May 2020 Undergraduate Anthropology Awards
Anthropology Award Ceremony Program
Excellence in Anthropology
For academic excellence in Anthropology among the top 10% of graduating majors
Sonya Ahuja
Madison Bouse
Rachel Brough
Kayla Buttafuoco
Clara Henkes
Marcus Kunzmann
Taylor Lord
Katie Madden
Swetha Nakshatri
Sienna Ruiz
Danielle Solish
Jeremiah Truel
Leadership in Anthropology
Kyle Schulte
Excellence in Research
Awarded for independent scholarship
Madison Bouse
Clara Mariencheck
Service to Anthropology
For service to the discipline or community
Madison Bouse
Max Fanroy
Jordan Gaelen
Nicholas Lin
Lydia Straka
Cassidy Sykes
Maddie Weirick
Contributions to Anthropology
Awarded for exceptional participation to the discipline
Sonja Ahuja
Cintia Collins
Vienna Cordova
Claire Cvengros
Amy Luo
Helene Miles
Jorge Puentes
Kyle Schulte
Reeya Shah
Julia Stern
Jeremiah Truel
Addison Walker
Senior Honors in Anthropology
Magna Cum Laude
Neel Kale
Advisor: Prof. Brad Stoner
Medical Conspiracies in America: How Systemic Inequality Breeds Mistrust
Jae Hee Lee
Advisor: Prof. Brad Stoner
Through Thick and Thin: An Investigation of How Transgender Women in Thailand Become Victims of HIV and Development of a Possible Solution
Nicholas Lin
Advisor: Prof. Brad Stoner
Fixing All These Things Requires Some Sort of Currency”: An Ethnographic Exploration of Homelessness and the American Healthcare System
Sienna Ruiz
Advisor: Prof. Sam Shaerer
Performing Street Art in Madrid: Artistic Labor and The Cost of Cool
Lydia Straka
Advisor: Prof. Carolyn Sargent
Dutch Childbirth Narratives: Women’s Perspectives on Physiological, Biomedical, and Woman-Centered Approaches to Maternity Care in the Netherlands
Cum Laude
Rinat Tal
Advisor: Prof. Carolyn Sargent
Maternal Healthcare and Women’s Control: Defining Priorities for Care in the Rukwa Region of Tanzania
Eddie Xie
Advisor: Prof. Anna Jacobsen
Let’s Talk About Sex! The Tensions Between Sexual Education, National Structure, and Self-Care [Autocuidado] in Arica, Chile
John W. Bennett Prize
The John W. Bennett Prize to the Outstanding Graduating Senior in Anthropology is given to the graduating anthropology senior with the highest combination of GPA and excellent honors thesis.
Sienna Ruiz
Lambda Alpha Honor Society
Roxy Ackerman
Eliza Antonowich
Alexandra Beeson
Naomi Belay
Madison Bouse
Rachel Brough
Anastasia Cajigal
Thomas Chaffee
Andrew Farrell
Natasha Frontera
Jordan Gaelen
Mary Gay
Frances Hancock
Clara Henkes
Alec Hilton
Margaret Hua
Lauren Hucko
Cienna Jordan
Katie Kim
Daun Lee
Jae Hee Lee
Nicholas Lin
Aidan Lisker
Blake Maley
Clara Mariencheck
Amy Ouyang
Simran Panwar
Carol Pazos
Rachel Roberts
Jessica Rosenblum
Kyle Schulte
India Shelley
Emma Smolev
Hope Steele
Zoe Stein
Julia Stern
Lydia Straka
Rinat Tal
Megha Uberoi
Addison Walker
Zhi Shen Yong
Graduating Class of December 2019
Eliza Antonowich
Fiammetta Brody
Helene Miles
Rachel Roberts
Sophie Shepley
Danielle Solish
Jeremiah Truel
Sophia Zimbalist
Graduating Class of May 2020
Roxy Tamara Ackerman
Sonya Ahuja
Joel Anderson
Anupama Balasubramanian
Alexandra Beeson
Naomi Belay
Randall Bentley III
Jack Besser
Carson Borbely
Madison Bouse
Mary Bradshaw
Rachel Brough
Camille Brown
Kayla Buttafuoco
Anastasia Cajigal
Grace Campbell
Mackenzie Cappelle
Thomas Chaffee III
