Honors Program

Students admitted to the honors program must enroll in ANTH 88, Anthropology Honors, in addition to the ten courses ordinarily required in the standard major or eleven courses in the case of a modified major. ANTH 88 may be taken only once; honors students should consult with their advisor about taking ANTH 87, Research Course, and the appropriate sequence of courses for their thesis preparation and writing. The honors project, which culminates in a substantial independent thesis, will be submitted to the primary advisor at least four weeks prior to graduation. Those students completing the program with a grade of A- or higher in their honors course will receive honors recognition in the major. High honors may be awarded by faculty vote for truly exceptional work.

Please note that this does not count as your Senior Seminar/Culminating Experience.

• Karolina Krelinova: "Challenging the Mythical Nation: Liberal Youth Activism in Belgrade, Serbia" (Kan)
• Adam Kraus: "Incorporation and Exclusion: The Changing Healthscapes of the Rural Highland Indigenous in Peru’s Sacred Valley of the Incas" (Craig, Covey)
• Archarna Ramanujam: "Race, Gender and Markedness: Women’s Identity Construction at Dartmouth College" (Gulbas)
• Christine Ryu: "Maintaining Cosmic Order: Mexica Offerings from Maize to Humans" (Nichols)
• Victoria Trump Redd: "Why are los cholos choleando a los cholos Cultural Health and the Emerging Middle Class in Carabayllo, Peru" (Watanabe)

• Manisha Apte: "Authoritative Knowledge and Prenatal Care in Rural Southern Gujarat, India" (Craig)
• Arielle Cannon: "Ancient Histories, New Identities: The (Re)Construction of Afro-­Venezuelan Identity Through Education" (Watanabe)
• Jennifer Koester: "Voluntourism: Mediating Interactions with the 'Other'" (Igoe)
• Stefanie Lazow: "Communicative Complexity in the Gelada Facial Display Repertoire" (Dobson)
• Sanja Miklin: "Cujo in the Family: Owning an Aggressive Dog in the Contemporary United States" (Watanabe)
• Alexandra Rahmann: "Beauty, Fertility and Anxiety: Societal Roles of the Yemenite Jewish Women as Reflected in the Traditional Bride's Costume and Jewelry" (Kan)

• Rachael Kandath: "Anatomy of the Facial Musculature in Two Diurnal Anthropoid Primates: Exploring the Relationship Between Facial Mobility and the Muscles of Facial Expression" (Muldoon)
• Sarah Klassen: "El Antigual: A Test of Surface Collection Methods" (Nichols)
• Michelle Reyf: "Gender Regimes and Reading Resistance: Female Suicide Attackers Between Iraq and a Hart Place" (Watanabe)
• Claire Wagner: "Into the Street: Children’s agency, adaptation and survival in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania" (Craig and Kim)
• Natalie Young: "Maintaining Boundaries, Maintaining Inequality: The “Tulane Bubble” Experience of New Orleans" (Gutiérrez Nájera)

• Sheila Dunning: "Kenyan Urban Youth Views on HIV and AIDS" (Endicott)
• Emi Ito: "Analysis of Oral Health in Portugal During the Transition to Agriculture" (Dobson/Nichols)
• Adam Levine: "The Present of the Past: An Ethnography of Antiquities Collectors" (Nichols/Welsch)
• Molly Fales: "Politics of Preservation in the New West: Land Ideology and Conservation Easements in Colorado" (Ranco)
• Megan Paradise: "Quality in Sustenance: The Interaction between Global and Local" (Craig)
• AlexAnna Salmon: "Igyararmiunguunga: qallemciq nunaka man'i kuicaraami-llu (I belong to Igiugig: the story of my home on the Kvichak River)" (Endicott)
• Zaneta Thayer: "Quantitative Variation in the Human Chin: Testing Adaptive Hypothesis" (Dobson/Muldoon)

• Jesse Blom: "Urban Brujeria in Venezuela: A Religious Marketplace of Opportunity and Competition" (Watanabe)
• Aya Caldwell: "Unidas Para Vivir Mejor (UPAVIM): A Case Study in Deconstructing the Complexities of Development in the Squatter Settlements of Guatemala City" (Watanabe)
• Eric Goodman: "From Bodies to Beliefs: A Question in Medical Anthropology Using Ancient Egyptian Mummies" (Welsch/Korey)
• Alexandra Spielhagen: "Reclaiming č'ixw'cәn: Contesting Burial Rights in the Pacific Northwest" (Ranco/Nichols)
• Akay Tuncak: "Struggling to Find Their Identities: Dress and Female Interactions in the Identity Struggle of Turkish University Women" (Kan)
• Christopher Wilt: "The Race-IQ Controversy: A Critical History" (Korey/Welsch)
• Marnie Wolfe: "Coping With Cultural Loss: The Resurgent Spirituality of Native Hawaiians" (Welsch/ Korey)

