Luisa Cortesi, a fourth year student in the combined PhD program in Anthropology and Forestry & Environmental Studies has now received a Junior Research Fellowship from the American Institute for Indian Studies, to support her dissertation research project entitled "Living in Floods: Knowledge(s) and Technologies of Disastrous Water in North Bihar, India." Luisa Cortesi has been in the field since April 2012, with support already received from Fulbright, the MacMillan Center, and Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies.

Aniket Aga, a third year student in sociocultural anthropology, has now received a Junior Research Fellowship from the American Institute for Indian Studies, to support his dissertation research project entitled "Genetically Modified Democracy: The Science and Politics of Transgenic Agriculture in Contemporary India." Aniket Aga expects to leave for India in December 2013 to commence his dissertation field research.

Sarah Osterhoudt, a sixth year student in the combined PhD program in Anthropology and Forestry & Environmental Studies, was awarded the annual Roy A. Rappaport Prize, by the Anthropology & Environment Section, for the best student paper in Environmental Anthropology, at the recently concluded meetings of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, November, 14 - 18, 2012. The title of her prize-winning paper was: "Clean Souls | Clear Fields: Environmental Imaginations and Christian Conversions in Madagascar." Sarah Osterhoudt also presented the paper at the Annual Rappaport Student Awards Panel during the annual meetings.