Christine Beitl has received a 2008 Tinker Graduate Field Research Summer Travel Award, given by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, with generous support provided by the Tinker Foundation and the UGA Graduate School and the Franklin College. These awards are granted to highly qualified students interested in conducting research in the Spanish- or Portugese-speaking Latin American and Caribbean region. Christine will travel to Ecuador this summer. Dr. Robert Rhoades is her major professor. Posted 4.24.08
Maria Ruth Martinez-Rodriguez and Tammy Watkins each have won a UGA Graduate Student Dissertation Completion Award for 2008-2009. This $16,000 stipend award is designed to allow a student to devote time to his or her dissertation, and is available to students in their final year of the Ph.D. program. Dr. Brent Berlin is Maria Ruth's major professor and Dr. Bram Tucker is Tammy's. Posted 4.21.08
UGA President Adams has just awarded from the President's Venture Funds $400 to FOLK (Furthering Our Local Knowledge) for the Colporteurs-in-Residence Series. The first colporteur will be Justin Pitts, from MI, who will visit the Ethnoecology/Biodiversity Lab Friday, April 25. He'll also speak at the Seed Swap on Saturday, the 26th. The lab is run by Dr. Virginia Nazarea. Posted 4.17.08
Rebecca Witter has just won two major awards. She has received a $20,000 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women, and a $10,000 UGA Dissertation Completion award. Her title is "Trees, Trails, and Traces of Territory: An Anthropological Assessment of Human Mobility, Resource Tenure, and Conservation- Related Resettlement in Southern Africa’s Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park." Dr. Peter Brosius is Rebecca's major professor. Posted 4.17.08
Richard Owens is the third Fulbright Award winner from the department for 2008-2009; he'll work with farmers in the Northeast highlands of Vietnam in Son La Province, where he'll study smallholder adaptation and innovation. Dr. Robert Rhoades is Richard's major professor. Posted 4.16.08
Undergraduate Zach Anderson receives a $1000 Study Abroad Travel Grant from Phi Kappa Phi this spring. He'll do research in Fiji, Brazil and New Zealand. Posted 4.16.08
Amber Huff has received a Fulbright Award of $24,800 to work on her dissertation in Madagascar. Her title is "Social change, livelihoods, and nutritional outcomes among Mikea of southwestern Madagascar." Dr. Bram Tucker is Amber's major professor. Posted 4.9.08
Richard Owens has been awarded a 2008 Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin. He'll receive a $2,400 stipend, as well as full payment of Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) tuition. Richard will use this highly competitive fellowship to study Vietnamese. Dr. Robert Rhoades is Richard's major professor. Posted 4.9.08
Rebecca Witter has been accepted into the 2008 Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability: "Environmental Change, Migration and Social Vulnerability." Her expenses will be paid and she'll present a paper and a poster based on her dissertation research and engage in a policy forum in which the group will be applying their dissertation research findings to the anticipated problems of global environmental change and human migration and displacement. This workshop is sponsored by the Münich Re Foundation and the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). Dr. Peter Brosius is Rebecca's major professor. Posted 4.9.08
Zach Anderson has won a Franklin College Study Abroad Scholarship, in the amount of $500. He was selected among applicants from the college's 31 disciplines. Posted 4.9.08
Kate Dunbar has just learned of her Fulbright Award to carry out fieldwork in Peru. She’ll receive $15,000 to work on her dissertation, “Changing Climate, Changing Communities? Perceptions of Increasing Water Scarcity in the Peruvian Andes." Dr. Peter Brosius is Kate's major professor.
