Why contact your department first? Your department should be your first contact because they'll set the guidelines and requirements for their honors students. Some departments require students to apply to pursue honors in the department (and be accepted) before the honors project can begin.  There is also the option of writing a more interdisciplinary thesis that is not tied to your major, called a General Honors thesis.  Students considering a General Honors thesis project should start here.

What is the Honors Council? The Honors Council is a body of faculty made up of representatives from each Honors Program-participating department within the College of Arts and Sciences. Honors Council representatives, on behalf of their departments, set departmental requirements for honors theses, including thesis format, research methods, and thesis class requirements. Students should always start by contacting the Honors Council representative(s) for their major. The Honors Council meets in April and November to award honors designations, first in divisional subcommittees and then as a full council.

Honors Council Representatives

(Departments: Need to update your representatives on this list? Email honors@colorado.edu.)

Department Honors Council Representative Email
Anthropology

Steven Leigh 
Biological Anthropology

steven.leigh@colorado.edu
 

Alison Cool
Cultural Anthropology

 alison.cool@colorado.edu
  Douglas Bamforth
Archaeology		 bamforth@colorado.edu
Applied Math Anne Dougherty anne.dougherty@colorado.edu
Art and Art History Marina Kassianidou
Art Practices

marina.kassianidou@colorado.edu
  Robert Nauman
Art History		 robert.nauman@colorado.edu
Asian Languages and Civilizations Katherine Alexander katherine.alexander@colorado.edu
Asian Studies Lauren Collins lauren.collins@colorado.edu
Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Mark Rast mark.rast@lasp.colorado.edu
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Derek Brown derek.brown@colorado.edu
Biochemistry Jeffrey Cameron
(on sabbatical AY23-24)		 jeffrey.c.cameron@colorado.edu
  Halil Aydin halil.aydin@colorado.edu
Chemistry Veronica Vaida veronica.vaida@colorado.edu
Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts Melinda Barlow melinda.barlow@colorado.edu
Classics Sarah James Sarah.A.James@colorado.edu
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Barbara Demmig-Adams barbara.demmig-adams@colorado.edu
  Pieter Johnson pieter.johnson@colorado.edu
Economics Brian Cadena brian.cadena@colorado.edu
  Terra McKinnish terra.mckinnish@colorado.edu
English Jeffrey DeShell
Creative Writing 		 jeffrey.deshell@colorado.edu
 

Ben Robertson
Creative Writing and
English Literature

 benjamin.j.robertson@colorado.edu
  Laura Winkiel
English Literature		 laura.winkiel@colorado.edu
Environmental Studies Cassandra Brooks cassandra.Brooks@colorado.edu
  Zia Mehrabi zia.mehrabi@colorado.edu
  Joel Hartter joel.hartter@colorado.edu
  Ben Hale bhale@colorado.edu
Ethnic Studies Nishant Upadhyay nishant.upadhyay@colorado.edu
French and Italian Cosetta Seno cosetta.seno@colorado.edu
Geography Bill Travis william.travis@colorado.edu
  Taneesha Mohan Taneesha.Mohan@colorado.edu
Geological Sciences Brian Hynek Brian.Hynek@lasp.colorado.edu
Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Helmut Muller-Sievers helmut.muller-sievers@colorado.edu
History John Willis John.Willis@colorado.edu
Humanities Annjeanette Wiese annjeanette.wiese@colorado.edu
Integrative Physiology Mark Opp mark.opp@colorado.edu
  Tammy Maldonado tammy.maldonado@colorado.edu
  Alena Grabowski alena.grabowski@colorado.edu
International Affairs Robert Wyrod Robert.Wyrod@colorado.edu
Jewish Studies Sam Boyd samuel.boyd@colorado.edu
Linguistics Jeremy Calder jeremy.calder@colorado.edu
Mathematics Nathaniel Thiem nathaniel.thiem@colorado.edu
  Magdalena Czubak magda.czubak@colorado.edu
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Christy Fillman christy.fillman@colorado.edu
  Brian DeDecker dedecker@colorado.edu
  Kristin Moore kristin.a.moore@colorado.edu
  Soyeon Park Soyeon.Park-1@colorado.edu
  Cheryl Pinzone Cheryl.Pinzone@colorado.edu
  Ravinder Singh Ravinder.Singh@colorado.edu
Philosophy Brian Talbot btalbot@colorado.edu
Physics Michael Ritzwoller michael.ritzwoller@colorado.edu
  John Cumalat john.p.cumalat@colorado.edu
  Paul Beale paul.beale@colorado.edu
  Jun Ye jun.ye@colorado.edu
  Tobin Munsat tobin.munsat@colorado.edu
Political Science Kenneth Bickers kenneth.bickers@colorado.edu
  Jennifer Fitzgerald jennifer.fitzgerald@colorado.edu
Psychology and Neuroscience Eliana Colunga eliana.colunga@colorado.edu
  Michael Baratta Michael.Baratta@Colorado.edu
  For additional readers: https://www.colorado.edu/psych-neuro/undergraduates/honors-program
Religious Studies Deborah Whitehead deborah.whitehead@colorado.edu
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Kathryn Arehart kathryn.arehart@colorado.edu
Sociology Amanda Stewart Amanda.Stewart-1@colorado.edu
Spanish and Portuguese Javier Rivas Rodriguez jose.rivas-rodriguez@colorado.edu
Theatre and Dance Chip Persons chip.persons@colorado.edu
  Anya Cloud anya.cloud@colorado.edu
Women and Gender Studies Lorraine Bayard de Volo lbdv@colorado.edu
     
General Honors Alison Hatch alison.hatch@colorado.edu
  Kate Fischer fischerk@colorado.edu
  Abby Hickcox abby.hickcox@colorado.edu
  Jennifer Schwartz jennifer.schwartz@colorado.edu