Lynn-Marie and Walter Wieland have established The Wieland Fund for Field Anthropology to benefit the students of The Department of Anthropology at Hunter College. The Fund will support 3 - 6 students per year for fieldwork with average grants of $1000.00. Recent support for student fieldwork has also come from Bernice Kurchin.

Eligibility

1. Applicants for Fund support must be matriculated students of the Department of Anthropology.
2. They may be undergraduates, participants in the BA/MA Program or Master’s students.
3. Their interests may be in anthropological archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology or physical anthropology.
4. They must be U.S. citizens.
5. Prior recipients of Fund support may reapply.

Type of Projects

1. Participation in fieldwork, including fieldschools or membership in the field project of another Principal Investigator.
2. Exploratory fieldwork to assess the potential of an area / topic for a full field project.
3. Field Project, in which the student is the Principal Investigator.

Funding Process

The fund will be administered by the Committee on Personnel and Budget of The Department of Anthropology.

1. Students should submit 3 - 5 page proposals in addition to a budget by email attachment to the department chair. Deadlines are generally early in the Spring semester and are announced in a call for proposals sent to the Department's email list serv, HCAnthro-L.
2. Each proposal should be accompanied by a letter of support from a member of the department faculty [holders of the PhD only].
3. The list of Fund recipients will generally be announced about two weeks after the application deadline.
4. At the conclusion of a project, the recipient shall submit a brief report of project results to the Department.

For further information or to submit proposals, contact:
Ida Susser
Chair, Dept. of Anthropology
isusser@hunter.cuny.edu