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ASNM Scholarships Awarded

ASNM has awarded over $31,615 in scholarships to 54 individuals since 1995. The amounts awarded are based upon the available funds, need, and merit.
Name Year School Level Amount Project, Thesis, etc.
Nader Ayadi 2011 NMSU Graduate $ 500. Digitalization in Historic Preservation: Historic Preservation Laws.
Brian Halstead
2nd Award
2011 NMSU Graduate $ 500. Analysis of Projectile Points from Late Prehistoric Sites in the Canada Alamosa Region of Southern New Mexico
Fine 2011 NMSU Undergrad $ 500. Las Cuevas Cave Project
Joshua Foster 2011 NMSU Graduate $ 500. The Performance Characteristic Analysis of Mortar Holes at Kipp Ruin, New Mexico.
Jason Nevins 2011 NMHU Undergrad $ 500. Human Remains from the Cimarron District.
Stephanie Nutter 2011 ENMU Graduate $ 500. Thesis: Alignments Between Southwestern Archaeological Sites
Clayton Pilbro 2011 UNM Undergrad $ 500. Comparison of Early Eocene San Juan Basin, NM Phenacolemur jepseni with Phenacolemur citatus and Phenacoluemur praecox from Bighorn Basin WY Ð A Study of the Variation and Validity of these Phenacolemur Species.
Aaron Roth 2011 NMHU Graduate $ 500. Evaluate a Possible Pattern of Pathologies Based upon Ancestry and Gender: The Story of Urraca Man
Matthew Griffin 2010 ENMU Undergrad $1,000. Senior's Thesis/Project relative to visual archaeology in creating a 45 minute documentary film on the history of excavations at Blackwater Draw Site.
Brian Halstead 2010 NMSU Graduate $1,000. Continue graduate-level studies, tuition and books.
Stephanie Hawkins 2010 NMSU Graduate $1,000 NMSU's summer field school and graduate internship Project relative to her specialization: Southwest Archaeology and Museum Studies
Harlan McCaffery 2010 ENMU Graduate $1,000. Thesis: Turkey Talk: Stable Isotope Analysis of Fauna from Ancestral Puebloan Sites in the Middle San Juan.
Reagyn Slocum 2010 NMSU Graduate $300. 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.
Sarah L. Smith 2009 NMSU Graduate $1,000. Repatriation Debacle? The Deaccessioning of the Santa Fe Civic Center Artifacts
Francisco Ochoa 2009 UNM Undergrad $1,000. An Interpretive Study of Historic Petroglyphs in the Rio Grande
Christina Butcher,
2nd year
2009 NMSU Undergrad $1,000. Champagne/Aishihik First Nation's Elders
Christina Butcher 2008 NMSU Undergrad $500. Oral History of Southern Tutchone First Nation's Elders
Mathew Nelson 2008 UNM Graduate $500. Navajo Area Indian Health Service: Balancing Wellness and Tradition
Roger Gerke 2007 NMSU Graduate $500. Lunar Preservation: Space Heritage and U. S. and International Historic Preservation Law
Lewis Borck 2007 UNM Undergrad $500. The Distribution of Chuska Chert and Zuni Spotted Chert Between the East and West Mounds at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Nancy Komulainen,
2nd year
2006 NMSU Graduate $500. Thesis: The Important, Yet Elusive, Role of Maya Sacboeb - to finance thesis work in Belize
Ana O. Lujan 2006 NMSU Graduate $500. Thesis: Mortui Vivo Docent: Racial Identification of Asian and Native American Populations - needs equipment to take measurements for study of skeletal material at various institutions
Matthew J. Hoskins 2006 NMSU Graduate $500. Financial need
Kathryn M. Smith 2005 ENMU Undergrad $500. Field school
Nancy Komulainen 2005 NMSU Graduate $500. Field school: Classic Maya Archaeology: Monumental Architecture - An Investigation of Classic Maya Temples at Yalbac
Monica L. Enke 2005 ENMU Graduate $500. MA thesis: Cattails and Ostracodes: Prehistoric Water Management in the Chupadera Arroyo Basin, Central New Mexico
Shannon Gray Andersen 2005 NMSU Graduate $500. Tuition and MA thesis: The Vinton Oral History Project: Memories of the Camino Real and La Salinera Paraje
Lauricia K. Smith 2004 ENMU Undergrad $500. Extreme financial need
James B. Smith,
3rd year
2004 ENMU Graduate $500. MA travel: Ceramic Analysis from Mesa Portales
Jesse Murrell,
2nd year
2004 ENMU Graduate $250. School Expenses. MA Project: Evolution of Rio Puerco Valley Ground Stone Technology
Robin E. Mains,
2nd year
2004 NMHU Graduate $250. MA: Characterization of Human Remains from Tecolote Pueblo (LA 296) with Comparison to Coeval Regional Populations
Stacy K. Galassini,
3rd year
2004 ENMU graduate $500. MA Thesis: Prehistoric Water Management using Geographic Information Systems Application
James B. Smith,
2nd year
2003 ENMU Graduate $500. Financial need: Tuition for ARI course. Thesis subject: Building a Ceramic Sequence for Mesa Portales.
