We celebrate the successes of our faculty and graduate students. Congratulations to all and best wishes with your research and projects.
Faculty
Chloe Ahmann received the 2025 Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship from the Kaplan Family and the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement. Ahmann was also awarded a Workshop Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; a Faculty Fellowship from the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity; a Humanities Impact Grant from the Cornell Society for the Humanities; and an Accelerated Research Grant for After Apocalypse from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences. Chloe Ahmann's book, Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore, was selected as one of two honorable mentions for the Julian Steward Book Award from the Anthropology & Environment Society of American Anthropological Association.
Amiel Bize received an Einhorn Center Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Award for her class Disturbing Settlement. Bize was also awarded a Cornell PCCW Affinito-Stewart Grant for collaborative research on climate finance in Northern Kenya; a Faculty Fellowship from the Einhorn Center; and a Rural Humanities Grant for her “Documenting Rural Space” workshop series, which she is co-organizing with Katy Lindquist.
Seema Golestaneh was a finalist for the American Academy of Religion's "Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies" for her book Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran (Duke 2023).
Kurt Jordan, along with Steve Henhawk, Jolene Rickard and John Whitman, received a New Frontier Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences. Their project “Reconceptualizing Haudenosaunee Studies” aims to advance Haudenosaunee studies in linguistics, anthropology/archaeology and art/history of art while changing long-dominant methods in the field.
Juno Salazar Parreñas received a Howard Foundation fellowship in Science and Technology Studies from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation. Project title: Three Ways to World Destruction; Or, Animals of the Misanthropocene.
Noah Tamarkin was selected as a Cornell Center for Social Sciences Faculty Fellow for 2025-26. Project title: Juridical Genetics: Building Postcolonial Carceral Futures. Tamarkin also received a Howard Foundation fellowship in Science and Technology Studies from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation for the same project.
Graduate Students:
Iman Ali was awarded a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. Project title: Armed in the Name of Peace: Everyday Militant Peacekeeping in South Lebanon.
Karina M. Edouard received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship.
Project title: Woman, Migrant, Other: The politics of motherhood and resistance in the Haitian Diaspora.
Alex Symons was awarded a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. Project title: “Walking Walls: Herds, Enclosures and Land Claims in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus."
Nia Whitmal was awarded a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Project title: "Land and Luck: Home and Belonging Among Harlem's Black Property Owners."
Roderick Wijunamai was awarded a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant & an American Institute of Indian Studies’ Junior Research Fellowship. Project title: The promise of oil palm in India’s Northeastern borderlands.
