New Orleans
New Orleans
New Orleans
New Orleans
Tell Edfu, Egypt
Cyprus
Surezha, Iraqi Kurdistan
fieldwork projects
New Orleans
Tell Edfu, Egypt
Cyprus
Surezha, Iraqi Kurdistan
fieldwork projects
New Orleans
Cyprus
New Orleans
Cyprus Project
Cyprus Project
Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus
Dian Lake Region, China

honors / awards

Haeden Stewart
Haeden Stewart (Anthropology) was awarded the 2020 Lichtstern Dissertation Prize for his outstanding PhD dissertation, entitled In the Shadow of Industry: The Lively Decay of Mill Creek Ravine.
Graduate student Sarah Kautz (Anthropology) has won the 2019 New York State Historic Preservation Award for her advocacy work for the Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest & Ninevah (SANS). Sarah is currently the Preservation Director of Preservation Long Island.

Henry Bacha
Henry Bacha (Anthropology) was awarded the 2019 Dahlberg BA Essay Prize for his Honors Paper entitled "Resistance Through Re-Articulation: The Extirpation of Idolatries Campaigns and the Rise of the Cult of the Saints in Cusco, Peru."

Richard Neer
Richard Neer was named the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College in 2018. Beginning in 2019, he will also become the new Director of the Franke Institute of the Humanities.
François Richard has been named a Faculty Fellow of the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR) at the University of Chicago for 2018-19, to pursue a project on "Politics of the Past & Material Expressions of Frenchness in the Municipio of San Rafael, Veracruz, Mexico."
Nadine Moeller was awarded a 2018 Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Claudia Brittenham
Claudia Brittenham has received an NEH Fellowship in 2018 to finish her book Unseen Art: Memory, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica.

Cécile Fromont
Cécile Fromont's book The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo was awarded the 2017 Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award from the Arts Council of the African Studies Association.

Jas' Elsner
Jas' Elsner was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017.
Alain Bresson's book, The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy: Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States (Princeton, 2016), won the American Historical Association's James Henry Breasted Prize for 2017.

Ellen Platts
In 2015, Ellen Platts (Anthropology) was awarded the Dahlberg BA Essay Prize for her BA Honors Paper “Ritual Lived Daily: Monumental and Pastoral Landscape Relationships in Bronze Age Central Mongolia”

Matthew Knisley
In 2015, Matthew Knisley (Anthropology) was awarded the Society of Africanist Archaeologists Graduate Student Paper Prize for his paper: “Disciplinary Déjà Vu: Semiotic Ideologies of Primitivity and the Case of East African ‘Hunter-Gatherers.”

Jason Ramsey
In 2015, Jason Ramsey was awarded the Daniel F. Nugent Dissertation Prize for Historical Anthropology for Spaces of Possession: Negotiating 'Ruin' at the Mexican Periphery.
Cécile Fromont's book, The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo, was awarded the following prizes:
2015 Award for Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion;
2015 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize, Journal of Africana Religions;
Finalist, 2015 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association.

Alain Bresson
In 2014, Alain Bresson was named to the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professorship, University of Chicago.

Richard Neer
In 2013, Richard Neer was named the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago.

Rebecca Graff
in 2013, Rebecca Graff (Anthropology) was awarded the Society for Historical Archaeology's Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Prize for The Vanishing City: Time, Tourism, and the Archaeology of Event at Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.

Wu Hung
Wu Hung's book Art of the Yellow Springs was selected for the 2012 National Cultural Heritage Award, One of the Ten Best Books on Art and Archaeology.

Alan Kolata
In 2012, Alan Kolata was named the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor.

Wu Hung
In 2012, Wu Hung was elected as a Member of the American Philosophical Society.
In 2011, Alexandra Hartnett (Anthropology) was awarded the Daniel F. Nugent Dissertation Prize for Historical Anthropology for Legitimation and Dissent: Colonialism, Consumption, and the Search for Distinction in Galway, Ireland, ca 1250-1700.
Shannon Dawdy was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010.

Jonathan Hall
In 2009 Jonathan Hall was awarded the University of Chicago's Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
He was also named the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities.

Wu Hung
In 2008, Wu Hung received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Art Association.

Michael Dietler
Michael Dietler was named the 2007-08 Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California.

Wu Hung
Wu Hung received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching at the University of Chicago in 2007.

Jonathan Hall
Jonathan Hall's book Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture (Chicago, 2002), was awarded the 2004 Gordon J. Laing Award from the University of Chicago Press.

Michael Dietler
Michael Dietler was named the 2002-03 Weatherhead Foundation Resident Scholar at the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Jonathan Hall
Jonathan Hall's book Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge, 1997) was awarded the1999 Charles J. Goodwin Award for Merit from the American Philological Association.