Department Graduate Student Awards History

Academic Year 2019-2020

The First Year Hibben Recruitment Scholars this year were Roma Castallenos (Ethnology) and William Riding-In, Zonnie Gorman, and Molly Rannebarger (Museum Studies).

The Second Year Hibben Recruitment Scholar was Mariana Lujan Sanders (Archaeology).

The Third Year Hibben Recruitment Scholars this year were: Bret Quickbear Salter and Hope Casareno (Ethnology), Caitlin Ainsworth,and Thatcher Rogers (Archaeology).

The Second Year Public Archaeology Hibben Recruitment Scholars this year were Joshua Vallejos and Alicia Becenti.

The Senior Hibben Fellows this year were Joseph Birkman and Paulina Przystupa(Archaeology).

Academic Year 2018-2019

The Karl Schwerin Fellowship in Ethnology was awarded to Cody Carlson.

The recipients of the Department Travel Awards were: Holly Brause (Ethnology), Kris Sabbi (Evolutionary Anthropology), and Alexis O’Donnell (Archaeology).

The recipients of the Harvey & Sarah Moore Scholarship were James Davenport, Katherine Brewer, Joseph Birkmann (Archaeology) and Martin Pfeiffer (Ethnology)

This year the recipient of the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies Public Policy Fellowship was Daniel Shattuck.

Archaeology graduate student Katie Brewer received a GPSA New Mexico Research Grant for her study of how conversion affected Pueblo practices at mission sites in the US Southwest.

The Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies has awarded the Community Engagement Scholarship to Hope Casareno, Hibben Scholar and ethnology graduate student, for the summer 2018 semester.

Four Anthropology students have been awarded the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) PhD Fellowships: James Davenport (Archaeology) received a renewal of his LAII Fellowship, while Asia Alsgaard (Archaeology), Milena Carvalho (Archaeology), and Zsofia Szoke (Ethnology) were each awarded the LAII Fellowship for the first time. The Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) is part of a wide reaching scholarly community at The University of New Mexico.

The First Year Hibben Recruitment Scholars this year were Mariana Lujan Sanders (Archaeology) and Tess Lukey (Art History and Museum Studies).

The Public Archaeology Hibben Recruitment Scholar this year was Joshua Vallejos.

The Second Year Hibben Recruitment Scholars this year were: Bret Quickbear Salter and Hope Casareno (Ethnology), Caitlin Ainsworth, Thatcher Rogers, and Lindsay Shepard (Archaeology), Alicia Becenti, Adesbah Foguth, and Aaron McCanna (Public Archaeology), and Kendall Lovely (Museum Studies).

The Third Year Hibben Recruitment Scholar was Laura Steele (Archaeology).

The Senior Hibben Fellows this year were Holly Brause (Ethnology), Jacque Kocer and Jennie Sturm (Archaeology).

Academic Year 2017-2018

Cassie Smith (Ethnology) received the Frieda D. Butler Award.  She presented her talk "Digital Praxis in the Borderlands: Teaching Social Justice through Applied Anthropology"at the annual AGSU Research symposium.

Jillian Jordan (Evolutionary Anthropology) received the Ruth E. Kennedy Award, and presented her talk "Provenance as Practice: Pottery Production and Information Exchange in the Late Classic Belize River Valley, Belize" in the Spring semester.

The recipients of the Harvey C. and Sarah M. Moore Fellowship this year were Emily Guerra and Felicia Katz Harris (Ethnology), and Jonathan Dombrosky, Laura Steele, Paulina Przystupa, Jillian Jordan, Joseph Birkman and James Davenport (Archaeology)

The Hibben Recruitment Scholars this year were Bret Salter (Ethnology), Caitlin Ainsworth, Lindsay Shepard and Thatcher Rogers (Archaeology)

The Hibben Public Archaeology Recruitment Scholars this year were Alicia Becenti, Adesbah Foguth, and Aaron McCanna

The Second Year Hibben Scholar was Laura Steele (Archaeology)

The Hibben Continuing Scholar this year was Roudina Rajha (Ethnology)

The Senior Hibben Awards were granted to Rafael Guerra and Jennie Sturm (Archaeology) and Katelyn Rusk (Evolutionary Anthropology)

This year the recipient of the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies Public Policy Fellowship was Holly Brause

Caitlin Ainsworth was awarded the David Stuart Scholarship for Graduate Students in Public Anthropology

The Karl Schwerin Graduate Fellowship in Ethnology was awarded to Valerio DiFonzo

Department Travel Awards were made to Cyler Conrad, Amy Thompson, Paulina Przystupa, Beau Murphy and Jennie Sturm (Archaeology), Lara Gunderson (Ethnology) and Jessica Gross and Marian Hamilton (Evolutionary Anthropology)

Emily Moes received a travel grant from the UNM Latin American and Iberian Institute

Alexis O'Donnell (Archaeology) and Martin Pfieffer (Ethnology) both received fellowships with the UNM Center for Regional Studies this year

Academic Year 2016-2017

Holly Brause (Ethnology) received the Frieda D. Butler Award.  She presented her talk, "‘Mechanize or Perish’: Reflections on Labor in the Cross-Border Chile Industry" at the Annual AGSU Symposium

William Taylor (PhD UNM Archaeology, 2016) received the Ruth Kennedy Award.  His talk, “Horsemanship, Environmental Change, and Early Nomadic Life in Eastern Eurasia” was presented in January 2017.

The recipients of the Harvey C. and Sarah M. Moore Fellowship this year were Emily Guerra and Felicia Katz-Harris (Ethnology), Stephanie Fox and Kris Sabbi (Evolutionary Anthropology).

Caroline Gabe (Archaeology) and Caitlin Ainsworth (Public Archaeology)  received fellowships with the UNM Center for Regional Studies this year.

The Hibben Recruitment Scholars this year were Grecia Perez (Ethnology) and Laura Steele (Archaeology).

The Second Year Hibben Scholars were Roudina Radja (Ethnology) and Lyneve Begay (Public Archaeology).

The Hibben Continuing Scholars this year were Blaire Topash-Caldwell (Ethnology) and Katherine Williams (Archaeology).

The Senior Hibben Awards were granted to Rafael Guerra (Archaeology), Erin Hegberg (Archaeology), and Katelyn Rusk (Evolutionary Anthropology).

This year the recipients of the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies Public Policy Fellowship were Olga Glinskii and Roudina Radja.

Caitlin Ainsworth was awarded the David Stuart Scholarship for Graduate Students in Public Anthropology.

The Broilo Basehart Memorial Endowment Scholarship was awarded to Martin Pfeiffer (Ethnology).

The Karl Schwerin Graduate Fellowship in Ethnology was awarded to Valerio Di Fonzo.

Department Research/Development Awards were made to Cyler Conrad (Archaeology), Cassie Smith (Ethnology), and StephanieFox (Evolutionary Anthropology).

Department Travel Awards were made to Paulina Pryzstupa and Jillian Jordan (Archaeology), Daniel Shattuck, Jennifer Cardinal, and Blaire Topash-Caldwell (Ethnology), and Drew Enigk and Edmond Seabright (Evolutionary Anthropology).