News about students and alumni

Senior Awards: The department continued its tradition of honoring outstanding work by awarding the Robert Friedrichs Prize in Sociology to Chloe Taft and the James Orton Prize in Anthropology to Melanie Kingsley, both members of the Class of 2005.

News of ANSO grads
Jennifer Patico continues to teach anthropology at Haverford College. Among her recent publications is a just-published essay in The American Ethnologist, "To be Happy in a Mercedes: Tropes of Value and Ambivalent Visions of Marketization" (downloadable through www.anthrosource.net if you are a member of the American Anthropological Association or using a computer at a site-licensed organization).  Wendi Haugh has just received her doctorate in anthropology from Penn, for which she conducted doctoral research in Namibia.  Peter Just paid a visit to Cyndy McPherson Frantz, now on the Psychology faculty at Oberlin College and doing well there. Joan Walling has been awarded an SSRC-Mellon Research Award for her Princeton doctoral dissertation research in sociology, "Receiving Care in America: How Recipients of Social Services Create Moral Meaning."

Farthest traveling postcard: From Kristin EnglebrechtBleem, this from the Buddhist monastery of McCleod Ganj. Kristin is now back in the USA and planning to settle in Burlington, VT in a few months.

Jericho Burg continues to pursue doctoral work in Communications at UCSD and reports that she is currently a Fulbright Fellow in Ethiopia, where she's studying relationships between the Ethiopian government, donor agencies, and NGOs in response to early warnings of regional famine . . . Cathryn Christensen, a student at Harvard Med, was awarded a prize by Harvard's Division of Medical Ethics for an essay on the dilemmas of humanitarian aid in Zaire in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide . . . Antonia Foias reports that Elly Spensley (pictured here skiing in Eph gear) is a doctoral student in archaeology at Boston University.

Michael Brown had the pleasure of chatting with Jacques Payne '90 at Williams Reunions in June. Jacques is a medical research administrator in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Grad school bound      
Josh Wakeham will be starting the doctoral program in sociology at Harvard in the fall; Freeden Oeur will be heading west to do the same at Berkeley.

News about the activities of ANSO alums--including those of you who pursuing non-academic careers--is always welcome!