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Graduate Student Scarlett Engle Receives a Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant.ÌýThese grantsÌýare awarded to aid doctoral or thesis research. The program contributes to the Foundation's overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas.

This award will help Scarlett continue her ongoing work about Mesa Verde National Park and how it is building relationships with tribes associated with park lands through a collaborative approach to the redesign of an archaeology museum on the park grounds.ÌýScarlett’s research includes working with Park staff, and Native American and Archaeology content development teams—investigating the process (its challenges, successes, andÌýfailures) of bringing together archaeologists and descendant communities, and archaeological and Indigenous ways of knowing the past and ancestral sites, to reinterpret this place and the stories ofÌýthe people who lived there. She is in effect documenting how this museum project is changing relations and providing new models for working together between the National Park Service and Native Nations.

Congratulations, Scarlett!