Honors
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 one or two courses of credit per semester of Honors. Honors work requires a thesis based on original research and an oral examination on the thesis.
Honors thesis are available for your review on OhioLINK ETD Center
http://etd.ohiolink.edu/etd-dept.cgi?list=depts&univ=oberlin
| 2013 | |
| Julie Christensen | More Than Duffle Bag Medicine: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Student Movement for Global Health |
| Michael Everdell | Reconsidering the Puebloan Languages in a Southwestern Areal Context Awarded Highest |
| 2012 | |
| Anna Peckham |
One Nation, Many Borders: Language and Identity in Mayan Guatemala and Mexico |
| Netta Rappaport |
The Mozart Effect: Music, Success, and Class in an American Class/room |
| Rachel Williams |
We Are Not These Bodies: Identity and Transcendence among American Devotees of Krishna |
| 2011 | |
| Hilary Finedore | The Accessibility of Adulthood |
| Andrew Flachs |
Female Genital Cutting, The Veil, and Democracy: Navigating Cultural Politics in Human Rights Discourse |
| Laura Vernon | Cyber-Power: Sexuality, Marginalization and Social Networking |
| Aaron Wolf | Determining Whether Spectrophotometer CIE L*a*b* Color Analysis is an Effective Alternative to Munsell Soil Color Charts and the Study of Burnt Bones: Insights From Analysis of Bab edh-Dhra EB II-III Burnt Bones |
| 2010 | |
| Shaina Wedmedyk | Santería in Northern Ohio: An African Religion in America |
| Rebecca Witheridge | From Graceful Adaptations to Jarring Collisions: Oberlin Students' Experiences Integrating Divergent Conceptions of Gender |
| 2009 | |
| Laura Blum-Smith | The Language of Nation: Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Language Policy in The United States and Canada |
| Katherine (Kate) Lauth | Resistance in the Hills: Women's Roles in Environmental Justice Activism in the Coal River Valley, West Virginia |
| Nina Moffitt | Pirahã, Language Universals and Linguistic Relativity |
| Kirsten Zook | The Right to be Heard: an ethnography of street children in Moshi, Tanzania |
| 2008 | |
| Noelle E. Galos | |
| Sarvnaz Lotfi |
HIV/AIDS in Tehran The Culture of Western Biomedicine in the Non-Western World |
| Mindy W. Tauberg | Choosing Identity: Children of Interfaith Marriages |
| 2007 | |
| Tamara White | |
| 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 |
| 2005 | |
| Erin Allen | Hidden Meanings: A Search for the Historical Worldview in the Oberlin College Ethnograhic Collection Organizational Systems |
| Susanna Newbury | |
| Andrew Seidel | |
| Ann Stewart | |
| 2002 | |
| Michael Bobick | The Roma of Eastern Europe in Transition: Historical Marginalization, Misrepresentation, and Political Ethnogenesis |
| 2001 | |
| Kate McClellan | Refracted Images: Decoding African Missionary Collections |
| 2000 | |
| Menahem Doura | Phylogenetic Inference and Neanderthal Mitochondrial DNA: Comparison of Parsimony and Distance Models |
| 1999 | |
| Joshua 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 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 Suthers | The Effects of Temperature on the Fracture Strengths of Chert Projectile Points: An Experimental Approach to an Ethnograhic Problem |
| 1997 | |
| Jennifer DeWan | Mother Ireland: Women, the State and the Abortion Referendum in the Republic of Ireland |
| Devon Strolovitch | The 'Schizoid' Nature of Modern Hebrew Linguistics: A Contact Language in Search of a Genetic Past |
| 1996 | |
| Amy Margaris | Meat and Potatoes: Recipes for a Range of Egalitarianism in Three Hunter-Gatherer Societies |
| 1989 | |
| Laura Albert | Oberlin Local Legend |
| Joshua Piker | The Sinagua and Aggregation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cultural Development |
| 1981 | |
| Sharon Swartz | Morphology and Locomotor Function of the Forelimb of the Hominoidea: Relevance for Hominoid Pyhlogeny |
| 1978 | |
| Karen Dennis | An Analysis of Faunal and Human Osteological Remains from the Eiden Site (33 Ln 14) of Sheffield, Ohio |
| Letitia Shapiro | The Internal Structure of The Eiden Site (33 Ln14), Lorain County, Ohio |
