Faculty & Research

Grants

Recent Grants (2002-2010)

The department and its archaeology service units generate approximately $1,700,000 in grants, financial awards, and contracts annually. This places Anthropology among the top five departments in the College of Arts and Sciences for the total amount of sponsored research projects. Visit University of Kentucky Research for more information on research support and programs at UK

A select list of grants obtained by faculty, staff, and students.

Grant or Award	Principal Investigator	Amount
Fiscal Year 2010 (7/1/2009-6/30/2010)
National Science Foundation Fellowship: The Effects of the Migration on Gender Norms and Relations: The Post-Repatriation Experience in Bor, South Sudan	Monica Udvardy, MaryBeth Chrostowsky	14,918

Fiscal Year 2009 (7/1/2008-6/30/2009)
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Social Categories and Health Care Outcomes: HIV Positive African American Women and Survival in the Urban South	Mary Anglin, Alyson Anthony O'Daniel	7,991
National Science Foundation Seminar: Tonga Timeline- Appraising 60 years of multidisciplinary research in Southern Province, Zambia	Lisa Cliggett	15,012
Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Indeginous Women and Development: Impacts of Ethnodevelopment and Participation in Gender Relations in the Ecuadorian Highlands	Sarah Lyon, Maria Moreno	2,500
Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: The Effects of Migration on Gender Norms and Relations: the Post-Repatriation Experience in Bor, South Sudan	Monica Udvardy, MaryBeth Chrostowsky	2,500
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2009*		$805,843

Fiscal Year 2008 (7/1/2007-6/30/2008)
National Geographic Society Waitt Grant: Ancient Maya Political and Economic Transformations: Settlement Survey of the Ucí Intersite Causeway, Yucatan, Mexico	Scott Hutson	11,631
Virginia Academy of Science Research Grant: Ceramic Analysis of Late Prehistoric Groups in Southwestern Virginia	Richard Jefferies, Maureen Meyers	1,150
National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration Grant: Archaeological Identification of Frontier Chiefdoms at the Edge of the Mississippian World	Richard Jefferies, Maureen Meyers	19,045
University of Kentucky Dissertation Enhancement Award	Richard Jefferies, Maureen Meyers	2,836
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Women's Health and Illness in a Migrant-Sending Community in Southern Mexico	Mary Anglin, Mary Alice Scott	2,900
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2008*		$1,538,810

Fiscal Year 2007 (7/1/2006-6/30/2007)
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Healthcare and Citizenship among Unionized Service Workers in Central Appalachia	Mary Anglin, Becky Fletcher	11,980
Fulbright Institute of International Education Fulbright Student Grant	Mary Anglin, Mary Alice Scott
Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant: Exploring Sustainable Consumerism as a Response to Perceived Environmental Risk	Lisa Cliggett, Cindy Isenhour
Fulbright Institute of International Education Fulbright Student Grant	Lisa Cliggett, Cindy Isenhour
The American-Scandinavian Foundation Exploring Sustainable Consumerism as a Response to Perceived Environmental Risk	Lisa Cliggett, Cindy Isenhour
National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Grant: Acquisition of Geophysical Survey Equipment and Computer Processing Support for Archaeology	George Crothers	93,693
Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid for Dissertation Research	Richard Jefferies, Maureen Meyers	1,000
Indiana Department of Natural Resources Federal Historic Preservation Fund: Archaeological Survey and Limited Testing of Site 12Hr12 and the Surrounding Floodplain in Harrison County, Indiana	Richard Jefferies, Rick Burdin	47,455
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Absentee Ownership and Common Property Resource Management: The Case of Herd Management in Rural Mongolia	Peter Little, Dan Murphy	7,800
Fulbright Institute of International Education Fulbright Student Grant	Peter Little, Dan Murphy
Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant: Communal Resource Management and Rural Inequality in Post-Socialist Mongolia	Peter Little, Dan Murphy
Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Absentee Herd-Ownership and Common Propoerty Resource Management in Rural Mongolia	Peter Little, Dan Murphy	2,000
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Tepango Valley Archaeological Project	Chris Pool, Wes Stoner	14,967
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Classic Period Development in the Tepango Valley, Tuxtla Mountains	Chris Pool, Wes Stoner	9,932
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2007*		$1,116,617

Fiscal Year 2006 (7/1/2005-6/30/2006)
University of Kentucky James S. Brown Award for Graduate Student Research in Appalachia: Painting the Mountains: An Investigation of Art and Tourism in Appalachia	Mary Anglin, Kristin Kant	1,500
National Science Foundation Linking Ethnography to Place: GIS Training for Anthropological Migration in a Zambian Frontier	Lisa Cliggett	49,997
National Science Foundation Nutrition Security in Context of Migration in Southern Province, Zambia	Deborah Crooks, Lisa Cliggett	105,375
Access Fund Intentional Site Burial of Two Rockshelter Sites in the Red River Gorge of Eastern Kentucky	George Crothers, Leigh Grench	3,000
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Land Tenure and Conflict Dynamics in Pastoral Areas of Southern Ethiopia	Peter Little, Dejene Debsu	12,000
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Becoming Mobile Pastoralists: Desedentarization among the Ful'be of Tanout, Niger	Peter Little, Karen Greenough	12,000
Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship: Becoming Mobile Pastoralists: Desendentarization among the Ful'be of Tanout, Niger	Peter Little, Karen Greenough	20,000
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Population Displacement, Household Livelihood Security, and Social Relations in a Peri-Urban Area of Ethiopia	Peter Little, Andu Meharie	7,354
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2006*		$761,619

