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Past Grant Awards

Year Name(s) Type Research Title/Topic Amount
2008

Edward Jolie
(UNM)

Research

To conduct AMS dating of early coiled basketry from Sand Dune Cave, northeastern Arizona.

 $475

2008

Michael Mathiowetz
(UC, Riverside)

Research

For travel to two museums in El Paso, Texas, to examine iconography on Casas Grandes pottery as part of a broader study of West Mexico-Casas Grandes relationships.

 $400

2008

Lucero Vasquez-Radonic
(U of A)

Research

To produce a video on the Yaqui Holy Week celebration in El Coloso, Hermosillo, Sonora.

 $300

2008

Christopher Casserino
(U of Oregon)

Travel

To travel to the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Vancouver, B.C., to present the paper:  “A Bioarchaeological Perspective on Warfare and Massacre at Paquime.”

 $250

2008

Teresa Moreno
(ASM)

Travel

To travel to the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Vancouver, B.C., to present the paper:  "Integration of Tribal Consultation to Help Facilitate Museum Conservation and Collections Management."

 $250

2008

Will Russell
(ASU)

Travel

To travel to the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Vancouver, B.C., to present the poster:  "Ceremonial Racing as an Integrative Strategy in PIII/ PIV Communities of Central Arizona."

 $250

2008

Meagan Trowbridge
(U of A)

Travel

To travel to the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Vancouver, B.C., to present the poster: "Feasting and the Black-on-White Bowls of the Pueblo Bonito Trash Mounds."

 $200

2008

Chris White
(ASM)

Travel

To travel to the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Vancouver, B.C., to present the paper: "How a Conservation Survey Evaluated the Success of Ancient and Historic Repairs to Southwestern Pottery."

