Student Achievements

Dr. George B. Horner Award for Academic Excellence in Anthropology

The Dr. George B. Horner Award is presented annually to outstanding graduating Anthropology majors.  George Horner was the founder of the Anthropology major during the early 1970's and undertook ethnographic investigations in West Africa as well as archaeological investigations in the Boston area.  He promoted a multi-sub-disciplinary approach to the field of Anthropology in the classroom as well as in the field.

2011 Recipients:

Kaitlin R. Ahern
Frances W. Harrison
Jeffrey B. Moore, Jr.             
Audrey L. Warren   

Past Recipients:

Melissa J. Emery - 2010
Matthew T. Staubin - 2010
Kaitlin Drouin - 2009
Michael W. Dunn - 2009
Heather L. Dost - 2008
Katie M. Lewis - 2008
Peter N. Musto - 2008
Linda McCarthy - 2007
Emerald Cohen - 2006
Mark Ardagna - 2005
Wendi Field - 2004

Graduating Class of 2011 - Major in Anthropology

Kaitlin R. Ahern, BS ( Cum Laude, Commonwealth Honors, Departmental Honors)

Haley E. Albano, BA

John A. Campbell, BS

Jaclyn B. Clifford, BA

Kerri L. Doze, BA

Glenn P. Hammel, BA

Frances W. Harrison, BA (Also majoring in Geography, Cum Laude, Departmental Honors in Anthropology)

Lydia G. Landim, BA (Cum Laude)

Jamie E. Monahan, BA

Jeffrey B. Moore, Jr. BS (Magna Cum Laude, Commonwealth Honors, Departmental Honors)

Erin C. O'Malley, BS

Sarah E. Otis, BA (Cum Laude)

Brienne L. Patricio, BA

Adam R. Reeves, BA

Amy T. Sylvester, BA (Cum Laude)

Audrey L. Warren, BA (Cum Laude)

Lena I. Webb, BA (Cum Laude)

Graduating Class of 2010 - Major in Anthropology

Samantha L. Berg, BA (Magna Cum Laude)

Kyle A. Cramsey, BS (Cum Laude)

Kyra T. DeStefano, BA (Cum Laude)

Melissa J. Emery, BS (Magna Cum Laude)

Charley J. Mayhew, BS (Cum Laude)

Carolann M. Sack, BA

Matthew T. Staubin, BA (Summa Cum Laude)

Alexandra R. Whalen, BA

Graduating Class of 2009 - Major in Anthropology

Matthew A. Caerulius, BS (Magna Cum Laude)

Tina M. Colombo, BA

Tracy M. Colter, BA

Kaitlin H. Drouin, BA (Magna Cum Laude)

Michael W. Dunn, BA (Summa Cum Laude)

Shawna M. Hough, BS

Quetty C. Jean-Ebian, BA

Daniel T. Leavenworth, BA

Kendra E. Moran, BA

Donna L. Pacheco, BA

Graduating Class of 2008 - Major in Anthropology

John W. Collett, Jr., BA

Heather L. Dost, BA (Cum Laude)

Fallon A. Gaines, BA

Kimberly K. Gundersen, BA

Katie M. Lewis, BA (Also majoring in History, Cum Laude, Commonwealth Honors)

Lindiwe T. Mthimunye, BA

Peter N. Musto, BA (Cum Laude)

Aimee M. Piette, BA

Diane S. Rosa, BS (Cum Laude)

Danielle C. Trull-Donahue, BA (Cum Laude)

Graduating Class of 2007 - Major in Anthropology

Lisa M. Arnold, BA (Also majoring in Art, Magna Cum Laude)

Jeffrey M. Johnson, BA

Jeneane L. Johnston, BA (Also majoring in English)

Tara L. MacCormack, BA

Linda M. McCarthy, BA (Magna Cum Laude, Commonwealth Honors, Departmental Honors)

Laura L. Searles, BA (Also majoring in Communication Arts and Sciences, Magna Cum Laude)

Melanie St. Pierre, BA

Department of Anthropology Undergraduate Research Symposium

2011 Symposium Presenters
 

2011 Presentations -

Krystal Vezina - "What's Hiding in the Basement"

