Student Research & Awards

Awards and Prizes

Distinguished Community Service Award: Joy Li-Yueh Lee '07

Matilda White Riley Prize in Sociology and Anthropology: Joy Li-Yueh Lee '07

Elbridge Sibley Sociology Prize: Michael Trejeeve Martyn '07

Recent Honors Theses

"Three Generations of Shans: Negotiating State and Family Change in 20th Century China", Joy Li-Yueh Lee, 2007, Class of '07

"Stigma and HIV/AIDS in Malaysia: Accounts of Its Effects on Policy and Practice", Sonia Alam, 2007, Class of '07

"The 2006 Massachusetts Health Care Reform Act: Stakeholder Interactions in the First Year of Implementation", Nicole Colucci, 2007, Class of '07

"Self-Conscious Selves: Facebook and the New Structure for Identity and Community", Karina van Schaardenburg, 2007, Class of '07

"Treating AIDS as a Social Disease: Sex Workers in Uganda and the Need for Holistic HIV/AIDS Programs", William Voinot-Baron, 2007, Class of '07

"Towards an Understanding of the Campus Climate Regarding Sexuality at a Liberal Arts College", James Tucker Harrison, 2006, Class of '06

"Reimagining the Deserted Village: Somali-White Tensions, Youth Racial Identity, and Conflict Resolution in Auburn, Maine", 2006, Elspeth Benard, Class of '06

"Then Everything Fell Apart": Men's Changing Work and Identities", 2006, Eleanor Simon, Class of '06

"From in-patient to out-patient, but forever a mental patient: an examination of print media portrayals of mental illness from 1940 to 2000", 2006, Nina Shrayer, Class of '06

"Archaeology, History, & Identity in Early Medieval Britain", 2006, David Willner, Class of '06

"Petrographic Evidence for Preclassic Ceramic Specialization at the Maya Site of Colha, Belize", Michael Brennan, 2004, Class of '04

"Can Archaeology Inform History? Investigations of the Norse in the Western North Atlantic", Mary Melnik, 2004, Class of '04

"The Complex Nature of Korean Adoption and Its Implications about Race and Family in the United States", Nicole Ceterski, 2004, Class of '04

"Identity Presentation and Performance in the Autobiographies of W.E.B. DuBois", Alissa Cordner, 2004, Class of '04

"Dissolution of and Iceberg: The Effects of the Pinochet Dictatorship on Chilean Collective Memory", Marya Washburn, 2004, Class of '04

"I became more open to life: Environmental Education at Wolfe's Neck Farm", Lauren Eve Pappone, 2003, Class of '03

"Gender Identities Limited: Power and Resistance in the Sri Lankan Garment Industry", Jill Meredith Shirey, 2003, Class of '03

"Gentrification in Boston:Disentangling the Dynamics of Race and Class" Lauren Alicia Rodriquez, 2002, Class of '02

"What Happened to the Feminist Framework? Policy and Social Constructions of Domestic Violence", Corona Claire Benson, 2002, Class of '02

"Korean American Women and Dating:A Postmodern Feminist Perspective", Sara Jung Edel, 2002, Class of '02

"Praying hands, Begging hands: Transformations in Koranic studenthood in 20th century Senegal", Ana E. Schaller de la Cova, 2001, Class of '01

"Attempting a 540: Constructions of Gender in Skateboard Culture", Laurie J. Nelson, 2001, Class of '01

"Archaeological Interpretations of the Indus Valley Civilization", Matthew D. Gallon, 2001, Class of '01

"State-Centered and Community-Centered Social Control in Police-Sponsored Family Group Conferencing", Elizabeth Bonnie Peitsch, 1999, Class of '99

"Good Modern Women: Tradition, Modernity, and Gender in Sri Lankan Women's Lives", Sara Withers, 1999, Class of '99