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Debra L. Martin, PhD
Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology


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Grants and Awards

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2004 Hampshire College Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program Grant, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Advanced Course Award "Bone Density from Two Instruments: A Comparative Study" [HHMI #71100-503803 $20,000]
2004 National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site. "Feeding the Family in Troubled Times: A Biocultural Study of Patterns of Work, Consumption, and Nutrition at the Household Level in Three Communities in Central Mexico" Co-PI with Margaret Cerullo [$375,000]
2003 Hampshire College Culture, Brain and Development Program instrumentation award, Osteology-Trauma Laboratory, Foundation for Psycho-Cultural Research [$38,000]
2003 Wenner-Gren Award "Violence Against Women: Non-Lethal Head Injury and its
Behavioral and Cultural Implications in Ancestral Pueblo Populations" (900-1300 AD) [GR#6981 $24,989]
2001 Hampshire College Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program Grant,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Advanced Course Award "Advanced Skeletal Biology: Research on Diet and Health" [HHMI #71100-503803 $8804]
2000 Hampshire College Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program Grant, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant for Field Research "Diet and Bone Density in Elder Hopi Women" Summer [HHMI #71100-503803 $8500]
2000 Hampshire College Sherman Fairchild Instrumentation Grant - Peripheral Instantaneous X-ray Imager (PIXY) Bone Densitometer (PIXY) [$35,000]
1999 NSF-Collaborative Research at Undergraduate Institutions "Teeth as Chemical Records of Chronological Changes" Co-PI with A Goodman, J Reid and D Amarasiriwardena [NSF-CRUI 99-78793 $827,197]
1998 Wenner-Gren Award "Institutionalized Violence at La Quemada, Zacatecas, Mexico" [$15,000]
1996 Hampshire College-MacArthur Program Development Award,
"Southwest Field Studies Program" [$80,000]
1995 Lemelson National Program in Invention, Innovation and Creativity Award.
"The Human Skeleton: Innovation in Analysis." [$10,000]
1995 Mesa Verde National Park, Subcontract for Osteological Analyses and
NAGPRA Compliance and Consultation [$60,371]
1995 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Bioarchaeological Investigations at Mowaihat, Emirate of Ajman, United Arab Emirates [$11,000]
1994 Hampshire College Lemelson Program for Innovative Research. Course development, "Advanced Skeletal Biology" [$2378]
1994 Hampshire College Hewlett-Mellon Curriculum Development.
New course development, "Diseases in Antiquity" [$1380]
1993 La Plata Highway Contract, Analysis of the La Plata Highway Human Remains,
State of New Mexico, Office of Cultural Affairs, Office of Archaeological Studies [$10,500]
1993 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Bioarchaeological Investigations at Jebel al Emalah, Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates [$11,500]
1993 Five Colleges, Inc. American Indian Studies Curriculum Development.
American Indian Health: 1492- 1992 [$1500]
1993 Hampshire College Comparative Scientific Traditions/Ford Foundation Curriculum Development. Year- long course on Native American Health [$2200]
1993 Participant, NSF Project, "History of Disease in the Western Hemisphere."
The American Southwest [$5000]
1992 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Award.
Biochemical and Histological Analyses of Human Rib [$9000]
1992 Northern Arizona University/National Park Service Research Grant. Skeletal Analysis of the Ridges Basin, Colorado, Anasazi Skeletal Remains [$16,000]
1992 Participant, NSF Science Education for Minority Middle School Children.
Human Anatomy Course [$4000]
1991 School of American Research Fellowship, Weatherhead Scholar [$30,000]
1990 Hampshire College Award for Third World Research.
Research in the Southwest (with B. Yngvesson) [$1600]
1990 NSF Travel and Conference Award. Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, University of Alaska, Fairbanks [$500]

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