Honors Theses from 2024
Community-Engaged Cultural Heritage Management: A Case Study of Rurutu, Austral Islands, French Polynesia, Erin Cearlock
“Let’s Wait and See”: Canon Discourse in Online Fan Communities, Abigail N. Davis
Racializing Modernity in Language/Education: Mainstream Conceptions and Queer Alternatives in Taiwan, Hudson R. Fortney
"Act as a strong advocate...": An anthropological analysis of human rights commissions in the United States, Ginny Helmandollar
Fisherfolk & Family: An Examination of Fishing Regulation and Kinship in Tidewater, Virginia, Dalit Lebow
A Look Down the Well: Exploring Co-educational Femininity through a Twentieth-century Dormitory Feature at William & Mary, 1926-1944, Charlotte Russell
The DIY Ethic in Richmond, Virginia’s Underground Music Community, Calvin Sloan
How Films and Television See Cults, Shani "Kami" Vigilant
Honors Theses from 2023
Solidarity in Protest: A Case Study of the Brown Grove Community in Virginia, Julia Ashworth
Gendered Publishing Patterns and Occupational Trends, Oceania Archaeology 2005-2020, Caroline Donovan
Honors Theses from 2022
Asking for Forgiveness: Negotiating the Creation of Memory through Public Memorialization, Alyssa Castronuovo
Silver, Ships and Soil: Gift-Giving in Medieval Icelandic Sagas, Emma Eubank
From Necessity to Novelty: Historic Trades in Colonial Williamsburg, Cecelia Rose Eure
Cultivation through Excavation: Performing Community and Partnership in the Historic First Baptist Church Project, Eleanor S. Renshaw
Apparel Barbarous: The Reconstruction of an Early Modern Irish Mantle, Margaret Sheridan
Honors Theses from 2021
Social Spaces, Tourism, “Instagrammability, and Authenticity: The Phenomenon of Eccentric and Aesthetic Cosmopolitan-Style Coffee Shops in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Margot Cunningham
Contentious Vulnerability: Infrastructure, Assemblages, and Environmental Justice Communities, Mads Emmett
Turbo Shell Scrapers from the Society Islands: An Ethnohistorical and Microfossil Analysis Approach, Carol Oordt
Archaeology Saves the Bay: The Sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Fishery, Mary Young
Honors Theses from 2020
Navigating Neoliberalism: Sounds, Spaces, and Success in Kuala Lumpur's Underground Rap Scene, Helen Gypsy McMillian
#LGBT: Regulation and Categorization of LGBT+ Discourse on Tumblr, Sara Schmieder
Honors Theses from 2019
Remembering the River: Traditional Fishery Practices, Environmental Change and Sovereignty on the Pamunkey Indian Reservation, Alexis Jenkins
How Classifications Shape Asylum Seeker and Italian Interactions and Experiences in Siena, Italy, Erin Kitchens
Canine Ceremonialism in the Algonquian Chesapeake: An Eventful Archaeology of Dog Burials at the Hatch Site, Caroline Lehman
White Plague, White City: Landscape and the Racialization of Tuberculosis in Washington, D.C. from 1846 to 1960, Ivie Orobaton
Honors Theses from 2018
From Being to Thing: Personhood, Animalhood, and Deanimalization in the Human-Animal Relationship, Madeline White
Honors Theses from 2017
Prosthetics in Performance: Exploring the Relationship Between Ballet Dancers and Their Pointe Shoes, Georgia E. Dassler
Understanding Human-Landscape Interaction: Geoarchaeology in the Society Islands, French Polynesia, Katherine M. Peck
A Case Study in the Interdisciplinary: The Role of Anthropology, Archaeology and History in Academia and Museums, Alexnadra A. Rosenberg
"It's all about the Food:" Food, Land, and Sovereignty on the White Earth Reservation, Minnesota, Colleen M. Truskey
Honors Theses from 2016
Composting the City: Urban Farming in the Ethnographic Moment, Matthew William Abel
