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  • Nicholas in Oaxaca
    Nicholas Puente has been awarded a $750 Mini-Grant to establish the Museo Najil Tucha with the contemporary Maya community in Punta Laguna, Yucatan, Mexico.  Puente remarked, 鈥淚 am honored to have received a 2023 Mini-Grant from the Spicer
  • Will Taylor in front of a pond
    Professor Will Taylor receives an NSF Grant.  The grant will fund Will's project, "Understanding human-animal dynamics and early prehistory in the Inner Asian Altai - investigations at Khoid Tsenkher Cave". The project's aim is to
  • Kate Goldfarb
    Professor Kate Goldfarb receives the Graduate School鈥檚 2022-2023 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award.  The award showcases her many contributions in mentoring graduate students and supporting the mission of graduate
  • Adi hiking in Colorado
    Graduate student Adi Prakash awarded an AES Summer Research Grant.  Adi will use the funds for preliminary fieldwork for his multimodal ethnographic project in Sikkim, India this summer. The grant is for students who are in the first or second
  • sangjie_zhaxi_in_front_of_building.jpeg
    Congratulations to Sanggay Tashi who successfully defended his prospectus, "From Herding Yaks to Driving Cars: State Intervention, Mobility, and Settled Nomads in Amdo Tibet.鈥 
  • The Dalai Lama sitting with hands in prayer
    Graduate student Dawa Lokyitsang wrote an important essay weighing in on recent accusations against the Dalai Lama, showing how these unfounded accusations miss both cultural practices and geopolitical violence.  The article, "The Geopolitical
  • Sanggay Tashi headshot
    Sanggay Tashi awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship.  The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program is designed to support emerging scholars as they pursue bold and innovative research in the humanities and
  • Doug showing archaeological mapping
    This past week, Professor Bamforth's ANTH 2200 Archaeology of Human History hosted Mesolithic Day 2023.  Students experienced atlatl throwing, archaeological mapping, ceramics, soil and faunal analysis.  Thank you to everyone who came
  • Sabrina on a horse
    Sabrina Bradford awarded a Summer Graduate School Fellowship.  Sabrina will use the award to fund the final portions of her field research.
  • Rob Weiner Headshot
    Rob Weiner (PhD, Archaeology 2023) accepted a three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Dartmouth Society of Fellows, where he will be affiliated with the Department of Religion. The Society of Fellows fosters the academic careers of scholars
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