Skip to main content.
Bard
  • Bard
  • Academics sub-menuAcademics
    Bard College Commencement
    • Academics
      • Programs and Divisions
      • Structure of the Curriculum
      • Courses
      • Requirements
      • Discover Bard
      • Bard Abroad
      • Academic Calendar
      • Faculty
      • Libraries
      • College Catalogue
      • Dual-Degree Programs
      • Bard Conservatory of Music
      • Other Study Opportunities
      • Graduate Programs
      • Early Colleges
  • Admission sub-menuAdmission
    • Applying
      • Apply Now
      • Financial Aid
      • Tuition + Payment
    • Discover Bard
      • Campus Tours
      • Meet Our Students + Alumni/ae
      • For Families / Familias
    • Stay in Touch
      • Join Our Mailing List
      • Contact Us
  • Campus Life sub-menuCampus Life
    Bard Campus Life

    Make a home in Annandale.

    • Living on Campus
      • Housing + Dining
      • Campus Resources
      • Get Involved on Campus
      • Visiting + Transportation
      • Athletics + Recreation
      • New Students
  • Civic Engagement sub-menuCivic Engagement
    • Bard CCE The Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) at Bard College embodies the fundamental belief that education and civil society are inextricably linked.

      Take action.
      Make an impact.

      Get Involved
      • Campus + Community
      • In the Classroom
      • U.S. Network
      • International Network
      • About CCE
      • Resources
      • Support
  • Newsroom sub-menuNews + Events
    Upstreaming
    • News + Events
      • Newsroom
      • Events Calendar
      • Video Gallery
      • Press Releases
      • Office of Communications
      • COVID-19 Updates
    • Special Events
      • Commencement Weekend
      • Alumni/ae Reunion
      • Family + Alumni/ae Weekend
      • Fisher Center
      • Bard SummerScape
      • Bard Athletics
  • About Bard sub-menuAbout Bard

    A private college for the public good.

    Support Bard

    Legacy Challenge
    • About Bard College
      • Mission Statement
      • Bard History
      • Love of Learning
      • Visiting Bard
      • Employment
      • OSUN
      • Bard Abroad
      • The Bard Network
      • Montgomery Place Campus
      • Campus Tours
      • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
      • Sustainability
      • Title IX and Nondiscrimination
      • HEOA Disclosures
      • Institutional Support
      • Safety and Security
      • Inside Bard
      • Alumni/ae Network
      • Family Network
      • Support Bard
      • Legacy Challenge
  • COVID-19 Information
  • Give
  • Search
Bard Anthropology Program

Senior Project

Anthropology Menu
  • The Program
  • Faculty
  • Courses
  • Bard Archaeology
  • News + Events
  • Senior Projects
  • Resources
  • Alumni/ae
  • IRB
  • Home
Senior Projects in Anthropology at Bard
Finn Domingo West's Senior Project, "Dispatches from the Nest: Falconry and pest management in semiotic worlds"

Senior Projects in Anthropology at Bard

Complete versions of anthropology Senior Projects are available at the library's Digital Commons.

Go to Digital Commons

What does a Senior Project in anthropology entail? Below you can download the Anthropology Program Handbook for Senior Project Proposals and Preparations in Junior Year.

Senior Project Handbook

Students in the Field

  • View Rachel's Senior Project
    View Rachel's Senior Project
    Rachel Eisemann ’18 tracks the Albany Symphony as it wanders down the Erie Canal, reinventing the flows of “high” and “low” culture.
     
  • View Indira's Senior Project
    Indira Bisram ’18 charts the social relations that hold together a New York City charter school.

     

Senior Projects 2019

KAYLA YVONNE ADAMS                                                                                                                                      Brooklyn, New York
Anthropology and Asian Studies: “Curated Spaces for Global Citizenship: Popularization of the English Language in Seoul”
Project Adviser: Laura Kunreuther

ANNE TILGHMAN COMER                                                                                                                                  Baltimore, Maryland
Anthropology: “Ward Manor: Care for the Elderly and Digital Memory”
Concentration: Experimental Humanities
Project Adviser: Laura Kunreuther


CAILIN FLORES DREW-MORIN                                                                                                                         Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
Anthropology: “Sustainable Paths,” an ethnography of an ecovillage in the Midwestern United States
Project Adviser: Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

