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Uwacu, D. (2026) Selected as a member of this inaugural cohort of 25 National Science Foundation (NSF) National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Resource (NAIRR) AI Education Fellows.


Awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, on April 26, 2007. The German government recognized Van Handle for her achievements in promoting German language and culture in the United States.


Watson, M. C. and Cornfeld, L. (2023). Donna Haraway. In J. L. Jackson (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies in anthropology.


Watson, M. C. (2023). Funding values in highland Chiapas: How Harvard anthropology naturalized the Mexican state. In F. Armstrong-Fumero and B. W. Fallaw (Eds.), The transnational construction of Mayanness: Reading modern Mesoamerica through U.S. archives (pp. 99-124). Denver: University Press of Colorado.


Watson, M. C. (in press). Rearview mirrors: Harvard Land-Rover interviews and the ethnographic drive in midcentury Chiapas. Anthropology & Humanism.


Watson, M. C. (2020). Afterlives of affect: Science, religion, and an edgewalker's spirit. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


Was a William S. Willis Jr. Fellow of the American Philosophical Society in March 2023.


Edward Elling Berg *, Darrell S Kaufman, R Scott Anderson, Gregory C Wiles, Thomas V Lowell, Edaward A. D. Mitchell, Feng Sheng Hu, Alan Werner, (in press), Late-Glacial and Holocene lake level fluctuations on the Kenai Lowland, reconstructed from satellite-fen peat deposits and ice-shoved ramparts, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Quaternary, 5(23). https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/5/2/23


Tuttle, S.E.; Roof, S.R.; Retelle, M.J.; Werner, A.; Gunn, G.E.; Bunting, E.L. (2022) Evaluation of Satellite-Derived Estimates of Lake Ice Cover Timing on Linnévatnet, Kapp Linné, Svalbard Using In-Situ Data. Remote Sensing, 14, 1311.