Posted 4.7.08
First-year graduate student Laura Tilghman has won a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which will allow her to pursue research on conservation issues in the central highlands of Madagascar. She will receive a $90,000 stipend over three years, as well as a cost-of-education allowance. This fellowship is given annually to graduate students in science and engineering who demonstrate the potential to make significant contributions and innovations in research and teaching. Dr. Bram Tucker is Maria Ruth's major professor. Posted 4.7.08
Maria Ruth Martinez-Rodriguez was awarded a 2007-2008 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant to continue her research into Tsimane’ ethnobotanical learning in Bolivia. She will also present at the International Society of Ethnobiology Meeting in Cuzco, Peru, from June 25-30. Dr. Brent Berlin is Maria Ruth's major professor. Posted 4.7.08
Undergraduate Lee Ellen Carter recently has won many awards. She won a $200 award as Second Place in the Senior Division of the UGA Libraries Undergraduate Research Awards; an International CURO Symposium Presenter Award, which provides for an all-expense-paid trip to the UGA campus in Costa Rica to participate in an international symposium with students from the University of Costa Rica; and was awarded the title CURO Scholar Distinction for her research credit, thesis, and CURO symposium presentation. Also, a rare distinction for an undergraduate—Lee Ellen and her research mentor, Dr. Fausto Sarmiento (in Geography) have submitted her research for publication in the Journal of Human Ecology; Lee Ellen is listed as the first author. Posted 4.7.08
Daniel Jordan, a second-year undergrad Anthropology and Comparative Literature major, received a $4000 Honors International Scholars Program grant from the UGA Honors Program. He will use this award funding to study at North Carolina State University's Summer Ethnographic Field School this summer from May to July. The school is run by Dr Tim Wallace. Posted 4.1.08
Dr. Virginia Nazarea was awarded a Faculty Development Assignment by Franklin College. One of the first to be awarded this research opportunity, she will use it to complete her book titled, Insubordinate Lives: Reclaiming a Heritage through the Repatriation of Traditional Crops in the Andes. Posted 4.1.08
Congratulations to Eial Dujovny, who has been selected by the American Anthropological Association as one of only five graduate student panelists for the Anthropology and Environment section's Rappaport Student Panel. The panel meeting will be held at the 2008 annual AAA meeting in San Francisco. Eial will be awarded travel money to attend the conference. Each panel member competes for the cash-awarded Rappaport Prize and will be provided mentors to help him develop his paper into a published article. Dr. Peter Brosius is Eial's major professor. Posted 3.26.08
Undergraduate Zach Anderson has won the 2008 Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) Summer Fellowship. This $2,500 award will help Zach carry out his projected research in Fiji, New Zealand, and Brazil this summer. Zach's research is tentatively titled "Multicultural Perspectives on Landscape Change." He'll be working alone in New Zealand; with a Brazilian anthropologist in Brazil, and with Dr. Pete Brosius as his research mentor here and in Fiji. Posted 3.17.08
At the 85th Annual Meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science meeting, and the first joint meeting between the Georgia and Florida Adademies of Science, Siavash Samei won the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Paper Award in Anthropology. His winning paper is titled "Tin Trade Failure in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Reason why the Late Bronze Age Civilizations of Eastern Mediterranean Fell." Jared Wood won the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award in Anthropology, with his paper "Mississippian Developments in the Lower Savannah." The meeting was held in Jacksonville, Florida, March 14-15.
Posted 3.17.08
Annie's Homegrown Natural Food Company (yes, the bunny pasta people) has awarded Jim Veteto a $2500 Sustainable Agriculture Scholarship.This nationally comeptetive award required a personal statement from each applicant, focused on his/her interests. Jim's is titled "Seeds of Persistence: The Ethnoecology of Agrobiodiversity Maintenance in the American Mountain South." Aomng his research goals is to learn why rural people persist in growing folk crop varieties, which knowledge he hopes will enable us to more easily incorporate heirloom vegetable varieties into sustainable agricultural systems. Dr. Robert Rhoades is Jim's major professor. Posted 3.6.08
Carol Colannino has won the 2007-2008 Joshua Laerm Award. This award honors the memory of Dr. Joshua Laerm, UGA professor and impetus behind the Georgia Museum of Natural History, and supports field or collection-oriented research which encompasses a broad interest in evolutionary processes and relationships among organisms in the natural world. Dr. Elizabeth Reitz is Carol's major professor. Posted 3.6.08
The Society for American Archeaology has awarded our graduate student Sarah Bergh the 2008 Dienje Kenyon Fellowship. This $500 fellowship supports research by women archaeologists in the area of Zooarchaeology as they pursue their early training. Dr. Elizabeth Reitz is Sarah's major professor . Posted 3.6.08
