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Kudos List for Grad Students 2009 |
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Friday, 05 June 2009 |
JOBSMARIA CRUZ-TORRES, an alumna of our program, is an Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies, Arizona State University, in the Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies.
PUBLICATIONSLINCOLN ADDISON published an article, entitled, "Fertile Ground: Organizing Migrant Farm Workers in Limpopo" in the South Africa Labour Bulletin (Vol. 32, No. 3) October 2008 issue.
BRIA DUNHAM is the co-author of the following article: Campbell, Lorne, Lee Cronk, Jeffry Simpson, Alison Milroy, Carol Wigington, and Bria Dunham. In press. The association between men?s ratings of women as desirable long-term mates and individual differences in women's sexual attitudes and behaviors. To appear in _Personality and Individual Differences_.
DREW GERKEY co-authored a paper with Lee Cronk and William Irons, entitled, "Interviews as experiments: using audience effects to examine social relationships," that has been accepted for publication in the journal _Field Methods_.
KARI PRASSACK is the co-author of a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Human Evolution, entitled "Environments and activity traces of Oldowan hominins across the FLK Peninsula during Zinjanthropus times (1.84 Ma), Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania,” by RJ. Blumenschine, IG. Stanistreet, JK. Njau, MK. Bamford, FT. Masao, H Stollhofen, P Andrews, Y Fernández-Jalvo, KA. Prassack, RM. Albert, L J. McHenry, E L. Camilli and JI. Ebert.
SARAH SCHAEFER's research on mountain gorillas was featured in an article, entitled, "Gorillas in Our Midst," in the Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Quarterly in Fall 2008. Sarah also provided a CD of her recordings of the vocalizations of the gorillas at the Sedgwick County Zoo for the libraries at ChimpanZoo, a program of the Jane Goodall Institute in Tucson, Arizona and Gorilla Haven, a sanctuary for gorillas in Morganton, Georgia. An article on her research was featured on the Gorillas Online website, the main source of information on gorilla natural history and conservation on the internet.
HELEN WASIELEWSKI co-authored the following paper: Cronk, L., and Wasielewski, H. 2008. "An unfamiliar social norm rapidly produces framing effects in an economic game." _Journal of Evolutionary Psychology_.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
CHELSEA BOOTH is a Fellow this year at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis in conjunction with their seminar on "Vernacular Epistemologies."
LISA DANISH received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and a Leakey Foundation grant to support her research project, "Alternative Mating Strategies: 'Following' in Male Olive Baboons in Kenya."
CHAUNETTA JONES was awarded a one-month extension for her Fulbright IIE Fellowship and was also awarded a Social Science Research Council Dissertation Completion Grant to defer the cost of conference travel, equipment, books, journal subscriptions, software, and other activities that support the investigation of data sources, field sites, data sets and archival materials ($2,500).
SARAH WISE received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant to conduct dissertation fieldwork for her project, "Fluid Boundaries: Property, Conservation, and the Global in Andros Island, The Bahamas."
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
LINCOLN ADDISON presented a paper, entitled, "The End of Paternalism? Shifting Labour Relations in the Soutpansberg Zone," at a workshop entitled "Political Economies of Displacement in Post-2000 Zimbabwe" held at the University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
BRIA DUNHAM presented a paper at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual conference in Kyoto, Japan. The paper is entitled "Sexual conflict over spousal obligations revealed through audience effects" and is co-authored by Lee Cronk & Shannon Steadman.
DREW GERKEY was selected as a "Young Researcher" and invited to present a paper based on his dissertation research, entitled, "Cooperative networks and collective institutions: opportunities and dilemmas for development on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula," at the Northern Research Forum's 5th Open Assembly in Anchorage, AK on September 27th, 2008.
EMILY McDONALD presented a paper, entitled, "Medical Tourism to Buenos Aires: Online Stories about Surgery in the 'Paris of South America' " as part of the "Moving Stories in Medicine" panel at the annual conference of the American Anthropological Association in November in San Francisco.
KARI PRASSACK gave a talk August 18-23 at the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution Conference in Sydney, Australia titled; "Using neo-taphonomic observations to understand Plio-Pleistocene fossil bird bone assemblages at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania."
NELL QUEST was one of two France Fulbrighters to be selected to attend a week-long Fulbright seminar on the EU and NATO in March in Brussels, Luxembourg, and Bruges. Nell also was accepted to present her work at an interdisciplinary symposium of artists, urban planners, architects, and scholars on "Nutopia: exploring the metropolitan imagination" in Cardiff at the beginning of April.
SATSUKI TAKAHASHI is a research fellow this year at the prestigious Institute of Social Science in Tokyo. She presented two papers at conferences in the fall: one in October at the World Fisheries Conference in Yokohama about young fishermen’s groups and their implications for their co-ops’ coastal resource management, and the second at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco in November, about changes in fishermen's masculinity and the implications of fishing technology innovations and fishing-related policy changes.
DEGREES EARNEDIn addition, the following students have earned degrees over the past six months:
_*Earned Ph.D. in Anthropology*_
Ju-Chen Chen
Johnelle Lamarque
Jack McCoy
Edgar Rivera-Colon
Marc Shur
Monserrat Soler Cruz
_*Earned M.A. in Anthropology and Achieved Doctoral Candidacy*_
Lisa Danish
Chaunetta Jones
Nancy Moinde-Fockler
Nell Quest
Chigusa Yamaura
_*Earned M.A. in Anthropology*_
James Kotcho
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