Senior Theses 2011
Diana Shireen Ali
“‘A Place for Everyone’: Application of Asian-American
Strategic Essentialism to Domestic Violence Advocacy”
Douglas William Bartels*
“Do You Know Your Knee? The Importance of
Knee Morphology and Its Effects on the
Anthropological and Medical Communities”
Tija Aija Berzins
“Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Contradictions in Health NGOs: Anthropologists as a Resource for the NGO Sector”
Laura Elizabeth Booth*
“‘Proving Yourself’ in 26.2 miles:
The Role of Marathon Running in an Individual’s
Articulation and Affirmation of Identity”
Michele E. Carney
“Longitudinal Changes in Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)
Milk Composition: Need & Collection Strategy”
Alexander Couto Davis
“Arctic Archaeology and Tribal Tribulations:
An Observation of Archaeology in the Kotzebue Sound”
Corinne Michelle Ellis*
“‘God Will Pay You Ransomly’: Christianity, Consumption, and Choice
in a Ghanaian Seventh-Day Adventist Community”
Juliana Marie Farley
“‘Who Controls the Streets Controls the Country’: The Place of Technology Within Youth Social Movements in Iran”
Maria Ana Fernandez
“Children’s Day at Centro Salvador: An Ethnographic Exploration of
Youth Services for Latino Children at an After-School Program in Chicago”
Kimberly Parish Garza*
“Home Sweet Home: Stress and Health in Mississippi Adolescents with Metabolic Syndrome or Type 2 Diabetes”
Morgan Elizabeth Heller*
“Infected and Affected: Examining the HIV/AIDS Experience of Patients and Family Members in Kampala, Uganda Through Photovoice”
Kimberly Anne Helseth*
“The Antiquity of Roman Leprosy:
Fleshing out the Skeletal and Literary Evidence”
Rachel Sunmi Koh*
“Who is Authorized to Define a Woman? How Narratives Influence
Post-Operative Gender Identity in Chilean Hysterectomy Patients”
Martin Harper Murphy
“Inklings of the Self: How Irish Identity is Constructed Through Tattoos”
Deborah Haeyoung Myung
“Heard but not Seen: Widespread Domestic Violence
Against Women in Katanga”
Iman Abidemi Ogundeko
“‘The World is a Pregnant Woman’: Investigating the Clinical and Socioeconomic Factors of Obstetric Fistulas in Islamic Northern Nigeria from a Historical and Contemporary Perspective”
Tamon Davis Oshimo*
“‘It’s Japan’: The Experience of Settlement
among African Immigrants in Japan”
Peter Y. Park
“Asian American Group Identity Formation and Consciousness:
Korean Americans at Northwestern University”
Sarah Ann Powers*
“An Exploratory Assessment of Environmental Predictors
of Interferon-gamma in the Philippines:
A Biomarker for Autoimmune Disease Risk in Young Adults”
Abhita Tanguturu Reddy
“A Cultural Study of Alzheimer’s Disease and Diet in Rural India”
Gian Carlo Santos*
“Assessing City Farm’s Suitability in Facilitating Cross-Income Socialization: A Story of Farming and Mixed-Income Development
in Old Town, Chicago”
Karolina Jean Schantz*
“Nation, Race, Class, and the ‘Other’: South American Immigration
and Discrimination in Buenos Aires”
Catherine Jeanine Schur*
“Tiwanaku Ceramics: Production and Distribution in the Moquegua Valley”
Humza Shakil Shaikh
“Children of the Caste: A Street Across but a World Apart:
A Study of the Determinants of Different Child Health Outcomes
Between the Mir Behr and Mir Jat Castes of Rehri Goth, Pakistan”
Zhiyu Shang*
“Ding Ling’s Life in the 1920s and 1930s: A Case Study on Intellectuals’ Demand of Power and the Rise of Totalitarian Culture in China”
Junzi Shi*
“Tooth Loss and CRP Positively Predict Cardiovascular Disease Risk
in Adult Filipino Women”
Anita Girish Shroff*
“Birth Size and Maternal Nutrition During Pregnancy
Predict Blood Pressure in Filipino Adults”
Kendra Ann Sirak*
“An Analysis of Limb Element Asymmetry
in an Ancestral Puebloan Population”
Jennifer Louise Skene*
“Healing for the Seventh Generation: Renewable Energy’s Role in Bringing Balance Back to the White Earth Reservation and to Mother Earth”
Kathryn Rose Smiley
“The Globalization of Medical Choice and Decision Making
in San Ignacio, Belize”
Najeeba Syed
“’Every Mouth is Singing Now’: The Reinvention of Tradition
and the Symbolic Formation of Collective Identity in Tibetan Diaspora
Emily Caitlin Wright*
“Cultivating Community: Urban Gardens
in Chicago’s Humboldt Park Neighborhood”
Lu Yao*
“Can Island Dwarfism Explain the Tiny Brain of the Flores Hominid?”
*Indicates Students Receiving Honors in Anthropology
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