• Andrew Hamilton: "An Island with an Island: Attempts by the European Union at Integrating an Irish Border Community" (Welsch)
• Lauren Hendrickson: "Ancient Isolated Human Remains from Northern Black Mesa, Arizona" (Nichols)
• Cat Mcmanus: "From Prospective to Recruit to Student-Athlete: Female Student-Athlete's Choice of Dartmouth College and their Post-Recruitment Relationship with Coaches" (Welsch)
• David Eckels: Giant Steps: "Jazz and La Lucha in Contemporary Culture" (Alverson/Watanabe)
• Christina Palmer: "The Future of Street Children: Transitioning Off the Streets in San José, Costa Rica" (Gutierrez/Kan/Nichols)
• Benjamin Mustin: "The Paradox of "Indigenous Development:" Reconciling Cultures of Modernization in Bolivia" (Watanabe)
• William Raynolds: "The Role of a Specialized Pastoral Economy in Early Political Developments in Yemen" (Abdi)

• Laura Garzon: "A Global Village" (Watanabe)
• Tim Moriarty: "Cultural Paradoxes in Modern Saudi Society and the Appeals of "New Terrorism" (Watanabe)
• James Parker: "Homeless Youth in Hollywood" (Endicott)
• Allison Schumitsch: "Learning to See: Objects in Greek National Identity" (Eickelman)
• Shannon Stoval: "Rethinking Occupational Stress Markers: A Case Study from Bronze Age Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates" (Korey/Nichols)
• Lauren Weldon: "An examination of the Pennsylvania legislator's role"

• Kathryn Wendell: "The Beggars Who Sit on Benches of Gold: Local Response to South America's Largest Gold Mine" (Kray)
• Jaimie Paul: "The Anthropologist's Lens: Fifty Years of Medical Anthropology in Latin America" (Welsch/Kray)
• Moly Lacy: "The Astronomical Orientation of the Ceremonial Center at Tula of the Toltecs" (Nichols)
• Rachel Fleming: "The Future of "Tradition:" The Influence of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann on Traditional Music and Irish National Identity" (Endicott)

• Kristin Sullivan: "Daily Life in the City of the Gods: Household Funerary Analysis of Two Site at Teotihuacan" (Nichols)
• Sarah Boynton: "The Anthropology of Alternative Medicine: Forming a New American Medical Culture" (Welsch)
• Courtney Jacobs: "The Rise and Fall of the Hunting Hypothesis: Empirical Evidence and Social Contingencies" (Korey)
• Elizabeth Huamán: "Walking on Stones and Dirt: Wanka Storytelling in Changos Bajo" (Watanabe)

• Mieka Ritsema: "The American Value of Independence Among Eldery Residents of Assisted Living" (Alverson)
• Ronald Covey: "Modeling Religious Evolution: The Development of Ritual Architecture Among the Formative Maya"
• Marilyn Morano: "The Sine Qua Non of Women in Zinekan Society" (Watanabe)

• Richard Fried: "The Wari Occupation at Cerro Mejia: Wari Expansion in Moquegua" (Endicott)

• J. Parker Davis: "An Analysis of Selected Symbols Used within the Hopi Snake Dance Ritual and Snake Clan Myth" (Kan)
• Sonja Olsen: "Molecular Evolution and Phylogenic Reconstruction of Hominoids" (Korey)
• Kayla Ship: "From Ancient Israel to the Beta Israel: The Link Between Ancestry, Ethnic Identity, and Group Identity" (Endicott)

• Susan Moussa: "Non- Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus" (Korey)
• Frederick Henry: "Anthropology Without Mirrors: Discourse and the Rhetoric of Culture" (Alverson)

• Margaret Taylor: "Understanding Paleolithic Rock Art: The Franco- Cantabrian Aristic Tradition as a Response to Social, Economic, and Ecological Changes in Upper Paleolithic Europe" (Nichols)

• Huan Chang: "The Integration of Traditional Chinese Healing and Western Scientific Medicine in Two Contemporary Chinese Societies" (Endicott)