Lisa Lucero
Lisa Lucero (U Illinois) was named a 2012 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lucero was honored for “distinguished service in the field of archaeology, with emphasis on the role of water management in Maya society and its contemporary implications.”
Smadar Lavie (UC Berkeley) awarded as a 2012-2013 Scholar in Residence at the Beatrice Bain Research Group of the University of California, Berkeley.
Rachel Newcomb (Rollins C) was recently appointed to the Diane and Michael Maher Chair of Distinguished Teaching. A gift from Rollins alumnus Michael Maher and the Christian A Johnson Endeavor Foundation, the endowed chair was established to honor and further the college’s reputation and efforts in the art of teaching.
Mark Moritz (Ohio State U) received nearly $1.5 million NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) Program grant for an interdisciplinary research project that will focus on the impact of human activities and climate change on African floodplains. African floodplains are an excellent example of coupled human-natural systems because they exhibit strong interactions among multiple social, ecological, and hydrological systems. The project will contribute to the sustainable management of African floodplains, which are of enormous ecological and economic importance, by developing an integrated computer model that will permit stakeholders to evaluate the impact of different human activities and climate change scenarios.
Michael Herzfeld (Harvard U) has been appointed the Ernest E Monrad Professorship of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.
John “Juan” Luque (Georgia Southern U) was awarded (as PI) two grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The first project is a two-year R21 grant, funded by the NIH Office of the Director and administered by the National Cancer Institute, to test the efficacy of a community health worker program to increase cervical cancer screening among Latina immigrants. The second project is a two-year R03 grant, funded by the National Cancer Institute, to evaluate a large cervical cancer screening initiative in Cusco, Peru.
Ralph Bolton (Pomona C) was honored by his Peruvian colleagues at the VI National Congress of Anthropological Investigations in Peru held at the National University of the Altiplano in Puno in October 2012. The citation on the Scroll of Honor for Distinction in Anthropology indicated that it was bestowed “in recognition of his brilliant performance as an investigator and teacher and for his contributions to the profession and service to society.” In addition to the Scroll, Bolton was given a vara, or staff, the ancient symbol of authority in traditional Andean communities.
Bolton’s career was also recognized by the Professional Guild of Peruvian Anthropologists (Colegio Profesional de Antropólogos del Perú). He was elected Honorary Member of the Colegio, one of only three anthropologists to hold this distinction, and the only non-Peruvian so honored. The formal installation and Bolton’s accompanying lecture are to be scheduled for early in 2013 in Lima.
Bolton’s writings on Andean cultures have been collected and published by Editorial Horizonte in Spanish in a series of volumes: Cuyes, camiones y cuentos en los Andes (2009), La vida familiar en comunidades andinas (2010), No somos iguales: agresión, autoridad y conflict en el altiplano peruano (2011), Alpacas y cuyes en la etnografia andina (2012), and Susto, coca, y los efectos de la altura en la cultura andina (2012). In addition, he co-edited a volume published in both English and Spanish in 2011 (Vicos and Beyond: A Half Century of Applying Anthropology in Peru, AltaMira Press; 50 años de antropología aplicada en el Perú: Vicos y otras experiencias, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos).
Mark Turin
Mark Turin (Yale U) is the principal investigator on two new research grants from Google and the British Council. Funded by a Google Earth Developer Grant, the idea for this partnership grew out of an event convened by Turin at the University of Cambridge in June 2012 entitled “Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures.” Through the Google grant, the research team will develop user-friendly, online tools that will allow communities to map their own linguistic and cultural diversity.
A two-year grant from the British Council Transnational Education Partnership Programme will support Turin’s collaboration with researchers at the Karakorum International University (KIU) in Gilgit, Pakistan, to survey and document a number of endangered languages spoken in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Working in partnership with KIU masters students and faculty in the department of modern languages , Turin is developing a training module and fieldwork kit that can be used by local scholars who are committed to collecting and protecting their endangered oral literatures and spoken traditions. The first period of fieldwork is scheduled for the summer of 2013.
