As an adjunct without full-time employment at a university, I do not fall under a typical affiliation with one school. I am affiliated with Ashford University, Colorado Technical University, Southern New Hampshire University, and West Coast University.
One of my formative volunteer experiences was through the Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research. While animal research is a highly controversial and politicized issue, many inside this community feel strongly about the quality of life for research animals. For me, it was an opportunity to see from the inside, find the unexpected, learn, and, hopefully, meaningfully contribute. These types of experiences inspired me to apply for the Leadership Fellows Program, which offers a chance, through personal encounters and opportunities, to learn, to contribute, and eventually to lead others onto a similar path.
As a Fellow, I would like to draw attention to the issue of inaccessibility in academia. Anthropology is deeply important to many adjunct faculty members, and yet the ability to contribute is limited or simply out of reach, which has a direct impact on public understanding of the role anthropology has in people’s lives. We cannot adequately expand the experience and knowledge of our students, our communities, or the field in general if we cannot participate in field-specific research, collaboration, and growth.
I consider myself a non-traditional junior scholar. I received my doctorate at 44; achieving my educational goals has taken a few decades. I grew up in a fairly conservative Texas household. My father was a truck driver and my mother stayed at home until my sister and I started school. She worked as a “lunch lady” at our junior high school until she retired. I didn’t know what anthropology was until I started college. Thankfully, I happened across it and have never been able to shake loose from its intensely passionate grip!
Section Awards
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Sharon Stephens book prize
Alexander Fattal
Elsie Clews Parsons Prize
Kyrstin Mallon Andrews
ANTHROPOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY
Rappaport Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper
Emma McDonnel
Junior Scholar Award
Chloe Ahmann
Julian Steward Book Award
Elizabeth Hoover
Next Generation Travel Award
Marissa Shaver
ARCHAEOLOGY DIVISION
Patty Jo Watson Distinguished Lecture Award
Lynn Meskell
Gordon R. Willey Award for Outstanding Paper Published in American Anthropologist
Gabriella Soto
ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICANIST ANTHROPOLOGY
Nancy “Penny” Schwartz Undergraduate Essay Award
Jamie O’Leary, Winner
Hanna Sheikh, Honorable Mention
2019 Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Essay Award
Brittany Birberick, Winner
Kathryn Mara, Honorable Mention
AfAA Graduate Student Conference Grant
Kathryn Mara, Ampson Hagan, Hannah Borenstein
2019 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award
Michael Lambek
Skinner Book Award Finalists
Jennifer Diggins
Mariane C. Ferme
ASSOCIATION FOR POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize
Ishani Dasgupta
APLA Book Prize
Susan Helen Ellison
APLA Book Prize Honorable Mention
Yael Berda
ASSOCIATION FOR QUEER ANTHROPOLOGY (FORMERLY SOCIETY OF LESBIAN AND GAY ANTHROPOLOGISTS)
Distinguished Achievement Award
Ellen Lewin
Payne Prize
Clara Beccaro
Payne Prize Honorable Mention
Stephen Chao, Zhiqiu Benson Zhou
Benedict Prize for Individually-Authored Monograph
Amy Brainer, Winner
Benedict Honorable Mention
B Camminga, Honorable Mention
ASSOCIATION FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY
ASAP Graduate Student Paper Prize
K. Eliza Williamson
BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY SECTION
W.W. Howells Book Award
Richard Briciebas
BAS Distinguished Speaker
Agustín Fuentes
COUNCIL FOR MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY
CMA Book Award
Chip Colwell
Michael M. Ames Award for Innovative Museum Anthropology
Aaron Glass
Student Travel Awards
Haley Bryant, Elizabeth Kozlowski
COUNCIL ON ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION
The Shirley Brice Heath CAE Junior Scholar Travel Award
Tashina Vavuris, Claudia Triana, Amelia Herbert, and Sophia Ángeles
Douglas E. Foley Award
Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon
Spindler Award
Dr. Catherine Emihovich
EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIETY
EAS Student Award
Adam Reynolds
EAS New Investigator Award
Katie Starkweather, Melanie Martin
ASSOCIATION FOR FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY
Career Award in Feminist Anthropology
Rayna Rapp
Michelle Z. Rosaldo Book Prize
Juno Parrenas
Sylvia Forman Prize
María Lis Baiocchi, Graduate Student Paper
Amelia Y. Goldberg, Undergraduate Student Paper
Dissertation Grant
Whitney Russell
Zora Neale Hurston Travel Award
Chelsey Carter, Frances Roberts Gregory, Leyla Savloff
GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY DIVISION
