This year we held a departmental graduation and award ceremony as the University ceremonies were cancelled due to the COVID-19 crisis. We took our ceremony online via Zoom on May 8th, 2020.
Spring Graduation 2020
Undergraduate Student Awards
Voegelin Paper Prize
Victoria Kvitek
Singing How to Die: Mortuary Practices as Recorded in American Folk Music
Course: ANTH-B 400 Mortuary Practices, Prof. Cook
Coleton Hast (Honorable Mention)
The Language of the Last Dynasty: Reassessing the Viability of Manchu Language Revitalization
Course: ANTH-L 400 Language Revitalization, Prof. Lesourd
Stuart Sones (Honorable Mention)
Mariachi of the Midwest: Musical Expressions of Ethnic Belonging in the Heartland
Course: ANTH-E200 Introduction to Sociocultural
Anthropology, Prof. Sterling
Friends of Anthropology Undergraduate Research Scholarship
This competitive scholarship/grant opportunity (up to $1000) supports on or off-campus research for undergraduate students pursuing majors in Anthropology. Awards of up to $1,000 are available for undergraduate students to fund.
Kristin Murray
Honors thesis research: Optimizing methods for facial symmetry and facial recognition in Howler Monkeys Advisor: Prof. Wasserman
Phi Beta Kappa Spring 2020
*attending
Lauren R. Schumacher*
Miriam E. Fakhouri
Chloe D. McCormick*
Madeline R. Everhart
Stuart Sones*
Graduate Student Awards
David Bidney Graduate Paper Prize
A prize of $200.00 awarded for the best paper written by a graduate student for a regular course during the previous calendar year.
Jeremy Coburn On the Status of the Hadza Language and
its Maintenance Course: ANTH L600 Proseminar in
Ethnography of Communication: Language Revitalization,
Prof. Lesourd
Harold K. Schneider Graduate Paper Prize in Economic Anthropology
A prize of $200.00 awarded for the best paper in Economic Anthropology, broadly defined to include material culture, archaeology, and food studies, written by an anthropology graduate student during the previous calendar year.
Mackenzie Cory Cultural Resource Management Project
Design at the Intersection of Archaeological and Economic
Interests Course: A595 International Cultural Resource
Management, Prof. Pyburn
Associate Instructor Awards
Torie DiMartile (ANTH-A 122)
Mackenzie Cory ( AI-taught course)
Lucy Miller Dodds &
Sara Minard (AIs for Prof. Brondizio)
BAs in Anthropology
Ryann Adam*
Emily Brandon
Ariel Creal*
Zayla Crocker
Kaeley Geschke*
Abigail Gornto
Jared Greenberg
Maclaren Guthrie
Coleton Hast (Honors)*
Greta Herbertz (Honors)*
Alexandra Jacobs (Honors )*
Lauren Janicki
*attending
Jacob Kraus
Victoria Kvitek (Honors)*
Lara Martinez
Chloe McCormick (PBK )*
Kristin Murray
David Randall
Alanna Robertson
Sara Schumacher*
Nora Smith
Abigail Thompson
Benjamin Turpin
Yuyang Ye
PHDs in Anthropology
Feray Baskin Communicative Practices and Social Integration: An Intergenerational Study of Women of Turkish Descent in Northeastern France (Graber & Suslak)
Madeline Chera* Tamil Traditions: Women Cooking and Eating for Heritage and Health in South India (Wilk)
Catalina Fernández The evolutionary role of dietary adaptations and their health outcomes among indigenous people of Chile (Wiley)
Kaeleigh Herstad * Reclaiming Detroit: Urban Blight & Contested Heritage on the Postindustrial Frontier (Pyburn)
Krystiana Krupa* Repatriating Ancient Biosamples: Understanding the Interplay between Tribal Knowledge,
Anthropological Science, and NAGPRA (Kaestle)
Emma McDonnell (Re)Producing "Indian Food": Race, Value, and Development in Peru's Quinoa Boom-Bust (Brondizio & Wilk)
Savannah Leach Newell* Up in Smoke: Tobacco Consumption in the Prehistoric American Midwest (Cook)
Elena Popa* Romanian and Roma Migration to France after 1989: Citizenship, Precarity, and Hierarchies of Deservedness (Phillips)
Lindsey Pullum* Faithful/Traitor: Violence, Nationalism,
and Performances of Druze Belonging (Gilley)
Emily Buhrow Rogers* Choctaw Arts and the Meaning of
Making (Jackson & Royce)
Julie Johnson Searcy* Birth in Post-apartheid South Africa:
Care, Disease, Violence and Race (Goodman & Phillips)
John Christopher Upton Culture on Trial: Law, Custom, and Justice in a Taiwan Indigenous Court (Friedman)
Liz Watts-Malouchos* Assembling Mississippian
Communities: Integration, Identity, and Everyday Practices
in the Angel Hinterlands (Alt)
Faculty Awards
Trustees Teaching Awards
Stacie M. King
Jennifer Meta Robinson
Anya Peterson Royce
IU Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
Kate Graber
Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor
Sarah Osterhoudt
Promotion to Full Professor
Susan Alt
Tom Schoenemann
Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Eduardo Brondizio
The College of Arts