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School of Anthropology Welcomes New Graduate Students The new School of Anthropology is happy to welcome thirteen new graduate students to the University of Arizona. Following is a small introduction for each person. Lewis Borck: |
New Graduate Student Receives Javits Fellowship Please congratulate Jessica MacLellan for being selected as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow. She will have a four-year fellowship/stipend from the US Department of Education, starting in the fall. This is indeed a great honor as the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability—selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise—to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in... Read more |
Alumna Now a Faculty Fellow Colette Marie Sims (PhD, 2006) was select as a Faculty Fellow. Her poster is attached. Initiated in 1984, Faculty Fellows creates an increased connection between faculty and students by supporting meaningful interactions in a non-classroom setting, leading to a smooth transition from high school to university, more effective decision making, an ever-deepening love of learning and, ultimately, graduation from the University. Fellows are nominated for service by faculty... Read more |
Nieves Zedeno Receives Two-Year NSF Award Congratulations to Dr. Zedeño for receiving a two-year grant from NSF to study "The Complex Organization of Communal Bison Hunting: Revisiting the Late Prehistory of the Northern Plains". She was awarded $193,699 through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). With this support, Dr. Zedeño, a team of colleagues and Blackfeet collaborators will conduct two seasons of archaeological fieldwork on the US northwestern Plains. Together they will examine... Read more |
Student Showcase 09/02/2009 SCHOOL OF ANTHROPOLOGY 4:00 pm Haury 216 Student Showcase Podium Presenters Karin Friederic “Women’s Rights and Intimate Partner violence in Coastal Ecuador: Exploring historical and local dimensions of human rights... Read more |
Mark Nichter Delivered Two Keynote Talks Mark Nichter, Regents' Professor in Anthropology, was a keynote speaker two times this summer in Europe. He delivered the opening address at the sixth Nordic Conference In Medical Anthropology at the University of Gothenburg and Nordic School of Public Health, Sweden entitled "Toward an Anthropology of Trust in an Age of Risk and Uncertainty." He delivered the Dieter Conrad Lecture at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, entitled "Hybrid Medicine for Hybrid... Read more |
Annika Ericksen Receives Travel Grant Annika Ericksen, Ph.D. Candidate, was awarded a $500 travel grant by the Center for East Asian Studies at Western Washington University. The grant will allow her to spend a few days doing research in the East Asian Studies Library. She was also asked to give a lecture for the center's "Mongolia Day", October 20th. |
Jacob Campbell Receives Award Jacob Campbell, Ph.D. candidate in the School of Anthropology, recently received an award on a paper he co-authored with a law student, Maya Abela. The paper was selected as the winner of the 2009 Lillian S. Fisher Prize in Environmental Law and Public Policy, administered by the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy. There was a cash prize, and the paper will be published later this fall as part of the Udall Center's Environmental Policy Working Paper Series. Title:... Read more |
Sarah Trainer Receives Fulbright Fellowship Sarah Trainer, a graduate student in the UA's School of Anthropology, has been awarded an IIE Fulbright Fellowship. As a fellow, Trainer will travel to the United Arab Emirates where she will spend one year studying the eating habits and perceptions Emirati women have about obesity and type-2 diabetes, while also investigating cases of both of those conditions in women. Read more: http://uanews.org/node/26209 |
Ivy Pike Receives Additional Funding Congratulations to Dr. Ivy Pike who was notified that her NSF grant to study Collaborative Research: The Violence of "Small Wars," Poverty, and Health in Three Pastoralist Communities in Northern Kenya will receive an additional $53,846 and extend the project to August 31, 2010. The total award is now $143,373. In this project Dr. Pike and Dr. Bilinda S. Straight (Western Michigan University) will lead an international team of anthropologist to investigate the social and health-related... Read more |