Eva Melstrom
Awards & Grants
2017-2018 UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship2017 UCLA International Institute Fieldwork Fellowship
2017 UCLA Department of Anthropology Research Grant
2017 UCLA Department of Anthropology Travel Grant
2016-2017 Society for Psychological Anthropology/Lemelson Fellowship
2016 UCLA Department of Anthropology Research Grant
2015 UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship
2015 UCLA Department of Anthropology Research Grant
2015 UCLA Department of Anthropology Travel Grant
2014-2015 Sharpless Fellowship (UCLA)
Conference Presentations
1.) “Returning from The Gulf: Ethiopian Domestic Workers’ Experiences of Rehabilitation, Reintegration, and Reunification”. Annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe, NM. March 2017.
2.) “Familial Responsibility and Dilemmas of Migrant Work: Ethiopian women’s experiences of domestic work in the Persian Gulf”. Society for Psychological Anthropology Biannual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. March 2017.
3.) “Who Minus Who”: Reflections on Pride and Suicide in the Ethiopian Diaspora. American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. Denver, CO. November 2015.