Honors Information and Materials

Forms for Archaeology Concentrators
All honors tracks in Archaeology require a thesis.
- Anthropology 98xb Individual Tutorial for Archaeology Honors Concentrators .pdf
- Anthropology 99x Statement of Intent for Honors in Archaeology .pdf
- Thesis Title Form .doc

Forms for Social Anthropology Concentrators
- Thesis Guidelines Memo .doc (will be updated shortly)
- Thesis Title Form .doc

Past Honors Thesis Titles
All thesis are archeived at Tozzer Library and cataloged in HOLLIS.

Silvana C. Alvarez “Coping with the Future of States: Displacement and Xenophobia in Cuenca (Ecuador)”

Anne Austin “Animal Mummification in Egypt: An Analysis of Differential Animal Treatment”

Camilo Becdach “The Resulting Phenomenon of Contact between the Incas and European Colonizers: Religious syncretism amongst the Otavalo Indians of Ecuador”

Morgan Stevens Brown “Grave Goods and Gender: The Significance of Beads to Native Americans of Southeastern New England in the 17th Century Cross-Cultural Exchange Economy”

Jennifer L. Caswell “Diverse demographic events have shaped chimpanzee and bonobo evolution”

Laura French Delano “Psycho-pharmaceuticals and Selfhood: Negotiating Identity as a Consumer of Mood Disorder Medications”

Alithea D. Gabrellas “The Effects of Insulin and Energetic Stress on Ovarian Function in Rowers”

Polina Glezer “The Effects of Moderate Exercise on Ovarian Steroid Hormones in Premenopausal Women”

James Hannon “Living Remembrance: Memory, Activism and Personal Reconciliation in Ayacucho, Peru”

Bethany L. Hoag “Displaying Pain: Youth Theatre in the Fight Against HIV and AIDS in Swaziland”

Helen Human “The Social Fabric of Pachacamac and Puruchuco: Investigating Ethnicity and Status in the Textiles of Neighboring Sites on the Central Coast of Peru”

Elijah Moses Hutchinson “The effects of an evolutionary perspective on stigma responses to obsessive-compulsive disorder”

Karin Johnsson “A study of the hormonal influences on women’s preferences for sexual dimorphism in male faces”

Jessica L. Jones “Interpreting Sahelanthropus tchadensis: cladistic analyses of hominid phylogeny and heuristic evaluation of morphological phylogenetics”

Amy Yuan Li “Determinants of Peer-Assessed Status in College-Age Men: Testosterone, Digit Ratio and Personality”

Zhenzhen Lu “History, Ethnicity, and Place in a small town in western China”

Nichele M. McClendon “The Communists, The Klan, and the Commission: The Personal Politics of Victimhood in the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission”

Roberto Michelassi "Paternal Partnerships: ‘Efficiency’ and the Construction of Aura in International Retail”

Kristina L. Mirabeau-Beale “She Let It Happen: An Analysis of Rape Myth Acceptance among Women”

Eric Momin “A Novel Method for Inference of Primate Gait from Trabecular Bone Architecture, and Implications for the Characterization of Extinct Hominid Gait”

Camille Elise Powe “Human Breast Milk Composition from an Evolutionary Perspective”

Ravikiran M. Raju “An Investigation of Novel, Molecular Techniques for the Identification of Tuberculosis Infection in the Archaeological Record”

Maria Matilde Reyes-Bonar “Time for a Trade-Up? A study on self-perception, contrast effects, and mate-preference in Harvard undergraduate women”

Erica A. Scott "’Handling Yourself’ and Alcohol: Narratives of Historical Trauma and Contemporary Alcohol Abuse in an Oklahoma Indian Tribe”

Monique A. Smith “Reframing the Social Dimensions of Disease: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Jamaica – Experience, Stigma, and Policy”

Zdenka Sturm “From Divine Dignity to Gratuitous Grieving: Reconstructing Polish Cultural Consciousness After the Death of Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)”

Victoria Wobber “The evolution of cooperative signal comprehension in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)”

Jennifer Catherine Ai-Lian Woo “Voices Unheard: The Social Experience of Illness for Patients, Families, Clinicians and Researchers in the Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis Community”