2014
What is dead may never die: fragments of an ethnography of Occupy Wall Street—or, value theory, revolutionary meontology, and messianic time after the end of history, Steven Tran-Creque
2013
"My Identity was a Journey": Blackness, History and Cultural Heritage in the Construction of African-American Identity at Bard College, Marie Louise Balo Lou
The Environmental Ethic of Wildland Firefighters: A Case Study of the 2002 Biscuit Fire, Julia Marie Denning
The Gym, The Garage, and the Country Villa: Narratives of Space, Identity, and Retreat at Bard College, Jonathan Bernard Greenberg
Mediating the Narcomoment: (In)security, Propaganda and Journalism in Contemporary Mexico, Thomas Parker Hatley
Mediating the Narcomoment: (In)security, Propaganda, and Journalism in Contemporary Mexico, a critical look at the role of the news in Mexico's ongoing drug war, Thomas Parker Hatley
Conventions of Cosplay, Shana Jean Hausman
Depression: Illness and Experience at Bard College, Samantha Leigh Hyers
Muslims and the Media in a Post-9/11 World: A Case Study of the "Ground Zero Mosque" Controversy, Abby Miles-Ruttenberg
Sacred in the Raw: Cows, Communion and Cosmology as Experienced by American Yogis through the Sacrament of Biodynamic Raw Milk, Alexandra Markakis Mills
Commercialization and Experience: Contemporary Developments in Electronic Dance Music in the United States of America, Mihir Maitreya Mukhopadhaya
Texting the New Habitus: (Re)producing and Negotiating Practices and Expectations of the Texting Medium, Daniel Kyoungshik Park
A Very Merry Palestinian Christmas: Using Bethlehem Tourism to Build a Sovereign Palestine, Sarah Fanya Ahuva Stern
Reexamining Rape: The Shifting Views Amongst College Students on Sex, Rape, and Sexual Violence, Emma Victoria Thake
2012
Assertions of Identity: Tribal Self-Representation at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Jeremy Ellis Sheehan Beliveau
Articulating the Home: Retreat, Activism, and Intimacy within Contemporary American Homesteading, Elizabeth Castle
Politics of Image: Tracing Different Nepali Identities, Cristeena Chitrakar
The 2011 London Riots: Media Narratives & the Boundary between “Political” and “Criminal”, Laura Cramer
"A Truthful Accounting of Events": The Roles of Linguistic Strategy, Narrative, and Performance in United States Asylum Hearings, Celia Feldman
Immigrant Place Making: Arab Americans' Experience in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Elyse Foladare
Digital Others: Representations of the Middle East in the Contemporary Video Game, Matthew Geiger
Moving Out, Moving In: Negotiating the domestic worker-employer relationship in São Paulo, Brazil, Sofia B. Geld
My Family, My Sangha, My Self: An Ethnographic Portrait of Tradition, Change, and Belonging in An American Temple, Marie A. Hayashi
Marketing Marseille or Building and Selling A Cultural Capital of Europe, Zoe Hickox
"God Doesn't Give You Anything You Can't Handle": The Religious Expedition of Sofia Reyes, Rebeca Renee Huntt
Mothers as Healers: An Ethnographic Study of Home-Healing and Maternal Nurturance in Vermont, Abigail Lazarowski
An Exploration of the Zombie in Contemporary American Popular Culture; or, "So this is how the world ends . . . with zombies breaking down your doors", Melissa Longiaru
Seeing Mother Earth: Beyond Nature and Gender, Allison Mazzullo
On Space, Place, and Identity: Armenians in Bourj Hammoud, Nora Palandjian
Living and Monumental Pasts: The Production of Urban Heritage in Two Cities, Anar Parikh
Tenders at the Margins: An Ethnography of Home Health Care Workers, Hallie Sekoff
Teaching Culture Inside the Classroom: Speech, Space and Pedagogy, Marika Sitz
Looking Through That Veil: The Making of a Tolerant Islamophobic Reality in the Netherlands, Alexandra Sveikauskas
Here Come the Brides: Strategies to perform legitimacy in lesbian weddings through the reimagination of social norms, Molly A. Wexler-Romig
2011
Identities Imagined: Egypt in the Age of the Internet, Andrew Buchanan
“If We All Danced, There Would Be No War:” Transmission and Inscription of Communal Ideals in Contra Dancing, Jeremy E. Carter-Gordon
