Post-PhD Research Grant (Other Keyword)
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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...
Beyond forgeries: Peruvian neoantiquities and their transnational trajectories, 19th-20th centuries (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2022)
This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project examines the dynamics of the Peruvian antiquities market between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the study of collections of so-called forgeries housed in five museums in Germany. To do so, I rename these works neo-antiquities, a term that better fits their position as objects that engaged the emergent market of Peruvian antiques and souvenirs at this time. To...
Bones of Ol Pejeta: Neotaphonomic and Ecological Survey, BONES (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2017)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The remains of fossil animals represent an abundant dataset by which to address a variety of important questions relating to human evolution, including the ecological conditions in which our hominin ancestors evolved. However, because of the multitude of processes that modify or even remove remains from the fossil record, analytical techniques that utilize them cannot assume that the once living...
Caring for ‘National Treasure’: Political Agency of Heritage Objects in the Caucasian Highlands (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2022)
This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The proposed project studies how practices of “caring for” and “guarding” Medieval churches and religious objects in the Caucasian highland region of Upper Svaneti enact forms of livelihood and relations of power in a social field defined by geographic remoteness, scarce resources, unstable (tourism-dependent) economy and poorly sustained infrastructure. Upper Svaneti is a UNESCO World Heritage...
Classic Maya Material Worlds: Using Cultural Models to Transform Archaeological Practice and Interpretation (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2015)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project investigated how Classic Maya individuals understood the objects that archaeologists characterize as 'artifacts,' and applied this Maya material perspective to modern archaeological practices in order to transform how we interpret excavations at Classic Maya sites. To accomplish this, the project focused on three activities: reconstructing elements of a Classic Maya perspective on the...
Desert Taskscapes of Egypt (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2023)
This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project looks for ways to measure the relationship between cultural and environmental factors in the archaeology of desert landscapes. I focus on the Egyptian deserts, where millennia of human activity have created a subtle but dense palimpsest of archaeological evidence. Using a novel integration of remote sensing, environmental GIS analysis, archaeological survey data, and research questions...
Diet and Health in the Context of Medieval Mortality Crises (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2016)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Crisis mortality, a dramatic but temporary increase in mortality rate above the baseline level resulting from a single extraordinary factor, was an important phenomenon in past human populations and continues to affect living people in ways that might be preventable. One of the most important mortality crises in history was the Black Death; in Europe alone, the epidemic killed tens of millions of...
A Dream Deported: Race, Crime, and Deportation in Transnational Haiti (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2019)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Since 2011, the United States has classified an increasing number of migrants as 'criminal aliens' for the purposes of deportation. Recent studies have illustrated this policy's social toll: chronic insecurity among migrants, suffering among families torn apart, and alienation among those sent to an unfamiliar 'homeland' and as 'criminals' (e.g., Boehm 2016;Coutin 2016;Golash-Boza 2015;Khosravi...
Drivers and Consequences of Past Human Migrations: Life-History Approach for the Southern Andes (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2021)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Migrations are an intrinsic aspect of human societies, past and present. This global character can be used to build a comparative anthropological framework seeking to understand the drivers and consequences of migration. Within this agenda, we seek to comprehend what are the causes and social effects of a rapid migration pulse recorded between AD 1270-1420 in the southern Andes (Uspallata Valley,...
Echoes of the Tuniit: Exploring Dorset-Inuit Interaction in Northern Nunatsiavut (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2022)
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...
EcoPLis--AdP: Human Occupations in the Pleistocene Ecotones of River Lis - Abrigo do Poço (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2016)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The coarse and dispersed information on the western-most Iberia does not allow a detailed understanding of the human behavior ecology and ecodynamics during the Pleistocene. That problem can only be solved with an innovative project focusing a region rich in multiple resources that is an ecotone between different landscapes and where can be found sites with long sequences and good preservation of...
Forced Disappearance, the Production of Justice and Racialized States in Guerrero, Mexico (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2019)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Through an ethnography focused on cases of forced disappearance in the Tlapaneco, Nahua and Mixteco indigenous regions of the state of Guerrero, Mexico, my proposed research project seeks to analyze the ways that the upsurge in extreme forms of violence since the undeclared war against organized crime launched in 2006, at the beginning of the Calderón administration, potentially fuels long-term...
Hidden Hybrids: Camels and Cultural Blending in Ancient Near East (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2017)
This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Two species from different domestication centres – the Bactrian camel from central Asia and the Dromedary from Arabia – were deliberately brought together and bred to create new, more powerful, animals. Larger than both parents and double the strength of its contributory species, the hybrid camel was the world’s first engineered hybrid transportation. Creating the hybrid camel required...
