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Peter Benson
Publications
2011—M. Kohrman and P. Benson. Tobacco. Annual Review of Anthropology 40: 329-344.

2010—P. Benson. Tobacco Talk: Reflections on Corporate Power and the Legal Framing of Consumption. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 24(4): 500-521.

2010—P. Benson. Giants in the Fields: Agribusiness and Farm Labor Politics in the United States. Anthropology of Work Review 31(2): 54-70.

2010—P. Benson and S. Kirsch. Capitalism and the Politics of Resignation. Current Anthropology 51(4): 459-486.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
First Annual Cornerstone Mentor/Teacher Award, Cornerstone: Center for Advanced Learning, Washington University in St. Louis, 2011

Outstanding Transdisciplinary Scholar Award, Institute for Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis, 2010

John Bowen
Publications
2011—J. Bowen. How the French State Justifies Controlling Muslim Bodies: From Harm-based to Values-based Reasoning. Social Research Summer 78(2): 1-24.

2011—J. Bowen. How Could English Courts Recognize Shariah? St. Thomas Law Review Summer.

2010—J. Bowen. Secularism: Conceptual Genealogy or Political Dilemma? Comparative Studies in Society and History 52(3): 680-94.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, 2010

President, Scientific Council of the French Network of Institutes for Advanced Study, 2008-present

Chair, Evaluation Committee for the dissertation workshop program (DPDF) of the Social Research Council, 2009-present

Chair, Council for European Studies, 2011-2013

Evaluation Committee for French Laboratoires d'Excellence Awards, National Agency for Research (ANR), 2010-2011

Grants
French-American Cultural Exchange: Pluralism, Politics, and Religion

London School of Economics: Leverhulme Trust Award

National Science Foundation: Shariah without Courts: A Study of Islamic Judicial Practices in England

French National Research Agency (ANR): Law in Muslim Contexts, Co-PI

Pascal Boyer
Publications
2010—P. Boyer. Intuitive Detection of Mental Disorder: A Cognitive Background to Folk-Psychiatries. Philosophical Psychology 23(6): 821-844.

2010—P. Boyer and H. Szechtman, eds. Threat-Detection and Precaution: Neuro-physiological, Behavioral, Cognitive and Psychiatric Aspects. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews Special Issue 35(4): 989-1080.

2010—H. Keren, P. Boyer, J. Mort, D. Eilam. Pragmatic and Idiosyncratic Acts in Human Everyday Routines: The Counterpart of Compulsive Rituals. Behavioural Brain Research 212: 90-95.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Editor, Journal of Cognition and Culture

Guggenheim Fellow, 2011

Grants
Air Force Office for Scientific Research: Threat-detection and precaution in different cultures: evolutionary, cognitive and historical factors

David Browman
Publications
2010—D. Browman. Founding 'mothers' of the Society for American Archaeology. The SAA Archaeological Record 10(2): 31-34.

2010—D. Browman. Prehistory of Bolivia. In Amerindians through Foreign Colonization—Prehistory to 1560: Encyclopedia of Latin America, four volumes. J.M. Francis and T.M. Leonard, eds. Vol. 1. New York: Facts on File Library of World History.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Honoree, Symposium: Caravanning across the Americas: research inspired by the work and mentorship of David L. Browman. 75th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, 2010

Washington University Chapter President, Sigma Xi—Scientific Honorary

Member of the 75th Anniversary Task Force for the Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA), 2010

SAA Presidential Recognition Award, 2010

Editorial Board, Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Australia

Grants
National Science Foundation Grant Extension: Late Epiclassic Transitional Dynamics at La Quemada, Zacatecas, Mexico, Co-PI, 2009-2011

Robert Canfield
Publications
2010—Introduction: A Region of Strategic Importance. In Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia: New Games Great and Small, R.L. Canfield and G. Rasuly-Paleczek, eds. Abbington, Oxford: Rutledge.

2010—Efficacy and Hierarchy: Examples from Afghanistan. In Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia: New Games Great and Small, R.L. Canfield and G. Rasuly-Paleczek, eds. Abbington, Oxford: Rutledge.

