors. For example, academic institutions could encourage and reward this kind of work, while anthropologists engaged in practice or advocacy, such as those who work for human rights organizations or other non-governmental organizations, could be encouraged to participate in annual meetings and to write about their work for AAA publications.

From an intellectual perspective, the field has never been stronger or more vibrant. On the other hand, it is insufficiently recognized and valued by the wider public. Its insights and perspectives deserve more attention. In part, anthropology’s insistence on specificity and context contradicts the universalizing tendencies of popular theories in economics and political science. Yet we have also undervalued the role of social critic in the institutional structure of rewards and failed to support the people who do this work sufficiently. We have made a lot of progress in other areas of anthropological engagement, such as in the spheres of policy and practice, but need to address anthropology’s role as social critic with similar seriousness and commitment.

Participants: Leslie C. Aiello, Wenner-Gren Foundation (USA) Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas (USA) M. Kamari Clarke, Yale University (USA) Christopher Davis, SOAS (UK) Norma Gonzalez, University of Arizona (USA) Michael F. Herzfeld, Harvard University (USA) Signe Howell, University of Oslo (Norway) John L. Jackson, Jr., University of Pennsylvania (USA) Barbara Rose Johnston, Center for Political Ecology (USA) Martha Lincoln, Graduate Center-CUNY (USA) Setha Low, Graduate Center-CUNY (USA) Victoria Malkin, Wenner-Gren Foundation (USA) Sally Engle Merry, New York University (USA) Maria Teresa Sierra, CIESAS (Mexico) Merrill Singer, University of Connecticut (USA) Helen F. Siu, Yale University (USA) Alan Smart, University of Calgary (Canada) Jonathan Spencer, University of Edinburgh (Scotland) Ida Susser, Graduate Center-CUNY (USA)

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“Sustaining Cultural and Biological Diversity in a Rapidly Changing World: Lessons for Global Policy” April 2-5, 2009, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY Organizer: Eleanor Sterling, (American Museum of Natural History)

This meeting was organized with funding from Wenner-Gren, the IUCN-The World Conservation Union, and Terralingua, together with major support and organizational assistance from the Christensen Fund. The purpose of the meeting was to help synthesize the knowledge that has accumulated about the inter- actions between linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity, to advance theory and practice, and to apply these findings in the international policy arena. The symposium brought together leading scientists; practitioners; members of indigenous, tribal, and local communities; NGOs; the public sector; media, and others versed in relevant fields to create a platform for analysis and dialogue across disciplines and cultures to help forge a vision for sustaining biological and cultural diversity. The program consisted of nine presentations, fifteen panel discussions, a poster session, and informal “ubuntu” gatherings to fur- ther promote the exchange of ideas and to encourage networking. Some 350 participants from 50 coun- tries took part, and an additional 537 attended via a live webcast.

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2008 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Roberto Abadie Independent scholar, Montevideo, Paraguay Project Title: "A Guinea Pig's Wage: Risk, Body Commodification, and the Ethics of Pharmaceutical Research in America"

Abstract: Based on my dissertation, the book draws on ethno- graphic research of paid research subjects in clinical trials con- ducted between July 2003 and December 2004 in Philadelphia. The manuscript focuses on a group of self-defined 'professional guinea pigs' who earn their livelihoods as research subjects for Phase I clinical trials testing drugs being developed by the pharmaceutical industry. The book brings attention to the professionalization of research subjects and illuminates the experiences and meanings associated with being a paid subject and the effect of financial compensation on the way volunteers understand and deal with risks as well as on the ethical arrangements involved in the protection of human subjects in biomedical research. For comparative purposes I extended my study into a group of HIV patients volun- teering in Phase II and III trials. I argue that the significant financial compensation offered in Phase I tri- als created a new group of vulnerable professional research subjects distorting volunteers' perception of risk while exposing them to adverse drug effects and possible long term risks from synergistic drug inter- actions."

Dr. Nwando Achebe Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan (USA) Project Title: “Gendered Politics in a Changing Space: Colonialism and the Invention of a Female Igbo King ”

Abstract: “Gendered Politics in a Changing Space” is a full-length critical biography on the only female Warrant Chief and King in all of colonial Nigeria and arguably British Africa. A case study of an extraordinary woman, it reveals much about the shifting bases of gendered power under British indirect rule and the ways in which Igbo women and men negotiated and shaped the colonial environment. The biography also encourages new ways of interpreting African lives beyond the received categories of analysis by advancing critical perspectives on women, gender and sex. It also challenges presumptions of homogeneity within the category of 'woman,' 'prostitute' and 'slave,' and offers new theories that recognize African concepts such as female king, female husband; autonomous sex worker and 'wife of deity.' There is no comparative biography on gender and power in Igboland. The life of this exceptional female king, Ahebi Ugbabe therefore contributes to knowledge by illuminating one [wo]man's agency in remapping the terrain of 'traditional' and colonial gendered politics in her district.

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2008 Annual Report Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Cowie University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (USA) Project Title: “Industrial Capitalism and the Company Town: Structural Power, Bio-Power, and Identity in 19th Century Fayette, Michigan”

Abstract: This research explores the subtle distribution of power within industrial capitalism, as seen in the nineteenth-century company town of Fayette, Michigan. It bridges the gap between anthropology and his- torical archaeology, which traditionally communicate very little. Meth- ods include GIS-based analysis of the built environment and artifact patterns; the development of a historical ethnography; and archaeologi- cal excavations of household refuse excavated from three class-based neighborhoods. Issues surrounding power and agency are explored in regard to three heuristic categories of power. In the first category, the company imposed a system of structural, class-based power that is most visible in pay, housing, and consumer behavior. A second cate- gory, bio-power, addresses disciplinary activities surrounding the hu- man body and explores disposal patterns of industrial waste, incidence of intestinal parasites, access to healthcare, and subjugation to surveil- lance. The third ensemble of power relations is pluralistic, hierarchical, and determined by personal identity. Individuals drew upon non-economic capital to bolster status and express identity apart from the corporate hierarchy. This research explores the impacts of our industrial heritage and the potential repercussions of industrialization today. Because this manuscript employs a four-field approach to an- thropology, it will produce a book of broad interest in anthropology and related disciplines.

Dr. Samera Esmeir University of California, Berkeley, California (USA) Project Title: “Losing the Human: The Rise of Juridical Humanity in Colonial Egypt”

Abstract: Losing the Human is a book manuscript that examines a peculiar rise that marked the colonization of Egypt and its incorporation into the universe of liberal modernity during the last quarter of the nine- teenth century and the early twentieth century. This was the rise of the 'human' as it was inscribed into the body of modern positive law, or what I call 'juridical humanity.' In colonial Egypt, the human rose as the teleology of modern secular law, whose absence, law asserted, indi- cated a state of inhumanity or dehumanization. The law, in short, monopolized the very making of hu- manity. Losing the Human traces and theorizes the emergence of the human in the law as 'juridical hu- manity.' I investigate its colonial efficacy, the secular sensibilities of humanness it engendered, and the 'universal humanity' it enabled. I consider equally the ethical meanings and political operations of the newly awakened human in relation to history, evolution, violence, and nature. Crucial to my story is the persistence of other concepts of humanity that escaped the logic, and practice, of 'juridical humanity.' These other concepts relied on different ethics of the human and derived them from the Islamic tradition, specifically from the injunction on witnessing. I theorize this other humanity and examine its conceptual opposition to colonial governmentality. Consequently, and unlike other studies of colonialism, Losing the Human does not locate the power and the force of colonialism in the dehumanization of Egyptians and the transformation of Egypt into a colony of lawlessness. Rather, colonialism is here investigated as a constellation of secular modern powers aiming, first, to humanize Egyptians by declaring them subjects of the rule of law, and second, to reconfigure what it means to be human. 18 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellows, cont.

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Dr. Keith Eugene McNeal University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California (USA) Project Title: “Ecstasy in Exile: Spirits and Transculturation in the Southern Caribbean”

Abstract: Ecstasy in Exile: Spirits and Transculturation in the Southern Caribbean is a comparative historical ethnography of African and Hindu traditions of spirit medium- ship and popular religious culture in the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It analyzes the social histories and cultural dynamics of these religious traditions -- each respectively linked with African and Indian ethnicity in complex ways -- from the mid-19th through the turn of the 21st century. The book compares and contrasts the trajectories of these traditions in sociological and symbolic terms in order to better understand religious modernization and its interrelationship with racial and class hierarchies in a multi-ethnic, post-colonial context. It not only considers the many convergent similarities shared by these diasporic ritual tradi- tions, but also accounts for their very different political fates in the wake of decolonization and independ- ence. The book therefore examines contrasting colonial ideologies of racial subordination vis-à-vis Afri- cans and Indians and shows how these ideologies continue to influence the post-colonial politics of relig- ion. By considering Caribbean Hinduism along with an African-inspired tradition, Ecstasy in Exile ex- pands upon understandings of transculturation heretofore focused on the experience of Africans and African religions in the Americas and revises dominant theories of cultural hybridity and social change in the human sciences at-large.

Dr. Iain Robert MacLean Roffe Morley University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom Project Title: “The Evolutionary Origins and Archaeology of Music: Investigation into the Prehistory of Human Musical Capacities”

Abstract: This project consists of the revision and updating of my previous research (2000-2003) into The Evolutionary Origins and Archaeology of Music for publication as a book by Oxford University Press. This research represents a pioneering multi-disciplinary investigation into an area fundamental to human cognitive development, which is now a burgeoning area of interest across a wide variety of fields. It explores the nature and time of the development of the foundations of musical ability, selective reasons for these developments within the human lineage, links between the earliest language and musical abilities, and evolutionary rationales for human emotional response to music. The research combines evidence from the Palaeolithic fossil and archaeological record with findings from developmental and cognitive psychology, as well as primatalogical, musicological and ethnomusicological evidence, to build up a picture of the evolutionary relationships between the various capacities which underlie musical activities, and how such behaviours may have developed. Although a publishing contract has been secured, there has not been the opportunity to produce the book due to other full-time post-doctoral research commitments. A Wenner-Gren Fellowship will be invaluable in allowing me to revise and update this previous research for publication as a significant book by Oxford University Press.

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Dr. Istvan Praet University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Project Title: “Metamorphosis Among So-Called Indigenous Peoples: An Investigation into 'Animistic' Notions of Life and Death”

Abstract: There is an emerging consensus that notions of life and death of so-called animistic peoples have a great deal of highly specific features in common. Native equivalents of basic concepts such as 'human', 'animal' or 'ghost' denote positions rather than fixed categories. That is, they are not inherent characteristics but variable qualities which any entity can adopt, depending on the perspective. A remarkable aspect of such 'positional' frameworks is that they are closely associated with ideas about metamor- phosis. This study investigates that link both ethnographically and compara- tively. The starting point is my own ethnographic material on the Chachi, an Amerindian group in NW Ecuador. I look at how they classify the entities of the living world and at how they perceive the different manifestations of death, especially in relation to shamanism and ritual. Each of these themes is then placed in a wider comparative perspective, which reveals that conceptions of life and death in terms of metamorphosis are not only more widespread but also much more consistent than has been imagined so far. This approach also provides an opportunity to attune the theoretical frameworks of various regional anthropologies and thus sheds new light on con- temporary debates about animism. .

