Deadline: May 15th
The American Indian Program at Cornell University announces the availability of scholarships for American Indian students to attend a three-credit archaeological field school that will be offered through Cornell’s Summer Session (July 7-August 4, 2009). The scholarship fully covers tuition and dormitory lodging expenses during the course, as well as providing an allowance for food and/or transportation.

Students will enroll in American Indian Studies/Anthropology/Archaeology 2220, Field Course in Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Archaeology, for three units of academic credit.  No prior training in archaeological methods is required. Taught by Assistant Professor Kurt Jordan, the class offers hands-on training in archaeological field methods through survey and excavation at Postcolumbian Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) sites in New York's Finger Lakes region. The goals of the project and the field methods to be used during class excavations have been developed in consultation with representatives of the Haudenosaunee community.

The majority of class time will be spent engaged in supervised fieldwork at the 1688-1715 Seneca White Springs site, located near Geneva, New York. Fieldwork will be supplemented by lectures introducing archaeological methods and Haudenosaunee history and material culture. Excavations will gather data on residential architecture and domestic activities. To see full article and scholarship application, click here.

The American Indian Program at Cornell University is pleased to announce its membership in the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies (NCAIS). Slated to begin in July 2009, the Consortium will be trans-national in scope and will organize conferences, symposia, workshops and courses, as well as offer fellowships for graduate students and faculty from fifteen to eighteen member institutions in the United States and Canada. Thus far, other institutional members include Harvard, UNC-Chapel Hill, University of British Columbia, University of Montana, Miami of Ohio, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Through its 2004 acquisition of the Huntington Free Library, Cornell University ranks in the top three research libraries for AIS in North America, second only to the Newberry Library and the Library of Congress. Cornell's commitment to NCAIS will ensure that its investment in the Huntington Free Library is fully optimized for the future.

To see full article and fellowship application, click here.

Andrew Curley (Development Sociology graduate student) has been selected as an awardee of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship which helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in the U.S. and abroad. NSF Fellows are expected to become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering. These individuals will be crucial to maintaining and advancing the nation’s technological infrastructure and national security as well as contributing to the economic well-being of society at large.

Simon Tu (Government graduate student) has been selected as an awardee of the Ford Foundation’s three year pre-doctoral fellowship. Pre-doctoral fellowships are awarded in a national competition administered by the National Research Council (NRC) on behalf of the Ford Foundation. The awards are made to individuals who, in the judgment of the review panels, have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

Melanie Stansbury (Development Sociology graduate student) has been awarded the policy fellowship from the Udall Foundation, the Lynn Reyer Award for Tribal Community Development and the Rural Sociological Society’s Dissertation Endowment Award.

In addition, we have nominated Maeve Kane (History Department graduate student) for a place in the Newberry Consortium Summer Graduate Institute.

Congratulations!