Selected Awards & Recognition
2017
Selected by National Academy of Sciences’ “Science and Entertainment Exchange” program to participate in “science speed dating night,” Brooklyn, New York
2014
Book prize, France, Le chagrin des animaux: Prix 30 Million d’Amis “Essai” (for translation of How Animals Grieve)
2014
Scientific American article ‘When Animals Mourn’ chosen for Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014 (ed. Deborah Blum, October 2014 publication)
2008
Named Chancellor Professor of Anthropology, College of William and Mary (through retirement in 2015, when the designation shifted to Emerita Professor of Anthropology)
2007
Evolving God named ‘Top Ten Religion Book of 2007,’ American Library Association
2002
Guggenheim Fellowship (Guggenheim Foundation)
2001-2002
Selected by The Teaching Company to create and teach 12-lecture course “Primate Roots of Human Behavior” (released December 2001) and 24-lecture course “Biological Anthropology” (November 2002)
1999
Named University Professor for Teaching Excellence, William and Mary
1998
Outstanding Faculty Award, State Council for Higher Education, Virginia
1987
Weatherhead Predoctoral Fellowship, School of American Research (9 months’ residence in support of dissertation-writing)
1985-1986
National Science Foundation doctoral dissertation improvement award, $10,000, for research on learning in wild baboons, Amboseli National Park, Kenya
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