Honors and Awards

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Meet Our 2025 Graduate Medalists
July 1, 2025
College of Arts & Sciences Students Recognized in the 2025 Husky 100
June 12, 2025
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Juan Miguel Jocom is a 2025 Bonderman Fellow
May 19, 2025
Front of Denny Hall, the oldest building on the University of Washington campus, completed in 1895. The building underwent a recent remodel, which restored the central stairwell and skylight, and opens for autumn quarter 2016 classes in September
Celebrating the Department of Anthropology's Class of 2025
March 28, 2025
2024 Husky 100
May 1, 2024
Four Dean's Medalists, Working Toward Change
June 26, 2023
Archival Photograph of Students Lined Up Outside of Denny Hall for Graduation
Celebrating the Department of Anthropology's Class of 2023
June 8, 2023
2023 Husky 100
April 23, 2023
Photo of Yoli Ngandali
Building the Future of Anthropology through Podcasting, with Graduate Students Delaney Glass and Yoli Ngandali
May 10, 2022
Students | Alumni News 2022
May 10, 2022
Faculty News 2022
May 10, 2022
Pfeiffer receives Society for Medical Anthropology Award
November 19, 2021
Husky 100
June 15, 2021
Husky 100
June 14, 2021
Archaeology PhDs Awarded (inter)National Dissertation Fellowships
April 23, 2021
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UW Anthropologists in PLoS One Biology scientist ranking
April 23, 2021
Faculty/staff honors: Polymer Physics Prize, anthropology dissertation award
February 18, 2021
Faculty/staff honors: Polymer Physics Prize, anthropology dissertation award
February 18, 2021
UW awarded NIH grant for training in advanced data analytics for behavioral and social sciences
October 12, 2020
Awards of Excellence
June 1, 2020
Photo of Kyle Trembley with a rat on his head
Anthropology, actually — Kyle Trembley conducts multispecies ethnography in Seattle and India
November 15, 2019
UW books in brief: Tribal sovereignty and the courts, mentoring through fan fiction, UW Press paperback editions
August 22, 2019
Photo of Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius (one of the award winners) with Melissa Yeager
2019 Yeager Award Reception and Recipients
June 18, 2019
Students | Alumni News 2019
June 11, 2019
Photo of Ian Kretzler
Anthropology, actually — Ian Kretzler, Pacific NW past and the Mellon/ACLS fellowship
November 5, 2018
UW Departement of Anthropology congratulations graphic
2018 Anthropology Graduation Celebration
June 11, 2018
Students | Alumni News 2018
May 9, 2018
Dr. Donald K. Grayson after signing the member registry during his induction to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.
Dr. Donald K. Grayson Reflects on Three Honors
June 7, 2017
Photo of Julius Doyle at work in the lab
Doyle Resilience Research Earns Ford Foundation Fellowship
June 7, 2017
John Cady at the Staff Awards, standing in front of gold and purple balloons
John Cady — Nominated for a 2017 Distinguished Staff Award
June 5, 2017
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John Cady Nominated for Distinguished Staff Award
March 23, 2017
Wayne Suttles highlighted in his class of 1937 Bothell HS photo
Suttles, first UW Anthropology PhD, on Northshore School District Wall of Honor
August 22, 2016
4 UW professors elected as fellows in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 20, 2016
UW Awards of Excellence
Big honors to A&S in UW Awards of Excellence
March 28, 2016
Cassie Strickland wins 2015 Senior CLASS Award
December 17, 2015
The UW Chamber Singers rehearse Handel's Messiah.
A Vision for the Burke
December 8, 2015
Danny Shelton, Anthropology Major, and First Round NFL Draft Pick
April 1, 2015
Holly Barker with MA Student, Alvin Logan
Professor Holly Barker wins Distinguished Teaching Award
April 1, 2013
Leah Isquith
Daris Swindler Fellowship Awarded to Leah Isquith
April 1, 2013
Don Grayson, photo by Mary Levin, UW Photography, 2011
Don Grayson Named to the National Academy of Sciences
April 2, 2012
Catherine Zeigler
Zeigler Named Program Assistant of the Year
April 1, 2009