Princeton University

For her project "Engaged Anthropology: The Ethics and Politics of Collaborations in the Field"

For his project "Race and Citizenship in the Americas" in collaboration with Pedro M. Monteiro (Spanish and Portuguese)

The scholars will receive financial support for travel and research to pursue global health-related internships and senior thesis research. This year's winners join the anthropology 2010 scholars, Christine Blauvelt '12, Allison Daminger '12, and Sojung Yi '12.

Tobolsky’s interests include human bipedality and its manifestation in the human musculoskeletal system, with a special focus on the pelvis and lower limbs. She plans to pursue an M.Phil in Human Evolutionary Studies at Cambridge, and later hopes to become a pediatric orthopedic surgeon. The scholarship covers the full cost of pursuing a full-time graduate degree in any subject offered at the University of Cambridge.

She has been awarded with the Rudolph Virchow Award from the Critical Anthropology for Global Health Group, the Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, and the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize from the American Ethnological Society (for paper "A World Unmade: Diabetes and the Occult in Northern Ghana")

"Patient Autonomy and the Right to Transgender Health" (excerpt from his senior thesis) won honorable mention, 2011 Rudolph Virchow Undergraduate Student Award, Society for Medical Anthropology.