Samples of Honors Theses

Interested in reading for honors in anthropology? Here is a sample of past honors projects. The faculty mentor is listed in parentheses after the student's name.

2002
Kathleen Adams (Kipp)
Focus: An Online Publication of Undergraduate Articles and Photography in Anthropology

Marcella Esqueda (Urban)
Space and Function: An Analysis of Functional Relationships through Non-vessel Ceramics

Julie Koska (Schortman/Urban)
The Connection between Contrada Mella and Campania: Trade, Society and Ritual

Anna Novotny (Schortman/Urban)
The Bioarchaeology of El Coyote: Human Remains and their Cultural Context

2001
Juliana Novic (Schortman/Urban)
The Structures of Operation 7: A Real Household or an Ancient Practical Joke played on Archaeologists

2000
Devin Combs-Bowles (Kipp)
Ideological Change in China Since 1949

1999
Frances Marie Black
The Pit: Storage, Social Organization, and Residential Mobility at a Basketmaker III Site at Homol'ovi Ruins State Park in Northeastern Arizona

1998
Rachel Andrea Schiming ( )
Rural vs Urban: A Compariosn of the Behaviors and Speech of Physicians in Two Emergency Rooms in Ohio

1997
Bryan Robbins (Urban/Schortman)
"Sure Beats a Trailer" An In Depth Study of Elite Residential Structures in the Naco Valley, Northwestern Honduras

Miranda Katherine Stockett (Schortman/Urban )
Wealth and Power in Late Classic Naco, Honduras: An Analysis of small scale sociopolitical and economic settlement hierarchies

Kathryn Marie Jemmott (Schortman/Urban)
Passage Into Self-Harmful Behavior

1996
Andrew Kindon (Kardulias)
Sociopolitical implications of a Late Classic Household Group: Excavations at Structure Area 53 in the North Cluster of La Sierra, Naco Valley, Northwestern Honduras

Eren Zink (Suggs)
Local Participation in Integrated Conservation and Rural Development Schemes in Southern Africa

1995
David Putz (Kardulias)
Resolving the Paradox of Continuity: A Look into the Origins and Nature of Language

Holly Mortensen (Kardulias)
Identifying Patterns: Analysis of Faunal Remains From Malloura, Cyprus and Isthmia, Greece

Julian M. Murchison (Suggs)
Syncretism in the Roman Catholic Church in Tanzania: Factors that Influence Its Scope and Its Manifestations

1994
Lyman Armstrong (Schortman/Urban)
Archaeological Investigations at Site 386 Groups II & III, Naco Valley, Northwest Honduras

Loren R. Lease (Kardulias)
Osteological Responses to Historical Stress: A Study of Skeletal Material from Malloura, Cyprus and Isthmia, Greece