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Recipients	Department	Type of Grant	Description
Gretel Rodriguez	HIAA	Conference/Workshop/Event	Architectural Sculpture in the Ancient World: A Cross-cultural View
Margaret Graves & Felipe Rojas	HIAA and E&A / JIAAW	Conference/Workshop/Event	Fabricating Material Histories: From Artifact to Asset (c. 1870-1940)
Maggie Danaher & Sonja Hansen	Classics	Conference/Workshop/Event	Ancient Language Pedagogy Workshop Series for Graduate Students
Mikail Berg	Religious Studies	Conference/Workshop/Event	The Brown Late Antique Group (BLAG)

Recipients	Department	Type of Grant	Description
Amy Russell	Classics & History	Conference/Workshop/Event	Ethics, Exploitation, and Epistemic Reparations around the Classical Archive
Maggie Danaher & Sonja Hansen	Classics	Conference/Workshop/Event	Ancient Language Pedagogy Workshop Series for Graduate Students

Recipients	Department	Type of Grant	Description
Graham Oliver & Candace Rice	Classics and JIAAW	Conference/Workshop/Event	Social class, local economies, and Imperial rule in Anatolia: epigraphical insights
Ella Grunberger-Kirsh	Classics	Conference/Workshop/Event	BLAG (Brown Late Antique Group)
Rachel Kalisher	JIAAW	Conference/Workshop/Event	Bioarchaeology reading group and speaker series

Recipients	Department	Type of Grant	Description
Amanda Gaggioli and R. Sandy Hunter	JIAAW/IBES	Conference/Workshop/Event	Environmental Archaeology in the Anthropocene: a series of speaker events
Cicek Beeby	JIAAW	Conference/Workshop/Event	Disability in Antiquity: A Roundtable
Felipe Rojas	JIAAW, Egyptology & Assyriology	Conference/Workshop/Event	Topographies of pre-Modern Dance- Comparative Perspectives: an International Workshop

Recipients	Department	Type of Grant	Description
Jeffrey Moser	History of Art and Architecture	Conference/Workshop/Event	Epigraphic Inscription in Tang-Song China
Felipe Rojas and Stephen Houston	JIAAW, Egyptology & Assyriology and History of Art and Architecture	Conference/Workshop/Event	Guided Inventions
Felipe Rojas and Stephen Houston	JIAAW, Egyptology & Assyriology and History of Art and Architecture	Course	ARCH 2117/HMAN2401V: Marking Meaning: Visual Signs, Language, and Graphic Invention (Spring 2024)

Type of Grant	Description
Conference/Workshop/Event	"Violence in Early Cultures: Questions, Comparisons, and Ethical Considerations"
Conference/Workshop/Event	"At the Margins: Interconnections of Power and Identity in the Ancient Near East"
Conference/Workshop/Event	The New England Medieval Conference 2019, "Rethinking the Body: Humanity and Its Discontents in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages"
Conference/Workshop/Event	Northeast Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Conference/Workshop/Event	Artist Talk by Michael Rakowitz
Conference/Workshop/Event	A discussion on comparison with Joanne Pillsbury and James Doyle
Conference/Workshop/Event	Awarded to Christopher Yang (Religious Studies) to support Religious Studies Graduate Students' Conference on Death
Conference/Workshop/Event	Awarded to Ella Grunberger-Kirsh (Classics) To create a Brown Late Antique Group focusing on the late and post-classical period in the larger Mediterranean world

Type of Grant	Description
Conference/Workshop/Event	A lecture by Professor Daniel Selden (UC Santa Cruz), "World Literature and its Discontents: The Life of Ahiqar"
Conference/Workshop/Event	A seminar with Professor Renaud Gagné (University of Cambridge) on the topic "The Practice of Comparison in the Study of the Ancient World"
Conference/Workshop/Event	The Mediterranean Seminar Spring 2019 Workshop: Captivity and Ransom
Conference/Workshop/Event	The Eighth North American Syriac Symposium, "Syriac Worlds: Interactions, Exchanges, Contributions"

Type of Grant	Description
Conference/Workshop/Event	Prof. Houston ANTH course museum trip
Conference/Workshop/Event	The Brown Classical Journal
Conference/Workshop/Event	A publication edited by John Bodel and Steve Houston on "Hidden Writing" and "Making a Mark"
Conference/Workshop/Event	Sophocles study day (Trachiniae Study Day)
Conference/Workshop/Event	The reenactment of an ancient Egyptian battle
Conference/Workshop/Event	JIAAW Islands conference
Conference/Workshop/Event	Andreas Stauder dinner
Conference/Workshop/Event	Graduate student summer grants
Conference/Workshop/Event	Egyptology and Assyriology workshop on Afro-Asiatic languages