Merging Social and Natural Histories at Kiskiak: A Historical Ecology Study, Leanna Grace Richmond
Sacred Grounds and Profane Plantations: The Spiritual Landscapes of Barbados, Myles Sullivan
Honors Theses from 2015
Purpose Over Performance: Student Perceptions of International Student Service Projects, Clare K. Boczon
Talking About Rape on A College Campus, Rachael L. Kaufman
An Archaeological Survey of Barbados Battery: The Good Shepherd Project, Ashby M. Sturgis
Naerisarang (내리사랑), Or an Elder’s Love for the Young: Vietnamese and Filipina Marriage Migrants as Preservers of the Korean Patriline, Danielle Y. Tassara
Honors Theses from 2014
Yard Areas and Middens: The Creation of Space by the Enslaved at Fairfield Plantation, Colleen Betti
Culture-as-bit: Culture and Cultural Evolution, Mitchell T. Caudill
An Osteological Analysis of 18th Century Dog Burials at the Williamsburg Public Amoury, Katherine R. Wagner
Honors Theses from 2013
That the Future may learn from the [reconstructed] Past': Nationalism and Social Drama at Colonial Williamsburg, Eli N. Dollarhide
Honors Theses from 2012
Exchange Patterns in the Woodland-Period Chesapeake: An XRF Study, Alexandria Elizabeth Brown
The Dead Yet Speak: 17th and 18th Century Gravestones in the Virginian Colonial Triangle, Courtney Williams
Honors Theses from 2011
Zoning: A Cartography of Culture in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Elena Kristan Carey
A Comparison between Mid-Eighteenth Century Rural and Urban Chesapeake Elite Consumption Patterns of Wild Fauna, Maria Gabriela Lapera
Archaeologists as Authors and the Stories of Sites: A Defense of Fiction in Archaeological Site Reporting, Allison Jane Mickel
Honors Theses from 2010
Nanay's Kusina or Carinderia? The Perceived Lack of Filipino Restaurants in American Dining, Amanda L. Tira Andrei
Champagne Taste on a Mauby Pocket: The Socioenvironmental History of Mauby in Barbados, Christopher A. Maggiolo
An Archaeological and Archaeometric Examination of Lead Contamination among Enslaved Populations in Barbados in the Early Colonial Era, Erik A. Siedow
Honors Theses from 2009
"A Past Rooted in Pain": Skeletal Trauma in the African Burial Ground, Jennifer Dutcher
Recognizing variability in eighteenth-century plantation diet through pattern analysis, Maria Therese Fashing
Native Dog Burials and Associated Ritual in Coastal Virginia and Beyond, Jennifer Fitzgerald
The Watermen of White Oak & The Patawomeck Tribe, William Clark Foster
Live. Work. Emplace.: An Ethnography of New Town as Spatial Performance, Paul Gottschling
Ceramic Production in Middle Woodland Communities of Practice: A Cordage Twist Analysis in Tidewater Virginia, Anna Hayden
Religious Mouths and Religious Bodies: Speaking the Body of Christ at St. Bede Parish, Jonna Knappenberger
I Declare War on Typology: Breaking the Silence of Borderland Peoples through Case Study Archaeology at the Fall Zone, Jessica Taylor
Honors Theses from 2008
Bone Breakage and the Taphonomy of Cooking: An Actualistic Study, Graham Callaway
Constructing an Ethnic Identity: A Study of the Gravestones of Catholic German-Americans, Lenore Cebulski
Horse Husbandry in Colonial Virginia: An Analysis of Probate Inventories in Relation to Environmental and Social Changes, Kimberley Peck
The Origins of Abbott Zoned Incised Ceramics in the late Middle Woodland Virginia Coastal Plain: An LA-ICP-MS Analysis, Laura Steadman
Honors Theses from 2007
Ceramics of the Spanish-Atlantic World, Kathryn Lee Swanson
Honors Theses from 2002
The Patawomeck and the Dog Mart: Continuity, Identity, and Invented Tradition, Jason A. Zacchetti
