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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 |