Current

National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (PI: Alexia Smith; Co-PI: Lucas Proctor) “Fueling socioeconomic complexity: fuel use and fuel economies during the Chalcolithic and Iron Ages of Northern Mesopotamia”. $19,819. Aug 2018–Jul 2020.

University of Connecticut, Office of Undergraduate Research SHARE Award for collaborative research with an undergraduate student (PI: Alexia Smith, 50%; Co-PI: Stephen Baker, 50%) “Exploring the Upper Crust of Mesopotamian Society: An Archaeological Study of Bread Production at Tell Leilan”. $2000. Jan 2019–May 2019

Norian Armenian Programs Committee, University of Connecticut (PI: Alexia Smith; CoPI: Nelli Hovhannisyan) “Using RADseq to Document the Genetic Diversity of Armenian Grape Varieties”. $5605. Oct 2017–Mar 2018.

Completed

Alexia Smith (PI) Completed. UConn Honors Course Development Grant “Applied Research in Archaeobotany” Design of research course geared towards honors students. $5000. Jun 2018–Jul 2018.

Provosts Open Educational Resources Awards (PI: Alexia Smith) “Using Open Access Resources in Anth 1500, Great Discoveries in Archaeology”.$10,000. Mar 2017– Sep 2017.

National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award 1054938 (PI: Alexia Smith) “Exploring Agriculture, the Environment, and Social Change: Evidence from the Ancient Near East”
$412,310 (direct: $277,073)
May 2011–Apr 2017

UConn Research Excellence Program (PI: Alexia Smith) “Examining the Modern and Ancient Morphological and Genetic Diversity of Grape in Armenia”
$24,996
May 2017–April 2017

UConn Provost Competition for Equipment to be used in Education (PI: Alexia Smith) “JEOL Desktop Scanning Electron Microscope with EDS capabilities and Desktop 3D Scanner”
$140,000
Mar 2016

Norian Armenian Programs Committee, University of Connecticut (PI: Alexia Smith) “Establishing a Botanical Reference Collection for Archaeobotanical Studies in Armenia”
$5000Oct 2013–Sep 2014

University of Connecticut, Office of Undergraduate Research SHARE Award for collaborative research with an undergraduate student (PI: Alexia Smith, 50%; Co-PI: Joyce Fountain, 50%) “Exploring Prunus domestication in the Southern Caucasus”
$2000
Jan 2014–May 2014

American Research Institute of the South Caucasus, Collaborative Heritage Management Grant, (PI: Alexia Smith, 50%; Co-PI: Ivan Gabrielyan, 50%) Alexia “Establishing a Botanical Reference Collection for Archaeobotanical Studies in Armenia”
$3000
May 2012–Apr 2013

University of Connecticut, Fund for Innovative Education in Science (PI: Gideon Hartman, 50%; Co-PIs: Sally McBrearty, Linda Strausbaugh, Alexia Smith, 17% each) to develop “Archaeological and Forensic Science” course.
$57,294
Aug 2011–Dec 2011

Curtiss T. and Mary G. Brennan Foundation (PI: Alexia Smith) “Seeds, Glorious Seeds: Early Agriculture, Horticulture, and Social Complexity at Bird’s Cave, Armenia”
$5000
Jun 2010–Jun 2011

University of Connecticut, Intermediate Research Equipment Grant to purchase a Nikon AZ100 microscope with NIS Elements Software (PI: Alexia Smith, 50%; Co-PIs: Sally McBrearty, Natalie Munro, Daniel Adler, 17% each)
$40,775
Jan 2010

University of Connecticut, Large Faculty Grant (PI: Alexia Smith) “Exploring the Dynamics of Agricultural Production and Early Social Complexity in the Old World”
$25,938
Jun 2009–Sep 2010

University of Connecticut, Small Faculty Grant (PI: Alexia Smith) “An Archaeobotanical Study of Bird’s Cave, Armenia”
$1500
Apr 2008–Aug 2008

Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-Ph.D. Grant (PI: Alexia Smith) “Examining Agriculture and Societal Collapse in the Near East”
$25,000
May 2007–May 2010

University of Connecticut, Provost’s Office Course Development Grant (PI: Alexia Smith) to develop Anth 1500 Great Discoveries in Archaeology
$8000
Apr 2007–Aug 2007

University of Connecticut, Small Faculty Grant (PI: Alexia Smith) “An archaeobotanical investigation of plant use at Tell Leilan, Syria during the Uruk and Akkadian periods”
$1000
May 2006–Aug 2006

American School of Oriental Research, Committee on Archaeological Policy Harris/Torch Grant (PI: Alexia Smith) “Food production and agriculture at Tell Qarqur, Syria”
$1000
Mar 2004

National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant 0210651 (PI: Julie Hansen, 50%; Co-PI: Alexia Smith, 50%) “Bronze and Iron Age Agriculture in the Near East”
$12,000
May 2002–May 2003

National Academy of Sciences, administered by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Grant-in-Aid of Research (PI: Alexia Smith) “Agricultural and Environmental Change in the Near East during the Bronze and Iron Ages: Applying Archaeology to Current Agricultural Development”
$600
Dec 2001–Dec 2002