ISE Congress Awards
The Ebi Kimanani Memorial Fellowship
Dr. Ebi Kalahi Kimanani (1958-2005) was an internationally renowned malarial researcher and biostatistician, who believed in African solutions for Africa’s problems. The travel award in her honor goes to a young, sub-Saharan ethnobiologist whose work best reflects these values, to enable them to share their work at an ISE Congress.
Due to a shortage of funds, there was no 2010 Kimanani Fellowship awarded. Please consider supporting this ISE Fellowship.
The 2008 Kimanani Fellowship recipient Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo (PhD, Biosciences Engineering) is a Lecturer on the Faculty of Agronomic Scinces at the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin.
The 2006 Kimanani Fellowship recipients were Ojok Miriam Fiona, BSc. Ethnobotany and MSc. Botany student at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Botany, and JacobMhando Nyangila, of the Kenya Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge (KENRIK) – National Museums of Kenya.
ISE Student Prizes
The ISE awards a prize for the student member contribution shared at an ISE Congress – paper, video, multi-media, or performance on an ethnobiological theme – that best reflects the Society’s mission and is consistent with the ISE Code of Ethics.
The ISE awarded 3 Student Prizes for contributions during the 2010 ISE Congress:
1. Oral presentation: Joe McCarter (Conserving traditional ecological knowledge: the case of kastom schools on Malekula Island, Vanuatu)
2. Poster Presentation: Kate Turner (Supporting Cultural Practices Through Business? Gitga’at First Nation Perspectives on Locally-Driven Cultural Tourism Development)
3. Alternative Format: Simone Athayde (Playing with Amazonian Myths: a Workshop on Interactive Storytelling Applied to the Education of Ethnobiology)
You can read more about these 3 emerging Ethnobiologists in the the Special Issue of the ISE Newsletter (March 2010).
Due to a shortage of funds, there was no 2008 Student Prize awarded. Please contribute what you can to help ensure young ethnobiologists are recognized for their exceptional work.
The 1st ISE Student Paper Prize was awarded during the 2006 ISE Congress to Miyako Koizumi, Graduate Student in Asian and African Area Studies at Kyoto University, Japan.
