CONGRATULATIONS

TO ALL OF OUR SENIORS

2014

SENIOR CAPSTONE PAPERSTHESES

IN ANTHROPOLOGY

Catherine Marie Althaus*

“Displaying the Dead:

Scientific Specimens or Human Beings?

A Global Perspective on

Human Remains in Museums”

Amee Amin*

“Performance Politics: Cyberspace and Activism

In 21st Century Cuba”

Vasantham Annadurai

“Exploring Determinants of

Female Reproductive Health

Associated with Urbanization in India”

Hayden Baker

"Stay on the Field: Football Culture in the Time of Concussion Research”

Erin Elizabeth Berger

“Space in the First Person: Exploring Health Anxieties

Through the Lens of Astronaut Narratives”

Stephanie Marie Bergren

“How Can We Help? Examination of Cultural Competency Practices in Social Service Agencies with Elderly Chinese Americans and Dementia”

Samantha Jill Brody

"Breaking Down Tropes on Tumblr: Blurring the Lines Between Author, Fan and Critic

Michelle RenéeChabla

“Shaping Meaning: Secondary Art Education

In the United States”

Srivarshini Ellapragada Cherukupalli*

“Iron-Deficiency Anemia in Rural Charnia,

Haryana, India:

Analysis of Prevalence and Effective Strategies

For Intervention”

Jasmyne Denman

“The Green Bible, Language, and Regrouping Identity

Within the Evangelical Environmental Movement”

Anna Kennedy Elder

“Gastronomy and Gender Struggle: The Construction of Mapuche Identity Through Food and Tradition”

DemetriosNikolausElias

“Archaeology and Cultural Heritage: Ba’athist

Iraq’s Weapons of Mass (Cultural) Construction”

Kayla Foulk

“The Paradox of Rice in Senegal”

Carter William Freeman

“Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status

And the Link Between Periodontal Disease

And Cancer in East Africa”

Alexandra Jordan Glancy*

“Grassroots Data Making: Case Studies of Online Efforts to Track Gun Use in the United States”

Sarah Dakyung Jeong*

“Tobacco and Democracy: Discourse of Personal Freedom and the Role of Government in a 1995 Chilean Congressional Hearing

About Tobacco Control”

Ryo Kawashima*

“Thrifty Phenotype Hypothesis:

Methylation of the LEP Gene”

Ryan Lim

“Reckoning with ‘Neoliberalization of Consciousness’: Toward an Ethnography of a Sustainable and Responsible Community Development”

Soad Ali Mana

“Foodies with Fists: Reinforcing

And Contesting Neoliberalism Within a Faith-Based Community Food Justice Organization”

Claire Nalven

“New Thoughts on Old Age:

Destigmatizing Aging and Dementia”

Geoyia Lynn Nightengale

“Reach Out and Touch Somebody’s Hand:

HIV/Aids and the Black Church Involvement

In Addressing the Illness”

Neharika Nimmagadda

“‘Failing Your Purpose’: Student-Athlete Attitudes

About Performance and Mental Health”

Kaitlyn Marie Peters

“Defining Disorders: Exploring the Cultural Construction of Eating Disorders in China

Through Nutrition and Traditional Medicine”

Elizabeth Pinedo*

“The College Application Experience:

Narratives of Working-Class Students”

Sofia Victoria Porter-Castro*

“Flavors of Childhood: Understanding Wellness

Through the Foodways of Mexican Immigrants

In the Upper Midwest”

Evan Christopher Prose

“Targeting Whole Consumers

(And their Whole Paychecks):

A Fresh Look at Corporate Branding of the ‘Local’”

Anna Radoff

“Flag Down on the Field: The Impact of

African American Male Athletes as Role Models”

SupriyaRastogi

“Putting out the Fire: Understanding

The Gaps in the Spanish Tobacco Legislation”

Neha Sharma

"Choice, Control and Class in

End-of-Life Care for the Elderly"

Elizabeth Frances Shrier*

"Non-Western Immigrants in the Danish Healthcare System: Isolation Experiences Contributing

To Poorer Quality of Care"

Katherine Anna Sobolewski

“Tearing Down the Wall Street:

The Creation of Satire

As an Act of Agency in the Occupy Movements”

Maria Aleksandra Tkacz

“A Meaty History: Consumption

Of the Polish Sausage as a Transnational

Ethnic, Class and Generation Marker”

Kendall Michelle Todd

“Innovation Starting at the Human Level: Ethnography in Design”

Nicole Sophie Torosin*

“Examining the Toba Volcanic Eruption as the Cause Of a Global Bottleneck in Human Evolution”

Catherine Grace Tyson

"Disconnect Between Lived Experience and Policy: Cultural Integration of Bhutanese Refugees

During Resettlement in Chicago"

Olivia Van Gundy

“The Politics of Native American Museums

Exploring Marginalization, Agency,

And Possession in Museology”

Kathryn Makela Vogt*

“Cattle Call: Communicating Authenticity

Of Locally Sourced Food

Within Mediated Points of Consumption”

Kaitlyn H.K.F. Williams

“Gastrointestinal Disruptions Related

To Antibiotics and its Correlation to the

High Autism Rates in the United States”

Chloe Christine Woodhouse

“Acceptance of Alternative Therapies

In Cancer Treatment: A Comparative Analysis of American and Turkish Medicine”

Justin Sean-Zer Wu

“Gender Tensions and Online Gaming: Examining the Determinant versus Emergent Debate

In Grand Theft Auto V”

Ivan Yeh*

“Plates and Places: The Function and Trade of European Ceramics at Colonial Caribbean Plantations During the 18th and 19th Centuries”

*Indicates Students Receiving Honors in Anthropology