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A Race to Save the Artifacts
Congratulations to Doris Duangboudda for receiving funding for her dissertation project "Consumer Demand in Postsocialist China"
Suzana Sawyer's newest publication released
Andrew Marshall awarded $10,000 grant from the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
Suzana Sawyer receives 2012-2013 Faculty Development Award
Don Donham to join the University of California Humanities Research Institute Residential Research Group in Irvine
Jeremy Till awarded $500 UC Davis Graduate Student Association Travel Award
UC Davis & Humanities Research Awards in Anthropology presented to graduate students Kristina Lyons and Andrew Tremayne for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Andrew Tremayne receives 2012-2013 Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship
2012-2013 NSF-DDIG Award granted to Amy Porter
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to Nicole Naar for 2012-2017
Congratulations to David Katz, recipient of the 2012-2013 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fellowship
Northern California Association of Phi Beta Kappa Fellowship for 2012 awarded to John Lambert
Amy Porter awarded Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fellowship for 2012-2013
Stefanie Graeter awarded SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship
The Pacific Rim Fellowship is presented to Camilo Sanz for 2012-2013
Congratulations to Adrian Yen for receiving three awards for 2012-2013
Professor Emerita Dr. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy awarded the 2012 J. I. Staley Prize for her book Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding (Harvard University Press, 2009)
Professor Smriti Srinivas and her UCSB colleague awarded UCHRI Working Group Award for 2012-2013
Congratulations to Jacob Culbertson for receiving a Dissertation Year Fellowship 2012-2013 from the Davis Humanities Institute
Professor Joseph Dumit & colleagues awarded a 6 year grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
The 2012 Robert E. Park Book Award presented to Professor Li Zhang for her text "In Search of Paradise"
Graduate Studies honors Tim Murphy on his recent Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award
Morteza Roodgar, Graduate Group in Comparative Palthology student, was awarded the 2012-2013 Clinical and Translational Science Award Fellowship
2012-2013 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant awarded to David Katz
Congratulations to Cristiana Giordano, the 2012-2013 UC Davis Hellman Fellow recipient
The National Science Foundation awards Professor James Smith a supplemental grant to support his project "The Anthropology of Coltan Mining in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo"
Ryan Schacht receives the 2012 Best Poster Prize at the Annual Meeting for Human Behavior and Evolution Society
Congratulations to Katie Demps and David Nolin who will be new faculty at Boise State University beginning Fall 2012
Congratulations to Meradeth Snow who will be a faculty member at the University of Montana starting Fall 2012
The Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures is one of the featured posts on the UC Humanities Forum
Jelmer Eerkens awarded $230,000 NSF grant for an interdisciplinary project with a colleague in Geology
Congratulations to Joe Dumit, who's newest book Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health, is now published by Duke University Press
Professor Lynne Isbell's Study on Gender Bias in Science Published in PLoS One
Provost's Undergraduate Fellowship awarded to Samuel Rose
Congratulations to Monique Borgerhoff Mulder (and colleagues) for a paper published this week in PNAS evaluating conservation strategies worldwide
Congratulation to Bruce Winterhalder, Martha Macri (and colleagues) for publishing a paper in Science on climate change and Mayan decline
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/specials/in-the-field-specials/fitzherbert-lion-killings/
Carly Whelan Awarded the 2013 James A. Bennyhoff Memorial Award
Caroline McKusick Awarded The 2013 Halperin Award
Kristina Lyons- Awarded University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Kristina Lyons- Awarded a Wenner-Gren Engaged Anthropology Grant
Maya Costa Pinto- Awarded UCD Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship
Jeremy Foin- 2013-14 Professors for the Future Program
Naomi Martisius- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Ryan Schacht Awarded a Provost's Dissertation Year Fellowship
Jane Saffitz-Awarded R.E.G Grant from NSF
Adam Liebman- Awarded UC Pacific Rim Graduate Fellowship
Mark Grote-Awarded the Social Sciences Dean's Staff Accomplishment Award for 2013
Marisol De La Cadena-President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology
Christyann Darwent- Awarded a National Science Foundation Grant
Jelmer Eerkens- Awarded a National Science Foundation Grant
Nicolas Zwyns- Awarded a Leakey Foundation Grant
Teresa Steele- Awarded a National Science Foundation Grant and a Leakey Foundation Grant
Kregg Hetherington-Guerilla Auditors awarded honorable mention.
