Departmental Honors Alumni

Fall 2023

• Amaya Abeyta-Brown, Magna Cum Laude
  • BS Biology and BS Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology)
  • Effects of Occupation-Related Physical Activity on Limb Bone Shaft Strength Among Contemporary People in the United States
  • Mentor: Dr. Ian Wallace
• Jessie Johnson, Cum Laude
  • BA Anthropology (Archaeology), History & Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts minors
  • The Games Must Go On: A Comparative of Historical and Modern Scottish Highland Games in the United States
  • Mentor: Dr. Suzanne Oakdale
• Delaney Keener, Summa Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology), Biology minor
  • Addition and Subtraction in the Out of Africa Bottleneck
  • Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Long

Spring 2023

• Nckayla Duran, Magna Cum Laude
  • BA Anthropology (Archaeology), History minor
  • Beyond the Grave: Burials that Distinguish Social Status in Pre-Hispanic American Southwest Communities
  • Mentor: Dr. Hannah Mattson
• Jennah Groves, Summa Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology), Chemistry and Biology minors
  • The Effect of Normal Loading on Bone Curvature 
  • Mentor: Dr. Ian Wallace
• Chloe Lauer, Summa Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology) and Psychology
  • Effects of Habitual Physical Activity on Foot Strength and Longitudinal Arch Stiffness
  • Mentor: Dr. Ian Wallace

Fall 2022

• Hannah Cantrell, Summa Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology), Geography minor
  • The Root of the Problem: Dental Health Disparities in New Mexico
  • Mentor: Dr. Heather Edgar
• Mitch Cook-Graver, Cum Laude
  • BA Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology), Museum Studies minor
  • Why is Excess Body Weight Associated with Greater Bone Strenght?
  • Mentor: Dr. Ian Wallace

Summer 2022

• Lise King-Dooley, Cum Laude
  • BS Psychology, BS Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology) 
  • The Evolution of Sexual Swellings: Age and Reproductive State Affected by Swelling Size in Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes)
  • Mentor: Dr. Melissa Emery Thompson

Spring 2022

• Emmanuel Macias, Summa Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Archaeology), BA Languages, Biology minor
  • Changes in Stone Tool Technology at Maya Hak Cab Pek
  • Mentor: Dr. Keith Prufer
• George Strohl, Magna Cum Laude
  • BA Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology), Linguistics minor
  • BA Linguistics & BA Russian Language
  • American is as American Does: A Narrative Approach to Nationality as a Social Construct
  • Mentor: Dr. Catherine Rhodes

Spring 2021

• Madeline Dunn, Magna Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology), Psychology minor
  • Do Likes Attract? Sexual Strategies in Human Mate Choice
  • Mentor: Dr. Siobhán Mattison
• A.J. Frey, Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Archaeology), Distributed minor
  • An Osteobiography of Fracture Pathology and Analysis of Transition Analysis 3
  • Mentor: Dr. Osbjorn Pearson
• Marina Lemly, Summa Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Archaeology), Environmental Science minor
  • A 9,000-year History of Landscape Evolution in the Rio Blanco, Belize
  • Mentor: Dr. Keith Prufer
• Elizabeth Medina, Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology), BA Psychology
  • ROP/McNair Scholar
  • A Qualitative Study of How Humans are Adapting in Transitional Rural Bangladesh
  • Mentor: Dr. Siobhán Mattison
• Bernardo Seixas, Summa Cum Laude
  • BS Psychology, BS Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology)
  • Cooperative Networks in Vanuatu are Structured by Religious Identity
  • Mentor: Dr. Siobhán Mattison
• William Skidmore-Farren, Summa Cum Laude
  • BA Anthropology (Archaeology), Japanese minor
  • Plainview Points from the Tularosa Basin and Greater Southwest
  • Mentor: Dr. Bruce Huckell
• Kathryn Sokolowski, Summa Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology), Biology and Museum Studies minors
  • Tracking Patterns of Weaning in Wild Chimpanzees (Pan Traglodytes Schweinfuthii) Using Stable Isotopes
  • Mentor: Dr. Sherry Nelson
• Sarah Taylor, Summa Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology), Biology minor
  • Analysis of Schistosoma mansoni Allele Frequency Profiles Identifies Component Populations in Three Brazilian Communities
  • Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Long

