AIA-OC Grants

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GRANT PROGRAM

In 2015 the Orange County Society, with the strong support of the Seigle family, launched a grant program to financially support southern California archaeology students in furthering their education and experience, and whose research will further the body of knowledge of the human past. 

Additionally, we promote the dissemination of this knowledge to the general public by having grant winners present their projects as lectures in order to foster interest that will translate into continued and expanding societal and financial support of archaeology and the grant program.

Each year we intend to fund one or more grants up to $2,000. In the first 5 years of this program we have distributed $20,000 to 11 worthy graduate students.

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David and Ruth Seigle

2023 Grant Recipients

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YAOHAN WU

Yaohan is a Ph.D candidate at the Anthropology Department of University of California, San Diego. As a bioarchaeologist, she is interested in employing interdisciplinary research to understand how population in prehistoric times adapted to the geoenvironmental stressors around them and how the different foodways they utilized impacted their health.

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ALBA MENENDEZ PEREDA

Alba Menéndez Pereda is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Interdepartmental Archaeology Program housed within the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. She received her bachelor’s degree (B.A.) in archaeology from Durham University, and completed her master’s (M.Phil.) at Cambridge with a focus on the archaeology of the Indigenous Americas.

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GRANT INFORMATION

The Orange County Society of the Archaeological Institute of America maintains an AIA-Orange County Society Scholarship Program. The funds will be raised from the general membership of the AIA-OC and will be granted to an archaeology student in Southern California.

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GRANT APPLICATIONS

Applications open after the first of the new year. And are generally due by end of March. However see application forms for specific dates. Links to forms can be found at the bottom of the below linked page.

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