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| Honors and Awards |
Dante Bartoli received one of the $5000 College of Liberal Arts Dissertation Awards |
| Kristen Vogel received a Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant from the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research |
| Margie Serrato-Sparks received an NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute Program grant to travel to Korea this summer. |
| Suzanne Eckert will be the Glasscock Faculty Stipendiary Fellow for 2007-2008 |
| Richa Dhanju has been named a Graduate Student Stipendiary Fellow for 2007-2008. |
| Bryana Dubard received L. T. Jordan Foundation Fellows award. |
| George Schwarz received L. T. Jordan Foundation Fellows award. |
| Chris Sparks received an L. T. Jordan Foundation Fellow award for travel to South Korea. |
| Paul Creasman received Graduate Student First Place for his presentation, “At the Foot of a Pharaoh: The Cairo Dahshur Boats” a the 4th Annual TAMUS Pathways Student Research Symposium at Prairie View A&M University. |
Vaughn Bryant was honored with the Fryxell Award at the Society for American Archaeology Meetings in Austin, April 25 – 29. |
| Alston Thoms has been awarded the Glasscock Stipendiary Fellowship for 2006-2007 for his project "Rediscovering Camp Ford: Multi-Cultural Integrity at a Civil War POW Camp in Texas ." |
Benjamin Ford has been named a Glasscock Stipendiary Graduate Fellow for 2006-2007 for his project "Lake Ontario Maritime Cultural Landscape Project." |
| Christopher Sparks has been named a Glasscock Stipendiary Graduate Fellow for 2006-2007 for his project "Wrestling with Ssireum: Korean Traditional Sport vs. Globalization." |
Heidi Luchsinger receives the Douglas C. Kellogg Award from the Society of American Archaeology. |
Katie Custer (PhD student) and Ali Steere (PhD student) had been named Graduate Student Stipendiary Fellows for the academic year 2005-2006 at the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. |
| Deborah Carlson has been awarded the Glasscock Stipendiary Fellowship for 2005-2006 for her project "Early Greek Amphora Stamps: Monograms, Meaning and Motivation.” |
| Vaughn Bryant has been made an Honorary Member of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists for making fundamental contributions to the science of palynology. |
| Michael Waters received the Rip Rap Award in Archaeological Geology Award from the Geological Socity of America. |
| Filipe Castro has been named the McCann and Taggart Underwater Archaeology speaker by the Archaeological Institute of America. |
Andrew Scherer has been as a Distinguished Graduate Student Doctoral Research Award recipient by the Association of Former Students. |
| Alexis Catsambis was named student runner-up for his poster presentation, "Before Antikythera: The First Underwater Survey in Greece," at the 2005 meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Boston , MA |
Christopher Sparks was accepted into the National Science Foundation's East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes 2005 program. He is sponsored in part by the Korean Science and Engineering Foundation while at Seoul National University where he will work with Dr. HyangJin Jung at the Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies. |
| Phillip Johnson was accepted into the National Science Foundation's East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes 2005 program. He is sponsored in part by the Australian Academy of Science while at the University of Sydney where he will work with Dr. Ian Johnson at the Archaeological Computing Lab. |
| Matthew Harpster received the Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize for his paper "New Rules for Old Boats: Proportional Rules in Early-medieval Ship Design" which he presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology. |
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| Research Grants |
Christina Szado received funding from Primate Conservation Inc for her research in Indonesia this summer, " Preliminary Population Survey of Tarsius
bancanus bancanus in Southern Sumatra, Indonesia". |
| Nanda Grow received funding from Primate Conservation Inc for her research in Indonesia this summer, "Population Density Survey of Tarsius pumilus in Central Sulawesi". |
| Deborah Carlson received grants from the National Geographic Society and Der Spiegel for the 2007 field season at Kıizılburun, Turkey. |
| Alston Thoms received a $10,000 grant from the Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities for his project, “Foodways as Pathways from Pre-Columbian to Modern Cultures: An Anthropological Study at Native America’s Crossroads in Texas. |
