DR. LYNN RAINVILLE, of Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, Virginia, was awarded a Richard Carley Hunt Fellowship in June 2003 to aid research and writing on domestic activities in ancient Mesopotamian households and neighborhoods. Taking a microarchaeological approach, Rainville collected microdebris and soil samples from neo-Assyrian contexts at Ziyaret Tepe, a major Bronze Age city on the Tigris River occupied from at least the early third millennium B.C.E. and a provincial capital of the Assyrian Empire between circa 800 and 600 B.C.E.

Preliminary Abstract:
Culturing Urban Ecology: Nature and Political Transformation on an Urban Riverscape is an ethnography of political and environmental change in Nepal’s capital city. Its focus is the degraded urban reaches of the Bagmati and Bishnumati Rivers, which converge in the heart of Kathmandu. In recent years, anxiety over declining river conditions has punctuated broader debates about Nepal’s urban future.

DR. DAVID ALLAN RAICHLEN, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship in April 2010, to aid research and writing on 'Linking Brains and Brawn: Neurobiological Rewards, Cognition, and the Evolution of Endurance Running in Humans.' This two-part project explores the evolutionary connection between the mind and body, and develops a novel hypothesis that selection acting to improve endurance exercise performance in humans had a significant impact on human neurobiology.

DR. ISTVAN PRAET, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, was awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship in October 2008 to aid research and writing on 'Metamorphosis Among So-Called Indigenous Peoples: An Investigation into 'Animistic' Notions of Life and Death.' The first draft of a monograph, entitled 'Anthropology and the Question of Life.' was completed during the Fellowship and the resulting book proposal is currently under review with Cambridge University Press. The monograph focuses on a phenomenon that is normally considered to be the exclusive domain of natural science: life.

DR. BEN A. POTTER, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, received a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship to aid research and writing on 'Site Structure and Organization in Central Alaska: Archaeological Investigations at Gerstle River.' This work involved substantial modifications of a PhD dissertation as well as additional research on the topics of hunter-gatherer subsistence patterns in the Subarctic. Work on the manuscript went smoothly, and the final work was completed in May 2008.

DR. ADRIANA PETRYNA, The New School University, New York, New York, recieved a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship in April 2006 to aid research and writing on 'Pharmaceutical Testing and Evidence Making: An Ethnography of the Globalized Clinical Trial.' Accelerated therapeutic innovation and massive pharmaceutical sales are driving an unprecedented worldwide search for human test subjects. When Experiments Travel:Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects (Princeton University Press, in press) takes the reader deep into the clinical research enterprise.

Preliminary abstract: The culmination of this project is an ethnography of Ban Khor, a rural Thai village. The community is unremarkable in most ways, save one. In response to widespread hereditary deafness, residents created a sign language that arose less than 100 years ago, spread in use throughout the community, and plays a critical role in socio-communicatively managing deafness. 'Indigenous' or 'village' sign languages, like Ban Khor Sign Language (BKSL), are rare.

DR. MWENDA NTARANGQUI, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, received a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship in October 2006 to aid research and writing on 'Reversed Gaze: An African Encounters America through Anthropology.' This project fits within an emerging response to a reflexive crisis in Western anthropology that has led to ethnographies revealing the subjectivity, struggles, and faults of the fieldwork process. The project also follows the growing number of Western anthropologists doing research at home and in 'non-exotic' locations.

NICHOLAS E. NEWTON-FISHER, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, was awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship in August 1995 to support the analysis and writing on 'Sexual Coercion in Chimpanzees: Reproductive and Behavioural Strategies,' based upon research undertaken in the Budongo forest, Uganda. Violence by male chimpanzees towards females has been presented as a good model for understanding the evolutionary function of similar aggression in humans, as sexual coercion.

DR. ESMAIL NASHIF, Birzeit U., Birzeit, Palestine, was awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship in June 2005 to aid research and writing on 'Identity, Community, and Text: The Production of Meaning among Palestinian Political Prisoners.' From the time of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, until 1993, almost a quarter of the Palestinian society in these regions was imprisoned by the Israeli authorities on political grounds.