Faculty Members Receive UA Awards
Two School of Anthropology faculty—Professor Vance Holliday and Assistant Professor Lindsay Montgomery—have been recognized with University Awards. Dr. Holliday has been awarded the University’s Henry and Phyllis Koffler Prize for Research/Scholarship/Creative Activity. The Koffler prize is “intended to honor individuals who have made major contributions to their field.” Dr. Montgomery has been awarded the University’s Early Career Scholars Award, which “recognizes outstanding early career faculty who are at the forefront of their disciplines and make highly valued contributions to the teaching, creative activity, and service priorities” of the University of Arizona.
In addition, the SoA congratulates affiliate faculty member Antonio Jose (Tom-Zé) Bacelar da Silva (Ph.D. UArizona 2012) for his Early Career Scholars Award. Tom-Zé’s dissertation committee members were Drs. Jen Roth-Gordon (chair), Norma Mendoza-Denton, Ana Alonso, and Bert Barickman. Currently, Tom-Zé is an assistant professor in the Center for Latin American Studies and affiliated. Tom-Zé’s selection for the award reflects “his innovative accomplishments in research, teaching, service, and commendable leadership in the field of Critical Brazil Studies. The committee was especially impressed by the exemplary model of methodological rigor and theoretical sophistication of his contributions and intersectional approach to Brazilian democratic participation in a wide range sets of inquiry, including linguistic analysis of anti-racist rhetoric and resistance, presidential politics, and social memory. His unique contributions to the study of black consciousness in Brazil are reshaping the literature on the intersections of race, class, social inequity, and gender in that country.”
For more about the University Faculty Awards, see https://facultyaffairs.arizona.edu/about-honors-awards. (Anthro News Digest date: 05/07/2021)
Photos: Vance Holliday, Lindsay Montgomery, Antonio Jose Bacelar da Silva