| Maria Parks received a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Award and an NSF Dissertation Grant for, "Testing the Subsistence Model for the Adoption of Ceramic Technology Among Coastal Foragers of Southeastern Brazil." She also received the College of Liberal Arts Dissertation Award. |
| Pat Clabaugh, Curator of Anthropology, received a Texas Preservation Trust Fund grant for $24,000 to upgrade three held-in-trust collections (Granado Cave, South Bend, and Alabonson Road). |
| Darryl de Ruiter has just received a grant from the Wenner-Gren foundation for his grant, "Paleoanthropological Investigation of Pliocene Virginia Railway Cut, Free State, South Africa. He also received a College of Liberal Arts
Faculty Research Enhancement Award and a grant from the Palaeontological Scientific Trust of South Africa for his upcoming field season at Meloding in the Free State. |
Deborah Carlson received an American Research Institute in Turkey Fellowship to be on leave in the Fall and an International Research Travel Assistance Grant. |
Cynthia Werner received a Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Seed Grant and an International Curriculum Development Grant. |
Cynthia Werner received a grant from the Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities for her project "Returning Home: Gender, Networks and the Kazakh Diaspora in Mongolia ." |
Suzanne Eckert received a grant from the Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities for her project, "Seeking Ancestral Polynesians: Pottery Production and Exchange at Three Pre-Contact Samoan Villages." |
| D. Bruce Dickson and his collaborators have received a $500,000 grant from the American Battle Monuments Commission to study and preserve Historic Pointe du Hoc Site, the historic cliff on Omaha Beach in Normandy France was scaled by then Lieutenant Colonel Earl Rudder and his Rudder's Rangers during the June 6, 1944 D-Day Invasion. |
| Sheela Athreya has just received a National Geographic Society Expeditions Council award in support of her project "Identification of hominin fossil localities in the Lower Narmada Valley, Gujarat, western India." |
| Deborah Carlson has just received a National Geographic Society Expeditions Council award in support of her project "The Roman column wreck at Kizilburun, Turkey." |
| Wayne Smith has just been awarded a grant from the Hillcrest Foundation for studies of the Kennewick skeleton in collaboration with Tom Stafford. |
| Sharon Gursky has received and International Curriculum Development Grant. |
| Darryl de Ruiter has received an International Research Travel Assistance Grant. |
| Filipe Castro and Richard Furuta ( Center for the Study of Digital Libraries ) have just been awarded an NSF Grant to develop a computerized database system for shipwreck recording and analysis. |
| Deborah Carlson was awarded a Franklin Research Grant by the American Philosophical Society and a College Faculty Research Enhancement Award to assist in this summer's excavation of the Roman column wreck at Kizilburun, Turkey. |
| Bruce Dickson received a grant to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities for "The Archaeology of the Greatest Generation: Locating the German Covered Trenches at Pointe du Hoc Battlefield, Normandy, France Using Ground Penetrating Radar, Magnetometry, Metal Detection, and Systematic Archaeological Excavation." |
| Michael Alvard and Dudley Poston (Sociology) received Proposal Planning Grant: Interdsciplinary Program for their project, "Testing the Nonparental Transmission Hypothesis." |
Cemal Pulak received a Faculty Development Leave for Fall 2005. |
| Sharon Gursky received an International Research Travel Grant for her project, "Dispersal in the Spectral Tarsier" and a Proposal Planning Grant: Preliminary Studies Program for "Dispersal in the Spectral Tarsier." |
| Sheela Athreya received an International Research Travel Grant for her project, "Evidence of Human Occupation, Narmada Valley." |
Cynthia Werner received a College Faculty Research Enhancement Award for "From an Imagined Homeland to Immediate Needs: Social Networks, Gender and the Migration of Kazakhs from Mongolia to Kazakhstan ." |
| Cassady Yoder received an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, "Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Black Death and the Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis: Implications for Dietary Inequality in Denmark" |
| Eric
J. Bartelink received a Wenner-Gren Foundation for
Anthropological Research, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant and and
