Department of Anthropology

"Thank God for my Alcoholic:" Paradox, Religion, and Sacrificial Scapegoating in Al-Anon - Mara Lebovitz
Readers: Ellen Schattschneider, Janet McIntosh, Laura Miller (SOC)

Digitizing Human Remains: The Impact of Displaying Human Remains in Augmented Reality - Joshua Aldwinckle-Povey
Readers: Charlie Goudge, Ellen Schattschneider, Alexandra Ratzlaff (CLAS)

A Maya Landscape Legacy: Analysis of Settlement Patterns of the Classic Period Maya in the Santo Domingo-Lacanja Valley - Alex Bazarsky
Readers: Charles Golden, Javier Urcid, Alexandra Ratzlaff (CLAS)

Stories in the Sherds: A Typological Analysis of Indigenous North Carolinian Ceramics - Vivien Fair
Readers: Charlie Goudge, Charles Golden, Emilie Connolly (HIST)

A-spec: Conceptualizing Asexual Identity, Experience, and Phenomenological Form - Maya Ghosh Lisbin
Readers: Sarah Lamb, Ellen Schattschneider, Stephen Dowden (ECS, GRALL)

Major Record Labels: Deconstructing Exploitative Illusions and Framing Emerging Alternatives in the Context of the Changing Music Industry - Josh Shuster
Readers: Elizabeth Ferry, Janet McIntosh, Daniel Breen (AMST, LGLS)

Internal Otherness: Being Sephardi in White, Ashkenazi New England and in Broader American Jewish Society - Aviva Weinstein
Readers: Elizabeth Ferry, Elanah Uretsky, Yuval Evri (NEJS, Schusterman Center)

Flying Under the Radar: The Impacts of Ambiguous Language on Discourse in Modern Chinese Queer Communities - Youyuan Zhang
Readers: Elanah Uretsky, Sarah Lamb, Keridwen Luis (ANTH, SOC, WGS)

Re-Examining Medical Encounters: The Practical Impacts and Influences of Mesoamerican Medical Knowledge in Colonial Mexico and Spain between the 16th and 18th Centuries - Gil Bohm
Readers: Javier Urcid, Charles Golden, Silvia Arrom (LALS, WGS)

Fairies and Funnies: Driving Forces Behind Gay Male Comedy - Jason Frank
Readers: Brian Horton, Sarah Lamb, Isaiah Wooden (THA)

The Experiences of Latinx Family Cancer Caregivers: An Anthropological Approach - Gabby Mendoza Cueva
Readers: Sarah Lamb, Ellen Schattschneider, Elena Gonazalez Ros (LALS)

Leaving Christianity: How Morality and Personal Autonomy is Leading Young Adults to Become Religiously Unaffiliated - Angela Self
Readers: Ellen Schattschneider, Elizabeth Ferry, Kristen Lucken (IGS, Religious Studies, SOC)

The Fight to Connect: Making Museums Accessible To Neurodiverse Communities - Rebecka Sokoloff
Readers: Ellen Schattschneider, Janet McIntosh, Muna Guvenc (FA)

• Pathways of Power: Trade and Travel Routes of the Itzá Kingdom - Clara Alexander
  Readers: Lauren Santini, Charles Golden, Javier Urcid, Alexandra Ratzlaff (CLASSICS)
• Uncertain Futures: How BRCA Mutation Carriers Understand, Enact & Experience Risk - Meredith Levy
  Readers: Anita Hannig, Brian Horton, Ilana Szobel (NEJS)
  
• The Best Years of our Lives: The Higher Education Experience During a Pandemic - Claire Ogden
  Readers: Elizabeth Ferry, Patricia Alvarez, Pascal Menoret, Laura Miller (SOC)
• The Post-Family Organized Fireworks Industry in Liuyang, China - Ruihua Yang
  Readers: Elizabeth Ferry, Patrica Alvarez, Andrew Molinsky (IBS)

• Exploring Views of Health and Wellness through Cannabis Use in Massachusetts - Jude Ajalat
  Readers: Elizabeth Ferry, Sarah Lamb, Siri Suh (SOC)
• Understanding the Undefinable: Exploring What It Means to Be Spiritual but Not Religious in 21st Century America - Lily Bickerstaff-Richard
  Readers: Sarah Lamb, Janet McIntosh, Kristen Lucken (IGS, PRS, SOC)
• Mental: Perceptions of Mental Health at Brandeis University (Film) - Alyssa Fagin
  Readers: Patricia Alvarez Astacio, Janet McIntosh, Don Katz (PSYC)
• Silent or Silenced? An Inquiry of Disability Voices at Lord University - Maxwell Krims:Readers: Pascal Menoret, Rich Schroeder, Elanah Uretsky (IGS)
• Shame and “Off The Derech:” Cultural Catalysts of Leaving Chassidic and Litvish Communities - Sasha Rubin
  Readers: Charles Golden, Ellen Schattschneider, Elanah Uretsky (IGS)
• Human Love in the Divine Plan: Sexual Agency among All-Girls Catholic School Graduates - Isabel Yeoh
  Readers: Sarah Lamb, Janet McIntosh, Kerey Luis 

