Category Archives: Prizes and Awards

New Funding Opportunity from the Center for Religion and Media

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.

Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life

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Congratulations to alumnus Lucas Bessire (University of Oklahoma) on winning the Gregory Bateson Book Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Book Prize for Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life (University of Chicago press, 2014).  

Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life
In 2004, one of the world’s last bands of voluntarily isolated nomads left behind their ancestral life in the dwindling thorn forests of northern Paraguay, fleeing ranchers’ bulldozers.  Behold the Black Caiman is Lucas Bessire’s intimate chronicle of the journey of this small group of Ayoreo people, the terrifying new world they now face, and the precarious lives they are piecing together against the backdrop of soul-collecting missionaries, humanitarian NGOs, late liberal economic policies, and the highest deforestation rate in the world.

Anthropology Undergraduates Receive Departmental Prizes

As the 2014-2015 academic year winds to a close, The Department of Anthropology would like to congratulate the following Undergraduate Students as recipients of our three Departmental Prizes.
Natalie Cohen, recipient of the Edward Sapir Prize
Artricia Rasyid, recipient of the Annette B. Weiner Memorial Prize
Julia Apoznanski, recipient of the Anthropology Department Prize
Congratulations to Natalie, Artricia, and Julia and good luck on all of your future endeavors!

Terry Harrison Wins Golden Dozen Teaching Award

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The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Professor Terry Harrison is a recipient of a 2015 Golden Dozen Teaching Award.
Each year, the College of Arts and Science recognizes faculty for their outstanding contribution to learning in the classroom. Twelve faculty members are chosen to receive Golden Dozen Teaching Awards from nominations submitted by CAS students and faculty.
Please join us in congratulating Terry on this very well deserved recognition!