 $250

2007 Caitlin O'Grady (Arizona State Museum) Research To develop calibration protocols for ceramics analysis using X-ray fluorescence $200
2007 Douglas Mitchell and Michael Foster (SWCA Environmental Consultants, Inc.) Research To continue reconnaissance of prehistoric shell middens in the Puerto Peñasco Region, Sonora, Mexico $250
2007 Gina Gage (Northland Research, Inc., on behalf of the San Tan Historical Society, Queen Creek, AZ) Research To map and document the Desert Wells Stage Stop near Queen Creek, Arizona $150
2007 Marcus Hamilton (University of New Mexico) Research To conduct X-ray fluorescence analysis on obsidian projectile points from the Mockingbird Gap Clovis site near Socorro, New Mexico $250
2007 Michael Brescia (Arizona State Museum) Research To travel to Puebla and Hermosillo, Mexico, to study documentary and archival materials related to Spanish and Mexican property law in the Southwest and to secure copies of primary source materials for the Office of Ethnohistorical Research at the Arizona State Museum $350
2007 Barbara Bane (Northern Arizona University) Travel To travel to Society for Applied Anthropology meetings in Tampa, Florida, to present the poster "In the Interests of Justice:  The Use of Rock Art Documentation in Successful ARPA Prosecution at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico" $200
2007 Tucker Robinson (Colorado College) Travel To travel to the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Austin, Texas, to present the poster "Intervisibility, High Places, and Chacoan Shrines:  A GIS-Based Viewshed Analysis" $100
2006 Edward Jolie (University of New Mexico) Research For AMS dating of Late Archaic/Basketmaker II coiled basketry from southern Utah as part of a broader study of the development and spread of coiled basketry in western North America $400
2006 Mark Sechrist (New Mexico State University) Research For tree-ring dating and Apache consultants' fees as part of his M.A. thesis project to record and evaluate historic Chiricahua Apache sites in southeastern Arizona $450
2006 Michael Brescia (Arizona State Museum) Research To travel to Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico, to study documentary and archival materials related to Spanish and Mexican water law in the Southwest $500
2006 Scott Burnett (Arizona State University) Research To travel to Texas Tech University to examine evidence for scalping patterns at the Mogollon site of Block Lookout Ruin, southern New Mexico $250
2006 Emily Olson (University of Arizona) Scholarship To defray expenses for her senior honors thesis, which will compare and contrast museum practices at the Field Museum and Geneva History Center in Illinois $250
2005 Chris North (SWCA Environmental Consultants) Research To survey, map, and evaluate the condition of two late prehistoric habitation site complexes on Perry Mesa in the Tonto National Forest, Arizona $350
2005 M. Jill Ahlberg (University of New Mexico) Research For travel and consultant fees related to her dissertation fieldwork on the social dimensions of weaving in contemporary Navajo life $300
2005 Henryk Dabrowski (Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland) Travel To attend the University of Arizona's Dendroarchaeology Field School at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research $200
2004 Andrea Smith (Lafayette University) Research To support a study of public monuments and museum displays in Holbrook and St. Johns, Arizona, as part of a larger study of commemorative practices and public history-making in east-central Arizona $200
2004 Greg Schachner (Arizona State University) Research To travel to the University of Denver to select ceramic samples for neutron activation analysis as part of his study of community formation in the El Morro Valley, west-central New Mexico $500
2004 James Moses and Sarah Luchetta (University of Arizona) Research To upgrade an exhibit at the Oracle Public Library on early avocational archaeologist Alice Carpenter and her artifact collection $200
2004 Kathryn Mauz (University of Arizona) Research To defray travel costs to the University of Vermont to study the expeditions of botanist Cyrus Pringle to Arizona in the 1880s and compile a database and photographic archive of his Arizona specimens for the University of Arizona Herbarium $200
2004 Kenneth Madson (Arizona State University) Research To transcribe interviews with Tohono O'odham tribal members as part of his research on the impact of the U.S. Mexican border on Tohono O'odham society $500
2004 Leslie-Lynn Sinkey (Brigham Young University) Research For experimental research on the development of Gobernador Polychrome $300
2004 Marit Munson (Trent University, Ontario) Research To conduct a rock art survey of Petroglyph Hill in the western Galisteo Basin, New Mexico $200
2004 Amanda Zeman (Petrified Forest National Park) Travel To attend the conference Cultural Places and Natural Spaces:  Memory, History, and Landscape in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, to present the paper Mission 66:  A Master Plan to Save the National Parks $200
2004 Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh (Indiana University and Center for Desert Archaeology)  Travel Society for American Archaeology meetings:  presenting the poster "When Landscapes are History and Sites are Monuments" $250