Four Anthropology graduate students have been awarded the Graduate School Dean's Award in the arts and humanities. Only 18 awards are made, so the department's performance is impressive—Each student who applied received the award. Jenna Andrews, Lisa Chaudhari, Ben Steere, and Sarah Bergh each receive $1000 to complete their dissertation research. This is the second consecutive year that Jenna has won this award. Posted 2.27.08
At the annual meeting in Washington D.C. from Nov. 28 through Dec. 2, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) awarded Ph.D. candidateSarah Hunt the Rappaport Prize for best student paper in the category of Anthropology and the Environment. Her paper is titled "Ecosystem science and engineering and the anthropology of trouble: Exploring tensions at the intersections of environmental values and scientific objectivity." Dr. Pete Brosius is Sarah's major professor. Posted 12.11.07
Senior Anthropology major Emily Carter has been awarded the James Douglas Parker scholarship through the Office of Student Financial Aid. This award recognizes academic achievement and is endowed by James Parker, UGA Ph.D. 1982. Emily, who is interested in cultural anthropology, has put in volunteer hours throughout her undergraduate career. Working first with Habitat for Humanity, Emily most recently has been working through the Christian Campus Fellowship to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. Posted 11.27.07
The Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society has awarded Dr. René Bobe a grant of $15,000 in support of his salvage of an archeological and paleontological site in the Ethopian highlands. “The Akaki-Fanta prehistory site salvage project” will protect the site on the Akaki and Fanta rivers near Addis Ababa from a proposed road as Dr. Bobe’s team surveys and documents it. The location will allow them to study early human adaptation to highland environments. Posted 11.21.07.
Dr. Kar Burns has been in Bogata, Colombia, working through her 2007 Fulbright. Dr. Burns has been teaching in the Anthropology Department at the University of the Andes this fall and will do so in the spring. We excerpt a conversation with her below, as an update:
My Fulbright application title is "Building Forensic Anthropology Capability in Colombia"
I am helping to build a master's program in biological anthropology and create better laboratory facilities for forensic anthropology. Also, I've become involved in a number of other projects -- an international mission on extrajudicial execution, forums on human identification, salvage archaeological work involving hundreds of pre-Colombian graves, and curation of skeletal materials for education and research at the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History.
At the invitation of the University of the Andes, I will be continuing to teach and work on the laboratory next semester (spring 2008). In addition to biological anthropology, I will be conducting a graduate seminar in anthropology and human rights. I will also be working on the excavation of a NN ("no nombre") cemetery outside of Bogota. Analysis and, hopefully, identification of victims will follow.
Find here an interview with her from the Los Andes magazine. Posted 11.21.07.
Carlos Garcia-Quijano, Ph.D. 2006, is featured in a profile of his graduate work in a nationally distributed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) publication. This magazine celebrates the 10th anniversary of the National Estuarine Research Reserve System's Graduate Research Fellowships. Dr. Garcia-Quijano is a 2003-2004 Fellow, who conducted NERRS-funded research in Jobos Bay Reserve, Puerto Rico. He'd like to encourage UGA Anthropology graduate students interested in coastal issues in the U.S. and U.S. territories to apply for the program. Here is the link to the publication: http://www.nerrs.noaa.gov/pdf/grfcelebration.pdf. Posted 11.7.07.
Graduate student Jenna Andrews is interviewed in the UGA Institute of Women's Studies fall newsletter. Read about her work and interests here: http://www.uga.edu/iws/IWSnewletter07.pdf. Posted 11.7.07.
Ginna Goode, a junior majoring in anthropology, is the winner of the department's 2007-2008 Melissa Hague Scholarship. Ginna works to improve the community through her volunteer work with both the Athens Area Homeless Shelter and Food Not Bombs. She participates in the Anthropology Society and the Women's Studies Student Organization, and is a member of the UGA chapter of Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society. The scholarship honors Melissa Hague, who was majoring in anthropology and anticipating field studies at the time of her death in 1996. Posted 11.6.07.
Graduate student Jessie Fly has been selected by the Wenner-Gren Foundation to recieve a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, for $8,500, in support of her research in Vietnam—"Unnatural Disasters: Coping Strategies and the Legacy of Agent Orange in the Mekong Delta." Jessie is currently in Vietnam, working in fulfillment of her 2007-2008 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Abroad Award. Dr. Ted Gragson is Jessie's major professor. Posted 11.5.07.