Top-Up Grants for Graduate Student & Postdocs

Recipients	Department	Type of Grant	Description
Matthew Ballance	Anthropology	Top-up Grant	Research / fieldwork travel to Boliva related to project titled, "Infrastructures of Mobility: Caravans in the Southern Andes over the Longue Durée"
Erynn Bentley	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Dissertation research travel to France focused on the socio-economics of bone working in the Roman northwest
Alyssa Bolster	Anthropology	Top-up Grant	Conference travel to the European Association for Archaeologists Conference, Rome
Joseph Carrino	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Research travel to Falerii Novi Archaeological Project, in Central Italy
Liza Davis	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Dissertation-related research travel to Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project (ACARP) in Gazipaşa, Türkiy
Jada Ko	IBES	Top-up Grant	Research travel to China related to project titled, "The Untold Tales of Turtles in Ancient China"
Zhujun Ma	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	Research travel to China to visit rare collections in Beijing and Shanghai libraries
Ambra Marzocchi	Classics & Cogut	Top-up Grant	Course on pre-Columbian Mesoamerican languages at Princeton
Max Meyer	HIAA	Top-up Grant	Research travel to the Carolina Project in Pompeii, Italy
Mina Nikolovieni	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Research travel to Greece related to project titled, "Fashioning Neolithic Aegean: Cloth Production and Ideas on the Body and Dress”
Max Peers	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Dissertation-related research travel to Sicily and Sardinia, and to attend the European Association of Archaeologists
Jonathan Price	E&A	Top-up Grant	Dissertation-related research travel to the British Museum, “Historical Memory and the Uses of the Past in the Neo-Assyrian Empire”
Daiana Rivas-Tello	Anthropology	Top-up Grant	Summer course in ceramic petrography at the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (CMRAE) at MIT
Rafa Saade	E&A	Top-up Grant	Conference travel to present at the ARCE Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh

Recipients	Department	Type of Grant	Description
Josiah Bisbee	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	The 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
Max Peers	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Stone carving workshop
Harper Dine	Anthropology	Top-up Grant	Classic Maya Botanical Foodscapes at Yaxuna and Joya, Yucatán, Mexico
Leah Neiman	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) Excavations at Giza
Jonathan Price	Egyptology & Assyriology	Top-up Grant	Historical Memory and the Uses of the Past in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
R. Sandy Hunter	IBES	Top-up Grant	Five Centuries of Terrace Construction and Use at Ollantaytambo, Peru

Recipients	Department	Type of Grant	Description
Alyssa Bolster	Anthropology	Top-up Grant	Health, Violence, and Resilience: The Bioarchaeology of Late Horizon and Early Colonial Peru
Christopher Yang	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy (Academia Sinica)
Daiana Rivas-Tello	Anthropology	Top-up Grant	Craft Production, Community Identity, and Collective Memory in Huancas, Peru
Itamar Levin	Classics, History	Top-up Grant	The Return of the Living-Dead: Erroneous Declarations of Death in Absentia in Ancient Greece and Jewish Law
Joseph Carrino	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Upper Sabina Tiberina Project; Progetto S’Urachi; Sinis Archaeological Project
Leah Neiman	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	American Excavations Samothrace (AES) 2023 Field Season
Liza Davis	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Fieldwork and dissertation research in Greece and Turkey
Max Peers	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Dissertation Research/Excavation in Italy for Summer 2023
Mina Nikolovieni	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Linear B Course
Noah Tetenbaum	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	The Sacrificial Cult in Medieval Karaite Jewish Thought
Qizhen Xie	History, Classics	Top-up Grant	Land Institutions and Epigraphic Sources
Yanxiang Li	Philosophy	Top-up Grant	CUNY Intensive Summer Program in Greek
Zhujun Ma	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	Extended Textual Communities (From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions)
Amanda Gaggioli	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Geoarchaeology of Aegean (Greece) Burial and Ritual
R. Sandy Hunter	IBES	Top-up Grant	Ollantaytambo Before the Inka: Evaluating Agricultural Intensification in the Andean Past

Recipients	Department	Type of Grant	Description
Josiah Bisbee	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	Support to deliver two papers at the Society for Biblical Literature annual conference
Leah Neiman	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Support to participate in the Uronarti Regional Archaeological Project
Liza Davis	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Support to participate in the Uronarti Regional Archaeological Project
Zhujun Ma	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	Support to deliver a paper at the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society annual conference
R. Sandy Hunter	IBES	Top-up Grant	Purchased software to help with research on Visualizing Ollantaytambo's Fields

