Professor Oswald Werner, Faculty Member, 1963-1998

Professor Oswald Werner,
Faculty Member, 1963-1998

2007 Award winners

Chris Hetrick, Emily Haak,

and Dominique Heinke

Dominique Heinke winner of the 2007 Oswald Werner Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis in Anthropology with

Prof. Kuzawa

Chris Hetrick winner of the 2007 Oswald Werner Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis in Anthropology with

Prof. Robin

Emily Haak winner of the 2007 Friends of Anthropology (FAN) Distinguished Honors Thesis in Public Anthropology with Prof. Leonard

Grants / Awards

Oswald Werner Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis in Anthropology

All anthropology seniors who are working on an honors thesis are eligible for the Oswald Werner Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis in Anthropology. This prize was established in 1998 to honor the many research, teaching, fieldwork training and administrative contributions of Professor Oswald Werner, faculty member for 35 years in the Department of Anthropology. Professor Werner was Chair from 1978-1983 and 1987-1989, Founder and Director of the Northwestern University Ethnographic Field School, and an ardent supporter of undergraduate research.

The winners of the 2007 Oswald Werner Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis in Anthropology are:

Dominique Heinke

"An Independent Effect of Maternal Illness during Pregnancy on Birth Weight"

Christopher Hetrick

"No Tortillas in the Temple: Ritual and Domestic Space in an Ancient Maya Village"

Some of the previous winners of the Oswald Werner Prize:

Kimberly Marshall Bohannon (2001)
"'Not as Strong Like the Navajo Are': The Role of Music in the Creation of a Navajo Christian Identity."

Gretchen Fox (2000)
" 'Just like everybody else'-Normalizing Difference and Performing Identity: Second-Generation Cambodian Youth in a Heterogeneous Chicago Neighborhood."

Santiago Juarez (2003)
"The Terraces of Chan: Ancient Maya Villagers and Agriculture"

Kyle Belle Lamb (2003)

"Original, Authentic and Uniquely Japanese: Understanding the Consumption of Imported Secondhand and English Language Clothing in Japan"

Daniel Nolan (1999)
"The Genetic Structure of a Yanomamo Village."

Nancy Randall (2002)
"Becoming Black: Racial Consciousness and Higher Education in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil"

Alexi Smith (2002)
"Imperial Ideology and the Inka Occupation of Tiwanaku"

Recent grants and awards won by undergraduates in the department:

Jamie Clark (2002, minor)---Jacob Javits Fellowship, NSF Graduate Research
Fellowship

Anya Drabkin (2004)---Herskovits Undergraduate Research Award

Brian Dema (2003)---Undergraduate Research Grant for research in Belize

Maureen Farrell (2003)---Krieghbaum Scholar, FAN Undergraduate Research Award, NU Summer Research Grant for research in Uganda

Megan Keefe (2003)---FAN Undergraduate Research Grant-Ethnographic Field School

Kyle Lamb (2003)---NU Summer Research Grant for research in Japan

Steve Mayne (2003)---Field Museum Summer Internship-research in Chicago

Nancy Randall (2002)---Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship for post-baccalaureate study in Venezuela, Undergraduate Research Grant for research in Brazil

Sarah Salomon (2003)---James Dunn Fellowship for work in Illinois State government

Anya Yakhedts (2003)---NU Summer Research Grant for research in Chile, FAN Undergraduate Research Grant, NSEP-David L. Boren Scholarship