Lee Arco
Grants
“Geoarchaeological Investigation of the Jaketown Site: A Late Archaic Poverty Point Settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley” funded by a National Sciences Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Doc Billingsley
Grants
“FLAS Summer Language Study in Guatemala” funded by the U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program

Mario Bruno
Publications
2007—With K. Moore, J. Capriles, and C. Hastorf. Integrated Contextual Approaches to Understanding Past Activities Using Plant and Animal Remains from Kala Uyuni. In Kala Uyuni: An Early Political Center in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin. 2003 Excavations of the Taraco Archaeological Project edited by M. Bandy and C. Hastorf, pp. 113-133. University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley.

José Capriles
Publications
2007—With C. Moore and A. Domic. Recuperación Diferencial de Conjuntos Arqueofaunísticos: Implicancias para el Análisis de Restos de Peces en la Cuenca del Lago Titicaca. Archaeobios 1(1):15-21.

2007—With K. Moore, M. Bruno, and C. Hastorf. Integrated Contextual Approaches to Understanding Past Activities Using Plant and Animal Remains from Kala Uyuni. In Kala Uyuni: An Early Political Center in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin.2003 Excavations of the Taraco Archaeological Project edited by M. Bandy and C. Hastorf, pp. 113-133. University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley.

Grants
“A Zooarchaeological Perspective on the Development of Camelid Pastoralism in the South Central Andes of Bolivia” funded by a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and a Lambda Alpha Graduate Overseas Research Grant

Tafline Crawford
Grants
“Comparative Analysis of Pliocene australopithecines from Makapansgat, South Africa” funded by the Evolving Earth Foundation and a Lambda Alpha Graduate Overseas Research Grant

Rachel Dunn
Grants
“Primate Adaptations in the Context of Middle Eocene Habitat Deterioration” funded by a Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Grant

Nicholas Efremov-Kendall
Grants
“Worlds Connected: Cimmerian-Scythian Nomadic-Sedentary Interaction in the Ukrainian Iron Age” funded by a grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board

Katherine Grillo
Grants
“Pottery and Pastoralism in East Africa: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives” funded by a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, a Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant, and a Lambda Alpha Graduate Overseas Research Grant

Mercedes Gutierrez
Grants
“Ecomorphological Analyses of a Late Oligocene Catarrhine Bearing Community from Kenya” funded by an L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Grant and by the Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research

Kevin Hanselka
Awards
Barbara Lawrence Award for “Casual Cultivation among Contemporary Small-Scale Farmers in Southwestern Tamaulipas, Mexico, and the Implications for Prehistoric Low-Level Food Production”

Katherine Hejtmanek
Grants
“Adolescent Rehabilitation in an American Residential Treatment Center” funded by a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Elizabeth Horton
Grants
“Traditions in the Ozark Highlands” funded by a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Elizabeth Kelley
Grants
“Introduced Cacti and Villages: A Study on Lemur catta (Ring-Tailed Lemurs) in its Primary Remaining Habitat Type” funded by a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Sarah Kendzior
Publications
2007—Poetry of Witness: Uzbek Identity and the Response to Andijon. Central Asian Survey 26(3):317-334.

Awards
Invited participant to Social Science Research Council Dissertation Development Workshop on “Violence in Eurasia, from Past to Present,” April 2008

Chithprabha Kudlu
Grants
“Changing Commodity Chains for Traditional Medicinal Plants: Tourism and Ayurveda in Kerala” funded by a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and a Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant

LeAndra Luecke
Grants
“Comparative Ecology of Parapatric Howling Monkeys in Mangrove Forest” funded by a Lambda Alpha Graduate Overseas Research Grant

Blaine Maley
Grants
“Population Structure and Demographic History of Prehistoric Alaskan Populations Using Ancient DNA and Cranial Morphology” funded by a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Joseph Orkin
Awards
Sherwood L. Washburn Award for Outstanding Student Scientific Presentation for “Is Primate-like Grasping Needed for Fine Branch Feeding? Terminal Branch Use in Eastern Gray Squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis”

Puneet Sahota
Publications
2007—Research Regulation in Native Communities: Practice and Policy Considerations. Policy Paper, National Congress of American Indians.

Grants
“An Ethnography of Medical/Genetics Research among American Indians: Political, Economic, and Ethical Considerations” funded by a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and a Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant

Christopher Shaffer
Grants
“Ranging Behavior, Group Cohesiveness, and Patch Use in Chiropotes Satanas Chiropotes” funded by a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and a Lambda Alpha Graduate Overseas Research Grant

Rajnish Vandercone
Grants
“Dietary Shifts, Niche Relationships, and Interspecific Competition in the Sympatric Grey Langur and the Purple-Faced Langur in Sri Lanka” funded by a Lambda Alpha Graduate Overseas Research Grant and a Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation Grant

Annie Way
Grants
“Pedestrian Survey, Test Excavation, and GIS Analysis of Late Prehistoric Settlements along Deer Creek, Washington County, Mississippi” funded by a Mississippi Archaeological Research Grant through the Historic Preservation Division of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Anna Weyher
Grants
“The Behavior and Biology of the Kinda Baboon” funded by an Explorer’s Club Grant

Jennifer Wistrand
Grants
“Azerbaijan’s Changing Public Schools: A New Citizenry?” funded by a grant from the International Research and Exchanges