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Erum A. Syed, Chief Administrative Officer of the department, has been awarded a $5,000 Diversity and Innovation Grant. The grants are designed to support the ideas of UC Davis students, faculty, and staff that promote and enhance diversity and inclusion at the University.

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

Suzana Sawyer has been awarded the prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for 2017-1018 for her research project “Suing Chevron: Law, Science, and Contamination in Ecuador and Beyond." Founded in 1919, the ACLS is the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences whose endowment is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Council’s Research University Consortium.

Professor Emerita Sarah Hrdy, who will be awarded the Doctor of Science degree, honoris causa, from Emory University in May for her "extraordinary career as a scientist, a primatologist, theorist ... and master of English prose."

This seed grant was awarded by UC Davis Global Affairs for research in Tanzania.

Crofoot is among just 18 early-career scientists nationwide to receive the notable award this year.

ANT 210 – Fall 2015

Tuesday, 10:00 am-1:00 pm

224 Young Hall

Greg Pierotti and Cristiana Giordano

I’ve long thought that teaching and learning anthropology should be more fun than they often are. Perhaps we should not merely read and comment on ethnographies, but actually perform them. [...] How, then, may this be done?

Victor Turner, Ritual to Theater, p. 89

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!

Curtis Atkisson awarded the Wenner Gren Gran for "Impacts of Shifts in Social Network Structure on Cooperative Behavior among the Makushi of Guyana".

Marcos Martinez awarded Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship for his proposal:

Life History and Weaning Age at an Archaeological Site in the San Francisco Bay Area

Congratulations Marcos!

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 interactions.

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Cristiana Giordano's 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.