Geoff Childs
Publications
2011—G. Childs, M.C. Goldstein, and P. Wangdui. Externally resident daughters, social capital, and support for the elderly in rural Tibet. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 26(1): 1-22.

2011—M.C. Goldstein, G. Childs, and P. Wangdui. Beijing's "People First" Development Initiative for the Tibet Autonomous Region's Rural Sector—A Case Study from the Shigatse Area. The China Journal 63(1): 57-75.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
President, Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Director, Nepal S.E.E.D.S. (Social, Educational, Environmental Development Services)

Glenn Conroy
Awards, Honors, Achievements
Cardiology Grand Rounds in the Department of Medicine, Washington University Medical Center, 2010

Markey Pathway keynote address for the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University, 2010

Darla Dale
Publications
2010—D. Dale and C.Z. Ashley. Holocene Hunter-fisher-gatherer Communities: New Perspectives on Kansyore Using Communities of Western Kenya. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 45(1): 24-48.

Michael Frachetti
Awards, Honors, Achievements
Sony Electronics Award at Washington University in St. Louis (one of two faculty members selected), 2010

Chair, Local Advisory Committee for 75th Anniversary Meeting of Society of American Archaeologists (SAA), St. Louis, 2010

Advisory Editor, Journal of World Prehistory, 2008-present

Grants
National Science Foundation: High Risk Archaeology Along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor: Investigating the Earliest Development of Mobile Pastoralism in the Zaamin/Zeravshan Mts. of Uzbekistan, Principal Investigator, 2010-2011

David Freidel
Publications
2010—D. Freidel, M. Rich, and F.K. Reilly III. Resurrecting the Maize King, Figurines from a Maya tomb bring royal funeral to life. Archaeology 63(5).

Gayle Fritz
Publications
2011—G. Fritz. The Role of “Tropical” Crops in Early North America. In The Subsistence Economies of Indigenous North American Societies, B.D. Smith, ed., pp. 503-516. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington, D.C. (Published in cooperation with Roman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.)

2010— M.D. Frachetti, R.N. Spengler, G.J. Fritz, and A.N. Mar'yashev. Earliest Direct Evidence for Broomcorn Millet and Wheat in the Central Eurasian Steppe Region. Antiquity 84: 993-1010.

Bret Gustafson
Publications
2011—B. Gustafson. Rewriting Maya Country. Latin American Research Review 46(3).

2010—B. Gustafson and M. Moraña. Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert.

2010—B. Gustafson. When States Act Like Movements: Dismantling Local Power and "Seating" Sovereignty in Bolivia. Latin American Perspectives 37(4).

Philanthropic Projects
“Itika Guasu: Past and Present.” Collaborative research project with the Assembly of Guarani People, Tarija, Bolivia.

John Kelly
Publications
2010—J.E. Kelly and J.A. Brown. Just in Time: Dating Mound 34 at Cahokia, Illinois. Antiquity 45(1): 3-8.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Board of the St. Louis Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, 2008-2010

Tristram R. Kidder
Publications
2011— T.R. Kidder, H. Liu, and M. Li. Sanyangzhuang: early farming and a Han settlement preserved beneath Yellow River flood deposits. Antiquity 85: In press.

2011—T.R. Kidder and M. Li. Geoarchaeological and Environmental Context of the Han Dynasty Sanyangzhuang site. In International Symposium on the Urban and Settlement Archaeology of the Han Dynasty and Han Culture, H. Shi, ed., pp. 91-96 (in Chinese). Science Press, Beijing: In press.

2011— T.R. Kidder. Transforming Hunter-Gatherer History at Poverty Point. In Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process, K.E. Sassaman and D.H. Holley, Jr., eds., pp. 95-119. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

2011—S.C. Sherwood and T.R. Kidder. The DaVincis of Dirt: Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Native American Mound Building in the Mississippi River Basin. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 30: 69-87. doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2010.11.001.

