GGSR PhD Candidate and UCD Provost’s Dissertation Year Fellow, Cai Thorman, has been awarded the AIA 2019 Graduate Student Paper Award (First Prize) and the WCC 2019 Pre-PhD Paper Presentation Prize for her paper entitled, “Matrilineal Lineage in Cult for Hellenistic Queens,” presented at the AIA/SCS 2019 Joint Annual Meeting January 3-6, 2019 in San Diego, CA.
The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Graduate Student Paper Award is awarded once a year for a graduate student paper delivered at the AIA/SCS Annual Meeting and is selected based on originality of the research, concision of presentation, organization, and rhetorical delivery. The Women’s Classical Caucus (WCC) Pre-PhD Paper Presentation Prize is also awarded once a year for an oral paper presented a major conference by a pre-PhD scholar that relates to the WCC’s mission of the study of gender, sexuality, feminist theory, women’s history, or the status of women in the profession.