Anthropology doctoral student awarded the SSHRC Fellowship

Samantha Ellens, a second-year Ph.D. student in anthropology at Wayne State University, has been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Doctoral Fellowships, one of Canada’s most competitive academic honors.

The $80,000 award, distributed over four years, will support Ellens’ archaeological and historical research on Montserrat’s post-emancipation lime industry from 1852 to 1928. Her project, "Landscapes of Labour: Tracing Montserrat’s Post-Emancipation Lime Industry," is supervised by Dr. Krysta Ryzewski.

The SSHRC doctoral fellowship program recognizes outstanding scholarship among Canadian citizens. Of this year’s 475 awards, only 33 were granted to students at U.S. institutions, making Ellens’ achievement especially notable. She is the first Wayne State student in any discipline to receive the fellowship in many years.