Category Archives: Graduate Students

Data Rescue Event a Massive Success

Anthropology in NYC, Anthropology in the Field, Faculty Research, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students

On Saturday, February 4th, 2017, several students from the Department led by Professor Jerome Whitington, participated in a Data Rescue event designed to archive and protect several websites on climate change, environmental data, and energy usage that could be threatened by our current Trump administration. Below is a statement from Professor Whitington detailing the success of the event:

“[The event] went off extremely well – about 160 people were involved, we archived a lot of federal websites and data especially from the Dept of Energy and Dept of Interior, and some other important work as well.It’s pretty heartening to see so many people engaged with environmental information and regulatory systems to such a degree of detail. Notably, we hosted a meeting among some key librarians around the country. It seems university librarians have been discussing a plan to systematically archive government data for about two decades, and some work has been done but there has never been a push to actually get it running. Due to the popular demand for this, there is now a movement for big libraries to create trusted data reserves linked in with their indexing systems. If this comes online it will be a very big win for us.”

The event was also covered extensively in the press. You can read articles about it here, here, here, and here.

Fred Myers and Desiree Baron Win 3rd Annual Miriam K. Chamberlain Award

Faculty Research, Graduate Students, Prizes and Awards

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Professor Fred Myers and Doctoral Student Desiree Baron have been awarded the 3rd annual Miriam K. Chamberlain award! The Miriam K. Chamberlain award is presented by the International Center for Research on Women, and goes to scholars who’s research “exemplify Mariam’s commitment to mentorship in support of women’s high-level scholarly achievement.”

You can read more about Desiree and Fred’s research, here.

Congratulations to Desiree and Fred!

2015-2016 Graduate Student Awards!

Graduate Students, Prizes and Awards

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.

New Funding Opportunity from the Center for Religion and Media

Graduate Students, Prizes and Awards

The Center for Religion and Media is pleased to announce a new grant opportunity for post-doctoral fellows. The grant is in relation to a new project entitled Religious Stakes in Digital Times: Scholars and Journalists in conversation will initiate new work on the role of religion in international affairs. Carrying forward an evolving sense of what “international” means, the grant will foster new research, writing, and exchange on the role of religion in the world today. As Professor Angela Zito, co-director of the Center for Religion and Media (CRM) and principle investigator on the grant, explains, “We understand international to mean something that comprises both us and them, inextricably linked by, and overflowing beyond, borders that are increasingly blurred through digital instantaneous communication. Religious experience, like so many other forms of experience in a digitally linked world, travels fast, and travels globally.”

Read more about the new grant in this press release.

2nd Annual Native American and Indigenous Film Festival held at NYU

Anthropology in NYC, Graduate Students, Talks

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From Indian Country Media: “Earlier this month, the Native American and Indigenous Students’ Group (NAISG) at New York University, guided by many mentors, hosted several days of Native American films and filmmakers to highlight indigenous storytelling. It was packed house a few weeks ago at the second annual Native American and Indigenous Film Festival. The event opened with the group’s Vice President, Andrew Begay, a junior in the College of Arts and Science studying French and Linguistics…[The Festival] was then followed by the New York City premiere of Angelo Baca’s feature documentary film, Into America: The Ancestor’s Land, which depicted the story of Angelo Baca’s grandmother, Helen Yellowman, through her own reflections and words in the Navajo language as they road tripped back to their rightful and ancestral home. Both films were applauded for their beauty, distinct from one another, yet similar in that they told intricate and compelling stories.”

Congratulations to Angelo, one of Department’s Ph.D candidates, for this amazing achievement!

You can read more about the Festival here.

You can read more about Angelo’s current research on his Departmental profile.