DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Graduate Student Awards

Graduate student awards are listed here, along with the grants and fellowships awarded.

Manikandan Abimanyu

• Buffett Institute International Pre-Dissertation Research Award (2026)

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)

Anna Brown

• Graduate Research Grant, The Graduate School (TGS) (2026)

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)

Hamideh Dorzadeh

• SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Summer Fellowship (2026)

Alicia Fahrner

• Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2026)

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)

Layla Joseph

• Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Scholar (2026)

Keegan Krause

• Human Biology Association Edward E. Hunt, Jr Award, Best Student Podium Presentation (2026)
• 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)

Racheal Oyundoyin

• Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research (2026)

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) 

Prapti Panda

• Junior Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies (2026)

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

• Buffett Dissertation Fellowship (2026)
• Dissertation Research Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation (2024)
• Pattana Kitiarsa Student Paper Prize, Association for Asian Studies (2023)
• Collections Study Grants Program, American Museum of Natural History (2023)
• Overseas Travel Grant , American Indonesian Cultural and Educational Foundation (2023)
• Eric R. Wolf Student Paper Prize, Society for the Anthropology of Work (2023) 
• Percy Buchanan Student Paper Prize, Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (2023)
• The OpEd Project’s Write to Change the World, American Anthropological Association (2022)
• Graduate Travel Grant, The Graduate School at Northwestern University (2022)
• Summer Language Grant, The Graduate School at Northwestern University (2022)
• Graduate Research Grant, The Graduate School at Northwestern University (2022)
• Lobban Award, Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University (2021)
• Arryman Scholarship Award, The Indonesian Scholarship and Research Scholars Foundations (2020)               
• Arryman Fellowship Award, The Indonesian Scholarship and Research Scholars Foundations (2019)

Faraz Saberi

• Smithsonian 'Semiquincentennial Anniversary of America' Fellowship Award (2026)
• 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 

• Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2026)
• 2025 Buffet Institute of Global Affairs Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Northwestern (2025)
• Earle Dissertation Research Grant, Northwestern (2025)
• Women of Color Leadership Program, National Women’s Studies Association, Northwestern (2024)
• Buffet Institute of Global Affairs Pre-Dissertation International Research Grant, Northwestern (2024)
• SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program Fellowship, Northwestern (2024)
• The Graduate School (TGS) Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern (2024)
• South Asia Research Forum (SARF) Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern (2024)
• South Asia Research Forum (SARF) Summer Research Grant, Northwestern (2024)
• The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) Conference Travel Grant, Northwestern (2023)
• National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference Registration Grant (2023)
• LeCron Foster and Friends of Anthropology at Northwestern (FAN) Summer Research Grant, Evanston (2023)
• South Asia Research Forum (SARF) Summer Research Grant, Northwestern (2023)

Craig Stevens

• National Science Foundation-Graduate Research Fellowship (2020-2023)

Nandini Subramaniam

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Buffett Institute International Pre-Dissertation Research Travel Award (2026)

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)

Irene He Zhu

• Roberta Buffett Institute International Dissertation Research Travel Award (2026)