Dr. Jesse Weaver Shipley Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania (USA) Project Title: “Living and Preaching the Hiplife: Afro- Cosmopolitanism and Moral Mediation in Ghanaian Popu- lar Culture”

Abstract: This work explores how popular culture refracts political economic change in urban Ghana. Hiplife music combines hip hop sampling, scratching, and rap lyricism with older forms of highlife popular music, traditional story- telling, and political-proverbial oratory. Artists rap mostly in Ghanaian languages, though use English and pidgin as well. I argue that hiplife draws on the liberational aspects of Black Diasporic hip hop in espousing the possibilities of success for young Black men. An authoritative masculine subject emerges in this music’s Pan-Africanist sensibilities reorienting audiences and performers away from the state and towards the morality of the market. The mass-mediated circulation of Ghanaian hiplife music and styles provides a decentralized set of signs, practices, and performances through which Ghanaian publics reconfigure the complex relationships among state authority, Charismatic Christian ideologies, and dispersed, individu- ated modes of consumption characteristic of Ghana’s neoliberal state. This popular genre is perhaps the most popular public manifestation of the structural transformations wrought by the proliferation of private radio, television, advertising, and production media in the mid 1990s. Hiplife lyrics and bodily styles are often at the center of public daily moral struggles such as violence enacted against young women for wearing revealing clothes and youth’s hopes for success through international travel. These ethno- graphic tales focus on the urban and cyber movements of music in relation to national elections, sex, political corruption, and international travel. In the production, circulation, and reception of hiplife songs, lyrical artists become narrators of moral nationhood at home and abroad.

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Dr. Saskia Walentowitz University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland Project Title: “Feeding Dilemmas: Anthropological Perspectives on Re- production, Breastfeeding, and Science in Contexts of HIV”

Abstract: The book offers an anthropological perspective on feeding dilemmas encountered in contexts of HIV. Drawing from ethnographic data collected during two years of fieldwork conducted in a clinical trial in Nairobi, the study proposes a new theoretical framework to analyze breastfeeding as part of human reproduction.

Questioning the naturalistic foundations of anthropological field of repro- duction, it can address the cultural complexities of breastfeeding, devel- oping the concept of 'procreativity' by analogy to gender as distinct from sex. The concept of 'procreativity' presupposes that the “biological” and “social” dimensions of engendering a new human being are indivisible as regards “biological reproduction,” and refers to the social and cultural construction of reproduction, as implied by a gendered ethos of social reproduction. She further presents a grammar of recurrent percep- tions, such as “bad” versus “good” breastmilk, analyzing infant feeding experiences and knowledge with reference to cognitively constrained embodied social norms. Fluctuating breastfeeding perceptions and practices of HIV-infected mothers appear as possible adjustments to conflicting biomedical recommen- dations and infant feeding norms. The book offers new perspectives on anthropological key questions such as structure versus agency and gives critical insight into infant feeding policies in contexts of HIV.

Dr. Sera Lewise Young University of California, Berkeley, California (USA) Project Title: “Eating Dirt and Loving It: A Biocultural Study of Pica”

Abstract: For over 2300 years we have known that people eat dirt, on pur- pose. Earth and other non-food substances like starch, charcoal, and ice have been craved and eaten in nearly every culture: by pregnant women in Ancient Greece, by plantation slaves, by religious pilgrims and by thoroughly ashamed modern women, who only dare confess their desires anonymously in internet chat rooms. But why?

I plan to write a book that will be a comprehensive description of pica throughout history and around the world. I will evaluate the most plausible explanations that have been offered for this behavior, including hunger, mi- cronutrient deficiencies, protection from toxins and pathogens and cultural attitudes, in the context of critical ecological medical anthropological theory. Each of these hypotheses will be examined from the perspective of multiple information sources. This information comes from an extensive literature review (I have collected more than 2600 references about pica from early explorers, medieval physicians, midwifes, missionaries, anthropologists, slave owners, geographers, ethologists), epidemiological surveys (in Zanzibar, Tanzania n=3100 and the United States n=200), biochemical analyses of pica substances from around the world, and two ethnographic case studies.

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2008 Wadsworth African and International Fellows

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

Abstract: I am an anthropologist with an interest in spatial practice that stems from my background working and lecturing in architecture in Zambia. This experience opened my eyes to the ways in which spaces embody and reproduce social practices. On a Rhodes scholarship I pursued a masters of science in Material Anthropology from Oxford University supervised by Dr. Laura Peers where I explored the aesthetic experience of architects in post colonial Zambia; and in Development Practice from Oxford Brookes University supervised by Dr. Rod Burgess whose classes on ‘urbanization’ and ‘cities and violence’ made the links between space and political economic processes.

My research looks at former miner’s experience of space and livelihood on the Zambian Copperbelt when they lost their jobs after the privatization of the mines in 1997. I am supervised by Associate Professor Fiona Ross with whom I share a strong interest in the social construction of space. I chose the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town to pursue my studies for its focus on method and accommodation of applied anthropology that matches well my own research aims of explor- ing practical action in social processes. My plan is to establish a career in the anthropology of the built environment.

Mateuz Halawa Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland Project Title: To aid training in social-cultural anthropology at The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, supervised by Dr. Ann L. Stoler

Abstract: I graduated from Warsaw University in 2006 with an M.A. in sociology. My ethnographic research focused on everyday practices surrounding the use of TV in Polish families in Poland and in the Polish neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

In 2007 I started my studies in the Department of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research, first as a Fulbright grantee, and since 2008 as a Wadsworth Fellow. I was drawn to the department for its focus on theoretically rich and formally innovative modes of ethnographic research and writing. Thanks to the Wenner-Gren Foundation's Wadsworth International Fellowship I am able to pursue my interest in exploring ethnographically the recent political and cultural transformations in Central and Eastern Europe. My planned research will focus on post-socialism and phenomena of "enduring socialism" such as connections between Poland and Vietnam.

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Iza Kavedzija University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Project Title: To aid training in social-cultural anthropology at U. of Oxford, Oxford, UK, supervised by Dr. Inge Daniels

Abstract: The doctoral project upon which I embarked in September 2008 focuses on changing conceptions of ‘the good life’ in Japan. These concep- tions, which embody an individual's most personal wishes concerning the ideal way of living, but are at the same time not immune to social influence, are likely to be reflected in the notion of an 'ideal home'. This will serve as the focal point for my field research, which I hope to commence in September 2009 in an urban setting near Osaka.

My background in sociology and anthropology converged with my longstanding interest in Japan during an intense but fruitful MSc course in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford in 2006/7. I subsequently worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Sociology in my home town of Zagreb, before returning to Oxford. The Japanese Studies community here, together with the large and varied anthropological community, provides a stimulating environment for my field of study. My academic interests include urban anthropology; the study of global narratives of human rights and modernization; personhood; happiness, ideals of home and the ‘good life’ in Japan and South Eastern Europe.

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

Abstract: My NGO background in international development and the various ethnographic studies I carried out have helped me to develop a unique per- spective about issues related to youth, globalization, migration and human rights. Since I started my anthropological academic journey in the US, I con- ducted a number of ethnographic research studies such as a mini- ethnography in Little Ethiopia in Los Angeles, which focused on the cultural adaptation strategies of the Ethiopian diasporic community. I also carried out a study at the UMMA Muslim Clinic in South Central Los Angeles and exam- ined the socio-economic, ethnic and religious factors impeding health care delivery in the community. In addition, I carried out my MA thesis research on the issue of clandestine migration from Tunisia to Italy, during which I spent nine months conducting ethnographic fieldwork in the most depressed township on the outskirts of Tunis: Hay Ettadhamen. In this research, I employed a qualitative design and examined the micro-level motivations towards migration to Italy analyzing the impact of globalization, social net- works, and media on shaping these clandestine migratory movements. For my doctoral research, I plan to examine those issues and specifically explore the different ways in which clandestine migration and human rights intersect by examining the human rights situation of the North African diaspora in Italy.

My interest is based on the fact that clandestine migrants are the ones who run the highest risk of ex- ploitation and have the most limited means of seeking redress. Without doubt, the internationally re- nowned UCLA Anthropology program will provide me with the theoretical foundation and the training necessary to address my research interests, as well as help me to pursue a successful career in the field of anthropology in Tunisia.

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

I studied for my undergraduate degree in archaeology at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG) in Guatemala City. This program focuses on Mesoamerican studies with a strong emphasis in Maya archaeology. At UVG I had the opportunity to build rapport with the network of Guatemalan archaeologists as well as to obtain first hand experience in the field. During my training at UVG I collaborated with different archaeological research projects at several Maya sites throughout the country.

My main interest is focused in studying the emergence of social differentiation and monumentality with special attention to the Formative period in Mesoamerica. I am interested in researching this topic in the highlands of Guatemala. I am also interested in understanding present day issues regarding the archaeological practice in relation to cultural resource management and indigenous rights.

I chose the University of Florida as my host institution because their anthropology program is well rounded in the four fields and has faculty members who work in Mesoamerica and have similar research interests as mine. This program offers a balanced training combining theoretical courses with applied courses and is flexible enough to allow interdisciplinary studies with other departments such as geography, geology, and the Center for Latin American Studies.

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

Abstract: My PhD research project is on Early Upper Paleolithic lithic industry variation of Iran and in particular Central Zagros. I am interested to the evolution of human behavior particularly by examination of the changes in lithic artifacts technology and typology.

In 1997, archaeology was my first choice when I applied at Abhar University in Iran. During the course of my Masters also in archaeology and prehistory, I be- gan my work in Center for Paleolithic Research at National Museum of Iran which was the beginning of my real research interest. My first hand experience was re-analysis of old lithic collections at the museum which lead me to a better understanding of lithic analysis. This studies followed by field surveys and excavations conducted by the center and more re- cently by joint Iranian-foreign missions. I've chosen the Institute of Prehistory and Quaternary Geology of the University of Bordeaux 1, because of its established reputation for delivering high quality under- graduate and postgraduate taught courses across a broad range of Paleoanthropology and Paleolithic archaeology and currently involved in various international research programs of which one is running in Iran and Also considering its long history of research and teaching in this field, and my first hand field experience with researchers from this university in Iran.

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Diana Bocarejo Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia, Bogota, Colombia Project Title: To aid training in anthropology at U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL, supervised by Dr. Claudio Lomnitz

Duration: Diana Bocarejo received Foundation support over three years of training (July 2002 to May 2005), dissertation research (July 2005 to September 2006), and one year of dissertation write- up (March 2007 – March 2008).

Diana Bocarejo finished her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2008. Her areas of study were legal and political anthropology and cultural spatial studies. She is currently working on a book that focuses on the relationship between political arrangements and "space" in Colombia, following specific cases that deal with the territorial struggles between grantees of minority rights and non recognized communities, the access of urban ethnic groups to legal multiculturalism, the spatial contests of indigenous evangelical minorities and the legal jurisprudence regarding the connection between ethnicity and space. She plans to publish her book both in English and Spanish. Diana is working as a Professor in Bogotá at the Universidad del Rosario and she is planning to start a new research on the relevance of National Parks for understanding citizenship and state making practices in contemporary Colombia. She also wants to apply to a postdoc to be able to concentrate on writing and then she plans to continue teaching and doing research in and on Colombia.

Gang Hu Institute of Wildlife, Southwest Forestry, Kunming, P.R. China Project Title: To aid study in social ecology at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, supervised by Dr. Colin P. Groves

Duration: Supported by the Foundation for three years of training and one year of dissertation write-up (April 2003 to March 2008).

I was awarded my degree at Australian National University, and then returned to China. I still focus on behavioral ecology of primates, especially the langurs in South China.

With funding from the Columbus Zoo, PCI and China National Scientific Fund, I launched a project aiming to quantify intraspecific behavioral variation of François’ langur and the correlations between behavioral traits and ecological variables through ecological comparison within and between sites. Expected findings will have implication for an evolutionary understanding of ecological and phylogenetic constraints on behavior, as it controls phylogenetic differences and determines the parameters responsible for the behavioral differences. Findings will also have specific indications for understanding of intra- and inter-group resource competition, territoriality and social organization of this species, and testing of the generality of the ecological-constrains model, and for conservation purposes. Behavioral adaption and evolution of capped and Phayre’s langur will be taken into following proposal.

