Several doctoral students won awards and prizes for their presentations at the recent American Association of Physical Anthropologists meetings in St. Louis.
Maryjka Blaszczyk – Sherwood Washburn Prize for her paper entitled “Boldness in wild vervet monkeys individual differences and consistency across contexts.”
Megan Petersdorf – AAPA Primate Interest Group Award for her paper on “What can the skeleton tell us about flanging? Hard-tissue markers of cheek flanges in Mandrillus”
Catalina Villamil – Honorable Mention for her paper on “The influence of cranial and postcranial integration on the evolution of hominin basicranial morphology.”
Congratulations!

NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies is once again offering small grants for summer or term-time study through its Antonina S. Ranieri International Scholars Fund. These grants are intended to support academic travel abroad by Arts and Science undergraduate or graduate students who are studying any aspect of the ancient world. Grants are generally under $2,000 and may be taken in conjunction with other awards. The Ranieri Fund supports both independent study (e.g., research in foreign libraries) and participation in formal programs (e.g., Goethe Institute language courses, archaeological digs, and international conferences).
Students should submit a brief description of the project explaining how it relates to their studies, an itemized budget, CV, and detailed letter of support from any Arts and Science faculty sponsor. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015, for this summer or the next academic year. Decisions will be made by the Advisory Committee of the Center, and winners will be notified of the decision on or about Friday, May 1.
For further information or to submit an application, students should contact the Center’s Program Administrator, Maura Pollard, by email at ancient.studies@nyu.edu

Congratulations to the following graduate students who have won Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Awards for 2015-2016! From Left to right: Narges Bajohgli, Irina Levin, and Myra Laird. Congratulations again!

Congratulations to Dr. Bambi Schieffelin! She has been named a 2014-2015 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar.
The Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars program offers “undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America’s most distinguished scholars.” To be a PBK Visiting Scholar is an immense achievement. Once again, congratulations Dr. Schieffelin!
Read more about the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars program, here.

Congratulations to our very own Noelle Stout, winner of the 2014 Ruth Benedict Book Prize for her 2014 monograph After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba!
The 2014 Ruth Benedict Book Prize is awarded by the American Anthropological Association’s Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) every year, and recognizes outstanding scholarship written from an anthropological perspective that engages theoretical perspectives relevant to LGBTQ studies.
Read the entire press release here.
Find out more about Professor Stout’s book here.

Helena Hansen just became the first anthropologist to receive the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. This program has a 22 year history of supporting research that is creative and conceptual, crosses disciplinary boundaries in search of knowledge and of innovative solutions to critical health problems and policy issues.

The following graduate and undergraduate students are recipients of the Antonina S. Ranieri International Scholars Fund travel awards from NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies:
Allison Casaly
Eli Dollarhide
Giulia Gallo
Myra Laird
Rachel Lewis
Smiti Nathan
John O’Hara
These grants support academic travel abroad by students who are studying any aspect of the ancient world.

Each year, CAS recognizes 12 faculty for their outstanding contribution to learning in the classroom based on nominations submitted by CAS students and faculty.
Aisha Khan and Noelle Stout are this year’s recipients of Golden Dozen Teaching Awards.
Please join the Anthropology Department in congratulating Aisha and Noelle on this well-deserved recognition.

Congratulations to the following graduate students on receiving GSAS awards and fellowships:
Zenobie Garrett – Dean’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award in the Social Sciences
Tate LeFevre – Dean’s Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences
John O’Hara – GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship
Natasha Reheja – Andrew Sauter Fellowship
Catalina Villamil – Margaret and Herman Sokol Travel/Research Award

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.”