Roberto Abadie was awarded a 2003 grant from The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for his research project, "A Guinea Pig's Wage: Risk and Commodization on Pharmaceutical Research in America."

Karen Baab is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement grant for "Cranial Variation in Homo Erectus" and is currently in Nairobi on a six-month data collection trip.

Brenda Biddle has been awarded a 2004-2005 grant from the German Marshall Fund's Research Fellowship Program for "Food Sovereignty: Towards a New Politics of Value."

Jennifer Borishansky received the Fall 2003 Beinecke Fellowship toward graduate work and research projects. Jennifer also holds a research assistantship with Professor Sophia Perdikaris.

Julian Brash was awarded a 2003-2005 student fellowship with The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at The Graduate Center.

Congratulations to Terence Capellini, winner of the 2004-2005 Olshan Dissertation Year Fellowship from The Graduate Center. Terence is also a 2004 recipient of a CUNY Instructional Technology fellowship.

Graduate Telma Carmargo Da Silva (PhD 2002) was the recipient of a 2003 Richard Carley Hunt Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

Graduate Eliza Darling (PhD 2004) is a postdoctoral fellow in the Yolanda Moses Visiting Scholar in Policy Studies Program at City College's Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies. She began her fellowship in Fall 2003.

Congratulations to Elsa Davidson, winner of a 2004-2005 Dissertation Year Fellowship from The Graduate Center, awarded for an outstanding dissertation proposal. The title of her project is "'Every Youth a Start-up': Aspiration Management among Silicon Valley Youth." Elsa is also a 2004 recipient of a CUNY College Writing fellowship.

Graduate Molly Doane (PhD 2001) was the 2003 recipient of a Richard Carley Hunt Grant from Wenner-Gren to aid in the research and writing of "Remapping Authority: The New Politics of the Environment in Mexico."

Melis Ece was the principal recipient of a 2003-2004 Fulbright Hays award for research in Senegal.

Ragnar Edvardsson was awarded a two-year National Science Foundation doctoral dissertation improvement grant in 2003 from the Arctic Social Sciences program for his work in Northwest Iceland.

First-year student Javiela Evangelista is a Mellon Mays Predoctoral Research Fellow for 2004-2009. She is, in addition, the recipient of a 2004 graduate fellowship award from The Graduate Center's Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies.

Susan Falls is a CUNY Instructional Technology fellow at Baruch College. In Spring 2003 she was awarded a travel grant to access the extensive De Beers archives in the special collections library at Duke University.

Abouali Farman-Farmaian, a former Geoffrey Marshall Fellow, began his Graduate Teaching Fellowship at Hunter College in Fall 2003.

Carolyn Fisher was the winner of the 2003-2004 Student Leadership Award from the CUNY Office of Student Affairs.

Friederike Fleischer was the winner of a 2003-2004 Graduate Center Dissertation Year Fellowship for "Between the Danwei and the High-rise: The Conflicting Effects of China's Modernization Project on Women in Suburban Beijing."

First-year student Lauren Halenar is the recipient of a five-year Integrative Graduate Research and Training in Evolutionary Primatology (IGERT) grant from the National Science Foundation. She is, in addition, the recipient of a CUNY Chancellor's fellowship.

Tina Harris received a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Title VI Grant through Columbia University to study advanced Tibetan at Tibet University in Lhasa for eight weeks in Summer 2004.

Christine Hegel has won a IIE Fulbright Grant for Graduate Research Abroad and an International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council. The grants will fund her research ("Law-mindedness and Social Mobility in Egypt") from January 2005 through December 2005. Christine currently holds a CUNY Instructional Technology fellowship at Staten Island College.

Lynn Horridge received a Spring 2004 fellowship to attend the Rockefeller Human Security Seminar.

Rebecca Jabbour has been awarded a 2004-2005 Individual Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to aid research on her dissertation, "Postcranial Skeletal Diversity and Ecomorphology of African Apes." Rebecca was the recipient of two 2003-2004 grants for her dissertation work: a Sigma Xi grant-in-aid of research and a L.S.B. Leakey Foundation general grant.

Hannah Jopling was the recipient of the District of Columbia's 2003 Mayor's Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation. Hannah's project, the Sidwell Friends School Archaeology Project, won in the Public Archaeology category, in recognition of "outstanding achievement in contributing to the understanding of past cultural behavior, including, but not limited to the recovery, analysis and/or in-place preservation of archaeological resources" (from the Awards press release). The five-year project involved Sidwell students from the fifth grade and their science instructor, working at a site behind an early 19th century building on the campus.

So-Youn Kang was the recipient of a 2004 Summer Research Fellowship from the Graduate Center's Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies.

Graduate Patty Kelly (PhD 2002) was a CUNY Honors College Postdoctoral fellow at Baruch College during the 2003-2004 academic year.

Graduate Anru Lee (PhD 1998) was a 2003 recipient of a Richard Carley Hunt fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for "In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring." She is a member of the anthropology faculty of John Jay College.

Joshua Linder received three 2004-2005 grants to fund his research in Cameroon: a Wildlife Conservation Society Research Fellowship Program grant; a Conservation International Primate Action Fund grant; and a grant from the American Society of Primatologists. The title of his project is "Differential Vulnerability of Primates to Hunting in Korup National Park, Cameroon: Implications for Primate Conservation."

Lara Kusnetzky was the 2003-2004 winner of The Graduate Center's Monroe Carell, Jr., Dissertation Fellowship for "Stories of Tin City: Histories of the Present in Gejiu, China."

