Recent Faculty Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

Faculty Member Anthropology Faculty Awards (2016-2021) Funding Agency Amount of Award Start – End Date
Katharine Jack The Scent of an Alpha Male: Understanding the role of olfaction in regulating male primate behavior and physiology NSF $564,711 7/1/2021 – 6/30/2025
Katharine Jack Making an alpha male: socioendocrinology of dominance in male white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus) Nacey Maggioncalda Foundation $14,587 2016 – 2018
Katharine Jack Making an alpha male: socioendocrinology of dominance in male white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus) National Geographic Society $19,498 2016 – 2018
Katharine Jack Making an alpha male: socioendocrinology of dominance in male white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus) Leakey Foundation $24,197 2016 – 2018
Katharine Jack Major histocompatibility complex, mate choice, and dispersal decisions in wild Cebus capucinus Louisiana Board of Regents $156,118 06/01/2014 – 05/30/2017
Adeline Masquelier The role of sacred groves in land conservation in Niger National Geographic Society $33,470 2018 – 2019
Adeline Masquelier Haunted schools: Education, possession and ecology in Niger COFUND Fellowship, The European Union’s Horizon 2020 $120,000 2018 – 2019
Adeline Masquelier Haunted: Possession, Time, and the Agency of the No Longer. American Council of Learned Societies $63,000 2021 – 2022
Jason Nesbitt (PI), Tatsuya Murakami, Marcello Canuto and Chris Rodning (Co-PI) Modernizing Methods to Study the Ancient Past: Enhancing the Research Potential of the Center for Archaeology Louisiana BOR 149,383 8/20 – 8/21
Nathalie Dajko Collaborative Research: Sociolinguistic variation in post-Katrina New Orleans. NSF $114,321 ($246,077) 9/18 – 9/22
Marcello A. Canuto The Royal Snake Queens of La Corona: Politics, Commerce, and Conquest among the Classic Maya National Geographic Society, Expeditions Council Grant $50,249 2014 – 2016
Marcello A. Canuto Political Centralization in Classic Maya Society: Archaeology at La Corona, Guatemala Louisiana Board of Regents $152,470 2015 – 2018
Marcello A. Canuto General Preservation Assessment of Ancient Egyptian Collection National Endowment for the Humanities, Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions $5,668 2016 – 2016
Marcello A. Canuto The Development of the Regional Political System among the Maya Alphawood Foundation $255,760 2016 – 2018
Marcello A. Canuto The Regimes of the Classic Maya: Toward an Archaeology of Political Communities Wenner-Gren Foundation $19,000 2017 – 2017
Marcello A. Canuto Ground-truthing LiDAR at La Corona Hitz Foundation $185,000 2017 – ongoing
Marcello A. Canuto The Development of the Regional Political System among the Maya Alphawood Foundation $105,000 2019 – 2020
Marcello A. Canuto Improvement and Management of the MARI GIS lab Hitz Foundation $894,000 2020 – ongoing
Trenton Holliday Excavations at the Neandertal site of Regourdou, France Louisiana Board of Regents $84,495 2015 – 2019
William Balée Applied historical ecology in the Rio Iriri basin, Terra do Meio, Brazil Environmental Defense Fund $60,000 2017 – 2017
William Balée Fellow John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation $50,000 2019 – 2019
William Balée Historical ecology of Waorani ridgetops, Ecuadorian Amazon National Geographic Society $28,385 2019 – 2022