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DOCUMENT Full-Text Koji Mizoguchi.

This resource is an application for the Conference Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The World Archaeological Congress (WAC) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization whose members seek to promote interest in the past in all countries, to encourage the development of regionally-based histories and to foster international academic interaction. Its aims are based on the need to recognize the historical and social roles as well as the political context of archaeology, and the need...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Hebert.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. What does it mean to fight for environmental futures through the language and practice of care and collaboration? Which ways of interacting with the environment are valorized and cultivated, and who or what gains power? In the US state of Alaska, new livelihoods are increasingly prominent in rural regions, as historically dominant forms of state- and industry-driven resource extraction are joined...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Anisha Chadha.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This dissertation research studied the emergence of Indian doctors, engineers, and designers forming startups to create novel medical devices, or "medtech." As biomedical devices produced through "Silicon Valley" inspired business models are being increasingly used to manage and monitor health, and the current Indian administration shifts the burden of "hacking" public health burdens onto...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Adam Kersch.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This research project examines transformations in the relationship between race and biopolitics in Sitka, Alaska, focusing on infectious disease outbreaks over the past 200 years. Specifically, I interrogate the intersection of whiteness and infectious disease and suggest that the politicized concept of whiteness has shifted dramatically. I hypothesize that: 1) over the course of Russian and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chuan Hao Chen.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laura Heath-Stout.

This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In Career Arcs: Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology, I present an intersectional, qualitative study of how racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism shape the demographics of archaeology, and the knowledge that archaeologists produce. I examine the personal narratives of over seventy diverse archaeologists, with whom I conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews. I...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joshua Franklin.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. As transgender and gender-nonconforming identities become more visible in medicine, policy, and the media, gender affirming medical care is increasingly seen as acceptable and necessary. Yet while childhood gender has long been the subject of clinical research, the impact of specialized medical care on young people and their families is poorly understood. Given the racialized and class-based...

DOCUMENT Full-Text lvoline Budji Kefen.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In today's world where people navigate unprecedented transformations in communication, alongside record movements often spurred on by armed conflict, how do (forcibly) displaced and migrant women manage new communication technologies, and how do these technologies affect their roles, relationships, and identities? How do these women's communicative practices connect to memory, voice, and armed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Amanda Foote.

This resource is an application for an Engaged Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. For decades, Indigenous people have leveled thoughtful critiques at museums; they point to challenges over rightful ownership, conditions of initial collection, contemporary interpretation, and even the nature of the museum institution, as problematic. Building on the skills and interests of a group of collaborators this project investigates potential pathways for improved relationships between...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jonna Yarrington.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Tangier Island is a small, incorporated town, just over one square mile, of 470 inhabitants in the Chesapeake Bay, belonging to Accomack County, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA. Its residents are densely related watermen and their families--mostly white, lower income, politically conservative, Christian, and skeptical of science and climate change. Endogamous marriage is preferred,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tal Simmons.

This resource is an application for a Global Initiatives Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The East Marshall Street Well Project research is the result of a multi-year community consultation concerning remains of ancestors discovered during construction on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University’s medical school in 1994. A well/anatomy pit, was uncovered; the state archaeologist was allowed only two days to recover the commingled human remains. The National Natural History Museum...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Patrick Jolicoeur.

