McKennan Prize
2024
Brandon Mioduszewski '25
"Contours of Belonging: Identity Formation Among First-Generation Low-Income Students at Dartmouth College"
2023
Allison MacLeod '23
"Realizing Imagined Communities on the Digital Plane: A Case Study of White Nationalist American Women on Social Media"
2022
Charity Chen '22
"Living with Dementia: Reframing Ideas and Transforming Experience"
Sheen Kim '23
"That Which Feeds": Sovereignties Possibilities of Lāhui (Nation), 'Āina (Land), and 'Ai (Food)"
Julia King '23
"The Land that Feeds: Bringing the land back to the people in Hawaiian conservation"
2021
Chun Hey (Brian) Kot '21
From Flexible Citizenship to "I am Hongkonger": Hongkonger diasporas and long-distance nationalism
2020
Uyen Dang '21
"Works of Memory: dilution, connection and remembering by Vietnamese in Auckland's Vietnamese Cafés"
2019
Sophie Montgomery '19
"Experiential Knowledge and Societal Perceptions of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) Shape Routinization of NIPT"
2018
Ali Hunter '19
"Those who came here": The double-bind of Pakeha representation in The Auckland War Memorial Museum
2017
Nicolle Salazar '19
"Identity Politics: Defining a National Identity in 20th Century Peru"
Benjamin Weinstock '17
"Kant and Utility Restrict Nonhuman Primate Research Together"
2016
Sandor Farkas '18
"The Domes of al-Haram al-Sharif in the Palestinian National Identity"
Alyssa Steeger '16
"Through the Looking Glass: Food Choices as a Mirror of Lived Experiences and Identity among Dartmouth College Students"
2015
Catherine M. Feuille
"Born This Way: The Scientific Design and Biosocial Fashioning of Sexual Identity”
2014
Lauren E. Kwan '14
"Women and China’s One-Child Policy."
2013
Emily D. Blackmer '13
"The Imperative for Collaboration Among Scientists and Anthropologists on Climate Research: Challenges, Opportunities, and Models."
2012
Connie Shang '13
"Power Plays: Struggle Sessioins in Villages of the Chinese Cultural Revolution."
2011
Marielle Brown '11
"New Acid Preparation Technique for Fossil Samples in Breccia"
2010
Max Lindeman '10
"The Biomechanics of Knuckle Walking"
2009
Travis Cramer '12
"A Revolution: The Effects of Print and Literacy in the Protestant Reformation"
Leila English '09
"Control by Calendrics: Manipulation of Ideological Power Among Classic Maya Rulers"
2008
AlexAnna Salmon '08
"The Cultural Landscape of Kukaklek: The Lake in the Middle"
2007
Theodore A. Mathias '09
"The Batek: Rainforest Foragers, Malaysia, 1990" (DVD)
2006
Melinda J. Ross '06
"Teotihuacan Obsidian at Cosotlan 23: Dense Obsidian Concentrations in a Non-Production Context"
2004
David N. Eckels '04
2003
Kelly R. Ramirez '03
2002
Nikolaus S. Steinberg '02
2001
Tucker Murphy '04
2000
David B. Pass '00
1999
Sydney Carter '00
Kate Creskoff '99
1998
Erin Hardie '98
1997
Kristin S. Sullivan '98
1996
Colin S.O. Grey '97
1995
Elisabeth A. Smith '95 (Thesis)
R. Alan Covey '96 (Paper)
1994
Severin A. Fowles '93
1993
Severin A. Fowles '93 (Paper)
Susan C. Chimonas '93 (Thesis)
Douglas R. Johnson '93 (Thesis)
1992
Luis A. Vivanco '91
Kayla Ship '92
1991
Eric C. Ames '91 (Paper)
Clare Taltalker '90 (Thesis)
1990
Frederick B. Henry, Jr. '90
1989
R. Lucian Sulica '89
1988
Kathryn v. Shaw '88 (Paper)
1987
R. Lucian Sulica '89
1986
Margaret S. Taylor '86
1985
C. Stuart Chandler '85
1984
Huan J. Chang '84
1983
Robin Wagner-Birkner (MALS)
Gayle Hughes (MALS)