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Tawa, J., Negr贸n, R., Suyemoto, K.L. & Carter, A.S. (2015). The effects of resource competition on Blacks鈥, Asians鈥, and Whites鈥 social distances: A virtual world method. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 18 (6), 761 鈥 777.


Mellon New Directions Fellowship, 2023-2026


Faculty Fellowship, Mount Holyoke College, 2022-2023


Australian Research Council Indigenous Discovery Project (Partner Investigator), 2020-2023


Australian Research Council Linkage Project (Research Associate), 2021-2024


Five Colleges鈥 Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS)/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 鈥淕athering at the Crossroads鈥 Project. $49,660 for artists鈥 residency and $12,480 for course redesign (2021-22); $10,000 for course redesign (2020-21)


Included in a Australian Research Council (Australia) Grant via agreement with the University of Melbourne for the project "Indigenous Storytelling and the Living Archive of Aboriginal Knowledge." The project is for 3 years. (2020)


Faculty Fellowship (2019), Smithsonian Institution鈥檚 Summer Institute for Museum Anthropology (SIMA)


Thorner, S. (2023) 鈥淚ndigenous Media: Currents of Engagement鈥 (with K. Dowell and G. Zamorano). In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press.


Thorner, S. (2022) 鈥淏ringing a Living Archive to Life.鈥 Pursuit (online magazine of the University of Melbourne). With F. Edmonds and  J. Leane. Available: .