Zlolniski, Christian

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Grant Type: 
Post-Ph.D. Research Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Texas, Arlington, U. of
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
April 30, 2008
Project Title: 
Zlolniski, Dr. Christian, U. of Texas, Arlington, TX - To aid research on 'The Global Fresh-Produce Industry and the Settlement of Indigenous Workers in Baja California'

DR. CHRISTIAN ZLOLNISKI, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas, received funding in April 2008 to conduct research in the San Quintin Valley in Baja California, Mexico. His study examines how the growth of the export-oriented fresh-produce industry has affected the employment opportunities and labor migration patterns of indigenous farm laborers who come from southern Mexico. He conducted participant observation and household interviews with Mixtec, Triqui, and Zapotec workers and families.

Grant Year: 
2008
Award Amount: 
$20,185

Zhang, Li

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Grant Type: 
Post-Ph.D. Research Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
California, Davis, U. of
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
June 19, 2001
Project Title: 
Zhang, Dr. Li, U. of California, Davis, CA - To aid research on 'The Social and Spatial Consequences of Urban Housing Reform in Late Socialist China'
Grant Year: 
2001
Award Amount: 
$10,080

Zhao, Jianhua

in
Grant Type: 
Post-Ph.D. Research Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Louisville, U. of
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
April 8, 2011
Project Title: 
Zhao, Dr. Jianhua, U. of Louisville, Louisville, KY - To aid research on 'Making China's Second Generation Family Business Owners'

DR. JIANHUA ZHAO, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentuckey, was awarded funding in April 2011 to aid resaerch on 'Making China's Second Generation Family Business Owners.' This research is an ethnographic study of the processes through which second generation family business owners are constituted in China. It investigates the formation of a particular group of capitalist subjects in the political-economic context of contemporary China.

Grant Year: 
2011
Award Amount: 
$19,920

Zeder, Melinda A.

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Grant Type: 
Post-Ph.D. Research Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Smithsonian Inst., Washington, DC
Status: 
Active Grant
Approve Date: 
October 17, 2012
Project Title: 
Zeder, Dr. Melinda A., Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC - To aid research on 'First Steps Toward Animal Domestication in the Taurus/Zagros Arc'

Preliminary abstract: This collaborative interdisciplinary research project examines the transition from hunting to herding in the Taurus/Zagros Arc (TZA), a region that stretches from southeastern Turkey to western Iran. Recent archaeological and genetic research indicates that by 10,500 years ago at least three livestock species (sheep, goat, and pig) and a number of crop plants had been domesticated in the TZA.

Grant Year: 
2012
Award Amount: 
$18,814

Yan, Yunxiang

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Grant Type: 
Post-Ph.D. Research Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
California, Los Angeles, U. of
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
May 16, 2002
Project Title: 
Yan, Dr. Yunxiang, U. of California, Los Angeles, CA - To aid research on 'McDonald's in Beijing: A Local Ethnography of Cross-Cultural Consumption and Global Change'

DR. YUNXIANG YAN, of the University of California in Los Angeles, California, received funding in May 2002 to aid research on McDonald's restaurants in Beijing, China. Through an ethnographic account of the consumption of McDonald's food and associated cultural symbols, Yan examined local transformations of Americana and the sociocultural effects of global capitalism in Beijing, engaging in current anthropological debates over transnationalism and cultural globalization. Fieldwork was carried out between September 2003 and February 2004 in Beijing and Shanghai.

Grant Year: 
2002
Award Amount: 
$19,960

Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko

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Grant Type: 
Post-Ph.D. Research Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Stanford U.
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
April 27, 2006
Project Title: 
Yanagisako, Dr. Sylvia Junko, Stanford U., Stanford, CA - To aid research on 'Made in Translation: Italian Family Firms in China'

DR. SYLVIA YANAGISAKO, Stanford University, Stanford, California, was awarded a grant in April 2006 to aid research on 'Made in Translation: Italian Family Firms in China.' Ethnographic research on Italian family firms pursuing transnational business ventures in textile and clothing production in China shows that their transnational business projects are incited and shaped by kinship sentiments and commitments. Commitments to family firm continuity and intergenerational succession spur projects of transnational investment, expansion, and diversification and shape management strategies.

Grant Year: 
2006
Award Amount: 
$23,931

Wright, Lori Ellen

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Grant Type: 
Post-Ph.D. Research Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Texas A&M U.
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
May 31, 2001
Project Title: 
Wright, Dr. Lori E., Texas A & M U., College Station, TX - To aid research on 'Dietary Inequality at Tikal, Guatemala: An Isotopic Study of Child and Adult Diets'

DR. LORI E. WRIGHT, of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, was awarded a grant in May 2001 to aid research on dietary inequality at the ancient Maya city of Tikal, Guatemala. Wright tested the hypothesis that the diets of both children and adults at Tikal were more strictly partitioned among social groups during the Late Classic period than during the Early Classic period. This was accomplished through stable isotopic analysis of tooth enamel and bone samples from human skeletons. Dietary signatures were compared with mortuary indicators of social status.

Grant Year: 
2001
Award Amount: 
$19,990

Wright, Patricia C.

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Grant Type: 
Post-Ph.D. Research Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
New York, Stony Brook, State U. of
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
January 2, 2001
Project Title: 
Wright, Dr. Patricia C., State U. of New York, Stony Brook, NY - To aid research on 'The Effects of Old Age on the Behavior of Sifakas in Madagascar Rain Forests'

DR. PATRICIA C. WRIGHT, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, was awarded funding in January 2001 to aid research on 'The Effects of Old Age on the Behavior of Sifakas in Madagascar Rain Forests.' The goal of this project was to assess the effects of aging on various morphological, demographic, and behavioral aspects of the sifaka, Propithecus diadema edwardsi.

Grant Year: 
2001
Award Amount: 
$20,000

Woolard, Kathryn Ann

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Grant Type: 
Post-Ph.D. Research Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
California, San Diego, U. of
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
October 20, 2006
Project Title: 
Woolard, Dr. Kathryn Ann, U. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA - To aid 'A Longitudinal Study of Language Ideology, Policy, and Practices in Bilingual Barcelona'

DR. KATHRYN A. WOOLARD, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, received a grant in October 2006 to aid research on 'A Longitudinal Study of Language Ideology, Policy, and Practices in Bilingual Barcelona.' Language ideology and practice in Barcelona, Spain, were examined in comparison to research in 1979-80 and 1987. Sociolinguistic changes were assessed along three dimensions of the relation between Catalan and Castilian.

Grant Year: 
2006
Award Amount: 
$25,000

Willson, Margaret Elizabeth

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Grant Type: 
Post-Ph.D. Research Grant
Insitutional Affiliation: 
Washington, U. of
Status: 
Completed Grant
Approve Date: 
May 4, 2010
Project Title: 
Willson, Dr. Margaret Elizabeth, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA - To aid research on 'Turning the Tide: Gender, Seafaring, and Notions of Risk in Iceland'

DR. MARGARET E. WILLSON, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, was awarded funding in May 2010, to aid research on 'Turning the Tide: Gender, Seafaring, and Notions of Risk in Iceland.' This project explored male and female notions of risk in Iceland, particularly as related to fishing practice. One aim was to learn how these notions of risk might have contributed to Iceland's economic collapse.

Grant Year: 
2010
Award Amount: 
$19,920
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