Past Anthropology Research Award Recipients

  • 2024: Leah Cundiff, Lauren Keohan, Kami Steffenauer – Death and Funerary Practices within New York City
  • 2023: Dhruvi Banerjee – Improving Outcomes for Chronic Neurological Disease through Addressing Personal and Cultural Identities; Lisette Blackstone, Pietro Elie – Jazz Kissa
  • 2022: Terence Coyne, Ally Pyne – Identity and the Crisis of Communication: Conversations with Bankers in Sustainable Finance
  • 2021:  Thomas J. (TJ) Mukundan – Democracy is Dead, Long Live Democracy: The Underpinnings of the American Paramilitary
  • 2020: Nikita Sardana – Risk, Authority, & Autonomy: An Ethnography of Pregnancy & New Motherhood in DC Communities of Low-Income Women of Color
  • 2019: Hannah A. Caspar-Johnson – Police Response to Domestic Violence: Analyzing the Collision between Police Protocol and Personal Experiences of Violence in the Home
  • 2018: Tara Viviani – Uncontrollable Defiance: What it Means to Live with Chronic Cancer
  • 2017: Shola Powell – Why Black Women Laugh While the Country Cries: The Impact of a Trump Election
  • 2015: Citlalli Alvarez – UNDACAMENTED: Immigrant Youth Identity and Earning Citizenship In America
  • 2014: Michael Deneen – Always Our Children: An Anthropological View of Homosexuality and the Catholic Tradition
  • 2013: Anne Duckles – International Humanitarian Aid: What We Do, Why, and Why We Shouldn’t
  • 2012: Marley Brown – Cricket and Contested Heritage in Bermuda
  • 2011: Misato Egawa – Living Anime: Youth Identity and Fantasy in Metropolitan DC
  • 2011: Kevin Mercer- Food as a strategy for constructing a trans-national French community and cultural identity
  • 2010: Molly LeBlanc-Medeiros
  • 2009: Jessika Angulo-Duarte
  • 2008: Laura Thompson
  • 2007: Tanya Olmos
  • 2006: Brittany Paselk