Departmental Awards
Funds from this award are distributed the academic year after the recipient wins the award. This chart shows the year that the recipient receives the funds.
Academic Year |
Awardee |
2022 - 2023 | Wyatt Fleming |
2021 - 2022 | Andrew Krawczyk |
2020 - 2021 | Catherine Garcia |
2019 - 2020 | Katy Self |
2018 - 2019 | Kiersten Weber |
2017 - 2018 | Joshua Chaplin |
2016 - 2017 | Lilian Ondus |
2015 - 2016 | Ellan Hambright |
2014 - 2015 | Ashley Stepp |
2013 - 2014 | Katherine Carter |
2012 - 2013 | Joe Wilkinson |
Academic Year |
Awardee |
2023 - 2024 | Tina-Marie Sandoval |
2022 - 2023 | Elizabeth Ernst |
2021 - 2022 | Madison Blanding |
Academic Year |
Awardee |
2023 - 2024 | Andrew Peters and Marleigh Durre |
2022 - 2023 | Savannah Keating |
2021 - 2022 | Madison Blanding |
2020 - 2021 | Catherine Garcia |
2019 - 2020 | Christina Zellis |
2018 - 2019 | Isabella M. Heimke and Kiersten J. Weber |
2017 - 2018 | Samantha McDorman |
2016 - 2017 | Tiffany Peacock |
2015 - 2016 | Ellan Hambright |
2014 - 2015 | Gregory J. Wehrman |
2013 - 2014 | Charles B. Walters |
2012 - 2013 | M. Aaron Guest |
2011 - 2012 | Kristen A. Walczesky |
2010 - 2011 | Matthew D. Snider |
2009 - 2010 | Adrial D. Bryan |
2008 - 2009 | Mary Ann Fanning, Celia Goetowski, Anna Handley, Asma Jaber, and Tamara Looney |
2007 - 2008 | Erika L. Heimbrook |
2006 - 2007 | Holly Norton |
2005 - 2006 | Melissa Tucker |
2004 - 2005 | Ebonee D. White and Sylvie Lomer |
2003 - 2004 | Laura Hayden |
2002- 2003 | Rosemary Puntillo and Amie Spade |
2001 - 2002 | Holly Norton |
2000 - 2001 | Megan Titus and Robert Burns |
1999 - 2000 | Claudia Carriere |
1998 - 1999 | Dennis Duval |
1997 - 1998 | Elizabeth Busbee and Dondrea Thompson |
1996 - 1997 | Joy Staats |
1995 - 1996 | Kara Bridgeman |
1994 - 1995 | Kimberly Adams |
1993 - 1994 | Kelley Segars |
1992 - 1993 | Erin Richterkessing |
1991 - 1992 | Tina M. Cousar and Bridget McKivergan |
1989 - 1990 | Joerg T. Schmitz |
1988 - 1989 | Kathryn Forbes |
1987 - 1988 | Lisa Bickham |
Non-Departmental Awards
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Anja Derry | Sherina Feliciano-Santos | Policing Speech: Language, Force, and DUI arrests in the U.S. South |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Placement |
Project Title |
Heather Brown | David Simmons | Second Place (Tie) -Morning Poster: Health Sciences A | Health Disparities In Dominican Republican |
Kaitlyn Coghlan | Katherine Goldberg and Kristina Grob (Philosophy, USC Sumter) | First Place - Morning Poster: Experiential Learning and GLD B | Learning to Bridge the Gap Between Your Academic Interests and Career |
Hanna Waltz | Melissa Nolan (Biostatistics and Epidemiology) | First Place - Morning Poster: Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences A | Triatomine-Ectoparasite Relationship: A Preliminary Investigation from the Southwestern United States |
Skyler Yakes | Sharon DeWitte | First Place - Morning Poster: Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences A | Validity of Transition Analysis 3 Using Individuals of known Ages |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Francesca Faccone | Meghan Conroy | Project CYMA Research on Boko Haram |
Rowan Ooi | Sharon DeWitte | Does developmental stress during childhood contribute to the likeliness of active periosteal lesions at the time of death? |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Sam Breazeale | David Simmons | Infant Health Among Haitian Migrant Workers in Dominican Bateyes |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Connor Brunson | Kelly Mulvey (Educational Studies) | Perceptions of Healthcare in Housing Secure and Insecure Populations |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Julia Pribyl | Sheryl Wiskur (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Ravish Akhani (Chemistry and Biochemistry) | The Synthesis and Use of Organic Catalysts in the Separation of Chiral Enantiomers |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Meghan Conroy | Deborah Billings (Health Promotion Education, and Behavior) | The Psychological and Emotional Effects of Female Genital Mutilation |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Jordyn Livingston | John Bernhart (Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior) | Tasty Tuesdays: Helping Children Be Role Models for Healthy Eating |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Karla Matthews-Brown | Jason Cummings (Sociology) | Living While Black: How Racial Discrimination in Public Spaces Affects the