Jesse Murrell 2003 ENMU Masters $500. Financial Need: Thesis - An Evaluation of Reuse at Salmon Ruin
Robin E. Mains 2003 NMHU Masters $500. Research: Characterization of Human Skeletal Remains from Tecolote Pueblo (LA 296), Northeastern New Mexico with Comparison to Coeval Regional Populations
Stacy K. Galassini,
2nd year
2003 ENMU Masters $500. Financial Need - Tuition and books for spring semester.
James B. Smith 2002 ENMU Undergrad $300. Financial Need - Graduate school expenses
Courtney Porreca 2002 UNM Undergrad $300. New Clay Sources for Cochiti Pueblo's Traditional Potters
Stacy Kay Galassini 2002 ENMU Masters $400. Financial need - field school or fall tuition
Margaret Drew 2002 UNM Undergrad $400. Financial need - funding for two months excavation in Casas Grandes
David Lawrence Brown 2002 NMSU Masters $200. Joyce Well Ceramic Assemblage: Redating Southwest Prehistoric Ceramic Chronology
Kristin M. Koshgarin 2001 UNM Undergrad $300. Financial need - to help finance summer field school
Kenneth "Woody" Duncan 2001 NMHU Masters $300. Thesis support: Study of Design Element Patterns associated with Petroglyph Faces Bisected by Rock Angles at La Cieneguilla, NM
Jeffrey Hokanson 2001 NMSU Masters $500. Thesis support: Identification of early pithouse villages in Hidalgo County, NM
Therese L. Hardesty 2001 NMHU Masters $500. Thesis support: A Comparative Petrographic Analysis of Santa Fe Black-on-white Sherds and Local Soils at Tecolate Pueblo (LA 296)
Renée M. Gokey 2000 UNM Undergrad $500. Basic financial need
Jeremy Moss 2000 UNM Undergrad $500. Senior Honors Project: Wear Patterns on Unretouched Lithic Flake Tools
Jason Meininger 2000 ENMU Undergrad $500. Basic financial need
Peter G. Condon 2000 ENMU Masters $385. Technical Analysis of Two Clovis Blade Caches from Blackwater Locality No. 1
Andrea Lynn Field 1999 ENMU Masters $500. Thesis: Portales Springs (LA 89599): A Site Interpretation and Testing a Model
Lara Jackson 1999 NMSU Undergrad $500. Independent analytical study of faunal material from the late 19th century Oliver Lee Ranch in southern New Mexico.
Teresa E. Cabebe 1999 NMHU Masters $500. Site Report: Tecolote Pueblo (LA 296). Complete first synthesis of all archaeological data available on site.
Julie Rosalind Angel 1999 UNM Undergrad $500. To purchase photographic equipment for field school and lab work.
Lara Rooke 1998 ENMU Masters $400. General financial needs to research land use patterns in the Rio Puerco Valley — Early Pueblo Phase
Vincent Lipinski 1998 NMHU Masters $400. Central New Mexican Cemeteries: An Indicator of Cultural Change and Diffusion, 1860-1920. Field expenses
Patricia Gibson 1998 UNM Undergrad $500. Honors Thesis: Air Photo Interpretation/Analysis of Paquimé Region — Patterns Integrated with Greater Southwest. Field expenses
Douglas Anderson 1997 ENMU Masters $400. X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Narbona Pass Chert
Lisa Tyrone 1997 NMSU Undergrad $300. General financial need
Silvia Marinas-Feliner 1997 NMSU Masters $500. Summer field work at Paquimé — Construction Complexities and Societal Interrelation with Greater Southwest
Prmysl Mácha 1996 EMNU Undergrad $500. General financial need
Nelda Creager 1996 UNM Undergrad $230. Preparation of 20 thin sections of petrographic samples
Jonathon Carofina 1995 NMHU Masters $500. Petrographic analysis of ceramics at Tecolate, NM, Pueblo site, ca. A.D. 1000



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