Anthropology

In its Honors Program the Anthropology Department awards one level of Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

• Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
  Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2024-2025

• Erin Amelia Cooper, "Who's Making All That Noise: The Journey of the Jaw Harp in Colonial Williamsburg"  (Honors) 
  Neil Norman + Ashley McCuistion, Rowan Lockwood
• Anna Marie Haney, "Separate But Equal? A Critical Examination of K-12 Homebound Services" (Honors)
  Joseph Jones + Jonathan Glasser, Sarah Menefee

2023-2024

• Erin Shea Cearlock, "Community-Engaged Cultural Heritage Management: A Case Study of Rurutu, Austral Islands, French Polynesia"  (Honors)  
  Jennifer Kahn + Mara Dicenta Vilker, Jessica Paga 
• Abigail Naomi Davis, "Let’s Wait and See”: Canon Discourse in Online Fan Communities"  (Honors)  
  Brad Weiss + Andrea Wright, Arthur Knight 
• Hudson Riley Fortney, "Racializing Modernity in Language/Education: Mainstream Conceptions and Queer Alternatives in Taiwan"  (Honors) 
  Andrea Wright + Adela Amaral, Katherine Barko-Alva 
• Ginny Xuan Helmandollar, ""Act as a strong advocate...": An anthropological analysis of human rights commissions in the United States" (Honors) 
  Andrea Wright + Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, Leslie Cochrane 
• Dalit Jordan Lebow, "Fisherfolk & Family: An Examination of Fishing Regulation and Kinship in Tidewater, Virginia" (Honors) 
  Andrea Wright + Mara Dicenta, Mary Fabrizio
• Charlotte May Russell, "A Look Down the Well: Exploring Co-educational Femininity through a Twentieth-century Dormitory Feature at William & Mary, 1926-1944" (Honors)  
  Neil Norman + Adela Amaral, Terry Meyers 
• Calvin Thomas Sloan, "The DIY Ethic in Richmond, Virginia’s Underground Music Community" (Honors)  
  Andrea Wright + Joseph Jones, Benjamin Whiting, William Fisher
• Shani Kamilah Vigilant, "How Films and Television See Cults" (Honors) 
  Adela Amaral + Kelebogile Zvobgo, Joseph Jones 

2022-2023

• Julia Claire Ashworth, "Solidarity in Protest: A Case Study of the Brown Grove Community in Virginia" (Honors) 
  Andrea Wright + William Fisher, Brad Weiss, Carlos Rivera Santana 
• Caroline Rebecca Donovan, "Gendered Publishing Patterns and Occupational Trends, Oceania Archaeology 2005-2020" (Honors) 
  Jennifer Kahn + Martin Gallivan, Molly Swetnam-Burland
                                                                         

2021-2022

• Alyssa Castronuovo, "Asking for Forgiveness: Negotiating the Creation of Memory through Public Memorialization" (Highest Honors) 
  Andrea Wright + Joe Jones, Claire McKinney                                                                                      
• Cecelia Eure, "From Necessity to Novelty: Historic Trades in Colonial Williamsburg" (High Honors) 
  Danielle Moretti-Langholtz + Andrea Wright, Julie Richter
• Eleanor Renshaw, "Cultivation through Excavation: Performing Community and Partnership in the Historic First Baptist Church Project" (High Honors) 
  Jonathan Glasser + Joe Jones, Adrienne Petty-Roberts
• Emma Eubank, "Silver, Ships and Soil: Gift-Giving in Medieval Icelandic Sagas" (Highest Honors)
  Andrea Wright + William Fisher, Jennifer Lorden
• Margaret Sheridan, "Apparel Barbarous: The Reconstruction of an Early Modern Irish Mantle" (Honors)                                                                                                     
  Audrey Horning + Martin Gallivan, Patricia Wesp
  

