Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Analysis of Rapid Cultural Change

博士论文改进补助金：快速文化变革的分析

• 批准号: 2006750
• 负责人: Margaret Judd
• 金额: $ 1.98万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2021-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2006750&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Analysis

People have multiple overlapping and intersecting identities including their biology, health and socioeconomic status, that define who they are and how they interact with others. These identities can be used to empower or disenfranchise individuals and communities based on social milieu. Disruptions to social environments initiated by changing demographics (migration) or political upheaval can transform the social significance of these identities. Within this broad context and under the supervision of Dr. Margaret Judd of the University of Pittsburgh, doctoral candidate Deborah Neidich will investigate the impact of human mobility on identity construction following a period sociopolitical turmoil. This project contributes to the body of research regarding material signifiers of identity and the relationship between cultural processes and biology; it may also point to the origins of historically recognized groups that emerged during sociopolitical change. This is particularly important as it may serve as a historical analogy to modern sociopolitical issues regarding contemporary migration by highlighting a diverse history that was forged by migrations and migrants. The information obtained through this research will be the foundation for Ms Neidich’s dissertation and available electronically as well as in a series of academic publications.Ms. Neidich will use a range of sources including the skeletal biological profile (age, sex, and chemical markers of mobility) and skeletal evidence for biological stress and diet. Stable isotope analysis of carbon and nitrogen adds a dietary signature, while grave goods analysis provides information concerning status and gender. Combined, the data can identify salient social categories to answer the following three questions: (1) Which aspects of a person’s identity were important for a community to mark at a person’s burial? (2) Were social disparities expressed as differences in health, trauma and diet, related to identity in the past? (3) Was there a shift in the perception of these categories during political change and periods of stability? This work will identify transitions in identity and mobility over an extended period of time. The project will assess patterns of change in demography, health, diet and grave good distribution to evaluate how identities were expressed prior to and transformed.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.

人们有多重重叠和交叉的身份，包括他们的生物学，健康和社会经济地位，这些身份决定了他们是谁以及他们如何与他人互动。这些身份可以被用来根据社会环境赋予或剥夺个人和社区的权利。人口结构变化（移民）或政治动荡引发的社会环境破坏可以改变这些身份的社会意义。在这一广泛的背景下，并在匹兹堡大学的玛格丽特·贾德博士的监督下，博士生黛博拉·内迪奇将调查一段时间的社会政治动荡后，人类流动性对身份建构的影响。该项目有助于研究身份的物质标志以及文化进程和生物学之间的关系;它还可能指出在社会政治变革期间出现的历史上公认的群体的起源。这一点特别重要，因为它可以通过突出移徙和移民所塑造的多样化历史，作为与当代移徙有关的现代社会政治问题的历史类比。通过这项研究获得的信息将是Neidich女士的论文的基础，并可在电子版以及一系列学术出版物中获得。Neidich女士将使用一系列来源，包括骨骼生物学概况（年龄，性别和流动性的化学标志物）和生物应激和饮食的骨骼证据。碳和氮的稳定同位素分析增加了饮食特征，而坟墓物品分析提供了有关地位和性别的信息。结合起来，这些数据可以识别出突出的社会类别，以回答以下三个问题：（1）一个人的身份的哪些方面对一个社区在一个人的葬礼上标记是重要的？(2)社会差距是否表现为健康、创伤和饮食方面的差异，与过去的身份有关？(3)在政治变革和稳定时期，对这些类别的看法是否发生了变化？这项工作将确定身份和流动性在很长一段时间内的转变。该项目将评估在人口，健康，饮食和严重的良好分布的变化模式，以评估身份是如何表达之前和transformed.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。