Senior Projects in Anthropology at Bard
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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.
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Rachel Eisemann ’18 tracks the Albany Symphony as it wanders down the Erie Canal, reinventing the flows of “high” and “low” culture.
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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