CONGRATULATIONS
TO ALL OF OUR SENIORS
2014
SENIOR CAPSTONE PAPERS & THESES
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”
*Indicates Students Receiving Honors in Anthropology
CONGRATULATIONS
TO ALL OF OUR SENIORS
2014
SENIOR CAPSTONE PAPERS & THESES
IN ANTHROPOLOGY
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 Renée Chabla
“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”
*Indicates Students Receiving Honors in Anthropology
CONGRATULATIONS
TO ALL OF OUR SENIORS
2014
SENIOR CAPSTONE PAPERS & THESES
IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Anna Kennedy Elder
“Gastronomy and Gender Struggle: The Construction
of Mapuche Identity Through Food and Tradition”
Demetrios Nikolaus Elias
“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”
*Indicates Students Receiving Honors in Anthropology
CONGRATULATIONS
TO ALL OF OUR SENIORS
2014
SENIOR CAPSTONE PAPERS & THESES
IN ANTHROPOLOGY
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”
*Indicates Students Receiving Honors in Anthropology
CONGRATULATIONS
TO ALL OF OUR SENIORS
2014
SENIOR CAPSTONE PAPERS & THESES
IN ANTHROPOLOGY
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’”
*Indicates Students Receiving Honors in Anthropology
CONGRATULATIONS
TO ALL OF OUR SENIORS
2014
SENIOR CAPSTONE PAPERS & THESES
IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Anna Radoff
“Flag Down on the Field: The Impact of
African American Male Athletes as Role Models”
Supriya Rastogi
“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”
*Indicates Students Receiving Honors in Anthropology
CONGRATULATIONS
TO ALL OF OUR SENIORS
2014
SENIOR CAPSTONE PAPERS & THESES
IN ANTHROPOLOGY
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”
*Indicates Students Receiving Honors in Anthropology
CONGRATULATIONS
TO ALL OF OUR SENIORS
2014
SENIOR CAPSTONE PAPERS & THESES
IN ANTHROPOLOGY
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