2020-2021

• Margot Cunningham, "Social Spaces, Tourism, “Instagrammability, and Authenticity: The Phenomenon of Eccentric and Aesthetic Cosmopolitan-Style Coffee Shops in Chiang Mai, Thailand" (High Honors)
  Andrea Wright + Brad Weiss, John Manuli
• Madeline Emmett, "Contentious Vulnerability: Infrastructure, Assemblages, and Environmental Justice Communities" (Highest Honors)
  Andrea Wright + Adela Amaral, Brent Kaup
• Carol Oordt, "Turbo Shell Scrapers from the Society Islands: An Ethnohistorical and Microfossil Analysis Approach" (High Honors)
  Jennifer Kahn + Martin Gallivan, Molly Swetnam-Burland
• Mary Young, "Archaeology Saves the Bay: The Sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Fishery" (High Honors)
  Martin Gallivan + Jennifer Kahn, Rowan Lockwood

2019-2020

• Helen McMillian, "Navigating Neoliberalism: Sounds, Spaces, and Success in Kuala Lumpur's Underground Rap Scene" (Highest Honors)
  Andrea Wright + Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Negar-Sadat Razavi, Stephen Sheehi, Anne Rasmussen
• Sara Schmieder, "#LGBT: Regulation and Categorization of LGBT+ Discourse on Tumblr" (Honors)
  William Fisher + Elizabeth Losh, Grey Gundaker

2018-19

• Alexis Jenkins, "Remembering the River: Traditional Fishery Practices, Environmental Change and Sovereignty on the Pamunkey Indian Reservation" (High Honors)
  Danielle Moretti-Langholtz + Martin Gallivan, Andrew Fisher
• Noah Kim, "From Pain to Pillar: History and Identity Politics of Asian-American Students and Youth in the 21st Century and Cultural Self Development Theory"
  Danielle Moretti-Langholtz + Martin Gallivan, Andrew Fisher
  
• Erin Kitchens, "How Classifications Shape Asylum Seeker and Italian Interactions and Experiences in Siena, Italy" (High Honors)
  Andrea Wright + Jonathan Glasser, Brad Weiss, Monica Seger
  
• Caroline Lehman, "Canine Ceremonialism in the Algonquian Chesapeake: An Eventful Archaeology of Dog Burials at the Hatch Site"
  Martin Gallivan, Kathleen Bragdon, Jennifer Taylor
• Ivie Orobaton, "White Plague, White City: Landscape and the Racialization of Tuberculosis in Washington, D.C. from 1846 to 1960"
  Joseph L. Jones + Jonathan Glasser, Adrienne Petty
  

2017-18

• Ivie Orobaton, Demography and Race: A Comparative Analysis of Health and Infectious Disease among Enslaved and Free Urban African Americans from the 18th through 20th Centuries" (Honors) 
   Jonathan Glasser + Joseph Jones
• Madeline White, "From Being to Thing: Personhood, Animalhood, and Deanimalization in the Human-Animal Relationship" (Highest Honors) 
  Brad Weiss + Leisa Meyer, Tomoko Hamada, Andrea Wright

2016-17

• Georgia Dassler, "Prosthetics in Performance: Exploring the Relationship Between Ballet Dancers and their Pointe Shoes" (High Honors) 
  Brad Weiss + Jonathan Glasser, Leslie Cochrane
• Katherine Peck, "Understanding Human-Landscape Interaction: Geoarchaeology in the Society Islands, French Polynesia" (High Honors) 
  Jennifer Kahn + Martin Gallivan, Gregory Hancock
• Alexandra Rosenberg, "A Case Study in the Interdisciplinary: The Role of Anthropology, Archaeology and History in Academia and Museums" (High Honors) 
  Joseph Jones + Grey Gundaker, Julie Richter
• Colleen Truskey, "''It's all about the Food:' Food, Land, and Sovereignty on the White Earth Reservation, Minnesota" (Highest Honors) 
  Brad Weiss + Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, Joseph Jones, Kara Thompson

2015-16

• Matthew Abel, "Composting the City: Urban Farming in the Ethnographic Moment" (Highest Honors) 
  Brad Weiss + William Fisher and Brent Kaup
• Leanna Richmond, "Merging Social and Natural Histories at Kiskiak: A Historical Ecology Study" (Highest Honors) 
  Martin Gallivan + Frederick Smith, Maria Swetnam-Burland, and Bruce Larson
• Myles Sullivan, "Sacred Grounds and Profane Plantations: The Spiritual Landscapes of Barbados" (Highest Honors) 
  Frederick Smith + Neil Norman and Gerard Chouin

