Honors Theses

Anthropology Honors Theses

2025

I Am My Mother’s Daughter: Migration, Motherhood, and Labor, Poinsettia Isaw

Healing on Their Own Terms: Self-Guided Attuning and Mental Health Among Chinese “youth”, Ziran (Ted) Zhou 

2024

Shifting Grounds: Movement and Continuity in Mustang, Nepal, Lauren Carter 

The Haunting Status of Migration in the Before, During, and After, Kristin Santana

2023

“... I thought you were black.” An autoethnographic exploration of the fragmentation of identity and culture., Sherley Arias-Pimentel

2022

Environmental Repercussions of the Strange Fruit: The Implications of our Enslavement on Modern Black Experiences with Nature, Indya Woodfolk  

2021

In-Person vs Telephonic Interpretation: A Case Study from the Perspective of Providers and Interpreters at a Virginia Free Clinic, Lucy Cummins

“There Is No More Sacred Place:” Healing and Faith in Chaplaincy and Religious Hospitals, Annalise Mangone

2017

As Good As Niu: Food Sovereignty in Samoa, Emily Gove

2015

Black dresses and angry fathers : analyzing tradition and conflict at the 2015 Ring Dance at University of Richmond, Julia Dowling

Sociology Honors Theses

2024

Cultural Health Capital and the Organ Transplantation Waitlist, Gracejit Chahal 

The Impacts of Identity on Perceptions of Safety on a Predominately White Campus, Rebecca DelRosso 

2023

Dungeons & Dragons: Fractals of the Human Self, Katie Anderson

“Nails Done, Hair Done, Everything Did!”: Consumption and the Creation of Black Feminine Selves, Simone Reid

2022

Analysis of Chinese Contemporary Young Females’ Attitudes and Experiences toward Menstruation and Feminine Products, Du Yi

2020

“Smile For Me, Sweetie!”: An Analysis of Contemporary Gender Based Violence and Discrimination in The Bahamas, Jennifer Munnings

2019

Marketing disability: navigating the ethics of nonprofit development and marketing, Peyton F. Carter

2018

Richmond & refugees : understanding the value of narratives in the refugee resettlement exchange, Natasha Shannon

2015

Reproductive health care resources & decision making for women in a "Delivery Desert" in Maine, Gianna C. DeJoy

2014

Contentious kink : racial discourse in BDSM subcultures, Dana McLachlin 

2013

Masculinity in the virtual world of video game : a question of agency, Long Trinh

1962

The sociology of Emile Durkheim, Patricia Chewning Young

1934

The family, William J. Fallis