China Central Television and the ANU made a documentary titled “Black Phantoms: The Survival of Wild François’ Langur” -- a video recording of my fieldwork and the main findings of my PhD study. In 2008, it was awarded a Silver Medal by China Natural Administration of Broadcasting & Television, and was ranked “Top-Five Documentary of Primatological Documentary Competition” by IPS.

25 2008 Annual Report Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

Grantee Project Title Institutional Affiliation Angelini, Alessandro Angelini, Alessandro Massimo, City U. of New York - New York, Graduate Center, Massimo Graduate Center, New York, NY - To aid research on 'The City U. of Production of Urban 'Knowledges': The Favelas of Rio de Janeiro as Sites of Intervention,' supervised by Dr. David William Harvey Aulino, Felicity Aulino, Felicity, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA - To aid Harvard U. research on 'Transforming Death, Transforming Society: Palliative Caregiving Networks in Thailand,' supervised by Dr. Byron J. Good

Baird, Melissa Florence Baird, Melissa Florence, U. of Oregon, Eugene, OR - To aid Oregon, U. of research on 'The Politics of Place: UNESCO, Heritage Discourse and the Epistemologies of Cultural Landscapes,' supervised by Dr. Madonna L. Moss Bloomston, Bethany Bloomston, Bethany Rochelle, Syracuse U., Syracuse, NY - Syracuse U. Rochelle To aid research on 'Uneven Mobilization: Gender, Land, and Social Movements in Maranhao, Brazil,' supervised by Dr. John S. Burdick

Boyle, Michael James Boyle, Michael James, City U. of New York - Graduate New York, Graduate Center, Center - To aid research on 'Declining City, Born-Again City U. of Citadel: The Evangelical Reconstitution of Urban Life in Postindustrial America,' supervised by Dr. Donald Keith Robotham Bridges, Elizabeth Jane Bridges, Elizabeth Jane, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - To Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of aid research on 'Regional Political Authority Under the Vijayanagara Empire: Archaeology of the Keladi-Ikkeri Nayakas,' supervised by Dr. Carla M. Sinopoli Brinkworth, Jessica F. Brinkworth, Jessica F., City U. of New York - Graduate New York, Graduate Center, Center, New York, NY - To aid research on 'The Evolution of City U. of the Human Immune System: Landscape Specific Pathogen Exposure and Human AIDS,' supervised by Dr. Ekaterina Pechenkina Buchbinder, Mara Buchbinder, Mara Helene, U. of California, Los Angeles, CA California, Los Angeles, U. of Helene - To aid research on 'Communication and Subjectivity among Adolescent Chronic Pain Sufferers in Los Angeles,' supervised by Dr. Elinor Ruth Ochs Cardenas Gonzalez, Cardenas Gonzalez, Roosbelinda, U. of California, Santa California, Santa Cruz, U. of Roosbelinda Cruz, CA - To aid research on 'Remaking the Black Pacific: Place, Race, and Afrocolombian Territoriality,' supervised by Dr. Mark David Anderson Carruth, Lauren Carruth, Lauren Elizabeth, U. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - To aid Arizona, U. of Elizabeth research on 'Bad Medicine: Risk, Rumor, and Humanitarian Relief in the Shinile Zone of Ethiopia,' superivsed by Dr. Mark A. Nichter Carvalho, Susana C. Carvalho, Susana Claudio Ribeiro Marques de, U. of Cambridge, U. of Ribeiro Marques de Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom - To aid research on 'Chimpanzee Archaeology: Seeking the Evolutionary Origins of Technology,' supervised by Dr. William Clement McGrew

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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Cato, Jason William Cato, Jason William, U. of Texas, Austin, TX - To aid Texas, Austin, U. of research on 'Rethinking Militarization: An Ethnography of Social Governance on the US-Mexico Boundary,' supervised by Dr. Shannon E. Speed

Cesario, Christa Dawn Cesario, Christa Dawn, U. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Pennsylvania, U. of - To aid research on 'The Politics of Socially Engaged Archaeology,' supervised by Dr. Jeremy A. Sabloff

Chance, Kerry Ryan Chance, Kerry Ryan, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To aid Chicago, U. of research on 'Living Politics: New Practices and Protests of the 'Poor' in Democratic South Africa,' supervised by Dr. John L. Comaroff

D'Avella, Nicholas John D'Avella, Nicholas John, U. of California, Davis, CA - To aid California, Davis, U. of research on 'From Banks to Bricks: Architecture, Finance, and Neighborhood Life in Buenos Aires, Argentina,' supervised by Dr. Donald L. Donham Day, John William Day, John William, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA - To aid Harvard U. research on 'Peace through Prosperity: Capital Investment, Entrepreneurship, and the 'Kurdish Problem' in Southeastern Turkey,' supervised by Dr. Steven Charles Caton

Delezene, Lucas Kyle Delezene, Lucas Kyle, Arizona State U., Tempe, AZ - To aid Arizona State U. research on 'Coevolutionary Models and the Hominin Canine Honing Complex,' supervised by Dr. William H. Kimbel

Di Giminiani, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, Piergiorgio, U. College London, London, United College London, U. Kingdom - To aid research on 'The Struggle of the People of the Land: Collective Action and Shifting Boundaries among the Mapuche of Southern Chile,' supervised by Dr. Mukulika Banerjee Dorval, Arianne Dorval, Arianne, Duke U., Durham, NC - To aid research on Duke U. ''Marseilles, Door to the Souths': The Politics of Métissage at the Border of the Nation,' supervised by Dr. Charles D. Piot

Drah, Bright Bensah Drah, Bright Bensah, U. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada - To Toronto, U. of aid research on 'Crisis Fostering in an Age of HIV/AIDS: Experiences of Queen Mothers of Manya Krobo, Ghana,' supervised by Dr. Daniel W. Sellen

Eaves-Johnson, K. Eaves-Johnson, K. Lindsay, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA - To aid Iowa, U. of Lindsay research on 'A Spirometric and Geo-Morphometric Baseline for the Study of Thoracic Patterning in Fossil Homo,' supervised by Dr. Robert Gary Franciscus

Ebbitt, Alicia Beth Ebbitt, Alicia Beth, Indiana U., Bloomington, IN - To aid Indiana U., Bloomington research on 'Students, Teachers, and Community Leaders Negotiating National and Local Heritage Idealogies in Belize,' supervised by Dr. Bradley Levinson

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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Embuldeniya, Gayathri Embuldeniya, Gayathri Eugenie, U. of California, Santa Bar- California, Santa Barbara, U. of Eugenie bara, CA - To aid research on 'Producing the Homeland from Elsewhere: The Changing Place-making Practices of Sri Lankan Tamils in Toronto,' supervised by Dr. Mary Elizabeth Hancock Fedorenko, Olga Fedorenko, Olga, U. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada - To aid Toronto, U. of research on 'Ethico-Politics of Advertising: Analyzing Dis- courses and Practices of Ethical Advertising in Neoliberal- ized South Korea,' supervised by Dr. Andre Schmid

Firat, Bilge Firat, Bilge, State U. of New York, Binghamton, NY - To aid New York, Binghamton, State research on 'The Negotiation of Turkish Europeanization in U. of Brussels,' supervised by Dr. Thomas M. Wilson

Fisher, Jacob Levi Fisher, Jacob Levi, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA - To aid Washington, U. of research on 'Costly Signaling in the Archaeological Record: A Case Study in Western North America,' supervised by Dr. Donald K. Grayson Folch, Christine Folch, Christine, City U. of New York - Graduate Center, New New York, Hunter College, City York, NY - To aid research on 'Territory Matters in the Triple U. of Frontera: Geographic Imaginary, Identity, and the Para- guayan State,' supervised by Dr. Marc Edelman

Genina, Anna Genina, Anna, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - To aid re- Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of search on 'Mongolian-Kazakh Returnees: Repatriation, Citi- zenship, and National Belonging in Kazakhstan,' supervised by Dr. Alaina Maria Lemon

Girard, William Maurice Girard, William Maurice, U. of California, Santa Cruz, CA - To California, Santa Cruz, U. of aid research on 'Speaking in Modern Tongues: Evangelical Christianity, Development, and Indigeneity in Copán Ruinas, Honduras,' supervised by Dr. Susan F. Harding

Girard-Buttoz, Cedric Girard- Buttoz, Cedric, German Primate Centre, Goettingen, German Primate Cent. Germany - To aid research on 'Costs of Mate-Guarding in Wild Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis),' super- vised by Dr. Antje Engelhardt

Goncalves, Euclides Goncalves, Euclides Filipe, U. of the Witwatersrand, Johan- Witwatersrand, U. of Filipe nesburg, South Africa - To aid research on 'Sovereignty and the Politics of Representation in Inharrime District, Mozam- bique,' supervised by Dr. Eric W. Worby

Goodwin, Marc Andrew Goodwin, Marc Andrew, U. of California, Berkeley, CA - To California, Berkeley, U. of aid research on 'A Comparative Ethnographic Inquiry into Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in the United States,' supervised by Dr. Lawrence Marc Cohen

Green, David Joel Green, David Joel, George Washington U., Washington, DC George Washington U. - To aid research on 'Shoulder Functional Anatomy and De- velopment - Implications for Interpreting Early Hominin Loco- motion,' supervised by Dr. Brian Garth Richmond

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Grillo, Katherine Mary Grillo, Katherine Mary, Washington U., St. Louis, MO - To aid Washington U., St. Louis research on 'Containing Life: Perspectives on Pastoralist Pottery in East Africa,' supervised by Dr. Fiona B. Marshall

Haradon, Catherine Haradon, Catherine Marie, George Washington U., George Washington U. Marie Washington, DC - To aid research on 'Environmental and Faunal Context of the Acheulean to MSA Transition in Africa,' supervised by Dr. Richard Potts

Harding, Katherine Harding, Katherine Bundy, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY - To aid Cornell U. Bundy research on 'Redemptive Narratives and the (In)Coherence of Violence: Retelling War in Post-Conflict Nepal,' supervised by Dr. David Holmberg

Haro, Angelia Haro, Angelia, Duke U., Durham, NC - To aid research on Duke U. 'Developing Utopias: An Ethnography of Millennium Villages,' supervised by Dr. Charlie Plot

Harris, Lucille Elizabeth Harris, Lucille Elizabeth, U. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada - To Toronto, U. of aid research on 'Cultural Collapse and Reorganization on the Northern Plateau: A Social - Ecological Approach' supervised by Dr. Gary G. Coupland

Hartikainen, Elina Inkeri Hartikainen, Elina Inkeri, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To aid Chicago, U. of research on 'From the Public Sphere to Spirit Speech: Negotiating Discourses of Africanness in Brazilian Candomblé,' supervised by Dr. Michael Silverstein

Hartley, Charles Wilbur Hartley, Charles Wilbur, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To aid Chicago, U. of research on 'Crafting the State: Community, Pottery, and Political Culture in the Luoyang Basin, North China, 3000- 1500 BCE,' supervised by Dr. Adam T. Smith

Hazel, Mary-Ashley Hazel, Mary-Ashley, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - To aid Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of research on 'Sexually Transmitted Disease, Ecology, and Reproduction among the Tjimba/Himba: A Pastoral Community in Transition,' supervised by Dr. Bobbi Stiers Low

Henry, Amanda Henry, Amanda Georganna, George Washington U., George Washington U. Georganna Washington, DC - To aid research on 'Plant Diet and the Ecology of Neanderthals and Modern Humans,' supervised by Dr. Alison S. Brooks

