Anthropology

To be eligible for this scholarship, you must:

• Be majoring in anthropology
• Be an undergraduate Native American student
• Have completed at least 15 semester hours

Note: Include your tribe on the application. Proof of tribal registration will be required when you are selected to receive this scholarship.

To be eligible for this scholarship, you must:

• Be majoring in anthropology
• Have at least a 2.5 GPA 

Note: One-half of the award amount is applied to fall semester and one-half to spring semester.

This award funds internships or research experiences.  To be eligible, you must:

• Be Native American majoring in anthropology
• Have a focus in health and human services

A joint proposal from the Native American student and a proposed researcher/internship mentor or program is required, as these funds are intended to help provide direct mentoring and research experiences to Native American students. The award may be used for supplemental research experience or completion of thesis linked to on-going health or human services.

Through a generous endowment of $10,000 from Kenny’s parents, Bobby and Anna Acord, the Anthropology Department has founded the Kenny Acord Memorial Award for Graduate Studies in Archaeology. Additional contributions to this fund have already been pledged by many of Kenny’s professors and peers. 

This award will fund original scholarly research by archaeology graduate students who represent the same ideals that Kenny stood for, while memorializing the name of this exceptional student. 

Find out how you can donate to the fund or apply to receive funding.

In January 2002, Bob Euler passed away. His varied and remarkable career spanned decades, and he touched the lives of anthropologists and many others with whom he came into contact. A few years ago, a fundraising effort began that many of you participated in to perpetuate Bob’s memory as a leader and teacher, as well as his spirit of research excellence to endow the Robert C. Euler Graduate Scholarship in Anthropology.

Before he passed away, Bob expressed a preference for including all anthropology graduate students as candidates for his scholarship, with awards based on outstanding performance in the program. Accordingly, we plan to offer the funding from the endowment to second-year students who have achieved the kind of excellence for which Bob stood.

We recently received a generous multi-year pledge, from Bob's son and daughter-in-law, Tom and Marcy Euler, which helps us tremendously in our fund raising goal of this scholarship. We also received a pledge from Mary and P. David Seaman (Emeritus Professor of Anthropology) of $2,000 to help endow the fund. We now need your support to reach our ultimate goal of $50,000, which will yield a scholarship of approximately $2,000 per year in perpetuity, a fitting tribute to the memory of Bob Euler and all he did to build the field of anthropology.

If you would like to help create this memorial scholarship to Bob Euler, please send your check to:

Dr Robert Trotter II, Anthropology Department Chair
PO Box 15200
Flagstaff, AZ
86011-5200

Or you can give online through the Alumni Association to the Anthropology Graduate Scholarship.

Thank you for honoring Bob’s memory through the Robert C. Euler Graduate Scholarship in Anthropology. This scholarship will ensure that we will continue to attract and retain high quality graduate students in anthropology.

Contact info

Phone: 928-523-4521
E-mail: Robert.Trotter@nau.edu 

This award supplies travel funding for anthropology graduate students who are financially unable to attend professional meetings aligned with the students’ courses of study. The donor hopes that, through attending conferences, graduate students will have the opportunity to:

• Gain visibility in the field of anthropology by presenting professional papers, leading workshops, or creating poster presentations
• Network with professional practitioners to improve employment opportunities
• Act as Anthropology Department student representatives to increase the visibility and prestige of our program

This award is competitive and will be given to qualified anthropology students who:

• Are graduate students who will be attending a professional conference relevant to their area of study
• Preferably are applied and thesis students in the socio-cultural track
• Preferably are students who are presenting a paper or a poster

If you are not presenting a paper or poster, but plan to attend to network with other anthropologists, professionals, and practitioners, you may also apply and should provide a list of the people you intend to meet and the intended outcome of the networking efforts.

Students are eligible for funding once during their academic careers at the university and are required to contribute at least 15 percent of the total cost of the trip.

Application Deadlines 

Fall semester travel:  October 1
Spring semester travel:  February 1

If your travel is prior to the deadline for spring semester, get your application in by the fall semester deadline. Awards can be made after the actual travel.

Application forms (PDF/WORD) must be submitted to the department secretary. Awards are determined by the Department of Anthropology Awards Committee and announced by the Department Chair.

This award honors the memory of Panayotis Farantakis, a Northern Arizona Student student who studied anthropological linguistics. After leaving the university, and completing his Greek military service, he established one of the most modern private language and computer schools in Greece. In addition, he participated in search-and-rescue efforts. In 1996, while searching for a missing mountain climber, Panayotis slipped and fell over a cliff and was killed instantly at the age of 31.

The purpose of this memorial award is to help perpetuate the humanitarian ideals so richly exemplified in the young life of Panayotis Farantakis. The endowment will be used to assist in travel and other expenses for graduate students majoring in anthropology who are pursuing humanitarian internships as part of fulfilling the requirements for their graduate degree. 

To be eligible, you must:

• Be a full-time (9 or more hours a semester) anthropology graduate student in good academic standing
• Have completed 18 hours of graduate anthropology credit by the time the internship begins

You may apply for the award during the semester you’re completing the 18 hours. The award will be contingent upon successful completion of those hours.

You must have been officially accepted by an organization outside of the university for an internship which is clearly humanitarian in nature; that is, which has a positive impact on the day-to-day living of other peoples. The application is due to the Anthropology Department by March 1.

Application Process 

To apply, you must:

• Complete Farantakis application form (PDF/WORD)
• Attach copy of current transcript

This award was established by the family of the late Carleton T. Hodge, world-renowned linguist, Egyptologist, and anthropologist, to provide an annual award for someone who has demonstrated academic excellence as a graduate student of anthropology.

To be eligible, you must:

• Demonstrate academic excellence in your academic record
• Currently be a full-time graduate student in anthropology
• Have completed 18 hours of graduate anthropology credit by the time the internship begins; you may apply for the award during the semester you’re completing the 18 hours, and the award will be contingent upon successful completion of those hours

Application Process 

The application is due to the Department of Anthropology by March 1.

To apply, you must:

• Complete an application form (PDF/WORD)
• Attach a letter of application (2 pages maximum, 1.5 preferred) outlining your reasons for applying for the award
• Attach a copy of your current transcript