The Senior Program

The senior project in anthropology provides students the opportunity to conduct independent research under the direction of two departmental advisers. Students having an average of 88 in anthropology may become candidates for departmental honors by continuing their projects during the second semester of the senior year.

Recent projects in anthropology include:

• Forever Becoming: Wellness Rituals, Neoliberal Demands, and the Pursuit of the Future Self
• Using Technology in Liberal Arts: Navigating the “Real World” at Hamilton College
• Doing Something': Race, Performance, and Activism in an Elite College Setting
• Marketing U: Selling Hamilton in a Neoliberal Context
• Global Education, Local Inequality: How Nepali Students Learn to Leave
• Being a Good Friend: Neoliberal Expectations and the Search for Authentic Connection at Hamilton College
• Making Time: Notions of ‘Self’ in the Commodification of Home and Heritage through Online ‘Aesthetic’ Culture
• Our Daily Rice Cake: A Comparative Ethnography of Faith, Belonging, and Generational Tension in Korean American Churches
• After Hours: Deconstructing “Safe Spaces” in Collegiate Fun
• The Language of Gender & Sexuality: An Ethnographic Study of Division III Collegiate Softball
• Social, Social, Social: Narratives of Migration and the Conception of the "Bad" Migrant in Jackson Heights, NY
• A Synopsis of Black Women Seniors at Hamilton College as they Narrate their Experiences in Higher Education
• The Presentation and Performance of Self Through Clothing Choice

Recent projects in archaeology include:

• Fragments of Trade: Ceramic Insights from a Historical Central New York Household
• Seeing Spaces and Between: A Social Syntax Analysis of Household Strata at 5MT123