ASNM has awarded four $1,000 scholarships and one $300 for the 2010-2011 Academic year.
Matthew Griffin- $1,000.00. An undergraduate student at Eastern New Mexico University. Will attend ENMU's summer field school at Blackwater Draw Archaeological Site. Funds will also be spent on travel, interviews and film equipment to complete his Senior's Thesis/Project relative to visual archaeology in creating a 45 minute documentary film on the history of excavations at Blackwater Draw Site, the Clovis type site. Content of the film documentary will include past excavations, history of the site and interviews with people shaped its past, current research, and what's in store for Blackwater Draw Site's future
Brian Halstead- $1,000.00. A second year graduate student at New Mexico State University. Funds will enable Mr. Halstead to continue his graduate-level studies at NMSU. They will be spent solely on tuition and book costs, which is one of the core purposes for the ASNM Scholarship Program. He expects to earn an MA in Anthropology in Fall, 2011. Mr. Halstead also spends a portion of his time devoted to working with private archaeological contractors and university-sponsored fieldwork projects.
Stephanie Hawkins- $1,000.00. A second year graduate student at New Mexico State University. Funds will be used to attend NMSU's summer field school and toward her graduate internship Project relative to her specialization: Southwest Archaeology and Museum Studies. Her internship project will result in a major exhibit at the University Museum at NMSU focusing on prehistoric archaeology. Ms. Hawkins expects to earn her MA degree in Spring 2011.
Harlan McCaffery- $1,000.00. A second year graduate student at Eastern New Mexico University. Funds will be used to defray costs associated with his thesis, Turkey Talk: Stable Isotope Analysis of Fauna from Ancestral Puebloan Sites in the Middle San Juan. Mr. McCaffery will travel to San Juan College, Farmington, NM; University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; Salmon Ruin and the Tommy Site in the greater Farmington, NM region of the San Juan Basin as part of this effort. He intends to earn his MA in Anthropology and Applied Archaeology in May, 2011.
Reagyn Slocum- $300.00. A graduate student at New Mexico State University who will be conferred a MA in Anthropology in May, 2010. Funds will be used to travel to Santa Fe, NM present the nomination of Apollo 11 Tranquility Base artifacts to the Cultural Properties Review Committee of the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties. Her studies at NMSU specialized in soil micromorphology and southwest geoarchaeology. Ms. Slocum has also performed research on artifacts curated at White Sands Test Facility, Apache Point Observatory and Spaceport America. Coincident with her long-term goal of opening a Cultural Resource Management firm of her own someday, she has been accepted at NMSUÕs School of Business to seek an MBA.