The department congratulates Vanessa Agard-Jones on receiving a Wenner-Gren grant to support research on her project, Low Tide: Black Intertidal Ecologies on the Atlantic Seaboard. The grant will support her field research along the intertidal zone from the Chesapeake to Maine, and will form the basis for a planned third volume in her trilogy on toxicity and black life in the postcolonial Atlantic world.
Having completed their coursework, theses, internships, and end-of-year exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, the following students will graduate this month from the Museum Anthropology MA Program (October 2026):
Susie Anthony, Brandon Chavez, Megan Connoley, Annika Dillon, Yixiao Duan, Izetta Evans, Yijun (Yvonne) Gu, Sarah Palluconi, Amanda (Mandy) Porter, Shuang (Stephanie) Wu.
The Association of Global South Studies has selected Rosalind Morris's Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa, as this year's recipient of the Toyin Falola Africa Book Award for the best work on any topic pertaining to Africa.
Congratulations to Zoe Crossland on her receipt of a Heyman Center Fellowship for 2027-2028. This is the second award, including her Spring Wenner-Gren Post-PhD grant, for her new research. The Department celebrates her achievement.