WGF - Support for Research Projects

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea Silva-Caballero.

This resource is an application for Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Sleep is crucial for human health and development, including restorative functions, learning, energy conservation and emotional life. The amount of sleep for functional human development remains unclear and likely reflects contextual variation. Using bio-social, anthropological perspectives, my study compares sleep patterns of adolescents living in two non-industrial and one industrial society in...

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 Monika Jankowska.

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

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vinícius Sousa.

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

DOCUMENT Full-Text Taylor Dysart.

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

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jorge Campos Tellez.

This resource is an application for the Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cindy Mansour.

This resource is an application for a Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cassandra (Beth) Scaffidi.

This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This book emerges from debates over which pre-Hispanic Andean polities were empires and how imperial policies impacted individual and community well-being. Across world prehistory, empires accelerated immigration. Since mismatches between human and burial site isotope values provide the only direct evidence of individual immigration, I leverage skeletal and environmental 87Sr/86Sr data from my...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Knisley.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project will carry out the first archaeological analysis of socio-natural landscapes in the Sandawe homeland of central Tanzania. This project will generate a basic corpus of data for the last 2,000 years of the region, including material culture inventories and chronologies, settlement patterns, and evidence of vegetation and environmental change. Traditionally, scholarship has cast the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Amy Clark.

This resource is an application for Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Homes are spaces where we rest, prepare food, eat, care for children, and enjoy the company of our loved ones. The physical space varies culturally and might be indoors, outdoors, or both. It might be permanent year-round, or it might be reconstituted repeatedly as one moves from place to place. Yet no matter the context, the home is the setting for some of the most important aspects of our...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jiwon Kim.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My dissertational project studies the emergence of waste as a crucial means to financialize households in Indonesia, examining the promise of the future it enacts. The Indonesian experience from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis stressed the significance of households and their savings in responding to financial turmoil. This collective memory paved the way for integrating household economies...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Maria Boza Cuadros.

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...

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 Andres Restrepo Sanchez.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project explores the challenges of bringing life into a context of death. Colombia has suffered one of the longest internal armed conflicts, and Medellín has been one of its most affected territories. I am interested in how multiple scales of violence are understood, experienced, and/or resisted in birth contexts in Medellín. Obstetric violence has been used in various Latin American...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jessie Stoolman.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Drawing from history, information studies, and anthropology, my project investigates why daily entanglements between Black and Jewish North Africans have been largely untold. When assumed to be separate groups, archival representation in Morocco appears unequal. While two state-sponsored archives are dedicated to Jewish histories, only one private museum focuses on Black Morocco. However,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kristin Kovarovic.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chuan Hao Chen.

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

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katyayni Seth.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) is one of the most dangerous places in the world for children. If it were a country, UP would have the sixteenth highest child mortality rate in the world. Child health outcomes have remained poor despite efforts by national and international agencies to improve access to medical services in the state. This project examines ways in which caregivers...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nutsa Batiashvili.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa Richaud.

This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Over the past thirty years, the generations who lived through the Mao era (1949-1976) have turned China's public parks into stages for amateur performances of revolutionary tunes. Drawing on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing, this project explores these reverberations of Maoist culture in China's urban public space. At the center of the analysis is the seeming paradox of displaying...

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 Samantha Martin.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project examines how Chilean feminists use emotionally evocative discursive genres to bring relevance and salience to their social justice movements in public spaces. For example, posting a gender violence testimonial on social media might instigate feelings of pity, while chanting about police brutality at a rally may prompt anger. As activists produce or perform these affective genres,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward Dostaler.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In Chennai, and elsewhere, sand is a constitutive element of modern urban life. Through its many material arrangements and circulations, sand mediates lifeworlds and landscapes. For example, in Chennai, sand mined or dredged from riverbanks, beaches, and the Bay of Bengal flows into the city, where it supplies the "raw" material required for urbanization. Much of this sand becomes concrete,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah Jackson.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Leniqueca Welcome.

This resource is an application for Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Come Out of This World is a monograph with a central visual collage component that 1) analyzes the co-constitutive projects of racialization, criminalization, and statecraft in contemporary Trinidad that perpetuate black death and 2) speculates on a radical alterity where all life is cared for. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork contextualized through archival analysis, this monograph details the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bridget Bey.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The archaeological study of adolescence reveals insights into the biosocial process of puberty. Biologically, the critical developmental process of puberty defines adolescence, yet puberty is also the social process by which a child becomes an adult. This project investigates puberty as shaped by physical and social factors. I examine adolescence in the late pre-Hispanic Andes (800-1500 CE) to...