Sarah Otis - "à Travers une Lentille (Through a Lens): Examining Culture Through French Cinema"

Frances Harrison - "Reviving Heritage in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe: A Visual Approach to National Identity"

Julie Eccleston - "Shabbat Shalom! : A Participant Observation of the Jewish Sabbath"

Jessica Chmielorz - "The Forensic Process"

Kaitlin Ahern - "A Comparative Examination of the Astronomical Date August 13th in Mesoamerica and New England"
 

2010 Presentations -

Matthew Staubin - "Methodological Approaches of Fieldwork: Insights gained from an in-depth interview
                                with a local school district"

Jeff Moore - "Plymouth County: It's a Long Story, Pilgrims"

Contemporary Native Americans:

    John A. Campbell - "Native American Politics: A Focus on the Narragansett Tribe"
    Helen Silkonis - "Native American Religious Freedom"
    Matthew Staubin - "Indian Education: Research with Special Respect to the Narragansett Tribe"
    Anthony Crealese - "Native American Powwows"

Alexandra Whalen and Samantha Berg - "Taphonomy and Skeletal Analysis: Furthering Forensic Studies"

Jade Kluver - "Tourism and Colonialism on Dogon Masks of Mali"
 

2009 Presentations -

Kaitlin Drouin - "The Human Problem: Ecology and Conservation on the Galapagos Islands"

Stephanie Rosenberg - "Art History Transformed into Anthropology in Tanzania"

Matt Caerulius - "The Fire-Cracked Rock Analysis of the Middleboro Little League Site"

Kaitlin Ahern and Krystal Veniza - "Memories of Belize"
 

2008 Presentations -

Mai Miyamoto - "International Students at BSU"

Tracy Colter - "Bones as Witnesses: An Experience of a Forensic Anthropology Student"

Quetti Jean - "A Comparative Ethnography of Toco, Trinidad and Delmas, Haiti Recreational Water Use"

Michael Dunn - "Preparing Young Minds for Success"

Rebecca Burlingame - "An Analysis of Debitage from the Middleboro Little League Site"

Katie Lewis - "The Difficulty of Defining Patriarchy in the Andes"
 

2007 Presentations -

Fallon Gaines - "An Un-Belizeable Experience"

Katie Lewis - "Learning by Doing: Research Methods in Anthropology"

Linda McCarthy - "Reproduction of Orientalism in the Post-Modern Era"

Diane Rosa - "Ten Reasons I Love to Dig"
 

2006 Presentations -

Emerald Cohen - "Patriarchy, Stigma, and Brothel Workers: Socioeconomic and Cultural Causes
                              and Effects of India's Sex Industry"

Ashley Hutchinson - "Artifact Inventories: Internship at the Robbins Museum of Archaeology"

John Cunnally - "Doing Archaeology: Summer Field Schools at Jamestown and Bridgewater"

ATP Summer Grant - 2007

Quetti Jean  - 2007 Recipient

"A Comparative Ethnographic and Reflective Study of Different Aspects of Water Use in Toco, Trinidad, and Delma, Haiti"
 (Mentor: Dr. Diana Fox)

Summer Grants are awarded to students to conduct an in-depth, research, scholarship or artistic project over ten weeks of the summer under the supervision of a BSU faculty or library mentor. 

Excavating the Past by Lisa Arnold  

 

Excavating the Past
 by Lisa Arnold

Lisa Arnold, a May, 2007 graduate majoring in Anthropology and Art, won Best in Show for ceramics in the 43rd Student Art Exhibit, sponsored by the BSU Art Department. About her piece, Excavating the Past, Lisa said, "I was interested in expressing passion and sadness within the artwork entitled Excavating the Past. I used the human body to express those feelings by using slight arm and head gestures. I brought in the metaphor of anthropology with the addition of earth and ceramic shards within the chest cavity, to express that we sometimes have to look to our past. It is the past which makes us who we are, even though it may be too painful to show others." Lisa also completed a minor in Women's and Gender Studies. A native of Brockton, Lisa graduated from Brockton High School.

Last Modified: August 30, 2011