OSKAR COLTRANE DYE-FURSTENBERG                                                                                                       Seattle, Washington
Anthropology: “Affects of Elimination: Foundations of Collectivity”
Concentration: Human Rights
Project Adviser: Gregory Duff Morton


JAZONDRé KANIELA RENEE GIBBS                                                                                                                Fort Meade, Maryland
Anthropology: “Vibrations, Memory, and Identity: The Embodiment of Tambú and the Afro-Curaçaoan Identity in Curaçao”
Concentration: Latin American and Iberian Studies

DELDAR GOLCHEHREH                                                                                                                                       Richmond, California
Anthropology: “Pomegranates in a Bowl: Iranianness in America”
Concentration: Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project Adviser: Laura Kunreuther


LILY BROOKE BEAUMONT LASHER                                                                                                                Wake Forest, North Carolina
Anthropology and Art History and Visual Culture: “In Plastic: Sturdy Materiality as Debris Splay: A Cultural History, Ethnographic Experiment, and Installation Performance Dwelling on ‘Plastic’ in American Visions”
Project Adviser: Yuka Suzuki

Sancia MEARA SHIBA NASH                                                                                                                              Kihei, Hawaii
Anthropology and Film and Electronic Arts: “         (Yuumei): Authoring the Tadaki Family Photo Album”
Project Adviser: Yuka Suzuki

SOPHIA ALEXANDRA ROSE                                                                                                                               Lewisburg, West Virginia
Anthropology and Environmental and Urban Studies: “Reproducing Culture through Terroir: Following Raclette du Valais from the Alps to the Consumer”
Project Adviser: Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

COOPER THOMAS SLACK                                                                                                                                   Merrimac, Massachusetts
Anthropology: “Look Out, Not Up: Union Survival in the Wake of Janus v. AFSCME”
Project Adviser: Gregory Duff Morton
Music: “Mediated Intimacies,” a performance of improvised music
Project Adviser: Erica Lindsay

Senior Projects 2018

KATHERINE ANN ALBERT
Anthropology and Historical Studies: “No Longer a ‘Silent Remembrance’: Excavating 18th-Century German American Identity in the Hudson Valley”
Project Adviser: Christopher Lindner

JOY HUDA AL-NEMRI
Anthropology: “The Politics of Distinction and Exchange in Displacement: How Aesthetics Become Ethical”
Project Adviser: Gregory Duff Morton

XI BAO
Anthropology:“Sorting Crabs: An Analysis of Tourism, Economy, Labor, and State Division at Zhoushan Fish Market”
Project Adviser: Yuka Suzuki

INDIRA DHANIA BISRAM
Anthropology: “We Get Better: (Re)Negotiating Power Dynamics in a Brooklyn Charter School”
Concentration: Africana Studies
Project Adviser: Yuka Suzuki


GAVRIELA BURSTON
Anthropology: “'Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast,' an exploration of feminist and womanist perspectives of the breast from the 1960s to the present"
Concentration: Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project Adviser: Michèle D. Dominy


SIMON CHARLES DEBEVOISE
Anthropology and Music: “Musical Infrastructures and Techniques of Survival in Dakar”
Concentration: Africana Studies
Project Adviser: Maria Sonevytsky


RACHEL CLAIRE EISEMANN
Anthropology: “Water Music New York: Listening Adventurously on the Albany Symphony’s Journey along the Erie Canal”
Project Adviser: Laura Kunreuther

RILEY ERIN GRIFFIN
Anthropology: “Event, Narrative, File: Ethnography of a Nonprofit Mental Health Clinic for Children”
Project Adviser: Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

HAYDEN FRANKLYN WILLIAM HARD
Anthropology: “‘Brother Can You Spare a Friend?’ Documents, Masculinities, and Histories in a Masonic Lodge”
Project Adviser: Laura Kunreuther

EMMA WEISS HOLYST
Anthropology: “Fashioning Seoul: Everyday Practices of Dress in the Korean Wave”
Concentration: Experimental Humanities
Project Adviser: Laura Kunreuther

 
ELLA DAIR MCLEOD
Anthropology: “‘Pink’ Public Transport: A Necessary Evil?” an ethnography exploring women-only sections of public transportation in Mexico City"
Concentration: Latin American/Iberian Studies
Project Adviser: Gregory Duff Morton

