Three graduate students in the Department of Anthropology were recently named recipients of Engaged Graduate Student Grants for 2017. The grants were awarded to 16 graduate students across the Cornell community in various disciplines.
Anthropology doctoral students Amir Mohamed, Elif Sari, and Mariangela Mihai were awarded grants of $15,000 each to further their projects. The grants provide opportunities for students to conduct community-engaged research that is relevant to their dissertations.
Mohamed鈥檚 project, 鈥淗istoric Memory and Pedagogy Working Group,鈥 will bring together students and scholars from Guatemala鈥檚 public university system with local artists in order to produce educational materials focusing on elements of the country鈥檚 history that are omitted from the current curricula.
Sari鈥檚 work, 鈥淨ueer Baby: Collaborative Multimedia Project with LGBTI Refugees in Turkey,鈥 explores the practices and processes of LGBTI asylum as well as refugees鈥 experiences in Turkey.
Mihai鈥檚 endeavor, 鈥淢izo Nationalism at the Edge of the Empire,鈥 will produce an in-depth ethnographic film that examines the socio political activities of the Young Mizo Association in the northeast Indian state of Mizoram.
Cornell鈥檚 Office of Engagement Initiatives administers the Engaged Graduate Student Grants.
This announcement follows Cornell鈥檚 celebration of World Anthropology Day Feb. 16, a time reserved for anthropologists to share and participate in their discipline with the public. Cornell鈥檚 Department of Anthropology organized an event to showcase the work of faculty and students and showcased a selection of archaeological and ethnographic objects, which included several pieces collected by Cornell faculty. The are located in 150 McGraw Hall and include approximately 20,000 items representing human activity around the world from the Lower Paleolithic to the present, with archaeological and ethnographic materials about equally represented.
Spencer DeRoos is a communications assistant in the 麻豆视频 & 麻豆视频.
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