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Graduate Students: Selected Recent Publications; Awards, Honors, Achievements; Grants

Mary Jane Acuña
Awards, Honors, Achievements
2012—Inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

Sherria Ayuandini
Publications
2012—K. Collier, A. Rokhman, and S. Ayuandini. The Impact of Workplace Learning Groups on Ethical Behaviour in the Indonesian Tax. In Taxation in ASEAN and China: Local Institutions, Regionalism, Global Systems and Economic Development. Nolan Sharkey, ed. London: Routledge.

Grants
2010-Present—McDonnell International Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis

Clarissa Cagnato
Awards, Honors, Achievements
2011-2012—Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence
2011—Charles R. Jenkins Award (Lambda Alpha Society)

Grants
2012—National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Reconstructing Ancient Maya Cuisine Across Time and Space: Macro- and Microbotanical Analysis of Plant Food Remains from Three Sites in Northwestern Petén, Guatemala

Kenneth Chiou
Publications
2012—J.W. Lynch Alfaro, J.P. Boubli, L.E. Olson, A. Di Fiore, B. Wilson, G.A. Gutiérrez-Espeleta, K.L. Chiou, M. Schulte, S. Neitzel, V. Ross, D. Schwochow, M.T.T. Nguyen, I. Farias, C.H. Janson, and M.E. Alfaro. Explosive Pleistocene range expansion leads to widespread Amazonian sympatry between robust and gracile capuchin monkeys. Journal of Biogeography 39:272–288.

Paula Doumani
Publications
2012—P.N. Doumani and M.D. Frachetti. Bronze Age textile evidence in ceramic impressions: Weaving and pottery technology among mobile pastoralists of central Eurasia. Antiquity June 86(332):368-382.

Grants
2011—National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Bronze Age Pottery in Regional Context: Long-term Development of Ceramic Technology in the Eastern Eurasian Steppe Zone
2011—Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honor Society of Anthropology Graduate Research Grant: Bronze Age Pottery in Regional Context: Long-term Development of Ceramic Technology in the Eastern Eurasian Steppe Zone

Andrew Flachs
Awards, Honors, Achievements
2011-2012—Jacob K. Javits Fellowship

Diana Fridberg
Awards, Honors, Achievements
2012—National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Classic Maya Human-Animal Interactions

Steven Goldstein
Awards, Honors, Achievements
2011-2012—Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence

Kate Grillo
Publications

2012—E. Hildebrand and K. Grillo. Early Herders and Monumental Sites in Eastern Africa: New Radiocarbon Dates. Antiquity. 86(332):338-352.
2011—E. Hildebrand, J. Shea, and K. Grillo. Four Middle Holocene Pillar Sites in West Turkana, Kenya. Journal of Field Archaeology 36(3):181-200.
2011—F. Marshall, K. Grillo, and L. Arco. Prehistoric Pastoralists and Social Responses to Climatic Risk in East Africa. In Sustainable Lifeways: Cultural Persistence in an Ever-changing Environment, pp. 39-74. N. Miller, K. Moore, and K. Ryan, eds. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Series. Penn Press, Philadelphia, PA.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
2012-2013—Washington University and Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Christian Albrechts Universitaet (the University of Kiel) in Kiel, Germany

Rebecca McLain Hodges
Awards, Honors, Achievements
2012-2013—Mellon Sawyer Graduate Fellow for the workshop series "Graeco-Arabic Rationalism in Islamic Traditional Sciences: The Post-Classical Period (ca. 1200-1900 CE)"
2012-2013—Fulbright Award for research in Jordan

Jessica Joganic
Publications
2012—J.L. Joganic, K.E. Willmore, C.C. Roseman, J.T. Richtsmeier, J. Rogers, and J.M. Cheverud. Comparative quantitative genetic analysis of cranial capacity and craniofacial morphology in two closely related primate species. In Bones, Genetics, and Behavior of Rhesus Macaques: Macaca mulatta of Cayo Santiago and Beyond, pp37-59. Q. Wang, ed. Springer-Verlag.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
2012-2014—National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2012—Scholar Award from the International Chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood

