Graduate Student Awards
Graduate student awards are listed here, along with the grants and fellowships awarded.
Aseel Abulhab
- Earle Dissertation Research Grant, Northwestern (2025)
- Buffet Institute for Global Affairs Summer Language Grant (2024)
- The Graduate School (TGS) Summer Language Grant (2024)
- Middle East and North African Studies (MENA) Summer Language Grant (2023)
- LeCron Foster and Friends of Anthropology at Northwestern (FAN) Summer Research Grant (2023)
- Mellon Cluster Fellowship in Middle East and North African Studies (MENA) (2023)
Michael Angland
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2023-2024)
Bobbie Benavidez
- Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Visiting Fellowship (2025-2026)
- National Science Foundation - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (2025)
- Presidential Management Fellowship Semi-Finalist (program terminated 2025)
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2024)
- Earle Dissertation Research Grant, Northwestern (2024)
- InclusionNU, Leadership & Workshop Development, Northwestern (2023)
- CNAIR, Leadership & Workshop Grant, Northwestern (2023)
- Global Health Studies, Workshop Development, Northwestern (2023)
- Human Biology Association Travel Grant (2023)
- National Science Foundation-Graduate Research Fellowship (2021-2024)
- LeCron Foster and Friends of Anthropology at Northwestern (FAN) Summer
Research Grant (2022) - Graduate Student Research Travel Award (2022)
- TGS Conference Travel Grant (2022)
- Northwestern Buffett Graduate Research Travel Award (2022)
- Northwestern-Center for Native American & Indigenous Research Graduate Research Fellow (2020-2021)
emily barron
- The Society Biology, and Health Travel Grant, Northwestern University (2024)
- Student Representative Travel Grant, Human Biololgy Association (2024)
- The Graduate School Conference Travel Grant, Northwestern University (2023)
- The Society Biology, and Health Travel Grant, Northwestern University, (2023)
- Anthropology Department Travel Grant, Northwestern University (2023)
- The Society, Biology, and Health Fellowship, Northwestern University (2022)
Ca'la Connors
- Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2026)
- Fulbright IIE Semi-Finalist/Alternate (2025)
- Harvey Institute for Global Health Research Grant (2025-2026)
- Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Summer Research Grant (2025)
- Society, Biology, and Health Cluster Fellow (2023-2024)
- Program of African Studies Panofsky Summer Research Award (2024)
- Friends of Anthropology Foster Summer Research Grant (2024)
- NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program Fellow (2023)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2022-2027)
- AABA Committee on Diversity IDEAS (Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropological Sciences) Scholar (2021)
- Gary Community Venture’s Piton Early Career Fellow (2021-2022)
Julio Garcia-Solares
- National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Fellowship (2023-2026)
- Buffet Institute Graduate Student Conference Travel Award (2023)
- Social Science and Research Council - Dissertation Proposal Development Program (2023)
- LeCron Foster and Friends of Anthropology at Northwestern (FAN) Summer Research Grant (2022)
syd gonzález
- Earle Dissertation Research Grant (2024)
- Latino/a Studies Program Small Projects Grant (2024)
- Buffet Institute Graduate Student Conference Travel Award (2023)
- The Sexualities Project at Northwestern Summer Research Grant (2021, 2023)
- The Sexualities Project at Northwestern Winter Reading Group (2022, 2023)
- The Sexualities Project at Northwestern Conference Funding (2023)
- Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Graduate Research Fellowship (2022)
- Social Science and Research Council - Dissertation Proposal Development Program (2022)
- LeCron Foster and Friends of Anthropology at Northwestern Summer Research Grant (2022)
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Summer Research Grant (2021)
- The Sexualities Project at Northwestern Research Support (2020)
- Gender and Sexuality Studies Mellon Cluster Fellowship (2020)
Keegan Krause
- The Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2025)
- The National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (2025)
- The Buffet Institute Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, Northwestern University (2025)
- The Global Health Research Award, Havey Institute for Global Health, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University (2025)
- The Graduate School Research Improvement Grant, Northwestern University (2025)
- The Decoster Language Training Grant, Northwestern University (2025)
- The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Cluster Summer Research Award, Northwestern University (2024)
- The Buffett Institute Summer Language/ Research Grant, Northwestern University (2024)
- The Graduate School Summer Language/ Research Grant, Northwestern University (2024)
- The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Summer Language Training Award (2024)
- The Graduate School Summer Language Study Award (2024)
- The Human Biology Association Student Travel Award (2024)
- The American Association of Biological Anthropologists Politzer Student Travel Award (2024)
- The Institute for Policy Research Research Assistantship (2023)
- The Society for Psychological Anthropology Beatrice and John Whiting Travel Award (2023)