• Conflicting Conceptions of Health: Biomedicine and The Wellness Industry - Katie Brenner
  Readers: Anita Hannig, Kerey Luis, Wangui Muigai (AAAS & HSSP)
• QAnon: A Digital Ethnography of Discontent - Emma Cyr
  Readers: Elizabeth Ferry, Mike Prentice, Dan Kryder (Politics)
• The Opioid Crisis: Harm Reduction and a Developing Syringe Access Program - Sarah Fielman
  Readers: Elanah Uretsky, Anita Hannig, Caitlin Slodden (SOC)
• Abolish ICE: Creating Community out of Policy and Digital Social Activism - Noah Greenstein
  Readers: Patricia Alvarez Astacio, Elizabeth Ferry, and Gowri Vijayakumar (SOC)
• Disability in the Workplace: Finding Value and Meaning Through Employment - Sabrina Greer
  Readers: Kerey Luis, Elizabeth Ferry, ChaeRan Freeze (NEJS)
• Collective Destruction?: A Study of Memory, Damnatio Memoriae, and Mussolini - Sophia Kupervaser-Gould
  Readers: Ellen Schattschneider, Javier Urcid, Paola Servino (Italian Studies)
• The Perceived Shortness of American History: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous History, and Archaeology’s Role in National Identity - Sophia Murgalo
  Readers: Javier Urcid, Charles Golden, Alexandra Ratzlaff (Classical Studies)
• The “Coming-Out” of /Tongqi /(同妻): Identity and Agency among Chinese Women Who Marry Gay Men - YiYi Wu
  Readers: Elanah Uretsky, Ellen Schattschneider, Kerey Luis

• Bridging the Gap: Romantic Couples' Use of Code to Create Meaningful Connections in the Face of Divergent Linguistic Backgrounds - Eliana Cohen
  Readers: Janet McIntosh, Pascal Menoret, Suleyman Dost (NEJS)
• Germany as a "Melting Pot"?: Conceptions of "Otherness" Over Time - Emma Gutman
  Readers: Sarah Lamb, Janet McIntosh, Sabine Von Mering (GRALL)
• A Compassionate Death: Palliative Sedation and Analgesia at End of Life in Catholicism - Ariel Lee
  Readers: Pascal Menoret, Elanah Uretsky and Jim Morris (BIO)

• From Thinking to Giving: Understanding Motivations behind Blood Donation in the Northeast US - Yangzirui Fu
  Readers: Anita Hannig, Elizabeth Ferry, James Morris

• Imagining Their Place in Global Struggle: Ecologies of Radical Jewish Internationalisms - Guy Mika
  Readers: Elizabeth Ferry, Pascal Menoret, Greg Childs

• Aging and Contemporary Art: A Narrative Ethnography - Alva Stux
  Readers: Sarah Lamb, Ellen Schattschneider, Judith Eissenberg

• Bodies Together, Worlds Apart: Success, Suffering and the MidDay Meal - Shane Weitzman
  Readers: Sarah Lamb, Elizabeth Ferry, Harleen Singh

• Gender In/Equalities in Modern Orthodoxy: Navigating Overlapping Worlds - Kyra Borenstein
  Readers: Sarah Lamb, Janet McIntosh, Ilana Szobel

• Doctors, Herbs, and Spirits: A Study of Integrative Healing Practices in Uganda - Jacob Elder
  Readers: Anita Hannig, Elizabeth Ferry, Derron Wallace

• Experiencing Islam: Women's Accounts of Religious Equality and Inequality In Senegal - Nelly Schläfereit
  Readers: Anita Hannig, Janet McIntosh, Kristen Lucken

• A Little Lhasa in Boston: Constructing a Tibetan Identity in the Diaspora - Mira Smith
  Readers: Jonathan Anjaria, Moises Lino e Silva, Gordie Fellman

• Encounters with Development: Navigating Universals and Frictions in South Africa and Uganda - Hannah Young
  Readers: Moises Lino e Silva, Janet McIntosh, Wellington Nyangoni

• Bridging the Urban Village and the Corporate City: The Social Hub of Boston's Food Trucks - Charlotte Erb
  Readers: Jonathan Anjaria, Elizabeth Ferry, Laura Miller

• Parlando con Rispetto: The Pig as a Model for Maltese Cultural Embarrassment and Personhood - Hannah Loeff
  Readers: Ellen Schattschneider, Elizabeth Ferry, Andrew Koh

• Affected Perspectives: Cancer, Treatment and the Body - Avital DeSharone
  Readers: Elizabeth Ferry, Anita Hanig, Sarita Bhalotra

• Making Musical Gestures: Movement, Embodiment, and Social Change at El Sistema, Somerville - Alison Fessler
  Readers: Elizabeth Ferry, Ann Lucas, Marya Levenson

• Voluntourism: Exploring Ethical Challenges and Critical Tensions Within the Payto-Volunteer Industry - Jessye Kass
  Readers: Janet McIntosh, Elizabeth Ferry, Marion Smiley

• Gunfire in the Distance: Gangsta Rap and the American Search for Masculinity - Coleman Mahler
  Readers: Ellen Schattschneider, Charles Golden, Chad Williams

• Immigrant Russian Women in Helsinki: Beyond Stereotyping and Stigmatization - Eve Markvardt
  Readers: Sarah Lamb, Janet McIntosh, Irina Dubinina

• Vegans in America: A Cultural Study of Food, Identity, and Community - Zoe Novic
  Readers: Jonathan Anjaria , Elizabeth Ferry, Laura Goldin

• Potent Minds and Sterile Bodies: Desire, Decisions, and Reproductive Agency amongst Surgically Sterilized Low-Income Women in Salvador, Bahia - Leah Smith
  Readers: Elizabeth Ferry, Anita Hannig, Faith Smith

• Who Drives the Tractor?: How Technology Influences Women's Farms in the Netherlands - Marisa Turesky
  Readers: Ellen Schattschneider, Jonathan Anjaria, Laura Goldin