January 15, 2019
Achievements by our students and student/faculty partnerships:
- Sugandh Gupta has been awarded the Taraknath Das Foundation Fellowship through Columbia University in support of her doctoral dissertation research in Jammu, India ($5,000).
- Senior Anth Major William Brinson and Anna Agbe-Davies have been awarded an IAH/Honors Collaboration Grant ($2000 student stipend) for their project “Race, Gender, and Identity in ‘Jane Crow’ Era America via Analysis of Archaeological Data from the Pauli Murray Family Home”
Achievements by our faculty:
- Silvia Tomaskova was named the Druscilla French Distinguished Professorship of Women’s and Gender Studies
- Anna Agbe-Davies has been named a 2019-2020 Fulbright U.S. Scholar. She will be spending the academic year in Norway and will be based in Oslo.
- Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits ‘Small Gods’ at the Margins of Christendom (Palgrave 2018) in which Lorraine Aragon has a chapter was shortlisted for the 2018 Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.
- Peter Redfield has been invited to give the 2019 Elizabeth Colson Lecture at the University of Oxford.