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Congratulations and kudos to our AP students for notable achievements this last academic year:
- Adam D. Smith's dissertation, "Writing at Anyang: The Role of the Divination Record in the Emergence of Chinese Literacy," has been chosen as UCLA's 2009 campus nominee for the Council of Graduate Studies/University Microfilms International Dissertation Award.
- Anke Hein has received the Herbert and Helen Kawahara Fellowship for Japanese language training at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, Japan.
- Jack Davey has received a FLAS award for Japanese for 2009-2010.
- Brett Kaufman has received a UCLA Summer Research Mentorship for 2009.
- Joseph "Seppi" Lehner received a Summer Research Fellowship from the UCLA Institute of Social research for his project "Using Archaeological Research to Understand Producer-Consumer Behavior."
- Elizabeth Mullane has been selected as a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Introduction to the Humanities Program (IHUM) at Stanford University starting in the fall of 2009
- Hillary Pietricola has received a Beinecke Scholarship for 2008-2012 and a UCLA Summer Research Mentorship for 2009.
- Stephanie Salwen has received a UCLA Summer Research Mentorship for 2009.
- Bethany Simpson has received a UCLA Summer Research Mentorship for 2009.
- Kelly Fong received a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and the David and Pearl Louie/Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Scholarship.
- Susanna Lam received a Graduate Student Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution.
- John “Mac” Marston received his Graduate Division Portable Supplement Year Fellowship and his Steinmetz Family Foundation Travel Grant for Turkey and Egypt.
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Congratulations and kudos to our conservation students for notable achievements this last academic year:
- Christian DeBrer (M.A. in Conservation, 2008) was selected for the Getty Conservation Institute Internship, Field Projects.
- Molly Gleeson (M.A. in Conservation, 2008) and Samantha Springer presented their paper, “Collaborative work toward the preservation of spruce root basketry as a living tradition,” at the American Institute for Conservation Annual Meeting in April 2008. She also presented a paper entitled “Beyond Cultural Sensitivity and Toward Cultural Centeredness: Insights into the Preservation of Alaskan Spruce Root Basketry” with Janice Criswell, Samantha Springer, and Teri Rofkar at ICOM-CC Conference in Delhi, India, in September 2008. From 2007 to 2008, Molly was selected for the Internship in the Anthropology Conservation Laboratory at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
- For 2007 to 2008, Allison Lewis (M.A. in Conservation, 2008) was selected for the Internship at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
- Steven Pickman (M.A. in Conservation, 2008) presented a poster entitled “Challenges and Choices in the Treatment of a Whalebone Sculpture” at the American Institute for Conservation Annual Meeting Poster Session in April 2008. For 2007 to 2008, Steven will be the Neukom Family Foundation Intern at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
- Liz Werden (M.A. in Conservation, 2008) was selected for the 2007–2008 Getty Conservation Institute Internship, Field Projects. She presented a poster entitled “A Simple Step Methodology for the Non-Invasive Documentation of Ethnographic Objects” at the American Institute for Conservation Annual Meeting Poster Session in April 2007.
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