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George Armelagos Wins Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology and Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. George Armelagos, Goodrich C. White Professor and Chair of Anthropology has been awarded the American Anthropological Association 2008 Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology and the American Association of Physical Anthropologists 2008 Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award.
With the Boas Award—the highest honor given by the American Anthropological Association—Dr. Armelagos joins the ranks of Margaret Mead (the first recipient of the award), Claude Levi-Strauss, and H. Russell Bernard. The Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award is the top award given by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists—an international organization of over fifteen hundred members. Together, the awards honor Dr. Armelagos’s lifetime contributions to anthropology by recognizing his pioneering research, extensive scholarship, and service to the discipline of physical anthropology. Dr. Armelagos’ contributions to paleopathology and the study of evolution and the human diet have been revolutionary and he has served Emory for fifteen years as an engaging teacher, an highly valued advisor for graduate and undergraduate research, and an amiable colleague.