- The National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology Methodology Program Fellowship (2022)
- The Graduate School Conference Travel Grant (2022, 2024)
- The Society, Biology, and Health Cluster Fellowship (2022)
Eli Kuto
- Lewis and Clark Fund Grant (2024)
Meng-Rung Lin
- Buffett Institute pre-dissertation research award (2023)
- Buffett Institute summer language learning award (2023)
- Foster-Fan research grant (2023)
- Buffett Institute Graduate Student Conference Travel Award (2023)
- Northwestern TGS summer language learning grant (2022)
- Northwestern TGS conference travel grant (2022)
- Northwestern Science and Human Culture Supplemental Fund (2022, 2023)
Mahmure İdil Özkan
- Crown Center for Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship, Northwestern University (2023-2024)
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2021)
- Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Program Fellowship (SSRC-DPD) (2019)
- Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Honorable Mention by Society for the Anthropology of Europe - the Council for European Studies (SAE-CES) (2019)
- Research Grant by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Fellowship at Buffet Institute for Global Studies (2018)
- Northwestern-TGS Summer Language Grant (2018)
- Buffet Institute Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Research Grant (2018)
- Northwestern-Mellon Cluster Grant in Jewish Studies (2017)
Daniela Raillard
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2022)
- The Spatial Archaeology Residential and Online Institute Fellowship at University of Arkansas-Fayetteville (2022-2023)
- The Graduate School Graduate Research Grant (2022)
- Kaplan Public Humanities Graduate Research Workshop (2021-2022)
- Northwestern-Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Graduate Research Fellowship (2019-2020)
- Northwestern-Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Summer Research Grants (2017-2022)
- Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group Graduate Summer Research Grant (2018, 2022)
- Graduate Conference Travel Award (2019)
- LeCron Foster and Friends of Anthropology Research Grant (2018)
- Mellon Cluster Fellowship in the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Cluster (2017)
Sophie Reilly
- Social Science Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship (2019-2023)
- Wenner Gren Research Grant (2022)
- Nationa Science Foundation- Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (2022)
AMRINA ROSYADA
- Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2024)
- The OpEd Project’s Write to Change the World. American Anthropological Association (2022)
- Graduate Travel Grant. The Graduate School, Northwestern University (2022)
- Summer Language Grant. The Graduate School, Northwestern University (2022–2023)
- Graduate Research Grant. The Graduate School, Northwestern University (2022-2023)
- Lobban Award. Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University (2021-2022)
- Arryman Scholar Award. The Indonesian Scholarship and Research Foundations (2020–2026)
- Arryman Fellowship Award. The Indonesian Scholarship and Research Foundations (2019-2020)
Faraz Saberi
- Mellon Cluster Fellowship in Middle East and North African Studies (MENA) (2025)
- Albert R. Diebold Jr. Travel Scholarship in Applied Anthropology (2025)
- Smithsonian Institution SIMA Fellowship Award (2025)
ATMAEZER HARIARA SIMANJUNTAK
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Research Grant (2024)
- The Earle Dissertation Research Grant, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University (2023)
- The Society for Anthropology of Work Research Grant (2023)
- Travel Grant, American Indonesian Cultural and Education Foundation (2022)
- Graduate Research Grant, The Graduate School, Northwestern University (2022)
- LeCron Foster and Friends of Anthropology at Northwestern (FAN - Foster) Summer Research Grant (2022)
- Summer Language Grant, The Graduate School, Northwestern University (2021)
- Arryman Scholarship, Indonesian Scholarship and Research Support Foundation (2019-2025)
- Arryman Fellowship, Indonesian Scholarship and Research Support Foundation (2018)
Mounica Sreesai
- Earle Dissertation Research Grant, Northwestern (2025)
Craig Stevens
- National Science Foundation-Graduate Research Fellowship (2020-2023)
Keegan Terek
- Global Impact Graduate Fellowship, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs (2021-2022)
- ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, American Center of Research, Jordan (2021)
- International Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Social Science Research Council (2019-2020)
- Dissertation Fellowship, Sexualities Project at Northwestern (2019-2020)
- Dissertation Proposal Development Program, Social Science Research Council (2018)
- The Waheed Samy Award for Excellence in Arabic Writing (2016-17)
- Summer Research Grant, Sexualities Project at Northwestern (2017)
- Crown Family Middle East Research Travel Grant, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs (2017)
- LeCron Foster & Friends of Anthropology Research Grant (2017)
- Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellowship (2015-2016)
Elijah Watson
- National Institutes of Health (2024-2026)
- National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Fellowship (2020-2023)
Portia Xiong
- American Bar Foundation / AccessLex Institute Doctoral Fellowship (2023-2025)
- Earle Dissertation Research Grant (2023)