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 Ebenezer Adeyemi.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Current anthropological scholarship on infrastructure frames it as material objects, like roads, waste disposal systems, healthcare facilities, to name a few, that are provided predominately by the state. Additionally, debates in critical medical anthropology have highlighted how social factors, like inadequate infrastructure, interact with biological pathogens, such as mosquitos, to make...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pedro Ramon Celis.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project traces one of Oaxaca’s legendary migration events, the Zapotec migration and conquest of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the construction of the fortress and city of Guiengola during the Late Postclassic period (A.D. 1250-1521). Ethnohistoric documents suggest that the Zapotec elite migrated from the highland Central Valleys to the coastal Isthmus of Tehuantepec for their own...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Filipa Abreu.

This resource is an application for Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. For centuries, researchers have studied language evolution. Recently, the "Interaction Engine” hypothesis suggested that language arose from our unique social interaction abilities, including face-to-face interaction and cooperative turn-taking. Turn-taking has been suggested to be an ancient mechanism found across the primate order. Although turn-taking studies have been biased towards...

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 Bianca Chizzolini.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This ethnographic project investigates the role that artisanal objects and ornamentation play in the constitution of gendered daily practices and ways of life in Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico). Hand-made textile production is at the center of the social life of several rural Mexican communities. In this plural cultural context, servilletas are ordinary and richly adorned pieces produced by women...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sharon DeWitte.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Medeiros.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. What counts as "disability," how is it framed, and who frames it? My project is concerned with examining disability, biopolitics, and citizenship in Brazil. More specifically, it is concerned with examining how one of Latin America's largest organization for supporting those with intellectual disabilities has recently turned towards increasingly drawing on biomedical frameworks of disability...

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 Lara Sarlak.

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

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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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ramiro Barberena.

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,...

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 Telmo Pereira.

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...

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 Mohammed Baten.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Mangroves' historical undervaluation has frequently resulted in an institutional vacuum, with no defined property rights or enforceable norms governing their usage or protecting against their destruction. In recent years, natural resource management has been battling rising commercialization and commodification pressures where national economic interests may not align with local interests and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fiori Sara Berhane.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project looks to emerging political practices surrounding the politics of memory for recent Eritrean refugees in Bologna, Italy. Since the mid-2000's Eritrea's young have been leaving in droves, in numbers as high as 2,000 to 7,000 people monthly. Traversing one of the deadliest migrant trails in the world, Eritreans constitute the second largest refugee group entering the EU by boat. I...

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 Nicole van Zyl.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project proposes a legal historical ethnography of the liberal legal institution of parole as a site to explore the assimilation of colonial subjectivities into post-apartheid governance and social relations. It poses the question of how the institution mediates between the universalist liberal aspirations of law, and continued racial oppression and hierarchy in post-apartheid South...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ingrid Diaz.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Understanding plantations as a privileged mode of food and energy production in the Global South, my research broadly examines the feminization of the labor force in the expansion of the oil palm industry. In particular, I plan to study the recent and increasing incorporation of women as wage workers under the expansion of the plantation economy in a frontier region in Colombia. My multi-scale...

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 Maria Bonome Pederneiras Barbosa.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. More than ever, the problem of cultural borders is a prominent theme in political and social debates around the world. The perception of culture as an object has effects on the emergent cultural conservation and restoration policies, as well as generating disputes concerning their authenticity and origin. Contributing to this debate, this research project explores the question of "culture...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mariana Mora.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Aditi Saraf.

This resources is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for support for a research project. In 2019, the Indian government revoked the constitutional autonomy granted to Kashmir and brought it under central rule, pushing the enduring occupation and insurgency beyond a lethal threshold. Entering into conversations about disputed borderlands and limits of national integration, my book project, Frontier Signatures, explores historic and contemporary...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sofia Lana.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Andean glaciers are among the fastest melting glaciers in the world, yet little is known about how this affects those who live in the Andes. Mainstream anthropology has focused on the potential impacts of climate change on displaced populations' cultural knowledge. I join anthropologists who question whether this research obscures present-day concerns in the Global South linked to ongoing...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ian Roa.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project investigates ritual engagement with animals from well-documented, previously excavated ritual contexts at four major Maya polities - Baking Pot, Cahal Pech, Lower Dover, and Xunantunich in the Belize River Valley. In contrast to much previous Maya zooarchaeological research, this project takes ritual economy and social zooarchaeology approaches in a multi-sited comparative study to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Canan Cakirlar.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jill Pruetz.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrés Robledo.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ulla Berg.