Laura Meek- NSF Dissertation Grant
UC Day in D.C.: Roodgar talks up translational science
Lynne Isbell receives new NSF grant
Neandertals beat humans to the toolbox
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder receives new NSF grant
Lynne Isbell has been awarded a NSF grant
Suad Joseph's Book Published: Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: Disciplinary Approaches and Paradigms 2003-2013
Li Zhang- Appointed to 6yr term on Scientific Advisory Board for Social Anthropology
Laura Meek- Received a Wenner Gren Grant
Adam Liebman-Awarded Wenner-Gren dissertation Grant
Meg Crofoot- Awarded Wenner-Gren Engaged Anthropology Grant
Lynne Isbell interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered on October 28, 2013.
Suad Joseph- Awarded grant by the Open Society Institute Training for Gender Research
Congratulations to Andrew Marshall, who was selected as a 2013 Chancellor's Fellow
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and Tim Caro awarded a New Initiatives/Seed Grant for their project "Lions and Sukuma: Mitigating Conflict Across Tanzania" ($7000)
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, professor emerita of anthropology and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, has been selected to receive the academy's 2014 Award for Scientific Reviewing, this year recognizing achievement in the category of human-biosocial in
Graduate Student Curtis Atkisson awarded 2014-15 Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship.
Suad Joseph -Recipient of the 2014 UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement.
Cristiana Giordano awarded a 2014-15 Faculty Development Award
Susana Sawyer awarded a 2014-15 DHI Faculty Research Fellowship.
Former Undergraduates Grace Cesario (CUNY) and Chase Nunez (Duke) awarded 2014 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Graduate Student Susan Lagle awarded 2014 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Graduate Student Dena Clink awarded a 2014-15 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Malaysia
Graduate Student Whitney Larrat-Smith awarded a SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship
Graduate Students Peter Stamos and Whitney Larrat-Smith both awarded 2014 Wenner-Gren dissertation fieldwork grants. Congratulations!
The English version of Dr. Borgerhoff Mulder's book on The History and Traditions of the Pimbwe is now out:
Smriti Srinivas wins Mellon New Research Initiative
Marcos Martinez awarded Provost's Undergraduate Fellowship
Congratulations to Nick Lashinsky for receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for 2015-18!
Anthropology Museum Facebook page goes LIVE: https://www.facebook.com/pages/UC-Davis-Department-of-Anthropology-Museum/325876460904618
Mei-Chun Lee awarded Graduate Student Travel Award
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NICOLAS ZWYNS AWARDED UCDAVIS HELLMAN FELLOWSHIP AWARD
CONGRATULATIONS TO ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NICOLAS ZWYNS FOR BEING AWARDED A GRANT FROM THE LEAKEY FOUNDATION!
TORY BRYKALSKI AWARDED THE SUAD JOSEPH GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD FOR MIDDLE EAST AND/OR SOUTH ASIA STUDIES
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JOHN (JACK) KILLION AWARDED THE COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCES' HERBERT A. YOUNG AWARD.
CHELSEA SMITH awarded a Stable Isotope Facility Graduate Research Fellowship (2015-16)
Dr. Christyann Darwent was awarded an NSF-RAPID to mitigate eroding cultural resources in Shaktoolik, Alaska (July 2014).
Congratulations to Smriti Srinivas who will be co-coordinating a new research cluster. "Indian Ocean Imaginaries: Place-Making, Practices, and Networks" for 2014-2015!
Congratulations to Matt Nesvet, who will be coordinating the D.H.I. Multidisciplinary Psychoanalytic Research Cluster's "Freudian Sips" talks for 2014-2015!
