National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
This fellowship was made possible with a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Karla Slocum 2012–2013 Project: “Memory & Mobility: Place, Race, and Remembrance in 21st Century Black Town America” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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Teresa L. McCarty 2011–2012 Project: “Reclaiming the “Cultural Language” Youth and Indigenous Language Continuance” Affiliation at time of fellowship: AW Snell Professor, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University |
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Tamara L. Bray 2005–2006 Project: “Material Practice and Imperial Design in the Ancient Andes” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University |
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William A. Saturno 2005–2006 Project: “Let There Be Kings: Creation Mythology and the Origins of Maya Divine Rule” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire |
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Micaela di Leonardo 2005–2006 Project: “The View From Cavallaro’s: History, Power, and Public Culture in New Haven” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University |
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Corinne A. Kratz 2004–2005 Project: “Looking for the Hairless Cow: Arranging Okiek Marriage” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Co-director, Center for the Study of Public Scholarship, and Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, Emory University |
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Joseph Masco 2004–2005 Project: “The Nuclear Public Sphere: An Anthropology of U.S. National Security Discourse” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago |
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Jessica Winegar 2004–2005 Project: “Claiming Egypt: The Politics of Making Art and Culture in the Middle East” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Fordham University |
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Bruce M. Knauft 2003–2004 Project: “Crisis and Culture in a Post-9/11 World” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Samuel C. Dobbs Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University |
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Circe Dawn Sturm 2003–2004 Project: “Claiming Redness: The Racial and Cultural Politics of Becoming Cherokee” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma |
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Jason Yaeger 2003–2004 Project: “Tiwanaku and the Construction of Inka Imperial Ideology” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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Gelya Frank 2002–2003 Project: “Repatriating a Story: The Case of U.S. v. Whaley” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Professor, Departments of Occupational Science, Occupational Therapy, and Anthropology, University of Southern California |
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Stephen D. Houston 2002–2003 Project: “Kings of Stone, Bodies of Desire: Experience and Being Among the Classic Maya” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Jesse Knight University Professor, Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University |
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Lynn M. Meskell 2002–2003 Project: “Material Biographies: Object Worlds from Ancient Egypt and Beyond” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University |
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David Nugent 2001–2002 Project: “Alternative Democracies: The Evolution of the Public Sphere in 20th Century Peru” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Colby College |
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Kathleen Stewart 2001–2002 Project: “The Private Life of Public Culture” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin |
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Dennis Tedlock 2001–2002 Project: “The Human Work, the Human Design: 2000 Years of Mayan Writing” Affiliation at time of fellowship: McNulty Professor of English and Research Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Buffalo |
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James F. Brooks 2000–2001 Project: “Nations, Tribes, and Colours: Borderland Peoples and a History for the Twenty-first Century” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara |
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Gary Gossen 2000–2001 Project: “Magical Realism in a Postmodern Social Movement: Cultural Production of the Maya Zapatistas” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, State University of New York at Albany |
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Martha A. Sandweiss 2000–2001 Project: “Picture Stories: Photography, Popular Culture and the Nineteenth-Century West” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Professor of American Studies and History, Amherst College |
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Ruth M. Van Dyke 2000–2001 Project: “Lived Landscapes, Constructed Pasts: Memory, Phenomenology, and Chacoan Society” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton |
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Patricia Marks Greenfield 1999–2000 Project: “Weaving Patterns: Ontogenetic Constraint and Cultural Construction in the Creative Process” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles |
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Susan E. Ramirez 1999–2000 Project: “To Feed and Be Fed: Legitimacy and Cosmology in the Andes” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Professor of Latin American History, DePaul University |
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John A. Ware 1999–2000 Project: “Archaeology, Historical Ethnography, and Pueblo Social History” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Project Director, Office of Archaeological Studies Museum of New Mexico |
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David B. Edwards 1998–1999 Project: “Children of History: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College |
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Frank Salomon 1998–1999 Project: “Prehispanic Notation and 'Real Writing' in a Peruvian Village” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin |
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Ana Celia Zentella 1998–1999 Project: “Las Voces del Pueblo: Latino Languages and Identities” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Professor of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, and in the doctoral programs in Anthropology, Developmental Psychology, and Linguistics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York |
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Ross Hassig 1997–1998 Project: “Power and Ideology in Aztec Society” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Professor of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma |
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Nancy Lutkehaus 1997–1998 Project: “Margaret Mead as Cultural Icon: Anthropology, Intellectuals, and the Media in American Culture” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern California |
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Charles V. Carnegie 1996–1997 Project: “Postnationalism Prefigured: The Social Border Zones of Caribbean Nation States” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine |
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Jacqueline L. Urla 1996–1997 Project: “Basque Language Revival and Cultural Politics” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts |
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Brad Laurence Weiss 1996–1997 Project: “The Multiple Meanings of Haya Coffee” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of William and Mary |
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Robert Alvarez 1995–1996 Project: “Return to Lemon Grove: Life Narratives in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Associate Professor of Anthropology, Arizona State University |
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Francoise Dussart 1995–1996 Project: “The Politics of Ritual Performance” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut |
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Nicholas Spitzer 1995–1996 Project: “Creole Aesthetics and American Cultures: Zydeco and Mardi Gras in French Louisiana” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Research Associate and Artistic Director, Folk Masters Series, Smithsonian Institution |
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Jill L. Furst 1994–1995 Project: “The Road to Mictlan: the Symbolism of Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Central Mexico” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Professor, Liberal Arts Department, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA |
