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Chelsea Hunter awarded NSF REG grant
Offered by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Research Experience for Graduates (REG) grant provides supplemental funding to support the cost of a “Cultural Anthropology student’s closely…

Mark Anthony Arceño Discusses Vineyard Research
As part of his dissertation work, Ph.D. candidate Mark Anthony Arceño has been conducting research since February 2018 in central Ohio on winegrowers' experiences with environmental change. In the…

Butch Wright, Steven Rhue, and Alex Tuggle awarded Tinker Grants
The Tinker Field Research Grants are awarded for use for travel and field-related expenses for brief periods of pre-dissertation field research in Latin America. The grants are intended to…

Emily Wolfe-Sherrie studies Maternal Mental Well-being in Mexico
“My dissertation research explores how postpartum social support affects maternal postpartum depression, and whether oxytocin mediates the relationship,” explains Emily Wolfe-Sherrie, a…

Graduate Students participated in Hayes Research Forum
Last month, two anthropology graduate students--Malorie Albee and Sara McGuire--presented at the 34th annual Hayes Graduate Research Forum on February 28, 2020. This program, "showcases the…

Dr. Guatelli-Steinberg and Dr. Scott McGraw awarded NSF Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg (PI), Dr. Scott McGraw (co-PI) and team for their recent award of a National Science Foundation (@NSF) Grant for their project, “Analyzing African…

PhD Candidate Mackie O'Hara named Presidential Fellow
Congratulations to Mackie O’Hara, recipient of a Presidential Fellowship in Autumn 2019. Mackie is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, and is one of eleven graduate students in the…

Butch Wright awarded a CLAS Fellowship
Anthropology Graduate Student Butch Wright was one of 19 students awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for the 2019-2020 Academic Year by CLAS (Center for Latin American…

The Big Game Theory
The ASOM team just completed their first Big Game Theory summer camp at the PAST Foundation, where they used games and agent-based models to train students to find sustainable and…