This page contains honors theses produced by senior Anthropology majors. For a list of all honors theses since 2011, click here.
Theses from 2023
Futures Without Faces: The Relationship Between the Arts, National Museums, and State Interests in Postcolonial Morocco, Evan M. Antonakes
An Ethnographic Examination of Belonging and Hype in Web3 Communities, Kian Moaledj
The Heart and Spirit of the Table: Discourses and Practices of the Sobremesa in Madrid, Spain, Isabella Andrea Sobolewski
Theses from 2022
The Emancipating Potential of Linguistic Justice: Standardized Language and Writing Practices in Higher Education and the Reproduction of Oppressive Structures, Eliana Al-Konsul
Theses from 2021
Exploring “Cultural Sensitivity” Among Frontline Workers Addressing Violence Against Women in Lewiston, Maine, Hannah Marian McKenzie
Theses from 2020
Endangering Danger: An Anthropological Exploration of the Relationship between Snakes and People in Sāmoa., Ariel Abonizio
"One" and "I": Dimensions of Ritual Unity and Individuality in the Liturgical Practice of the Catholic Nicene Creed, Jack M. McLarnon
Theses from 2019
The Ethos of Agency: Exploring Questions of Communication and Categorization in Greece’s Refugee Crisis, Caroline R. Barnes
Spirit Possession, Mediation, and Ambiguity in the Ancient Greek Worship of Dionysos, Isabella Barrengos
Stealing Borders: The Yiddish Book Center and Expansions of Postvernacular Yiddishland, Sarah Elsa Freyd
Theses from 2018
The Alderbrook and Riverton Stages of Glacial Lake Israel and their Significance to the Indigenous Peoples of the Israel River Complex, Hazel Cashman
Theses from 2017
fanditha and sihuru: Social and Political Import of Muslim-dhivehi Knowledge Forms, Fathimath Anan Ahmed
The Boat is My Family: Embodiment and Belonging in Shetland Fishing Communities, Katherine S. McNally
Theses from 2016
Making Americans: Negotiating the Boundaries of Somali Identities in the Public Education System of Lewiston, Maine, Ashley Anne Bryant
Portraits of Bhutanese Identity in America: Family, Belonging, and Hope in the Diaspora, Isabel Ann Koyama
Drops of One Ocean: Globalization, Identity Formation and Hegemony in the Baha'i Communities of Samoa, the Netherlands, Latvia, and Lithuania, Detmer Yens Kremer
Les Femmes Guides de Montagne: Negotiating Gendered Spaces in Morocco, Carly Elizabeth Peruccio
Theses from 2015
Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism and Islamophobia in Contemporary Sri Lanka, Robin Noel Badone Jones
Walking on a Bridge You Also Built: Practitioners’ Experience Navigating the Borderland Between Western and Chinese Medicine, Rachel H. Levine
Theses from 2014
The Anthropology of Think Tanks: Democracy Promotion in Egypt after the 2011 Uprisings, Sabina Erika Lee Frizell
Tribe (™): An Investigation of Ethnic Agency in Sebei, Uganda, Devin Tatro
Theses from 2012
Las Trans: Negotiating Gender, Personhood, and Citizenship in Chile, Sydney A. Hare