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Month: April 2021

Dr. Aaron Broadwell’s collaborative project ‘Ticha’ wins award for best digital humanities blog in 2020

Ticha, a digital text explorer for Colonial Valley Zapotec, won an award for best digital humanities blog in 2020.  Dr. George Aaron Broadwell is one of the founders of Ticha, which is a collaborative project between linguists, historians, and Zapotec people to make historical texts in indigenous languages accessible to communities. For more about the award see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2020/results/. Congrats, Dr. Broadwell!

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Ph.D. Student Isis Dwyer awarded Ford Foundation Fellowship

Ph.D. Student Isis Dwyer was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship to support her studies of cranial variation, forensic ancestry estimation, & self identity in the Afro-Caribbean. Ford Fellowship Awards provide three years of support and are made to individuals who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Congratulations, Isis!

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