Recipients	Department	Type of Grant	Description
Rafa Saad	Egyptology and Assyriology	Top-up Grant	Support to attend special Harvard course on Ancient Egypt and the Hebrew Bible.
Stephanie Wong	History	Top-up Grant	Support for attending historical weaving course at the Chicago Weaving School.
Morgan Clark	Anthropology	Top-up Grant	Purchased photogrammetry equipment for photographing classical Maya vases.
Paul Aste and Isabella Grunberger-Kirsh	Classics and History	Top-up Grant	Support for the Brown Late Antiquity Group.
Max Peers	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Support for dissertation research in Italy and Sicily.
Sherry Pan	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	Support dissertation research and writing in winter 2022.
Daiana Rivas-Tello	Anthropology	Top-up Grant	Support for research trip to Huancas, Peru.
Josiah Bisbee	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	Support to deliver paper at the Society for Biblical Literature annual conference.
Soyoung You	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	Support to deliver paper at the Korean Studies Festival Conference.
Tanner Walker	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	Support to deliver paper at the Society for Biblical Literature annual conference.
Sarah Mohr	Egyptology and Assyriology	Top-up Grant	Support for indexing and copyediting the volume of conference papers from At the Margins: Interconnections of Power and Identity in the Ancient Near East.

Recipients	Department	Type of Grant	Description
Christopher Yang	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	Purchased texts for preliminary exams
Kuan-hung Liu	History of Art and Architecture	Top-up Grant	Purchased Japanese books and references for dissertation research.
Michaela Leah Prostak	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	Purchased books for current research and preliminary exams.
Sarah Christensen	History	Top-up Grant	Purchased books for preliminary exams.
Bethany Whitlock	Anthropology	Top-up Grant	Paid for oral/written Spanish classes
Mikhail Berg	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	Participated in intermediate Syriac language study through Beth Mardutho: the Syriac Studies Institute.
Rachel Kalisher	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	Purchased camera equipment for high-quality photos of research samples.
Isabel Far as Velasco	Comparative Literature	Top-up Grant	Attended intensive Nahuatl language course taught by the University of Utah (Language and Culture Program) and the Instituto de Docencia e Investigaci n Entol gica de Zacatecas (IDIEZ).
Joshua Schnell	Anthropology	Top-up Grant	Travel assistance for data collection during the month of August at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL.
Paul Aste	History	Top-up Grant	Attended the June 2021 Mediterranean Seminar summer course, "Introduction to the Archive of the Crown of Aragon (documents in Latin to ca. 1350)."
Sarah Mohr	Egyptology and Assyriology	Top-up Grant	Paid for the images of cuneiform tablets from the British Museum.

Recipients	Department/ Concentration	Type of Grant	Description
Mina Nikolovieni	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	To document a large pottery assemblage, stored in the Archaeological Museum of Marathon
Federico Zangani	Egyptology and Assyriology	Top-up Grant	To present doctoral research at the International Congress of Egyptologists in Cairo, Egypt
Josiah S. Bisbee	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	To present a paper at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting in San Diego, California
Oliver Coulson	History of Art and Architecture	Top-up Grant	To travel to the UK over the winter break to research early Saxon depictions of angels in situ at the cathedrals of Lichfield and Durham
Robert Kashow	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	To attend and participate in the American Schools of Oriental Research and Society of Biblical Literature conferences in San Diego, CA

