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We would like to highlight the following honors and awards bestowed upon our faculty, staff and students and emeritus faculty...

2008/2009

  • CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2008-2009 HONORS STUDENTS IN ANTHROPOLOGY

  • Congratulations to Professor Kelly Askew, who has been selected for the 2009 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award. The award, established in honor of a former Dean of the School of Social Work, “recognizes University of Michigan faculty members on the Ann Arbor campus who have exhibited outstanding leadership in the area of cultural diversity.”

  • Congratulations to graduate student Katherine Fultz, winner of the 2009 Kelly McKinnell Memorial Award.

  • Congratulations to Sonja Luehrmann, who has been awarded the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of British Columbia.

  • Graduate student Guillermo Salas Carreno received a UM Institute for the Humanities Fellowship for the coming year.

  • Webb Keane has received a 2009 Faculty Recognition Award.

  • Recent grad Kimberly Clum was one of the 8 winners of Rackham's Distinguished Dissertation Award.

  • Graduate students Mary Kelaita and David Pappano have won 2009 Pollitzer Travel Prizes from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

  • Graduate student Eva-Marie Dubuisson has been awarded a fellowship at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.

  • Graduate student Catherine Bolten has won the 2008 University of California Press/Public Anthropology Competition. Her submission, "I Did It to Save My Life: Morality and Survival in Sierra Leone," deals with the moral compromises individuals made during the Sierra Leone civil war and, with the war over, how these individuals now strive to rebuild relationships and integrate back into communities.

    2007/2008

    Joyce Marcus was elected to the American Philosophical Society. She was this year’s only archaeologist elected.

    Conrad Kottak has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

    Joyce Marcus's book, Excavations at Cerro Azul, Peru: The Architecture and Pottery, has been awarded the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize.

    Katherine Fultz and Dave Pappano have received National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships.

    Frank Cody won a Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award.

    Josh Reno and Robin Nelson received the Rackham Oustanding GSI Award.

    Barbra Meek has been promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure.

    Kate Jellema received one of 8 Honorable Mentions in the Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Awards.

    Eva Dubuisson and Danna Agmon received predoctoral fellowships at the Humanities Institute.

    Margarita Huayhua and Christian Williams have been awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships, and Emily Wentzell is a first alternate.



    Past Awards and Honors

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