Past Student Awards

2024 Society for Anthropological Sciences Spring Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Ngoc Luong, Bielefeld University — The temporal squeeze: Everyday Struggles with the Times of Work, Welfare, and Care
  • Travel Award: Meghna Roy, University of Oslo — Stay in your lane: Identity, Reflexivity, and the Therapeutic Dyad in India
  • Travel Award: Allyson Brinston, University of Alberta — Digital landscapes: The Future of Indigenous Language Revitalization through AR/VR

2023 Society for Anthropological Sciences Fall Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Cheng Liu, Emory University — Variation Matters: Expanding The Scope Of Experimental Archaeology Using The Perception-process-product Conceptual Framework
  • Travel Award: Raminta Straukaite, Vilniaus University — Marriage in Contemporary Japan: Young Japanese Women‘s Changing Attitudes
  • Travel Award: Maija-Eliine Sequeira, University of Helsinki — Learning about Time: Reflections on the Socialisation of Time-thinking Among Children in Colombia and Finland

2023 Society for Anthropological Sciences Spring Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Indira Alibayeva, University of Zurich — Social Cognition in Post-Soviet Times: Categorization and Ethnic Ambiguity in Southern Kazakhstan
  • Travel Award: Emilis Nikitinas and Aušrįnė Mažulytė, Vilnius University — Romantic Love in Lithuania: a Pile Sort Analysis
  • Travel Award: Zhenwei Wang, Bielefeld University — Forced and Uncertain Co-Presence: Smart Cameras and Distant Homework Supervision in Eastern China

2022 Society for Anthropological Sciences Fall Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Elizabeth Groat, Utah State University — Quick but Not Dirty: Analysis of a Braided Yucca Sandal from Grand Gulch, UT
  • Travel Award: Matthew Raj Webb, New York University — Skill Regimes” and the Flow of Craft-Marked Expertise in the Mumbai-World Fashion Industry
  • Travel Award: Ray Qu, University of Virginia — You Will be Sick When You Go to the Hospital”: Dysphoric Landscapes, Digital Exclusiveness, and Medical Care in Rural North China

2022 Society for Anthropological Sciences Spring Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Tariq Rahman, University of California, Irvine — Landscapes of Rizq: Mediating Worldly and Otherworldly in Lahore’s Speculative Real Estate Market
  • Travel Award: Floramante SJ Ponce, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology — Modernity, Market Integration, and the Making of “Comfortable Hearts”: How a Chinese Project Realized “Laos-China Dream” and Depoliticized Poverty in a Lao Community
  • Travel Award: Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby, University of Washington — Healing Through Art: An Examination of the Intersection of the Queer and Disabled Communities

2021 Society for Anthropological Sciences Fall Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Annie Koempel, University of Kentucky — "She's Afraid of Gaining Weight and Losing her Husband:" Affective Political Ecology and the Sociality of Disordered Eating in Rural Appalachia
  • Travel Award: Claudia Escue, College of William & Mary — Geospatial Analysis of Traditional Taro Farming in Rurutu, French Polynesia
  • Travel Award: Carly Thompson-Campitor, Northern Arizona University — Navigating Contested Domains of Chronic Lyme Disease

2021 Society for Anthropological Sciences Spring Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Patricio Cruz y Celis Peniche, University of California, Davis — Drivers of Insect Consumption Across Human Populations (afterwards published in Evolutionary Anthropology. 2021; 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21926)
  • Travel Award: Maxwell A. Benning, Northern Arizona University — Food for Thought (and Action): A Review of the Application of Archaeological Agricultural Sustainability
  • Travel Award: Lawrence Monocello, University of Alabama — Muscularities and Young South Korean Men’s Body Image

2020 Society for Anthropological Sciences Fall Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Gintarė Sereikaitė, Vilnius University — Lithuanians’ perception on terrorism: Are Muslims the “folk devils” for Lithuanians?
  • Travel Award: Lauren Chang, University of Guelph — Exploring (Mis)information on Online Messaging Platforms and its Effects on Canadian Immigrant Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Travel Award: Thaís de Carvalho, University of East Anglia — White men and electric guns: Analysing the Amazonian dystopia through Shipibo-Konibo children’s drawings

2020 Society for Anthropological Sciences Spring Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Dillon Patterson, University of Arizona — Ibogaine is not a Drug: Rejecting the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Claim on “Our” Bodies
  • Travel Award: Rodrigo Hernandez, University of Texas — Becoming Dispossessed: Structure and Meaning in Experiences of Material Loss During Hurricane Harvey
  • Travel Award: Summar Saad, Wayne State University — A Kind of Death

2019 Society for Anthropological Sciences Fall Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Kayla Hurd, University of Notre Dame — Consuming Patterns: A Dietary Analysis of Human-insect Relations
  • Travel Award: Nicole Henderson, University of Alabama — Moving Beyond Consensus: The Importance of Variation

2019 Society for Anthropological Sciences Spring Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Max Stein, University of Alabama — Cultural Models of Mobility: Using Cultural Consensus Modeling to Explore Push/Pull Factors of Network Migration in Trujillo, Peru
  • Travel Award: Lawrence Monocello, University of Alabama — “They don’t care as long as they look attractive”: Examining variation in Americans’ and Koreans’ attention to ideal bodily features in men
  • Travel Award: Lessye Demoss, University of Alabama — Life goals and the ideal family in a Southern city

2018 Society for Anthropological Sciences Fall Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Erik Ringen, Emory University — The co-evolution of subsistence and cultural ‘complexity’
  • Travel Award: Sheina Lew-Levy, Cambridge University — Who teaches children? Investigating the primacy of child-to-child teaching among Hadza and Mbendjele hunter-gatherers of Tanzania and Congo
  • Travel Award: Summar Saad, Wayne State University — Cultural models of personhood: Measurement, evidence, and certainty around the diagnosis of brain death

