Recent Awards (Grants, Fellowships & Awards)
Internal Faculty Release Fellowship, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities
Research, Texas A&M, 2010-11. “Modern Technologies, Global Food Systems, and Narratives of Food Safety in Central Asia and Beyond.”
National Science Foundation Grant (Werner, lead PI; Emmelhainz, co-PI), 2009
Research Experience for Graduate Students (REG) Supplemental Grant to take graduate
student Celia Emmelhainz to Mongolia.
Stipendiary Fellow, Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M,
2009-10; “Mobility, Immobility, and Transnational Migration among Mongolian
Kazakhs” (International Studies Program fellow)
Student-Led Award for Teaching Excellence (SLATE), 2009, Texas A&M
National Science Foundation Grant (Werner, lead PI; Barcus, co-PI), 2008-2010
“Collaborative Research: Networks, Gender, Culture and the Migration Decision-
Making Process: A Case Study of the Kazakh Diaspora in Western Mongolia”
Stipendiary Fellow, Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M,
2008-09; “Mobility, Immobility, and Transnational Migration among Mongolian
Kazakhs” (Anthropology Department fellow)
International Research and Travel Grant, International Programs, Texas A&M,
2008; “Mobility, Immobility, and Transnational Migration among Mongolian Kazakhs”
Women’s Interdisiplinary Seed Grant Research Award, Women’s Studies
Program, Texas A&M, 2006; “Returning Home: Gender, Migration and the Kazakh
Diaspora in Mongolia.”
Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities Award, Vice President
for Research, Texas A&M, 2006; “Returning Home: Gender, Migration and the Kazakh
Diaspora in Mongolia”
Faculty Research Enhancement Award, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M, 2005
“From an Imagined Homeland to Immediate Needs: Social Networks, Gender and the
Migration of Kazakhs from Mongolia to Kazakhstan”
Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Grant, Contemporary Mongolia
Program; awarded through the University of Pittsburgh; 2004
Internal Faculty Release Fellowship, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities
Research, Texas A&M, 2003.
“Manipulating and Misunderstanding Notions of Central Asian Culture: Local and International Perceptions of Nationalism, Tribalism, and Islam”
National Science Foundation Grant (Werner, lead PI; Purvis, co-PI); 2002-2004
“Perceptions of Risk from Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan: A Comparative Study of
Kazakh Villagers, Health Care Workers, and Research Scientists”
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Grant
(Werner, PI; Purvis, co-PI) 2002-2004 “Perceptions of Risk From Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan: A Comparative Study of Kazakh Villagers, Health Care Workers, and Research Scientists”
Faculty Research Enhancement Award, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M, 2002
“The Rise of Nonconsensual Bride Kidnapping in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan”
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Women in International
Science Competition Grant (Werner & Purvis, co-PIs), 2001
“Perceptions of Risk from Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan”
Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities Award, Vice President
for Research, Texas A&M, 2001; “Luring Tourists to the New Silk Road: A Comparative
Study of International Tourism Development in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan>”
Faculty Research Fellowship Award, Lowry Mays College of Business and Women’s
Studies Program, Texas A&M, 2001; “Between Market and Family: Merchant Women
on the New Silk Road”
International Research Travel Assistance Grant, International Programs, Texas
A&M, 2001; “Perceptions of Risk From Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan”
National Research Council, Young Investigator Program Travel Grant, 2000, 2001
“Health Impacts of Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan and Russia”
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Grant, 1999-2001
“Emerging Markets, Welfare Reform and Household Survival in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan”
Social Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1999-2001
“Emerging Markets, Welfare Reform and Household Survival in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan”