Fiscal Year 2005 (7/1/2004-6/30/2005)
National Endowment for the Humanities Study and Publication of Archaeological Collections from Qasr Ibrim, Nubia	William Adams	58,799
Institute of Museum and Library Services Museum Collections for the Public: Facilitating Lifelong Learning in Kentucky	George Crothers	96,314
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Canoncillo (JE-205) Mapping Project in Peru: Form, Function, and Meaning	Tom Dillehay, John Warner	11,990
Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant: Development and Displacement in Peri-Urban Areas of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Impacts on Youth and Households	Peter Little, Andu Meharie
Global Livestock-Collaborative Research Support Program Jim Ellis Mentorship Program Award: Land Tenure and Conflict Dynamics in Pastoral Areas of Southern Ethiopia	Peter Little, Dejene Debsu
Fulbright Institute of International Education Fulbright Student Grant	Michele Rivkin-Fish, Jill Owczarzak
Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Mapping HIV Prevention in Poland	Michele Rivkin-Fish, Jill Owczarzak	2,000
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2005*		$2,311,414

Fiscal Year 2004 (7/1/2003-6/30/2004)
National Science Foundation Migration and Environmental Change: Tenure Insecurity in a Zambian Frontier	Lisa Cliggett	60,554
Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Settlement, Subsistence, and Emerging Socio-Economic Complexity among Middle Preceramic Hunter-Gatherers on the North Coast of Peru	Tom Dillehay, Kary Stackelbeck	1,500
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Early Preceramic Cultural Adaptation and Diversity on the North Coast of Peru	Tom Dillehay, Greg Maggard	8,350
Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: El Meson Regional Survey	Chris Pool, Michael Loughlin	1,500
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Santiago Tuxtla Archaeological Project	Chris Pool, Marcie Venter	12,000
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Totógal: Investigations of Postclassic Occupation and the Aztec Frontier in the Tuxtla Mountains, Veracruz, México	Chris Pool, Marcie Venter	9,100
University of Kentucky Dissertation Enhancement Award: Proyecto Arqueológico Santiago Tuxtla (Santiago Tuxtla Archaeological Project)	Chris Pool, Marcie Venter	3,000
Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Postclassic Occupation and Provincial Strategies near Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico	Chris Pool, Marcie Venter	1,500
National Academy of Sciences National Research Council Fellowship: Changing Family Structures and Reproductive Strategies After Socialism: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Investigation	Michele Rivkin-Fish	17,550
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2004*		$1,005,940

Fiscal Year 2003 (7/1/2002-6/30/2003)
National Science Foundation Migration and Environmental Change: Tenure Insecurity in a Zambian Frontier	Lisa Cliggett	139,446
Institute of Museum and Library Services TVA/WPA Photo Digitizing Project (U Tennessee)	George Crothers	28,000
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Sources of Power among Mapuche (Araucanian) Chiefdoms in South Central Chile (A.D. 1500-1900)	Tom Dillehay, Ricardo Fernandez	11,990
Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Early Preceramic Culture Adaption and Diversity on the North Coast of Peru	Tom Dillehay, Greg Maggard	2,000
Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant: Nomads and Agents: The Communication Interface Between Mobile Communities and the Implementers of Development	Peter Little, Karen Greenough	1,000
National Science Foundation Tres Zapotes Archaeological Project 2003	Chris Pool	194,848
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Recorrido Arqueológico El Mesón (El Mesón Archaeological Survey), Veracruz, México	Chris Pool, Michael Loughlin	9,950
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2003*		$3,733,969

Fiscal Year 2002 (7/1/2001-6/30/2002)

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Emerging Complexity among Middle Preceramic Hunter-Gatherers on the North Coast of Peru	Tom Dillehay, Kary Stackelbeck	11,930
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Core-Periphery Delineations in the Late Prehistoric Greater Antilles: A Jamaican Investigation	Tom Dillehay, Betty Jo Stokes	12,000
Kentucky Academy of Science The Role of Feasting in the Puuc Region: A Comparative Model Analysis of the Terminal Classic Cehpech Sphere at Kiuic	Chris Pool, Casey Barrier	2,340
Total Sponsored Projects FY 2002*		$1,532,058

* Total Sponsored Projects includes all grants, awards, and contracts obtained by the Department, Museum of Anthropology, Program for Archaeological Research, and Kentucky Archaeological Survey. See Sponsored Projects Awards Report for a complete list.

University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Faculty & Research

Grants

Recent Grants (2002-2010)

Fiscal Year 2010 (7/1/2009-6/30/2010)

Fiscal Year 2009 (7/1/2008-6/30/2009)

Total Sponsored Projects FY 2009*

$805,843

Fiscal Year 2008 (7/1/2007-6/30/2008)

Total Sponsored Projects FY 2008*

$1,538,810

Fiscal Year 2007 (7/1/2006-6/30/2007)

Total Sponsored Projects FY 2007*

$1,116,617

Fiscal Year 2006 (7/1/2005-6/30/2006)

Total Sponsored Projects FY 2006*

$761,619

Fiscal Year 2005 (7/1/2004-6/30/2005)

Total Sponsored Projects FY 2005*

$2,311,414

Fiscal Year 2004 (7/1/2003-6/30/2004)

Total Sponsored Projects FY 2004*

$1,005,940

Fiscal Year 2003 (7/1/2002-6/30/2003)

Total Sponsored Projects FY 2003*

$3,733,969

Fiscal Year 2002 (7/1/2001-6/30/2002)

Total Sponsored Projects FY 2002*

$1,532,058