Every spring the
Anthropology Department offers competitive grants to rising seniors to enable them to carry out summer research between their junior and senior years. The awards are named in honor of Dr. Nathan Altshuler, founder of our department. Past year's winners have studied primates in Africa, foodways in Manilla, and a host of other topics -- not all involving foreign travel! The two winners of this year's awards, Jacqueline Romero and Danielle Tassara, are both pursuing research in East Asia, and have each been awarded $1000. Here are their projects.