Graduate Honors/Research

Justin Adams
Publications
2005 — A methodology for the intraspecific assessment of heterogeneously worn hypsodont teeth using computerized tomography. Journal of Taphonomy 3(4): 151-162.
Grants
“Taphonomic and paleoecological factors influencing hominid incorporation at Gondolin and other South African cave sites” funded by Palaeoanthropological Scientific Trust; Wenner-Gren Foundation; and Faculty Research Fund Grant (Luleche), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Lee Arco
Awards
2004 Outstanding GIS Poster Award, GIS Symposium Poster Competition, Washington University in St. Louis

Maria C. Bruno
Grants
“Agricultural Intensification and the Emergence of Complex Societies on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia” funded by National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Libby Cowgill
Grants
“Ontogeny of Lone Bone Diaphyses in Immature Late Pleistocene Postcrania” funded by Leakey Foundation and National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
Awards
First Prize for Poster at the 2005 Tenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium of Washington University, “Variation in the development of postcranial robusticity: An example from Çatalhöyük Turkey”

Tafline Crawford
Publications
2004 — (with J.K. McKee, K.L. Kuykendall, et al.) Recent paleoanthropological excavations of in situ deposits at Makapansgat, South Africa: A first report. Collegium Antropologicum 28 (suppl. 2): 43-57.
Awards
Washington University Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence 2005

Anneke DeLuycker
Grants
“Behavioral Ecology of the Río Mayo Titi Monkey (Callicebus oenanthe) in a Fragmented Forest in the Alto Mayo, Peru” funded by Conservation International Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation; Lincoln Park Zoo, Neotropical Field Research Fund; Primate Conservation, Inc.; and Fulbright Scholarship for Dissertation Fieldwork

Seth D. Dobson
Publications
2005 — Are the differences between Stw 431 (Australopithecus africanus) and A.L. 288-1 (A. afarensis) significant? Journal of Human Evolution 49: 143-154.
Grants
“Comparative Study of Facial Mobility in Anthropoid Primates” funded by National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research

Marc Fourrier
Grants
Attending course on tropical plant systematics in Costa Rica funded by Organization for Tropical Studies Fellowship
Missouri Botanical Garden Summer Research Grant

Angela Gordon Glore
Publications
2005 — (with T. Gibson) The Fist of Pacifism. In Justice and Violence, A. Eickelmann & T. Lansford, eds., pp. 113-132. London: Ashgate Press.

Lisa Kelley
Grants
“A Pre-Dissertation Survey of Lemur catta, Ring-tailed Lemurs, at Cap Sainte-Marie Special Reserve, Madagascar” funded by Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research

Hyeon Jung Lee
Grants
“The Effects of Suicide Prevention Programs on Local Understandings of Suicide and Gender in Rural China” funded by National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, Wenner Gren Foundation, and Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant

LeAndra Garrison Luecke
Publications
2005 — New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates: Distribution, Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation. A. Estrada, P. Garber, M. Pavelka, & L. Luecke, eds., New York: Springer.
Grants
“Survey of Howling Monkeys (Alouatta palliate and A. pigra) in their Distributional Transition Zone, Tabasco, Mexico” funded by Primate Conservation, Inc.

Kathleen M. Muldoon
Publications
2004 (E.L. Simons, V.F.H. Simons, et al.) Research on subfossils in southwestern Madagascar and Ankilitelo Cave. Lemur News 9: 12-16.
Grants
“Paleoecology of Ankilitelo, Southwestern Madagascar: Implications for Late Quaternary Megafaunal Extinctions” funded by Field Museum of Natural History Women in Science Fund, National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, Geological Society of America Graduate Research Grant, Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research, and Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant

Christina Pugh
Grants
“From Pithouses to Pueblos: Aggregation, Animals, & Sustainability Seen through Taos Zooarchaeology and Isotopes” funded by National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Jennifer Quincey
Grants
“The Socialization of Adult Welsh Language Learners” funded by National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and Lambda Alpha Graduate Research Grant

Lior Weissbrod
Grants
“Rodent Commensals of Maasai Settlements: Ethnoarchaeology of Pastoral Mobility” funded by National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Undergraduate Honors/Research

Fulbright Award
Matthew Knisley
J. William Fulbright Award from the U.S. Department of State to document the role of edible, weedy greens in the diet and agricultural practices of the Sandawe people of central Tanzania

John W. Bennett Prize 2005
Elizabeth Leonhardt, Irina Levin
To Outstanding Graduating Seniors in Anthropology

2005 Honors Thesis

Laura Abulafia (Glenn Stone)
Global Development and Indigenous Communities: The Role of Ecotourism in Contemporary Modernization Processes

Michael Armijo (Bob Canfield)
Challenging the Hispanic Challenge: An Ethnographic Account of the Lives of Latino Immigrants in St. Louis, Missouri

Will Dorton (Pascal Boyer)
Can Chimpanzees Infer Weight as an Object Property in a Collision Dynamics Task? A Test of the Unobservability Hypothesis

Jessica Eby (Bret Gustafson, Shanti Parikh)
The Problem with Population: Sterilization in Peru

Brett Friedman (Bob Canfield)
Why Did It Take So Long?: The Issues behind Building the Channel Tunnel

Elizabeth Fulmer (Rebecca Lester)
Deconstructing the Success of Zanzibar’s Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis: An Analysis in the Context of Alma-Ata

Benjamin Hedrick (Bret Gustafson)
Through Street Children’s Eyes: Social Marginalization, Violence, and Poverty in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Matthew Knisley (Glenn Stone)
Land Use of the Kingdom of Calhoun (Co., Illinois)

Elizabeth Leonhardt (Tab Rasmussen)
Examining Flaws in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: Case Studies from Madagascar and China

Irina Levin (Tab Rasmussen)
Exhibit Design and Psychological Well-Being: Vertical Space Use and Extent of Dispersal for Chimpanzees and Gorillas at the Regenstein Center for African Apes

William McKee (Tab Rasmussen)
Problematic Altruism: Evaluating Models of Altruistic Behavior

Catherine Powers (Rebecca Lester)
Family Planning in Oaxaca, Mexico

Erin Russell (John Bowen)
Laicite Unveiled: Conceptions of Religious Identity in French Schools

Samatha Schlesinger (John Bowen)
French Agricultural Systems in the Age of Globalization

Debra Silberschatz (Geoff Childs)
Aborting Femininity? The Effects of Abortion and Pro-Life Activism on the Characterization of Female Gender Identity among Abortion Patients

Darren Henry Weiss (Margaret Brown, Shanti Parikh)
Meaningful Myths and Powerful Paradigms (The Perceived Origins of HIV/AIDS)