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

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