The Anthropology Department is thrilled to announce that several of our graduate students have received awards and fellowships for 2015-2016! Please see below for the complete list of winners.

Eugenia Kisin is recipient of the 2015-2016 Dean’s Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences, which recognizes excellence in the preparation and completion of the Ph.D. dissertation.

Amy Field, Louis Romer and Eli Dollarhide have each been awarded the 2015-2016 Dean’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award in the Social Sciences, which recognizes outstanding teaching by graduate students.

Alex Decasien, Nathan Madson and Schuyler Marquez each received GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowships, which are awarded to outstanding doctoral students conducting preliminary dissertation research. The award enables students to visit research sites, such as archival resource facilities, laboratories, and fieldwork locations that will be useful for later dissertation research.

Vijayanka Nair has been awarded the GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, which recognizes excellence and exceptional promise in the work of advanced graduate students who are writing their doctoral dissertations.

Sarah Riccardi has been awarded the GSAS Patricia Dunn Lehman Fellowship for summer research, which is given annually to an outstanding advanced doctoral student working toward a dissertation in the field of arts in American society.

Tyler Zoanni has been awarded the GSAS Elaine Brody Fellowship for the Humanities, which recognizes excellence and exceptional promise in the work of graduate students who are conducting doctoral dissertation research.