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...

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 Cecelia Chisdock.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Juveniles are often considered an especially vulnerable subset of the population, but how this group is defined and cared for varies based on socio-cultural context. Juvenile care is a major determinant of lifetime health not often investigated in bioarchaeology, resulting in gaps in knowledge of past communities' health and social conceptions of the life course. This research proposes a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Camila Galan de Paula.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This proposal investigates people in northeastern Brazil who claim to have "indigenous blood" ("sangue de índio"), but do not classify themselves as Indigenous people. In the southeast of Piauí state (unlike other regions), no parts of the rural population claim Indigenous status or land rights, yet many people refer to their "indigenous blood." Preliminary data suggest that this refers to...

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 Victoria Harries.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. With the rates of obesity continuing to rise worldwide, this project presents the opportunity to understand early-life metabolic development, growth patterns, and the prevalence of obesity in human populations. Current research supports the theory that maternal/infant energy transfer through human milk influences early nutritional development of the infant and begins metabolic programming that...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smiti Sam Nathan.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project will investigate the socio-economic foundations of oasis communities during the Early Bronze Age (EBA, ca. 3100BCE - 2000BCE) in southeastern Arabia. These relatively small-scale communities demonstrate strategic organizational and subsistence choices in extreme environments and climates that led to the establishment of widespread oasis agriculture communities across the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Eliza Williamson.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project set out to understand how the paradigm of 'humanized birth' is implemented in Salvador, Brazil, through Rede Cegonha, a government program to improve maternal and infant healthcare in Brazil's public health system. Over the course of twelve-months of multi-sited ethnographic research, the project followed Rede Cegonha from the federal Ministry of Health to the local health...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Juliet Glazer.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My project asks how aesthetic evaluation relates to financial valuation in the global circulation of specialized goods. To answer this question, my research focuses on luthiers—makers of handmade violins, violas, and cellos—as well as musicians and dealers with whom they interact in the United States and Italy. Rather than simply asking how market pressures affect luthiers’ workshop techniques,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eva Luksaite.

This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Intimate State investigates social, cultural, and political aspects of sterilisation (tubal ligation) in rural north India. The continued prevalence of this invasive and difficult-to-reverse procedure in India is a complex and poorly understood phenomenon. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Rajasthan and in government-organised sterilisation camps, this project examines...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sofia Forss.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Annika Schmeding.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The ethnographic dissertation research explores the communication and negotiation among Sufis and ulema, and their role in the public sphere and peacebuilding in present-day Afghanistan through the lens of the newly formed Sufi-Islamic council in Herat. The council brings together different Sufi associations (tariqas), local ulema as well as Sufi adherents to respond to the changing religious...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Andrew Bush.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chana Rose Rabinovitz.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In the US and UK, there is a growing movement of Jewish people cultivating Judaism without Zionism. Many of these Jewish people have embraced what Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (2007) called ‘diasporism’, espousing a political commitment to solidarity and a belief in a Jewish history and future independent of a national homeland. Jewish community farms are one manifestation of this diasporism. These...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gloria Moreno.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. As ethnographic and anthropological studies of men and masculinities expanded since the 1990s, men from diverse cultural backgrounds and regions of the world have come to be recognized as having and producing gender. However, the significance of contemporary male genital modifications and their implications for masculinity, extending beyond circumcision and biomedical perspectives, did not...

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 Matthew Reilly.

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...