Fall 2020

• Avrey Montoya, Magna Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Archaeology), Psychology minor
  • Determining Exchange Networks and Regional Interactions Among Sites in the Middle Rio Grande Region through Ceramic Temper Analysis
  • Mentor: Dr. Hannah Mattson
• Tim VanZeben, Magna Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Archaeology), Geographic Informtaion Science minor
  • ROP/McNair Scholar
  • Predicting Structure Form and Function on a Classic Period Pueblo Landscape: A Pilot Study
  • Mentor: Dr. Hannah Mattson
• Taylor Willes, Cum Laude
  • BA Anthropology (Ethnology), BA Philosophy
  • The Globalization of Ayahuasca Tourism: The Creation of Shared Ritual Space
  • Mentor: Dr. Joshua Shapero

Spring 2020

• April Brown, Magna Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Archaeology), Geographic Information Science minor
  • Remote Sensing Data Collection and Analysis of Rock Art Panels on Holiday Mesa
  • Mentor: Dr. Hannah Mattson
• Aurelia Dixon, Magna Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology), Biology and Criminology minors
  • Socially-constructed Genealogies in New Mexicans of Spanish-Speaking Descent
  • Mentor: Dr. Keith Hunley
• Heather Hendickson, Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Archaeology), Distributed minor
  • Mentor: Dr. Frances Hayashida
• Kathryn McCollum, Cum Laude
  • BA Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology), Psychology minor
  • It's all Fun and Games: Functions of Play Behaviors in Wild Chimpanzees at Kibale National Park, Uganda
  • Mentor: Dr. Melissa Emery Thompson

Fall 2019

• Michael Hillyer, Magna Cum Laude
  • BA Anthropology (Ethnology), BA Linguistics, Communication & Journalism minor
  • ROP/McNair Scholar
  • Maya People in the 21st Century: Language Shift Among Yucatec Maya Speakers
  • Mentor: Dr. Catherine Rhodes

Spring 2019

• Aimelda Angel, Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology), Earth & Planetary Sciences minor
  • New Mexico Ancestral Pueblo Subadults: Evidence for Osteological Scorbutic Lesions
  • Mentor: Dr. Osbjorn Pearson
• Alexander Greenia, Magna Cum Laude
  • BA Anthropology (Archaeology), Museum Studies minor
  • Lithic Technological Organization of Field Houses During the Pueblo IV Period in Northern New Mexico
  • Mentor: Dr. Bruce Huckell
• Miranda LaZar, Summa Cum Laude
  • BA Anthropology (Archaeology), Museum Studies minor
  • Tracking Individual Raptors in the Archaeological Record: Implications for the Study of Ritual Economies in New Mexico
  • Mentor: Dr. Emily Jones
• Yvonne Leiby
  • BA Anthropology, History minor
  • Skeletal Analysis, Diet, and Agricultural Production of the San Juan Basin from 600 to 1100 CE: The Case for Pellagra and Metabolic Syndrome
  • Mentor: Dr. David Stuart
• Lyandra Lujan, Summa Cum Laude
  • BA Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology), BA Philosophy
  • Phylogeography of the ALDH2 Deficiency Allele
  • Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Long
• Jamie Stevens, Summa Cum Laude
  • BA Anthropology (Archaeology), History minor
  • Identifying Migration into Pottery Mound Pueblo Through Patterns of Birds in Ritual Culture
  • Mentor: Dr. Emily Jones
• Stephen West, Magna Cum Laude
  • BS Anthropology (Archaeology), Geographic Information Science minor
  • BS Geography, Japanese minor
  • Chiefly Complexes and Lidar Identification in North Kohala Hawaii
  • Mentor: Dr. Michael Graves