Recent Faculty Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

2026

Adeline Masquelier, Outstanding Faculty Research Activities, School of Liberal Arts Annual Recognition

Katharine Jack, “A New Model System for Assessing the Socio-Environmental Determinants of the Pace of Aging,” National Institute of Health and National Institute of Aging ($91,484).

Claudia Chávez Argüelles, Outstanding Faculty Service Award, Latin American Graduate Organization, Tulane University.

2025

Marcello Canuto, LidArc Project: Lidar research in Cosa Rica and Peru, Global Digital Heritage ($1,197, 523).

Marcello Canuto, The Development of the Regional Political System Among the Maya ($85,000).

Sabia McCoy-Torres, Gorgon K and Sybil Lewis Caribbean Studies Award.

2024

Adeline Masquelier, President’s Award for Excellence in Professional and Graduate Teaching, Tulane University.

William Balée, Outstanding Faculty Research or Creative Activities Award, School of Liberal Arts Annual Recognition Awards, Tulane University.

Marcello Canuto, Improvement and Management of the MARI GIS Lab, Hitz Foundation, ($1,511,623).

Adeline Masquelier, Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship, W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University.

Andrew McDowell, Transatlantic Partnership Grant (Co-PI, $20,000).

2023

William Balée, Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award 2023.

Claudia Chávez Argüelles, ATLAS Award, Louisiana Board of Regents ($50,000).

Andrew McDowell, The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Society Sciences.

Nick Spitzer, Gess Lomax Hawes National Heritage Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship.

2022

Marcello Canuto and MARI, Innovation Award, Tulane University

Andrew McDowell, WHO Qualitative Research and Technical Advisory Grant ($24,800).

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