UB Anthropology Professor Named Resident Fellow of the National Humanities Center
UB associate professor of anthropology Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, a scholar recognized for her research into the shamanic practices of Chile’s Mapuche Indians, has been named a 2009-10 Fellow of the National Humanities Center (NHC) in North Carolina’s Research Triangle. She will be one of 33 distinguished scholars from institutions across the United States who will take leave from their normal academic duties to comprise the center’s class of resident fellows. Bacigalupo’s NHC project is titled “Mapuche Memory, Forgetting, Shamanic Historical Consciousness: The Making of Francisca Colipe and Her Mapuche Community in Chile,” for which she also has received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship and an NEH Fellowship. Read more.