 
MILAN ALICIA MILLER
Anthropology and Film and Electronic Arts: “The Village of Hope: Community Reformation in Post-Katrina New Orleans”
Project Advisers: Ephraim Asili and Laura Kunreuther

AVALON BLUE QIAN
Anthropology:“(Un)packing the Natural: Exploring Tactics of Empowerment for Girls through Outdoor Education”
Project Adviser: Yuka Suzuki

CARLO DIEGO RAIMONDO
Anthropology and Environmental and Urban Studies: “Knowing Water: Science and the Politics of Knowledge Production along the Saw Kill”
Project Adviser: Yuka Suzuki
 
JOSEPH DANIEL SHEEHAN
Anthropology: “The State and Its Aftermath”
Project Adviser: Gregory Duff Morton
 
VIRGINIA CLAIRE SPERKA
Anthropology: “‘For Us, by Us’: Professionalization and Witnessing in New Orleans”
Project Adviser: Laura Kunreuther
 
MARK ANTHONY WILLIAMS JR.
Anthropology: “'A Healthy Gorilla Makes a Healthy You: Preventing and PREDICT-I-ng the Next Pandemic Disease,' an ethnographic account of the people, projects, marketing, and scientific practices of EcoHealth Alliance"
Concentration: Global Public Health
Project Adviser: Michèle D. Dominy
 

Senior Projects 2017

HELEN ITSEL ARACENA
Anthropology: “Blasian and Proud: An Examination of Race and Identity among Half Black and Half Japanese Youth in Japan”
Project Adviser: Yuka Suzuki

ALEXANDER KUNIN BACON
Anthropology: “The Worth of Aura in the Work of Fine Art Publishing,” an anthropological account of the context of display in the creation of aesthetic and economic value
Project Adviser: Jonah S. Rubin

WALKER WOLF BOCKLEY
Anthropology and Philosophy: “The Alchemy of Brand”
Project Advisers: Daniel Berthold, Laura Kunreuther, and Ruth Zisman

ELIZABETH V. BOYD
Anthropology and Human Rights: "How to Follow Jesus for Life: Reconstituting Youth as Ideal Christian Subjects in Short-Term Mission"
Concentration: Latin American and Iberian Studies
Project Adviser: Yuka Suzuki


CHRISTIAN  HERNANDEZ
Anthropology: “A Spatial Affair: Experiencing the Built Environment through Graffiti”
Project Adviser: Laura Kunreuther

JULIET ROSE MALLOUK
Anthropology: “Managing Motherhood Online: Authority, Assemblage, and Fetal Personhood”
Project Adviser: Laura Kunreuther

JACOB ELI MERRELL
Anthropology: “Dancing in the Public Eye: DIY Music and a Child’s Discourse”
Project Adviser: Laura Kunreuther

JACQUELINE MICHELLE MERRILL
Anthropology: “Privatizing the Green Line: Solidere and the Postwar Development of Downtown Beirut”
Concentration: Middle Eastern Studies
Project Adviser: Jonah S. Rubin


THOMAS WALTON MOORE
Anthropology and Music: “Look at Where You Listen: A Study of Commercial Music and Mediation”
Project Advisers: Laura Kunreuther and Maria Sonevytsky 

JOSHUA DAVID ROTBERT
Anthropology: "'Material Politics of the Bicycle,' an exploration of how a reading of the material and social aspects of a bicycle are related to larger concepts of class, status, identity, and knowledge"
Project Adviser: Yuka Suzuki

TRESKA LYDIA STEIN
Anthropology: “A Geography of Grief: An Exploration of the Significance of the Northern New Mexican Landscape in the 
Grieving Process”
Project Adviser: Michèle D. Dominy

ARIANA VERONIKA ULE
Anthropology: “Where Do We Go from Here? Exploring the Shifts in Linguistic and Cultural Identities for Latvian Americans”
Project Adviser: Michèle D. Dominy

Anthropology Quick Links

  • AnthroSource
  • Institutional Review Board
  • JSTOR
  • Bard Libraries
  • Bard Archaeology
Bard College
Campus Road, PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504-5000
Phone: 800-BARDCOL
Admission Phone: 845-758-7472
Admission E-mail: [email protected]
©2022 Bard College
Follow Us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Follow Us on Instagram
You Tube
Information For:
Prospective Students
Current Employees
Alumni/ae 
Families
Quick Links
Employment
Travel to Bard
Site Search
Support Bard