Awards and Honors
2010 Award Winners (l to r): Dr. Toni Copeland, A&S and UA Outstanding Dissertation Award; Daniel LaDu, Bob Work Award; Katy Groves, Richard A. Krause Award
David and Elizabeth DeJarnette Endowed Scholarship in Anthropology
This scholarship, established in 1993, is presented annually to a student of promise who is conducting research on the archaeology of prehistoric Moundville. For further details contact the Chair, Department of Anthropology, (205) 348-5947. Application deadline is January 31.
DeJarnette Scholars:
1994-95 Hyla Lacefield
1995-96 Robyn Astin
1996-97 Kevin Schatte
1997-98 Judith Gillies
1998-99 Matthew D. Gage
1999-00 Scott Hammerstedt
2000-01 Amanda Regnier
2001-02 Jennifer Meyer
2002-03 Steve Barry
2003-04 Cameron Lacquement
2004-05 Pamela Johnson
2005-06 Cameron Lacquement
2006-07 Claire E. Nanfro
2007-08 Jeremy R. Davis
2008-09 Erin Phillips
Bob Work Award for Scholastic Excellence in Archaeology
This annual graduate student paper competition was established in 1978 by the Archaeological Research Association of Alabama in honor of contributors Robert and Anne Work of North Carolina. For further details contact the Chair, Department of Anthropology, (205) 348-5947. Application deadline is January 29, 2009.
Work Award Winners:
1994 Scott Meeks
1995 David Morgan
1996 Robin Beck
1997 Robin Beck
1997 Virgil "Duke" Beasley
1998 Virgil "Duke" Beasley
2000 Keith Little
2001 Brad Lieb
2002 Jennifer Myer
2003 Amanda Regnier
2004 Laura Brown Wood
2005 Ashley Dumas
2006 Cameron H. Lacquement
2007 Casey R. Barrier
2008 Erin E.Phillips
Richard A. Krause Award
This award, established in 2008, is given in recognition of outstanding scholarship by a graduate student in Anthropology.
Krause Award Winners:
2008 Amanda L. Reginer
Outstanding Dissertation and Thesis Awards and Master's Research Award
The most significant honors awarded by The University of Alabama to its Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts students are the Outstanding Dissertation Award, the Outstanding Thesis Award, and the Excellence in Research by a Masters Student Award. Each year the various Colleges select winners of these awards who then enter into competition with one another for the overall Outstanding Dissertation and Thesis of the University and the University Excellence in Research Award by an M.A. student.
In the past twenty years Anthropology students have won eighteen College of Arts and Sciences awards and seven University awards
1988-89 Chen Hsin Lo, Ritual and Community in a Southern Town
The University of Alabama and The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Thesis
1989-90 Agneta Johannsen Applied Anthropology and Post-Modernist Ethnography
The University of Alabama and The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Thesis
1991-92 Billy J. Grantham, Modern Buqata and Ancient Qasrin
The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Thesis
1993-94 Amy Knight, The Effects of Modernization on Blood Pressure in Samoan Men & Women
The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Thesis
1994-95 David Morgan, Culture Change and Contact: Prehistoric to Historic Chickasaw Settlement Patterns in Lee County, Mississippi.
The University of Alabama and The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Thesis
1995-96 Lynette Nyman, Purity, Pollution, and Power Among Rom Women in a Southern Polish Town
The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Thesis
1996-97 Vanesa Fuller, Physician Characteristics and Patient Patterns in Prenatal Care
The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Thesis
1997-98 Robin Beck, Burke Phase Settlements in the Upper Catawba Valley.
The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Thesis
1999-00 Mathew Gage, Ground-Penetrating Radar and Core Sampling at the Moundville Site
The University of Alabama and The College of Arts & Sciences Awards for Excellence in Research by a Masters Student
2000-01 Ashley Dumas
The College of Arts & Sciences Award for Excellence in Research by a Masters Student
2000-01 Stacy McGrath, An Ethnohistorical, Archaeological, Osteological and Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century African American Cemetery: A Methodological Case Study.
The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Thesis
2001-02 Jennifer Myer,
The University of Alabama and The College of Arts & Sciences Award for Excellence in Research by a Masters Student
2003-04 Jennifer Myer
The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Thesis
2004-05 Christine Newkirk
The University of Alabama and The College of Arts & Sciences Award for Excellence in Research by a Masters Student
2005-06 Sarah Szurek
The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Thesis
2006-07 Brad Lieb
The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Thesis
2007-08 Amanda Regnier
The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Dissertation
2008-09 Katy Groves
The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Thesis
2008-09 Ashley Dumas
The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Dissertation
2009-2010 Toni Copeland
The University of Alabama and The College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Thesis
Graduate Council Research and Creative Activity Fellowships
1998-99 Jessica Edwards
1999-00 Amanda Regnier
2002-03 Kim Walters
2003-04 Ashley Dumas
2003-04 Christine Newkirk
National Alumni Association Graduate Fellows
1997-98 Karla M. Wesley
2000-01 Ashley Dumas
2001-02 Ashley Dumas
2003-04 Tom Lewis
The Walton H. Hill Scholarship
1996 Lynette Nyman
Women's Studies Research Award
1996 Lynette Nyman
Karatheodoris Memorial Award for Research on Women
2003 Meredith Jackson
Southeastern Archaeological Conference Book Award
1998 Keith Little
2001 Ashley Dumas
2002 Jennifer Myer
2008 Jeremy Davis