Anne Sebert Kuhlman
Publications
2010—A. Sebert Kuhlmann, L. Gavin, and C. Galavotti. The Integration of Family Planning with Other Health Services: A Literature Review. International Perspectives on Sexual & Reproductive Health 36(4): 189-196.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Certificate of Recognition, Excellence in Teaching, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, 2010

Fiona Marshall
Publications
2011—F. Marshall and L. Weissbrod. Domestication processes and morphological change: Through the lens of the donkey and African pastoralism. Current Anthropology.

2010 – B. Kimura, F. Marshall, S. Chen, S. Rosenbom, P. Moehlman, N. Tuross, R. Sabin, J. Peters, B. Barich, H. Yohannes, F. Kebede, R. Teclai, A. Beja-Pereira, and C. Mulligan. Ancient DNA from Nubian and Somali Wild Ass Provides Insights into Donkey Ancestry and Domestication. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Doi:10.1098/rsp.2010.0708.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
2011—Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

2011—Invited Lecturer, NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center)

Grants
I-CARES, Washington University

Derek Pardue
Publications
2011—D. Pardue. Place Markers: Tracking Spatiality in Brazilian Hip-Hop and Community Radio. American Ethnologist 38(1): 102-113.

2010—D. Pardue. Making Territorial Claims: Brazilian Hip Hop and the Socio-geographical Dynamics of Periferia. City and Society 22(1): 48-71.

2010—D. Pardue. Getting an Attitude: Brazilian Hip Hoppers Design Gender. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Vol. 15(2): 434-456.

Grants
FAPESP (São Paulo State Research Grant), University of Campinas, Brazil: A Cidade como Espectáculo: Comparando e Contrastando Os Estados Unidos e o Brasil, Urban Anthropology, 2010

Shanti Parikh
Publications
2011—“They Arrested Me For Loving A Schoolgirl”: Ethnography, HIV, and a Feminist Assessment of the Age of Consent Law as a Gender-Based Structural Intervention in Uganda. Social Science & Medicine, Volume 75.

2010—The Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV Risk. Co-authored with J. Hirsch, H. Wardlow, D. Smith, H. Phinney, and C. Nathanson. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. 2010.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Rosa L. Parks Award for Service and Community Engagement, 2011

Annual Faculty Recognition Award, Association of Black Students, 2011

Grants
Provost's Cross-School Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant, 2011-2012

Gephardt Institute’s Community-Based Teaching and Learning Faculty Grants Program, 2010-2011

Jane Phillips-Conroy
Publications
2010—A.H. Weyher, J.E. Phillips-Conroy, K. Fischer, G.J. Weil, W. Chansa, and P.U. Fischer. Molecular Identification of Schistosoma Mattheei from Feces of Kinda (Papio cynocephalus kindae) and Grayfoot Baboons (Papiocynocephalus griseipes) in Zambia. Journal of Parasitology 96(1): 184-190.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Distinguished Service Teaching Award, 2010

Grants
National Science Foundation: A Multidisciplinary, Field-Based Study of the Little-Known Kinda Baboon (Papio cynocephalus kindae), Principal Investigator, 2010-2013.

Crickette Sanz
Publications
2010—W. Liu, Y. Li, G.H. Learn, R.S. Rudicell, J.D. Robertson, J.B.N. Ndjango, C.M. Sanz, D.B. Morgan, S. Locatelli, M.K. Gonder, P.J. Kranzusch, P.D. Walsh, E. Delaporte, E. Mpoudi-Ngolle, A.V. Georgiev, M.N. Muller, G.M. Shaw, M. Peeters, P.M. Sharp, J.C. Rayner, and B.H. Hahn. Origin of the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum in Western Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla). Nature 467: 420-425.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Special Achievement Award, Alumni Association, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington

Honorary Research Fellow, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York

Grants
Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation

Great Ape Conservation Fund, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

International Programs, Wildlife Conservation Society

Research and Conservation Fund, Columbus Zoological Park

Conservation Fund, Brevard Zoological Park

Ape Conservation Effort, Atlanta Zoo

Carolyn Sargent
Publications
2010—C. Sargent and L. Gulbas. Situating Birth in the Anthropology of Reproduction. In Blackwell Companion to Medical Anthropology, M. Singer and P.J. Erickson, eds. Blackwell Publishing Inc.

