SANA’s St. Clair Drake Travel Grant recognizes graduate students whose research promises to make significant contributions to Anthropology in North America and who demonstrate exceptional dedication to activist and politically-engaged scholarship. It supports these outstanding emerging scholars’ travel to present at the AAA Annual Meeting or SANA Spring Meeting.
Recipients
2025
Emma Tran, UCLA, “Girls Who Grow Up With Ghosts: A Hauntological Approach in the Study of Right-Wing Politics Among Vietnamese Americans”
Camille Samuels, UC Irvine, “Vying for Black California Gold: Black Angelenos Struggle for Ecological and Social Protection Against Los Angeles’s Most Haunted Industry”
Sydney Giacalone, Brown University, “A Rural Agrarian Reckoning: Multigenerational Farmers Seeking to Repair Soil, Agriculture, and Rural America Itself”
2023
Tannya Islas, UC Irvine, “Borderfields: Agriculture and Migrant Experiences of Climate Change Across the US and Mexico”
Madison Aubey, UCLA, “Identity and Resistance in the Material Culture of Black Mobile
2019
Melinda Gonzalez
Rebecca Richart (runner-up)
2018
Bailey Duhé
2017
Kessie Alexandre, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University “Between gray and green: Telling Times of Decay and Resilience through Urban Greening”
Brieanne Berry, Ph.D. Student, Anthropology & Environmental Policy Program, University of Maine
“They Come From Away: On the Commoditization of Maine’s Discard Markets”
Sarah Molinari, PhD Student, Anthropology Program, CUNY Graduate Center
“Contested Debt, Popular Protest, and the Question of Sovereignty During Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis”
Eva Weiss, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Temple University
“Love Triangle: Migrants, Citizens, and ICE Agents in an Era of Mass Deportation”
2016
Jessica Katzenstein, Brown University
“Militarizing the Crisis: Effects of Military Equipment on U.S. Law Enforcement”
Rebecca Hasselbeck, UC-Irvine
“Off to the Races: Migrant Lives, Work, and Legal Status in the Horse Racing Industry”
Maja de Langen, University of Amsterdam
Panel (Roundtable): “Keywords for Imaging Studies in Medicine and Life Sciences”
Allison Taylor Stuewe, University of Arizona
“Invoking the Arab Muslim Terrorist Specter on the US-Mexico Border”