Hickel, Jason Edward Hickel, Jason Edward, U. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA - To Virginia, U. of aid research on 'Producing Citizens: Migrant Labor, Trade Unions, and the Making of Political Subjectivity in South Africa,' supervised by Dr. Ira Bashkow

Hillewaert, Sarah Hillewaert, Sarah Marleen, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of Marleen To aid research on 'Language, Space, and Identity: Linguistic Practices among Youth in Lamu, Kenya,' supervised by Dr. Judith T. Irvine

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Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Hinegardner, Livia Hinegardner, Livia Katherine, Washington U., St. Louis, MO - Washington U., St. Louis Katherine To aid research on 'Grassroots Video in Mexico City: Developing Counterpublics, Producing Citizenship,' supervised by Dr. Bret D. Gustafson

Horne, Brian Arthur Horne, Brian Arthur, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To aid Chicago, U. of research on ''Save Our Souls': Russian Bards and the Sound of State Transformation,' supervised by Dr. Susan Gal

Horner Brackett, Rachel Horner Brackett, Rachel Anne, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA - To Iowa, U. of Anne aid research on ''Eat it to Save it': Risk and the Slow Food Movement,' supervised by Dr. Erica Stephanie Prussing

Hundle, Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Anneeth Kaur, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - To Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of aid research on 'Uganda's Asian Question: Violence, Gender, and Citizenship Struggles in Kampala,' supervised by Dr. Damani J. Patridge Ibrahim, Amrita Ibrahim, Amrita, Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore, MD - To aid Johns Hopkins U. research on ''Truth on Our Lips, India in Our Hearts' Television News and Affective Publics in Delhi,' supervised by Dr. Veena Das

Ibrahim, Nur Amali Ibrahim, Nur Amali, New York U., New York, NY - To aid New York U. research on 'Producing Believers, Contesting Islam: Conservative and Liberal Youths in Post-New Order Indonesia,' supervised by Dr. Michael Gilsenan

Jordan, Michael Paul Jordan, Michael Paul, U. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK - To aid Oklahoma, U of research on 'Descendants' Organizations and Cultural Heritage in Kiowa Society,' supervised by Dr. Daniel Charles Swan

Kang, Byungchu Dredge Kang, Byungchu Dredge, Emory U., Atlanta, GA - To aid Emory U. research on 'Reorientations: Asian Regionalism, Class Distinction, and Male Same-Sex Desire in Thailand,' supervised by Dr. Peter John Brown

Kanne, Katherine Kanne, Katherine Stevens, Northwestern U., Evanston, IL - Northwestern U. Stevens To aid research on 'Pivotal Ponies: Horses in the Development of Emergent Political Institutions of Bronze Age Hungary,' supervised by Dr. Timothy K. Earle

Karunanithy, Jeyanithe Arumugam Karunithy, Jeyanithe, U. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U. of Arumugam Edinburgh, United Kingdom - To aid research on 'Violence, Trauma, and the Transformation of Personhood/Identity: Sri Lankan Tamils Making Refugee Claims in Canada,'

Kennedy, Jack Lyle Kennedy, Jack Lyle Cedric, U. of Western Ontario, London, Western Ontario, U. of Cedric Canada - To aid research on 'In the Shadows of Frieda: Place-Making, Mining, Marginality, and Identity in Rural Papua New Guinea,' supervised by Dr. Dan William

30 2008 Annual Report Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Killgrove, Kristina Killgrove, Kristina, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC - To North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U. aid research on 'Transnational Immigrants and Polyethnic of Communities in Imperial Rome (2nd-3rd Century AD),' supervised by Dr. Dale Lee Hutchinson

Kim, Dong Ju Kim, Dong Ju, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - To aid Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of research on ''True Modern Scientific Agriculture': Interactive Knowledge of Soil Nutrients among Farmers and Scientists in Post-Socialist Poland,' supervised by Dr. Gillian Feeley- Harnik Kim, Jaeeun Kim, Jaeeun, U. of California, Los Angeles, CA - To aid California, Los Angeles, U. of research on 'Transborder National Membership Politics in Korea,' supervised by Dr. Rogers Brubaker

Kivland, Chelsey Louise Kivland, Chelsey Louise, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To aid Chicago, U. of research on 'Of Bands and Soldiers: Performance, Sovereignty, and Violence in Contemporary Haiti,' supervised by Dr. Stephan Palmie

Kocer, Suncem Kocer, Suncem, Indiana U., Bloomington, IN - To aid Indiana U., Bloomington research on 'Culture, Media, Transnational Politics: Kurdish Documentary Film Production in Turkey,' supervised by Dr. Jane E. Goodman

Leighton, Mary Theresa Leighton, Mary Theresa Frances, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL Chicago, U. of Frances - To aid research on 'Making Authoritative Knowledge in the Field: The Epistemic Culture of South American Archaeological Research Projects,' supervised by Dr. Shannon L. Dawdy Li, Darryl Chi-Yee Li, Darryl Chi-Yee, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA - To aid Harvard U. research on 'Another Universalism? Transnational Islamist Movements and Bosnia-Herzegovina,' supervised by Dr. Engseng Ho

Love, Mark William Love, Mark William, U. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia - Queensland, U. of To aid research on 'Ways of Knowing, Using, and Governing Maritime Change in Vanuatu and Solomon Islands,' supervised by Dr. Wolfram H. Dressler

MacCarthy, Michelle MacCarthy, Michelle Dawn, U. of Auckland, Auckland, New Auckland U. Dawn Zealand - To aid research on 'Contextualizing Authenticity: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands,' supervised by Dr. Mark William Busse

Mahadev, Neena Mahadev, Neena, Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore, MD - To aid Johns Hopkins U. research on 'Buddhist and Christian Ethical Endeavors: Charitable Works, Conversions, and Unstable Religious Commitments in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka,' supervised by Dr. Veena Das Mangal, Simone Alicia Mangal, Simone Alicia, U. College London, London, United College London, U. Kingdom - To aid research on 'Aluminium: The Social and Environmental Value of Commodities,' supervised by Dr. Daniel Miller 31 2008 Annual Report Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

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Mason, Katherine Anne Mason, Katherine Anne, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA - To aid Harvard U. research on 'After SARS: An Ethnography of Public Health Campaigns in South China,' supervised by Dr. Arthur Kleinman

McConnachie, Kirsten McConnachie, Kirsten, Queen's U., Belfast, UK - To aid Queen's U., Belfast research on 'Governing Exiles: Competing Sites of Law, Justice, and Memory in a Karen Refugee Camp,' supervised by Dr. Kieran McEvoy

Meari, Lena Mhammad Meari, Lena Mhammad, U. of California, Davis, CA - To aid California, Davis, U. of research on 'Interrogating 'Painful' Encounters: The Interrogation-Encounter between Palestinian Political Activists and the Shabak,' supervised by Dr. Suad Joseph

Melin, Amanda Dawn Melin, Amanda Dawn, U. of Calgary,Calgary, Canada - To Calgary, U. of aid research on 'Evaluating the Importance of Colour Vision for Target Detection in Human Observers,' supervised by Dr. Linda Mary Fedigan Michelet, Aude Pierrette Michelet, Aude Pierrette Pascale, London School of London School of Economics Pascale Economics, London, United Kingdom - To aid research on 'Learning Kinship in Huld (Mongolia),' supervised by Dr. Rita Astuti

Mikdashi, Maya Mikdashi, Maya, Columbia U., New York, NY - To aid Columbia U. research on 'Conversion, the Politics of Secularism, and the Personal Status System in Lebanon,' supervised by Dr. Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Moinde-Fockler, Nancy Moinde-Fockler, Nancy Nthenya, Rutgers U., New Rutgers U. Nthenya Brunswick, NJ - To aid research on 'Effects of Land Use Practices on the Socioecology of Olive Baboons,' supervised by Dr. Ryne Arthur Palombit

Montague, Michael Montague, Michael James, New York U., New York, NY - To New York U. James aid 'A Genetic Study of the Color Vision Polymorphism in Wild Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri sciureus),' supervised by Dr. Anthony Francis Di Fiore

Motta, Rossio Motta, Rossio, U. of California, Davis, CA - To aid research California, Davis, U. of on 'Psychiatric Technology Under Neo-Liberal Restructuring: The Use of Electroconvulsive Therapy and Psychotropic Drugs in Peruvian Hospitals,' supervised by Dr. Marisol de la Cadena Nave, Carmen Asha Nave, Carmen Asha, U. of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada - Toronto, U. of To aid research on 'Kinship and the State in Ghana,' supervised by Dr. Sandra Carol Bamford

Nickrenz, Elizabeth Nickrenz, Elizabeth Hadley, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To Chicago, U. of Hadley aid research on 'Drawing the Autism Spectrum: A Multi- Method Ethnography of Neurodiversity in North America,' supervised by Dr. Richard Paul Taub

32 2008 Annual Report Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

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O'Brien, Aoife Sara O'Brien, Aoife Sara, U. of East Anglia, Norfolk, UK - To aid East Anglia, U. of research on 'Colonial Collections, Indigenous Experiences: Exploring Social Transformations in the Solomon Islands through Museum Collections, 1896-1914,' supervised by Dr. Steven J. P. Hooper Park, Seo Young Park, Seo Young, U. of California, Irvine, CA - To aid California, Irvine, U. of research on 'Making Time in the 24-hour City: Gender, Labor, and Experiment in Seoul's Dongdaemun Market,' supervise by Dr. William Michael Maurer

Pav, Brent Ryan Pav, Brent Ryan, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - To aid Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of research on 'Social Relationships and Gestural Communication in Wild Chimpanzees,' supervised by Dr. John C. Mitani

Pellegrino, Manuela Pellegrino, Manuela, U. College London, London, United College London, U. Kingdom - To aid research on 'Language Policy and Ideology: The Case of Griko,' supervised by Dr. Charles W. Stewart Piel, Alex Kenneth Piel, Alex Kenneth, U. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA Pennsylvania State U. - To aid research on 'Localizing Long Calls: Applied Acoustics to Understand Savanna Chimpanzee Sociality in Ugalla, Tanzania,' supervised by Dr. James J. Moore

Piliavsky, Anastasia Piliavsky, Anastasia, U. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford U. To aid research on 'Crooked Circles: 'Criminal Castes,' Vernacular Governance and the State in Rural North India,' supervised by Dr. David Nicholas Gellner

Porter, Natalie Hannah Porter, Natalie Hannah, U. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - To Wisconsin, Madison, U. of aid research on 'Threatening Lives: Controlling Avian Flu in Vietnam's Poultry Economy,' supervised by Dr. Katherine Ann Bowie

Posecznick, Alex Posecznick, Alex, Columbia U., New York, NY - To aid Columbia U. research on 'Recruiting Through Open Doors: On the (Im-) Possibility of College Admission in America,' supervised by Dr. Herve Varenne

Quest, Mary Nell Quest, Mary Nell, Rutgers U., New Brunswick, NJ - To aid Rutgers U. research on 'Renewing the Port, Rethinking Space: Experiences of Urban Renewal in Marseille,' supervised by Dr. Frances E. Mascia-Lees

Rakopoulos, Theodoros Rakopoulos, Theodoros, U. of London, London, United London, U. of Kingdom - To aid research on 'Anti-Mafia Livelihoods: Work and Social Change in Sicilian Agrarian Cooperatives,' supervised by Dr. Victoria Goddard

Raviele, Maria Elena Raviele, Maria Elena, Michigan State U., East Lansing, MI - Michigan State U. To aid research on 'Evaluation of Maize Phytolith Taphonomy and Density Through Experimental and Archaeological Residue Analysis,' supervised by Dr. William A. Lovis 33 2008 Annual Report Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

