Grants
Recent Grants (2002-2010)
The department and its archaeology service units generate approximately $1,700,000 in grants, financial awards, and contracts annually. This places Anthropology among the top five departments in the College of Arts and Sciences for the total amount of sponsored research projects. Visit University of Kentucky Research for more information on research support and programs at UK
A select list of grants obtained by faculty, staff, and students.
| Grant or Award | Principal Investigator | Amount |
|---|---|---|
Fiscal Year 2010 (7/1/2009-6/30/2010) |
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| National Science Foundation Fellowship: The Effects of the Migration on Gender Norms and Relations: The Post-Repatriation Experience in Bor, South Sudan |
Monica Udvardy, MaryBeth Chrostowsky | 14,918 |
Fiscal Year 2009 (7/1/2008-6/30/2009) |
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| National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Social Categories and Health Care Outcomes: HIV Positive African American Women and Survival in the Urban South |
Mary Anglin, Alyson Anthony O'Daniel | 7,991 |
| National Science Foundation Seminar: Tonga Timeline- Appraising 60 years of multidisciplinary research in Southern Province, Zambia |
Lisa Cliggett | 15,012 |
| Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Indeginous Women and Development: Impacts of Ethnodevelopment and Participation in Gender Relations in the Ecuadorian Highlands |
Sarah Lyon, Maria Moreno | 2,500 |
| Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: The Effects of Migration on Gender Norms and Relations: the Post-Repatriation Experience in Bor, South Sudan |
Monica Udvardy, MaryBeth Chrostowsky | 2,500 |
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2009* |
$805,843 |
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Fiscal Year 2008 (7/1/2007-6/30/2008) |
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| National Geographic Society Waitt Grant: Ancient Maya Political and Economic Transformations: Settlement Survey of the Ucí Intersite Causeway, Yucatan, Mexico |
Scott Hutson | 11,631 |
| Virginia Academy of Science Research Grant: Ceramic Analysis of Late Prehistoric Groups in Southwestern Virginia |
Richard Jefferies, Maureen Meyers | 1,150 |
| National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration Grant: Archaeological Identification of Frontier Chiefdoms at the Edge of the Mississippian World |
Richard Jefferies, Maureen Meyers | 19,045 |
| University of Kentucky Dissertation Enhancement Award |
Richard Jefferies, Maureen Meyers | 2,836 |
| National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Women's Health and Illness in a Migrant-Sending Community in Southern Mexico |
Mary Anglin, Mary Alice Scott | 2,900 |
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2008* |
$1,538,810 |
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Fiscal Year 2007 (7/1/2006-6/30/2007) |
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| National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Healthcare and Citizenship among Unionized Service Workers in Central Appalachia |
Mary Anglin, Becky Fletcher | 11,980 |
| Fulbright Institute of International Education Fulbright Student Grant |
Mary Anglin, Mary Alice Scott | |
| Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant: Exploring Sustainable Consumerism as a Response to Perceived Environmental Risk |
Lisa Cliggett, Cindy Isenhour | |
| Fulbright Institute of International Education Fulbright Student Grant |
Lisa Cliggett, Cindy Isenhour | |
| The American-Scandinavian Foundation Exploring Sustainable Consumerism as a Response to Perceived Environmental Risk |
Lisa Cliggett, Cindy Isenhour | |
| National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Grant: Acquisition of Geophysical Survey Equipment and Computer Processing Support for Archaeology |
George Crothers | 93,693 |
| Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid for Dissertation Research |
Richard Jefferies, Maureen Meyers | 1,000 |
| Indiana Department of Natural Resources Federal Historic Preservation Fund: Archaeological Survey and Limited Testing of Site 12Hr12 and the Surrounding Floodplain in Harrison County, Indiana |
Richard Jefferies, Rick Burdin | 47,455 |
| National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Absentee Ownership and Common Property Resource Management: The Case of Herd Management in Rural Mongolia |
Peter Little, Dan Murphy | 7,800 |
| Fulbright Institute of International Education Fulbright Student Grant |
Peter Little, Dan Murphy | |
| Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant: Communal Resource Management and Rural Inequality in Post-Socialist Mongolia |
Peter Little, Dan Murphy | |
| Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Absentee Herd-Ownership and Common Propoerty Resource Management in Rural Mongolia |
Peter Little, Dan Murphy | 2,000 |
| National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Tepango Valley Archaeological Project |
Chris Pool, Wes Stoner | 14,967 |
| Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Classic Period Development in the Tepango Valley, Tuxtla Mountains |
Chris Pool, Wes Stoner | 9,932 |
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2007* |
$1,116,617 |
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Fiscal Year 2006 (7/1/2005-6/30/2006) |
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| University of Kentucky James S. Brown Award for Graduate Student Research in Appalachia: Painting the Mountains: An Investigation of Art and Tourism in Appalachia |
Mary Anglin, Kristin Kant | 1,500 |
| National Science Foundation Linking Ethnography to Place: GIS Training for Anthropological Migration in a Zambian Frontier |
Lisa Cliggett | 49,997 |
| National Science Foundation Nutrition Security in Context of Migration in Southern Province, Zambia |
Deborah Crooks, Lisa Cliggett | 105,375 |
| Access Fund Intentional Site Burial of Two Rockshelter Sites in the Red River Gorge of Eastern Kentucky |
George Crothers, Leigh Grench | 3,000 |
| National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Land Tenure and Conflict Dynamics in Pastoral Areas of Southern Ethiopia |
Peter Little, Dejene Debsu | 12,000 |
