DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Graduate Student Awards

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

Aseel Abulhab

• 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)

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)

Sarah Breiter

• Northwestern-Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Program (2020)

Austin Bryan

• Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Dissertation Writing Fellowship (2024)
• The Writing Place Graduate Fellow (2024)
• UCLA Williams Institute, Global LGBTQ+ Aging Seed Grant (2024)
• Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Graduate Student Research Travel Award (2024)
• Michael Hoefges Graduate Student Research Award, Law & Policy Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (2024)
• Earle Dissertation Research Grant (2023)
• Duke University Rubenstein Library History of Medicine Research Grant (2023)
• Law and Society Association Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop Award (2023)
• The Graduate School Graduate Research Grant (2023)
• Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Conference Travel Grant (2023)
• Goodman Language Grant, Program of African Studies (2023)
• Panofsky Award, Program of African Studies (2023, 2022, & 2021)
• Sexualities Project at Northwestern Research Grant (2023, 2022, & 2021)
• Sexualities Project at Northwestern Conference Travel Grant (2023, 2022, & 2021)
• Program of African Studies Conference Travel Grant (2022)
• The Graduate School Conference Travel Grant (2022)
• Friends of Anthropology at Northwestern & Foster Family Research Grant (2021)
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2020-2025)
• Northwestern-Social Science Research Council Dissertation Development Program (2020)
• Lobban Research Grant for the Anthropology of Africa (2019)
• The Graduate School Language Grant (2019)
• Queer African Studies Association Conference Travel Grant (2019)
• Critical Language Scholarship for Kiswahili, U.S. Department of State (2018)

Margaret Butler

• Love of Learning Grant, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (2022)
• Social Justice Mini Grant, The Office of Diversity and Inclusion, The Graduate School, Northwestern University (2021)
• Earle Dissertation Research Grant, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University (2021)
• Graduate Research Grant, The Graduate School, Northwestern University (2021)
• LeCron Foster and Friends of Anthropology at Northwestern (FAN) Summer Research Grant, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University (2020,2021)
• Society, Biology, and Health Cluster Fellowship (2018)
• Breastfeeding and Feminism International Conference Scholarship (2018)
• Buffet Institute Graduate Student Conference Travel Award (2018) 

Kyle Craig

•  American Center of Oriental Research-CAORC Fellowship (2020)
• JACEE - Critical Language Enhancement Award (2019)
• Fulbright IIIE Grant (2019-2020)
• Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2019-2020)

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)

James Gibb

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Doctoral Foreign Study Award from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (2022-2025)

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)

Bridgette Hulse

• Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2023)
• Earle Dissertation Research Grant (2023)
• Council of British Archaeology - East Midlands Research Grant (2023)
• Northwestern's Graduate Research Grant (2023)
• Northwestern's Medieval Colloquia Research Grant (2023)
• LeCron Foster & Friends of Anthropology at Northwestern (2020)

Şeyma Kabaoğlu

• The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowship (2023 – 2024)
• LeCron Foster & Friends of Anthropology at Northwestern (2023)
• AAUW International Doctoral Fellowship (2022-2023)
• M. Estellie Smith Memorial Award, AAA, Society for Economic Anthropology (2021)
• Kaplan Public Humanities Graduate Practicum Fellowship, Northwestern University (2021)
• Graduate Student Research Travel Award, Northwestern Buffett Institute (2020)
• Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Fellowship-Global Banking and Finance (2019-2020)
• Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Research Grant (2018)

Keegan Krause

• 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)

Jackson Krause

• Native American and Indigenous Studies Mellon Cluster Fellowship (2021)

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)

Bahram Naderil

• Arryman Fellowship, Indonesian Scholarship and Research Support Foundation (2016)
• Arryman Scholarship, Indonesian Scholarship and Research Support Foundation (2017-2023)
• Sexuality Project at Northwestern (SPAN) Conference Grant (2018)

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) 

Haley Ragsdale

• Society, Biology, and Health Cluster Fellowship (2018)

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)

Febi Ramadham

• Northwestern-SPAN Summer Research Award (2020)
• The Sexualities Project at Northwestern Dissertation Fellowship (2022)
• Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Student Research Grant (2022)
• The Sexualities Project at Northwestern Summer Research Grant (2022, 2020)
• Southeast Asia Research Group Pre-Dissertation Fellowship (2022)
• Earle Dissertation Research Grant (2022)
• Northwestern Buffett Dissertation Research Travel Award (2022)
• The Sexualities Project at Northwestern Reading Group Research Funding (2022)
• Co-Winner, Society for the Anthropology of Religion Graduate Student Paper Prize (2021)
• The Sexualities Project at Northwestern Conference Travel Grant (2021)
• Northwestern University Graduate School Conference Travel Grant (2021)
• Lobban Award for Early Graduate Research Summer Research Grant (2020)
• LeCron Foster and Friends of Anthropology at Northwestern Summer Research Grant (2020)
• Sara Berry Award for Most Distinguished Graduate Paper at the Graduate Student Conference, “Eyes on Surveillance: Insecurity in Everyday Life” at Johns Hopkins University (2019)
• Arryman Scholarship, Indonesian Scholarship and Research Support Foundation (2019-2025)
• Arryman Fellowship, Indonesian Scholarship and Research Support Foundation (2018)

Kaelin Rapport

• Ford Foundation Fellowship (2018-2021)
• NU SSRC dissertation proposal development program (2019)

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

• 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

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)

Dil Singh Basanti

• 2022 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
• 2018 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Research Grant
• 2018 National Geographic Early Career Grant
• 2018 Fulbright US Student Award

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)