2014-15

• Clare Boczon, "Purpose over Performance: Student Perceptions of International Student Service Projects" (Honors) 
  William Fisher + David Aday and Sasi Balasandaram
• Rachel Kaufman, "Talking About Rape on a College Campus" (High Honors)
  Jonathan Glasser + Kathleen Bragdon and Jennifer Putzi
• Ashby Sturgis, "An Archaeological Survey of Barbados Battery: The Good Shepherd Project" (High Honors) 
  Frederick Smith + Marley Brown and William Kelso
• Danielle Tassara, "Naerisarang (내리사랑), Or an Elder’s Love for the Young: Vietnamese and Filipina Marriage Migrants as Preservers of the Korean Patriline" (High Honors) 
  Jonathan Glasser + Michelle Lelievre, Eric Han and Michael Cronin

2013-14

• Colleen Betti, "Yard Areas and Middens: The Creation of Space by the Enslaved at Fairfield Plantation" (Highest Honors) 
  Neil Norman + David Brown and Marley Brown III
  
• Mitch Caudill, "Culture-as-bit: Culture and Cultural Evolution" (High Honors)
  Jenny Kahn + Barbara King and Carey Bagdassarian
• Katherine Wagner, "An Osteological Analysis of 18th Century Dog Burials at the Williamsburg Public Amoury" (High Honors)
  Neil Norman + Joanne Bowen and Oliver Kerscher

2012-13

• Eli Dollarhide, "'That the Future May Learn From the [Reconstructed] Past': Nationalism and Social Drama at Colonial Williamsburg" (Honors)
  Neil Norman + Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and Francis Tanglao-Aguas

2011-12

• Alexandria Brown, "Exchange Patterns in the Woodland-Period Chesapeake: An XRF Study" (High Honors)
  Martin Gallivan + Michael Kelley and Neil Norman
• Courtney Williams, "The Dead Yet Speak: 17^th and 18^th Century Gravestones in the Virginian Colonial Triangle" (High Honors)
  Neil Norman + Marley Brown III, Martin Gallivan and James Whittenburg

2010-11

• Elena Carey, "Zoning: A Cartography of Culture. An Examination of Zoning and Metanarrative in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania" (High Honors)
  William Fisher + Martin Gallivan, Stuart Hamilton and Amy Kracker Selzer
• Amy Clinger, "Unwed Motherhood in Morocco: Foundations in Social, Religious, Legal, Political and Theoretical Contexts" (High Honors)
  Frederick Smith + Monica Griffin and Jonathan Glasser
• Maria Lapera, "A Comparison between Mid-Eighteenth Century Rural and Urban Chesapeake Elite Consumption Patterns of Wild Fauna" (High Honors)
  Joanne Bowen + Marley Brown and James Whittenburg 
• Allison Mickel, "Archaeologists as Authors and the Stories of Sites: A Defense of Fiction in Archaeological Site Reporting" (Highest Honors)
  Marley Brown + Neil Norman and Richard Lowry

2009-10

• Amanda Andrei, "Nanay's Kusina or Carinderia? The Perceived Lack of Filipino Restaurants in American Dining" (High Honors)
  Brad Weiss + Jonathan Glasser and Enne Rasmussen
• Jonna Knappenberger, "Religious Mothers and Religious Bodies: Speaking the Body of Christ at St. Bede Parish" (High Honors)
  Brad Weiss + Jonathan Glasses and Kathleen Jenkins
• Christopher Maggiolo, "Champagne Taste on a Mauby Pocket: The Socioenvironmental History of Mauby in Barbados" ( High Honors)
  Fred Smith + Susan Kern, Marley Brown and Jim Perry
• Erik Siedow, "An Archeological and Archaeometric Examination of Lead Contamination among Enslaved Populations in Barbados in the Early Colonial Era" (High Honors)
  Fred Smith + Marley Brown and Michael Kelley

2008-09

• Jennifer Dutcher, "A Past Rooted in Pain": Skeletal Trauma in the African Burial Ground" (High Honors)
  Michael Blakey + Fred Smith and Jody Allen
• Jennifer Fitzgerald, "Native Dog Burials and Associated Ritual in Coastal Virginia and Beyond" (Highest Honors)
  Martin Gallivan + Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and Dave Brown
  
