Chikako Ozawa-de Silva, Elena Lesley, Bruce Knauft, Bradd Shore
Marjorie Shostak Award for Excellence and Humanity in Ethnography:
1st prize: Elena Lesley for her dissertation “Testimony as Transformation: Resilience, Regeneration, and Moral Action through Spiritually-Adapted Narrative Therapy in Cambodia”, advised by Bruce Knauft.
Runner up: Tatenda Mangurenje for her dissertation “Fractured Belonging: Black Police Officers and the New Civil Rights Movement”, advised by Peter Brown.
George Armelagos Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student: Megan Beney Kilgore and Scott Schnur
The Anthropology Department is pleased to announce our 2022 student award winners! In addition to granting a record number of departmental awards, we were thrilled to be able to honor seven rising seniors with our first ever Trevor E. Stokol Scholarship, for research which they will be conducting during their senior year. Undergraduate awards were conferred at a ceremony on Monday, April 25. We are so proud of our many impressive students!
Marjorie Shostak Award for Excellence and Humanity in Ethnography:
Priscilla Lin for her honors thesis “Realities of First-Generation, Low-Income Scholars at Predominately White Institutions: The Emory Experience”, advised by Justin Hosbey.
Lauren Oates for her Capstone project “Places of Permanent Precarity: An Examination of Palimpsest Landscapes in Dekalb County’s Constitution Lakes Park”, advised by Kristin Phillips.
Trevor E. Stokol Scholarship for Undergraduate Research
Hunter Akridge
Pamela Beniwal
Sophia Bereaud
Nicole Felix-Tovar
Danielle Mangabat
Alvaro Perez Daisson
Christopher Zeuthen
Hunter Akridge, Pamela Beniwal, Sophia Bereaud, Nicole Felix-Tovar, Alvaro Perez Daisson, Christopher Zeuthen. Not pictured: Danielle Mangabat.