How Do Spear-hunting Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes Virus) Adjust to Prey Behavior at Fongoli, Senegal? (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2017)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) living in a savanna environment at Fongoli, Senegal are the only known mammalian population besides humans that hunt with tools. Chimpanzees here use modified stick tools ('spears') to hunt nocturnal prosimians (Galago senegalensis) as they nest in tree cavities during the day. Additionally, females hunt significantly more than expected with tools, while males...
Human and fire adaptations during Holocene in semi-arids mountain landscapes (Argentina) (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2025)
This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project will explore the changes and continuities in the practices on the use of fire as a central activity that was structured by social decisions, as well as the human adaptation in order to contribute to the current models of human colonization and occupational dynamics. This research will study the relationship between the use of fire by human groups through the Pleistocene/Holocene in a...
(Im)mobile Lives -The Detention and Deportation of South Americans from the U.S (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2018)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project examines the detention and deportation of South American migrants from the United States, with a focus on the largely understudied migrant populations from Ecuador and Peru. In contrast to studies of deportation that focuses mostly on the period of detention and the return itself, this project examines deportation as a set of social practices occurring over time and as a transnational...
Investigating Environmental and Social Influences on Primate Curiosity (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2019)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Human behavior is characterized by the motivation to seek out new knowledge, often leading to discoveries or innovations. Already as infants, we are curious about the world around us. Paradoxically, scientific work on curiosity in non-human animals is surprisingly rare and we know remarkably little about the origins of curiosity and how the trait is distributed and expressed among non-human...
Islamic Law in a Quasi-State: Husbands and Jurists at the Fatwa Council in Iraqi Kurdistan (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2019)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. According to predominant norms among Muslims in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, sharia ("Islamic law") empowers a husband to divorce his wife by spoken repudiation. When husbands regret their repudiation, they often visit jurists at local Fatwa Councils seeking advice to restore their marriage. Having squandered the authority granted them by sharia, husbands try to restore that authority through...
Learning about Learning: A Community-Based Approach to Childhood Pottery Making in Partnership with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2021)
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...
Liberian Archaeology for the Bicentennial and Beyond: Building Sustainable Practice and Inclusive Heritage at Providence Island (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2023)
This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In 1822, Black Americans first arrived at what would soon be proclaimed Providence Island, setting in motion the colonial project that would lead to the birth of Liberia, Africa’s first Republic, in 1847. In this bicentennial year of 2022, Liberians at home and around the globe are reflecting on this monumental yet poorly understood chapter of African Diasporic history. Almost two decades after a...
The Material Side of Heritage Construction and Beyond it: A Biographical Approach to an Egyptian Tomb History Throughout its Walls (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2025)
This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project aims to explore the specific material transformations that occur throughout the history of objects and places, especially as they evolve into cultural heritage. We will trace the cultural biography, defined by Kopytoff in 1991, of a tomb in the Necropolis of Thebes, located on the West Bank of Luxor in the current Arab Republic of Egypt. Understanding the biographical journey of this...
Meanings of autism and work: Autistic and nonautistic people navigating shared spaces and conflicting conceptualizations (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2022)
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...
Pandemic Cycles: Science, Healing, and Indigenous People in Postcolonial Guatemala (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2025)
This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. As they exposed and deepened social inequities, the 1918 Spanish influenza and Covid 19 pandemics also revealed human capacity for social solidarity and the significance of local-level advocacy to meet basic needs and to facilitate more equitable health care access. I intend to use Indigenous healing knowledge and public health practices as lenses through which to demonstrate that Indigenous peoples...
Performing Property Differently: Land, Law, and Lives in Post-Disaster Barbuda (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2022)
This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In the wake of a major disaster, property, as part of the unsettled social landscape, must be reestablished. I propose a project that ethnographically explores how this happens. While most post-disaster research observes the privatization of property through legal mechanisms, this project focuses on the period before this happens, when property is still in the process of being reshaped. It considers...
Rebellious Migrants: Forging Abolition, Cosmopolitan Identities, and Postcolonial Spaces in West Africa, 1840s-1960s (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2022)
This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project uses “forgery” to explain European colonial policies designed to police African peoples as subjects and impose alien hierarchies of racial and gender difference upon them, contrary to dynamic practices and discourses that enabled Africans to evade colonial surveillance and control. Scholars of Africa know the need for research on intra-African migration, especially the structural and...