Recent Graduate Student Accomplishments
Papers and posters at conferences, invitations, professional meetings
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Rachana Agarwal
Discussant for panel 'Paths to Education' at Metamorphoses: An Interdisciplinary Investigation into the Processes of Social Change and Transformation, 2008
"Learning Identity: Education, Youth Culture, and Nationalism in Contemporary Palau" (poster) at the Spencer Annual Conference 'Education and the Pursuit of Social Justice,' 2007
"Symbolic "Capitol": a Postcolonial Interpretation of the New Olbiil Era Kelulau Complex in the Republic of Palau" poster presented at the Fourth Annual Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium Student Conference, and at the Asian/Pacific/American Research Cluster (APARC) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 2007
"Of Schools and Selves: A critical assessment of education in Micronesia" at the 50th Anniversity Conference of the Comparative & International Education Society, 2006.
Emily Canning
Best Poster Prize for "The Right to a Writing System: Essentialisms in Uyghur and Han Identity Formation" at the Fifth Annual Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium Student Conference, 2008
Lauren E. Forcucci
"Battle for Births: The Fascist Pronatalist Campaign in Italy 1925-1938," poster at the Fifth Annual Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium Student Conference, 2008
Casey Golomski
"Tom Sach’s Logjam: Policing the Senses" Panelist in "Bricolage Revisited: A Roundable on Materiality and the Science of the Concrete," 2007.
"Hmong-American Identity and Household Space" & "Cookbooks as Cultural Artifacts Articulating Gender and Nationalism, 1945-1965," at the Midwest Sociological Society and North Central Sociological Association Conference, 2007
Meg Grady-Troia
Discussant for "Urban Sites and Social Locations" panel at the Third Annual Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium Student Conference, 2006
Closing Remarks for the Second Annual Greater Boston Anthroplogy Consortium Student Conference, 2005
Silvia Grigolini
"Migration and the System of Intergenerational Land Transfer in Rural Oaxaca, Mexico" at a conference entitled At the Frontier of Land Issues: Social Embeddness of Rights and Public Policy, 2006
Samia Huq
“Tracking Changes in Religion and Sexuality in
Ieva Jusionyte
"Babel Today: On the Dialogue Among Nations and Its Limits" at the 54th Annual Santara-Sviesa Conference, 2007
“'Lost', According to J. L. Borges: Ethnographic Labyrinths of Time" at the Annual Seminar of Social Sciences and Humanities,
"A Gardener with a Camera: Local Knowledge in a Global Context" at the 7th International Congress for Philosophy: Science, Technology, and Globalization in
Anna Jasayne-Darr (with Rose Beatriz Stimson) "Leave the Bones and Catch the Land: Development and Implications of Interactive Ethnography" at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in November and at the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, 2007, where it garnered the Estellie Smith Graduate Prize.
Eric Michael Kelley
"The Art and Politics of Avá-Guaraní Shamanic Performances in
"Shamanic Performances of the Avá-Guaraní of Paraguay." Invited lecture for the Wachusett Navigators Club, 2006
Melanie Kingsley
"Long Distance Gifting and Commissioned Craft Production?: Theorizing Inter-Site Elite Exchange" (co-author with Zachary X. Hruby) at the Society of American Archaeology Annual Meeting, March 2008.
"Lithic Goods and Maritime Trade on the Caribbean Coast of Guatemala: Theory and Preliminary Observations" (first author, with Zachary Hruby, Alejandro Guillot, and Griselda Perez Robles) at the Third Maya Lithics Conference in Guatemala, 2007.
"El Proyecto Costa Caribe: Resultados Preliminares de la Primera Temporada" (co-author with Zachary X. Hruby et al.) at the Symposium of Archaeological Investigation in Guatemala, 2007.
