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. How do we imagine the ideal state that we aspire to live in? I address this question in anthropological terms through a multi-sited ethnography of state restructuring in Nepal since 2006. In the wake of a decade-long civil conflict between Maoist and state forces in this erstwhile unitary Himalayan kingdom turned secular democratic federal republic of nearly 30 million, I transpose Victor Turner's...
Revised Biochronology of African Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Sites Using Cercopithecoid Taxa (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2014)
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....
Slow Migrations of the North Sea (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2022)
This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project is a study of the end of the age of oil. As oil dependency declines globally much of the world is grappling with interrelated challenges and changes in economic structures, transportation infrastructures, the shifting natural world, while attempting to imagine and engineer new realities. What differentiates the Scottish communities of the North Sea where this research will be conducted...
Small-Scale Complexity: social integration of dispersed communities in the Zagros highlands of southwest-Asia, ca. 3000-2500 BCE (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2023)
This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project investigates a case of social complexity in small-scale communities at the site of Kani Shaie in the Bazian Valley in Iraqi Kurdistan during the Early Bronze Age (3000-2500 BCE). The project explores the validity of a hypothetical model how dispersed communities in the Zagros Mountains, stretching along the present-day border between Iraq and Iran, maintained social cohesion and...
The Social Life of Employment Contracts (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2020)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Even as unemployment rates fall, contract and freelance work is on the rise, and job tenures are short - the current median tenure is 4.2 years. The changes in work follow a historical shift in how Americans understand the employment contract. Under contemporary capitalism, people increasingly see themselves in business terms: they are the "CEO of me." In this perspective, hiring resembles a...
Visualizing Structural Vulnerability: Skeletal and Dental Evidence of Embodied Social Marginalization from Anonymized CT Imagery (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2022)
This resource is an application for a Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In segregated or oppressive societies, social marginalization can be embodied—literally incorporated into human bodies over a lifetime—with significant detrimental influences on health and wellbeing. Research in social epidemiology and medical anthropology links the embodiment of structural inequity with early mortality and increased morbidity. Bioarchaeological research indicates that inequity is...
We Are Sons and Daughters of Bwoc': Refusal and Land Rights Protections in Rural Post-Conflict Acoliland, Northern Uganda (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2017)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Seven years after the guns ceased to thunder in Northern Uganda, and four years after people left the squalid displacement camps to return home to their 'ancestral' lands, clans in rural areas in Acoliland began to create their own non-profit foundations. In doing so, many clans have had to contemplate, debate, and finally write their foundations' constitutions, mobilizing, translating, and...