Floyd N. House - First Chair of the Deparment.
News & Recent awards for the Faculty and Graduate Students.
Newsletters from the Department:
Recent Awards:
Faculty:
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Steve Plog was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in May 2007.
He was also elected to the Raven Society at U.Va. He received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant: Chaco Canyon: Building a Digital Research Archive for 2003-2007 (see http://www.chacoarchive.org/), and (with Worthy Martin) an SCED and Institution for Advanced Technology in the Humanities grant, National Park Service for Archaeological Record Integration.
- Ira Bashkow's 2006 book, The Meaning of Whitemen, won the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2007.
Ira also got an NEH Fellowship for 2007-08 and a Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship for 2007.
- Lise Dobrin got a NEH Documenting Endangered Languages grant, 2005-2008, and a NEH Fellowship for 2008-2009.
- George Mentore was elected Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University in 2007.
- Fraser Neiman and Jillan Galle: The Monticello-based Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery has been awarded a substantial NEH grant. Click here for the DAACS web reference.
Graduate Students:
- Neil Norman: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology at
William and Mary, 2008-2009 — Society for Historical Archaeology's Dissertation
Prize for 2008
- Nona Moskowitz: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
at Kenyon College, 2008-2009
- Sherrilynn Colby-Bottel: NSF research award for fieldwork in New Orleans,
2008-09
- Clare Terni: The 2008 Seven Society Graduate Fellowship for Superb Teaching
& a Faculty Senate Dissertation Year Fellowship (2008-9).
- Jason Hickel: Fulbright-Hays fellowship for fieldwork in South Africa, 2008-09.
- Andrew Nelson: Fulbright IIE and a Fulbright-Hays fellowship for fieldwork
in Nepal, 2008-09.
- Claire Snell-Rood: Fulbright-Hays fellowship for fieldwork in India, 2008-09.
- Bea Arendt: pre-doctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian for 2008-09.
- Adam Watson: pre-doctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian for 2008-09.
- Will Schroeder: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dissertation writeup
grant for 2008-09.
- Suzanne Menair: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dissertation writeup
grant for 2008-09.
- Melissa Nelson: Honoree for the Seven Society Graduate Fellowship for Superb
Teaching in the Spring of 2007
- Matthew Pawlowicz: NSF and Explorers Club fellowships for archaeological
work in Tanzania, 2007-08.
- Lydia Wilson: Fulbright-Hays fellowship for archaeological work in Kenya,
2007-08.
- Roberto Armengol: got a Fulbright-Hays fellowship for fieldwork in Cuba,
2006-07.
- Adam Harr: Fulbright-Hays fellowship for fieldwork in Indonesia, 2006-07.
- Amy Nichols-Belo: Fulbright-Hays fellowship for fieldwork in Tanzania, 2006-07.
- David Strohl: Fulbright-Hays fellowship for fieldwork in India, 2006-07.
- Holly Donahue Singh: Fulbright-Hays fellowship for fieldwork in India, 2006-07
(declined); and a Junior Research Fellowship from the American Institute of
Indian Studies, 2006-07.
Alumni:
- Matthew Engelke (PhD - 2002), 2008 Geertz Prize, Society for the Anthropology
of Religion, for his book: A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an
African Church. (California, 2007)
- Mike
Wesch - 2008 Teaching award from CASE and The Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching.
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