• William Foster, "The Watermen of White Oak & The Patawomeck Tribe" (Highest Honors)
  Danielle Moretti-Langholtz + Martin Gallivan and Josh Danner
  
• Paul Gottschling, "Live. Work. Emplace. An Ethnography of New Town as Spatial Performance" (High Honors)
  Brad Weiss + Grey Gundaker and Charles McGovern
  
• Anna Hayden, "Ceramic Production in Middle Woodland Communities of Practice: A Cordage Twist Analysis in Tidewater Virginia" (Highest Honors)
  Martin Gallivan + Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and Dave Brown
  
• Jessica Taylor, "I Declare War on Typology: Breaking the Silence of Borderland Peoples through Case Study Archaeology at the Fall Zone" (High Honors)
  Martin Gallivan + Fred Smith and James Frusetta
  

2007-08

• Kathleen Brasington, "Singing Along: Camp Songs as Role Modeling in Youth Summer Camps" (Highest Honors)
  William Fisher + Grey Gundaker and Duncan Neilson
• Graham Callaway, "Bone Breakage and the Taphonomy of Cooking: An Actualistic Study" (High Honors)
  Martin Gallivan + Joanne Bower and Lorena Walsh
• Lenore Cebulski, "Constructing an Ethnic Identity: A Study of the Gravestons of Catholic German-Americans" (High Honors)
  Martin Gallivan + Fred Smith and Tuska Benes
• Sara Farina, "Serve the People: Examining Globalization through Chinese HIV/AIDS Activism" (Highest Honors)
  John Ertl + Brad Weiss and Craig Canning
• Kimberley Peck, "Horse Husbandry in Colonial Virginia: An Analysis of Probate Inventories in Relation to Environmental and Social Change" (Highest Honors)
  Matthew Liebmann + Joanna Bowen, Lorena Walsh and James Whittenburg
• Laura Steadman, "The Origins of Abbott Zoned Incised Ceramics in the late Middle Woodland Virginia Coastal Plain: An LA-ICP-MS Analysis" (High Honors)
  Martin Gallivan + Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and J.C. Poutsma

2006-07

• Kathryn Swanson, "Ceramics of the Spanish-Atlantic World" (High Honors)
  Frederick Smith + Matthew Liebmann, Phillip Daileader

2005-06

• Catherine Bailey, "A Case Study of Land and Water Distribution in Canada Alamosa: Individual and Community Agency in the Territorial Frontier of Southwestern New Mexico" (High Honors)
  Danielle Moretti-Langholtz + William Fisher and Camille Wells
• Michael Fedore, "An Absolute Seriation of Ceramics from the Chickahominy River in the Middle and Late Woodlands Periods" (Honors)
  Martin Gallivan + Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and Jim Axtell
• Brent Fortenberry, "Architectural Precedent and Liminal Space at James Fort, Jamestown, Virginia" (High Honors)
  Julie Ernstein + Fred Smith, William Kelso and Carl Lounsbury
• Erin Kuykendall, "'...protecting its worldly goods from thieves': A Study of Locks and Lock Parts from Jamestown, Virginia and Its Hinterland" (Highest Honors)
  Julie Ernstein + Fred Smith and James Whittenburg
• Travis Parno, "A Case for Catholicism: A Contextual Study of Religious Small-Finds from Historic James Fort, Jamestown, Virginia" (High Honors)
  Fred Smith + Martin Gallivan and William Kelso

2004-05

• Megan Edwards
  Joanne Bowen + Audrey Horning and Barbara Carson
• Maria Fashing
  Joanne Bowen + Audrey Horning and Jim Whittenberg
• George Kamide
  William Fisher + Regina Root and Lisa Sedrez
• Margaret Robinson
  Michael Blakey + Virginia Kerns and Laurie Sanderson
• Sarah Tolbert
  Martin Gallivan + Danielle Moretti-Langholtz andTom Linneman
• Angela Woolard
  William Fisher + Brad Weiss and Timmons Roberts