The NSF still has this program which funds high-risk projects, and allows people to undertake new and unprecedented projects with a funding source. It was a small grant - $25,000-$30,000 - for which Conkey had to develop relationships with French colleagues, as well as get permission from the regional archaeological service, and a permit. Diversity and equality in the field Conkey has consistently challenged the notion that fieldwork is inherently masculine, and encourages fellow archaeologists to consider the myriad of ways in which gender shapes human experiences - both past and present. When in Jordan, for example, she wasn't able to do any digging in the field - because she was a young female, and all the hired workers were older men. Conkey also encourages more attention to unsung women directors such as Cynthia Irwin-Williams and Patty Jo Watson. Honors and awards Professor Conkey became President of the Society for American Archaeology in 2009. In 2009, she received the Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence from Berkeley, for her work for diversity and equal opportunity. She has also won the Distinguished Teaching Award (1996) and the Award for Educational Initiatives (2001) and has leveraged the start-up funds for a Multi-Media Teaching Laboratory for the Department of Anthropology. In 2017 she was awarded the Huxley Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Publications "Archaeology and the Study of Gender" (1984) (With Janet D. Spector) Engendering Archaeology:Women and Prehistory (1991) (With Joan M. Gero) The Uses of Style in Archaeology (New Directions in Archaeology) (1993) (With Christine Ann Hastorf) Programme to Practice: Gender and Feminism in Archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology (Vol. 26: October 1997) (With Joan M. Gero) Symbolism and the Cultural Landscape (1980) (With Lester B Rowntree) Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and Evidence (1998) (With Ruth Tringham, Lyn Meskell, Joan Goodnick Westenholz, Karel van der Toorn, Fekri A. Hassan, Mary E. Voyatzis,Caroline Malone) Beyond Art: Pleistocene Image and Symbol (1997) (As editor, with Olga Soffer, Deborah Stratmann, Nina G. Jablonski) Perspectives on Anthropological Collections from the American Southwest: Proceedings of a Symposium (Anthropological Research Papers) (As editor, with Ann Lane Hedlund) Filmography See also Feminist archaeology Gender archaeology References 1943 births Living people University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Prehistorians American women archaeologists 20th-century American archaeologists 21st-century American archaeologists 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American