Dr. Julie Velásquez Runk, our newest faculty member, has earned support from the University of Georgia Research Foundation in the form of a Junior Faculty Grant. This program awards seed funding to tenure-track faculty, which enables recipients to begin their work as they explore avenues for external funding. Dr. Velásquez Runk's proposal is titled "Exploring Changes in Wounann Identity Through 490 Years of Wounann Myths from Colombia and Panama: A Preliminary Investigation with Collaborators." Her UGARF grant was awarded in the sciences. Posted 11.5.07.
Nemer Narchi, Anthropology graduate student, has just received recognition for his presentation at the Mexican Ethnobiological Association. His lecture, "Ethnozoomedicina maya: una revisión bibliografica," took place in Xoxocotián, Oaxaca, in March. Posted 10.5.07.
Lee Ellen Carter, an Anthropology undergraduate, is featured in the Honors Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) newsletter. This summer she traveled to Colacachi, Ecuador, a biologically rich area in the northern Andes, and met with indigenous community leaders and citizens, heads of nonprofit ecological conservation organizations, and regional tourism agencies. Lee Ellen's research focused on regional changes, such as a shift from traditional agricultural practices toward contemporarty tourist industry practices, that affect the indigenous communities both culturally and ecologically. Posted 9.28.07.
Todd Crane, Ph.D. August 2006, has accepted a faculty position at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He will be working in the Technology and Agrarian Development Chair Group (department) starting a research program on human dimensions of climate change. He will be start his new position on November 1. Since graduation, Todd has worked as a post-doctorial research anthropologist with the Southeast Climate Consortium, in UGA's Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Posted 9.6.07.
Lee Ellen Carter, a senior from Macon, is profiled in the Macon Telegraph as one of 27students who were awarded a summer research fellowship. Lee Ellen is studying the impact of tourism in Ecuador. Learn more about her interests at http://www.macon.com/198/story/70613.html Posted 6.29.07.
Jen Shaffer has won a 2007-2008 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. She'll continue her work in southeastern Africa, researching her dissertation: "Ronga Wild Plant Harvest and the Conservation of Coastal Savanna Landscape in Southern Mozambique." Ted Gragson is Jen's major professor.
Posted 5.3.07.
Maria Ruth Martinez has won a 2007-2008 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her work, "Ethnobotanical Knowledge Acquisition among Tsimano Children." She will be traveling to Bolivia to pursue her research. Maria Ruth's major professor is Brent Berlin.
Posted 5.2.07.
Kate Dunbar has won a 2007 Tinker Graduate Field Research Summer Travel Award, given by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, with generous support provided by the Tinker Foundation and the UGA Graduate School and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.These awards are granted to highly qualified students from any discipline interested in conducting research in the Spanish or Portuguese-speaking Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. Kate will travel to Peru this summer.
Posted 5.1.07.
Jessie Fly has been awarded a 2007-2008 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Abroad Award. The award is for $25,222 for 12 months. She'll be headed to Vietnam in the fall, to research her project, "Unnatural Disasters: Coping Strategies and the Legacy of Agent Orange in the Mekong Delta." Ted Gragson is Jessie's major professor.
Posted 5.1.07.
The Society of Applied Anthropology has elected Dr. Peter Brosius to the status of Fellow in the Society.
Posted 4.30.07.
Jenna Garland has been awarded a 2007-2008 Green Corps Environmental Organizing Fellowship. This national award provides a one-year, full-time paid ($23,750) environmental leadership training program.
Posted 4.30.07.
Jen Shaffer has attained the 2006-2007 U.S. Student Fulbright Award, given by the Institute of International Education/U.S. Department of State. Her dissertation prospectus, "Ronga Wild Plant Harvest and the Conservation of Coastal Savanna Landscape in Southern Mozambique Major," earned her the grant in the amount of $25,300 for 10 months. Jen's advisor is Dr. Ted Gragson. Posted 4.19.07.