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Regnier, Denis Andre Regnier, Denis Andre Patrick, London School of Economics, London School of Economics Patrick London, United Kingdom - To aid research on 'Social Organization, Identity and Consciousness among Betsileo Slave Descendants, Highland Madagascar,' supervised by

Reiser, Christine Nicole Reiser, Christine Nicole, Brown U., Providence, RI - To aid Brown U. research on 'Rooted in Movement: Community Keeping and Spatial Practices in Native New England,' supervised by Dr. Patricia E. Rubertone

Rodriguez, Lydia Rodriguez, Lydia, U. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA - To aid Virginia, U. of research on 'Thinking Gesture: The Dialectics of Language, Gesture, and Thought in Chol Maya,' supervised by Dr. Eve Danziger

Roosth, Hannah Sophia Roosth, Hannah Sophia, Massachusetts Institute of Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA - To aid research on 'Crafting Technology Life: A Sensory Ethnography of Fabricated Biologies,' supervised by Dr. Stefan Helmreich Rottmann, Susan Beth Rottmann, Susan Beth, U. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - To Wisconsin, Madison, U. of aid research on 'The Predicaments of Reciprocity at 'Home' for German-Turkish Return Migrants,' supervised by Dr. Kenneth Martin George

Rowe, Elizabeth Jane Rowe, Elizabeth Jane, Temple U., Philadelphia, PA - To aid Temple U. research on 'The Role of the Progesterone Receptor in the Menstrual Cycle,' supervised by Dr. L. Christie Rockwell

Rozental, Sandra C. Rozental, Sandra C., New York U., New York, NY - To aid New York U. research on 'Mobilizing the Monolith: Property, Collectivity, and Vernacular Archaeology in Contemporary Mexico,' supervised by Dr. Thomas A. Abercrombie

Samet, Robert Nathan Samet, Robert Nathan, Stanford U., Stanford, CA - To aid Stanford U. research on 'Writing Crime: Journalism, Insecurity, and Narratives of Violence in Caracas, Venezuela,' supervised by Dr. Sylvia Junko Yanagisako

Sauer, Jacob James Sauer, Jacob James, Vanderbilt U., Nashville, TN - To aid Vanderbilt U. research on 'The Creation of Araucanian Anti-Colonial Identity During the Contact Period, AD 1552-1602,' supervised by Dr. Thomas Dalton Dillehay

Scarry, Clara JoAnn Scarry, Clara JoAnn, Stony Brooke U., Stony Brook, NY - To Montana, U. of aid research on 'Functions and Consequences of Intergroup Aggression in Argentine Tufted Capuchins,' supervised by Dr. Andres Koening

Scott, Jeremiah Ezekiel Scott, Jeremiah Ezekiel, Arizona State U., Tempe, AZ - To Arizona State U. aid research on 'Nonsocial Influences on Canine Size in Anthropoid Primates,' supervised by Dr. William H. Kimbel

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Shimmin, Jessica Ann Shimmin, Jessica Ann, New York U., New York, NY - To aid New York U. research on 'A Safe Place: Gender, Safety, and Place Mak- ing in a Shelter for Battered Women,' supervised by Dr. Bambi B. Schieffelin

Skjon, Erik Lee Skjon, Erik Lee, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To aid research Chicago, U. of on 'The Lingual-Cultural Region: Its Figures and Grounds in Three Makhuwa Networks,' supervised by Dr. Michael Silverstein

Sokol, Grzegorz Sokol, Grzegorz Stanislaw, New School for Social Research, New School U. Stanislaw New York, NY - To aid research on 'The Medicalization of Affect in Post-Socialist Poland,' supervised by Dr. Anne L. Stoler

Solomon, Daniel Allen Solomon, Daniel Allen, U. of California, Santa Cruz, CA - To California, Santa Cruz, U. of aid research on 'Coexistence and Conflict: Associative Tech- niques of Humans and Rhesus Macaques in Northern India,' supervised by Dr. Susan Friend Harding Solomon, Harris Scott Solomon, Harris Scott, Brown U., Providence, RI - To aid Brown U. research on 'Diagnosing India: Food, the Body, and the Healthy Economy in Mumbai,' supervised by Dr. Catherine Lutz

Stankiewicz, Damien Stankiewicz, Damien Edam, New York U., New York, NY- To New York U. Edam aid research on 'The Negotiation of National and Trans- National Identities at the European Television Station 'ARTE',' supervised by Dr. Susan Carol Rogers

Starzmann, Maria Starzmann, Maria Theresia, State U. of New York, Bingham- New York, Binghamton, State Theresia ton, NY - To aid research on 'Embodied Knowledge and U. of Community Practice: Stone Tool Production at FistiKi Höyük,' supervised by Dr. Reinhard W. Bernbeck

Strayer, Chelsea Shields Strayer, Chelsea Shields, Boston U., Boston, MA - To aid Boston U. research on 'Psycho Prophylaxis Applied: Education, Relaxa- tion, and Self-Regulation in Asante Indigenous Healing,' supervised by Dr. James Pritchett

Su, Anne Su, Anne, Stony Brook U., New York, NY - To aid research New York, Stony Brook, State on 'The Functional Morphology of Subchondral and Trabecu- U. of lar Bone in the Hominid Hindfoot,' supervised by Dr. Brigitte Demes

Suarez, Rafael Suarez, Rafael, U. of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina - To La Plata, National U. of aid research on 'Paleoindian Adaptations at the Subtropical Landscape During Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Uru- guay,' supervised by Dr. Laura L. Miotti

Tabor, Nathan Lee Tabor, Nathan Lee Marsh, U. of Texas, Austin, TX - To aid Texas, Austin, U. of Marsh research on 'The Politics and Patronage of Urdu Poetry in the Contemporary Indian Public Sphere,' supervised by Dr. Kamran Asdar Ali

35 2008 Annual Report Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

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Tchoudakova, Tatiana Tchoudakova, Tatiana, U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL - To aid Chicago, U. of research on 'The Institutionalization of Tibetan Medicine in Post-Soviet Buryatia,' supervised by Dr. Judith Brooke Far- quhar

Thorner, Sabra Gayle Thorner, Sabra Gayle, New York U., New York, NY - To aid New York U. research on 'Indigenizing Photography: Archives, Activism, and New Visual Media in Contemporary Australia,' super- vised by Dr. Fred R. Myers

Tilche, Alice Tilche, Alice, U. of London, London, United Kingdom - To aid London, U. of research on 'Broken Frames? Adivasi Museums, Represen- tation and Marginality in Contemporary India,' supervised by Dr. David Mosse

Tzib, Fernando Maximino Tzib, Fernando Maximino, U. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - To Wisconsin, Madison, U. of aid research on 'Land Tenure Discourses and Mayan Identity in Belize,' supervised by Dr. Frank Salomon

Van Hoose, Matthew Van Hoose, Matthew Joseph, Indiana U., Bloomington, IN - Indiana U., Bloomington Joseph To aid research on 'Becoming Tropical: The Improbable So- cial Life of Cumbia Music In Uruguay,' supervised by Dr. John H. McDowell

Vento, Melanie Vento, Melanie, Northwestern U., Evanston, IL - To aid re- Northwestern U. search on 'Evolutionary Perspectives on the Emergence of Chronic Metabolic Diseases in an Amazonian Bolivian Popu- lation,' supervised by Dr. William R. Leonard

Weckesser, Annalise Weckesser, Annalise, U. of Warwick, Coventry, United King- Warwick, U. of dom - To aid research on ''Modalities of Care' and the AIDS Epidemic: An Ethnography of Mozambican and South Afri- can Households,' supervised by Dr. Gillian Lewando Hundt

Weiss, Erica Weiss, Erica, Princeton U., Princeton, NJ - To aid research Princeton U. on 'The Social Life of Conscience: The Case of Israeli Re- fuseniks,' supervised by Dr. Abdellah Hammoudi

Welton, Megan Lynn Welton, Megan Lynn, U. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada - To Toronto, U. of aid research on 'Mobility and Social Organization in Early Bronze Age Anatolia: Isotopic Analysis of Remains from Ikiztepe,' supervised by Dr. Timothy P. Harrison

Wilson, Jeremy John Wilson, Jeremy John, State U. of New York, Binghamton, NY New York, Binghamton, State - To aid research on 'Modeling Life and Death in Late Prehis- U. of toric West-Central Illinois,' supervised by Dr. Dawnie Lee Wolfe Steadman

Wren, Brandi Tennille Wren, Brandi Tennille, Purdue U., West Lafayette, IN - To Purdue U. aid research on 'Behavioral Ecology of Primate-Parasite Interactions,' supervised by Dr. Melissa Jane Remis

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Wroblewski, Michael Wroblewski, Michael, U. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - To aid Arizona, U. of research on 'Subject Shifting and Style Sampling: The Crea- tion and Sanctioning of Voice in Amazonian Ecuador,' super- vised by Dr. Jane H. Hill

Zeiderman, Austin Zeiderman, Austin Gabriel, Stanford U., Stanford, CA - To Stanford U. Gabriel aid research on 'Living Dangerously: Risk and Urban Gov- ernance in Bogotá, Colombia,' supervised by Dr. James G. Ferguson

Zontine, Angelina Ione Zontine, Angelina Ione, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA - Massachusetts, Amherst, U. of To aid research on 'Remaking the Political in 'Fortress Europe': Cultural and Political Practice n Italian Social Cen- ters,' supervised by Dr. Jacqueline L. Urla

Zovar, Jennifer Mont- Zovar, Jennifer Montgomery Johnson, Vanderbilt U., Nash- Vanderbilt U. gomery Johnson ville, TN - To aid research on 'Post-Collapse Formations of Community, Memory, and Identity: The Archaeology of Pu- kara de Khonkho, Bolivia,' supervised by Dr. John Wayne

37 2008 Annual Report Post-Ph.D. Research Grants

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Beuving, Joost Beuving, Dr. Joost, Vrije U., Amsterdam, Netherlands - To Vrije U. aid research on 'Global Business, Economic Behavior in Action and the Social Construction of the Euro-African Nile Perch Market'

Briz i Godino, Ivan Briz i Godino, Dr. Ivan, Catalan Institution for Advanced Catalan Inst. for Adv Res. - Research, Barcelona, Spain - To aid research on 'Social ICREA Aggregation: A Yamana Society's Short Term Episode to Analyse Social Interaction, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina'

Campbell, Benjamin Campbell, Dr. Benjamin Charles, U. of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, U. of Charles Milwaukee, WI - To aid research on 'Inattention, Impulsivity, and Problem Behavior among Ariaal Children of Northern Kenya'

Cleghorn, Naomi Elancia Cleghorn, Dr. Naomi Elancia, U. if California, Berkeley, CA - California, Berkeley, U. of To aid research on 'The Upper Paleolithic Fauna of Mezmaiskaya (Russia): Implications for Human Behavior and Ecology' Crews, Douglas Earl Crews, Dr. Douglas Earl, Ohio State U., Columbus, OH - To Ohio State U. aid research on 'Frailty and Allostatic Load among Aging Japanese'

Cruz-Torres, Maria Luz Cruz-Torres, Dr. Maria Luz, Arizona State U., Tempe, AZ - Arizona State U. To aid research on 'The Shrimp Ladies: A Political Ecology of Gender, Fisheries, and Grassroots Movements in Northwestern Mexico'

Cuellar, Andrea Maria Cuellar, Dr. Andrea Maria, U. of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Lethbridge, U. of Canada - To aid research on 'Social Complexity in Eastern Ecuador: A Household and Community Perspective'

de la Cadena, Marisol de la Cadena, Dr. Marisol, U. of California, Davis, CA - To California, Davis, U. of aid research on 'Alternative Archives: Understanding Indigenous Politics the Andean Way'

