Fall 2007  

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Washington University in
St. Louis

Department of Anthropology

College of Arts & Sciences

Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Archived
Issues

 

Undergraduate Students: Selected Recent Publications, Awards & Honors, Grants
Poster session for undergraduate research in anthropology

Fulbright Award
Liza Baron
J. William Fulbright Award from the U.S. Department of State for Islamic studies in Morocco

Danielle Matilsky
J. William Fulbright Award from the U.S. Department of State for a public health project in Malawi

John W. Bennett Prize
Blair Roberts
To the outstanding graduating senior in Anthropology

Senior Honors Theses

Liza Baron (Lois Beck)
No News is Good News: Al Jazeera and CNN Coverage of the Summer 2006 Conflict Between Hizbollah and Israel

JENNIFER BEASLEY (Robert Canfield)
Changing the Tide: The Gendered Implications of Water Resource Management in Argentina

MICAH KING (Robert Canfield)
Homosexuality in Cameroon's Public Sphere: Rejecting Homosexuality as Protest against the Other

CHELSEA WINTER NOLEN (John Bowen)
Virtual Pluralities: Cultural Pluralism in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

BLAIR ROBERTS (Gayle Fritz)
The Sea Walls of Remmatonisi

J. SHOSHANA ROSENBERG (Robert Sussman)
The Effect of Habitat Change on the Behavior of a Captive All-Male Gorilla Group at the Saint Louis Zoo

KATHERINE SANTOSA (Bradley Stoner)
Un-Silencing the Hepatitis B Epidemic

Fulbright Award
Jamie Thomas (special major in anthropology and Swahili studies)
J. William Fulbright Award from the U.S. Department of State to teach English as a foreign language in Malayasia

John W. Bennett Prize
Robyn d'Avignon
To the outstanding graduating senior in Anthropology

Senior Honors Theses

KATHERINE CLAPHAM (Robert Sussman)
Patterns of Activity, Substrate Size, and Tail Position in Mantled Howler Monkeys (Alouatta palliata) in Costa Rica

EMILY CUTRELL (Shanti Parikh)
Side by Side with Sex Workers: The Political Economy of Prostitution in South Africa

ROBYN D'AVIGNON (Glenn Stone)
Power, Politics, and Poultry: Contracts, Control, and Farmer Resistance in Rural Missouri

EMILY FREY (Tab Rasmussen)
The Etiology of Porotic Hyperostosis: An Assessment of the Role of Tuberculosis and the Anemia of Chronic Disease on the Frequency of Porotic Hyperostosis in the Hamann-Todd Osteological Collection

AMY GJESDAHL (Shanti Parikh)
The Performance of a Threatened Jamaican Masculinity in the Context of the Informal Sex Tourism Industry in Negril, Jamaica

MARK HINES (Shanti Parikh)
Knowledge Production, Control, and the Dissemination: Selective Education in Human Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cells

HEATHER HOCH (Brad Stoner)
Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the Pluralism of the American Medical System

ERIC LEVENTHAL (Glenn Stone)
The Modern Tourhead: Conflicted Kindness in the Mobile Community of Grateful Dead, U.S.A.

MICHELLE MERGLER (Bradley Stoner)
Population Policies and the Takaungu Family Planning Case Study

MICHAEL REICH ((James Cheverud))
The Genetic Relationships Between Obesity and Osteoporosis

MARGARET THREADGILL (Bradley Stoner)
Death, Dying, and Hospice in America: How the Fundamental Culture-Bound Construction of Death in America Acts as a Barrier to the Widespread Implementation and Acceptance of Hospice Care in America

CHELSEA WARREN (Richard Smith)
The Influence of Sex on Age Estimates Derived from Endocranial and Ectocranial Closure of the Lateral-Anterior Vault Sutures

MING-MING XU (Bradley Stoner)
The Aging Experience in a Specialized Dementia Care Facility