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Selected Senior Theses

All anthropology majors are required to write a senior thesis under the mentorship of a faculty member.

Here are some exemplary theses:

Archaeology

Nicholas S. Leden - Ramey Incised: The Lines Connecting The John Chapman Site To Cahokia
Aaron Peterson - Material Culture in Diaspora: A Comparative Study of Ballykilcline, Ireland and Five Points, New York
Burt Smith - Complexity, Trade, and Death: Analysis of the shift in Burial Practices during the Late La Tène Period
Amanda Burke - Analysis of the Shift in Entranceway Architecture of the Mogollon Region of the American Southwest
Bradley Hanson - Reconstructing Late Archaic Technology: An Experimental Study of Flaked Stone in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Michael Schaefer - Archaeology, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya Commoner

Cultural Anthropology

Sara Caldwell - The Occult Tarot And Mythology
Alexandra Robinson - Forms and Functions of Premenstrual Syndrome
Lawrence B. McBride - Underground Wrestling and Altered States of Consciousness
Alexandra Carter - Changing Views of Identity in the Face of Globalization Among Hispanic Communities in Diaspora
Jennifer Blanchard - Coming of age in the System: Children of the Court
Sarah Archer - The Choice of "Natural": Childbirth as a Project

Biological Anthropology

Michael Maystadt - A Critique of the Out of Africa Model
Kimberly Jones - Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton: Looking at Squatting Facets
Kara B. Babrowski - A Comparative Study of Sequences Derived From Mitochondrial DNA Databases Applied To the Question Of the Origin Of Modern Humans
Beth Christine Laas - The Effects of Interbreeding on the Morphological and Genetic Attributes of Non-human Primates

Linguistic Anthropology

Lisa Burns - Through the "Front Door" to the "Backyard": Linguistic Variation of the American Circus
Stephanie Cerqua - Mingling Tongues: Code switching/mixing Practices of North American Bilinguals
Sara Russell - Language of War