Eckert, Suzanne Lorraine Eckert, Dr. Suzanne Lorraine, Texas A&M U., College Texas A&M U. Station, TX - To aid research on 'Making Pots and Breaking Rocks: Understanding Craft Production Organization in Ancestral Polynesian Society'

Elliott, Denielle Aschell Elliott, Dr. Denielle Aschell, U. of British Columbia, British Columbia, U. of Vancouver, Canada - To aid research on 'Safari Research and Field Science: The Spatial Politics of HIV Vaccine Clinical Trials in Kenya'

Fairbairn, Andrew S. Fairbairn, Dr. Andrew S., U. of Queensland, Brisbaine, Queensland, U. of Australia - To aid research on 'The Origins of Farming in the Konya Plain, Central Anatolia'

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Goodale, Mark Ryan Goodale, Dr. Mark Ryan, George Mason U., Arlington, VA - George Mason U. To aid research on 'Indigenous Cosmopolitans: Human Rights and the Moral Imagination in Bolivia'

Grant, Bruce M. Grant, Dr. Bruce M., New York U., New York, NY - To aid New York U. research on 'Cosmos and Cosmopolitanism in the Azeri Caucasus'

Hayashida, Frances Hayashida, Dr. Frances Mariko, U. of New Mexico, New Mexico, Albuquerque, U. Mariko Albuquerque, NM - To aid 'The Ynalche Project: Water, of Land, Politics, and Society on the Late Prehispanic North Coast of Peru'

Haynes, Gary Anthony Haynes, Dr. Gary Anthony, U. of Nevada, Reno, NV - To aid Nevada, Reno, U. of research on 'Later Stone Age Foraging in Northwestern Zimbabwe just before the Transformation to Agropastoralism'

Heller, Monica Heller, Dr. Monica, U. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada - To aid Toronto, U. of research on 'Mobility, Identity, and New Political Economies: A Multi-Sited Ethnography'

Kapchan, Deborah Anne Kapchan, Dr. Deborah Anne, New York U., New York, NY - New York U. To aid research on 'The Aesthetics of Piety: Muslim Women and Performance in (Secular) France'

Kaplan, Martha Kaplan, Dr. Martha, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY - To Vassar College aid research on 'Fiji Water: A Commodity Biography and Ethnography'

Lazar, Sian Marie Lazar, Dr. Sian Marie, U. of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Cambridge, U. of Kingdom - To aid research on 'Trade Unionism, Citizenship, and Political Subjectivities in Argentina'

Lentz, David Lewis Lentz, Dr. David Lewis, U. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH - To Cincinnati, U. of aid research on 'Agroforestry and Water Management Practices of the Ancient Maya of Tikal'

Losey, Robert Justin Losey, Dr. Robert Justin, U. of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada - Alberta, U. of To aid research on 'Animals among the Dead: Fauna in Middle Holocene Mortuary Contexts, Cis-Baikal, Siberia'

Lyons, Diane Elaine Lyons, Dr. Diane Elaine, U. of Calgary, Calgary, Canada - To Calgary, U. of aid research on 'Edagahamus Potters and the Identity of Stigma'

39 2008 Annual Report Post-Ph.D. Research Grants

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Martinez, Carmen Martinez, Dr. Carmen, FLASCO, Quito, Ecuador - To aid research FLACSO on 'The Contribution of its Non-Indigenous Allies to Ecuador's Indigenous Movement, 1970s to Present'

Melby, Melissa Kathleen Melby, Dr. Melissa Kathleen, National Institute of Health and National Istitute of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan - To aid research on 'Developmental Ori- Nutrition gins of Metabolic Syndrome: Study Utilizing the Japanese Mater- nal and Child Health Handbook'

Pandian, Anand Sankar Pandian, Dr. Anand Sankar, Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore, MD - Johns Hopkins U. To aid research on 'Framing Feelings: Landscape and the Produc- tion of Affect in South Indian Cinema'

Patil, Crystal L. Patil, Dr. Crystal L., U. of Illinois, Chicago, IL - To aid research on Illinois, Chicago, U. of 'A Biocultural Examination of the Peripartum Period'

Plavcan, Joseph Michael Plavcan, Dr. Joseph Michael, U. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR - To Arkansas, U. of aid research on 'Novel 3D Analysis of Koobi Fora Hominin Post- cranial Fossils'

Pruetz, Jill Daphne Pruetz, Dr. Jill Daphne, Iowa State U., Ames, IA - To aid research Iowa State U. on 'Food Sharing and Provisioning among Savanna Chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal: Male Mating Effort?'

Ramirez Rozzi, Fernando Ramirez Rozzi, Fernando Victor, Centre National de la Recherche Centre National de la Recherche Victor Scientifique, Paris, France - To aid research on 'Dental Growth in Scientifique Baka Pygmies'

Rougier, Helene Anne- Rougier, Dr. Helene Anne-Marie, U. Bordeaux 1, Talence, France - Bordeaux, U. Marie To aid research on 'Reassessment of the Paleoanthropological Collections from the 'Troisième caverne' of Goyet (Gesves, Bel- gium)'

Sahnouni, Mohamed Sahnouni, Dr. Mohamed, Stone Age Institute, Gosport, IN - To aid Stone Age Institute research on 'Investigations into the Pliocene Archaeology of Ain Boucherit, Northeastern Algeria'

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

Snead, James E. Snead, Dr. James E., George Mason U., Fairfax, VA - To aid re- George Mason U. search on 'Encountering Antiquity: The Cultural Construction of American Archaeology, 1815-1915'

40 2008 Annual Report Post-Ph.D. Research Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Stumpf, Rebecca Stumpf, Dr. Rebecca Margaret, U. of Illinois, Urbana, IL - To Illinois, Urbana, U. of Margaret aid research on 'Female Social and Sexual Development in Wild Chimpanzees'

Tocheri, Matthew Wayne Tocheri, Dr. Matthew Wayne, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, Washington, DC - To aid research on 'The Tarsus of Homo DC floresiensis: Implications for Hominin Phylogeny and the Evolution of Bipedality'

Villa, Paola Villa, Dr. Paola, U. of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO - To Colorado, Boulder, U. of aid research on 'Experimental Replication and Functional Analysis of Still Bay Points from Blombos Cave (South Africa)'

Weinstein-Evron, Mina Weinstein-Evron, Prof. Mina, U. of Haifa, Haifa, Israel - To Haifa, U. of aid research on 'Reconstructing the Natufian Hamlet at el- Wad, Mount Carmel: Excavation, Radiometric Dating and Spatial Taphonomy'

Williams, Veronica Isabel Williams Dr. Veronica Isabel, U. of Buenos Aires, Buenos Buenos Aires, U. of Aires, Argentina - To aid research on 'Contested Spaces: Social Conflict in the Mid Calchaqui Valley (ca. 900-1400 AD), Salta, Northwest Argentina'

Willoughby, Pamela Rae Willoughby, Dr. Pamela Rae, U. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, U. of Canada - To aid research on 'The Origins of Behavioral Modernity in Southern Tanzania'

Zlolniski, Christian Zlolniski, Dr. Christian, U. of Texas, Arlington, TX - To aid Texas, Arlington, U. of research on 'The Global Fresh-Produce Industry and the Settlement of Indigenous Workers in Baja California'

41 2008 Annual Report Conference and Workshop Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Alemseged, Zeresenay Alemseged, Dr. Zeresenay, California Academy of Sciences, California Academy of Sci- San Francisco, CA - To aid Second Conference of East Afri- ences can Association for Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, 2009, Arusha, Tanzania, in collaboration with Dr. Jackson K. Njau Baehre, Erik Baehre, Dr. Erik, Leiden U., Leiden, The Netherlands - To Leiden U. aid workshop on 'Ethnografeast IV: Knowledges and Intima- cies,' 2009, Amsterdam, in collaboration with Dr. Peter Pels

Boldsen, Jesper Lier Boldsen, Dr. Jesper L., U. of Southern Denmark, Odense, Southern Denmark, U. of Denmark - To aid 16th Congress of the European Anthropo- logical Association (EAA), 2008, U. Southern Denmark, in collaboration with Dr. Hans C. Petersen

Bonanno, Anthony Bonanno, Dr. Anthony, U. of Malta, Msida, Malta - To aid Malta, U. of 14th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archae- ologists (EAA), 2008, U. of Malta, in collaboration with Dr. Anthony F. Harding

Breunig, Peter Breunig, Dr. Peter, J.W. Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt, Ger- Goethe U. many - To aid 19th Meeting of the Society of Africanist Ar- chaeologists (SAfA): 'Cultural Diversity of Africa's Past,' 2008, Frankfurt, in collaboration with Dr. Carlos A. Magnavita Santos Dilley, Roy Martin Dilley, Dr. Roy, U. of St. Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom - To St. Andrews, U. of aid 'Visual Representations of Iran: Conference, Film Sea- son, Photographic Exhibition,' 2008, U. of St. Andrews, in collaboration with Dr. Pedram Khosronejad

Gibbon, Sahra Elizabeth Gibbon, Dr. Sahra E., U. College London, United Kingdom - London, U. of To aid workshop on 'Towards a 'Bio-Cultural Anthropology': Human Genetic Variation and Identity in Latin America,' 2008, U. College London, in collaboration with Dr. Monica Sans Grimson, Alejandro Grimson, Dr. Alejandro, U. Nacional de San Martin, Buenos Nacional de San Martin, U. Aires, Argentina - To aid 'VIII Reunión de Antropología del MERCOSUR: Diversity and Power in Latin America,' 2009, Buenos Aires, in collaboration with Axel Lazzari

Hendry, Rosemary Joy Hendry, Dr. Rosemary J., Oxford Brookes U., Oxford, United Oxford Brookes U. Kingdom - To aid workshop on 'Seeking Bridges between Anthropology and Indigenous/Native /Aboriginal Studies,' 2009, Oxford Brookes U., in collaboration with Dr. Laara Fitznor Hildebrand, Elisabeth A. Hildebrand, Dr. Elisabeth, Stony Brook U., NY - To aid work- New York, Stony Brook, State shop on 'From Fishers to Herders: Holocene Subsistence U. of Intensification in the Turkana Basin,' 2008, Easthampton, NY, in collaboration with Dr. Richard Leakey

Kartari, Asker Kartari, Dr. Asker, Hacettepe U., Ankara, Turkey - To aid 5th Hacettepe U. InASEA conference on 'Migration, Communication, and So- cial Change,' 2009, Ankara, in collaboration with Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer

42 2008 Annual Report Conference and Workshop Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Koizumi, Junji Koizumi, Dr. Junji, Osaka U., Osaka, Japan - To aid work- Osaka U. shop of World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) on 'Conflict, Cooperation, and the Role of Anthropol- ogy in the World,' 2008, Osaka

Lambek, Michael Joshua Lambek, Dr. Michael Joshua, U. Toronto, Canada - To aid Toronto, U. of workshop on 'The Anthropology of Ordinary Ethics,' 2008, U. Toronto

Mursic, Rajko Mursic, Rajko, U. of Ljubljana, Slovenia - To aid 10th EASA Ljubljana, U. of conference on 'Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality,' 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Norton, Christopher J. Norton, Dr. Christopher J., U. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI - To aid Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, U. conference on '80th Anniversary of the Discovery of the First of Peking Man Skull,' 2009, Beijing, PRC, in collaboration with Dr. Xing Gao

Oyhenart, Evelia Edith Oyhenart, Dr. Evelia Edith, U. Nacional de La Plata, Buenos La Plata, National U. of Aires, Argentina - To aid 'Tenth Meeting of the Latin Ameri- can Association of Biological Anthropology,' 2008, Buenos Aires, in collaboration with Dr. Hector M. Pucciarelli

