Earn Honors in Anthropology

Students with a strong academic record (a GPA of 3.5 or higher) are encouraged to pursue honors in the major. Eligible and interested students should contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) and request the required forms. If the student’s GPA is between 3.2 and 3.5, they must formally petition the DUS to be accepted into the program. Once accepted, the student is given a contract that includes forms to be signed by a supervising professor as various steps of the program are completed (see below). The student is expected to maintain an overall GPA of 3.5 while undertaking honors research. You can find out more by watching our most recent Q&A session about the program here.

Honors Contracts

Sociocultural Anthropology Honors Contract

Biological Anthropology Honors Contract

Anthropology, Health, and Medicine Honors Contract

Past Honors Students

*Student theses are available for viewing upon request.

Alexis Noonan (CAS’25) Biological Anthropology
“Does testosterone impact pathogen disgust? Evidence from three diverse samples“

Ruofei Shang (CAS’25) Sociocultural Anthropology
“Solidarity as Becoming: Asian American Youth, Racialization, and Their Struggle for “

Katrina Tronco (CAS’25) Sociocultural Anthropology
“For My Family: Transnational Kinship, Care, and the Filipino Nursing Diaspora“

Amanda Wu (CAS’25) Biological Anthropology
“Quantifying Microplastic Contamination in Wild Bornean and Captive Orangutan Populations“

Jonathan Zhang (CAS’25) Sociocultural Anthropology
“PTSD & Post-Combat Purification Rituals: An Analysis & Potential Therapeutic Benefits“

Bella Faber-Rico (CAS’23) Anthropology, Health & Medicine
“Performance Artists and Unreliable Narrators: Morality and Care in Diagnosis and Treatment of College Students with ADHD”

Caitlin Chin (CAS’23) Biological Anthropology 

Emma Quarequio (CAS’23) Sociocultural Anthropology
“A Spectrum of Responsibility: Exploring Neurotypical Siblings’ Involvement in the Care of Autistic Siblings”

Jackson Rosette (CAS’23) Sociocultural Anthropology
““Scenes” of Hysteria: Narrative Models of Self and Illness in Early Psychoanalysis”

Xin (Landy) Guo (CAS’23) Sociocultural Anthropology 
“Racial Melancholia and Emotions Revisited: Experiences of Asian American College Students”

Zoe Senter (CAS’23) 
“Transgender Health/Care and Livability”

Abigail Ryan (CAS ’22) Sociocultural Anthropology
“Tanzanian National and Ethnic Identity and the Role of Kiswahili in the Postcolonial Era: comparison between ethnic politicization and language in Tanzania and Kenya”

Charlotte Beatty (CAS ’22) Anthropology, Health & Medicine
“Men in the Pro-Life Movement: Understanding Identity and Justice”

*Jade Lau (CAS’22) Anthropology & Religion
“‘Chinese for Sale’ (venta de chinos) to ‘Chinese Cubans’ (chino cubanos): Shifts in White Elite Representations of Chinese Indentured Laborers in Cuba, 1847-1892”

Karolena Salmon (CAS ’22) Sociocultural Anthropology
“Keeping it Casual: Casualization and Waithood as a Means of Self-Optimization among Gen Z College Students”

Hongyu Lai (CAS’20)

Madeline Eori (CAS’20) Biological Anthropology
“Assessing Wild Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) Populations with Drone Imagery”

*Rebecca DeCamp (CAS’20) Biological Anthropology
“Investigating the Genetic Evolution of Olfaction in Strepsirrhine Primates”

*Austin Woodward (CAS ’19) Biological Anthropology
“Infant Clinging and Maternal Locomotion in Bornean Orangutans: An analysis of the femoral, humeral angles and infant position”

*Dionis Mucollari (CAS’19) Sociocultural Anthropology
“Interfaith: Albanian American Religious and Ethnic Identity”

*Eleni Constantinou (CAS’19) Biological Anthropology
“Gene Flow and Juvenile Paget’s Disease”

*Graham Grail (CAS’18)
“Quantitative Analysis of Vocal Change Due to Testosterone Therapy”

Lexi Lang (CAS’18) Biological Anthropology

*Natalie Robinson (CAS’18) Biological Anthropology
“Quantifying Free Simple Sugars in Orangutan Foods Using Spectrophotometry: A Comparative Analysis of Phenol-Sulfuric Acid Methods”

Anna Diorio (CAS’14) Sociocultural Anthropology

Corey Gill (CAS’14) Biological Anthropology