Sarah Kendzior
Publications
2012—S. Kendzior and K. Pearce. Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan. Journal of Communication 62(2):283–298.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
2012—Google Conference Fellow
2011—Top Student Paper, American Association for Public Opinion Research

Sarah Lacy
Grants
2012—L.S.B. Leaky Foundation Grant: Oral Health Among Western Eurasian Late Pleistocene Humans

Julia Maki
Publications
2012—J. Willman, J. Maki, P.Bayle, E. Trinkaus, and J. Zilhão. Middle Paleolithic human remains from the Gruta Da Oliveira (Torres Novas), Portugal. American Journal of Physical Anthropology:doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22091.

Monica McDonald
Grants
2012—Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research
2012—Lambda Alpha Graduate Overseas Research Grant for dissertation research in Zambia: "How do the largest and smallest baboon species compete for reproductive success in a natural hybrid zone?"

Heather Meiers
Grants
2012—Title VIII Fellowship for intensive study of Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian at Indiana University

Joseph Orkin
Publications
2012—J.D. Orkin and X.L. Jiang. Scat-detecting dogs as effective means to collect fecal samples from unhabituated primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147(S54):229.
2011—J.D. Orkin and H. Pontzer. The Narrow Niche Hypothesis: Gray squirrels shed new light on primate origins. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 144(4):617-624.

Grants
2012—National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Landscape Genetics of Gibbons and Leaf Monkeys in China
2011—Chinese Academy of Sciences: Kunming Institute of Zoology State
2011—Key Laboratory of Genetic Resource and Evolution Open Collaboration Grant: Landscape Genetics of Gibbons and Leaf Monkeys in Yunnan (PI: Rich Smith)

Lynne Rouse
Publications
2012—L.M. Rouse. Geographic Information Systems. In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Second Edition. N. Asher Silberman, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2012—M.D. Frachetti and L.M. Rouse. Central Asia, the Steppe and the Near East, 2500-1500 BC. In Companion to the Archaeology of the Near East. D. Potts, ed. London: Blackwell Publishers.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
2011-2012—Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence

Chris Shaffer
Awards, Honors, Achievements
2012—Sherwood Washburn Prize of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. "GIS analysis of ranging behavior, group cohesiveness, and patch use in bearded sakis (Chiropotes sagulatus) in the Upper Essequibo Conservation Concession, Guyana"

Elyse Singer
Publications
2011—E.O. Singer and J.J. Schensul. Negotiating ecstasy risk, reward, and control: A qualitative analysis of drug management patterns among ecstasy-using urban young adults. Substance Use and Misuse 46(13):1675-1689.

Maggie Spivey
Awards, Honors, Achievements
2011-2014—National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Livia Hinegardner Stone
Publications
2011—L.K. Hinegardner. "We Made That Film; There Is No Filmmaker": La Otra Campaña, Autonomy, and Citizenship in Mexico. Taiwan Journal of Democracy 7(2):95–117.

Adrienne Strong
Awards, Honors, Achievements
2011-2014—National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Mrinalini Watsa
Grants
2012—Explorer's Club Grant: Callimico goeldii: A primate in peril.

Anna Weyher
Publications
2012—A.H. Weyher. Are kinda baboons. Black Lechwe: The Journal of the Wildlife and Environmental Conservation Society of Zambia 18(2):18-20.
2011—A.H. Weyher. What kinda baboon? The Lowdown. 17(8):80-82.

John Willman
Publications
2012—J. Willman, J. Maki, P.Bayle, E. Trinkaus, and J. Zilhão. Middle Paleolithic human remains from the Gruta Da Oliveira (Torres Novas), Portugal. American Journal of Physical Anthropology:doi:10.1002/ajpa.22091.

Helina Woldkiros
Awards, Honors, Achievements
2012—Inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

Jing Xu
Publications
2011—J. Xu. Calamity and Harmony in China. In Focus: Memorials and Memorialization. Anthropology News, 52:S51–S164. doi:10.1111/j.1556-3502.2011.52604_s.x.