Awards
Cayla Colclasure was awarded a spot with the Maynard Adams Fellowship for the Public Humanities 2023-2024 to focus on ideas and activities to promote public engagement with the humanities.
Cayla Colclasure was awarded a spot with the Townsend Family Southern Futures Graduate Scholars 2022-2023 to participate and create a national conversation centering on the future of the American South.
Julio Villa-Palomino has been awarded an NSF DDRIG in support of his dissertation project, “De-institutionalization Unfolding: The Transition to Community Mental Health in Lima, Peru.”
Lucia Stavig has won the 2021 AAA David M. Schneider Award. This award is given each year to a graduate student in anthropology in recognition of innovative work in the fields of kinship, culture theory, and American culture.
Sugandh Gupta has been selected as a James Peacock REACH Fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Cayla Colclasure received the University of North Carolina Humanities for the Public Good North Carolina Museum of History Cultural Festivals Fellowship to assist with the planning and organization of the museum’s annual American Indian Heritage Celebration and African American Cultural Celebration.
Ampson Hagan is the recipient of a Dissertation Fellowship at Boston College in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies.
Sugandh Gupta was awarded the Humanities Professional Pathways Award (2021) for the Humanities for the Public Good Initiative for her project, “Designing an Enrolment Infographic for First-Time Substance Use Recovery Clients at the Opioid Substitution Treatment Center, Jammu, India.”
Francesca Sorbara was awarded the Humanities Professional Pathways Award (2021) by the Humanities for the Public Good Initiative for her project, “Mapping a Paradise Betrayed: The Challenges of the Rights of Nature in the Colombian Amazon.”
Francesca Sorbara was awarded the Community Engagement Fellowship (2021) and the GCPR Seed Grant (2021) to develop a participatory research project with a peasant community in the Colombian Amazon. The project has been co-designed with CEALDES, a Colombian research group supporting grassroots communities facing socio-ecological conflicts.
Ariana Ávila was awarded a Predoctoral Traineeship (2021-2022) with the Carolina Population Center’s Population Science Training Program.
Moriah James was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award (2021).
Francesca Sorbara was awarded the Institute for the Study of the Americas (UNC) the Mellon Dissertation Travel Award (2021) to conduct ethnographic fieldwork research in the Colombian Amazon.
Ariana Ávila was awarded a spot with the Townsend Family Southern Futures Graduate Scholars 2021-2022 to participate and create a national conversation centering on the future of the American South.
Julio Villa-Palomino was awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2021) from the Wenner-Gren foundation.
Sugandh Gupta was awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2019) by the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Francesca Sorbara was awarded the Maynard Adams Fellowship for the Public Humanities (2020-2021) to develop an original outreach project screening the documentary Invisible Hand (2020) to raise environmental awareness among college students and the non-academic public in North Carolina.
Ariana Ávila was awarded with a Summer Research Award (2020) from the UNC Center for the Study of the American South.
Moriah James was awarded a Summer Research Award (2020) from the UNC Center for the Study of the American South.
Julio Villa-Palomino was awarded the Institute for the Study of the Americas Pre-Dissertation Field Research Grant (2020) and the Graduate Research Award (2020) to conduct research on Community Mental Health in Lima, Peru.
Sugandh Gupta was awarded the Joseph W. Elder Fellowship in the Social Sciences by American Institute of Indian Studies (2020) for her dissertation fieldwork.
Sugandh Gupta was awarded the Junior Research Fellowship (2019) by the American Institute of Indian Studies.
Ariana Ávila was awarded with a scholarship (2020) from the Lambda Theta Alpha Foundation.
Ampson Hagan has won the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship 2018-2020 (Niger); and the UNC Graduate School – Off-Campus Dissertation Fellowship 2018-2019.
Lucía Stavig and Hilaria Supa Huamán were awarded a grant as Leading Community Researchers (2020) for their project Mosoq Pakari Sumaq Kawsay from the Sovereign Bodies Institute.
Julio Villa-Palomino was awarded the American Anthropological Association Carole H. Browner Latin American Studies Fellowship Fund for Travel (2020).
Lucía Stavig has won the Helen Safa Prize, Gender Section, LASA (Latin American Studies Association) for her paper “Unwittingly Agreed: Fujimori, Neoliberal Governmentality, and the Inclusive Exclusion of Campesinas in the World of Women’s Rights.”
Julio Villa-Palomino was awarded the UNC Humanities for the Public Good Initiative – Humanities Professional Pathway Fellowship (2020) to conduct remote research on psychiatric deinstitutionalization amidst the pandemic in Lima, Peru.
Lucía Stavig was awarded the Chancellor’s Doctoral Candidacy Award (2019) from the Initiative for Minority Excellence at UNC-Chapel Hill. 
Ariana Ávila was awarded with the Summer 2020 FLAS and the FLAS for the 2019-2020 Academic Year to improve her Kreyol Ayisyen language skills.
Lucía Stavig was awarded a Community Engagement Fellowship (2019) from the Carolina Center for Public Service at UNC-Chapel Hill in partnership with the Mosoq Pakari Sumaq Kawsay healing center in Anta, Cusco, Peru.
Julio Villa-Palomino was awarded the Society for Psychological Anthropology/Lemelson Foundation Fellowship for his summer research project entitled, “De-Institutionalization Unfolding: The Ongoing Transition to Community Mental Health in Lima, Peru”
Lucía Stavig was awarded the P.E.O. Scholar Award (2019) from the Philanthropic Educational Association.