Ilisa Lam was the recipient of a 2003 University Student Senate Scholarship.

Laure Levine was the winner of a 2003-2004 Department of Education Fulbright Hays award for "Defending Children's Rights: UNICEF, NGOs, and Palestinian Refugee Children in Jordan."

Ruth Maher has won a fellowship from The American-Scandinavian Foundation's Thor Thors Memorial Fund to support research, data collection, and dissertation writing at the Icelandic Institute of Archaeology from September 2004 through August 2005.

Congratulations to Erin Martineau, winner of The Graduate Center's 2004-2005 David Spitz Dissertation Fellowship in Social Sciences. The fellowship is named in honor of the late Professor Spitz, who was a faculty member in the Political Science program. Erin is a CUNY College Writing Fellow at New York Technical College, a fellowship she began in 2003.

Recent graduate Kieran McNulty (PhD 2003) was the recipient of a grant in Summer 2004 from the National Science Foundation to aid field research on fossil primates in Romania.

Tara Peburn is the recipient of multiple grants to support her research in the U.S., Europe and Africa on "Cranial Architecture of the Papionini: Analyses of Structural Variation, and its Functional and Phylogenetic Implications." The grants are a Wenner Gren Foundation Research grant, a Sigma Xi grant, and a Leakey Foundation grant.

Claudine Pied was a Research Assistant in 2003-2004, working with Professor Leith Mullings (co-PI) on a grant to study social justice philanthropy. The study, directed by Graduate Center Professor of Sociology Juan Battle, is part of a larger study of social justice philanthropy in five countries/regions of the world, funded by the Ford Foundation.

First-year student Jolie Preau is the recipient of the five-year (2004-2009) Franziska Dorner Fellowship from The Graduate Center.

Congratulations to Andrea Queeley, winner of the 2004-2005 President's Dissertation Year Fellowship from The Graduate Center. Andrea is also a CUNY Writing Fellow, a post she began in Fall 2004.

Gerald Scharfenberger is the recipient of two grants: a New Jersey Historical Commission Mini-grant for C-14 testing, and a Battlefield Restoration and Volunteer Organization grant to support his research project, "The Old Scots' Burying Ground: An Ethnoarchaeological study of New Jersey's First Presbyterian Congregation."

Graduate Jonathan Shannon (PhD 2001) was the recipient of a 2003-2004 Fulbright scholarship to Syria and Morocco. Jonathan is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College.

Congratulations to Rachel Sponzo, winner of the 2004-2005 Ralph Bunche Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate Center. The fellowship was established in honor of the late Nobel Laureate by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.

Vikki Stone was the winner of a 2003-2004 fellowship / sponsored internship with the ALTRIA Group of The Graduate Center's Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies.

Mary Taylor was a Fulbright-IIE Scholar for the 2003-2004 academic year, pursuing doctoral fieldwork in Hungary. Her project title is "The Hungarian Dancehouse Movement: Politics, Culture, and the Question of Europe."

Jose Vasquez was awarded a 2003 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, which provides three years of funding over a five-year period. Jose's interests include complementary and alternative medicine in the U.S. and Japan.

Graduate Bea Vidacs (PhD 2002) is a 2004 recipient of the highly prestigious Richard Carley Hunt grant from Wenner-Gren. In addition, she was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Grant and joined the Cultural Anthropology Department of the Eötvös Lorand University of Budapest, Hungary, for the Fall 2004 semester.

David Vine has been awarded a 2004 Kennedy Library Research Grant in support of his project, "Diego Garcia: The Creation of a Military Base." In 2003 he was the recipient of a Mellon Foundation grant through CUNY's Inter-University Consortium on Security and Humanitarian Affairs at the Ralph Bunche Institute. 2003 was the grant's inaugural year.

Gerard Weber was the winner of a 2003-2004 Department of Education Fulbright Hays award for "Health and Illness in Romania: Older Men and Women's Experiences with National Health Care Reform in Galati, Southern Moldavia."

Congratulations to Jimmy Weir, winner of a 2004 Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to support his research on "Making Everyday Life in the Context of Conflict: Practices of Chess, Gardening and Music in Herat, Afghanistan." He was, in addition, a 2003 David L. Boren Language Student fellow.

Danielle Whittaker is the recent recipient of multiple grants including a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for "Evolutionary Genetics of Kloss's Gibbons (Hylobates Klossii): Systematics, Phylogeography, and Conservation." She has also been awarded a 2004 Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation Grant for "Identifying and Conserving the Genetic Diversity of the Kloss's Gibbon While Balancing the Nature of the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia and the Culture of its People."

Graduate Jim Woollett (PhD 2003) was awarded a four-year postdoctoral fellowship in 2004 by the Leverhulme Trust (UK) for the project "Landscapes Circum Landnám" in the Faroes and Iceland.

First-year student Sarah Yahm is the recipient of two prestigous Graduate Center fellowships: a Provost's fellowship and an Altman fellowship. Congratulations!

Janette Yarwood is the recipient of a David L. Boren Fellowship for the 2004 academic year to support her dissertation research on "Coloured Identities in Cape Town, South Africa." She was a selected participant in the 2004 international graduate student summer seminar "Interrogating the African Diaspora" ("Imagining the African Diaspora: Genealogy and Social Constructions") at the Florida International University in North Miami.

Gabriela Zamorano was the recipient of a grant from the Mexican Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, from August 2000 through August 2004.

Congratulations to Jarrett Zigon, winner of The Graduate Center's 2004-2005 Carell Dissertation Fellowship for students of high academic merit.

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