"I'm the tiger and you're the snake": Creativity and Imagination among Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Coral Cyzewski
Schooled in America: ESL & The Assimilation of Mexican Immigrant Children, Bridget Dackow
Dissonance and Discord: The Journey of an International Choir Through the Musical Landscape of South Africa, Elizabeth Henkle
Locating the Forgotten - A Search for the Donaldson Coach House in the 19th Century Blithewood Estate, Moriah Kennedy
From the Neck Down: body hair modification and modern masculinity, Michael E. Louvaris
Liberal Education and the Incarcerated Individual, Erica Mateo
Some Like It Hot: The Rhetoric of Eco-Apocalypse in Climate Change Communication, Enrico Purita
The Hobo, Jeremy Rodigheri
"We're Dorks and This is What We Do": Skill, Space, and Hierarchy in the World of Technical Theater, Nora Rubenstone
Local History Through The History Of A House, Samantha R. Stephens
Tunics, Ceramics, and Huacas: North American Visions of Andean Culture, Chelsea Vasnick
2010
Harissa and Tunisia: Disentangling an Ethnographic and Personal Experience, Lee Cholodenko
"Unity. Culture. Dance." Representations of "Indian Americanness" in Intercollegiate Bollywood Dance Competitions, Queen Golder
Urban Redevelopment in Pittsburgh: The Visible Hand of Neoliberalism, Zachary Maddox
Global Guru: Constructing a Multicultural Movement Around a Living God, Nina Willbach
Negotiating "Croatianness:" Issues of Identity and Belonging Among Multicultural Youth with Croatian Heritage·, Lena Živković
2009
Who is Hip Hop if it's Not Me? Identity Politics and the Threats of Cultural Property and Theft in White America, Joseph Guerin
Performing Ideals: Reading Femininity and Sexuality in Dance Competition Videos, Safi Harriott
Mediated Representations Of Animals at the Bronx Zoo, Logan Hebert
Gamersphere: Contemporary FPS gamer identity as constructed through language, discourse, and practice online, Erica Murray
Heritage Tourism in a Small Town, Michael Newton
Can't Get Enough: Japanese Cultural Products and the Fans Who Love Them, Pamela Ossona
Reincarnation and Community amongst the Druze of Mount Lebanon, Malek Rasamny
Forbidden Fruit: A Social History of Black Currants in New York, Anya Raskin
Dune's Edge: Understanding Anthropocentric Impact of Coastal Change on Cape Cod, Katherine Reed
Géza Róheim: Reclaiming the Freudian Unconscious for Anthropology, Andrea Sandor
Fetal Conception: The Experience of Pregnancy in the Era of Fetal Personhood, Elyse Singer
Levy-Bruhl and the Sociology of Thought: A Historical Interpretation, Nathan Smith
Finding the Self, Losing the Self... Vipassana Meditation in an Age of Hyper-Mediation, Josiah Spencer-Blaetz
2008
The World through Rose-Colored Lenses: Freewill and its Promise. Or The Anthropohgical Wanderings, Ben Bliumis
The Challenge of the Needle: The Transformations of Acupuncture in Contemporary America, Emma Brenner-Malin
The Natural Building Movement in the U.S., Laura Downs
Climate Changes: Making A Global Discourse Relevant in Ghana, Tamsin Flanders
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College., Martin Garrett
Rhaatid! Dancehall Culcha Inna Farin' or the Politics of Identity, Race and Diaspora of Jamaicans Living in New York, Isaiah Greenwald
Pulling Time: Masculinity and Modernity in Turkish Prisons, Suna Kafadar
WORK, PLAY, LEARN: EARLY STUDENTS' ENGAGEMENTS WITH CLASSROOM CULTURE, Rose Lee
Remaking Acadia: How Nova Scotia's native French are dispossessed and how they make their way home, Christine Nielsen
Ditch the Dashboard Doll: The (Mis)Appropriation and Consumption of the Hula Girl as the Destination Image of Hawai'i, Janine Paat
The Power is in the Display The production of African cultural difference in museum display, Patricia Pforte
The Embodiment of Postmodern Environmental Discourse: From Intentional Communities to Ecovillages, Basha Smolen
Growing Gardeners: Vacant Lot Cultivation and Community Building in Yonkers, NY, Hannah Sunshine
2007
Attention Pays (But Are We Paying Attention?): ADHD and the Commodification of Mind in an Information Society, Brittany Porter