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UA Students Earn NSF Fellowships

José Manuel Álvarez (in photo) and Joshua Holst, both anthropology students, along with linguistics student, Kara Hawthorne, have received the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship…

With his grant, Álvarez wil examine multicrafting within households by analyzing the variability in flaked stone tools from floor and trash mound contexts at the Marana Mound site in the Tortolita Mountains. The project will contribute to the understanding of the Marana Mound site and Hohokam prehistory and shed light on the relationship between domestic and external trade activities.
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The NSF fellowship will enable Holst to conduct an ethnography on the “resource curse,” a phenomenon where countries that are exporting primary commodities face an increased risk of armed conflict. He will collaborate with the Jungle Quichua communities inhabiting the Ecuadorian-Colombian border to do a dual ethnology. During his research, he will work with decision-makers within the petroleum industry impacting the region.
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Hawthorne, a doctoral degree candidate, will conduct three research projects to study language acquisition in children between the ages of 2 and 7.

“It’s quite an honor, and it has motivated me to get an early start to my research career,” Hawthorse said. “Research in language acquisition is a crucial step in understanding normal development, so that we are better able to help those with developmental problems.”

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