Congratulations to Jane Saffitz for receiving a very competitive Fulbright Hays grant for research on albinos in Tanzania!
Monique Borgerhoff-Mulder has been invited to represent the UCD World Food Center at a Gates Foundation conference in Seattle, October 5-8.
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder was just awarded a $25K grant from National Geographic
Graduate Student Stefanie Graeter received an ACLS Mellon fellowship for dissertation write up. Congrats!
Graduate Student Jane Saffitz has received a Wenner Gren award for her project, "Becoming Albino in Tanzania"!
Graduate Student, Kevin N. Smith, featured in the California Aggie: http://www.theaggie.org/2014/05/19/uc-davis-forager-explores-wild-side-of-california/
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder featured in Dateline "Snubbing lion hunters could preserve the endangered animals" http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10927
Congratulations to Adrian Yen and Amy Porter for receiving the Social Sciences Dean's Doctoral Fellowship for Excellence Award!
Congratulations to Erum Syed for receiving the Dean's Staff Accomplishment Award!
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Congratulations to Professor Marisol De La Cadena for publishing her new book: EARTH BEINGS, ECOLOGIES ACROSS ANDEAN WORLDS
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New Publication by CARD (2016): RECONSTRUCTING LIFEWAYS IN ANCIENT CALIFORNIA, A. M. Greenwald and G. R. Burns (eds.)
Congratulations to Grad Student Susan Talcott who was awarded the UCD Provost's Dissertation Fellowship for 2016-17!
Congratulations to Dr. John Darwent who was awarded an NSF-RAPID from Polar Programs for fieldwork this summer: Archaeological Investigations at Iita, Greenland
Congratulations to Grace Davis (Primatology) and Justin Haruyama (Sociocultural Anthropology), second year graduate students, who were awarded 3-year NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
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Congratulations to Professor Smriti Srnivas who was given this year's Division of Social Sciences Dean's Leadership Award
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Congratulations to Cristiana Giordano her book Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy has been awarded second prize in the Victor Turner Prize competition for ethnographic writing.
Congratulations to Professor Smriti Srinivas on publishing her new book:A Place for Utopia: Urban Designs from South Asia. Seattle/Washington: University of Washington Press (Global South Asia series) (and in South Asia by Orient Blackswan)
Professor Lynne Isbell has been elected a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences
Curtis Atkisson awarded the Wenner Gren grant for Impacts of Shifts in Social Network Structure on Cooperative Behavior among the Makushi of Guyana
Naomi Martisius awarded the Wenner Gren Grant for Standardized bone tools: investigating a new technology in the Middle Paleolithic.
Graduate Programs is pleased to announce its Fall 2015 Rankings of the Top Anthropology Graduate Programs according to students, enumerating the best graduate programs in the country in a variety of fields based solely on ratings and reviews from current
Congratulations to Honors Class Ant 103, for being published on the ISS website
Congratulations to Naomi Martisius for being awarded $18,086 from NSF-Archaeology for her dissertation project: Standardized bone tools: investigating a new technology in the Middle Paleolithic!
ANT 210 - Fall 2015 Greg Pierotti and Cristiana Giordano
Professor Margaret Crofoot awarded 2016 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Professor Smriti Srinivas and Team Awarded Global Affairs Regional Grant
Professor Monique Borgerhoff Mulder awarded NSF Grant
Professor Monique Borgerhoff Mulder awarded UC Davis Seed Grant
2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Sarah Hrdy Awarded Honorary Doctor of Science
Suzana Sawyer Awarded the Prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship
Erum A. Syed awarded Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Grant
Laura Meek Awarded the Rudolf Virchow Award, Graduate Student Award
Muneeza Rizvi Awarded Wenner-Gren for her doctoral research
Publication by Graduate student Christian Doll
Cristiana Giordano awarded the 2017 Boyer Prize for her 2014 UC Press book: Migrants in Translation
Graduate student Jason Miszaniec received a North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) Graduate Student Research Award
Graduate student Grace Davis received a The Leakey Foundation grant
Faculty Dr. Nicolas Zwyns received a The Leakey Foundation grant
UC Davis undergrads, grad and faculty mentor win the BEST POSTER award at C-WESS 2018
2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Graduate student Mayowa Adegboyega selected to be part of the 2018-2019 Professors for the Future class
Congratulations to the recipients of support from the Sacramento Archaeological Society!
