Faculty
Chloe Ahmann was awarded a Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellowship to complete revisions on her book, Futures After Progress: Living with Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore. She was also a Cornell Center for Social Sciences Grant Recipient. Her project is: After Apocalypse: The Work of Utopia in White Power Activism.
Amiel Bize was awarded the Cultural Horizons Prize for best article in Cultural this year as selected by a student jury: “The Right to Remainder: Gleaning in the Fuel-Economies of East Africa’s Northern Corridor".
Saida Hodžić, Sofia Villenas, and Viranjini Munasinghe were awarded grants from the Migrations initiative. Sofia Villenas is the Principal Investigator for "Grassroots Transnational Networks Fortifying Salvadoran Rural Communities: From Santa Marta to Ithaca." Viranjini Munasinghe is a collaborator for "Caribbean Studies at Cornell: A Proposal for Curriculum Development." Saida Hodžić is the Principal Investigator for two projects: “Barely Tolerated: An Ethnographic Film about Life in Uncertain Refuge and Deferred Deportation.” and “Refugees Know Things - A Podcast and an Installation.”
Andrew Willford was awarded the CIES Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair Fellowship with plans to travel to India in 2022. His project will assess the efficacy of a community-based model of mental health care by triangulating ethnographic, participatory, and biomedical approaches in areas underserved by biomedical care.
Kathryn March and David Holmberg received the 2021 Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal. Professor March was also selected as a “ChangeMaker 2021” by USNepalOnline.
Noah Tamarkin was named a Society for the Humanities Faculty Fellow for 2021-22.
Saida Hodžić was named a CIVIC Research Fellow in Humanities and Public Life, 2021-2023 and she is working on a project “Body as a Medium: Trauma, Transmission, Testimony” (with Cathy Carruth, Tracy McNulty, and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon).
Sarah Besky received a 2022-2023 American Institute of Indian Studies/National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship for the project "Land, Labor, and the Work of Settlement in Kalimpong, West Bengal."
Graduate Students
Marcos Ramos Valdes' Masters Thesis, "The Role of Home Gardens in Creating Community Ties in La Habana, Cuba," was selected as the winner of the 2021 Charles Wood Thesis Award at the University of Florida.
Karina Edouard was one of six winners of the Migrations initiative's creative writing and art competition. Karina's project is "On Borders: Life, Deportations, and Mobilities along the Haitian-Dominican Border."
Xinyu Guan received a Global Research Grant and is an Amit Bhatia ’01 Global PhD Research Scholar. Xinyu's project is "Heartlanders: The Making of Racial and Sexual Citizenship in Singapore's State-Constructed Housing Estates."
Parijat Jha will be a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow for 2021–2022. Parijat's language is Urdu.
Parijat Jha and Liting Ding were awarded 2022 Dissertation Proposal Development Program Fellowships from the Einaudi Center. Ding's project is: "Beneath Brackish Waters: Shrimp-Based Livelihoods and Changing Ecological Relations in the Mekong Delta." Parijat's project is: "Insufficient Chill: Apple Cultivation and Climate Change in the Western Himalayas."The Cornell Institute of Archeology and Material Studies – Anti-Racism Anti-Colonialism Interest Group was a recipient of the 2021 Social Justice Award which is part of the 2021 Graduate Diversity & Inclusion Awards.
Connor Rechtzigel and Trishna Senapaty were awarded Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowships by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
Chencong Zhu and Jinglin Piao were awarded international travel study grants. Chencong Zhu will examine an airport construction project on two Chinese islets bordering China’s southeastern coast and Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago as it reflects the two nation's decades old conflict. Jinglin Piao will be researching China's national poverty-alleviation program's impact on rural ethnic communities, traditions, relationships, and cohesion.
Jaimie Luria and Itamar Haritan were awarded Jewish Studies and Research Travel Grants, funded by the Pearl and Otto Delikat Holocaust Memorial Fund. Itamar also received the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Travel Grant for his research.
Bruno Seraphin was awarded the Marion and Frank Long Fellowship for the 2021-22 academic year. Bruno's research project is: “Indigenous Karuk and Settler Colonial Fire Politics and Practices in Northern California.”
Karina Beras was awarded a Graduate Student Research Grant from the American Ethnological Society to conduct exploratory fieldwork in the Dominican Republic over the summer of 2021.
Connor Rechtzigel was awarded an International Dissertation Research Fellowship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His project is provisionally titled "Making and Marketing Halal Tourism in Lombok, Indonesia." Connor also received a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad award. The title for this award is the same.
Akhil Kang was awarded a Wenner Gren fieldwork grant. The working title of his project is 'The Wounds of Caste: a dalit-queer account of savarna injury'.
Xavier Robillard-Martel was awarded a Wenner Gren fieldwork grant. The working title of Xavier's project is "Cajun Country, Creole Gumbo: Racial Formation and Historical Memory in Louisiana."
Annapaola Passerini was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her archaeological research in the Caucasus. The working title for her project is “Absolute time, lived temporality: generative chronologies in the Early Bronze Age South Caucasus”
Anna Whittemore was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Her (working) project title is: Lives of the Mitmaqkuna: The Bioarchaeology of Migration and Forced Resettlement in the Inka Empire (1400-1532 CE).
Austin Lord won a James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence prize for “Cultivating Disaster Literacy: Concepts, Ethics, Vulnerabilities, temporalities,” the sequence of assignments he designed for Anthr 1101: Culture,Society,& Power: Disasters & Climate Change—Writing for Troubled Times.
