TASA
The Tulane Anthropology Student Association (TASA) is the graduate student organization whose year-long representatives serve as liaisons between the anthropology faculty and student populations. TASA representatives also organize the colloquium series. Colloquia are held in the first floor of Dinwiddie Hall roughly every other Friday of a given semester and provide a venue for upper level graduate students, faculty members and outside scholars to present and discuss their anthropologically-themed research. TASA representatives also attend Graduate School Student Association (GSSA) as well as Graduate and Professional School Association (GAPSA) meetings and participate in the decisions made by these overarching Tulane graduate student organizations.
Research Funds
Tulane's Anthropology Department is pleased to offer grants-in-aid from two sources:
- Grants-in-Aid from the Anthropology Graduate Student Fund
Graduate Student Fellowships, Grants & Prizes
FLAS, Cornell Summer Program
Sigma Xi ( Brazil )
| Name | Advisor | Project Title | Funding Agency | Amount of Award | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alejandra Marks | Masquelier | When Abortion Pills Travel: Self-Managed Abortion in Havana and Bahia | Wenner-Gren | $20,000 | 2021 |
| Borislava Simova | Canuto | Monumentality and Early Community Integration among the Maya: Insights from Preclassic Architecture, Geochemical Residues and Material Culture in Western Belize | NSF | 20,000 | 2021-23 |
| Borislava Simova (co-PI) | Canuto | Dating Changes in Preclassic Maya Monumental Architectural Styles at Actuncan, Belize | AIA-NEH | 2020-22 | |
| Celine Eschenbrenner | Border Crossing in the Roya Valley, France | Council for European Studies/Columbia University | $5,000 | 2020 | |
| Dara Bramson | Masqulier | Dissertation fieldwork | Fulbright | ||
| Eugenia Rainey | Masqulier | Carving Out Space in the Doctor's Office: "Cultural Competency" and the Cultural Branding of Regla de Ocha in South Florida | The Reed Foundation | $6,000 | 2019 |
| Evan Parker | Canuto | National Geographic Society | $6,250 | 2017 | |
| Evan Parker | Canuto | At the Trowel's Edge: Reimagining Inclusivity and Diversity Within Our Archaeological Futures (Project Lead Robyn Cutright) | Associated Colleges of the South | $38,500 | 2022 |
| Jocelyne Ponce | Canuto | Classic Maya Lifeways across Settlement Densities at La Corona, Guatemala | Lambda Alpha National Honors Society | 2,000 | 2021 |
| Jocelyne Ponce | Canuto | Classic Maya Lifeways across Settlement Densities at La Corona, Guatemala | Fulbright-Hays DDRA | 23,369 | 2022 |
| Luke Auld-Thomas | Canuto | Settlement Transformation and Political Resilience at El Achiotal, Guatemala | 15,662.00 | 2019-21 | |
| Margaret Buehler | Jack | Subordinate males as hired guns: Assessing resource, mate, and infant defense in Cebus imitator | American Society of Primatologists | $1,500 | 2020-21 |
| Margaret Buehler | Jack | Subordinate male roles in primate groups with high reproductive skew | $13,074 | 2020-21 | |
| Maura Sullivan | Maxwell | Chumash Inquiry in Smithsonian Archives; Redefining our Record | Smithsonian; Peter Buck Predoctoral fellowship | $44,000 | 2021-22 |
| Nathan Wendte | Dajko | Dissertation fieldwork | William Franklin PhD Fellowship in Linguistics | 2017 | |
| Nathan Wendte | Dajko | Ti Liv Kréyòl: A Louisiana Creole Primer (2nd Edition) | Foundation for Endangered Languages | $1,000 | 2018 |
| Nelle Kulick | Jack | Graduate Research Fellowship Program | NSF GRFP | $34,900 | 2021-24 |
| Rachel Johnson | Ceramic Production and Distribution in the Central Andes and Upper Amazon During the Early and Middle Formative Periods | Rust Family Foundation | $3,168 | 2021-22 | |
| Rachel Witt | Verano | Chosen for death: A biogeochemical and bioarchaeological study of human sacrifices from the Moche Valley, Peru | NSF DDRIG | $25,194 | 2020-22 |
| Rachel Witt | Verano | Chosen for death: A biogeochemical and bioarchaeological study of human sacrifices from the Moche Valley, Peru | Rust Family Foundation | $6,800 | 2019-2020 |
| Rachel Witt | Verano | Chosen for death: A biogeochemical and bioarchaeological study of human sacrifices from the Moche Valley, Peru | Lambda Alpha National Honors Society | $2,000 | 2019-2020 |
| Rachel Witt | Verano | Chosen for death: A biogeochemical and bioarchaeological study of human sacrifices from the Moche Valley, Peru | National Science Foundation Participant Award, University of Utah | $2,250 | 2018 |
| Ryan Hechler | Nesbitt | Cochasquí and the Monumental World of Mojanda | Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship | $30,887 | 2022 |
