CARRIE HUNTER TATE AWARD RECIPIENTS FOR 2000
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(left to right) NASA President Jonathan Reed and Carla Guerron-Montero, Nominations Chair, present Adam Fish, Melisa Cahnmann, and Adrienne Isaac with their Tate Awards at the 2000 American Anthropological Association Annual Metting in San Francisco, California.
Melisa Cahnmann
2000 Graduate Student Tate Award Recipient
Department: Educational Linguistics
Institution: University of Pennsylvania (Doctoral Candidate)
Field: Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology and EducationMelisa Cahnmann will receive her doctoral degree from the department of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation addresses the possibilities and challenges of urban bilingual education and reflects research interests including biliteracy, language policy, multicultural education, and ethnographic and feminist research methodology. Her scholarship has been published in the Bilingual Research Journal, Educators for Urban Minorities, WPEL, and SALSA. She has co-authored a chapter with Dr. Janine Remillard that will appear in the volume, Language, Culture, and Power (edited by T. McCarty). Cahnmann is also an award winning poet with publications in national literary magazines. Her poetry often reflects her fieldwork and she is interested in anthropological poetics as a method of inquiry. In January 2002 she will be an assistant professor in the department of language and education at the University of Georgia.
Adam Fish
2000 Graduate Student Tate Award Recipient
Department: Anthropology
Institution: University of Idaho
Field: Prehistoric iconography/club culture
Adam Richard Fish is an MA student at the University of Idaho researching interpretive archaeology and legal applied anthropology. He is very passionate about the applicability of anthropology. He hopes to enter a Ph.D. program studying traditional cultural properties (TCP's) and intellectual property rights.
Adrienne Isaac
2000 Undergraduate Student Tate Award Recipient
Department: Anthropology
Institution: University of California Los Angeles (senior)
Field/specialty: Linguistic Anthropology; Latino populationAdrienne Isaac graduated from UCLA in June, 2001 with Phi Beta Kappa honors, College Honors, and Departmental Honors in Psychology. While completing her undergraduate studies, she majored in Psychology, created another major entitled "Language in Minority Child Development" and minored in Anthropology. Her research focused on the way institutional practices and rules are reproduced and instantiated through talk and the use of the body in Latino children's classroom interactions. She has built on this focus on talk-in-interaction as a summer intern for XEROX Palo Alto Research Center where she examined learning and activity boundaries in workplace interactions. She is applying to graduate programs in Linguistic Anthropology this fall and will teach incarcerated youth in Los Angeles before entering graduate school. In her spare time, Adrienne likes to learn from her inspiring friends, hike, bike ride, and dance, and serve as a motivating and empowering force for historically neglected children and youth.Addressing graduate and undergraduate student concerns and promoting anthropologists-in-training since 1985.
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