Anthropology graduate students receive fellowships, awards

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Congratulations to the following Anthropology graduate students who were recently named fellowship and research grant recipients:

Dominique Bertrand is the recipient of the Patricia Whitten award for her poster presented at the AAPA meetings on the effects of tourism on stress related behavior in wild crested macaques.

Erica Dunayer received a supplemental research grant from National Science Foundation to complete her research on cooperative exchanges and biological markets in rhesus monkeys on Cayo Santiago after hurricane Maria.

Amandine Erikson is the recipient of a College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, and the department's Opler Award for Dissertation Wiriting in support for her dissertation, "An integrative assessment of the pattern and causes of bilateral asymmetry across the human skeleton."

Ashlee Hart is awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) for her dissertation, Convening Cultures in Thrace: Evaluating Interaction Through Ceramic Technological Choices.

Sarah Hoffman received the department's Keith F. Otterbein Award and Opler Award for Dissertation Research in support of her dissertation, "Place, Practice, and Pathology in Medieval Iceland: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Human Skeletal Remains from the Church Cemetery at Haffjardarey (ca. 1200 – 1563)."

Brittany Kenyon has won a Cooperative Research Grant offered through the Primate Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan to work with researchers, and conduct part of her dissertation research, at Kyoto University for 5 weeks. The title of her dissertation is "Morphological and Taxonomic Assessment in Macaques: a 3D Geometric Morphometric Approach."

Laura LaBarge is awarded a research grant from the Animal Behavior Society for her research on the social and cognitive aspects of being at risk of predation in wild samango monkeys.

Erika Ruhl received a Fulbright award to Finland.

Maura Tyrrell received a travel grant to present a poster on her research on male relationships among wild crested macaques in Indonesia at the American Society of Primatologists meetings in San Antonio. 

Erin Weigel
is the recipient of a College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship and a research grant from the Animal Behavior Society for her dissertation on gorilla communication during play.

Patrick Willett is awarded the Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) Residential Fellowship in Istanbul for the 2018-19 academic year for his dissertation project entitled “Transforming Landscapes of Southwestern Anatolia: Social and environmental change in the territory of Sagalassos during the Holocene.”