Paini, Anna Maria Paini, Dr. Anna Maria, U. of Verona, Italy - To aid conference Verona, U. of of the European Society for Oceanists on 'Putting People First: Intercultural Dialogue and Imagining the Future in Oce- ania,' 2008, Verona, in collaboration with Dr. Elisabetta Gnecchi Ruscone Rehren, Thilo Rehren, Dr. Thilo, U. College London, London, United King- College London, U. dom - To aid conference on 'World of Iron,' 2009, Natural History Museum, London, in collaboration with Dr. Harald A. Veldhuijzen

Richmond, Brian Garth Richmond, Dr. Brian G., George Washington U., Washing- College London, U. ton, DC - To aid workshop on 'Description & Interpretation of Hominin Postcranial Remains from Sterkfontein,' 2009, U. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SA, in collaboration with Dr. Carol Ward Roberts, Elizabeth Fran- Roberts, Dr. Elizabeth F. S., U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of ces S. To aid workshop on 'Medical Migrations: The Global Quest for Beauty, Health, and Life,' 2008, Sonoma, CA, in collabo- ration with Christopher Roebuck

Shankland, David Peter Shankland, Dr. David P., U. of Bristol, Bristol, United King- Bristol, U. of dom - To aid conference of Association of Social Anthropolo- gists (ASA) on 'Anthropological and Archaeological Imagina- tions: Past, Present, and Future,' 2009, U. of Bristol

Srivastava, Sanjay Srivastava, Dr. Sanjay, Deakin U., Melbourne, Australia - To Deakin U. aid workshop on 'New Cultures of Intimacy and Together- ness in Asia,' 2009, New Delhi, India, in collaboration with Dr. Brinda Bose

43 2008 Annual Report Conference and Workshop Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Venkatesan, Soumhya Venkatesan, Dr. Soumhya, U. of Manchester, Manchester, Manchester, U. of United Kingdom - To aid workshop on 'Differentiating Development: Beyond an Anthropology of Critique,' 2008, Buxton, UK, in collaboration with Dr. Thomas Yarrow

Verkaaik, Oskar Verkaaik, Dr. Oskar, U. of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Amsterdam, U. of Netherlands - To aid workshop on 'Religion and Sexuality in Post-Colonial Europe: Between Categorization and Transcendence,' 2009, Amsterdam

Villeneuve, Suzanne Villeneuve, Suzanne N., U. of Victoria, BC, Canada - To aid Victoria, U. of Natascha workshop on 'Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Ritual Spaces and Sacred Places,' 2009, Simon Fraser U., Burnaby, BC, in collaboration with Dr. Brian D. Hayden White, Frances Joy White, Dr. Frances J., U. of Oregon, Eugene, OR - To aid Oregon, U. of workshop on 'Human Warfare: An Integrative Anthropological Prospective,' 2008, U. of Oregon, in collaboration with Dr. Douglas Kennett

44 2008 Annual Report International Collaborative Research Grants

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Bray, Tamara L. Bray, Dr. Tamara L., Wayne State U., Detroit, MI; and Wayne State U. Echeverria Almeida, Echeverria Almeida, Mr. Jose, Fondo de Salvamento del Fondo de Salvament del Jose Patrimonio Cultural, Canton Ibarra, Ecuador - To aid Patrimonion collaborative research on 'Imperial Inca Statecraft and the Architecture of Power' Dressler, Wolfram H. Dressler, Dr. Wolfram H., U. of Queensland, Australia; and Queensland, U. of Pulhin, Juan M. Pulhin, Dr. Juan M., U. of Philippines - To aid collaborative Philippines, U. of research on 'An Ethnography of Rural Livelihood Transitions among Migrant and Indigenous Uplanders on Palawan

Flad, Rowan K. Flad, Dr. Rowan K., Harvard U., Cambridge, MA; and Li, Dr. Harvard U. Li, Shuicheng Shuicheng, Peking U., Beijing, P.R. China - To aid collabora- Peking U. tive research on 'Changing Landscape and Settlement Patterns during the Rise of Complexity in the Chengdu Plain, Sichuan, China' Indriati, Etty Indriati, Dr. Etty, Gadjah Mada U., Indonesia; and Leonard, Gadjah Mada U. Leonard, William Dr. William, Northwestern U., IL - To aid collaborative re- Northwestern U. search on 'Energetic Nutritional and Dental Health of Fora- gers Orang Rimba in the Sumatran Forest, Indonesia'

Kidd, Kenneth K. Kidd, Dr. Kenneth K., Yale U., New Haven, CT; and Kajuna, Yale U. Kajuna, Sylvester L.B. Dr. Sylvester L. B., Hubert Kairuki Memorial U., Dar es Hubert Kairuki Memorial U. Salaam, Tanzania - To aid coll. research on 'Genetic Rela- tionships among East African Populations based on Single

Klarich, Elizabeth A. Klarich, Dr. Elizabeth A., Cotsen Inst (UCLA), Santa Monica, California, Los Angeles, U. of Flores Blanco, Luis A. CA; and Flores Blanco, Luis A., Puno, Peru - To aid collabo- rative research on 'Evaluating Early Urbanism at Pukara,

Peru' Lewis, Cecil M. Lewis, Dr. Cecil M., U. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Oklahoma, U of Huerta Canales de Huerta Canales de Miranda, Doris V. - To aid collaborative Miranda, Doris V. research on 'Mitochondrial Population Genomics in Peru' Norton, Christopher J. Norton, Dr. Christopher J., Hunter College, NY; and Jin, Dr. New York, Hunter College, City Jin, Changzhu Changzhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. U. of China-To aid collaborative research on 'Hominin Migratory Chinese Academy of Sciences and Behavioral Variability during the Chinese Plio-

Russell, Mary Thembiwe Russell, Dr. Mary T., U. of the Witwatersrand, Wits, South Witwatersrand, U. of Kiura, Purity W. Africa; and Kiura, Dr. Purity W., Nat'l Museums of Kenya, Nat’l Museums of Kenya Nairobi, Kenya - To aid collaborative research on 'The Archaeology of Namoratunga I, Lokori, Northern Kenya'

Santha, Istvan Santha, Dr. Istvan, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai Budapest, Hungary; and Ssorin-Chaikov, Dr. Nikolai, Sciences Cambridge U., Cambridge, UK - To aid collaborative re- Cambridge U. search on 'Power, 'Authorities', and Emotions in Post-

Scott, Robert Smith Scott, Dr. Robert S., Rutgers U., New Brunswick, NJ; and Rutgers U. Kaya, Tumel T. Kaya, Dr. Tumel T., Ege U., Bornova- Izmir, Turkey - To aid Ege U. collaborative research on 'Environmental Dynamics of Western Eurasian Hominids During the Late Miocene' 45 2008 Annual Report New and Continuing Wadsworth Fellowships

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

Barragan, Carlos Andres Barragan, Carlos Andres, U. del Cauca, Colombia- To aid Cauca U. training in social-cultural anthropology at U. of California, Davis, CA, supervised by Dr. Benjamin S. Orlove

Bushozi, Pastory M. Bushozi, Pastory, U. of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, U. of Tanzania - To aid training in archaeology at U. Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, supervised by Dr. Pamela 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, supervised by Dr. Rebecca Ackermann

Chaudhuri, Tapoja Chaudhuri, Tapoja, U. of Delhi, Delhi, India - To aid Delhi, U. of dissertation write-up in cultural anthropology at U. of Washington, Seattle, WA, supervised by Prof. Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan

Chirchir, Habiba Chirchir, Habiba, U. of Nairobi, Kenya- To aid training in Nairobi, U. of physical-biological anthropology at George Washington U., Washington, DC, supervised by Dr. Brian G. Richmond

Debretsion, Amaha Debretsion, Amaha Segid, U. of Asmara, Eritrea- To aid Asmara, U. of Segid training in physical-biological anthropology at Southern Illinois U., Carbondale, IL supervised by Dr. Robert S. Corruccini

Devadass, Xavier Devadass, Xavier S., Carmel Theological College, Trichy, Carmel Theological College Sebastiammal India - To aid Library Residency at The Graduate Center, CUNY New York, NY, supervised by Dr. Murphy Halliburton

Filippova, Olga Filipova, Candidate of Science, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National National U., Kharkiv, Ukraine - To aid library residency at U. Indiana U., Bloomington, IN, supervised by Dr. Sarah D. Phillips

Halawa, Mateusz Halawa, Mateuz, Warsaw U., Warsaw, Poland - To aid Warsaw U. training in social-cultural anthropology at The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, supervised by Dr. Ann L. Stoler

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 46 2008 Annual Report Wadsworth Fellowships, cont.

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation Jillani, Ngalla E. Jillani, Ngalla Edward, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Nat’l Museum of Kenya Kenya - To aid training in paleoanthropology at U. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, supervised by Dr. Paul R. Manger

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

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

Kostepen, Enis Kostepen, Enis, Bogazici U., Istanbul, Turkey- To aid Bogazici U. training in social-cultural anthropology at The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, supervised by Dr. Hugh Raffles

Loaiza Diaz, Nicolas Loaiza Diaz, Nicolas, U. de Antioquia, Medellin Colombia- Antioquia, U. of To aid training in archaeology at Temple U., Philadelphia, PA, supervised by Dr. Anthony J. Ranere

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

Moiko, Stephen S. Moiko, Stephen S., U. of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya- To aid Nairobi, U. of dissertation write-up in social-cultural anthropology at McGill U., Montreal, Canada, supervised by Dr. John Galaty

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

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

Pico, Mercedes Pico, Mercedes, U. of Buenos Aires, Argentina - To aid Buenos Aires, U. of library residency at Binghamton U., Binghamton, New York, supervised by Dr. Carmen A. Ferradas

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, Lomas de Santa Fe, Mexico, supervised by Dr. Roger E. Magazine

47 2008 Annual Report Wadsworth Fellowships, cont.

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Regueiro, Sabina Regueiro, Sabina Amantze, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, U. of Amantze Buenos Aires, Argentina - To aid Library Residency at Univerisite de Paris X, Paris, France, supervised by Dr. Martine Segalen

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

Some, Batamaka Some, Batamaka, U. of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Quagadougou, U. of Burkina Faso - To aid dissertation write-up in social-cultural anthropology at U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, supervised by Dr. Mahir Saul

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, United Kingdom, supervised by Prof. Michael Sinclair Stewart

Villanueva, Ronald Villanueva, Ronald H.A., U. of the Philippines, Diliman, Philippines, U. of the Hector A. Makati, Philippines - To aid dissertation write-up in social- cultural anthropology at U. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, supervised by Dr. Mamadou Baro

48 2008 Annual Report Initiatives

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Beckerman, Stephen J. Beckerman, Dr. Stephen J., Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State U. University Park, PA - To aid research on 'The Maniq' Population Structure, in Southern Thailand' - Initiatives Grant

Guest, Kenneth J. Guest, Dr. Kenneth J., City U. of New York, New York, NY - New York, Baruch College, To aid 'Network Development and Program Support for the City U. of Anthropology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences' - Initiatives Grant

Martin, Emily Martin, Dr. Emily, New York University, New York, NY - To New York U. aid 'Anthropology Now: Reaching Beyond Academic Anthropology' - Initiatives Grant

49 2008 Annual Report Historical Archives Program

Grantees Project Title Institutional Affiliation

Fee, Sarah E. Fee, Dr. Sarah, Washington, DC - To aid preparation of the Smithsonian Inst., Washington, personal research materials of Dr. Wilton S. Dillon for DC archival deposit with the National Anthropological Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Gibson, Roger Gibson, Roger, Middletown, MD - To aid preparation of the Smithsonian Inst., Washington, papers and research materials of Dr. Gordon D. Gibson for DC archival deposit with the National Anthropological Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Gjording, Karin Jane Gjording, Karin Jane, San Francisco, CA - To aid Smithsonian Inst., Washington, preparation of the personal research materials of Dr. Chris DC Gjording for archival deposit with the National Anthropological Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Hanna, Judith L. Hanna, Dr. Judith L, Bethesda, MD - To aid preparation of Library Congress personal research materials for archival deposit with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC - Historical Archives Program

Knight, Vernon J. Knight, Dr. Vernon James, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL - To Alabama, Tuscaloosa, U. of aid preparation of the personal research materials of Dr. C. Earle Smith for archival deposit with the National Anthropological Archives, Suitland, Maryland

50 2008 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 short or long-term 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 1419 applications and made 218 awards (see the summary table below). The number of applications represents an increase of 140 applications (11.0%) over the 1270 received in 2007.

