The department invites a small number of qualified majors to participate in the Honors Program. Honors work may begin as early as the sixth semester or may commence at the beginning of the senior year. Students may receive from two to six hours of credit per semester of Honors. Honors work requires a thesis based on original research and an oral examination on the thesis.

2005/2006
Elia Gilbert	The Sound of Mountains: Traditional Music of Western North Carolina
Emily Helton	New Philadelphia: The Archaeology of Race, Gender, and Education
Ashley Suarez	Activist Anthropology: An Ethnography of Asian American Student Activism at Oberlin College
2004/2005
Erin Evangleine Allen	Hidden Meanings: A search for the Historical Worldview in the Oberlin College Ethnographic Collection Organizational Systems
Susanna Newbury
Andrew Seidel
Ann Stewart
2002/2003
Shaady Salehi
2001/2002
Michael Bobick
2000/2001
Kate McClellan	Refracted Images: Decoding African Missionary Collections
1999/2000
Menahem B. Doura	Phylogenetic Inference and Neanderthal Mitochondrial DNA: Comparsion of Parsimony and Distance Models
Kira Levy	The Politics of Disease: Biomedicine, Apartheid and Cultural Resistance in South Africa
1998/1999
Joshua M. Aerie	A Narrative Epistemology of Sacred Frame Constructedness and Deconstruction: Exploratory Analyses of Ways of Knowing Sacred Interpretation and Understanding Through Context, Symbol/Concept, and Role
Gilbert N. Saenz	Tejano Music and Dance: Symbols of Regional Ethnic Awareness and Collective Identity
Lindsay Start	Silencing the Khoesan: An Anthropological Study of Language Death in South Africa
Kris B. Suthers	The Effects of Temperature on the Fracture Strengths of Chert Projectile Points: An Experimental Approach to an Ethnigraphic Problem
1996/1997
Jennifer K. DeWan	Mother Ireland: Women, The State and The Abortion Referendum in the Republic of Ireland
1995/1996
Amy V. Margaris	Meat and Potatoes: Recipies for a Range of Egalitarianism in Three Hunter-Gatherer Societies

Senior Projects
2001-2002

One semester independent research projects are required for the Archeological Studies major. The following projects were supervised by Prof. Grimm during the spring semester.

Margaret Berger: Developing Laboratory Methodology for Identifying Seasonality in Protothaca staminea (Grimm)

Christina Burris: A Medieval Chamba Bronze from the Allen Memorial Art Museum (Grimm)
Rebecca Deeb: Weaving Tradition: Analysis of a Collection of Modern Maya Textiles for Chiapas, Mexico at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. In addition to her senior project, Rebecca prepared a small exhibition of these textiles at the CMNH. (Grimm)

Gwendolyn Kelly: Designed the webpage: Closing the Circle. For the Nez Perece symposium that the department hosted on April 27, 2002. (Grimm)

Nedra Lee: Archaeology of Slavery (Kane)
Julia MacKesson: The Llama's Warning: a digital animation of a Peruvian myth using images from their ancient material culture. (Grimm)

All projects are on file with Prof. Linda Grimm.

Margaret Berger

Julia, Maggie and Gwen

Christina Burris

Julia MacKesson

Winter Term Projects

Fieldwork
2002

Margaret Berger will be spend a month this summer assisting in the Archeological Field School in Southwest Germany with Lynn Fisher and Linda Grimm.

Rebecca Deeb will participate in the Western Belize Regional Cave Project for one month this summer.

Trina Jackson will participate in the Cabrillo College archeology program this summer enjoying the beautiful California coast in Aptos. She will do coursework in survey, excavation and laboratory analysis.

Michael Severino will participate in the Archeological Field School in Southwest Germany this summer with Lynn Fisher and Linda Grimm.

Faculty Projects

Jack Glazier will undertake ethnohistorical research in an African American community in Christian County, southwestern Kentucky. Initially focusing on the life of James Walter Bass, an African American student at Oberlin in 1884-86, the study will examine how social capital and community social formations such as educational, religious, and fraternal organizations have promoted individual and collective achievement.

Study Away Program
2001-2002

Annie Slaven is studying away this spring on the Kenyon College Program in Honduras. She is doing archeology for her independent project.