Faculty and members of the field of
Caitlín E. Barrett was awarded a Fulbright Grant for research in Greece in the coming fall semester.
Denise Green received the Betty Kirke Award for Excellence in Research from the Costume Society of America; the Rising Star Award from the International Textile and Apparel Association; the National Endowment for the Humanities from the Preservation Assistance Grant for Small Institutions; and the Sandra Hutton Award for Excellence in Fiber Arts fromthe International Textile & Apparel Association.
Saida Hodžić was awarded the Amaury Talbot Prize for African for her book The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs.
Lori Khatchadourian was awarded an Einaudi Center Grant for international work; a Humanities Research Grant; and a Faculty Fellowship with the Society for the Humanities.
Stacey Langwick: The Qualities of Life working group of which Langwick is the lead faculty member was awarded a seed grant from the Einaudi International Studies Center for the Uzima: Spaces of Nourishment and Healing project. Uzima is an international collaborative public humanities project, designed to create installation and teaching/community space in a major medical school/hospital in Tanzania. It brings together scholars, medical professionals and artists inside and outside of Africa to debate the redefinitions of health and healing necessary to support 21st century challenge of addressing human and ecological health together.
Professor Langwick is also a co-organizer with two faculty from Syracuse University (Lois Agnew and Andrew London), and together they won initial funding from the Mellon Foundation for a Central New York Humanities Corridor Project entitled “Health Humanities: Medicine, Disease, Disability, and Culture.” They seek to facilitate the establishment of a network of faculty at Cornell University, Syracuse University and other regional institutions whose scholarship and/or teaching relates to exploring health and medicine as situated in complex sociocultural ecologies.
Sturt Manning was awarded a digitization grant.
Sofia Villenas was elected president of the Council on and Education of the American Anthropological Association. She will be serving as president-elect and program chair this year.
Graduate Students
Rebekah Ciribassi was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research award from the National Science Foundation. The title of her project is The Sensory Politics of Sickle Cell Disease in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Amy Cromartie was awarded a Chateaubriand "Make Our Planet Great Again" Fellowship from the Embassy of France in the United States for her dissertation research: Agriculture, Climate, and a Mountain Steppe: Social and Ecological Adaptations to Biodiversity Change in the Bronze and Iron Age South Caucasus.
Alexandra Dalferro will be a 2019-2020 Society for the Humanities Mellon Graduate Fellow.
Sampreety Gurung was awarded a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for research on her project entitled “Making a Living: Nepali Migrants and Direct Selling in Malaysia.”
Mariangela Mihai Jordan was awarded a Provost Diversity Fellowship for the Spring 2019 semester. Her current research looks at overlapping nationalisms, identity, and ethnicity in Mizoram (a Northeast Indian state bordering Burma).
Karlie Fox-Knudtsen was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowships for her dissertation project “Aluminum Gods: Mining and Religiosity Along Odisha’s Bauxite Supply Chain.”
Austin Lord was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowships for his dissertation project “Turbulent Futures: Aftermath and Anticipation in Post-Earthquake Nepal.”; a digitization grant; and a Lemelson Fellowship from the Society for Visual for a collaborative film project called “A Time for a Singing Again: Rituals of Post-Disaster Recovery in the Langtang Valley of Nepal”.
Rachel Odhner received a National Geographic Early Career Grant for her dissertation research. Project is titled, "Waterscapes of agriculture and conservation at the Costa Rica/Nicaragua border."
Annie Sheng won a tea essay contest.
