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Grant Awards for 2009

Research Grants
Name(s) Research Title/Topic Amount

Phil Geib
(UNM)

AMS dating of five coprolite samples from Dust Devil Cave, Arizona, to assess the antiquity of small-seed processing on the Colorado Plateau.

$1000

Marinella Lentis
(U of A)

To conduct archival research on the art education curriculum at the Albuquerque Indian School.

$500

Sarah Trabert
(University of Iowa)

To reanalyze the ceramics from El Cuartelejo, Kansas, and reassess the nature of Plains-Pueblo interactions.

$500
Travel Grants for presentations at Society for American Archaeology meetings in Atlanta, Georgia
Name(s) Research Title/Topic Amount

Brandon Gabler
(U of A)

To travel to the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Atlanta, Georgia, to present the paper:  “Aggregation, Migration, and the Environment: Qualitative Approaches to the Puebloan Occupation of the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico.”

$115

Susan Ryan
(U of A)

To travel to the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Atlanta, Georgia, to present the papers:  “Environmental Change, Population Movement, and the Post-Chaco Transition at Albert Porter Pueblo” and “The Roads Most Taken? Modeling Pedestrian Movement between Great Houses in the Mesa Verde Region.”

$300

Noah Thomas
(U of A)

To travel to the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Atlanta, Georgia, to present the paper:  “Mineral Wealth and Value: Tracing the Impact of Early Spanish Colonial Mining on Puebloan Pigment and Paint Production.”

$300

Brenda Todd
(U of Colorado, Boulder)

To travel to the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Atlanta, Georgia, to present the poster:  Contrasting social change at Chaco, Cahokia, and among the Chumash.

$100

Meaghan Trowbridge
(U of A)

To travel to the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Atlanta, Georgia, to present the poster:  “Ceramic Implications for Feasting in the Chacoan World: A Matter of Size.”

$285
Travel Grants for presentations at 53rd Congreso Internacional Americanistas in Mexico City
Name(s) Research Title/Topic Amount

Michael Mathiowetz
(U of California, Riverside)

To travel to the 53rd Congreso Internacional Americanistas, Mexico City, to present the paper:  “The Mountain of Dawn: Sacred Landscape and Political Power at Paquime, Chihuahua, Mexico”

$300
Scholarships
Name(s) Research Title/Topic Amount

Denise Ruzicka
(UNLV)

To complete her M.A. thesis on Mimbres-Mogollon archaeoastronomy.

$300

Mary Jane Wright
(NAU)

To complete her M.A. thesis on the paleoethnobotany and palynology of Palisades site C:13:0099 in the Grand Canyon.

$300

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