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Jennifer Shannon is one of seven scholars nationwide to win a Whiting Public Engagement Program fellowship, the Whiting Foundation has announced.  The $50,000 fellowship will support “Kumeyaay Comics: Indigenous Histories of

Ph.D.student Emily Hite successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Inside the Climate Frontier: Intersecting Indigenous Rights and Hydropower Development in Costa Rica." Congratulations, Dr. Emily Hite!

In February 2021, Dani became an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Leading Edge Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History where she works on an oral history project related to COVID-19 vaccines

Anden Drolet successfully defended his research prospectus "Living a GNH Life: Buddhism, Modern Possibilities, and the Contradictions of Gross National Happiness."  His committee is advisor Carole McGranahan, and professors Alison Cool, Holly

Carlton was recently awarded the highly competitive Society for American Archaeology Native American Graduate Archaeology Scholarship for $11,000.  The SAA Native American Graduate Archaeology Scholarship supports graduate studies for

Jerry Jacka awarded the 2020-2021 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award.   We are grateful to Jerry for his outstanding leadership and mentorship this year—especially given the personal and more general travails that were in our midst. We feel

Ph.D. student, Anna Wynfield successfully defended her master thesis, "Improvising Expertise: Pregnancy, Vaccination, and the COVID-19 Pandemic.”  Anna’s research is about how pregnant people are conceptualizing decisions to vaccinate,

Ph.D. student,  Sanggay Tashi, whose project, “Surviving Settlement: Interdependence as Tibetan Nomadic Strategy against Dispossession,” was awarded one of the 2021 small grants from the American Ethnological Society (AES). This award is given

Paige Edmiston Successfully Defends Her MA Thesis,    Congratulations, Paige!

Olivia completed a successful defense of her Master’s Thesis, "Daring to Hope and Resistance through Attunement: A contemplation on environmental injustice and ecofascism, with aplomb."   Congratulations Olivia and thanks to her