The Board of Administration of the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation has awarded nine fellowships of $30,000 each for the academic year 2012-2013. The nine recipients, representing the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Photography, were selected from this year's outstanding group of applicants. The 2012-2013 fellows and their projects are:
Anthropology:
Jessica R. Cattelino, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UCLA, Getting the Water Right: Environment and Political Belonging in the Florida Everglades.
Jessaca Leinaweaver, Vartan Gregorian Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University, Transnational Children: What Adoption and Migration Means for a Global World.
Jessica Winegar, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Culturing Youth: Creativity, Democracy, and Development in the Middle East.
Archaeology:
Laurel Bestock, Assistant Professor of Egyptology and Archaeology, Brown University, Warfare and Ideology in Ancient Egypt.
Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas, Archaeology, History, and Metaphor in Colonial Mexico.
Photography:
Keliy Anderson-Staley, Independent Artist, Russellville, AR, An Archive of Inherited Fictions: Imagined Family Heirlooms.
Noah Addis, Independent Artist, Philadelphia, PA, Future Cities.
Simen Johan, Independent Artist, New York, NY, Until the Kingdom Comes.
Jason Francisco, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Emory University, Alive and Destroyed: New Photographs from Eastern Europe.