Sandra J. Gray


Sandra Gray
  • Professor Emerita
  • Anthropology

Contact Info

Fraser Hall 626
Lawrence
1415 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045

Education

Ph.D. in Anthropology, The State University of New York at Binghamton
M.A. in Anthropology , The State University of New York at Binghamton
BFA in Theater, The Goodman School of Drama of the Art Institute of Chicago

Teaching

Courses Recently Taught

  • Anthropology of Sex
  • Nutritional Anthropology: Methods and Theory
  • Human Adaptation
  • Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
  • Biology of Human Nutrition

Awards & Honors

J. Michael Young Award for Outstanding Academic Advising (Social Sciences)

2011

Sabbatical leave

2009 - 2010

Kemper Award

University of Kansas Endowment

2009

H. Bernerd Fink Award for Excellence in Teaching (Chancellor’s Award)

2002

Sabbatical leave

2000 - 2001

Outstanding Woman Educator

Kansas University Commission on the Status of Women

2000

Award for teaching excellence in Anthropology

University of Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence

1998

Sponsored participant, Grants Writing Workshop

Institute for Public Policy

1997

Nominated for Michael J. Young Outstanding Academic Advisor Award

University of Kansas

1996

Dissertation Year Fellowship

State University of New York at Binghamton

1991 - 1992

Distinguished Dissertation in Social Sciences

State University of New York at Binghamton

1992

Grants & Other Funded Activity

The impact of AK-47 raiding on human fitness (survival and reproduction) in two African pastoralist societies. General Research Fund, University of Kansas. $9145.00. (12/31/2003). University (KU or KUMC). Status: Funded

The Impact of AK-47 raiding on maternal strategies in an African pastoralist society. Wenner-Gren Foundation. $25000.00. (12/31/2003). Foundation. Status: Funded

In support of the lecture series presented as part of Women’s Works 2000: From Our Past to Our Future. Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City. (12/31/2000). Foundation. Status: Funded

Small grant for equipment, for field work in Uganda. Carrol D. Clark Award (Anthropology). (1/1/1998 - 12/31/1999). University (KU or KUMC). Status: Funded

Economic development and disequilibrium: Population dynamics of Karimojong pastoralists of Uganda. Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. $14860.00. (12/31/1998). Foundation. Status: Funded

Exhibit entitled, Women’s Works 2000: From Our Past to Our Future. Kansas Humanities Council. $10698.00. (12/31/1998). State of Kansas. Status: Funded. Grant to support an interdisciplinary exhibition at the University of Kansas Museum of Anthropology, spring, 2000.

Grant to support demographic research in Karamoja, Uganda. General Research Fund, University of Kansas. $5775.00. (12/31/1998). University (KU or KUMC). Status: Funded

Development and nonequilibrium: Population dynamics of Karimojong pastoralists of Uganda. National Geographic Society. $17200.00. (12/31/1997). Not-for-Profit (not Foundation). Status: Funded

Grant to undertake archival and planning research in Uganda in July and August, 1996. General Research Fund, University of Kansas. $5875.00. (1/1/1996 - 12/31/1997). University (KU or KUMC). Status: Funded

Title VI Grant for Faculty and Curriculum Development in African and African-American Studies. (1/1/1993 - 12/31/1995). Federal. Status: Funded. Sponsored Participant. This sponsorship also included travel money to participate in the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, in 1993 and in 1994.

Additional financial support to support an exploratory research project in Uganda, on effects of political and environmental stress on agro-pastoral systems in Karimoja, Uganda. Area Studies and RGSPS. (12/31/1994). University (KU or KUMC). Status: Funded

For exploratory research in Uganda and in Kenya. Carrol D. Clark Award (Anthropology). (12/31/1994). University (KU or KUMC). Status: Funded