2004 Jane Kolber Travel To attend the Rock Art Society of India International Rock Art Congress in Agra, India, to co-chair the symposium, "Rock Art Management and Education Programs for Site Visitors" and to present the paper Managing the Rock Art in Chaco Canyon National Historical Park $200
2004 Jeremy Kulisheck (Southern Methodist University) Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper Why Don't We Know the Size of the Southwest's Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Pueblo Population? $250
2003 Anna East (University of New Mexico)  Research For research on reproduction and prenatal care in Arizona prehistory:  an examination of health in perinates and children at Grasshopper Pueblo, Point of Pines, and Turkey Creek Pueblo $300
2003 Emiliano Gallaga Murrieta (University of Arizona) Research For fieldwork involving an archaeological survey of the Middle Yaqui River Valley, Sonora, Mexico $300
2003 Jason Hagen (University of Arizona)  Research For cost of fieldwork in Quetchehuca, Mexico, to do linguistic fieldwork on Guarijío $450
2003 Noah Thomas (University of Arizona)  Research For conducting scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis for composition and technological information relating to 19th century metallurgy at LA162, New Mexico $300
2003 Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh (Indiana University)  Scholarship Attending Indiana University - while out in SW $200
2003 Kimberly Mangum (Brigham Young University)  Scholarship Attending Brigham Young University $200
2003 Todd Pitezel (University of Arizona)   Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper Results of the El Pueblito Mapping Project  $250
2002 James M. Vint  (University of Arizona/Center for Desert Archaeology)   Research Analysis and sourcing of Sobaipuri Pima ceramics recovered from the work underway in the San Pedro River Valley $350
2002 Kelley Hays-Gilpin (Northern Arizona University)   Research Supplies needed for processing the extensive papers of Clara Lee Tanner  $500
2002 Mark Hackbarth (Arizona Archaeological Society/Northland Research Inc.) Research Analysis of environmental samples recovered from the Mueller Site, a sedentary period farmstead in the Cave Creek area $260
2002 Tiffany C. Clark (Arizona State University)   Research Assessing raw material availability and production locales:  a study of Chupadero Black-on-white Pottery from the Sierra Blanca Region $350
2002 Todd Howell (Zuni)   Research Analysis and sourcing of obsidian recovered during recent excavations within the “Middle Village” area of Zuni Pueblo   $500
2002 Todd Pitezel (University of Arizona)   Research Mapping the site of El Pueblito, a mesa top site that overlooks Paquimé in northwest Chihuahua, Mexico $200
2002 Cory Harris (University of Arizona)  Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper The Theoretical and Practical Boundaries of Science: Archaeology and NAGPRA $200
2002 Emiliano Gallaga Murrieta (University of Arizona) Travel Society for American Archaeology meetings:  presenting two papers on the results of excavations at Cerro de Trincheras: Tepalcates Trinchereños: The Ceramic Analysis from Cerro de Trincheras, Sonora, Mexico and Public and Ceremonial Space at Cerro de Trincheras, Sonora, Mexico (co-author) $250
2001 B. Sunday Eiselt (University of Michigan) Research Social transformation and women's work among the Jicaralla Apache of 19th century New Mexico $200
2001 Elizabeth A. Bagswell (University of New Mexico) Research Production of architectural artifacts:  analysis of cliff-dwellings in the Northern Sierra, Sonora, Mexico $400
2001 Jeannette L. Mobley-Tanka (Arizona State University) Research Exchange and integration in the Pueblo III world $200
2001 Jonathan Scholnick (University of Arizona) Research Compositional analysis of Cibola White Ware $100
2001 Luis M. Barragan (University of Arizona) Research Collecting Mountain Pima traditional narratives $200
2001 Phil R. Gieb (Navajo Nation Archaeology Program) Research AMS dating of Cache 1, Sand Dune Cave, SE Utah $400
2001 Ruth E. Lambert (University of New Mexico) Research Investigations of small structures in the citadel district of Wupatki New Mexico, Arizona $200
2001 Scott Van Keuren (University of Arizona) Research Architectural growth and cultural identity at Shumway Ruin $466
2001 Julie Rosalind Angel  Scholarship Attending University of New Mexico - doing honors thesis on Galisteo Basin $250
2001 Anna Neuzil (University of Arizona) Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper Ceramics and Social Dynamics: A Study of Corrugated Ceramics from the Silver Creek Area, Arizona $217
2001 Jeffrey Hokanson (New Mexico State University) Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper Biface to Bipolar: Changing Behaviors in the Chihuahuan Desert of Southwestern New Mexico $250
2001 Jeremy Kulisheck (Southern Methodist University) Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper Seventeenth Century Field Houses on the Jemez Plateau, North-central New Mexico $217
2000 Allen Dart (Old Pueblo Archaeology Center) Research Macrobotanical analyses at Sabino Canyon Ruin $500
