Theses and senior projects supervised at Bennington College
2020
Big City Dreams: Gentrification in Mexico City’s Colonia Roma, by J. Lopez Guevara
The Stigmatization of Menstruation in Ladakh, India and How it Impacts Women’s Wellbeing and Their Role in Society, by Stanzin Angmo
Authenticity in Chinese Restaurants in the East Village, by Lila Weiser
2019
Inevitable Encounters?: Tourism, Culture and Community in the Contemporary Caribbean, by Alex Ray
Presence of Mind: An Ethnographic Inquiry into the Therapeutic Space, by Ronan Canty
Tightrope, Trapeze and Trauma: Disruption of Identity Following Injury amongst Circus Performers, by Sarah Tiffin
La República Independiente de Magallanes: Nationhood at the End of the World, by Benjamin Wolinsky
2016
The Fluidity of Self: Identity Formation for Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Hinchal Pradesh, by Laura E. Miller
In Defense of the Shoreline: Ecotones of Coastal Luisiana’s Land, Water, and Policy Post-BP Disaster, by Lindsey Sadlou
A Band-Aid for a Chasm: Evaluating the Efficacy of Consent Decrees to Address Systemic Police Violence, by Timna Jahoda Kliger
The Bloody Politic: Social and Biological Experiences of Menstruation and Conflict at Bennington College, by Abby Mahler
Breaking the Sound Barrier: Women in Underground Music, by Nicole Lee
“But What Are We?”: Constructing and Navigating Ethnicity in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Malia Guyer-Stevens
Disguised Development: Creation of Place and Identity in Southeastern Turkey through GAP, by Farah Mohammad
Do You Know What You Are Drinking? Kinship and Labor in the Production of Fair-Trade Coffee, by Rebecca Reategui
Drugs = Bad: Drug Research, Mass Incarceration, and Privilege, by Lucas Marten
Drunk on Power: Alcohol Reforms and the Culture of Consumption in the Secular Republic of Turkey, by Hannah Alongi
2015
Quinoa Producers Navigate through Change, by Liu Yudong
Resisting the Grammar of Schooling: An Investigation of School-based Prevention and Educational Reform, by Amanda Coviello
“It’s Better You Share, You’ll Feel Lighter”: International Students’ Identity Negotiation at Bennington College,” by Friederike Windel
2014
Finding the Magpie’s Nest: Practicing Traditional Irish Song in Contemporary Society, by Katherine McCann
The Language of Risk, by Anais Duplan
New Mainers and the American Experience of Giving Refuge, by Grace Pease
The Refugee Experience: Bakutsi and the Karabakh Conflict, by Jiray Avedisian
We’ll Flip It on You: A Generational Study of Hip-Hop Space and Communication in the Bronx, by Laurette Siler
2013
Art Patronage in Renaissance Florence, the Medici, and the Remarkable Character of Michelangelo, by Holly Camisa
Contradictions in Meaning: The Many Narratives on Local Identity and Culture in Hawai’i, by Brittany Curtis
The Importance of Body Language: Early Gaelic Ireland, Iron Age Bog Bodies, and the Impact of Collective Memory, by Victoria Harty
2012
Superior Life, Superior Children: A Study of Chinese Family and the One Child Policy, by Rachel Chenette
2011
The Body is a (Dimming) Stove: A Study of the Evolution of Medicine in Tibet through the Work of Culture and the Sino-Tibetan Relationship, by Noryang Yeshi
Spoken Language and Group Identity: A Case Study in a Lebanese Village, by Bree Wallace
Wither the Wild: Nature, Culture, and the Framing of the American Landscape, by Mallory Moran
2010
Development and Nature in China: An Inquiry into Frontiers, Friction, Connections, Transitions and Traditions, by Eliza Slater
2009
The Vermont Way of Agriculture: An Ethnography of Local Food Culture by Lauren Harris
Ideas of Modernization and Development in China by Jessica O’Callahan
2006
Tea Water: A Study of the Public Health Systems on a Sri Lankan Tea Plantation by Nadine McLeod
Among Women of Khera Kalan by Aarti Rana
Education is Our Connection to the Past and Our Hope for the Future: The Creation of Nuestra Historia Education Curriculum and its Role in Reconstructing Afro-Ecuadorian Identity by Rebecca Robinson
2005
Vermont’s Cultural and Ecological Journey through Time by J. Vivian Gray
The Forgotten People: An Exploration of What It Means to Be a Berber Shepherd in Morocco by Indaia Whitcombe
Leave Me Alive: The Experiences of Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda by Maren Coniglione
2004
Walls that Speak: How Women Express their Culture through the Contemporary Mural Movement in Mission District of San Francisco by Ariana Kanwit
Religion in Practice: Ashanti Traditional Priests in Post-colonial Ghana by Adam Sussman
2002
Interrelationships between People and their Landscape: An Ethno-ecological study of Sugar Makers and their Sugar Bushes in Bennington County, Vermont by Dana Visser
A Struggle in Concert: The Role Music Played in the South African Resistance Movement against Apartheid by Alyssa Lowe
Utilizing Sexual Knowledge: Sociocultural Determinants of Sexual Decision Making in American Women by Anatte Kormendi
HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Need for the Inclusion of a Human Rights Approach by Rowan Kunz
Svan Songs: Polyphony and Identity in Svaneti of the Republic of Georgia by Andrea Boothby
2001
Domestic Violence in a Marginal Population: A Case Study of an Inner-City Slum in Mumbai by Aadya Bedi
2000
Another Brick in the Wall: A Look into Recent Events in Ústí nad Labem, the Czech Republic by Keelin Isenhower
Kumina by Meagan Mattingly
1999
American Kinship: A Three-Part Narrative including an Analysis of American Kinship, a Family History, and Personal Essays on an American Family by Julia Fahey
1998
Wind Carries the Seed: Memory, Representation, and Experience. A Discussion of Personal and Collective Remembering through the Lenses of Culture, Power, Narrative and Space by Elizabeth Gaumer
Ethnic Identity and the Cultivation of Difference: An Inquiry into the Origins and Development of the Sri Lankan Conflict by Srinivasaraghavan Lalapet
How Much Can Fly Ideas…An American Exploration into Indian Music by Cybele Paschke
The Acadian Oral Tradition: An Inquiry into the Ethnic Identity and Storytelling of Minority French-speakers in County Clare, Nova Scotia by Lisa Gustavson
The Pin-up Representing America during World War II by Lynn Murphy
1997
A Place Called Home: The African Refugee Experience in Portland, Maine by Rebecca Stubbs