Faculty Achievements

Awards and Honors

VAUGHN BRYANT

Fryxell Award for Outstanding Botanical Research in Archaeology. Society for American Archaeology. (2007)

Distinguished Service Award. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists (1999)

Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award in Administration. Texas A&M University Association of Former Students (1990)

Distinguished Service Award. Texas A&M University MSC (1976)

Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching. Texas A&M University Association of Former Students (1974)

DAVID CARLSON

Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching. Texas A&M University Association of Former Students (1992)

KEVIN CRISMAN

Award of Merit. Society for Historical Archaeology.

TOM GREEN

Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching. Texas A&M University Association of Former Students (2009)

Best of Reference Award. New York Public Library (2002)

Outstanding Reference Source. American Library Association RUSA (2002)

Outstanding Reference Source Award. American Library Association (1999)

Outstanding Academic Book Award. Choice. (1998)

Faculty Distinguished Achievement in Teaching. Texas A&M University Association of Former Students (1990)

ALSTON THOMS

Award of Excellence in Archeology. Texas Historical Commission (2000)

CYNTHIA WERNER

Student Led Award for Teaching Excellence (SLATE). Texas A&M University. (2008)

JEFFERY WINKING

Student Led Award for Teaching Excellence (SLATE). Texas A&M University. (2009)

External Grants

MICHAEL ALVARD

National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Graduates (REG) “Testing costly signaling theory among big game hunters.” (2002)

SHEELA ATHREYA

National Science Foundation High Risk Research in Anthropology. “Testing the Southern Dispersal Hypothesis: the Search for Late Pleistocene Hominin Occupation in the Lower Narmada Valley, Western India.” (2009)

National Science Foundation Small Grant for Exploration and Research. “Analysis of Late Pleistocene Human Fossil Remains from a Burial in Rampura, Gujarat, Western India.” (2006)

National Geographic Expeditions Council Grant, “Identification of Hominin Fossil Localities in the Lower Narmada Valley, Gujarat, Western India.” (2006)

LUIS FILIPE MONTEIRO VIEIRA DE CASTRO

National Science Foundation Grant. “Nautical Archaeology Digital Library,” with co-PI Richard Furuta, (2006-2009)

DARRYL JAMES DE RUITER

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. “Paleoanthropological Investigation of Meloding, and Early Pliocene Fossil Locality in the Free State, South Africa.” (2007)

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. “Paleoanthropological Investigation of the Pliocene Virginia Railway Cut Site, Free State, South Africa.” (2006)

DEBORAH N. CARLSON

National Geographic Society Expeditions Council Grant (2007)

American Research Institute in Turkey Research Fellowship (2006)

National Geographic Society Expeditions Council Grant (2006)

SUZANNE L. ECKERT

National Science Foundation Grant (2009)

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (2007)

FRANK E. GOEBEL

National Science Foundation Grant. “Early Humans on the Bering Land Bridge: A Proposal to Excavate the Fluted Point Locality near Serpentine Hot Springs, Seward Peninsula.” (2010)

National Geographic Society Grant. “Early Humans on the Bering Land Bridge: A Proposal to Excavate the Fluted Point Locality near Serpentine Hot Springs, Seward Peninsula.” (2010)

National Science Foundation. “What is the Nenana Complex? New Excavations at the Late-Pleistocene Owl Ridge Site, Central Alaska.” (2009)

National Science Foundation Rapid Response Grant. “The Earliest Modern Human Siberians: Who were They? Who were Their Ancestors, and Who are Their Descendents? (2009)

National Science Foundation Grant. “Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer adaptations in the Great Basin: continued studies of Bonneville Estates Rockshelter.” (2005)

National Science Foundation Grant. “Early Holocene colonization of Southern Alaska.” (2005)

KELLY GRAF

National Science Foundation Grant. “What is the Nenana Complex? New Excavations at the Late-Pleistocene Owl Ridge Site, Central Alaska” (2009)

National Science Foundation Grant. “Early Humans on the Bering Land Bridge: A Proposal to Investigate the Fluted-Point Site at Serpentine Hot Springs, Alaska” (2011)

SHARON L. GURSKY

Fulbright Foundation Scholar Award. “For a Study of Tarsius syrichta in the Philippines.” (2010)

National Geographic Society. “Population Density of Pygmy Tarsiers.” (2010)

Conservation International Primate Action Fund. “Search for the Elusive Pygmy Tarsier.” (2008)

National Geographic Society. “Search for the Elusive Pygmy Tarsier.” (2008)

Primate Conservation Inc. “Dispersal Patterns in the Spectral Tarsier.” (2005)

Fulbright Foundation Scholar Grant. “Predator Mobbing in the Spectral Tarsier.” (2003-4)

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. “The Determinants of Sociality in Nocturnal Primates in Kibale NP, Uganda.” (2002)

Primate Conservation, Inc. “Population Density of the Slow Loris in Java Indonesia.” (2002)

C. WAYNE SMITH

National Geographic Society Grant. For travel and preservation of Lyuba, a baby mammoth in Russia. (2008)

Hillcrest Foundation Grant. For Kennewick Man studies. (2003)

MICHAEL R. WATERS

National Science Foundation Grant. “What is the Nenana Complex? New Excavations at the Late-Pleistocene Owl Ridge Site, Central Alaska” (2009)

National Science Foundation Grant. “Early Humans on the Bering Land Bridge: A Proposal to Investigate the Fluted-Point Site at Serpentine Hot Springs, Alaska” (2011)

CYNTHIA WERNER

National Science Foundation Grant Research Experience for Graduate Students (REG) Grant (2009)

National Science Foundation Grant. “Collaborative Research: Networks, Gender, Culture and the Migration Decision-Making Process: A Case Study of the Kazakh Diaspora in Western Mongolia” (2008-2010)

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Grant. “Women’s Experiences in Mongolia.” (2004)

National Science Foundation Grant. “Perceptions of Risk from Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan: A Comparative Study of Kazakh Villagers, Health Care Workers, and Research Scientists.” (2002-2004)

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Grant. “Perceptions of Risk From Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan: A Comparative Study of Kazakh Villagers, Health Care Workers, and Research Scientists.” (2002-2004)

American Association for the Advancement of Science Women in International Science Competition Grant. “Perceptions of Risk from Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan.” (2001)

National Research Council, Young Investigator Program Travel Grant. “Health Impacts of Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan and Russia.” (2000 and 2001)

LORI E. WRIGHT

National Science Foundation Grant. “Human Mobility in Prehistoric Mesoamerica.” (2004)

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. “Dietary inequality at Tikal, Guatemala: An isotopic study of child and adult diets.” (2001)

National Science Foundation Grant. “Monitoring prehistoric human mobility: Isotopic and elemental characterization of skeletal tissues.” (2000)

Leadership Roles in National and International Organizations

ALSTON THOMS

Elected Board Member. Society for American Archaeology.

CYNTHIA WERNER

Secretary and Elected Board Member. Society for Economic Anthropology (2009-Present)

Significant Service

DEBORAH CARLSON

Elected President. Institute of Nautical Archaeology. 2011-Present.

FILIPE CASTRO

Elected Member of the Executive Board of Directors. Advisory Council of Underwater Archaeology (ACUA). 2005-Present

Elected Member of the Executive Board of Directors. International Committee for the History of Nautical Science. 2008-Present

SHELLEY WACHSMANN

Elected Academic Trustee. Archaeological Institute of America