Undergraduate anthropology students present their independent research in an annual poster session.

Fulbright Award
Bobbie Bigby, AB 2009
J. William Fulbright Award from the U.S. Department of State for study in Cambodia: “Chasing Apsaras: Exploring Royal Khmer Dance and Its Modern-day Meanings”

Jill Mead, AB 2005
J. William Fulbright Award from the U.S. Department of State for study in Argentina: “Crossing Frontier after Frontier: Paraguayan Women Working in Buenos Aires”

Maria Jade Roseberry, AB 2008
J. William Fulbright Award from the U.S. Department of State for study in Germany: English teaching assistantship

John W. Bennett Prize for Outstanding Graduating Senior
Eric Castillo

Senior Honors Theses
Katherine Ammann (Rebecca Lester)
What If These Aren’t My Bootstraps? A Look at the Heterogeneity of Homelessness in St. Louis

Amanda Berman (Michael Frachetti)
A Geospatial Approach to Identifying Spaces of Vulnerability in South Africa’s HIV/AIDS Crisis: Investigating the Sex Worker–Trucker Interaction as a Contributing Factor in the Virus’ Spread & Using GIS to Create a Predictive Model of Potential Sex Worker Populations Operating along Major Trucking Routes

Lindsay Buchanan (Geoff Childs)
Mute Mushahar? The Question of Voice and Agency in Development

Melissa Ariel Cascio (Rebecca Lester)
Autism Spectrum Disorders: Ideologies and Families in St. Louis Support Groups

Eric Castillo (Herman Pontzer)
Portable 3D Camera Systems for Field Studies of Primate Locomotion

Jennifer Cochran (Peter Benson)
Shrimp Shocked: The Search for Sustainable Livelihoods in Coastal Vietnam

Alexandre Da Silva (Bradley Stoner)
Treatment-Seeking Behavior in an Urban Neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil

Jessica Farrell (Geoff Childs)
Female Circular Labor Migrants in South Africa: The Effects of Migration on the Families of Xhosa Women

Caroline Fojo (Derek Pardue)
Fair Trade Certified TM Coffee and Real Social Change

Avital Friedman (Carolyn Sargent)
Health Care Usage Trends and the Effect on Cultural Identity among Soninke Immigrant Women: A Comparative Study between New York City, NY, and Paris, France

Claire Garon (Shanti Parikh)
Fighting for Health in the Mouth of the Crocodile: Addressing and Preventing HIV/AIDS among the Youth of Bamako’s Informal Sector

Daniel Kandy (Gayle Fritz)
An Investigation of the Histories and Trends of Urban Allotment Gardens, Community Gardens, and Urban Agriculture

Jennifer Klein (Shanti Parikh)
The Impact of Foreign Aid Dependency: Sustainability of Antiretroviral Therapy in Uganda

Rita McNamara (James Wertsch)
A Case of Collective Memory in Rabat, Morocco

Adam Rothman (Bradley Stoner)
Plastic Surgery and American Adolescents: Acceptable Cultural Ritual or Unethical Practice?

Samantha Schneider (Peter Benson)
Anthropology and Epidemiology: Dengue Fever in Mexico and the United States

Kristyna Solawetz (Geoff Childs)
Responding to Hazard: How Risk Perception Influences Response to Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh

Rachel Wigen-Toccalino (Pascal Boyer)
Why Suicide Missions? The Black Tigers and Hamas

Jeffrey Wisner (Bradley Stoner)
Autonomy, Distrust, and a Resistance to Death: How Cultural Forces Account for the Widespread Departure of State Health Legislation from the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA)

Trisha Wolf (Geoff Childs)
Family Planning in Kalleda: How Women Achieve Their Ideal Family Size