Creighton University

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Ms. Kristin Fitzgerald  was awarded a distinguished endowment this year-the Basehart/Brolio Memorial Endowment Scholarship.  The scholarship alternates annually between archaeology and ethnology graduate students--and she was chosen by the faculty as a co-recipient along with another stellar ethnology student, Ilse Biel.   Winners were selected out of several cohorts and did not apply for the award.  The Frank J. Broilo, Harry W. and Margaret Basehart Memorial Endowment Scholarship is awarded annually by the Department of Anthropology to honor the memory of Frank J. Broilo, the first director of UNM’s Office of Contract Archaeology until his death in 1979; Professor Harry W. Basehart, professor emeritus of anthropology until his death in 1988 and editor of the Department’s Journal of Anthropological Research from 1962 to 1974 and 1981 to 1982; and his wife Margaret Basehart, who died in 1992.

Callan Driscoll was awarded for her paper "Toxic Town: A City's Struggle with Superfund" Nebraksa Undergraduate Sociology Symposium (NUSS), held at the University of Nebraska at Kearney November 5th and 6th.
Papers were judged blind by a committee of faculty from institutions around the state. Dr. Harper was her faculty mentor. Congratulations to Callan and to all of our students that participated in NUSS this year!

Laura Heinemann, MSW (Social Work and Anthropology) will receive the Henry Meyer Scholarship from the joint doctoral program in Social Work and Social Science at the University of Michigan for her paper “Transplantation, Local Moralities, and Reciprocal Webs of Care:  How Negotiated Values Can and Could Shape the Practice of Biomedicine in the U.S.” The Henry Meyer award is given annually to the student, whose paper makes an original contribution to empirical or theoretical literature in a manner that integrates social work and social science.

Toward a Theory of Engagement: Development Anthropology in a Rural River Town in Iowa, USA” in Omertaa: Journal of Applied Anthropology.  Volume 2009/1. On line:  http://omertaa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=100&Itemid=236