SPRING 2001

News about students majoring in Anthropology and Sociology at Williams.

Lizette Klussmann '02 (left) and Carol Shirai '01 load their plates at the annual Anthropology & Sociology picnic, this year held at the house of David and Holly Edwards. Like last year, inclement weather kept faculty and students indoors. In the background, one can just barely make out Irena Hollowell '02 and Prof. Robert Jackall.

This year's Robert Friedrichs prize in Sociology was awarded to Cathryn M. Christensen '01. Cathryn was awarded highest honors for her senior thesis Lobstering: Independence and Cooperation on the Maine Coast. Next year, she will be a Fulbright Scholar in Mauritius.
	Abbey S. Eisenhower '01, a double-major in Anthropology and Psychology, was awarded the James Orton Prize in Anthropology.

Jim Shilkett, a sociology major, contributed one of the essays published in the special Commencement and Reunion issue of On Campus.

Liz Hoover's senior thesis, The Self-Identification of Mixed-Blood Indians in the United States, was approved for honors by the department. Liz will be beginning the doctoral program in anthropology at Brown University next fall.