March 22, 2017
Undergraduate achievements:
The following students will be initiated into Phi Beta Kappa this semester: Lin Cao, Amber Fulford, Charles Lumsden and Emily Reckard.
Ad Lane (vice-President of SUA) has been awarded a Burch Fellowship to support his project “BRANDING OF THE ARTISAN: Kazakhstan’s nation-branding movement through the lens of craftwork at the 2017 World Expo and Beyond.”
Graduate achievements:
Jobs:
Erin Nelson has been offered the position of Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of South Alabama.
Vincent Joos has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University.
Sara Juengst has accepted a position of Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UNC-Charlotte (after fielding multiple offers).
Paolo Bocci has been selected as a Post-doctoral fellow in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University.
Defenses:
Anna Kushkova has successfully defended her dissertation, “Navigating the Planned Economy: Accommodation and Survival in Moscow’s Post-War Soviet Jewish Pale.”
Faculty acheivements:
Towns Middleton has received a Cox Asia Initiative Travel Award from the Carolina Asia Center to support his research on cinchona and quinine in India.