Hamley awarded $25K American Dissertation Fellowship

Kit Hamley, Ph.D. candidate in the School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute (CCI) at the University of Maine, has been awarded an $25,000 American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. This fellowship will support Hamley for 2023–24 as she completes her dissertation, which leverages new tools to understand human prehistory in Maine and the Falkland Islands. Hamley was previously supported by a CCI Research Assistantship for her M.S. in Quaternary and Climate Studies, as well as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a Chase Distinguished Research Assistantship and a Janet Waldron Doctoral Research Fellowship.