Awards and Accolades

Assistant Professor Anthony Harb selected as 2024 Concha Delgado Gaitán Presidential Fellow from the Council for Anthropology and Education

This endowed fellowship program honors pioneering anthropologist of education Concha Delgado-Gaitan who, early in her career, distinguished herself as an ethnographer of literacy, linguistic diversity, social justice, and family negotiation of educational systems. These fellowships support the professional development and mentoring of educational anthropologists early in their academic careers.

Ifsha Zehra has been awarded a year-long fellowship from the American Associate of University Women

Ifsha Zehra has been awarded a year-long fellowship from the American Association of University Women to advance her project on visual cultures, gender, and photography.

Kathryne Metcalf has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Kathryne Metcalf has been awareded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her research, Biobanking, Epistemic Infrastructure, and the Lifecycle of Genomic Data. "This research project examines biobanking practices across multiple organizations, building on the concept of epistemic infrastructures, meaning the tools that shape and constrain how we produce knowledge. The research explores three key questions: How biobanks make decisions about which data they will collect; how research communities adapt their research aims in response to those choices; and how biobanks change over time in response to pressures from both within and outside of the research communities they serve. To address these questions, the project uses a mixed-methods approach, which includes analyzing technical literature about biobank design, research literature produced using biobank data, conducting interviews with biobankers, and observing their work. In the process, this research uncovers the mechanisms by which biobanks influence genomic research and offers a new perspective on the relationship between data infrastructures and the production of scientific knowledge."

Veronica Uribe del Aguila has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Veronica Uribe del Aguila has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her project "Technology as Sovereignty: Open Hardware Politics and New Property Relations." This supports the work she's been developing for many years on electronics fabrication, design, expertise, and labor at the border and in global supply chain logistics.

Akshita Sivakumar has won an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Grant

Akshita Sivakumar has won an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her project "Technologies of Futuring: Computational modeling practices at the Intersection of environmental governance and environmental justice."

Dr. Pepe Rojo awarded the 2023 Dean's Fellowships Award for Social Studies

The Dean's Fellowship Award for Social Studies celebrates on outstanding graduating PhD student from one of the following departments: Anthropology, Communication, History, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, and Sociology.

Patrick Anderson awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

On April 5, 2023, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 171 exceptional individuals– UC San Diego’s Patrick Anderson being among the recipients.

The Guggenheim will be supporting Patrick Anderson’s ongoing community-based research on policing, in particular writing a book in which he uses methods from the arts, humanities, and social sciences to understand police practices and the lived realities of communities who disproportionately experience police encounters and police violence.

Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors.

https://www.gf.org/announcements/

Boatema Boateng awarded Undergraduate Research Hub 2022 Outstanding Mentor Award

Dr. Boateng was selected from the nominations based on a combination of factors, including student testimonials, innovative or unusual mentoring practices, and other considerations, such as mentees served and years of service as a mentor to undergraduates. Students from the TRELS, McNair, and Faculty Mentor Programs are invited to nominate their mentors for the award. This year's awards will be presented at the Online Undergraduate Research Symposium. 

Dr. Boateng had this to say about her experience:

"At its best, mentoring is like a journey of discovery in which I travel alongside students. Through the conversations we have around their work, I help them develop their skills and guide them toward their goals. Most importantly, I help them discover the brilliance that lies within them. One of my greatest joys as a mentor comes from witnessing the transformation as students go from struggle to mastery of their subject and their craft."

Zeinabu Davis receives Spark Award for Sojourner film

Zeinabu Davis, has received a Spark Award in support of her Sojourner hybrid documentary project. This was a competitive award process, supported through the NEH and an important honor that will be instrumental in helping her on the road to completing the film. There were over 200 applicants, and they are providing $50,000 to each of 36 projects. Read more at this link: https://firelightmedia.medium.com/firelight-media-announces-spark-fund-recipients-ca6256194020

Christina Aushana awarded UC Presidential Postdoc

Christina Aushana (2020) has been awarded The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. She will be working in the Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara with Geoffrey Raymond, Professor of Sociology and Nikki Jones, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Aushana's dissertation was entitled: Screening Racial Visions, Scripting State Violence: The Performance and Visual Culture of Patrol Work and Police Training in San Diego and her committee members were Elana Zilberg (Chair), Patrick Anderson, Lisa Cartwright, Ricardo Dominguez, Kelly Gates, Roshanak Kheshti.

Drs. Yelena Gluzman, Christina Aushana, and Sarah Klein, (along with Anthropology alumnus Dr. Michael Berman) are recipients of a 2021 "Making and Doing" Award from the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) 

Drs. Yelena Gluzman, Christina Aushana, and Sarah Klein, (along with Anthropology alumnus Dr. Michael Berman) recieved this award for their long-running project Feminist Theory Theater (FTT). FTT was the 2016-17 Method-in-Residence at UCSD's Studio for Ethnographic Design and debuted at one of the first CommPlayground events hosted by Fernando Domínguez Rubio. They describe their project as follows: "by incorporating key ideas of feminist theory into the act of reading a text, this project changes the ways academics 'talk about' and 'do' reading that could have important implications for how we engage with the complex world we live in." Their full abstract and downloadable FTT Work Book is available here, and they invite all those interested to experiment with their method and materials in reading groups, seminars, and beyond.