Prize for Exemplary Crossfield Scholarship
Gabrielle Hecht
New Directions, Individual
Ilana Gershon, ChorSwan Ngin
New Directions, Group
Center for Imaginative Ethnography
Diana Forsythe Prize
Lilly Irani, Winner
Juno Salazar Parrenas, Honorable Mention
Hakken Prize
Alexandra S. Middleton
MIDDLE EASTERN SECTION
Book Award
Nathalie Peutz, Winner
Elif Babul, Honorable Mention
Student Paper Prize
Alize Arican, Winner
Elizabeth Derderian, Honorable Mention
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRACTICE OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Student Award
Aberdeen McEvers, 1st Place
Wyatt Bland, 1st Runner Up
Ryan Logan, 2nd Runner Up
Volunteer of the Year Award
Brandon Meyers
SOCIETY FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
H. Russell Bernard Student Paper Prize
Nicola Henderson
SAS Book Prize
William Dressler, Victor De Munck
SOCIETY FOR CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Gregory Bateson Prize
Radhika Govindrajan
Cultural Horizons Prize
Sarah Luna
SOCIETY FOR EAST ASIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize
Sasha Su-Ling Welland
SEAA Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize
Victoria Nguyen
SEAA Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize
Kaitlin Banfill
SOCIETY FOR ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
M. Estellie Smith Dissertation Award
Ellen Kladky
Halperin Predissertation Award
Gabriela Montero Mejía, Dominic Piacentini
Schneider Student Paper Prize
Nishita Trisal, Graduate Winner
Henry Bundy,Graduate Honorable Mention
Jolon Timms, Undergraduate Winner
Benjamin Fanucci-Kiss,Undergraduate Honorable Mention
SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Victor Turner Prize In Ethnographic Writing
Elizabeth Ferry and Stephen Ferry, 1st Place
Didier Fassin,2nd Place
Leva Jusionyte, 3rd Place
Chandra D. Bhimull, Chip Colwell, Amira Mittermaier, Honorable Mentions
Ethnographic Fiction & Creative Nonfiction
Miriam Jerotich Kilimo, 1st Place
Sowparnika Balaswaminathan, 2nd Place
Laura S. Grillo, 3rd Place
Gemma Louise Williams, Steven Gonzalez, Taylor Hazan, Honorable Mentions
Poetry
Casey Golomski
SOCIETY FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY
The Whiteford Graduate Student Award in Applied and Public Anthropology
Víctor Miguel Castillo de Macedo
Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Paper Prize
Daniel Salas
Felipe Fernández Lozano, Honorable Mention
SLACA Book Prize
Kathleen M. Millar, Honorable Mention, Alexander L. Fattal
SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Weidman Award for Exemplary Service to the Society for Medical Anthropology
Alan Harwood
Eileen Basker Memorial Award
Rebecca G. Martinez
George Foster Practicing Medical Anthropology Award
Sandra D Lane
The New Millennium Bood Award
Omar Dewachi
Steven Polgar Professional Paper Prize
Mara Buchbinder
WHR Rivers Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
Natalie Nogueira
Dissertation Award
Julie Spray
Rudolf Virchow Award
Kyrstin Mallon Andrews, Graduate Student
Jennifer J Carroll, Professional
Dissertation Award
Julie Spray
Research on US Health and Healthcare Student Travel Award
Austin Wiley Duncan
Graduate Student Paper Prize of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine/Integrative Medicine Special Interest Group
Angela R. Aguilar
Medical Anthropology Student Association Mentorship Award
Lesley Sharp
SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Lifetime Achievement Award
Bradd Shore
Stirling Prize for Best Published Work in Psychological Anthropology
Nicholas Long, Winner
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, Honorable Mention
Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology
Stefania Pandolfo
SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE
SAE/CES Pre-Dissertation Fellowship
Augusta Thomson
William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology
Anna Tuckett
Student Paper Prize
Jacquelyn Greiff
SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOOD AND NUTRITION
Thomas Marchione Award
“Keitlyn Alcantara, Vanderbilt University for her research using dietary isotopes to explore how food access shaped Tlaxcalteca (Aztec) capacities for imperial resistance.
Christine Wilson Award
Mindy M. Proski, Undergraduate
Christine Wilson, Graduate
SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION
Geertz Prize
Timothy R Landry, Winner
Justine Buck Quijada, Honorable Mention
Cristina Rocha, 3rd Place
Student Paper Prize
Seth Palmer, Winner
Thomas Fearon, Amin el-Yousfi, Suzanne van Geuns, Finalists
SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF WORK
Diana Forsythe Prize
Lilly Irani
June Nash Travel Grant
Elisabetta Campagnola, Mauri Systo
SAW Book Prize
Minh T. N. Nguyen
SOCIETY FOR URBAN, NATIONAL, AND TRANSNATIONAL/GLOBAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
Amy Kurtizky
Graduate Student Paper Prize
William Cotter
City and Society Paper Award
Allison Formanack
Leeds Prize
Hiba Bou Akar