Grants and Awards


Educational Leave
I have been granted an Educational Leave from teaching for the fall semester of 2009 by Douglas College.

Grants
Student Research Allocations Committee (SRAC)
Travel Grant ($350; $500)
UNM Graduate and Professional Student Association, 2003; 2004

Melville Jacobs Fund, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington
Research Grant ($900)
Project Title: “Tahltan Fishing Language and Stories: Relationships Between Humans and Fish at Iskut, B.C., Canada,” 2002-2003

Endangered Languages Fund, Yale University Department of Linguistics
Language Research Grant ($2800)
Project Title: “Talking to the Animals: Tahltan-language Animal Stories and Forms of Address,” 2002-2003

Research, Projects, and Travel Grant ($800)
Office of Graduate Studies
University of New Mexico, 2002

Awards and Fellowships
Basehart-Broilo Award ($600)
Department of Anthropology
University of New Mexico, 2000-2001; 2005-2006

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Graduate Fellowship ($17,700), 2001-2003

Basehart-Broilo Award ($600)
Department of Anthropology
University of New Mexico, 2000-2001

Binford Fellowship (approx. value, $10,000)
1st Year Graduate Fellowship (incl. teaching assist’ship and tuition waiver)
Department of Anthropology
University of New Mexico, 1999-2000

Note: All monetary figures in Canadian dollars.