The Department of Anthropology Prize is given once a year in the spring for demonstrating excellence in academic achievement and outstanding promise in any of the four subdisciplines.
The Department of Anthropology Prize
"Sydney Green is an Anthropology major who has excelled in all her coursework throughout her four years at NYU. She has a strong interest in archaeology, and her senior thesis applies queer theory to the archaeological record of later prehistoric Europe. Sydney is writing an innovative honors thesis that uses queer theory as a lens to interrogate the archeological record. Her work bridges gender theory with archeological science and exemplifies how to think across the subfields of anthropological research. Last summer she took part in the archaeological excavations at the site of Dun Ailinne in Ireland. Sydney has also been an active member of the Anthropology Club. The members of the Anthropology Department are very proud of her accomplishments and wish her well in the future. " - Prof. Pam Crabtree & Prof. Amy Zhang
"Saul is a creative, sharp, and immensely talented up and coming scholar and a remarkable young anthropologist with strong interpersonal skills, and a good research ethic. Saul led an effort to collect 3D and photogrammetric data on stone tools to better understand how humans manage stone tool reduction intensity using methods many graduate students struggle with. He expanded this work into a formal research project examining archaeological materials from the Eastern African site of Mumba currently housed at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. The data Saul collected tackle key questions in African archaeology and his project will almost certainly end up with a publishable contribution to the field.
In addition to working in my lab, Saul has research experience in my college Scott William’s Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory where he has worked on 3D scanning and analyzing fossil data. This work has led to a co-authored manuscript under review with PNAS: Nexus, which is a remarkable achievement for a young scholar at Saul’s level.
We wish Saul all the best on the next phase of his journey to becoming an outstanding academic." - Prof. Justin Pargeter
"Gabby is an outstanding undergraduate senior, majoring in anthropology. In addition to her excellent classwork, Gabby has contributed to multiple projects in the department, first as an NYU Diversity Undergraduate Research Incubator (DURI) student, and then through independent study. Gabby is a clever and insightful contributor to projects, and a highly conscientious researcher, who has produced high-quality work. Gabby's research on the potential links between genes linked to megalencephaly (large-brained pathologies) in humans, and the evolution of large primate brain size across the order, earned her coauthorship on a manuscript that is currently in its second round of review at a well-regarded peer-reviewed journal. Her independent study on the evolution of lip-smacking in primates, and the evolution of speech, will earn her coauthorship on a second peer-reviewed manuscript. " - James Higham
"Jean Won Kim is an outstanding senior majoring in anthropology. She is a member of the departmental honors program. Her interests include archaeology and paleoanthropology. Last summer Ms. Kim received a full scholarship to the Koobi Fora field school in Kenya. Her senior honors thesis research is an outgrowth of the research she carried out in Africa last summer." Pam Crabtree, DUGS
"Elise Blegen is a student in the honors program whose thesis is focused on taphonomy. She has used pigs as models to study the extent to which different types of gunshot wounds are identifiable after the remains have been burnt. She has also served as the president of AUSA. She received the Anthropology Department award based on her scholarship and her service to the department." Pam Crabtree, DUGS
"Danielle Miano is a double major in Anthropology and Psychology. She carried out a research internship on numbers of vertebrae in mammals. To do this, she collected data on mammal skeletons at the American Museum of Natural History. Danielle's work contributed to a project that is being published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. She received the Anthropology Department award based on her excellent coursework and scholarship. Danielle is interested in pursuing graduate after she graduates from NYU." Scott Williams