Shryock Receives Fellowship to Author Second Book

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Andrew J. Shryock, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, has received an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)/Social Sciences Research Council International Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the ACLS, the fellowship includes a stipend of $25,000.

Shryock will write a book, "Civility and Power: The Politics of Hospitality in Tribal Jordan," during the fellowship.

The book will be based on three years of research by him examining how the hundreds of tribes in Jordan use feasts as politics and policy.

In an earlier book, "Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan," Shryock focused on the transition from spoken history to written history among Jordan's tribes.

Shryock is a resident of Buffalo.