AWARDS in SOCIOLOGY
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS

The JULIEN TATUM AWARD, established in 1981 by the friends and colleagues of the late Dr. Tatum, former University professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, recognizes the outstanding graduating senior in sociology.

Tatum Award Recipients:
2007:   Natalie J. Horton
2006:   Jennifer Salu
2005:   Mary Jo Williamson
2004:   Christopher Kelly
2003:   Jordan Camp
1999:   Marina Igorevna Luybimova
1998:   Anna Clayton Hale
1997:   Thomas Nakia Magee
1996:   Tracy Johnson
1995:   Ralph David Ford

GRADUATE AWARDS

The LARRY W. DEBORD AWARD, established in 1996 by the friends and colleagues of the late Dr. DeBord, former University professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, recognizes the outstanding student in the sociology M.A. program.

DeBord Award Recipients:
2007: Gwen Wages
2005: Matthieu Dessier
2004: Deidre Tyler
2003: Jason Reese

AWARDS in ANTHROPOLOGY
THE FRANCIS JAMES AWARD

The Francis James Award was named for Francis W. James, Professor of Anthropology, who died in December 1983. Francis was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bucknell. During the Second World War she worked as an Editorial Assistant for the American Red Cross and the U.S. Public Health Service. After the war, she was a journalist in London and wrote articles on archaeology. Francis pursed her interest
in archaeology by studying at London University's Institute of Archaeology from which she obtained diplomas in the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces and Iron Age Europe (1953) and the Archaeology of Western Asia (1959) and a Ph.D. in Palestinian Archaeology (1963). She studied and/or worked in the field with such giants of archaeology as Dame Kathleen Kenyon, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, and V. Gordon Childe.

Her association with the University of Missisisppi began in 1965. Her research included work at Roman and Medieval sites in England; Jericho and Beidha in Jordan; the Phoenician city of Motya in Sicily; and Qadesh in Syria. She published numerous articles and two major monographs in the University of Pennsylvania Museum Monographs series, The Iron Age at Beth Shan and The Late Bronze Egyptian Garrison at Beth Shan. The latter was published posthumously with Patrick E. McGovern. The James Award is given to an outstanding senior Anthropology major.

Recent recipients of the Francis James Award:

2007 Andrew Whitaker            
2006 Jenna Hale Phillips
2005 Anwen Culver Thomas
2004 Joshlyn Pickens and Raquel Morris
2003 Justin Rives Nicholas
2002 Amelie Louise Nolen
2001 Angela Caryn Innman
2000 Dennis Michael Duncan
1999 Stacey Lynn Shankle
1998 Alecia Marie Spooner
1997 Robert Ramsey Herrington
1996 Monroe Causey Ginn
1995 Lennon Elias Bowen, IV
1994 Margaret Allen Reese
1993 Gail L. Heimer
1992 Victoria Johnson Gimma