Anthropology Honors 2024

Sheri Binkly, summa cum laude
Honors thesis: A Sense of the Interior: Gender, Agency and the Professional Identities of Interior Designers in Multidisciplinary Firms
Advisor: Kathryn Goldfarb

Sophia Busse, summa cum laude
Honors thesis: Kiva Crumbs: Archaeological Diversity in Ancestral Puebloan Populations
Advisor: Scott Ortman

Rachel Coppock, summa cum laude
Honors thesis: Unfortunate Frontiers: Patterns of Skeletal Trauma at the Colorado State Hospital
Advisor: Lauren Hosek

Sarah Coronna, summa cum laude
Honors thesis: Movement of Powars II Red Ochre: An Inquiry into the Provenance of Artifactual Red Ochre from the Rocky Mountain and Greats Plains Region
Advisor: William Taylor

Peyton Herbert, summa cum laude
Honors thesis: Making it Personal: An Ethnographic Study of Small Scale Social Media Activism
Advisor: Alison Cool

Magdalena Humphrey, summa cum laude
Honors thesis: Understanding Human Monogamy through a Comparative Analysis
Advisor: Matthew Sponheimer

Maile Rhea, summa cum laude
Honors thesis: A Notch More Understanding: Evaluation of Artifact Categorization Through the Case Study of an Unfamiliar Object
Advisor: Douglas Bamforth

Jillian Vallance, magna cum laude
Honors thesis: Decolonizing Conservation: Incorporating Indigenous Practices and Traditional Knowledge into Contemporary Conservation Practices in California
Advisor: Jonathan O’Brien

Katherine Zilligen, magna cum laude
Honors thesis: Fire - Chaos and Control - How Archeological Case Studies Can Present Solutions for Contemporary Wildfires in the WUI
Advisor: Douglas Bamforth