ANTHROPOLOGY

• Archeology Professor Mark Aldenderfer led an excavation in the Peruvian Andes that uncovered the earliest gold jewelry dating back 4,000 years. The story can be found at http://uanews.org/node/19071. The story received extensive coverage in the popular media.



• Congratulations to Anton T. Daughters on being selected as the 2008-2009 Haury Dissertation Fellow. This is a one-year fellowship that includes $15,000 stipend, plus a full tuition waiver.



• Karin Friederic is awarded a P.E.O Scholar Award for her dissertation write-up of: Frontiers of Violence: Women's Rights, Family Violence, and the State in Ecuador (supervised by Dr. Linda Green).



• Did a Significant Cool Spell Mark the Demise of Megafauna? Regents' Professor Vance Haynes cites a need for more investigation into a mysterious disappearance of Earth's largest creatures and the humans that pursued them. To read more, go to: http://uanews.org/node/19409.



• Norma Mendoza-Denton's book "Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice among Latina Youth Gangs" was released in January 2008 by Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.



• Kay M. Orzech was recently notified that she will receive funding from the Haury Graduate Fellowship in the form of a $5,000 scholarship in 2008-09 academic year. One of the high points of the Anthropology Diamond Jubilee Celebration during 1989-90 was the endowment of the Haury Fellowship Program to honor the many contributions of Professor Emil Haury to the training of graduate students over the years.



• Beverly Seckinger (MA 1987 UA Anthropology) has received a grant from the Arizona State Commission on the Arts for her documentary exploring the historical and contemporary lives of hippies, and their family values.



• One of Anthropology's graduate students, Thea Randina Strand was selected to receive a dissertation write-up award during the 2008-2009 academic year from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). The AAUW Education Foundation supports aspiring women scholars around the world; and the American Fellowship supports women doctoral candidates at the dissertation phase.


Thea's dissertation title is "Varieties in dialogue: Dialect use and shift in rural Valdres, Norway," co-supervised by Jane Hill (Regents' Professor in Anthropology) and Norma Mendoza-Denton (Associate Professor in Anthropology). She will receive a stipend of $20,000. Our congratulations to Thea for this deserved recognition!