Summary of 2008 Applications and Approvals Applications Approved % Approved

Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 893 125 14.00% Post-Ph.D. Research Grant 260 40 15.40% Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship 129 10 7.80%

Conference/Workshop Grants 44 26 59.10% Int. Collaborative Research Grant 51 11 21.60% *Wadsworth Fellowships 42 6 14.30%

Grand Total 1419 218 * This does not include Wadsworth Short-Term Fellowship data.

Application Numbers

Application numbers have continued to increase. In 2008 we received 1282 applications across the three individual research programs (Dissertation Fieldwork, Post-Ph.D. Research and the Hunt Fellowship). This represents an increase of 133 applications over 2007 (11.6%), which is in addition to the 14.8% increase in the 2007 applications over those received in 2006 (See table below).

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

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There has been some concern recently over the relatively low success rate in 2007 for applicants who are non-US citizens and domiciled outside of the US. However in 2008 the success rate of these appli- cants was equivalent to the general pool (See Appendix 5 and summary table below). As in past years the highest success rate was for Non-US citizens who are domiciled in the US.

Citizenship and Domicile for the individual research programs Approvals Applications Success Rate Non-US Citizens: Non US Domicile 40 294 13.6%

Non-US Citizens: US Domicile 32 219 14.6%

US Citizens: Non-US Domicile 5 41 12.2% US Citizens: US Domicile 98 728 13.5% Grand Total 175 1282 13.7%

English speakers and the English-speaking environment.

The Advisory Council requested that application and approval statistics be broken down according to whether or not the applicants are native English speakers working in an English-speaking environment. The following summary tables show that non-native English speakers (Other) in non-English speaking environments (Non-English Domicile) are at no disadvantage in the Post-Ph.D. Research Grant program or the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship program. However they do have a lower success rate in the Disser- tation Fieldwork Grant program. It is unclear whether this is due to language ability or to other factors such as experience in grant writing or differences in doctoral programs and/or stage of preparation.

Native English Speakers and English speaking domicile Dissertation Fieldwork Grant Approvals Applications Success Rate Other/Non-English Domicile 2 51 3.90% Other/English Domicile 29 174 16.70% English/Non-English Domicile 0 2 0.00% English/English Domicile 94 666 14.10% Total 125 893 14.00%

Post Ph-D. Research Grant Approvals Applications Success Rate Other/Non-English Domicile 7 43 16.30% Other/English Domicile 7 25 28.00% English/Non-English Domicile 1 8 12.50% English/English Domicile 25 184 13.60% Total 40 260 15.40%

Hunt Post-Doctoral Fellowship Approvals Applications Success Rate Other/Non-English Domicile 2 17 11.80% Other/English Domicile 2 16 12.50% English/Non-English Domicile 0 4 0.00% English/English Domicile 6 92 6.50% Total 10 129 7.80% 52 2008 Annual Report

Disstertation Fieldwork Application Numbers, Approvals and Success Rate

1000 30.0% 900 25.0% 800 700 20.0% 600 500 15.0% 400 Number 10.0% 300 Success Rate 200 5.0% 100 0 0.0% 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Approvals 91 89 86 88 87 75 100 109 122 125 Applications 582 525 560 491 592 570 642 692 787 893 Success Rate 15.6% 17.0% 15.4% 17.9% 14.7% 13.2% 15.6% 15.8% 15.5% 14.0%

Application numbers, approvals and success rates by sub-discipline

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Archaeology Approvals 12 16 16 17 19 9 10 12 8 15 Applications 77 86 97 81 92 92 106 98 91 110 Success Rate 15.6% 18.6% 16.5% 21.0% 20.7% 9.8% 9.4% 12.2% 8.8% 13.6% Linguistics Approvals 7 5 4 5 2 5 7 5 9 4 Applications 32 21 14 12 20 22 30 22 35 29 Success Rate 21.9% 23.8% 28.6% 41.7% 10.0% 22.7% 23.3% 22.7% 25.7% 13.8% Physical-Biological Approvals 11 17 13 9 12 13 12 22 15 19 Applications 60 61 48 54 67 75 83 111 105 127 Success Rate 18.3% 27.9% 27.1% 16.7% 17.9% 17.3% 14.5% 19.8% 14.3% 15.0% Social-Cultural Approvals 61 51 53 57 54 48 71 70 90 87 Applications 413 357 401 344 413 381 423 461 556 627 Success Rate 14.8% 14.3% 13.2% 16.6% 13.1% 12.6% 16.8% 15.2% 16.2% 13.9%

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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 50 5.0%

0 0.0% 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Approvals 54 39 37 37 37 31 32 43 44 40 Applications 241 252 236 232 252 220 208 220 242 260 Success Rate 22.4% 15.5% 15.7% 15.9% 14.7% 14.1% 15.4% 19.5% 18.2% 15.4%

Application numbers, approvals and success rates by sub-discipline

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Archaeology Approvals 16 7 13 12 12 11 8 17 10 17 Applications 65 72 64 69 64 69 50 74 59 89 Success Rate 24.6% 9.7% 20.3% 17.4% 18.8% 15.9% 16.0% 23.0% 16.9% 19.1% Linguistics Approvals 2 0 2 1 2 0 1 1 1 2 Applications 6 5 12 8 11 10 5 4 5 5 Success Rate 33.3% 0.0% 16.7% 12.5% 18.2% 0.0% 20.0% 25.0% 20.0% 40.0% Physical-Biological Approvals 10 15 7 9 5 8 9 12 15 10 Applications 29 44 38 29 43 31 40 52 59 54 Success Rate 34.5% 34.1% 18.4% 31.0% 11.6% 25.8% 22.5% 23.1% 25.4% 18.5% Social-Cultural Approvals 26 17 15 15 18 12 14 13 18 11 Applications 141 131 122 126 134 110 113 90 119 112 Success Rate 18.4% 13.0% 12.3% 11.9% 13.4% 10.9% 12.4% 14.4% 15.1% 9.8%

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Hunt Postdoctoral Application Numbers, Approvals and Success Rate

140 30.0%

120 25.0% 100 20.0% 80 15.0% 60 Number 10.0% 40 Success Rate

20 5.0%

0 0.0% 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Approvals 713615721149 810 Applications 70 70 51 62 61 93 102 89 120 129 Success Rate 10.0% 18.6% 11.8% 24.2% 11.5% 22.6% 13.7% 10.1% 6.7% 7.8%

Application numbers, approvals and success rates by sub-discipline

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Archaeology Approvals 0 2 3 0 2 4 4 1 2 1 Applications 8 11 15 9 9 14 14 13 18 21 Success Rate 0.0% 18.2% 20.0% 0.0% 22.2% 28.6% 28.6% 7.7% 11.1% 4.8% Linguistics Approvals 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 Applications 3 3 4 3 4 2 1 4 5 3 Success Rate 66.7% 33.3% 0.0% 33.3% 25.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% Physical-Biological Approvals 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 2 Applications 6 6 3 4 6 4 12 12 11 16 Success Rate 0.0% 16.7% 0.0% 25.0% 0.0% 25.0% 16.7% 8.3% 0.0% 12.5% Social-Cultural Approvals 5 9 3 13 4 16 8 7 6 7 Applications 53 50 29 46 42 73 75 60 86 89 Success Rate 9.4% 18.0% 10.3% 28.3% 9.5% 21.9% 10.7% 11.7% 7.0% 7.9%

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Application Numbers, Approvals and Success Rate by Gender - Female

900 30.0% 800 25.0% 700 600 20.0% 500 15.0% 400

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200 Success Rate 5.0% 100 0 0.0% 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Approvals 78 77 69 84 69 68 84 101 107 106 Total Applications 491 466 503 461 514 503 575 607 732 814 Success Rate 0.158 0.165 0.137 0.182 0.134 0.135 0.146 0.166 0.146 0.130

Application Numbers, Approvals and Success Rate by Gender - 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% 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Approvals 74 64 60 56 62 59 62 60 67 69 Total Applications 402 381 344 324 391 380 377 394 417 468 Success Rate 0.184 0.168 0.174 0.172 0.158 0.155 0.164 0.152 0.160 0.147

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68 2008 Annual Report Leadership

WENNER-GREN FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Leslie C. Aiello (2005)* Ira Berlin (2007) William L. Cobb, Jr. (2000) Joan Girgus (2002) John Immerwahr (2004) Darcy Kelley (2005) Ruth Kennedy Sudduth (1998) Seth J. Masters (2000) Lauren Mesrve (2008) Ellen Mickiewicz (2000) William B. Petersen (2001) Lorraine Sciarra (2004) 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

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

69 2008 Annual Report Reviewers (during 2008)

Aiello, Leslie, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, NY (USA) Anagnost, Ann S., University of Washington, Seattle, WA (USA) Andrade, Xavier, FLASCO, Quito, Ecuador 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 Cattelino, Jessica, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (USA) Crapanzano, Vincent, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY (USA) Davidson, Joanna, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (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) Gezon, Lisa L., University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA (USA) 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) Hale, Charles R., University of Texas, Austin, TX (USA) Ho, Engseng, Duke University, Durham, NC (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) Khan, Naveeda, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (USA) Kingfisher, Catherine, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada Kreid, Judy, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, NY (USA) Larsen, Clark S., Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (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) Malkin, Victoria, Wenner-Gren Foundation, 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) 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 Rapp, Rayna, New York University, New York, NY Remis, Melissa Jane, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Robb, John E., Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom Robinson, Chris, Bronx Community College, CUNY, Bronx, NY Schick, Kathy D., Stone Age Institute, Gosport, IN Shipley, Jesse, Haverford College, Haverford, PA Silverman, Sydel, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY (emeritus)

70 2008 Annual Report Reviewers, cont.

Silverstein, Paul, Reed College, Portland, OR Smith, Adam T., University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Spyer, Patricia, New York University, New York, NY Stone, Anne C., Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Sung, Wen-Ching, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Toussaint, Sandy, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia Ward, Carol, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO Wernke, Steven A., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN West, Paige, Columbia University, New York, NY Wilce, James M., Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Wortham,Stanton, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

71 2008 Annual Report Staff

Leslie C. Aiello President Natasha Fenelon Applications Program Assistant Maritza Figueroa Accountant Maugha Kenny Chief Administrative Officer and Director of Finance Judith Kreid Foundation Anthropologist—International Programs Mark Mahoney Resources Coordinator Victoria Malkin Foundation Anthropologist Michael Muse Foundation Anthropologist—International Programs Mary Elizabeth Moss Grants Curator Laurie Obbink Conference Program Associate Elizabeth Rojas Applications Program Administrator Mark Ropelewski Finance and Administration Assistant Abbey Todras Programs Assistant

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