In a typical year the department and its archaeology service units generate more than $1,000,000 in grants, financial awards, and contracts. 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:
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Fiscal Year 2021 (7/1/2020-6/30/2021) |
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NSF Doctoral Dissertation Reseach Improvement Grant Navigating Structural Barriers to Obstetric Services in Rural America |
Sia Beasley, Erin Koch (advisor) | 22-112 |
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NSF Doctoral Dissertation Reseach Improvement Grant Colonial Associated Community Interaction |
Gabriela Montero Mejía, Christopher Pool (advisor) | 24,948 |
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National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Changes in Landscape, Labor, and Livelihood in Long Chronological Context |
Christopher A. Pool |
106,532 |
| Society for Economic Anthropology M. Estellie Smith Award | Gabriela Montero Mejía, Christopher Pool (advisor) | 1,000 |
Fiscal Year 2020 (7/1/2019-6/30/2020) |
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Institute of Museum and Library Services: Save America's Treasures Grant Building Improvements to the William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology Collections Center |
George Crothers | 445,327 |
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Kentucky Oral History Commission Transcription Grant Youth Activism in Different Generations in Appalachia |
Tammy Clemons, Ann Kingsolver (advisor) | 3750 |
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Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region Martha Ross Memorial Prize |
Tammy Clemons, Ann Kingsolver (advisor) | 500 |
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Wenner-Gren Foundation Mobility and Manhood Across the Syrian Warscape |
Kristin Monroe | |
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Indiana University Title VIII Fellowship Ukranian Language Study |
Alyssa Farmer, Erin Koch (advisor) | 5000 |
| P.E.O Scholar Award | Miriam Ruth Dike, Sarah Lyon (advisor) | 15,000 |
Fiscal Year 2019 (7/1/2018-6/30/2019) |
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Georgia Department of Natural Resources Archaeological Services at Sapelo Island, Georgia |
Dick Jefferies | 7408.80 |
| Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant | Miriam Ruth Dike, Sarah Lyon (advisor) | 36,976 |
| Society for Economic Anthropology Halperin Award | Gabriela Montero Mejía, Christopher Pool (advisor) | 2,000 |
Fiscal Year 2018 (7/1/2017-6/30/2018) |
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NSF Research Experience for Graduates |
Alyssa Farmer, Erin Koch (advisor) | 6000 |
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American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship "The Decline of Indigenous Rights in Latin America" |
Carmen Martinez Novo | 50,000 |
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Kentucky Oral History Commission Grant "Youth Activism in Different Generations in Appalachia" |
Tammy Clemons, Ann Kingsolver (advisor) | 4,151 |
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Lambda Alpha National Honor Society in Anthropology Graduate Research Grant "Musical Instrument Makers, Appalachian Forests, and the Re-enchantment of Livelihood and Material in West Virginia" |
Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, Ann Kingsolver (advisor) | 2,000 |
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Wenner-Gren Foundation "Musical Instrument Makers, Appalachian Forests, and the Re-enchantment of Livelihood and Material in West Virginia" |
Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, Ann Kingsolver (advisor) | 18,006 |
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Georgia Department of Natural Resources Archaeological Services at Sapelo Island, Georgia |
Dick Jefferies | 12,972 |
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National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Village Temple Consciousness in Two Jaffna Tamil Villages in Post-War Sri Lanka |
Mark Whitaker (advisor) |
25,181 |
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National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Development with Identity or Commodities with Identity? Lenca Craftswomen, Honduras' Identity Politics, and Global Economies of Culture |
Ana Hasemann, Monica Udvardy (advisor) | 19,000 |
| Lambda Alpha Dissertation Research Grant | Miriam Ruth Dike, Sarah Lyon (advisor) | 2,000 |
| Philo & Sarah Blaisdell Foundation Research Grant | Kaitlin Zapel, Carmen Martinez Novo (advisor) | 500 |
| National Geographic Society Early Explorers Grant | Ana Hasemann, Monica Udvardy (advisor) | 5,000 |
Fiscal Year 2017 (7/1/2016-6/30/2017) |
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| Kentucky Historical Society Scholarly Research Fellowship | Tammy Clemons, Ann Kingsolver (advisor) | 500 |
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Lambda Alpha National Honor Society in Anthropology Graduate Research Grant "Musical Instrument Makers, Appalachian Forests, and the Re-enchantment of Livelihood and Material in West Virginia" |
Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, Ann Kingsolver (advisor) | 2,000 |
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National Science Foundation DDRIG: "We are being left to 'blight'": Investigating Understandings of Food Insecurity in a Kansas City Neighborhood Targeted for Food Justice |
Ann Kingsolver, Chhaya Kolavalli | 18,107 |
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Felburn Foundation Middle to Late Holocene (8000-3000 B.P.) Environmental Change and Human Ecosystem Dynamics in South-Central Kentucky |
George Crothers, Justin Nels Carlson | 10,000 |
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Dirección de Investigación Científica y Posgrado, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras/Office of Cientific Research and Graduate Studies, Honduran National Autonomous University Beca Básica de Investigación/Basic Research Grant: Development with Identity or Commodities with Identity? Lenca Craftswomen, Honduras' Identity Politics, and Global Economies of Culture |
