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Andrew Apter

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2010 

Book award, The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria. The Amaury Talbot Prize by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain for Best book in African Anthropology

Jeanne E. Arnold

Fellow, California Academy of Sciences

School of Advanced Research (SAR), Santa Fe: 2012  Cotsen Scholar and Research Associate

Commendation, U.S. Department of the Interior, Society for American Archaeology National Historic Landmarks Committee

Member, Society for American Archaeology Lifetime Achievement Award Committee

Editorial Board, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Lifetime Research Associate, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Carole Browner

Cultural Anthropology Review Panel, National Science Foundation

Department Chair, Anthropology, UCLA

President, Society for Medical Anthropology

Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, UCLA

Editorial Board, Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Outstanding Research Mentor Award, UCLA

Review Panel, Ethical, Legal and Social Issues, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH

MASA Mentoring Award, Society for Medical Anthropology

Jessica Cattelino

Book Award, High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty. The Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize

Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Honorable Mention, Gregory Bateson Book Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology

Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Chicago

Western History Assn. Arrell M. Gibson Award for Year’s Best Essay on Native American history.

Alessandro Duranti

Dean, Social Sciences Division, UCLA

Department Chair, Anthropology, UCLA

Mayfield/AAA Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Athropological Association/Mayfield Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology, 2001

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1999-2000

UCLA Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, 1999

Robert Edgerton

President of The Society for Medical Anthropology, 1976-1977

President of The Society for Psychological Anthropology, 1985-1986

Marjorie Goodwin

Book Award, The Hidden Life of Girls. International Gender & Language Association (IGALA), Best book on Language and Gender

Akhil Gupta

Fellowship, The Stanford Humanities Center

Fellowship, The National Humanities Center

Fellowship, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.

Fellowship, Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University

Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies Senior

Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, Paris

Visiting Professor, Danish Research School of Anthropology and Ethnography

Singhvi Visiting Professor, Edinburgh University

Goel Lecturer, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Sirindhorn Anthropology Lecture, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Honorable Mention, Postcolonial Developments, American Ethnological Society Book Prize

Presidential Fellow, Salzburg Seminar

Nominations Committee, American Anthropological Association

Associate Editor, American Ethnologist

Sondra Hale

Chair, Faculty Research Working Group, Women in Conflict Zones. UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations

UCLA Women’s Studies Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching

Fair and Open Academic Environment Award

Committee on Diversity and Equal Opportunity, Academic Senate, UCLA

Visiting Fellow, University of California, Humanities Research Institute (Irvine). "Gender and Citizenship in Muslim Communities," residency

Award of Excellence, Teaching. Women's Studies Student Council, UCLA

Distinguished Speaker, Women's Studies Graduation, UCLA

Luckman Distinguished Lecturer Award, The Academic Senate and the Office of Instructional Development, UCLA, Women's Studies

Awarded (with Gerry Hale) for Efforts in Support of Eritrean Education and Development by the Los Angeles Eritrean Relief Committee and the Committee for the Relief and Reconstruction of Eritrea

Yosano Akiko Award for Courage and Heroism, Campus and Community Women, California State University, Long Beach

Vesta Award, Honoring Women Who Have Made Significant Contributions to the Arts in Southern California Scholarship. Los Angeles Woman's Building, Arts Institution

Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award for professional accomplishments, teaching or instructionally related performance, and service to the university community. School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, California State University, Long Beach

Women in the Arts: In Recognition of Exemplary Work on Behalf of Women. Friends of Women's Studies, California State University, Long Beach

Special Tribute: For Extraordinary and Praiseworthy Work in Women's Studies. Friends of Women's Studies, California State University, Long Beach

Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award. School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, California State University, Long Beach

Award in Recognition of Outstanding Teaching for and about Women. Campus and Community Women, California State University, Long Beach

Award in Recognition of Extraordinary Heroism Exemplifying the Best in All Women Campus and Community Women, California State University, Long Beach

Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for summer research in Sudan. Research project: Urban Sudanese Women: Illusion of Autonomy in the Public Domain

Fellowship, American Association of University Women, for Sudan fieldwork

Fellowship, Doctoral Dissertation, Fulbright-Hays, fieldwork in Sudan

President of The Association for Middle East Women’s Studies, 1997-1999

Peter Hammond

Mortar Board Award, Office of Instructional Development

Luckman Award for Distinguished Teaching

Community Service Award, Lambda Alumni Association

Fellowship, African Studies, French Foreign Ministry

Fellowship, Northwestern University

Fellowship, Ford Foundation for Research and Training in Africa

Fellowship, African Studies, Northwestern University

Elinor Ochs

President of The Society for Linguistic Anthropology, 1997-1999

The Honorary Doctorate, Linkoping University, Sweden

Fellow, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1998-2003

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

President of The American Association for Applied Linguistics, 1996

Sherry Ortner

Invited Participant, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Fellowship, Solomon R. Guggenheim Memorial

Invited Participant, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto

Featured author, AES invited session "Author meets Critics: Sherry Ortner and Theory since the Sixties." AAA meetings, Chicago

Fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur

Elected, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Keynote Speaker, Israeli Anthropological Association annual meetings, Jerusalem (with additional lectures at four other Israeli universities)

Edward Westermarck Memorial Lecture, Finnish Anthropological Society, Helsinki

Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture, University of New Mexico

General Anthropology Division Distinguished Lecture, AAA meetings, Washington, D.C.

Invited, Senior Fellow at the National Humanities Center

Retzius Medal, Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography

STICERD Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, The London School of Economics

Winner of J.I. Staley Prize for Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering.

Professeur Invité, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Annual Faculty Lecture, Free University of Amsterdam

Appointed, University Professorship at Columbia University

Appointed, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, UCLA

Keynote speaker, "Ethnographic Studies in Rural China," Conference, Beijing

Keynote Speaker, The annual meetings of ABA, the Association of Brazilian Anthropology, Goiania, Brazil. Additional lectures in an ABA gender workshop in Goias Velho, and at the Department of Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro.

Annette Weiner Memorial Lecture, Department of Anthropology, NYU

The Marrett Memorial Lecture, Exeter College and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford

Kyeyoung Park

Book Award, Outstanding Book Award in History and Social Science, Association for Asian American Studies

Visiting Scholar Award, Russell Sage Foundation

Susan Slyomovics

Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute/Bunting

National Endowment for the Humanities Award

National Endowment for the Humanities Translation Grant in Arabic

Elected Fellow, American Folklore Society

Fulbright Senior Research Award (Morocco)

Book Award, The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village. The Albert Hourani Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association and the Chicago Folklore Prize Book Award

Fellowship, Guggenheim

Monica Smith

Archaeological Dialogues Essay Award

Visiting Research Associate, School for Advanced Research in the Human Condition, Santa Fe

Charles Stanish

Member, National Academy of Sciences

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Director and Chair, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA

Mariko Tamanoi

Keynote speaker, The international conference on "Transnational in Asia-Pacific", Australia National University

Visiting Professor, Keio University, Tokyo

Visiting Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo

Recipient, The Nikkei Bruin Fund of the Center for Japanese Studies, UCLA

Recipient, The Japan Foundation Fellowships for Professional Researcher

Fellow, President’s Research in Humanities, University of California

Recipient, The Faculty Career Development Award, UCLA

Recipient, The American Association of University Women (AAUW), International Scholarship for Doctoral Research

Thomas Weisner

President of The Society for Psychological Anthropology, 2005-2007 

Yunxiang Yan

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2010 

President of The Society for East Asian Anthropology, 2005-2007

Winner of the Joseph Levenson Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999

Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council

Speaker of the Malinowski Memorial Lecture, London School of Economics