NSF Dissertation Research Grant for his research project, "Emerging
Diet and Health Patterns in Prehistoric Central California." |
| Heidi
Luchsinger received a dissertation grant from Sigma
Xi, a grant from the Geological Society of America, a Fulbright
Fellowship to Argentina, and an NSF Dissertation Research Grant
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| Recent Books
by Students and Faculty |
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Suzanne Eckert’s book, Pottery and Practice: The Expression of Identity at Pottery Mound and Hummingbird Pueblo is now available through University of New Mexico Press |
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Primate Anti-Predator Strategies edited by Sharon Gursky and K. A. I. Nekaris
is available from Springer
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The Greenwood Library of American Folktales edited by Tom Green is
available from Greenwood Press |
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The Spectral Tarsier by Sharon Gursky is available from Prentice-Hall
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The Social Life of Pots: Glaze Wares and Cultural Dynamics in the Southwest,
AD 1250-1680
edited by Judith A. Habicht-Mauche, Suzanne L. Eckert, and
Deborah L. Huntley
is available from the University of Arizona Press
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Paleoamerican Origins: Beyond Clovis edited by Robson Bonnichsen, Bradley T. Lepper, Dennis Stanford,
and Michael R. Waters published by the Center for the Study of the First Americans is available
from Texas A&M University Press
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Diet, Health, and Status Among the Pasion Maya: A Reappraisal of the Collapse by Lori Wright
is available from Vanderbilt University Press
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Research in Economic Anthropology: Markets and Market Liberalization: Ethnographic Reflections edited by
Cynthia Werner and Norbert Dannhaueser is available from Elsevier Press
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Beneath the Seven Seas by George Bass is available from Thames & Hudson
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Research in Economic Anthropology: Socioeconomic Aspects of Human
Behavioral Ecology edited By Michael Alvard is available from Elsevier Press
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The Pepper Wreck:
A Portuguese Indiaman at the Mouth of the Tagus River by
Filipe Vieira de Castro is available from Texas A&M University Press |
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Chinese Traders in a Philippine Town: From Daily Competition to Urban Transformation
by Norbert Dannhaeuser is available from Ateneo University Press |
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Serçe Limani: An Eleventh-Century
Shipwreck. Vol. 1, The Ship and Its Anchorage, Crew,
and Passengers by George F. Bass,
Sheila Matthews, J. Richard
Steffy, and Frederick H. van Doorninck,
Jr. is available from Texas A&M University
Press
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Lone Star Stalag: German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne by Michael Waters
is available from Texas A&M University Press
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The Philosophy of Shipbuilding
Conceptual Approaches to the Study of Wooden Ships
edited by Frederick M. Hocker and Cheryl
A. Ward is available from Texas A&M University
Press
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Let's Hear It: Stories by Texas Women Writers edited by Sylvia Grider and
Lou Halsell Rodenberger is available from Texas A&M University Press
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Homeric Seafaring by Samuel Mark is available from Texas A&M University Press |
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Ice Age Peoples of North America: Environments, Origins, and Adaptations of the First Americans edited by Robson Bonnichsen and Karen L. Turnmire published by the Center for the Study of the First Americans
is distributed by Texas A&M University Press |
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Who Were the First Americans? edited by Robson Bonnichsen published
by the Center
for the Study
of the First Americans is distributed by
Texas A&M University Press |
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| Tarsiers: Past Present, and Future edited by Patricia C. Wright,Elwyn L. Simons,
and Sharon Gursky is now available from Rutgers University Press |
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Values and Valuables: From the Sacred
to the Symbolic Series.