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Gil J. Stein 1994–1995 Project: “Power and Distance: Colonial Systems in the Prehistoric Near East” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University |
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Christopher B. Steiner 1994–1995 Project: “Graven Images: Idols and Ideals in the Visual Representation of `Primitive' Society” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Curator, Anthropology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, CA |
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John Forrest 1993–1994 Project: “Evolution of Vernacular Dance Traditions Cross-culturally” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Professor, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York College at Purchase |
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Mary Elizabeth Hancock 1993–1994 Project: “Making the `Great Tradition’: The Politics of Gender and Identity in Post-colonial India” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Mellon Instructor, Social Sciences Division, University of Chicago |
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Kirin Narayan 1993–1994 Project: “Husbands as Foreigners: Women's Songs and Cultural Change in Kangra, North West India” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin at Madison |
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Laura Graham 1992–1993 Project: “A Discourse-Centered Ethnography of Xavante Social Life” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Assistant Professor |
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Paul Stoller 1992–1993 Project: “The Politics of Sorcery in Songhay History” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Department of Anthropology, West Chester University, Professor |
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Richard Waller 1992–1993 Project: “Studies in the History of the Maasai” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Department of History, Bucknell University, Assistant Professor |
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Peter Brown 1991–1992 Project: “Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Associate Professor” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Sad Heavens and Unhealthy Swamps: the Anthropology of Malaria in Sardinia |
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Frank Dubinskas 1991–1992 Project: “Cultural Paradigms in American Management: Hierarchy, Cooperation, and New Technologies” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Organization Studies Department, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, Assistant Professor |
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Kris Hardin 1991–1992 Project: “Is There an Anthropology of Aesthetics?” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor |
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Norman Yoffee 1991–1992 Project: “Rules of the Game: The Evolution of Ancient States and Civilizations” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Professor |
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John Kicza 1990–1991 Project: “Patterns in Spanish Overseas Conquests to 1600” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Department of History, Washington State University, Professor |
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Susan Niles 1990–1991 Project: “The Shape of Inca History: Huayna Capac’s Life and Works” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Lafayette College, Associate Professor |
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Gary Feinman 1989–1990 Project: “Regional Demography and Political Process in Prehispanic Highland Mesoamerica: A Comparative Perspective” Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Wisconsin, Department of Anthropology, Associate Professor |
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Steven Feld 1989–1990 Project: “Linguistic Resources and Social Choice” Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Texas, Center for Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Director and Department of Anthropology, Associate Professor |
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Anna Roosevelt 1989–1990 Project: “Prehistory of the Amazon” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History |
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Ronald L. Grimes 1988–1989 Project: “Ritual Criticism: Its Context and Practice” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Religion and Culture, Professor |
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Grant Jones 1988–1989 Project: “The Ethnohistory of the Itza Maya Conquest” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Davidson College, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Professor and Chair |
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Jerrold Levy 1988–1989 Project: “The Importance of Status for an Understanding of Hopi Social Organization and History” Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, Professor |
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Richard G. Fox 1987–1988 Project: “The Authorship of Culture: Gandhian Socialism as Ideology and Utopia” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Duke University, Department of Anthropology, Professor and Chair |
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David Montejano 1987–1988 Project: “Quixote's Soldiers and the Search for Justice” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico, Department of Sociology |
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Margaret Trawick 1987–1988 Project: “The Ayurvedic Physician as Scientist” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Department of Anthropology, Assistant Professor |
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David Braun 1985–1986 Project: “Ecology of Social Evolution: Woodland Systems in the Prehistoric Midwest” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Southern Illinois University, Department of Anthropology, Associate Professor |
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William T. Vickers 1985–1986 Project: “Siona-Secoya: The Human Ecology of an Amazon People” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Florida International University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Associate Professor |
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Jane E. Buikstra 1984–1985 Project: “Bio-Archaeology: Exploring the Biocultural Interface” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Northwestern University, Department of Anthropology, Professor |
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Diane P. Gifford-Gonzalez 1984–1985 Project: “The Prehistory of Pastoralism in East Africa” Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of California at Santa Cruz, Department of Anthropology, Associate Professor |
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Deborah Winslow 1984–1985 Project: “Regional Systems in Sri Lanka” Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of New Hampshire, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Associate Professor |
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G. Carter Bentley 1983–1984 Project: “Culture and Consciousness in the Muslim Philippines” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Washington University, Department of Anthropology, Visiting Assistant Professor |
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Flora S. Clancy 1982–1983 Project: “An Analytical History of Classic Maya Sculpture” Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of New Mexico, Art Department, Assistant Professor |
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Scott Whiteford 1982–1983 Project: “Social Organization and Irrigation Systems in the Tahuacan Valley, Mexico” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Michigan State University, Department of Anthropology, Associate Professor |
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Linda Cordell 1981–1982 Project: “Synthesis of Southwestern Prehistory” Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology, Assistant Professor |
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T. Patrick Culbert 1981–1982 Project: “Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics of Tikal, Guatamala” Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, Professor |
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Jacob Jerome Brody 1980–1981 Project: “History of Anasazi and Pueblo Painting” Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of New Mexico, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Director |
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George J. Gumerman 1979–1980 Project: “The Kayenta Anasazi and Black Mesa Archaeology” Affiliation at time of fellowship: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Department of Anthropology, Professor; and Director, Center for Archaeological Investigations |
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