Arnaud Lambert
“The Cupulate Complexes of Chalcatzingo,
"The Cosmological Significance of the Scroll Motif in the Rock Carvings of Chalcatzingo" at the Third Annual Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium Student Conference, 2006
Laura Ligouri
“Pathways to the Heart: Middle Eastern Dance as a Pathway to Culture in Post-9/11 United States” at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, in Amherst, MA, and at the Joint Meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) and the American Ethnological Society (AES) in North Carolina, 2008
“Pathways to the Heart: Middle Eastern Dance as a Pathway to Culture in Post-9/11 United States, Poster at the Fifth Annual Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium Student Conference, 2008
Betsy Marzahn-Ramos
"Investigations at the Late Preclassic Maya Site El Zancudero" at the Society of American Archaeology Annual Meeting, March 2008
"Rutas de Transporte, Relaciones Políticas, y El Intercambio Económico entre Piedras Negras y Yaxchilan Durante el Periodo Clásico" (co-author with Golden, C. et al.) at the Symposium of Archaeological Investigation in Guatemala, 2007.
"La Frontera Actual, La Frontera Antigua: Resultados de la Temporada de Campo 2006 en El Parque Nacional Sierra del Lacandón" (co-author with Golden, C. et al.) at the Symposium of Archaeological Investigation in Guatemala, 2006.
William McDonald
Exchange, (re)Production, and Lactation: Bridging Relations through Female/Child Appropriation," poster at the Fifth Annual Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium Student Conference, 2008
Brianna Mills
Discussant for panel on 'Body and Mind' at Metamorphoses: An Interdisciplinary Investigation into the Processes of Social Change and Transformation, 2008
"AIDing South Africa: Nationalist Ideology in HIV Discourse," poster at the Fifth Annual Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium Student Conference, 2008
Elisabeth Moolenaar
"Beyond Dragon Ladies, Women Warriors and China Men: Heritage Travel and Gendered Selves and Sexualities" at the 16th Congress of The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in
"Beyond Dragon Ladies, Women Warriors and China Men: Heritage Travel and Gendered Selves and Sexualities" at the 6th International Diversity Conference (July 2007) and the annual New England American Studies Association conference (Nov 2007).
"Chinese Heritage Travel and Gendered Selves & Sexualities." Panelist in "Sexualities and the National Body in
"The New England Holocaust Memorial: Potentialities of Modernity Revisited," poster co-authored with Mrinalini Tanka, American Anthropology Association, 2006
Casey Miller
Discussant on panel "Touring Identities" at Metamorphoses: An Interdisciplinary Investigation into the Processes of Social Change and Transformation, 2008
"Manifold Margins: Locality, Nationality, and Internationality of Chinese Gay Organizations." Panelist in "Sexualities and the National Body in
"An Ethnographic Investigation into the Effects of the Internet on the Development of Gay East Asian Communities, Cultures, and Identities" presented at the Fourth Annual Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium, 2007.
Discussant for "AIDS in China: Current Status, Recent Progress, and Challenges for the Next Phase," at the AIDS in Asia Symposium, Brandeis University, 2006
Olajide Olagunju
"The Mellon-MIT Inter-University Program on NGOs and Forced Migration," Conflict Studies Conference, Boston 2006
"Global Peace through Local Capacity," Peace and Justice Association Conference, New York, 2006
"Global Peace through Local Capacity," New Directions for Peace in the Middle East and Around the World, Wisconsin, 2006
Marcos Paiva
"Tribal Consultation and Collaboration: Transforming Project Planning and the Practice of Cultural Resource Management in the Federal Government" at the Army Corps of Engineers Planning Conference, May 2008
Stephanie A Papadakis
"The Reproduction of Black Masculinity in Sex and the City" at the Graduate Consortium of Women's Studies, March 23-24, 2007.
Ellen Rovner
"Death and Ritual Symbolism of the Rebirth at a Seder" at the International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal, 2005
Ellen Rovner & Hillary Waterman
"Consuming Class: Conflicts in Meanings and Practices Surrounding Food in a Vacation Household" at the Joint Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and The Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, 2006
Donald A. Slater
"Power Materialized: The Dart Thrower as a Pan-Mesoamerican Status Symbol" at the 41st Annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary, November 2008
Rose Beatriz Stimson (with Anna Jaysane-Darr) "Leave the Bones and Catch the Land: Development and Implications of Interactive Ethnography" at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in November and at the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, 2007, where it garnered the Estellie Smith Graduate Prize.
