All Grants AAHS Grants and Scholarship Awards for 2014
Support of Research and Scholarship is one of the AAHS primary missions. This year we are happy to announce 9 awards totaling $6090. The Research and Scholarship Committee was particularly pleased with the outstanding quality of the proposals. Information on applying for AAHS awards is available on our website.
Research Grants
Tanya Chiykowski (graduate student, Binghamton University), $890 to produce petrographic thin sections of sand samples collected from around Cerro de Trincheras and the in Altar Valley, Sonora, Mexico. This is part of her dissertation project and will help in the construction of petrofacies models for northern Sonora.
Sean Dolan (graduate student, University of Oklahoma), $1000 for X-ray fluorescence analysis of obsidian samples from two sites in New Mexico. This sourcing study will provide information for his dissertation and add to the expanding database on obsidian sourcing in the American Southwest.
Lori Barkwill-Love (graduate student, University of Texas at San Antonio), $1000 for travel to the University of Colorado to analyze ceramics from Woodrow Ruin. This work is part of her dissertation project examining cultural transmission and the evolution of Mimbres pottery.
Laurie Webster (University of Arizona), $1000 for the documentation of perishable artifacts collected in southeast Utah during the 1890’s. This is part of an ongoing project to document collections from the area and the requested amount will be used to pay for travel to Brigham Young University and the Natural History Museum of Utah where the collections are housed.
Doug Mitchell (Paleowest Archaeology), $1000 for survey and testing in two areas around Puerto Penasco, Mexico. The project aims to investigate the paleoenvironmental history of the area and changing use of marine resources by the prehistoric inhabitants.
Travel Grants
Michelle Turner (graduate student, Binghamton University), $300 for travel to the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Austin. She is presenting a paper titled Frontiers Reconsidered at Chimney Rock.
Sharlot Hart (graduate student, University of Arizona), $300 for travel to the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Austin. She is presenting a poster titled Archaeology, Traditional Knowledge, and Native American Peoples.
Kelsey Reese (graduate student, Washington State University), $300 for travel to the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Austin. She is co-chairing a symposium titled Coupled Regions, Coupled Systems: Dynamics of Prehispanic Farming Societies in the northern San Juan and the northern Rio Grande. She is presenting a paper titled Letting the Data Define the Terms: Mapping Community Size and Expanse in Mesa Verde Proper. She is the junior author on a paper titled Prolegomenon: VEP II, Almost in Retrospect.
Stefani Crabtree (graduate student, Washington State University), $300 for travel to the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Austin. She is the lead author on a paper titled, The Development of Social Groups, Leadership and Inequality in the Central Mesa Verde, and junior author on a poster.