Honors Theses in Anthropology
These theses are on file in the Franklin & Marshall Archives.
Class of 2009
Christine Batta: The Business of Being Creative: The Professionalism of Graphic Design in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Michelle Morgenstern: 'The Literacy Block is Sacred': The Construction of Relationships to Language and Ideology in Elementary School Classrooms
Chelsey ZeRuth: Unraveling a Thirty-Five Year Old Mystery: Forensic Anthropology, Eighteenth Century Quakers, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Class of 2008
Matthew Kalos: An Archaeological Examination of Weaponry at Otstonwakin, an 18th-Century Native American Village in Montoursville, Pennsylvania
Class of 2007
Layne Amerikaner: Words that Burn: An Ethnographic Study of a Spoken Word Poetry Group
Karen Hagadorn: The Legacy of Henry Gast and an Examination of the Impact of Industrialization on Nineteenth Century Pottery in Lancaster
Kaitlyn McKeefery: In God We Trust? Faith and Community among Cancer Patients
Jennifer Ratzing: Reflections in the Mirror: Cultural Messages in the Media and Self-Representation of Women's Body Image
Keely Swan (Special Studies, including Anthropology): The Aporia of the Development Encounter: Gender Empowerment, Representation, and Power in Women's Self-Help Groups in India
Class of 2006
Lindsay Friedman: Jewish Identity and Concepts of Tradition: An Archaeological and Ethnographic Study in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Elyssa Karanian: Roots and Routes: The Origin and Development of Diasporan Armenian Collective Memory
Ashley Smith: Listening to New Voices and Fresh Faces: The Art of Balancing Interviews, Visuals, and Respect in Today's Ethnographic World
Class of 2005
Cristin Hagelstein (Special Studies, including Anthropology): Cross Cultural Issues in Treating Eastern European Immigrants into Lancaster County with Latent Tuberculosis
Michelle Woltkamp: Lighting Up: The Role of Cigarette Smoking on College Campuses
Jennifer Shaw: Latin American Immigrants in the United States: Developing an Understanding of Meaning in Two Cultures
Class of 2004
Brian Estes: The Music Catches You and You 'Rock Out': Exploring Gendered Identities in an Independent Rock Subculture
Saiba Varma: The Fear of Wearing a Sari: The Reassertion of Hegemonic Masculinity in Contemporary Hindu Nationalism
Class of 2003
Alexander Baer: Historical Archaeology at Marshall's Pen: An Analysis of the 2001 Excavation of a 19th Century Jamaican Coffee Plantation
Sara Dolan: The 'Other' Lancaster: Examining Ethnic Inequality in Lancaster's Central Market and Bodegas
Kathryn Handlir: In Pursuit of Cute: Consumerism and Contemporary Fashion in Tokyo and Sendai, Japan
Nathan Lawrence: Historical Archaeology and the Maclay-Wolverton House: Analyzing the Past While Informing the Present
Amanda Mallon: Ben Thresher's Mill: An Archaeological Case Study of Mill Use in Late 19th & 20th Century Vermont
Bethany Rottner: Archaeology at the Lydia Hamilton Site in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Kelly Witkowski: Making a Life Out of Nothing in a Culture with Everything
Class of 2002
Emily Green: More than Conquerors: Neo-Pentecostalism and the 'Propensity Gospel' as Methods of 'Radical Engagement' with the Forces of Modernity in Nairobi, Kenya
Class of 2001
Faye Delpezzo: The Legacy of Carlisle: Conversations with Descendents of the United States' First Off-Reservation Boarding School
Karla Flores: Los Dejados (Those Left Behind): The Effects of Salvadoran Immigration on the Mother/Child Relationship
Cynthia Garner: Archeobotany in Historic Archaeology: An Account from Marshall's Pen, Jamaica
Jason Shellenhamer: Trails to Freedom: A Case Study of the Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania
Kelly Yasaitis: Skeletons in the Closet: An Analysis of NAGPRA and the Future of Susquehannock Remains
Class of 2000
William Burdick: Modeling Plantation Space in Jamaica Using GIS
Theresa Franz: Tool Use in Human and Non-Human Primates: A Comparative Study of the Manipulation of Tools within a Social Setting
Jennifer Haran: An Ethnographic Study of Group Formation in a Sexual Assault Peer Education Program
Kate Jacovino: An Evaluation of Osteologicial Evidence of Cannibalism among the Anasazi Indians in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Adamma Obele: Class and Socialization: Franklin & Marshall College's Black American Student
Brian Pompeo: Culture and Context: An Ecletic Approach to the Changes in the Kingship of Barbadian Immigrants
Ann Sibert: Construction of Maori Identity
Class of 1999
Tiffanee Dimitris: 'Am I a Broken Picture?': An In-Depth Look into the Lives and Families of the Mentally Ill in the United States
Sarah Dugan: Alienation, Isolation, and Other Bureaucratic Procedure in the Lancaster County Foster Care System
Kelly Mycek: To Give is Better than to Receive: The Culture of a Polish-American Family
Hilton Robinson: Youth Culture and Popular Culture in Contemporary France
Jennifer Shenberger: Sourcing of Chert and Jasper Tools Used by Susquehannock Indians at the Schulz Site in Southern Pennsylvania Prior to European Contact: A Pilot Study
Valerie Yeager: Neo-Nazi Organizations and the Cultivation of Hate
Class of 1998
Shannon Bowman: Amish Healing
Kirsten Johnsen: Reproduction in a Cultural Context: Five Puerto Rican Women in Lancaster
Toyja Kelley: An Ethnographic Study of Parole in Lancaster County
Jennifer McCreary: Youth of Today, Youth of Tomorrow: The Culture of Straight Edge
Caroline Mitten: The Effects of Ecotourism on the People and Environment of Northwestern Indonesia
Megan Raspa: Hope and Healing: An Ethnographic Account of Women with Breast Cancer
Daniel Reichman: Elite Culture and Production in Chile
Amanda Wray: Living in the End Times: An Analysis of Working-Class Participation Among the Jehovah's Witnesses
Class of 1997
Ellen Brown: Is Black Beautiful? Representations of Race in Western Popular Culture
Beth Gellman: The Sheep Rock Shelter Site: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Middle Woodland Faunal Remains
Susan Joyce: Finding the Freemont: Searching for Evidence of Enigmatic Culture
Lucinda Pearson: The Role of the Indigenous People in the Preservation of the Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia
Bianca Perez: Midwifery: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Analysis
Emma Wilmer: The Age of Deprivation: A Cultural Self-Examination of Modern Self-Starvation
