Barbara Bundy has been awarded a National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for "Preventing Looting and Vandalism of Archaeological Sites in Alaska." Artic Social Sciences, Office of Polar Programs.

Daniela Penickova received a 2003 Center on Diversity and Community Graduate Research award for her work "Comparative Study of Attitudes on Gambling and Pathology Among Apache Nation Members and Non-Indian Clinicians." She also has been awarded the UO Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for the academic year 2004-2005. Her dissertation is entitled "Decolonized Knowledges: Conceptualizing Gambling and Problem Gambling on an American Indian Reservation."

Gwen Robbins received a pre-doctoral fellowship from the University of Chicago's American Institute of Indian Studies to return to India June-December 2004 and a George Franklin Dales Foundation Scholarship in 2003-2004 to support her doctoral research on paleodemography of the Chalcolithic in west and central India. Gwen is also the recipient of the 2004-05 Barnett Fellowship; and a revised version of her master's thesis was published in 2004 as Damdama: Dental Histology and Age Estimation. Allahabad, India: Allahabad University Press.   

Kristina Tiedje (Ph. D. 2004) was awarded a one-year post-doctoral fellowship for 2004-2005 by the National Center for Social Research (CNRS) and School of Higher Education in the Social Sciences (EHESS) to conduct post-doctoral research in the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale in Paris. Her project is entitled "Plural Ecologies and the Construction of Nature: A Comparative Study between Nahuas and Teenek Peoples in Central Mexico (Ecologies plurielles et la construction de la nature: Une étude comparative entre les Indiens Nahuas et Teenek au Mexique central)"

Cameron Walker received a National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for "Burial Caves of the Sierra Tarahumara: A Multidiscipinary Study with Implications for the Greater Southwest."

Mary Fechner "A Change of Heart: A Cultural Study of Heart Disease and Depression
In Post-Socialist Germany" (Committee: Theresa O'Nell [Chair], Geraldine Moreno-Black, Carol Silverman, Scott Monroe [outside member, Psychology], William Dressler [University of Alabama])

Aimee Potter "The Genetic Affinities of the Prehistoric People of San Clemente Island, California: an Analysis of Ancient DNA." (Committee: J. Lukacs [Chair], J. Erlandson, Guy Tasa, Michelle Wood [outside member, Biology], Scott White [Genomics Section, Los Alamos National Laboratory])

Torben Rick "Daily Activities, Community Dynamics, and Historical Ecology on
California's Northern Channel Islands"  (Committee: J. Erlandson [Chair], M. Aikens, D. Kennett, M. Moss, Kathy Whitlock [outside member, Geography], John Johnson [Curator of Anthropology, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History])