Ana E. Hasemann Lara | 3,500 |
Fiscal Year 2016 (7/1/2015-6/30/2016) |
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Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant: Constructing Community and Complexity: Hinterland Interactions at the Ancient Maya Settlement of Crescencio |
Scott Hutson, Celine C. Lamb | 16,667 |
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National Science Foundation DDRIG: Resource Mobilization and Network Formation within Forced Migrant Communities |
Kristin Monroe, Daniel Joseph | |
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National Science Foundation DDRIG: Effects of Social Change on Household Quality of Life and Social Cohesion |
Scott Hutson, Barry Kidder | 24,560 |
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National Science Foundation DDRIG: Enterprising Farming Families of Southern Appalachia and the Mexican Bajio |
Ann Kingsolver, Mary Elizabeth Schmid | |
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National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology and Geography and Spatial Sciences Variables Influencing Increased Agricultural Yields in Areas of Socioeconomic Transition |
Sarah Lyon (with Tad Mutersbaugh) | 138,966 |
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National Endowment for the Humanities Transforming the PhD Planning Grant: Careers beyond the Academy |
Sarah Lyon | 25,000 |
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P.E.O. International P.E.O. Scholar Award: Ministries of Education: Moral Visions of State, Society, and Schools in Iraqi Kurdistan |
Diane E. King, Diana P. Hatchett | 15,000 |
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National Security Education Program Boren Fellowship: "Claiming Kurdishness": Ethnic Identity Claims and Political Engagement among Kurdish University Students in Istanbul |
Lydia Shanklin Roll | 9,500 |
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CDC - The National Istitute for Occupational Safety and Health Develop Safety and Health Items for Research with Hispanic Immigrant Workers |
Sarah Lyon | 13,500 |
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Cave Research Foundation Graduate Student Research Grant: Assessing Human Activitites, Sediment Deposition, and Pedogenesis at Crumps Cave Vestibule and Sink, Warren County, Kentucky |
George Crothers, Justin Nels Carlson | 2,500 |
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Latin American Council for Social Sciences (CLACSO) Dissertation Research Grant: Theories and Paradoxes of Postneoliberalism in Latin America: State Redistribution and Accumulation by Dispossession among the Kichwa Indigenous Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon |
Karla Encalada-Falconi | |
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Society for Economic Anthropology Halperin Award: Gendered Politics of Food-Related Labor in Morocco |
M. Ruth Dike | 2,500 |
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Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology Graduate Research Grant: Hindu Temple Conflict, Bhakthi Religiosity, and Village Temple Consciousness Among the Jaffna Tamils in Post-War Sri Lanka |
Pathmanesan Sanmugeswaran | 2,000 |
Fiscal Year 2015 (7/1/2014-6/30/2015) |
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National Science Foundation DDRIG: Resilience in Adaptation to Social Change |
Scott Hutson, Gavin Davies | 24,847 |
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Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Assessing Prehistoric Labor Relations through a Geoarchaeological Study of the Portsmouth Earthworks |
George Crothers, Stuart Nealis | 11,080 |
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Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Enterprising Farming Families of Southern Appalachia and the Mexican Bajio |
Ann Kingsolver, Mary Elizabeth Schmid | |
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Kentucky Oral History Commission Consumerism, Progressivism, and Class Identity at 20th Century Company Coalmining Towns |
Richard Jefferies, Zada Komara | 4,703 |
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Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Military Affairs Cultural Resources |
David Pollack | 160,000 |
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Georgia Department of Historic Preservation Radiocarbon Dating of Samples from the Spanish Mission Period Site of San Joseph de Sapala, Sapelo Island, Georgia |
Richard Jefferies | 3,000 |
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Indiana University African Studies Program Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship |
Chelsea Cutright | 7,500 |
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Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology Graduate Research Grant: Postneoliberal State, Redistribution and Indigenous Communities in Ecuador |
Karla Encalada-Falconi | |
Fiscal Year 2014 (7/1/2013-6/30/2014) |
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National Science Foundation DDRIG: Influences on Nutritional Status among Alaska native Older Adults of Anchorage, Alaska |
Deborah Crooks, Britteny Howell | 26,500 |
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National Science Foundation DDRIG: Growing Change? Community Gardens and Urban Citizenship in Southeast Michigan |
Kristin Monroe, Megan Maurer | 11,385 |
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Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant: Growing Change? Community Gardens and Urban Citizenship in Southeast Michigan |
Kristin Monroe, Megan Maurer | |
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Army Corps of Engineers Project Archaeology: Investigating Shelter Pilot Project |
David Pollack | 135,066 |
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National Science Foundation Senior Research Grant: Enlarged Network Integration as a Response to Social Change |