From Tool Use in Primates to Animal Movement: Animal Behavior Graduate Student Claudio Monteza-Moreno
Silvia Gruner in conversation with Tarek Elhaik
Cole Williams '20 named "Undergraduate of the Year" by College of Biological Sciences
ANT Undergrad Valencia Scott named as "Aggie Hero" and 2019-20 Student Advisor to Chancellor
Dr. Jeffrey Kahn awarded 2019 Haitian Studies Association Avant Garde Book Prize
Biodiversity Museum Day, February 15, 2020.
Dr. Naomi Martisius, recent UC Davis Anthropology Ph.D., was a recent Fulbright Scholar and contributed to UC Davis being recognized as a top-ranked producer of Fulbright Scholars
Dr. Cristina Moya and Colleagues Awarded NSF RAPID Grant for Covid-19 Research
Dr. Christyann Darwent Awarded Distinguished Teaching Award
Dr. Brenna Henn Awarded NIH Maximizing Investigators Research Grant for Early Stage Investigators
Dr. Naomi L. Martisius, who earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2019, published dissertation research on Neandertal bone technology in Scientific Reports on May 8, 2020
The "Immunity passport": new forms of biological citizenship post-COVID-19
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Dr. Randy Haas Awarded UC Davis Hellman Fellowship for 2020
Luis Flores-Blanco Awarded an IFEA Carlos Brignardello Research Grant for 2020
Sara Watson Awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for 2020
Dr. Teresa Steele awarded the Graduate Program Mentoring and Advising Award for 2020
Dr. Suad Joseph awarded the Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship for 2020-21
Distinguished Professor Emerita Monique Borgerhoff Mulder has been funded by the National Science Foundation to examine whether relationships between communities improves resource conservation in Tanzania.
The UC Davis Majors Blog features Anthropology in their recent post!
Dr. Alan Klima awarded the 2020 Bateson Book Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology
Woman the hunter: Ancient Andean remains challenge old ideas of who speared big game - Dr. Randy Haas
Gorilla family feuds: violent encounters between gorillas slow population growth - Dr. Damien Caillaud
Jeffrey Kahn awarded the 2020 Herbert Jacob Book Prize
Jeffrey Kahn awarded the 2020 Isis Duarte Book Prize
Valencia Scott '20 Named Marshall Scholar
National Academy of Sciences elects Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology at UC Davis, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder in 2021
Dr. John Darwent interview: ONGOING RESEARCH IS DIGGING INTO THE HISTORY of one of Alaska’s oldest archaeological sites. Take a look at an extraordinary artifact trove and the people that call it home.
Professor Suzana Sawyer granted a Wenner-Gren Foundation Conference/Workshop Award
Associate Professor, Brenna Henn receives grant for international projects.
New article led by UC Davis archaeologists outlines paths for peopling of the Tibetan Plateau
Distinguished Professor Suad Joseph receives ACLS grant for her project Decolonizing the Representation of Muslim Women in the Media: Training Next Generation Journalists
New article shows social and ecological challenges to sleep in our primate relatives
Associate Professor Jeffrey Kahn selected to be a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford for 2022-23
Graduate student Dana Al-Hindi receives National Science Foundation (Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant)
Graduate student Patricio Cruz y Celis Peniche receives National Science Foundation (Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant).
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Robert Bettinger elected a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences in 2021
Professor Lynne Isbell and Professor Emerita Sarah Hrdy elected as 2022 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Associate Professor Tarek Elhaik appointed as co-director of CIFAR Research Program
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that there is an association between how songs sound and their place in our emotional lives.
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