2018 Society for Anthropological Sciences Spring Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Amy Reinhardt, SUNY New Paltz — Cultural Models of Romantic Love and Polyamory
  • Travel Award: Maria Lizette Rangel, University of Texas School of Public Health — Wellbeing and Participation in New Social Networks following a Day Care Fire in Hermosillo, Mexico
  • Travel Award: Nicole Henderson, University of Alabama — Consensus and Contention in Cultural Models of Substance Use / Misuse in the US and Brazil

2017 Society for Anthropological Sciences Fall Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Lawrence T. Monocello, University of Alabama — Flower boys and muscled men: Comparing South Korean and American male body ideals using cultural domain analysis
  • Travel Award: Monica Dyer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte — Mapping Socio-economic Movement of Settlers Through Ceramic Trade in North Carolina Piedmont using pXRF Analysis
  • Travel Award: Kayla J. Hurd, University of Nortre Dame — The ‘other’ drug: Examining the efficiency of Schistocerca as a treatment for anemia

2017 Society for Anthropological Sciences Spring Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize: Rachel Shah, Durham University — Are Schooling and Indigenous Education Incompatible?
  • Travel Award: Grace East, University of Virginia — Permutations Across the Sagittal Axis: A Comparative Look at Perspectives in Space, Time, and Gesture in Aymara and Hausa
  • Travel Award: Michael Thomas, Wayne State University — Apparitions, Automata, and the Blob: Sketching a Cognitive Bestiary of Engineering

2016 Society for Anthropological Sciences Fall Meeting

  • H. Russell Bernard Student Paper Prize: Nicole Henderson, University of Alabama — Medical Disease or Moral Defect? Stigma Attribution and Cultural Models of Addiction Causality
  • Society for Anthropological Sciences Student Travel Award: Margaret du Bray, Arizona State University — Anger and Sadness: Emotional Responses to Climate Change in Four Island Nations
  • Society for Anthropological Sciences Student Travel Award: Avery McNeece, University of Alabama — “Making a Bill”: How Ways of Speaking Impact Behavior in Healthcare Settings

2016 Society for Anthropological Sciences Spring Meeting

  • Paper Award: Summar Saad, Wayne State University — Cultural Models of Brain Death and Personhood
  • Travel Award: Heather Buza, Wayne State University — Baby Boomers’ Cultural Models of Dementia
  • Travel Award: Caissa Revilla Minaya, Vanderbilt University — Ontological Variation and Individual-Level Environmental Perspectives in an Amazonian Community
  • Travel Award: Nicole Henderson University of Alabama — Connections between the Folk Psychiatry of Addiction and Levels of Attributed Stigma

2015 Society for Anthropological Sciences Fall Meeting

  • Paper Award: Grace Pappalardo, Wayne State University — Hausa Kinship Terminologies: Insights into Culture and Cognition
  • Poster Award: Sarah Carson, University of Pennsylvania — Maternal to Machiavellian: A Discourse Analysis of Media Surrounding America’s Political Women
  • Travel Award: Dori Beeler, Durham University — Reiki Practice and Commodity: An Obstructive Process of the “Familiar Strange”

2015 Society for Anthropological Sciences Spring Meeting

  • Paper Award: Michael Howard Thomas, Wayne State University — Dipping Your Paws in the Water: Strategies of Regulating Personhood Among Pet Owners in the American Midwest
  • Travel Award: Sarah Carson, Wayne State University — Branding a ‘Broken’ City: A Discourse Analysis of Detroit-Themed Consumer Goods

2014 Society for Anthropological Sciences Fall Meeting

  • Paper Award: Leandro Mahalem De Lima, Universidade de São Paulo — Kinship Producing Politics, Politics Producing Kinship in the Arapiuns River, a Tributary of the Lower Tapajós (Amazon Basin, Brazil)
  • Travel Award: Gwendolyn A. Donley and Douglas E. Crews, The Ohio State University — Genes, Social Factors, and Allostatic Load among American Samoans
  • Travel Award: Sarah Ann Carson, Wayne State University — By the Gallon: A Look at Food Inequality in Detroit

2013 Society for Anthropological Sciences Spring Meeting

  • Paper Award: Izabel Duarte Olson, Northwestern University — Inequality in Levels: Navigating Everyday Complexity
  • Presentation Award: Bethany Ojalehto, Northwestern University — Multiple Folk Models, One Ecology: Ngobe, Latino, and Euro-American Folk Theories and Causal Models of a Shared Caribbean Island Ecosystem
  • Paper in Cognitive Science Award: Michael H. Thomas, Wayne State University — Bounded Speculation: Creative Anticipation and Practice
  • Travel Award: Caitlyn D. Placek, Washington State University — Pica as an Adaptation: Investigations of a Potential Mechanism to Buffer Immunological Stress
  • Travel Award: Max J. Stein, University of Alabama — Blood, Sweat, and/or Tears: Comparing Symptoms of Nervios in Rural and Urban Honduras
  • Travel Award: Brian P. Tyler, University of Florida — Cultural Consensus and Variation in Cultural Models of Social Suffering in Post-Conflict Guatemala

2010 Society for Anthropological Sciences Fall Meeting

  • Paper Award: Thomas Flamson and H. Clark Barrett, UCLA — Encrypted Humor and Social Networks in Rural Brazil
  • Travel Award: Kateryna Maltseva, University of Connecticut — Social Support, Perceived Consensus and Circulation of Prosocial Ideas