| National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Becoming Mobile Pastoralists: Desedentarization among the Ful'be of Tanout, Niger |
Peter Little, Karen Greenough | 12,000 |
| Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship: Becoming Mobile Pastoralists: Desendentarization among the Ful'be of Tanout, Niger |
Peter Little, Karen Greenough | 20,000 |
| National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Population Displacement, Household Livelihood Security, and Social Relations in a Peri-Urban Area of Ethiopia |
Peter Little, Andu Meharie | 7,354 |
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2006* |
$761,619 |
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Fiscal Year 2005 (7/1/2004-6/30/2005) |
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| National Endowment for the Humanities Study and Publication of Archaeological Collections from Qasr Ibrim, Nubia |
William Adams | 58,799 |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services Museum Collections for the Public: Facilitating Lifelong Learning in Kentucky |
George Crothers | 96,314 |
| National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Canoncillo (JE-205) Mapping Project in Peru: Form, Function, and Meaning |
Tom Dillehay, John Warner | 11,990 |
| Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant: Development and Displacement in Peri-Urban Areas of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Impacts on Youth and Households |
Peter Little, Andu Meharie | |
| Global Livestock-Collaborative Research Support Program Jim Ellis Mentorship Program Award: Land Tenure and Conflict Dynamics in Pastoral Areas of Southern Ethiopia |
Peter Little, Dejene Debsu | |
| Fulbright Institute of International Education Fulbright Student Grant |
Michele Rivkin-Fish, Jill Owczarzak | |
| Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Mapping HIV Prevention in Poland |
Michele Rivkin-Fish, Jill Owczarzak | 2,000 |
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2005* |
$2,311,414 |
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Fiscal Year 2004 (7/1/2003-6/30/2004) |
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| National Science Foundation Migration and Environmental Change: Tenure Insecurity in a Zambian Frontier |
Lisa Cliggett | 60,554 |
| Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Settlement, Subsistence, and Emerging Socio-Economic Complexity among Middle Preceramic Hunter-Gatherers on the North Coast of Peru |
Tom Dillehay, Kary Stackelbeck | 1,500 |
| National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Early Preceramic Cultural Adaptation and Diversity on the North Coast of Peru |
Tom Dillehay, Greg Maggard | 8,350 |
| Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: El Meson Regional Survey |
Chris Pool, Michael Loughlin | 1,500 |
| National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Santiago Tuxtla Archaeological Project |
Chris Pool, Marcie Venter | 12,000 |
| Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Totógal: Investigations of Postclassic Occupation and the Aztec Frontier in the Tuxtla Mountains, Veracruz, México |
Chris Pool, Marcie Venter | 9,100 |
| University of Kentucky Dissertation Enhancement Award: Proyecto Arqueológico Santiago Tuxtla (Santiago Tuxtla Archaeological Project) |
Chris Pool, Marcie Venter | 3,000 |
| Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Postclassic Occupation and Provincial Strategies near Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico |
Chris Pool, Marcie Venter | 1,500 |
| National Academy of Sciences National Research Council Fellowship: Changing Family Structures and Reproductive Strategies After Socialism: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Investigation |
Michele Rivkin-Fish | 17,550 |
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2004* |
$1,005,940 |
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Fiscal Year 2003 (7/1/2002-6/30/2003) |
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| National Science Foundation Migration and Environmental Change: Tenure Insecurity in a Zambian Frontier |
Lisa Cliggett | 139,446 |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services TVA/WPA Photo Digitizing Project (U Tennessee) |
George Crothers | 28,000 |
| National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Sources of Power among Mapuche (Araucanian) Chiefdoms in South Central Chile (A.D. 1500-1900) |
Tom Dillehay, Ricardo Fernandez | 11,990 |
| Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Early Preceramic Culture Adaption and Diversity on the North Coast of Peru |
Tom Dillehay, Greg Maggard | 2,000 |
| Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Nomads and Agents: The Communication Interface Between Mobile Communities and the Implementers of Development |
Peter Little, Karen Greenough | 1,000 |
| National Science Foundation Tres Zapotes Archaeological Project 2003 |
Chris Pool | 194,848 |
| Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Recorrido Arqueológico El Mesón (El Mesón Archaeological Survey), Veracruz, México |
Chris Pool, Michael Loughlin | 9,950 |
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2003* |
$3,733,969 |
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Fiscal Year 2002 (7/1/2001-6/30/2002) |
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| National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Emerging Complexity among Middle Preceramic Hunter-Gatherers on the North Coast of Peru |
Tom Dillehay, Kary Stackelbeck | 11,930 |
| National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Core-Periphery Delineations in the Late Prehistoric Greater Antilles: A Jamaican Investigation |
Tom Dillehay, Betty Jo Stokes | 12,000 |
| Kentucky Academy of Science The Role of Feasting in the Puuc Region: A Comparative Model Analysis of the Terminal Classic Cehpech Sphere at Kiuic |
Chris Pool, Casey Barrier | 2,340 |
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2002* |
$1,532,058 |
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* Total Sponsored Projects includes all grants, awards, and contracts obtained by the Department, Museum of Anthropology, Program for Archaeological Research, and Kentucky Archaeological Survey. See Sponsored Projects Awards Report for a complete list.