David Pollack, Gwynn Henderson, Heather Worne | 157,285 |
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National Science Foundation Long Term Social Stability in the Tres-Zapotes Region |
Christopher Pool | 240,000 |
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National Science Foundation Matacanela Archaeological Project |
Marcie Venter | 159,971 |
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The Weissberg Foundation Gender Equity in Quality-Oriented Global Value Chains: Certified Organic, Fairtrade Coffee Production in Oaxaca, Mexico |
Sarah Lyon (with Tad Mutersbaugh) | 55,000 |
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The Ohio State University Center for Historical Research Fellowship |
Diane E. King | |
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U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Critical Language Scholarship for Intensive Language Study in Turkey |
Lydia Shanklin Roll | |
Fiscal Year 2013 (7/1/2012-6/30/2013) |
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National Science Foundation Long Term Social Stability in the Tres-Zapotes Region |
Christopher Pool, Michael L. Loughlin | 240,000 |
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National Park Service Conservation Assessment of War of 1812 Saltpeter Works, Mammoth Cave National Park |
George Crothers | 78,993 |
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National Science Foundation DDRIG: Political Ecologies of Value: Tourism and Social Conflict in Baja California Sur, Mexico |
Sarah Lyon, Ryan Anderson | 12,188 |
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Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Carrer Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty |
Kristin Monroe | 30,000 |
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Intel Corporation Grant to Investigate Trust and Risk in the Use of Mobile Technologies |
Hsain Ilahiane | 10,000 |
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U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Critical Language Scholarship for Intensive Language Study in Turkey |
Lydia Shanklin Roll | |
Fiscal Year 2012 (7/1/2011-6/30/2012) |
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National Science Foundation DDRIG: Community Responses to Local Resource Extraction |
Mary Anglin, Julie Shepherd Powell | 16,715 |
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National Science Foundation Strategies of Data Archiving for Cultural Anthropology, Using Gwembe Tonga Research Project Data |
Lisa Cliggett | 49,922 |
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National Park Service Big South Fork Oral History Indexing and Transcription Project |
Kim McBride | 42,000 |
Fiscal Year 2011 (7/1/2010-6/30/2011) |
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National Science Foundation DDRIG: The Cultural Politics of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and the Diagnosis of Difference |
Mary Anglin, Travis Hedwig | 16,000 |
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National Science Foundation DDRIG: Missing Links: Investigating the Socially-Differentiated Effects of Land Cover Change in a Rural Zambian Frontier |
Lisa Cliggett, Allison harnish | 5,500 |
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National Science Foundation Workshop on Food Insecurity and Mental Health |
Deborah Crooks | 29,677 |
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National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Uci-Cansahcab Regional Integration Project |
Scott Hutson | 113,539 |
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National Science Foundation DDRIG: Factors Shaping Adolescent Nutritional Status in a Low-Income Neighhborhood in Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Deborah Crooks, Jennifer Williams | 12,259 |
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National Science Foundation DDIRG: Exchange Mechanisms, Consumption and Household Provisioning Strategies: Maya Economy and Political Economy at Kiuic, Yucatan, Mexico |
Christopher Pool, Christopher Gunn | 14,267 |
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Kentucky Heritage Council Survey and Assessment of Archaeological Resources on Flint Island, Meade County, Threatened by River Bank Erosion and Illegal Digging |
George Crothers | 6,800 |
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American Museum of Natural History Plant Uses and Subsistence Strategies of Prehispanic Chiefdoms in the Western Venezuelan Llanos |
Renee M. Bonzani | |
Fiscal Year 2010 (7/1/2009-6/30/2010) |
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National Science Foundation Fellowship: Expanding Cultivation, Land, and Livelihood Transformations in Southern Morocco |
Lisa Cliggett, Karen rignall | 4,856 |
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National Science Foundation |
Mary Anglin, Patti Meyers | 9,851 |
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National Park Service Conservation Assessment of War of 1812 Saltpeter Works, Mammoth Cave National Park |
George Crothers | 28,500 |
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National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Humanitarianism as Politics: Internally Displaced Persons, Health and Citzenship in the Republic of Georgia |
Erin Koch | 52,250 |
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National Science Foundation Fellowship: The Social and Political-Economic Dynamics of Foodways in Peri-Urban Honduras |
Sarah Lyon, Aeleka Schortman | 10,500 |
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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 |
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Geogia Department of Natural Resources Archaeological Investigation of Mission Period Activitiy on Sapelo Island, Georgia |
Richard Jefferies | 5,000 |
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The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) Humanitarianism as Politics: Internally Displaced Persons, Health, and Citizenship in the Republic of Georgia |
Erin Koch (with Elizabeth Dunn, University of Colorado Boulder) | |