Mrinalini Tanka
"Touring Money: Uses and Meanings of Currencies in 21st Century Cuba" at Metamorphoses: An Interdisciplinary Investigation into the Processes of Social Change and Transformation, 2008
Best paper prize for "Touring Money: Uses and Meanings of Currencies in 21st Century Cuba" at the Fifth Annual Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium Student Conference, 2008
"The New England Holocaust Memorial: Potentialities of Modernity Revisited," poster co-authored with Elisabeth Moolenaar, American Anthropology Association, 2006
Allison B. Taylor
"Rolling up the 'Welcome Mat': the Dynamics of Local Community Response to Refugees and Immigrants," Invited speaker on "Somali Refugees: Seeking Peace and Justice," Brandeis University, April 2008
"Talking to the 'Real' Somalis: Identity and Authenticity in an African Diaspora," at the 16th Annual Graduate Research Conference in African Studies, Boston University, March 2008
Best paper prize for "Seeking Asylum: Power, Resistance, and Assistance," presented at the Fourth Annual Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium, 2007.
"Social Services for Refugees in the U.S. : Parallel Narratives of Need and Help," American Anthropology Association, 2006
Sara Withers
"Teaching Tradition, Valores and Respeto: Part of the Process of Becoming Oaxaqueño Citizens" at Metamorphoses: An Interdisciplinary Investigation into the Processes of Social Change and Transformation, 2008
"Queens, Goddesses, and Working Women: Mother's Day Experiences in Oaxaca, Mexico" presented at the Fourth Annual Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium, 2007.
"Personal Support Networks: Shifting Reliances Among Professional Women in
Grants and Fellowships
Rachana Agarwal
Spencer Foundation Graduate Research Grant in Education, 2005-2006, 2007-2008
Sachar Grant for project on "Learning Identity: Education, Youth Culture, and Nationalism in Contemporary Palau," 2007
Silvia Grigolini
Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2006-2007
Eric Michael Kelley
Fulbright Grant for research in Paraguay, 2006-2007
Exploration Fund Grant for research in Paraguay, 2006-2007 (Explorers Club)
Jane's Travel Grant for "The Art and Politics of Avá-Guaraní Shamanic Performances in Eastern Paraguay," 2005
Melanie Kingsley
Sachar Grant for "Mapping the Borderlands--the site of Tecolote in Sierra de Lacandon National Park" 2008
Jane's Travel Grant for "In Search of Nito: Preliminary Survey of Southeastern Guatemala," 2007
Júlia Kirst
Spencer Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Education, 2007-2008
Arnaud Lambert
Jane's Travel Grant for project on "Rereading the Olmec 'Presence' in Southeastern Mesoamerica," 2005
Keridwen Luis
Grant for Graduate Research in Women's and Gender Studies, 2005
Betsy Marzahn-Ramos
Jane's Travel Grant for project on "Style, Affiliation, and Regional Political Dynamics: Small Classic Maya Sites in the Usumacinta River Region," 2007.
Jane's Travel Grant for project on "Non-elite Households in the Classic Period Maya Borderlands," 2006.
Sachar Grant for project on "Classic Maya Non-elites, Role & Identity in Intersite Exchange," 2006
Casey Miller
Sachar Grant for "Homosexuality, AIDS, and Grassroots Activism in a Chinese Gay Men's Organization, 2008
Olajide Olagunju
Sachar Grant for "Mediation in an Oil Conflict Region: A Grassroots Perspective," 2008
Naomi Schiesel
Jane's Travel Grant for project on "The Female Experience of Urban Poverty: Preliminary Research into Latino Adolescent Pregnancy and Mothering in the Fruitvale Community of Oakland, CA” 2006
Mrinalini Tankha
Sachar Grant and Jane's Travel Grant for project on "Touring Money: Uses and Meanings of Currencies in 21st Century Cuba," 2007.
