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News Release BOISE STATE NEWS RELEASE / June 12, 2009 Boise State's Ziker Recipient of Fulbright Research Award Boise State University anthropology professor John Ziker has been awarded a Canada-U.S. Fulbright award as Fulbright Visiting Chair in North American Studies at the University of Calgary. Ziker will spend the 2009-10 academic year with colleagues in the Faculty of Social Sciences’ Department of Archaeology researching indigenous dwellings, movements and demography in the circumpolar north. Ultimately, the research is aimed at broadening understanding of human behavior and sustainable engagement with the environment. Ziker’s central task is to work on data analysis and writing. In addition, he plans to visit the Tlicho First Nation near Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. This group has been involved in Ziker’s National Science Foundation project, “Home, Hearth, and Household in Siberia and Northern Canada.” Representatives have participated in two research trips to the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., to study a caribou-skin lodge cover acquired in the 1920s. Ziker’s long-term objectives are to facilitate research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, improve materials for teaching, and aid the repatriation of knowledge to First Nations and the wider public. Ziker has published 20 peer-reviewed publications since joining Boise State’s faculty in 2003. He is contributing editor to Anthropology News for the Evolutionary Anthropology Society, where he contributes eight columns per year; book reviews editor for Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, where he produces the book reviews section three times a year; author of a book that has been cited in 42 other scholarly works; and author of a Science magazine article that has been cited by 130 other authors. In addition to being screened by a multidisciplinary peer review committee convened by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), Ziker’s application also was approved by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States of America. The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international education exchange program, is sponsored by the U.S. State Department and operates in more than 155 countries worldwide. -30- Media Contact: Sherry Squires, University Communications, (208) 426-1563, ssquires@boisestate.edu Boise State University is “The New U Rising” with record student enrollment, new academic buildings, additional degree programs and a growing research agenda. Learn more at www.boisestate.edu.
Last reviewed on Friday, June 12, 2009
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