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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 |
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National Science Foundation Seminar: Tonga Timeline- Appraising 60 years of multidisciplinary research in Southern Province, Zambia |
Lisa Cliggett | 15,012 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Health Effects of Displacement in post-War Georgia |
Erin Koch | |
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 |
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Virginia Academy of Science Research Grant: Ceramic Analysis of Late Prehistoric Groups in Southwestern Virginia |
Richard Jefferies, Maureen Meyers | 1,150 |
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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 |
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University of Kentucky Dissertation Enhancement Award |
Richard Jefferies, Maureen Meyers | 2,836 |
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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 |
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 |
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Fulbright Institute of International Education Fulbright Student Grant |
Mary Anglin, Mary Alice Scott | |
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Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant: Exploring Sustainable Consumerism as a Response to Perceived Environmental Risk |
Lisa Cliggett, Cindy Isenhour | |
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Fulbright Institute of International Education Fulbright Student Grant |
Lisa Cliggett, Cindy Isenhour | |
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The American-Scandinavian Foundation Exploring Sustainable Consumerism as a Response to Perceived Environmental Risk |
Lisa Cliggett, Cindy Isenhour | |
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National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Grant: Acquisition of Geophysical Survey Equipment and Computer Processing Support for Archaeology |
George Crothers | 93,693 |
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Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid for Dissertation Research |
Richard Jefferies, Maureen Meyers | 1,000 |
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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 |
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National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Absentee Ownership and Common Property Resource Management: The Case of Herd Management in Rural Mongolia |
Peter Little, Daniel Murphy | 7,800 |
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Fulbright Institute of International Education Fulbright Student Grant |
Peter Little, Daniel Murphy | |
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Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant: Communal Resource Management and Rural Inequality in Post-Socialist Mongolia |
Peter Little, Daniel Murphy | |
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Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Absentee Herd-Ownership and Common Propoerty Resource Management in Rural Mongolia |
Peter Little, Daniel Murphy | 2,000 |
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National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Tepango Valley Archaeological Project |
Christopher Pool, Wesley Stoner | 14,967 |
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Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Classic Period Development in the Tepango Valley, Tuxtla Mountains |
Christopher Pool, Wes;eu Stoner | 9,932 |
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 |
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National Science Foundation Linking Ethnography to Place: GIS Training for Anthropological Migration in a Zambian Frontier |
Lisa Cliggett | 49,997 |
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National Science Foundation Nutrition Security in Context of Migration in Southern Province, Zambia |
Deborah Crooks, Lisa Cliggett | 105,375 |
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National Science Foundation Acquisition of Geophysical Survey Equipment and Computer Processing Support for Archaeology |
Christopher Pool, George Crothers, David Pollack, Jonathan D. Phillips, and Richard Jefferies | 93,693 |
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Access Fund Intentional Site Burial of Two Rockshelter Sites in the Red River Gorge of Eastern Kentucky |
George Crothers, Leigh Grench | 3,000 |
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National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Land Tenure and Conflict Dynamics in Pastoral Areas of Southern Ethiopia |
Peter Little, Dejene Debsu | 12,000 |
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National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Becoming Mobile Pastoralists: Desedentarization among the Ful'be of Tanout, Niger |
Peter Little, Karen Greenough | 12,000 |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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Institute of Museum and Library Services Museum Collections for the Public: Facilitating Lifelong Learning in Kentucky |
George Crothers | 96,314 |
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National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Canoncillo (JE-205) Mapping Project in Peru: Form, Function, and Meaning |
Tom Dillehay, John Warner | 11,990 |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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Fulbright Institute of International Education Fulbright Student Grant |
Michele Rivkin-Fish, Jill Owczarzak | |
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Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Mapping HIV Prevention in Poland |
Michele Rivkin-Fish, Jill Owczarzak | 2,000 |
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NSF Doctoral Dissertation Reseach Improvement Grant Colonial Associated Community Interaction |