Mental Health of African Americans |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Hannah Selvey | Adam Hartstone-Rose | The effect of captive diet on the skulls and teeth of carnivores |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Savannah Keating | Sharon DeWitte | Temporal Trends in Health in the Context of Famine, Plague, and Urbanization in England |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Jordyn Livingston | John Bernhart (Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior) | Tasty Tuesdays: Helping Children Be Role Models for Healthy Eating |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Hannah Rubenstein | Teresa Moore (Exercise Science) | Energy Expenditure in Whitewater Kayaking: Comparison of Fitbit to Actigraph accelerometers |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Matthew Isales | David Simmons | National Development through Supplemental Nutrition and Education of the Dominican Youth: the Role of Caritas in Supporting the Basic Social Needs of At-Risk Children in Santiago, Dominican Republic |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Katheryne Brown | Adam Hartstone-Rose | 3D laser scan reconstruction of the masticatory anatomy of ancient carnivorans from Langebaanweg, South Africa |
Connor Brunson | Kelly Mulvey (Educational Studies) | Perceptions of Healthcare in Housing Secure and Insecure Populations |
Katherine Carter | Charles Cobb and Meagan Conway | Left Behind: Interpreting Remains of House 8 From 20th Century Inishark |
Carissa Leischner | Adam Hartstone-Rose | 3D laser scan reconstruction of the masticatory anatomy of ancient carnivorans from Langebaanweg, South Africa |
Hannah Selvey | Adam Hartstone-Rose | The dietary adaptations of the ancient carnivorans of Langebaanweg, South Africa |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Meghan Conroy | Kirk Randazzo (Political Science) | Insuring Domestic Tranquility |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Claudia LaBarre | David Goldstein and Molly Zuckerman | Locating Cannibalism on St. Croix: Shedding Light on Cultural Practice |
Hillary Hudson | Ann Kingsolver | Not Your Grandma's Knitting Circle: Fiber Arts in the New Millennium |
Emily Pfifer | Chris Toumey | Visual Knowledge of a Biological Object |
Kira Tilley | Doyle Stevick (Educational Leadership and Policies) | The Role of Traditional Medicine in Taiwan |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Wyatt Fleming | Eric Jones | Settlement Ecology of 19th-Century Farmsteads in Nelson, Madison County, NY |
Hanna Waltz | Kyndall Braumuller (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Melissa Nolan (Epidemiology and Biostatistics,) | Entomologic profiling of ectoparasites on triatomines in El Salvador: A new biological control to stop transmission of Chagas disease? |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Anne Bauknight | Gabrielle Kuenzli (History) | History of Latino Jockeys: Racial Characterizations and its Implications within Horse Racing and Society in the United States |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Jessica Atkins | Jeanne Britton (Thomas Cooper Library) and Evan Meaney (Visual Art and Design) | The Digital Piranesi |
Richard Strater | Jennifer Reynolds | Learning English in Queretaro, Mexico |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Isabella Heimke | Kathryn Luchok | Student identities affecting stressors and sense of community/belonging |
Kiersten Weber | Karen Smith | Decorated Bone Pins of Spanish Mount Point: The Mysteries Engraved |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Andrea Ayers | Jordan Lyerly (Psychology) and Dawn Wilson (Psychology) | The Relationship between Monitoring of Health Behaviors and Self-Confidence in African Americans |
Samuel Forst | Saddler Taylor (McKissick Museum) | Song, the Piedmont, and I-85: An Investigation of Upstate South Carolina Music Traditions |
Weston Grove | David Simmons | Maternal Mortality in the Dominican Republic |
Matthew Isales | David Simmons | National Development through Supplemental Nutrition and Education of the Dominican Youth: the Role of Caritas in Supporting the Basic Social Needs of At-Risk Children in Santiago, Dominican Republic |
Allison Kuester | Sara Schwebel (English Language and Literature) | Examination of the Periodical Sources of the Lone Woman’s Story |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Kaitlyn Bretz | Andrea Bonisoli Alquati (Biological Sciences) and Timothy Mousseau (Biological Sciences) | Effects of radioactive contamination in Chernobyl, Ukraine and Fukushima, Japan on the developmental instability of butterfly species |
