Anthropologist Antoinette Martinez Receives Ford Fellowship
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June 17, 2003
Kathleen McPartland
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Anthropologist Antoinette Martinez Receives Ford Fellowship
Antoinette Martinez, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, California State University, Chico, has received a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2003-04.
As a Ford fellow, Martinez will devote a year of research at the University of California, Berkeley into the role of Native American women in maintaining cultural and ethnic identity. The research supports work on her book, “Keepers of Tradition: Two Thousand Years of Cultural Continuity.”
Martinez will draw from recent archaeological data and research on the Kashaya Pomo female leaders of historic and contemporary times. The theoretical perspective that will provide the framework is rooted in current feminist theory.
The Ford Fellowship Postdoctoral Program for Minorities is sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Research Council of the National Academies. The Anthropology Department and the Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley will sponsor Martinez.
Selection for this prestigious award reflects professional and scholarly accomplishments as well as the likelihood that the fellow’s career will be enhanced by the postdoctoral fellowship experience.
“The timing of the award, both in terms of my career and the development of my book, couldn’t be better. I am very appreciative of the support I have received from the CSU, Chico College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley,” said Martinez.
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