Anthropology: Awards & Scholarships

Scholarships and Awards

The Department of Anthropology presently offers the Edwin S. Hall Jr. Scholarship and the Marjorie Helen Stewart Award

We congratulate our 2010-2011 award winners! (pictured on right)

Edwin S. Hall Jr. Scholarship Recipient: Shane Jakubec
Department Scholar:
Katherine Drake

Additional congratulations to our notable majors and minors who were recognized in other fields!

Health Science Dept. Scholar:
Meagan Diez
Foreign Languages & Literature Dept. Scholar:
Soha Salamah

2009-2010 Award Winners:
Academic Excellence Award:
Amber Barmore
Departmental Scholar: Megan Diez
Sigma XI Award for Research:
Mark Hoock
Department Service Award:
Caitlin Moore
Edwin S. Hall Jr. Anthropology Scholarship:
Sandor Vegh
College Foundation Diversity Honors Scholarship
Soha Salamah

2008-2009 Award Winners:
Dustin Conklin, past reciepient of the Marjorie H. Steward Award and Mark Hoock, past reciepient of the Edwin S. Hall Jr. Scholarship

Scholarship Descriptions

The Edwin S. Hall Jr. Scholarship

An educational expense grant of $1000, used for educational expenses at the College at Brockport and awarded to an Anthropology major who meets the following criteria: 3.4 or higher overall GPA, junior standing, minimum of 15 credit hours in Anthropology earned at Brockport, demonstrated academic excellence and potential for the application of Anthopological knowledge to chosen career. Selection is made by the departmental scholarship committee.

Edwin S. Hall Jr. received his PhD in Anthropology from Yale University. His 30+ seasons of archaeological and ethnohistorical fieldwork were conducted in northern and northwestern Alaska where he also served as a consulting archaeologist for the US Geological Survey and The North Slope Borough. He is the author of numerous articles and books, among them The Eskimo Storyteller: Folktales from Noatak Alaska (1975) and Northwest Coast Indian Graphics: An Introduction to Silkscreen Prints (1981). At Brockport he taught Introduction to Archaeology, North American Archaeology, Culture Change, The American Indian, and Native American Art. Dr. Hall chaired the Department from 1974 to 1986. An avid collector of contemporary Native American art, he retired from the college in 1992.

The Marjorie Helen Stewart Award

A $200 cash award to an outstanding graduating senior Anthropology major who is pursuing a post-graduate degree and has been accepted into a graduate program. Selection is made by the departmental scholarship committee.

Marjorie Stewart held a DPhil in Anthropology from Oxford University and conducted fieldwork in Nigeria where she investigated the pre-colonial history and socio-political organization of the Borgu Kingdom. Her publications include Borgu and Its Kingdoms: A Reconstruction of a West Sudanese Polity (1993). At Brockport Stewart taught courses on Africa, China, Anthropological Theory, Magic and Witchcraft, Gender, and Language and Culture. She served as chair of the department from 1994-1999. Dr. Stewart was also an accomplished pianist. When she died in 1999, she remembered the Department of Anthropology in her will, and we, in turn, created this award in her name to honor an outstanding senior.