Recent Senior Honors Theses

Undergraduate students concentrating in Archaeology and the Ancient World with Honors are required to produce a senior thesis. The following is a list of theses that have been submitted in the past five years:

2013:

Allison Barker
Keeper of the Keys: Examining the Stereotypes of Viking Age Women and Burial Keys

Nicholas S. Bartos
The Decline of Maritime Activity at India Point (Providence, Rhode Island): A Study of the India Point Ship and Its Port Context

Valerie E. Bondura
Moments in the Life of the Athenian Tetraconch: A Site Biography AD 2012-267

Ian D. Brownstein
Archaeo-gaming: Making and Keeping It Real through Three-Dimensional Visualization: A Case Study from the Brown University Abydos Project

Hannah E. Sisk
Art Collections vs. Archaeology: The Origin and Consequences of Differences in Ethical Standards Regarding the Acquisition of Looted Antiquities

2011:

Danielle Candelora
The Cultural Significance of Color in Ancient Glass

Asia del Bonis-O’Donnell
Landscape, Water, and the Etruscan City: Contextualizing the Cuniculi around Veii

Samuel Holzman
Reappraising Sphinxes

Elise Nuding
Experience Insites: Fragmentation and Place Making in the Providence Urban Landscape

Harrison Stark
The Past Is a Foreign Country -- and It’s Occupied: Reflecting on the ‘Military-Archaeology-Complex’

2009:

Caitlin Howitt
Recent Reinstallations of Classical Art in American Museums

Maia Peck
A Comparative Analysis of the Funerary Complexes of Augustus and Qin Shi Huangdi

Whittaker Schroder
Transforming Rhode Island Hall

Cynthia Swain
Dreaming of Eros: A Translation and Commentary of Eustathios Makrembolites' "Hysmine & Hysminias"

Reem Yusuf
Visual Heritage in Palestine: Documentation and Representation of Archaeological Practice

2008:

Christopher Jameson Kendall
Transfer of Material Culture and Meaning Between Prepalatial Crete and Egypt from EM IIA - MM IB

2007:

Eleanor Alice Power
The Roman-Byzantine Bath Complex at the Petra Great Temple in Jordan