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This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The dead create our social worlds. Their names constitute our sense of place, their images watch over us from monument perches, and their stories build the foundation of our polities and societies. In Algeria, after 50 years of independence, material and linguistic vestiges of the dead of the War of Liberation (1954-1962) continue to exert power over Algerian society, reflecting the enduring...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tariq Rahman.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In the city of Lahore, Pakistan, plots of land are increasingly traded like stocks. Though land has long functioned as inherited wealth or a long-term investment, in recent years it has become liquid, or a good that can be quickly bought and sold as prices change. Across a diasporic market, plots of land circulate between local residents and overseas Pakistan living in the Middle East,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph Hiller.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Prisons are at the heart of struggles over impunity and accountability. This research looks to the vortex of Colombian prison worlds to interrogate what penal technologies achieve, what they fail to solve, and how they might be transformed. In Colombia, prisons are sites of intense abjection and death. Colombia’s prison system is entangled within legacies of violence both domestic and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Patricia de Freitas Lopes Rodrigues.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project investigates how people marshal the past to secure a sustainable future. I ask how Amerindian people in Amazonia attribute historical and ecological values and meanings to anthropogenic landscapes, while simultaneously building an understanding of themselves within a complex set of changing relations between humans, nonhuman agents, and the environment. I propose an ethnography...

DOCUMENT Full-Text María Marconetto.

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...

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 Ariana Rodriguez Medel.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This research is situated at the intersection of two subfields of gender studies: trans* studies and masculinities studies. It offers an intimate look at the experiences of transmasculine people and their paths to becoming men in rural and urban spaces in five regions of Mexico (Northwest, Northeast, West, Central, and Southeast), where transmasculine voices have been largely excluded from a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fernando Montero.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My research examines new configurations of sovereign power in Central America in the context of two momentous transformations currently taking place on the Afro-indigenous Miskitu Coast of Nicaragua. The first of these is the escalating militarization of the coast by the neo-Sandinista regime of Daniel Ortega, allegedly in response to high volumes of cocaine trafficking. The second is the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bri Matusovsky.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The green monkeys (Chlorocebus Sabaeus) are considered invasive pests on the island of St. Kitts, introduced as a by-product of trans-Atlantic slave trade, and now differently valued in scientific research, tourism, and conservationism. The increasing frequency of encounters between humans and monkeys, and related food insecurity experienced by both humans and monkeys, combine to create what...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Isaac Vargas.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My dissertation explores different registers of sovereignty amid Mexico’s war on drugs, explained as the nationwide deployment of the army to combat drug trafficking and annihilate drug lords, which to date has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. My research is focused on Guadalajara, the second largest city in the country, in which criminal groups assert their power to take life over the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Hallie Wells.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Initial findings suggest that recent developments in who can speak and what can be said in kabary (Malagasy oratory) show that the form does not, as has been suggested, solely serve to rigidify social hierarchies; it is also a means of reflecting and improving current realities. Nonetheless, a critical component of kabary remains substantiating one's claims by referring to the razana...

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 Samuel Dinger.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This research examines the processes through which the dilemmas of everyday life in exile contribute to the emergence of novel forms of moral community and ethical selfhood among young male refugees with no links to humanitarian NGOs. Specifically, it asks how masculine vocabularies, practices, and aspirations are and are not reconfigured when the violence of war and exile upset gendered...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Camilo Sanz.

This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Biwer.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The goal of this project is to examine the relationship between food, identity, and culture contact in the context of imperial borderlands. More specifically, the proposed research uses ancient plant remains to address the role of food in the complex multi-directional social interactions between colonists and indigenous groups in the Wari Empire of the highlands of the Peruvian Andes....

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Carey, Jr..

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paloma Contreras.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Water insecurity is a worldwide problem involving water access, water quality, and water affect (i.e. the emotional, cultural, and subjective experiences of water). It presents a major stressor that negatively impacts mental and physical health. Despite this burden, studies addressing the connections between water insecurity, psychological stress, and human biology are lacking. This 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 Lee Cabatingan.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Asif Sandeelo.

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

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Hanson.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Building on recent work at the nexus of primatology, science studies, and multispecies anthropology, this research investigates the significance of primate field schools within the discipline of primatology, and more broadly how knowledge is created with nonhumans. Primate field schools are often regarded as an obligatory rite of passage into the world of field primatology, shaping generations...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ashley McDermott.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In Bishkek, the capital of post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz is believed to be under threat from the Russian language. However, no comprehensive studies of everyday language use support these claims, and according to common measures of language vitality, Kyrgyz is not in danger. How is language use changing in Bishkek, and how can we explain the discrepancy between public belief that Kyrgyz is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ndubueze Mbah.

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...