Society for
Economic Anthropology
Monograph
Series #21
edited
by Cynthia Werner
and Duran Bell is available
from Altamira Press |
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| A Nau de Portugal [in Portuguese] by Filipe Vieira de Castro
is available from Prefácio |
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Martial
Arts in the Modern World edited by Tom
Green and Joseph Svinth
is now available from Greenwood Press |
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| Research in Economic Anthropology: Anthropological Perspectives in Economic
Development and Integration edited by Norbert Dannhaeuser
and Cynthia Werner is available Elsevier Press |
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Mimbres Archaeology at the NAN Ranch
Ruin by Harry Shafer
is
now
available from New Mexico University Press |
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| Archaeological Conservation Using Polymers by C. Wayne Smith
is now available from Texas A&M University Press |
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| Field Research |
| Sharon Gursky, Nanda Grow, and Christina Szado will be conducting research on tarsier populations in three areas of Indonesia. |
| Deborah Carlson will be conducting a third season of excavations this summer on the Roman column wreck at Kizilburun, Turkey. |
| Darryl de Ruiter will be conducting excavations at the Virginia Railway Cut, Free State, South Africa searching for Pliocene fossils. |
| Ted Goebel will be conducting excavations this summer at the Bonneville Estates Rockshelter in Nevada and a Nenana complex site in central Alaska. |
| Michael Waters will be conducting excavations this summer at the Buttermilk Creek site, a Clovis age site in central Texas. |
| Donny Hamilton will be recovering artifacts by ROV from a deep water shipwreck site in the Gulf of Mexico |
| Peter Fix and Jim Jobling will be recovering a plane from an underwater site off the coast of Irian Jaya. |
| Bruce Dickson is participating in a a multi-disciplinary team from Texas A&M University's Historic Resources Imaging Laboratory to survey and document the historic Pointe du Hoc site in France in an effort to generate a comprehensive site record that will serve as a valuable reference for World War II historians and for future preservation and educational initiatives. |
| Kevin
Crisman is working at Fort Towson recovering an 1838
steamboat wreck on the Red River. The project is funded with
$150,000 grant from the State of Oklahoma. |
| Sheela
Athreya will continue her research this summer in the Narmada Valley, India. |
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| Professional News |
| Ted Goebel has been named Holder of the Professorship in First Americans Studies and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans |
| Alan Meyers (PhD, December 1998) received tenure and promotion to associate professor at Eckert College. |
| David Stewart (PhD, May 2004) has accepted a tenure-track position in the Maritime Studies program at Eastern Carolina University. |
The Board of Regents has authorized the award of tenure and promotion to Associate Professor for Sharon Gursky, Alston Thoms, and Cynthia Werner. |
| The Board of Regents has authorized has authorized Faculty Development Leaves for David Carlson and Sharon Gursky. |
| The Board of Regents has authorized has authorized Faculty Development Leaves for Tom Green, Alston Thoms, Shelley Wachsmann, and Cynthia Werner. |
Cassady Yoder (PhD, August 2006) has accepted a part-time teaching position at Texas A&M. |
| Jason Wiersema (PhD, May 2006) has accepted a position as a forensic anthropologist with the City of Houston. |
Tim Trussell (PhD, May 2004) has accepted a tenure-track position in Anthropology at the University of Millersville in Pennsylvania |
| Matthew Harpster (PhD, August 2005)
has accepted a renewable teaching position at Eastern Mediterranean University on Cyprus. |
| Samuel Sweitz (PhD, August 2005)
has accepted a tenure-track position in Industrial Heritage and Archeology at Michigan Tech University. |
| Eric Bartelink (PhD, Dec 2005) has accepted a tenure-track position at California State University at Chico beginning January, 2006. |
| Jason Barrett (PhD, Dec 2004) has accepted a position with the Texas Department of Transportation Cultural Resources Management Section. |
| Debra Dandridge (ABD) has accepted a position as Project Manager for Science and Research with the Public Lands Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. |
| Andrew Scherer (PhD, Dec 2004) has accepted a tenure-track position at Wagner College. |
| Lori Wright has been named an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. |
| Filipe Castro has been elected to the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology. |
| Mike Waters has been named Director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans and Holder of the Chair in First Americans Studies |