Teaching Positions & Awards
Casey Golomski
Outstanding Teaching Fellow, Brandeis University, 2008
Meg Grady-Troia
Outstanding Teaching Fellow, Brandeis University, 2006
Eric Michael Kelley
Introduction to Anthropology, MIT, Fall 2008
Conquest of America, Department of Anthropology, MIT, 2008
Teaching Associate, Department of Anthropology, MIT, 2007
Júlia Kirst
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University, 2008
Outstanding Teaching Fellow, Brandeis University, 2007
The Worlds of Men: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Masculinity at the Experimental College, Tufts University, 2005
Arnaud Lambert
Assistant Professor (TT) of Anthropology at
Human Geography and Principles of Sociology, Massasoit Community College, 2007
World Archaeology & Principles of Sociology, Cape Cod Community College, 2006
Human Origins, Brandeis University Summer School, 2006
Keridwen Luis
Visiting Instructor, Wheaton College, 2007-2008. Courses include Global Feminisms, Women and War, and Introduction to Women's Studies
Unbounded Desires: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Non-Heteronormative Sexualities, Brandeis University 2006, recipient of 2005-2006 Brandeis University Prize Instructorship.
Introduction to Cross-Cultural Communication, Bentley College, 2005-2006
Betsy Marzahn-Ramos
Adjunct Instructor, Wagner College, 2007-2008. Courses include The Ancient and Modern Maya and Introduction to Archaeology.
Sara Withers
Introduction to the Comparative Study of Human Societies
Brandeis University Summer School, 2007, 2008
Creative Arts
Anna Jaysanne-Darr, Ieva Jusionyte, Olajide Olagunju, and Rose Stimson were awarded the prize for best poster presentation at the Fourth Annual Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium, 2007. 'Leave the Bones and Catch the Land': Development and Implications of Interactive Ethnography
Casey Miller
Photos included in Exhibit "Spotlight on China," Brandeis University, 2008
Publications
Silvia Grigolini
"Houses Provide More than Shelter: Analyzing the Uses of Remittances within their Socio-Cultural Context," In Monographs in Economic Anthropology, #22. Migration and Economy: Global and Local Dynamics, L. Trager (eds). Altamira Press, 2005
Samia Huq
"Refashioning Islam: elite women and piety in
Keridwen Luis
"Anthropology of Women," in The Encyclopedia of Anthropology, New York: Sage Publications, 2006.
Betsy Marzahn-Ramos (co-author with others as listed)
"La Frontera Actual, La Frontera Antigua: Resultados de la Temporada de Campo 2006 en El Parque Nacional Sierra del Lacandón." In Ponencia presentado al XX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Co-author with Golden, C. W., A. K. Scherer, R. Vasquez, A. L. Arroyave, J. C. Melendez, G. Perez, and F. Quiroa, 2006
"Análisis Preliminar de Cerámica, Temporada 2006." Co-author with A.L. Arroyave, G. Pérez Robles, and J. C. Meléndez. In Proyecto Régional Arqueológico Sierra del Lacandón: Informe Preliminar No. 4: Investigaciones Arqueológicas en la Comunidad de La Técnica y el Área Sur del Parque Nacional Sierra del Sierra del Lacandón, edited by C. W. Golden, A. K. Scherer and R. Vásquez. Report Presented to Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala (IDAEH),
"Excavaciones en El Kinel: Grupo Norte, Operacion 1." Co-author with F. Quiroa Flores and J. C. Melendez. In Informe Preliminar No. 4: Investigaciones Arqueológicas en la Comunidad de La Técnica y el Área Sur del Parque Nacional Sierra del Sierra del Lacandón, edited by C. W. Golden, A. K. Scherer and R. Vasquez, pp. 26-32. Report Presented to Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala (IDAEH),
"Excavaciones en la Estructura H10-1, Sector Norte de El Kinel." Co-author with C.W. Golden and R. Vásquez. In Proyecto Régional Arqueológico Sierra del Lacandón: Informe No. 5: Investigaciones Arqueológicas en la Comunidad de La Técnica Agropecuaria y Área Sur del Parque Nacional Sierra del Lacandón, edited by A. K. Scherer, C. W. Golden and R. Vásquez, pp. 15-40. Report Presented to the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala (IDAEH).