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Monique Borgerhoff Mulder has been awarded $249,153.00 from NSF Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (IBSS) for a project called "The Nature of Wealth, Wealth Inequality, and the Polygyny Paradox", with Sam Bowles (Santa Fe Institute) and Rob Boyd (Arizona State).

The English version of Dr. Borgerhoff Mulder's book on The History and Traditions of the Pimbwe is now out:

http://admin.africanbookscollective.com/books/the-history-and-traditions-of-the-pimbwe

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder was just awarded a $25K grant from National Geographic Society's Big Cats Initiative Grants Program for her continued project in Tanzania trying to control lion killing through a campaign (WASIMA) to support collective action policing by the local community.

Valencia Scott, an undergraduate double majoring in anthropology and international relations, was recently named as an "Aggie Hero" by the Office of the Chancellor. She will be one of the speakers at the UC Davis Fall Welcome on Monday, September 23rd!

Suad Joseph's new edited book has been published: Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: Disciplinary Approaches and Paradigms 2003-2013. (Leiden: Brill, 2013)

Smriti Srinivas. 2015. 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)

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Their work examines five decades of data to evaluate the role of social behavior on growth rate in a subpopulation of mountain gorillas monitored by the Fossey Fund. “The Virunga gorilla population has been increasing for almost 40 years, but its habitat has not.

Distinguished Professor Emerita, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, is a human behavioral ecologist who continues to work on projects relating to life history, inequality, natural resource management, and patterned cultural variation. In 2021, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences for her body of work addressing "big questions" about our species: Why do people marry?

Saud Joseph has been awarded the 2014 UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement.

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TEACHING PRIZE WINNER IS A GARDENER WHO SOWS WISDOM IN THE CLASSROOM

This interdisciplinary research project will examine how people's connections within social networks affect whether they gain or lose wealth over time.

Cristiana Giordano has been awarded a 2014-15 Faculty Development Award.

Saud Joseph has been awarded the 2014 UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement.

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TEACHING PRIZE WINNER IS A GARDENER WHO SOWS WISDOM IN THE CLASSROOM

Andrew Marshall, Department of Anthropology — “He pursues questions of deep theoretical significance, and of vital applied importance, such as the conservation of great apes,” Dean George Mangun wrote in his nomination letter. “His approach is to apply the modern tools of theoretical ecology.