Katheryne Brown, Carissa Leischner and Hannah Selvey | Adam Hartstone-Rose | The dietary adaptations of the ancient carnivorans of Langebaanweg, South Africa |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Bryttin Boyde and Hannah Selvey | Adam Hartstone-Rose | The dietary adaptations of the ancient carnivorans of Langebaanweg, South Africa |
Alexandra Golden | Andrea Bonisoli Alquati (Biological Sciences) | Radiation and Asymmetry: A Morphometric Study of Insect Wings |
Joseph Studemeyer | Daniel Buxhoeveden | Overlapping Magisteria: An Inquiry Into the Compatibility of Athonite Cosmology with Trends in Modern Science |
Carrie Wolf | Deborah Billings (Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior) and David Simmons | Barriers to Social Service Provision in the Dominican Republic |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Eeshwar Chandrasekar | David Simmons | Ethnographic Studies of Metabolic Disorders in Tamil Nadu |
Daravie Pel | Elaine Chun (English Language and Literature; Linguistics) and Erica Gibson | When Medicine Meets Culture: Cambodian American Views of Mainstream US Medicine |
Julia Pribyl | Sheryl Wiskur (Chemistry and Biochemistry) | Silylation-Based Kinetic Resolution of Alcohols to Produce Enantiomerically Enriched Compounds |
Gregory Wehrman | Sharon DeWitte | Developmental Stress and Risks of Mortality: the Case of Medieval Plague |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Alison Atchley | Joanna Casey | Late Stone Age Lithic Technology in Northern Ghana |
Hillary Hudson | Ann Kingsolver | Not Your Grandma's Knitting Circle: Knitting Collectives of the New Millennium |
Claudia LaBarre | David Goldstein and Molly Zuckerman | Locating Cannibalism on St. Croix: Shedding Light on Cultural Practice |
Emily Phifer | Chris Toumey | Seeing Is Believing |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Sarah Ali | Christine Blake (Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior) and Tom Leatherman | Health Benefits of Vegan Diets |
Rachel Balzer and Zachary McClendon | Jennifer Reynolds | Don't Talk with Your Mouth Full: Language Socialization of Chinese American Children |
Kerri Caplinger | David Goldstein | Locating the Knights of Malta in the 17th Century Caribbean |
Jennifer Greene | Erica Gibson | A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Healthcare Volunteering in the United States and Peru |
Marc Guest | Marc Moskowitz | Homosexual Male Power Structure: Gay Male Leadership within the Columbia, South Carolina Community |
Keely Lewis | Charles Cobb | Expedient Glass Tool Use by Native Americans in the 18th Century Savannah River Valley |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Joshua Driscoll | Mindy Fenske, (English Language and Literature) | Tapping the Source: Examining Hawaiian Culture through Traditional Tattooing |
Cara Fertitta | David Simmons | Health Care Disparities in Ghana |
Chelsea Goldstein | Dawn Hunter (Visual Art and Design) | Eyes of Ethnography: A visual anthropology study of the Bai & Yi peoples of China |
Matthew Johnson | Erica Gibson and David Simmons | Cardiovascular Disease in Buchanan, Va |
Janet Newton | Jennifer Reynolds | Fresas: Social Identity of Elite Mexican Youth |
Samir Panvelker | David Simmons | Comparing the Practitioner-Patient Relationship in Biomedical and Acupuncture |
Allison Reid | Jennifer Reynolds | Spotlight on Domestic Abuse Service Providers: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Two Battered Women's Shelters |
Matthew Snider | Maimuna Huq and David Simmons | Cultivating an Islamic Identity at an American University |
Christopher Young | Joanna Casey | The Availability and Selection of Stone Tool Raw Materials in Relation to the Johannes Kolb Archaeological Site (38DA75) |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Margaret McWhorter | Gail Wagner | The Late Woodland Component at the Concrete Block Site (38KE192) in Kershaw County, South Carolina |
Jessica Silvaggio | David Simmons and Kimberly Simmons | Healing systems and Herbal Treatments in Santiago, Dominican Republic |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Andrew Cline and Matthew Trew | Karl Heider and Laura Kissel (Visual Art and Design) | Kiss Me, I Might Be Irish: A Visual Study of Nationality and Belonging |
Puja Dalal and Elaine Kao | David Simmons | The Use and Function of Botanicas in Santiago, Dominican Republic |
