Three graduate students won prizes at the 2014 American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) meeting in Calgary:
Sandra Winters received the Sherwood Washburn Prize for her paper on “Primate camouflage as seen by felids, raptors, and conspecifics.”
Christina Bergey received an honorable mention for her paper on “Hybrid zone genomics: The structure of a baboon contact zone inferred from RAD tags.”
Catalina Villamil received an honorable mention for her paper on “An analysis of Homo erectus vertebral canal morphology and its relationship to vertebral formula variation in recent humans.”
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Congratulations to our Undergraduate Prize and Award Winners!
The following graduating seniors are this year’s recipients of the Anthropology prizes and awards:
Madalyn Danielson – Edward Sapir Award (co-recipient), presented to an outstanding senior with a joint major in Linguistics and Anthropology.
Samantha Held – Department of Anthropology Prize, presented to a senior who has demonstrated excellence in academic achievement and who shows promise in this field.
Ming Yan Kei – Edward Sapir Award (co-recipient), presented to an outstanding senior with a joint major in Linguistics and Anthropology.
Elizabeth Zhou – Annette B. Weiner Memorial Prize, presented for excellence in this field and service to the department.
Congratulations!
Professor Rayna Rapp Named a 2014 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
Noelle Stout to Present at Approaches to Capitalism Workshop at Stanford University
Noelle Stout to Present at Approaches to Capitalism Workshop at Stanford University on April 10 at 4pm!
Drawing on ongoing ethnographic research in the Californian Central Valley, Professor Noelle Stout presents research-in-progress which suggests that homeowners’ encounters with loan modification programs are profoundly reshaping the social institution of mortgaging. Professor Stout advances a perennial anthropological inquiry regarding credit-debt relations: what role does unpaid debt play in fostering social obligations? By applying models of debt formulated in so-called gift economies to a late-capitalist cultural milieu, this research shows how obligations between people remain central to financial markets, which are often characterized as devoid of mutuality.
Colloquia Lecture with Salini Shankar March 13th at 5pm
Weiner Memorial Lecture with Nicholas Thomas on April 3rd at 6pm
