October 13, 2020
Moriah James, and her research was featured: https://magazine.college.unc.edu/news-article/southern-futures-james/
Dayuma Alban has been awarded a 2020 Dissertation Completion Award from the Institute for the Study of the Americas for her project Gender Dynamics and Oil Extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Molly Green has been awarded a 2020 Dissertation Completion Award from the Institute for the Study of the Americas for her project The Garden Laboratory: Climate Smart Agriculture and the Cultivation of Just Futures in Cauca, Colombia.
Maja Jeranko has been awarded a 2020 Graduate Research Award from the Institute for the Study of the Americas for her project Building Equitable Futures Amid Successive Disasters: The Case of Coastal Ecuador.
Julio Villa-Palomino has been awarded a 2020 Graduate Research Award from the Institute for the Study of the Americas for his project on psychiatric deinstitutionalization and “community care” in Peru.
Sierra Roark received the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum Public History Fellowship from UNC’s Initiative for the Public Good. This is not a full RA/TA award—it’s more like a top up. The project she proposed in her application is to create a digital exhibit based on archival research on the use of herbal medicines by African Americans in the South.
Francesca Sorbara was awarded a Maynard Adams Fellowship for 2020-2021 by UNC Carolina Public Humanities.
Further achievements by our faculty:
Angela Stuesse published an op-ed in the 10/04 Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/04/covid-19-can-afflict-powerful-yet-food-workers-remain-most-vulnerable/
Florence Babb’s book Women’s Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology (UC Press 2018) has received Honorable Mention, Association for Feminist Anthropology’s 2020 Senior Book Prize.