ANSO students and alumni 2004

SUMMER 2004

News about students and alumni of Williams Anthropology & Sociology


ANSO is looking at a bumper crop of new majors: to date, a total of 22 in the Class of 2006. Above, Kate Troy, Robin Kim, and Meghan Ryan smile for the camera at the department's end-of-year dinner in Dodd House, May 2004.
This year's Robert Friedrichs prize in Sociology was awarded to Sara Arnold (first on left in photo).
	Sara's senior thesis is entitled Staging the past to connect to the present: The modern challenge facing outdoor living history museums. Also in the photograph (L to R): James Nolan, Dept. Chair, Joanna Darcus '06, and Jon Cartagena '04.

	Alums are grad school bound: Jessica Robbins '01(L, shown running in a recent marathon) will enter the doctoral program in Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she joins Cat Bolten '98, who will be doing her dissertation work in Sierra Leone. Phil Groth '00 will be at USC pursuing a Planning degree, while Abbey Eisenhower '01 is studying Psychology at nearby UCLA. (Abbey was awarded an NSF predoctoral fellowship for her doctoral work; Ellie Spensley '01 received honorable mention.) Paul Ham '97 will be starting a master's program in International Educational Policy at Harvard in the fall . . . Tee Leathers '00, who has worked for two years as a campus life coordinator at Williams, is leaving to pursue graduate work in American Studies at the University of Maryland.
This year, the James Orton prize in Anthropology was awarded to Natalie Bump, who wrote a thesis entitled Chiefs and cabdrivers: Reinventing Ghanaian identity in Chicago. Next year, Natalie will be studying social anthropology at Cambridge as an Ephraim Williams scholar.
More grad school news: Steve Kerr '02 (left, below) will start law school at Yale next fall; Brian Burke '02 (right, below) will enter the doctoral program in Anthropology at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The photo was taken by Michael Brown at Williams homecoming, Fall 2003.

Jericho Burg '87 is currently a Fulbright Fellow in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she's doing dissertation work for her UCSD doctorate in Communication . . . At Williams Reunions, Michael Brown had the pleasure of running into Ian Watterson '99, back for his fifth. He's completed an M.A. at Georgetown and begins a new job with the U.S. State Department in July.