Recent Gift to Arts & Sciences Supports Graduate Students Studying Anthropology
Thanks to a generous gift of $100,000, Cherry Lindholm has established the Charles Thomas Lindholm Graduate Research Endowment in Anthropology to honor the memory of her beloved husband, Professor Emeritus Charles Thomas Lindholm. This fund will provide annual awards to one or more graduate students studying anthropology at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, with preference for students engaged in social anthropology research.
Charles Thomas Lindholm was an influential and prolific scholar. He was a dedicated teacher and beloved mentor to generations of graduate students and colleagues. Students and faculty were inspired by the breadth of his interests, which included photography, painting, music, and gardening, as well as academic scholarship. He was the author of eight books, and his works have been published in six languages. His initial field research was in the Swat Valley of Northern Pakistan. The ethnographic study that resulted, Generosity and Jealousy (1982), established him as a leading scholar of South Asian studies and a leading theorist in the anthropology of emotion. He continued to publish on the region, but at the same time his interests evolved toward work in the United States, and toward broad theoretical issues.