Celebrating 20 Years of Support: Current Work by Recipients of the Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship for Zooarchaeologists

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Celebrating 20 Years of Support: Current Work by Recipients of the Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship for Zooarchaeologists" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

For 20 years, the Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship has been awarded to women early in their graduate education, with a focus on zooarchaeology. It is competitive, international in scope, and unbounded by time or cultural focus. The fellowship is unique in that it is the only SAA award specifically supporting women researchers, the only award for students early in their graduate study, and one of the few awards available anywhere that aims at developing an archaeological subdiscipline. While such an award may be considered risky, Dienje knew full well the hurdles faced by women at this stage of their career, and was set on providing support. The fellowship has been given to scholars from around the world conducting research on diverse topics and cultures through the lens of zooarchaeological analysis. In testament to their hard work, most of the 19 award recipients have continued in archaeology and many have completed PhDs and embarked on successful careers as zooarchaeologists. This symposium is organized specifically to highlight the success and current research of award recipients over the last 20 years.