Dr. Virginia Nazarea has been awarded the university's highest social science award, the William A. Owens Award for Creative Research. This award is given annually to recognize an outstanding body of nationally and internationally recognized scholarly or creative activities in the social and behavioral sciences. Read about her work and her selection for this honor by clicking here. Posted 4.18.07.
Lee Ellen Carter, an anthropology undergraduate, has received a $2,500.00 Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) 2007 Summer Fellowship to carry out research in Ecuador this summer: Ecoregional Conservation Among Indigenous Communities in Southern Imbabura Province, Ecuador. The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute is also promoting Lee Ellen's research with an award covering round-trip airfare. Posted 4.18.07.
The University of Georgia Research Foundation has awarded Joshua Lockyer $1,540 in foreign travel assistance to travel to the International Communal Studies Association annual conference (June 29-30, 2007 ), where he'll present a paper on his doctoral research titled "From Cultural Critique to Permaculture: Environmental Values and Contemporary Intentional Community Building" Posted 4.18.07.
Jenna Andrews has been awarded the 2007 Graduate School Dean's Award in the Arts and Humanities. The $1000.00 award is intended to help defray the cost of doing research for the dissertation or thesis and to assist in collecting data or performing other aspects of research. It will fund a portion of her dissertation research on migration and symbolic landscapes in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Posted 4.18.07.
Jim Veteto has won the 2006-07 J. William Fanning Graduate Leadership Fellowship ($5,000) awarded by the University of Georgia Graduate School for the academic year. Posted 4.18.07.
Doctoral Candidate Kelly Orr received the University of Georgia's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award 2006-2007 through the Center for Teaching and Learning. Posted 4.18.07.
Dr. Bram Tucker has been awarded a $173,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation for a year long (Jun 07-Jun 08) investigation of wealth, poverty, and subsistence decision-making in rural southwestern Madagascar. The project will examine whether social identity as Masikoro, Vezo, or Mikea versus resource needs predicts how people will cognitively judge the value of delayed rewards such as agriculture and risky rewards such as fishing and hunting. The project will involve three Malagasy collaborators and eight Malagasy graduate students from the Université de Toliara, plus UGA graduate students Amber Huff and Elaina Lill. It is hoped that this project will contribute to a better understanding of whether our subsistence decisions are socially learned as members of groups or a response to perceived poverty and need. Posted 4.18.07.
Benjamin Steere has been accorded an Honorable Mention from the committee evaluating the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship awards. The NSF application process is extremely competitive, and this honor goes only to proposals with great merit. Posted 4.18.07.
Dave Himmelfarb was awarded the 2006 Harold K. Schneider Student Prize in Economic Anthropology, in the graduate division, by the Society of Economic Anthropology. Established to both honor the society's first president and to interest new scholars in the field, the award includes a cash prize; membership in the SEA; a recent SEA volume of monographs and the opportunity for the author to share his research at the society's 2007 annual meeting in Greensboro, N.C., scheduled April 12 - 14. Himmelfarb will present his winning paper, "Moving People, Moving Boundaries: The Socio-economic Effects of Protectionist Conservation, Involuntary Resettlement and Tenure Insecurity on the Edge of Mt. Elgon National Park, Uganda."
Posted 4.07.
At the 84th Annual Meeting
of the Georgia Academy of Sciences, Victoria G. Dekle took the Most Outstanding
Undergraduate Paper in Anthropology award. Her winning paper is called "Making
Sense of a WPA Excavation: An Archaeological Reassessment of the Collections from
the Deptford Site (9CH2) in Chatham County, Georgia." The meeting was held in Albany
from March 30 - 31.
Posted 4.07
Amber Huff has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship. She will receive $122,500 over three years, which includes a stipend and a cost-of-education allowance. This fellowship is given annually to graduate students in science and engineering who demonstrate the potential to make significant contributions and innovations in research and teaching. Based on a nationally competitive application process, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship was awarded to 910 students pursuing advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics this year. Huff’s fellowship is one of only ten granted in the field of Cultural Anthropology.
