Recent Anthropology Graduate Student Achievements



Fellowships/Grants (Departmental and Grad Division

Albert Spaulding Fellowship
Christina Conlee
Douglas Kennett
Cindy Klink
Carleen Sanchez
Department of Anthropology Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant
Susan Harris
Cindy Klink
Weimin Li
Kevin Vaughn
Doctoral Candidacy Fellowship
Kevin Vaughn
Elman Service Fellowhip
Ed Hagen
John Ziker
Grad Division Fee Fellowship
Jelmer Eerkens
Cindy Klink
John Ziker
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship
Corina Kellner
Carleen Sanchez
Humanities/Social Science Research Grants
Karen Anderson
John Kantner Carleen Sanchez

External Grants/Fellowships

California Space Grant Fellowship
Nathan Craig
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship-UC Berkeley
Stephanie Brommer
Fulbright Fellowship
Virginia Ray
Fu Snian Memorial Scholarship
Wan-Shu Lu
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Grant
Virginia Ray
John Ziker
Lian Ia-tang Scholarship
Wan-Shu Lu
National Park Service Grant
Douglas Kennett
NSF Dissertation Grant
Christina Conlee
John Kantner
John Ziker
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Cynthia Herhahn
Elizabeth Klarich
U.S. Department of State, Program for Research & Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union Combined Research and Training Fellowship
John Ziker

Papers Presented

1996 American Anthropological Association, 96th Annual Meetings, San Francisco


  • Brenda Bowser: "Local and Regional Exchangeof Ceramic Resources in the Ecuadorian Amazon"

  • Stephanie Brommer: "The Legal Liminality of Battered Women who Kill their Abusers"

  • Brian Haley: "Anthropology and the Making of Chumash Tradition" (with Larry Wilcoxon)

  • Juan Jose Gutierrez: "The New Law is not Ours: Local Level Response to Agrarian Reform in Mexico"

  • Kate Sullivan: "Tales of Gold 'n Fish: Property Rights in Northwestern Pacific Salmon"


    1996 Society for American Archaeology, 61st Annual Meetings, New Orleans
  • Jelmer Eerkens: "Style, Function, and Artifact Variability: A Case Study of Great Basin Projectile Points"

  • Kirk Frye: "Factional Competition, Climatic Changes and the Development of the Lupaqa Polity"

  • John Kantner: "An Evaluation of Chaco Anasazi Roadways"

  • Cynthia Herhahn: "Technology Change and Craft Specialization in the Protohistoric Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico" (with Deborah Jones)

  • Dennis Ogburn: "Pre-Inca, Inca, and Mitmaqkuna in the Southern Highlands of Ecuador: Late Prehistory of the Saraguro Basin"

  • Dennis Ogburn: "The Potential Uses of Folklore in Archaeological Research" (with Donna Lanclos"

  • Carleen Sanchez: "The Cutting Edge: Obsidian from Formative Yarumela, Honduras"

    Society for California Archaeology, Annual Meetings, Bakersfield

  • Brian Haley: "The Implications of Revision: Point Conception's Sacredness Revisited" (with Larry Wilcoxon)

  • Susan Siefkin: "An Objective Classification System for Scoring Dental Trauma"

    Other Conferences

  • Jelmer Eerkens: "Typologies, Points, and Social Transmission: the Elko to Rosegate Transition". Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Lake Tahoe. 1996

  • Ed Hagen: "Postpartum Depression as an Adaptation to Paternal and Kin Exploitation". Human Behavior and Evolution Society 8th Annual Conference, Northwestern University. 1996

  • Cynthia Herhahn: "Technology Change and the Development of Craft Specialization in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico". Chacmool Conference, Calgary. 1996. (with D.C. Huntley).

  • Cindy Klink: "Archaic Period Settlement on the Altiplano: Comparison of Two Recent Surveys in the Southwestern Lake Titicaca Basin".
  • Cindy Klink: "Archaic Period Settlement in the Ilave Drainage, Southwestern Lake Titicaca Basin, Southern Peru". Both presented at: 24th Annual Midwest Conference of Andean and Amazonian Archaeology, Beloit, Wisconsin. 1996. (both with Mark Aldenderfer)

  • Joseph Powell: "The Ackee Fruit Tree in Costa Rica: Assessing the Cultural and Ecological Significance. AAA meetings. 1995.

    Papers Published

  • Jelmer Eerkens: Towards an Understanding of Variance in Microlith Armatures in the British Later Mesolithic. Lithics(17). 1996.

  • Ed Hagen: Human Evolution Multimedia Companion (Software published). 1997. (With Phil Walker).
  • Ed Hagen: Human Evoltion: the Fossil Evidence. (Software Published). In Press. (With Phil Walker).

  • Cynthia Herhahn: 14th Century Dry Farming Features in the Northern Rio Grande Valley. In Soil, Water, Biology, and Belief in Prehistoric and Traditional Southwestern Agriculture.

  • John Kantner: Political Competition among the Chaco Anasazi of the American Southwest, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 15. 1996.
  • John Kantner: Settlement Pattern Analysis, In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. 1996.

  • Douglas Kennett: The Scientific Method in Archaeology, The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. 1996.
  • Douglas Kennett: Seasonality Studies, The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. 1996.
  • Douglas Kennett: General Systems Theory in Archaeology, The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. 1996.
  • Douglas Kennett: Oxygen Isotopic Analysis of Archaeological Shells to Detect Seasonal Use of Wetlands on the Southern Pacific Coast of Mexico, Journal of Archaeological Science 23(4). 1996. (With Barbara Voorhies).
  • Douglas Kennett: Further Evidence for a Terminal Pleistocene Occupation of Daisy Cave, San Miguel Island, California, Current Research in the Pleistocene (13). 1996. (With Jon Erlandson, Mark Tveskov, and Lynn Ingram).

  • Lorenzo Lopez: Four entries in Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society, and Culture. 1997.

  • Wan-Shu Lu: Cultural Identity and Social Processes: A Comparison Between Cambodia and Vietnam, Man and Culture (31). 1996.
  • Wan-Shu Lu: A Functional Analysis of Avuncular Roles in Han-Taiwanese Society: A Case Study in Chang-Hua Area, Taiwanese Folkways 45(2). 1996.

  • Carleen Sanchez: The Archaeology of Central America, The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. 1996.
  • Carleen Sanchez: El Cociente de Filo a Masa: Una Reconsideracion en Vista de la Obsidiana del Sitio Formativo de Yarmuela, Yaxkin. (In Press)

  • Susan Siefkin: An Isolated Cremation from Sand Canyon, California, Kern County Archaeological Society Journal 5. 1996. (With Mark Sutton).
  • Susan SiefkinA Summary of an Analysis of Human Remains from the Crestview Drive-In Site, Kern County Archaeological Society Journal 5. 1996. (With Robert Yohe)

  • John Ziker: Problems of the North, Post-Soviet Eurasia: Anthropological Perspectives on a World in Transition.1996.
  • John Ziker: Discussion of the Draft Law of the Russian Federation "Fundamentals of Legal Status for the Native Population of the Russian North". Ethnographic Review. 1996.

    Miscellaneous Awards

    Lorenzo Lopez: 2nd Prize, Edwin and Jean Corle Memorial Book Collection entitled "Mexico New, Mexico Old: 500 years of Constant Research".

    Joseph Powell: Winner of student paper competition: Culture and Agriculture Section, 1995 AAAs.

    Wan-Shu Lu: President's Awards of National Taiwan University (1992-1993)



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