This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Inuit migration from Alaska to the Eastern Arctic (i.e. Canada and Greenland) around the 13th century AD is considered one of the most dramatic human population movements in North America. Around this same time, an existing Indigenous Arctic population, known as the Dorset culture by archaeologists, disappeared entirely. A major debate regarding these processes concerns the dynamics of Dorset-Inuit...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Emma Pask.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Texas is home to the world's largest bat colonies. Bat scientists in Texas play a growing role in mediating the concerns of shared space and blurred boundaries between species as climate change increasingly alters these arrangements. Texas is also a longstanding laboratory for American political forms and competing sovereignties; it is at the forefront of both climate conservatism and potential...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Chrisler.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Liberal capitalist nation-states find themselves in perpetual crisis due to the structural contradictions of democratic ideals and the enduring social inequalities and violences of race. Neoliberal techniques of governance address these crises by cultivating new modes of personal responsibility and value through state-sanctioned projects of 'caring' for marginalized populations, forming new...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Spencer Kaplan.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. How do emergent technologies and their politics depend on the speculation and management of humanity’s future? This ethnographic project studies efforts among artificial intelligence (AI)researchers to reckon with their technologies’ societal impacts. It is sited in the San Francisco Bay Area: the geographic center of what AI proponents call a “generative revolution” fueled by powerful new...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Irteza Binte-Farid.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This dissertation explores the ethical self-cultivation of black Muslim youth in Philadelphia. Anthropologist Saba Mahmood describes ethical self-cultivation as a "specific sets of procedures, techniques, and exercises through which highly specific ethical-moral subjects come to be formed" (Mahmood, 2005, p.120). I consider this process as well as how it becomes racialized and gendered in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cameron Butler.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Phosphorus is an essential element for all life and a fundamental component of commercial fertilizers. This project follows phosphorus through agribusiness value chains that sustain the fertilizer demands of southern Ontario, a major Canadian agricultural region. I explore how phosphorus-related value-making practices both adapt to and transform planetary mineral cycles, particularly in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Marco Dell'Oca.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Even before the COVID-19 pandemics, vaccine hesitancy had been described as one of the most dangerous threats to global health of our times. The current pandemic has exacerbated the difference between those supporting the validity of vaccines and those against it. In the wake of COVID-19, across Europe and the US, the category of “anti-vaxxer” was connected in the media to qualifiers such as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa Manus.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The human microbiome -the collection of microorganisms (and their genes) that live in, on, and around us- represents an interface through which contact with the environment impacts human biology. More specifically, contact with the social environment shapes host microbial communities, which in turn influence host physiology and immune system development. Despite these important connections,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Meighan Mantei.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Set against a backdrop of ‘I love oil and gas’ bumper stickers, Texas and Roughrider flags, pro-Trump and antivaccine rhetoric, and American style populist politics, in this study I explore the ways in which girlhood is constituted through embodied markers and affective constellations of (un)belonging and (dis)connection in relation to the local fossil fuel and agricultural industries of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven Dorland.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project is grounded in a partnership with the Mississaugas of the Credit First nation to apply community-based archaeology in southern Ontario that focusses on learning about learning. There are two main goal of this project. First, we plan to bring together Indigenous methodologies and archaeological study to teach youths how to learn ancestral pottery making. This involves the integration...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa Cascio.

This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Cultural anthropology richly explores how people negotiate meanings of identity, difference, and social roles. This study will investigate how people in mid-Michigan, United States, use everyday understandings of autism, medicalized and non-medicalized, to create and navigate the important spaces of work. It will also investigate meanings of work, including changing ideas about work in the COVID-19...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. J. Sinensky.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Anthropologists have long been concerned with the immense variety of collective institutions developed by small-scale societies to foster solidarity, inculcate values, and manage resources. Long-term studies tracking the development and maintenance of such institutions would greatly benefit a range of social science disciplines, but are unfortunately rare. To this end, the proposed project...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kristin Buhrow.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project investigates the effects of interactions between audiences and diverse performers who practice and present Chinese Dance in the American South. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, this study considers dancers’ understandings of what it means for an aesthetic, gesture, object, or person to be “Chinese,” and their own proximity to “Chineseness,” formalized through dance. Further, the study...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Gilbert.

This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Despite recent advances in chronometric techniques, the geological ages of many Plio-Pleistocene deposits containing early hominins, particularly those in South Africa, remain in doubt. Consequently, biochronology and relative faunal dating methods remain valuable age-assessment tools, and cercopithecoid monkeys have historically been among the most biochronologically useful faunal elements....