Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Networking Identity Research

博士论文改进奖：网络身份研究

• 批准号: 1923800
• 负责人: Barbara Mills
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1923800&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Networking

Under the direction of Dr. Barbara Mills, Leslie Aragon will conduct research to study how group identity is constructed at multiple scales and how it might change over time. Archaeology provides a unique opportunity to develop a framework for investigating different concepts of group identity and social interactions among communities with deep time depth in the ancient past. This project takes a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating social network analyses (SNA), petrographic analyses, and stylistic analyses across multiple media to understand internal and external diversity, an important step in gaining insight into social organization. Using the Hohokam Ballcourt World in the southern U.S. Southwest as a case study, this research informs upon the dynamic ways that groups form social boundaries regardless of spatial proximity. In a broader sense, the project addresses questions regarding the organization of human communities at varying scales, how people form identities, and the long-term effects of these processes. As part of her Ph.D. dissertation research, Ms. Aragon will use archaeological data from across southern Arizona to examine how people in the prehispanic Southwest formed both relational and categorical identities among social groups and how those identities changed or persisted with the rise and decline of the Hohokam Ballcourt World during the eighth through twelfth centuries (A.D. 700-1100). The researchers will use a multiscalar network approach to reconstruct group identities in the Hohokam Ballcourt World based on material culture at 100-year intervals to create "snapshots" through time. In this way, the project addresses issues of group adaptation during times of cultural and ideological change and reorganization. The investigators will use understudied curated material and published reports to integrate and synthesize more than 50 years of fieldwork across the study region. Research with existing collections will add to the stock of information available to managing agencies and will contribute new information that can be used in the interpretation of sites for the public. Finally, this research will contribute new methods for studying identity across time and space, which will be useful to researchers investigating similar processes, both in the past and present.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在芭芭拉·米尔斯博士的指导下，莱斯利·阿拉贡将进行研究，研究群体认同是如何在多个尺度上构建的，以及它可能会随着时间的推移而变化。考古学提供了一个独特的机会来开发一个框架，以深入研究古代历史中不同的群体身份和社区之间的社会互动概念。该项目采用多学科方法，结合社会网络分析(SNA)、岩相学分析和跨多种媒体的风格分析，以了解内部和外部的多样性，这是深入了解社会组织的重要一步。这项研究以美国西南部的霍霍卡姆棒球场世界为例，揭示了群体形成社会边界的动态方式，而不是空间上的接近。在更广泛的意义上，该项目解决了关于不同规模的人类社区的组织、人们如何形成身份以及这些过程的长期影响的问题。作为她博士论文研究的一部分，阿拉贡女士将使用亚利桑那州南部的考古数据来研究西南部的人是如何在社会群体中形成关系和绝对身份的，以及这些身份是如何随着霍霍卡姆棒球场世界在8世纪到12世纪(公元700-1100)的兴衰而变化或持续的。研究人员将使用多标量网络方法重建霍霍卡姆棒球场世界中每隔100年一次的物质文化的群体身份，以创建随时间推移的“快照”。通过这种方式，该项目解决了文化和思想变革和重组时期的群体适应问题。调查人员将使用未被充分研究的精选材料和已发表的报告来整合和综合整个研究地区50多年的实地考察。对现有收藏品的研究将增加管理机构可获得的信息存量，并将提供可用于为公众解释网站的新信息。最后，这项研究将为研究跨时间和空间的身份认同提供新的方法，这将对研究过去和现在类似过程的研究人员有用。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。