2000 Lucinda Andreani (Northern Arizona University) Research Iconographic studies and ethnographic research into Hopi clan migration $500
2000 Margaret Beck (University of Arizona) Research Salt erosion and raw material in Hohokam Buffwares $175
2000 Michael A. Schillaci (University of New Mexico) Research Investigations of social organization and population structure among the prehistoric Pueblo Indians using determinant ratio analysis $425
2000 Emiliano Gallaga Murrieta (University of Arizona) Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper Spacial Distribution Analyses of Shell and Polychrome Ceramics in Cerro de Trincheras (Co-organizer of session) $250
2000 Gillian Newell (University of Arizona) Travel Society for American Archaeology co-chair/organizer of session Future Directions:  The Archaeology of Northwestern Mexico $100
2000 J. Kristin Olson-Garewal (University of Arizona-College of Medicine) Travel For travel to Fifth World Conference of Bioethics; Chairing session on Governmental Coverage of Traditional Indigenous Medicine $250
2000 Jane Kolber (Cochise College-Arizona Archaeological Society) Travel Third Australian Rock-Art Conference paper European Influences on the Navajo People and How It Was Depicted in Rock Art $250
2000 Marsha D. Ogilive (University of New Mexico) Travel AAPA paper Changing Mobility Patterns in Incipient Farming Villages in the Tucson Basin $150
2000 Sarah Horton (University of New Mexico) Travel AAA paper on the Santa Fe Fiestas and Hispanic identity and the impact of tourism and other forces $250
2000 Scott Van Keuren (University of Arizona) Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper Ceramic Design Execution and the Social Relations of Polychrome Pottery Production in East-Central Arizona, AD 1275-1375 for poster session Ceramic Production and Distribution in the Southwest (organizer of session) $250
1999 Carolyn Markee Smith (University of Arizona) Research Native American Health & Biomedicine:  A Case Study of Syncretism Among Pima Indian Women $200
1999 Jonathan Till (University of Colorado) Research Archaeological survey of prehistoric roads and related sites on Combs Ridge, Utah $200
1999 Kiara M. Hughes (University of New Mexico) Research The women potters of Mata Ortiz $200
1999 Lisa Young (University of Arizona/University of Michigan) Research Archaeological testing at Creswell Pueblo $470
1999 Michelle N. Stevens (University of Arizona) Research Late archaic/early agricultural mobility strategies, land use, and settlement patterns in Cienega Valley, SE Arizona $500
1999 Robert J. Stokes (University of Oklahoma) Research Detecting mobility in ancient sedentary agricultural communities $200
1999 Elizabeth A. Bagswell (University of New Mexico) Scholarship Attending intensive language courses in Taxco, Mexico $150
1999 Kari l. Schleher (University of New Mexico) Scholarship Attending University of New Mexico $100
1999 Sarah Horton (University of New Mexico) Scholarship Independent study $250
1999 Elizabeth A. Bagswell (University of New Mexico) Travel Preliminary visit to dissertation area in NW Mexico $230
1999 Kim Sonderegger (Arizona State University) Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper Classic Period Chronology and Social Change at Los Morteros and Pueblo Grande $250
1999 Scott Van Keuren (University of Arizona) Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper "Folk-Culture" Revisited: Ceramic Design and Social Change $230
1998 Allen Dart (Old Pueblo Archaeology Center) Research Archaeomagnetic dating of house 14 and pithouse feature 1009 at the Sabino Canyon Ruin in Tucson, Arizona $500
1998 Doug Mitchell (SWCA Environmental Consultants) & Michael S. Foster (Gila River Indian Community) Research Further reconnaissance survey of achaeological sites in the region of Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico $250
1998 Mark E. Miller  (University of Arizona-History) Research Ambiguous tribalism: nonrecognized  Indians and the American State $350
1998 Phil R. Gieb (Navajo Nation Archaeology program) Research AMS dating of plain weave sandals from Chevelon Canyon, Arizona $400
1998 Douglas J. Anderson Scholarship Attending Eastern New Mexico University $250
1998 Renee Gokey Scholarship Attending University of New Mexico $250
1998 James David Kilby (University of New Mexico) Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper Understanding the Cultural and Natural Filling of Kiva Depressions: A Geoarchaeological Approach $250
1998 Mathew L. Littler (University of Arizona) Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper Water as Power:  Agent-based Leadership Strategies Among Hohokam Irrigators $250
1998 Patrick D. Lyons (University of Arizona) Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper Using Ceramic Decorative and Technological Style to Reconstruct Prehistoric Hopi Migrations $250
1998 Regina Chapin-Pyritz (University of Arizona) Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper Intrasite Comparison of Subsistence Strategies from the Hopi Site of Awatovi.  $200
1998 Ruth M. Van Dyke (University of Arizona) Travel Society for American Archaeology:  presenting the paper A Chacoan Landscape:  The View from Red Mesa $121

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