Miles Charles
Joanna Chen
Solana Chertow
Cíntia Collins
Vienna Cordova
Claire Cvengros
Isabel Emerson
Maxwell Fanroy
Andrew Farrell
Yona Feit
Jose Figueroa
Catherine Frantz
Natasha Frontera
Jordan Gaelen
Mary Gay
Claudia Gorman
Canaan Hancock
Frances Hancock
Michael Harmon
Ashley Harrie
Morgan Hartman
Clara Henkes
Alex Hilton
Katherine Holtkamp
Margaret Hua
Lauren Hucko
Vinith Ilavarasan
Rohan Iyer
Jaylen Johnson
Cienna Jordan
Mashoud Kaba
Neel Kale
Dylan Kiefer
Katherine Kim
Marcus Kunzmann
Daun Lee
Jae Hee Lee
Kendal Lee
Kendra Lewis
Phoebe Li
Nicholas Lin
Aidan Lisker
Sarah Lowentheil
Taylor Lord
Amy Luo
Katherine Madden
Blake Maley
Clara Mariencheck
Natalia Mata
Erika Matthews
Ashley Meremikwu
Gabrielle Nagel
Sumil Nair
Swetha Nakshatri
Noah Offenkrantz
Rachel Osei-Owusu
Amy Ouyang
Gabriela Pantoja-Cortés
Simran Panwar
Carol Pazos
Julia Praeger
Jorge Puentes
Elizabeth Puyo
Lelandra Randle
Hoyong Rhee
Jessica Rosenblum
Rachel Rothman
Sienna Ruiz
Kyle Schulte
Shayana Seneviratne
Sienna Sewell
Reeya Shah
India Shelley
Georgia Simchick
Emma Smolev
Sydney Stafford
Hope Steele
Zoe Stein
Julia Stern
Lydia Straka
Derek Stubbs Jr.
Cassidy Sykes
Rinat Tal
Kingsley Tony-Egbuniwe
Sanjna Tripathy
Megha Uberoi
Anthony Villeneuve
Addison Walker
Madeline Weirick
Jenna Wilf
Edward Xie
Zhi Shen Yong
May 2020 PhD Recipients
Carolyn Barnes, PhD, May 2020
Advisor: Prof. Peter Benson
Title: Horse Power: The Merry-go-Round of Kentucky's Transforming Thoroughbred Industry
Lauren Cubellis, PhD, May 2020
Advisor: Prof. Rebecca Lester
Title: Anticipating Crisis: Risk, Cost, and Care in German Psychiatry
Natalia Guzman Solano, PhD, May 2020
Advisor: Prof. Bret Gustafson
Title: Subjectivities of Struggle: Charting Inscriptions of Violence and Refusal on the “Cuerpo Territorio” of Peru’s Defensoras
Mica Jones, PhD, May 2020
Advisor: Prof. Fiona Marshall
Title: Variability Among Later Stone Age Hunter-gatherers in Eastern Africa
Colleen Walsh Lang, MD/PhD, May 2020
Advisor: Dr. Bradley Stoner
Title: Vulnerable Agents: Ugandan Children’s Experiences with HIV Rehabilitation and Reintegration
Julia Macias, PhD, May 2020
Advisor: Prof. Bret Gustafson
Title: Rompiendo Alambres: Immigrant Youth Navigating School and Life in St. Louis
Lauren Marr, PhD, May 2020
Advisor: Prof. John Bowen
Title: Consuming Local, Thinking Global: Building a Halal Industry in a World of Made in Italy
Kelsey Nordine, PhD, May 2020
Advisor: Profs. Gayle Fritz and T.R. Kidder
Title: Building Communities: interpreting Oneota and Mississippian interaction through paleoethnobotanical analysis at the Morton Village Site (11F2), west-central Illinois
Dick Powis, PhD, May 2020
Advisor: Prof. Shanti Parikh
Title: Relations of Reproduction: Men, Masculinity, and Pregnancy in Dakar, Senegal
Caitlin Rankin, PhD, May 2020
Advisor: Prof. T.R. Kidder
Title: Testing Assumptions on the Relationship between Humans and their Environment: Case Studies from Cahokia Mounds, Illinois
Alex Rivas, PhD, August 2020
Advisor: Prof. David Freidel
Title: Landesque Capital and Community Organization in a Maya Economic Center: A Case Study at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros
Katharina Rynkiewich, PhD, May 2020
Advisor: Dr. Bradley Stoner
Title: The Social Dynamics of Antibiotic Use in a Large American Medical Complex