Mary Ann Fanning | Kenneth Kelly | Comparative archaeological study of enslaved persons and planter cultures in Martinique |
Asma Jaber | Elaine Lacy (History) | Discovering the Roots of Nativism in Contemporary South Carolina |
Tamara Looney | Elizabeth Mayer-Davis (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Thomas Leatherman | Carbohydrate Counting in Columbia Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes |
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Chanda Cooper | Gail Wagner and Jennifer Reynolds | Botanical Knowledge among South Carolina Elementary School Students |
Anna Handley, Mary Allison Joseph | Ann Kingsolver | Linguistic and Social Barriers in Medical Interpretation for Exclusively Spanish-Speaking Latina Patients in South Carolina |
Mariel McWilliams | Daniel Buxhoeveden | Microanatomical Effects of Prenatal Cocaine Exposure |
James Stewart | Gail Wagner | Rediscovering "Congaree Town," A Contact-Period Site? |
Nicholas Younginer | Karl Heider | Lebanese Identity in South Carolina Before and After 9/11 |
This list contains graduate and undergraduate awardees.
Awardee |
Award |
Emily Brennan | National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) |
Allison Ham | National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) |
David Hansen | National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) |
Awardee |
Award |
Madeline Atwell | National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) |
Madison Blanding | Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute (JSI) |
Awardee |
Award |
Madison Blanding | Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship |
Amber Domingue | National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Graduates (REG) Supplement |
Awardee |
Award |
Kyle Van Arsdale | Project GO |
Awardee |
Award |
Samantha Yaussy | National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) |
Awardee |
Award |
Brittany Walter | National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) |
Samantha Yaussy | National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Graduates (REG) Supplement |
Awardee |
Award |
Kara Brown | Fulbright U.S. Student Program English Teaching Assistant (ETA) |
Georgia Froman | Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF) |
Awardee |
Award |
Charles Walters | Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship |
Awardee |
Award |
Julia Grasso | Fulbright U.S. Student Program |
Diane Wallman | National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) |
Awardee |
Award |
Kimberly Cavanagh | Fulbright U.S. Student Program |
Jennika McClean | Freeman-ASIA |
Jeremy Vanderknyff | National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) |
Anna Jaber | USA Today All-USA College Academic Team |
Awardee |
Award |
Kristen Hudgins | Fulbright U.S. Student Program |
Anna Jaber | The Harry S. Truman Scholarship |
Awardee |
Award |
Anna Handley | Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship |
Awardee |
Award |
Russell Lynch | National Security Education Program Scholarship |
Lara Bratcher | Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) National Leader of the Year |
Awardee |
Award |
Lara Bratcher | Glamour's Top Ten College Women |
Lara Bratcher | The Harry S. Truman Scholarship |
Awardee |
Award |
Laura McFarland | Rotary Global Grant |
This award was a precursor to current Magellan awards and is equivalent to the current Magellan Mini-Grant Award.
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Amanda Clark | David Goldstein | Examining Trace Elements of Mercury in Hawksbill, Leatherback and Green Sea Turtle Fossil Records and Modern Populations Using X-Ray Fluorescence |
Sheimaliz Glover | David Hudgens (International Business, USC Columbia) and Jennifer Reynolds | Dance, Women, & China |
This award was a precursor to current Magellan awards and is equivalent to the current Magellan Mini-Grant Award.
Awardee |
Advisor |
Project Title |
Marla Koch | Erica Gibson | Cultural Anthropology Field Study in Campeche, Mexico |
Samir Panvelker | David Simmons | Comparing the Practitioner-Patient Relationship in Biomedicine and Acupuncture |
*NOTE: The variety in the list of Magellan and Discover USC awardees reflects the cross-training between anthropology and other disciplines. Magellan and Discover USC awardees include, but are not limited to:
- Anthropology-only majors advised by non-Anthropology faculty;
- Non-Anthropology majors advised by Anthropology faculty;
- and students with double majors advised by Anthropology faculty.
Photo Credit: Image by Atieno Adongo