The NSF award will permit Huff to continue her studies and pursue research in coastal Southwest Madagascar. She will examine relationships between conservation policy, economic decision-making, livelihoods, food insecurity and health. Posted 4.07
Jared Wood won
the graduate student paper award at the Georgia Academy of Science meeting,
Anthropology Section. His paper is titled "Chiefdoms of the Lower
Savannah."
Posted 4.07
Jenna Andrews has just been selected as Outstanding Graduate Student in Women's Studies
and will be featured in the WS Newsletter. She has been with them for
a year, and is completing a Women's Studies Certificate. This semester
she is Instructor for a course she developed, Women and Migration. Posted 4.07
Susan Tanner, Assistant
Professor, received $5,100 from the Faculty Research Grants Program
administered by the Office of the Vice President for Research, for her
proposal "Market Integration, Parental Knowledge and Childhood
Patterns of Infectious Disease in Lowland Bolivia: A Preliminary Investigation."
Lindsey Hall Thomas,
a UGA senior majoring in Underwater Archaeology, is a current recipient
of a Hollings
Scholarship awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA). This past summer Lindsey completed her Internship studies in
the recently designated Northwest Hawai'ian Islands National Marine
Monument, the largest marine protected area in the U.S. waters. She
participated in the research cruise of the NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai and
dove on four different shipwreck sites in this, most remote island archipelago.
The results of her summer field studies, form the core of her UGA CURO
research that will lead to an Honors thesis this coming spring. Dr.
Ervan Garrison is her academic advisor and was the former Marine Archaeologist
for NOAA (1990 -1992) before joining UGA's faculty. Lindsey presented
a summary of her research, at NOAA headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland,
this past month.
Tiffany Rinne (Dr.
Bram Tucker) received an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
and a Fulbright student award for her project "Cultural Meanings
and Acceptance of Genetically Modified Food and Crop Technology in the
United States and New Zealand".
John Primo (Dr.
Ted Gragson) was awarded the Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
for 2006, which is sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's (NOAA) National Sea Grant College Program.
Rebecca Witter
(Dr. Peter Brosius) received an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement
Grant and a Fulbright student award for her project "Human Mobility
and Tree Management in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park".
Dr. Robert Rhoades
received a Distinguished Research Professor Award from the Office of
the Vice President of Research This award recognizes outstanding national
and international research and creative achievements. Dr. Rhoades research
studies the ways that indigenous people’s traditional knowledge of
agriculture contributes to sustainable production, thus challenging
widespread assumptions that Third World farming systems are inefficient.
He demonstrated the need to incorporate traditional knowledge into policy
by illustrating how local knowledge must be crossed with scientific
understanding in order for villagers – who may not entirely understand
the concept of global warming – to cope with the melting of the Andean
glaciers.
The Trustees of
Exposition Foundation, Inc. have awarded a grant in the amount of $141,000
to the Institute for Latin American
and Caribbean Studies, formerly the Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies.
Joshua Lockyer
(Dr. Peter Brosius) received the inaugural Communal Studies Association
Research Fellowship in Spring, 2005.
The 2005-2006 Charles Hudson Anthropology Department Excellence in Teaching Award went to Kevin Jernigan (Dr. Brent Berlin) and Jared Wood (Dr. David Hally).
Kevin Jernigan (Dr. Brent Berlin) received the 2006 Office of Instructional Support and Development Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
Sarah Hitchner (Dr. Peter Brosius) and Tiffany Rinne (Dr. Carolyn Ehardt) were selected as winners of the 2006 Graduate School Dean's Award in the Arts and Humanities. The funds that accompany this award will defray the cost of doing dissertation research and help them complete their degree in a timely fashion.
Two graduate students
were honored with the 2006 Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award.
These students are Joshua Lockyer (Dr. Peter Brosius), and Milan Shrestha
(Dr. Robert Rhoades).
Matthew Compton (Dr. Elizabeth Reitz) won the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, in the Anthropology Section, at the 2006 annual meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science.
Jared Wood (Dr. David Hally) received a 2006 small grants award from the University of Georgia Center for Archaeological Sciences.
Adam Henne (Dr. Peter Brosius) received a Fulbright student award for September 2006 through June 2007 for a project entitled "The Social Life of Wood: Nature, Knowledge, and Commodity Fetishism in Chilean Forest Certification."
