Kristina Douglass, an archaeologist at Columbia University, received an $800,000 MacArthur award for her research "investigating how past human societies and environments co-evolved and adapted to ...

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Kristina Douglass was doing the dishes in her slippers when she received the call from the MacArthur Foundation, giving her the news that she had received a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. "I told ...