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.

2012 Recipients:

Caitlin A. Fitzgerald
Sarah J. Manteiga
Helen M. Silkonis             

Past Recipients:

Kaitlin R. Ahern - 2011
Frances W. Harrison - 2011
Jeffrey B. Moore, Jr. - 2011
Audrey Warren - 2011
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 2012 - Major in Anthropology

Courtney M. Abdou, BA, Cum Laude

Jessica L. Chmielorz, BA

Julie A. Eccleston, BS, Summa Cum Laude

Caitlin A. Fitzgerald, BA, Magna Cum Laude

Ryan J. Hall, BS

Charles A. Hammond, BS

Jade S. Kluver, BA

Hallie J. Leonard, BA, Magna Cum Laude

Sarah J. Manteiga, BA, Cum Laude

Michael Nelson, BA

Kaitlyn G. Owen, BA (Also majoring in Criminal Justice)

Ethan P. Savickas, BA

Helen M. Silkonis, BA, Summa Cum Laude

Mara E. Smith, BA, Cum Laude

Joshua Stanley, BS

Chelsea C. Talcott, BA  (Also majoring in Art), Cum Laude

Krystal C. Vezina, BA

Graduating Class of 2011

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

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

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

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)

Department of Anthropology Undergraduate Research Symposium

Jake, Helen, Mara, Caitlin and Cory

2012 Presentations 

Cory Fournier - "Locational Analysis of Sacred Sites in Southern New England"

Ryan Jake Hall -  "GIS Analysis of Site Locations around Plymouth, Massachusetts"

Caitlin Fitzgerald - "When Skulls Speak to Us"

Mara Smith -  "The Magic Circle"

Helen Silkonis -  "One with the Land: An Exploration of Environmental Perspectives
  of Native American Tribes of Southern New England" 

2011

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

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

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

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"
 

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: June 5, 2012