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Please consider designating your gift to the Anthropology Department. Your support helps bring in scholarly speakers, provides research dollars for students, assists in student travel, and creates new resources to further enrich the educational experience of our students.

To give to this fund, you may contribute online via credit card or by check made payable to the Arch Foundation.  For further information on how to support the department please contact:

Jennifer Messer, Director of Development

253B Baldwin Hall

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia 30602-1619

(706)542-0068

jlmesser@uga.edu

Make a gift to one of the department's specialized funds

The Melissa Hague Memorial Scholarship Fund and the Melissa Hague Field Study Award

Thanks to the generous contributions of Roger and Laree Hague, the Melissa Hague Memorial Scholarship Fund and the Melissa Hague Field Study Award were endowed in 1999. Both funds are in memory of their daughter who was an anthropology major when she died. The scholarship fund awards scholarships to outstanding students majoring in anthropology who also have a demonstrated need for financial aid. The field study award helps undergraduate and graduate students seeking initial or supplemental funds to conduct their research projects.

Please designate your gift to the Melissa Hague Memorial Scholarship Fund by writing 'Hague Scholarship Fund' on your check, and/or to the Melissa Hague Field Study Award by making sure to write 'Hague Field Study Award' on your check.

The Brian Daniel Gumbert Memorial Fund

The Brian Daniel Gumbert Memorial Fund in Archaeological Field Studies supports undergraduate students enrolled in the archaeology field school and individual undergraduate student field research projects. A committee of archaeology faculty in the Department of Anthropology will select each year's recipients. This endowment honors our alumnus, Brian Daniel Gumbert, A.B. 1986.

Please designate your gift to the Brian Daniel Gumbert Memorial Fund in Archaeological Field Studies by writing 'Gumbert Field Studies Fund' on your check.

Robert E. Rhoades Pre-Dissertation Travel Award.

Through the wishes of the late Robert Rhoades, and the dedicated support of his partner both in life and in research, Professor Virginia Nazarea, the department now confers the Robert E. Rhoades Pre-Dissertation Travel Award. This award provides support for graduate students to visit prospective sites for their field research with the goal of enhancing their research and external funding proposals.

A Distinguished Research Professor, Dr. Rhoades knew well the necessity of traveling for research, and the difficulties graduate students encounter getting funding to do so. At the time of his death, Dr. Rhoades had active research programs and projects spanning many countries and ethnic groups. Throughout this research, Dr. Rhoades worked with indigenous groups to understand underlying sociocultural and demographic pressures influencing people’s decision-making toward the environment and agriculture. He left the world he strove to protect too soon, but his work will live on in future generations of students engaged in environmental research, assisted by the award in his name.

The Janis Faith Steingruber Student Travel Award

The Janis Faith Steingruber Student Travel Award provides financial assistance for travel to graduate and/or undergraduate students in the Department of Anthropology. Janis received her A.B. in anthropology in 1974. This award was created by Mrs. Winifred Lefstead and Mark and David Steingruber, Janis' mother and brothers, to honor her memory and share her love of anthropology and travel.  The primary purpose of this award is to encourage student participation in archaeological digs and field work by providing financial assistance to deserving individuals. The secondary purpose of this award is to provide assistance to deserving students who wish to travel to scientific meetings related to their academic work in the department. The award(s) are given to student(s) exhibiting professional promise and outstanding academic performance. Selection of the recipient(s) is made by a faculty-appointed committee.

Please designate your gift to the Steingruber Student Travel Award by writing 'Steingruber Student Travel Award' on your donation check.

Thank you for your interest in the University of Georgia's Department of Anthropology! Your gifts help us provide more opportunities for hands-on, professional experience and student research.