2010—C. Sargent and S. Larchanche. Sur les pas de l'anthropologie médicale clinique en France: la maturation d'une approche sur la place de la culture dans les soins de santé mentale. Revue TranSfaire & Cultures 1(1).

Awards, Honors, Achievements

President, Society for Medical Anthropology

Editorial Board, Medical Anthropology; Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Priscilla Song
Publications
2011—P. Song. The Proliferation of Stem Cell Therapies in Post-Mao China: Problematizing Ethical Regulation. New Genetics and Society 30(2): 141-153.

2010—P. Song. Biotech Pilgrims and the Transnational Quest for Stem Cell Cures. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 29(4): 384-402.

Glenn Stone
Publications
2011—G.D. Stone. Field vs. Farm in Warangal:Bt Cotton, Higher Yields, and Larger Questions. World Development 39(3): 387-398.

2011—G.D. Stone. Contradictions in the Last Mile: Suicide, Culture, and E-Agriculture in Rural India. Science, Technology and Human Values 36.

2010—G.D. Stone. Anthropology of Genetically Modified Crops. Annual Review of Anthropology 39: 381–400.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
President, Anthropology & Environment Section of AAA

Philanthropic Projects
India Rural Development Fund: Sponsor rural schools in India, Kalleda Photo Project

Robert Sussman
Publications
2011—R.W. Sussman, C. Shaffer, and L.M. Guidi. Macaca fascicularis in Mauritius: Implications for Macaque/Human Interactions and for Future Research on Long-tailed Macaques. In Managing commensalism in long-tailed macaques: The human-macaque interface, M.D. Gumert, A. Fuentes, and L. Jones-Engel, eds. Cambridge University Press, New York.

2011—R.W. Sussman, P.A. Garber and J.M. Cheverud. Reply to Lawler: feeding competition, cooperation, and the causes of primate sociality. American Journal of Primatology 73: 91-95.

2011—R.W. Sussman. Primate fieldwork and its human contexts in southern Madagascar. In CENTRALIZING FIELDWORK: Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology, J. MacClancy and A. Fuentes, eds. Berghahn Press, Oxford: 49-68.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Washington University, Spring 2010

Editor, Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 2008-2012

Executive Committee, American Association of Physical Anthropology, 2008-2012

Secretary, Section H (Anthropology), American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2006-2014

Member, Committee on Sections, AAAS, 2011-present

Member, Archeology and Physical Anthropology Panel, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), 2011

Honorary plenary speaker, European Federation for Primatology Congress, Portugal, 2011

Grants
National Science Foundation: Introduced cacti and villages: A study of Lemur catta (ring-tailed lemur) in its primary remaining habitat type, Dissertation Improvement Grant, Lisa Kelley, PI, 2010–present

Erik Trinkaus
Publications
2011—E. Trinkaus. Late Pleistocene adult mortality patterns and modern human establishment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108: 1267-1271.

2011—M.J. Walker, J. Ortega, M.V. López, K. Parmová, and E. Trinkaus. Neandertal postcranial remains from the Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, Murcia, southeastern Spain. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 144: 505-515.

2011—M.J. Walker, J. Zapata, A.V. Lombardi, and E. Trinkaus. New evidence of dental pathology in 40,000 year old Neandertals. Journal of Dental Research 90: 428-432.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Arthur Holly Compton Award, Washington University, 2010-present

James Wertsch
Publications
2011—J.V. Wertsch and D.M. Billingsley. The role of narratives in commemoration: Remembering as mediated action. In Heritage, memory & identity (The cultures and globalization series. 4), H. Anheier & Y.R. Isar, eds. Los Angeles: Sage, pp.25-38.

2010—J.V. Wertsch. Text e dialogismo no estudo da memória coletiva. Educação e Pesquisa [Education and Research], São Paulo, v.36, n. especial, pp.121-130.