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Sara Ailshire is a senior majoring in Anthropology. Sara is also a mechanic at Wildcat Wheels, UK's community bike shop and bicycle library. Wildcat Wheels allows students and faculty rent bikes, or use the shops work stands, tools, and expertise to maintain their own bicycles. Arts & Sciences' Cheyenne Hohman recently sat down with Sara to discuss her work at Wildcat Wheels, and how it has informed her ambitions after she graduates from UK.
Karen Rignall is a finalist for the Roy A. Rappaport Graduate Student Award, sponsored by the Anthropology & Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). A Rappaport Prize Panel Discussion will be held at the 2012 AAA meeting. Five graduate students have been selected to present a paper, and one of those selected will be awarded the Rappaport Student Prize. The paper she will be presenting is entitled: The Aporias of Green Energy: Land, Sovereignty, and the Production of Solar Energy In Pre-Saharan Morocco. The paper is an expansion of her dissertation research on land rights and livelihoods in the rural south of Morocco and explores how Europe’s interest in renewable energy has created new forms of value in the vast steppe of Morocco, with problematic
Karen Rignall received the Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowshipat the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. During academic year 2012-2013, she will deliver a public lecture on her dissertation research, teach a seminar on the Political Ecology of the Middle East and North Africa, and revise her dissertation for publication as a book.
Ryan Anderson has received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF DDRIG). The title of Ryan’s dissertation research proposal is: "Political Ecologies of Value: Tourism and Social Conflict in Baja California Sur, Mexico."
By Sarah Geegan
The University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences will present the Distinguished Professor Lecture, featuring History Professor Ron Eller at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 12 in the William T. Young Library auditorium.
Eller's lecture, "Seeking the Good Life in America: Lessons From the Appalachian Past," will discuss what the future holds for Appalachia, using the history of the region as a foundation.
Eller, a professor in the Department of History, is originally from West Virginia. Having spent more than 40 years teaching and writing about the Appalachian region, he also served as the director for the UK Appalachian Center for 16 years. Eller has also served as
Nandini Gunewardena and Ann Kingsolver won the 2011 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize for their edited volume The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities (School for Advanced Research Press, 2008). For more information, cick here http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2012/02/10/february-saw-news/
By Sarah Geegan
UK anthropology Professor Sarah Lyon's recent work was described by the Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) as the best book in economic anthropology in three years. Her subject: coffee.
While many people believe that drinking fair-trade coffee, purchased directly from the growers, promotes healthier working conditions, environmentally friendly agricultural standards and fair prices, Lyon's work, "Coffee and Community: Maya Farmers and Fair-Trade Markets," analyzes the real implications of fair-trade networks.
Centering on the lives of Maya coffee farmers in Guatemala, the book examines the question: what is the reality for producers, intermediaries
By Sarah Geegan
Archaeology — a profession that often inspires visions of treasure-hunters, the likes of Indiana Jones and Benjamin Gates from National Treasure — seems somewhat out of place in Kentucky. However, the Kentucky Archaeological Survey (KAS), administered by the UK Department of Anthropology, has put itself on the map in terms of archaeological relevance and success.
KAS, an organization also administered by the Kentucky Heritage Council, serves to provide educational and research assistance, as well as community outreach.Working with schools, museums, historical societies and communities through its many research projects, KAS strives to educate the public regarding Kentucky's rich
By Jenny Wells
The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees Tuesday approved University Research Professorships for 2012-13 for four faculty members. The professorships carry a $40,000 award to support research. Funds for these annual awards are provided by the Office of the Vice President for Research.
Now in its 36th year, the University Research Professors program's purpose is to enhance and encourage scholarly research productivity, provide an opportunity for concentrated research effort for selected faculty members, and to recognize outstanding research achievement by members of the faculty.
The University Research Professors are:
Christopher Pool
Pool, a professor in the UK Department of Anthropology in
By Sarah Geegan
The revolutions throughout Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and other nations in the Arab world have inspired earnest debate among experts. Are the ideological underpinnings of the revolutions democratic, religious, liberal or non-ideological? Will these revolutions spearhead an Islamist takeover of the Arab world? Professor Asef Bayat, of the University of Illinois, will address these questions Friday, March 23, in the William T. Young Library auditorium.
The UK College of Arts and Sciences and the Muslim World Working Group will present the symposium titled, "Understanding the Arab Spring." The event will include a lecture from Bayat, "The Arab Spring: Are the Islamists Coming?" as well as commentary from three UK
By Sarah Geegan
The University of Kentucky Asia Center, in the latest installment of its 2012 Spring Speaker Series, will present an exploration of Buddhism and it's place in daily life on Friday, March 23.
The event, which will include two lecturers, will expose students to Buddhism and the social and practical roles it plays in various societies. Professors Ruth Baer from the UK Department of Psychology and Jeffery Samuels from the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Western Kentucky University will present.
Baer,
By Sarah Geegan
Students in professor Randolph Hollingsworth's research seminar expanded the boundaries of a typical history class as they examined the complexities and influences of Kentucky civil rights era women. By participating in digital dialogues, contributing to online databases and engaging in community service, the students experienced history by thinking outside the book.
"We don't have many scholarly books covering the wide-ranging history of women in Kentucky," Hollingsworth said. "One thing that we've found is that women are simply absent in many historical records. Sometimes it's a willful absence, and people choose not to include them. But then other times, it's just neglect."
The course aimed to begin filling this historical void. Students served as history-detectives,
Here is the link to MaryBeth Chrostowsky's featured article on the Committee on Social Theory website: http://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/erasing-disconnect
By Sarah Geegan
The University of Kentucky’s Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies Program will feature a panel discussion about hydraulic fracturing (or “fracing”) as a way of extracting natural gas in Kentucky. The event, part of the Appalachian Forum series, will take place from 7-9 p.m Thursday, Feb. 23, in Room 106 of UK's White Hall Classroom Building.
Panelists at the event will represent a variety of relevant areas of expertise, and after brief introductory remarks by each panelist, Al Cross
By Sarah Geegan
Rich Kirby and John Haywood will present the second lecture in the Appalachian Studies Program’s Place Matters lecture series on Friday, Feb. 17.
The lecture, “Somewheres on the Track: Place, Art and Music in Eastern Kentucky,” will demonstrate Kirby and Haywood's experience with all three – place, art, and music – from Appalachian Kentucky. Their multimedia presentation will take place from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Center Theater, University of Kentucky Student Center.
Rich Kirby is a musician who founded June Appal Recordings in 1974. For over 30 years –
By Sarah Geegan, Guy Spriggs
The American Anthropological Association recently appointed University of Kentucky anthropology Professor Sarah Lyon as editor of the Anthropology of Work Review (AWR).
AWR is the journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Work, a section of the American Anthropological Association.
“(AWR) is a journal that looks at the variety of work and all of its forms,” said Lyon. “It looks at labor and work around the world and across time from an anthropological point of view.”
The role of AWR editor seems tailor-made for Lyon, who specializes in economic anthropology with a focus on the intersections of culture and economy.
Allison Harnish has recieved the Dissertation Year Fellowship Award. Allison Harnish works in a frontier farming region outside one of Africa’s largest national parks, and in her dissertation she investigates how gender- and age-based differences in household labor roles prompt men, women, boys, and girls to differently experience declines in natural resources.
To listen to a podcast where she discusses her research on displacement and resettlement in Southern Province, Zambia, click here.
Ryan Anderson has received the Dissertation Enhancement Award. His dissertation research focuses on the politics and conflicts surrounding a large-scale tourism development project on the Baja California peninsula.