Recipients	Department/ Concentration	Type of Grant	Description
Baoli Yang	Comparative Literature	Top-up Grant	To carry out a summer project participating in two programs on the cultural history of the Silk Road in the Chinese medieval period.
Daiana Rivas-Tello	Anthropology	Top-up Grant	To conduct typological and compositional analysis on late Prehispanic and Early Colonial period ceramics from Purun Llaqta del Maino, to examine how resettlement of indigenous potters impacted craft production.
Harper Dine	Anthropology	Top-up Grant	To investigate the agriculture and foodways within the ancient Maya kingdom of Piedras Negras.
Julia Hurley	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	To study changing culinary traditions in the transformation of Iron Age Gaulish societies in North and Central France, following the Roman conquests.
Laurel Darcy Hackley	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	To investigate the desert landscapes of ancient Egypt as social spaces, counter to a long tradition of scholarship that treats them as culturally sterile.
Soyoung You	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	To research the concept of sage (shengren) in the Confucian tradition, by tracing the changes and comparing the diverse interpretations of this concept in East Asian intellectual history.
Christopher Ell	Ancient History	Top-up Grant	To participate in the British School at Athens' Summer Epigraphy source, which offers an unparalleled opportunity to study ancient Greek inscriptions in their original context.
Fiona Sappenfield	Classics	Top-up Grant	To attend the Greece from the Sea summer seminar hosted by the American School in Athens, which will be of use for her research concerning ancient views of the sea in literature.
Joshua T. Schnell	Anthropology	Top-up Grant	To conduct archaeological fieldwork with the Proyecto Arqueológico Budsilha-Chocolja in Chiapas, Mexico.
Kelly Nguyen Sutherland	Classics	Top-up Grant	To present her paper entitled "What's in a Natio: Rethinking Ethnic Identity in the Roman Empire," at the Celtic Conference in Classics at Coimbra University, Portugal
Leland Renato Grigoli	History	Top-up Grant	To complete coursework towards the Diploma in Manuscript Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies at Toronto.
Mariajosé Rodriguez-Pliego	Comparative Literature	Top-up Grant	To continue her research on indigeneity and migration by attending the Nahuatl Language and Culture Program at the University of Utah.
Miriam Rothenberg	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	To visit and make observations at several Mediterranean sites of devastating volcanism in the past, concluding with a trip to volcanic field sites in Greece.
Oliver Coulson	History of Art and Architecture	Top-up Grant	To complete an intensive Serbian language course in Belgrade, in order to pursue future research on the art and architecture of early Serbian monasteries.
Patrick R. Magoffin	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	To enroll in an immersive, eight-week Japanese language program at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan.
Robert Kashow	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	To present a paper entitled, "Theorizing the Agency of Apocalyptic Images of Violence," at the annual meeting of the Center for the Critical Study of the Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements at the University of Bedfordshire.
Silvia Stubnova	Egyptology and Assyriology	Top-up Grant	To present her paper entitled "Where Syntax and Semantics Meet: A Typological Analysis of Old Egyptian Causatives," at the 47th Annual Meeting of the North Atlantic Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL) in Paris, France.
Tali Hershkovitz	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	To participate in a weeklong seminar, "Women and Nuns in Chinese Buddhism," at Ghent University.
Sherry Pan	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	To prepare for exams in classical Chinese philosophy (early Confucianism and Daoism) and East Asian religious thought (Chinese and Japanese).

Recipients	Department/ Concentration	Type of Grant	Description
Adrien Stoloff	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	To present a paper at the 12th International Conference on Daoist Studies at Beijing Normal University, as well as To attend the workshop at Renmin University and To work with scholars at Peking University, in Beijing
Avichai Kapach	Classics	Top-up Grant	To attend the Thouria Excavation conducted by the Hellenic Education and Research Center in Greece
Christopher Ell	Classics	Top-up Grant	To work in major European museums on the material evidence for Greek, Etruscan, and Levantine symposia
Daniel Plekhov	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	For archaeological work in the Chachapoyas region of northeastern Peru
Ella Grunberger-Kirsh	Classics	Top-up Grant	To attend the papyrology course at the University of Oslo
Julia Hurley	JIAAW	Top-up Grant	For archaeological work in England, France, and Sardini
Mark Agostini	Anthropology	Top-up Grant	To work on ancestral Tewa ceramics at the Archaeological Research Center at UC-Santa Cruz
Michael Payne	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	To work in the Arabic, Persian, and Syriac materials at the UC-Berkeley library for dissertation on discourses of race, heresy, and empire in the formation of Twelver Shi'ism
Robert Kashow	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	To work in the archives at the British Museum in London, to assist at the archaeological dig at Tel Azekah in Israel, and To present a paper at the International SBL meeting in Helsinki
Sam Goldstein	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	To work at Fudan University’s Excavated Text and Paleography Research Center in Shanghai, China
Sherry Pan	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	To attend the Japanese course at the International Christian University in Tokyo, and To present a paper at the International Conference on Daoist Studies at Beijing Normal University in Beijing
Soyoung You	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	To present a paper at the international conference on “Zhu Xi and Zhu Xi Studies” at Trier University in Germany
Tanner Walker	Religious Studies	Top-up Grant	To prepare for preliminary exams in ancient Israelite and Mesopotamian religions (Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian and others), with a view towards a dissertation providing a cross-cultural study of human-animal relations
Vicky Almansa Villatoro	Egyptology and Assyriology	Top-up Grant	To work on Old Kingdom papyri at the Brooklyn Museum