| Ryan Hechler | Nesbitt | Toponymic Mapping of Ecuador: Bridging the Divide in Geographic Information Knowledge via Open-Access Geospatial Datasets | UT-Austin’s Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies & Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection’s Digital Scholarship Fellowship | $3,000 | 2021 |
| Ryan Hechler | Nesbitt | Centro Tinku - Qusqu Runasimi | US Dept of Education Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship & Tuition Scholarship | $6,330 | 2018 |
| Ryan Hechler | Nesbitt | Centro Tinku - Qusqu Runasimi | US Dept of Education Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship & Tuition Scholarship | $5,180 | 2016 |
| Sarah Reynolds | Masquelier | Delineating Religion | Wenner-Gren | 2022-23 | |
| Sarah Reynolds | Masquelier | Delineating Religion, Race, and Spirituality in Beninese Vodun | West African Research Association | $6,000 | 2019 |
| Theodore Hilton | Truitt | Gulf Research Program Science Policy Fellowship | National Academies of Science | $61,000 | 2021-22 |
| Daniella Santoro | Masquelier | ‘The Wheelchair Life’: Disability and Black Survival in the Afterlife of Gun Violence in New Orleans | The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research | 2016 | |
| Alejandra Marks | Masquelier | Community-based prevention of maternal mortality: The role of maternity waiting homes in Latin America", Havana, Cuba, | National Institutes of Health Minority Health Research Training Program (NIH-MHRT | $5,000 | 2016 |
| John R. White | Balée | Supernatural Gendering and Amazonian Kichwa Theories of Ecuadorian Crop Diversity” | National Science Foundation DDRIG (supplemental) | $26,436 | 2018-21 |
| John R. White | Balée | Supernatural Gendering and Amazonian Kichwa Theories of Ecuadorian Crop Diversity” | National Science Foundation DDRIG | $10,419 | 2020-21 |
| John R. White | Balée | Conceptualizing crop domestication and diversification | Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship | $26,224 | 2018-20 |
| John R. White | Balée | Amazonian Kichwa | Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant (Amazonian Kichwa) | $7,835 | 2018 |
| John R. White | Balée | Field expenses, Amazonian Ecuador | Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research | $1,000 | 2018-21 |
| John R. White | Balée | Supernatural Gendering and Amazonian Kichwa Theories of Ecuadorian Crop Diversity | Jacobs Research Funds, Kinkade Award | $4,900 | 2018-20 |
| John R. White | Balée | Amazonan Kichwa | Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant (Amazonian Kichwa) | $7,500 | 2018-20 |
| John R. White | Balée | Achuar-Shiwiar | Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant (Achuar-Shiwiar, Ecuadorian Amazon) | $7,500 | 2016 |
| Travis Fink | Balée | Shiwiar identity formation and transformation in the Ecuadorian Amazon | Jacobs Research Funds, Individual Research Grant | $3,000 | 2020 |
| Travis Fink | Balée | Shiwiar identity formation and transformation in the Ecuadorian Amazon | Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship | $29,676 | 2020-22 |
| Travis Fink | Balée | Achuar-Shiwiar | Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship | $7,500 | 2019 |
| Travis Fink | Balée | Achuar-Shiwiar | Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship | $7,500 | 2018 |
| Travis Fink | Balée | Achuar-Shiwiar | Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship | $7,500 | 2017 |
| Travis Fink | Balée | Achuar-Shiwiar | Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship | $7,500 | 2016 |
| Lauren Dodaro | Balée | Intergenerational Environmental Knowledge Transmission as a Source of Empowerment in a Multiethnic Indigenous Amazonian Community | Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship | 2016-17 | |
| Lauren Dodaro | Balée | Intergenerational Environmental Knowledge Transmission as a Source of Empowerment in a Multiethnic Indigenous Amazonian Community | Jacobs Research Funds | 2016-17 | |
| Lauren Dodaro | Balée | Intergenerational Environmental Knowledge Transmission as a Source of Empowerment in a Multiethnic Indigenous Amazonian Community | National Geographic Young Explorers Grant | 2016-17 | |
| Dustin Reuther | Balée | Science Policy Fellowship | National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering - Gulf Research Program | $53,333 | 2019-20 |
| Mary Kate Kelly | Zender | Speech Carved in Stone: Language Variation among the Ancient Lowland Mayas | Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection | 21,000 | 2017-18 |
| Mary Kate Kelly | Zender | Speech Carved in Stone: Language Variation among the Ancient Lowland Mayas | Boundary End Archaeology Research Center | accommodations for academic year | 2018-2019 |
| Mary Kate Kelly | Zender | Speech Carved in Stone: Language Variation among the Ancient Lowland Mayas | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Predoctoral Fellowship, American Philosophical Society | $15,000 | 2019 |