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

Augustin Holl received a LSA/OVPR Humanities Award.

` Michael Hathaway won the Rappaport Award.

Loring Brace has received the Charles Darwin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Physical Anthropology. This is the highest honor a physical anthropologist can receive. Professor Brace joins previous award winners from our department, Stanley Garn and Frank Livingstone.

Norma Diamond will be honored at a session during the 2005 American Anthropological Association meetings.

Webb Keane will be a Suntory and Toyota Distinguished Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics in October and November 2005.

Conrad Kottak was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for the 225th class elected into the academy.

Judy Irvine received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Institute for the Humanities Fellowship.

Elisha Renne received an Institute for the Humanities Fellowship.

Severin Fowles received the SAA's 2005 Dissertation Award.

Judy Irvine received a LSA/OVPR Michigan Humanities Award.

Erica Lehrer received a Society for Humanistic Anthropology Student Paper Prize and a finalist for the Raphael Patai Prize.

Britt Halvorson received a Rackham Outstanding GSI Award.

Laurie Marx received a Staff Spotlight award.

Katherine Verdery won the John D'Arms Graduate Mentoring Award.

Katherine Verdery's book "The Vanishing Hectare" won the Douglass Award.

Barbra Meek received a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship.

Congratulations to Linda Bardeleben, who was chosen for an LSA Staff Spotlight!(11/24/2003)

Congratulations to Joyce Marcus, who has been honored by the Mexican state of Campeche for 30 years of research in the area. (11/24/2003)

Congratulations to Kelly Askew, whose book "Performing the Nation" was a finalist for the African Studies Association Herskovitz prize. (11/24/2003)

Congratulations to Gayle Rubin, who will be the honoree for the 2003 annual Kessler Lecture for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in December. (10/27/2003)

David Cohen is the recipient of a 2003 John D'Arms Award for Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities. This is a well-deserved honor and indicates the University's recognition of David's commitment to his present and former graduate students. (10/27/2003)

Congratualtions to Katherine Verdery, who has been elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies!

Congratulations to Gillian Feeley-Harnik, who has been awarded a Collegiate Professorship! The associated public lecture will likely be in Fall Term 2003. Details will be announced as soon as they are arranged.

Congratulations to Holly Peters-Golden, who has received an LS&A Excellence in Education Award.

At the Middle East Studies Association annual meetings last week, two recent UM PhDs, Ilana Feldman and W. Flagg Miller, were co-winners of the prestigious Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award for Outstanding Research in the Social Sciences.

Congratulations to Rachel Caspari, who has been elected to the Ethics Committee of the American Anthropological Association as the biological anthropology representative.

Congratulations to Milford Wolpoff, who has been elected to the rank of Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Congratulations to Erik Mueggler, who has been named a 2002 MacArthur Fellow!

Congratulations to Jeff Parsons, who has received a University of Michigan Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award for 2002.

Congratulations to Erik Mueggler, who was one of fifteen faculty members who received a Faculty Career Development Award in a competition held this spring.

Two of our graduating seniors have won the Virginia Voss Award for Senior Women Writers: Serena Roth, for her honors thesis, "One God, One City, Two Worlds: Identity and Survivalism Among Reform and Hasidic Jewry of New York City", and Teagan Schweitzer, for her honors thesis, " These are the slaves that worked the fields that lived on the farm that George owned: A Comparison of Enslaved Field Hands at Two Mt. Vernon Farms."

Congratulations to Eva Marie Dubuisson, who won the Lurie Award for outstanding GSI in Honors teaching.

Congratulations to Sylvia Amlser, Bridget Guarasci and Maria Perez, who have received the Department's "Kenya Mayfield Service Award" funded from the Departmental Discretionary Fund (funds from alum and faculty donations).

Congratulations to Keith Hunley, Joshua Irizarry, Jeffrey Jurgens and Nicola Knight, who have received the Department's "Outstanding GSI Award", funded from the "Rappaport Memorial Fund".

Congratulations to Samuel Duwe and Natalie Moran, who have received the Department's "Undergraduate Service Award", funded from the "The Daniel Carl Maier Fund", donated by Jospehine and Wallace Creek, and the "Muriel and David Derrow, and Richard Goodman Fund", donated by Dr. Charles Derrow

Congratulations to Ken Henrick, who has received a departmental "Undergraduate Research Award", funded from the "The Daniel Carl Maier Fund", donated by Jospehine and Wallace Creek, and the "Muriel and David Derrow, and Richard Goodman Fund", donated by Dr. Charles Derrow

Congratulations to Katherine Verdery, who was recently elected to the Board of the SSRC as the representative from the AAA.

Congratulations to Andrew Shryock for winning the year 2002 Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award for outstanding teaching of undergraduates, awarded by the LSA Executive Committee.

Congratuations to Milford Wolpoff. His article "Modern human ancestry at the peripheries: a test of the replacement theory" in Science has been named one of Discover magazine's top 100 Science stories for 2001.

Congratualtions to Augustin Holl. His Holl's coauthored book "Ancient African Metallurgy: The Sociocultural Context" is the "Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year."

Congratulations to Professor Alaina Lemon. Her book "Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism", has been named the recipient of this year's Vucinich Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), and the Heldt prize of the AAASS, awarded for the best book by a woman in Slavic Studies.

Cogratulations to Bill and Yvonne Lockwood, who were awarded the Sophie Coe Prize in Food History for their essay "Continuity and Adaptation in Arab American Foodways".

Congratulations to Professor Webb Keane, who has received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

Congratulations to Professor Judith Irvine, who has been elected to the executive board of the American Anthropological Association.

Congratulations to Professor Henry Wright, who was awarded a prestigious Collegiate Fellowship from the College of Literature, Science and the Arts.

Current Awards and Honors

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