Left to right: Undergraduate Director Cameron Lacquement, Ashley Daugherty holding Hughes Prize plaque and Taylor Lawhorn and Amanda Oldani holding Smith Award plaques at Undergraduate Honors Day 4-8-16.
Student Awards and Honors
C. Earle Smith, Jr. Award
1987-88 David W. Forrest
1988-89 Jonathan Mark Clayton
1989-90 Timothy W. Clark
1990-91 Jennifer E. McGehee
1991-92 Ashley E. Saxon
1993-94 Kristi E. Taft
1994-95 Julie G. Markin
1994-95 Robert P. Dilley
1995-96 Joseph D. Sharp, Jr.
1996-97 Naomi Owaki
1998-99 Jennifer Stamp Pugh
1999-00 Emily Carol Bates
2000-01 Jeremy Fuller Blair
2000-01 Shannon D. Koerner
2001-02 Ashley C. Armstrong
2002-03 Jeffrey M. Brown
2003-04 Caroline F. Bolz
2004-05 Amy E. Hewitt
2005-06 Karen P. Wyatt and Matthew J. Mirachi
2006-07 Megan A. Batchelor
2007-08 Stephanie M. Cantu
2008-09 Rachel E. Cunningham and Rebecca A. Diehl
2009-10 Daniel Turner
2010-11 Carly James and Kayla Lisenby
2011-12 Kimberly Roy and Elizabeth Wilson
2012-13 Lauren Marsh
2013-14 Maryanne Mobley and Meghan Steel
2014-15 Melinda Carr and Jessica Mays
2015-16 Taylor Lawhorn and Amanda Oldani
2016-17 Hannah Smith
2017-18 Sommer Hollequist
2018-19 Adrienne Rife
2019-20 Grace Gleason
2020-21 Kendall Lloyd
Hughes Prize
2011-12 Ted Clay Nelson
2012-13 Maura Stephens
2013-14 Katie Moss
2014-15 Taylor Lawhorn
2015-16 Ashley Daugherty
2016-17 Wade Tidwell
2017-18 Madeline Anscombe
2018-19 Kayleigh Meighan
2019-20 Annie Meyer-Rasmussen
2020-21 Matthew Berger and Emily (Milly) McKenzie
Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards
2005 Mandy Edwards (Mentor: Ian Brown)
2017 Hannah Smith, “A Decade of Rapid Change: Biocultural Influences on Child Growth in Highland Peru” (Mentor: Kathryn Oths)
2021 Emily (Milly) McKenzie, “Multiple Research Projects in the Field of Archaeology and Archaeobotany” (Mentor: Katherine Chiou)
2018 Kayleigh Meighan (Mentor: Lesley Weaver), First Place; Jennifer Fourroux, Kira Yancey, and Christopher Lynn (Mentor), Third Place
2021 Emily (Milly) McKenzie (Mentor: Dr. Elliot Blair), First Place
National Alumni Association Alumni Student Award
2018 Sommer Hallquist
National Alumni Association Outstanding Senior Award
2021 Emily (Milly) McKenzie
Krause Award
2007-08 Amanda Regnier
2008-09 Sarah Szurek and Cameron Lacquement
2009-10 Katy Grove
2010-11 Jera Davis
2011-12 Henri-Francios Dengah
2012-13 Daniel A. LaDu
2013-14 Erik S. Porth
2014-15 Paul N. Eubanks
2015-16 Jessica Kowalski
2016-17 Max Stein
2017-18 Lynn Funkhouser
2018-19 Jenna Hurtubise
2019-20 Nikki Henderson
Panamerican Consultants, Inc. Award (formerly the Bob Work Award)
1994 Scott Meeks
1995 David Morgan
1996 Robin Beck
1997 Robin Beck and Virgil “Duke” Beasley
1998 Virgil “Duke” Beasley
2000 Keith Little
2001 Brad Lieb
2002 Jennifer Myer
2003 Amanda Regnier
2004 Laura Brown Wood
2005 Ashley Dumas
2006 Cameron Lacquement
2007 Casey Barrier
2008 Erin Phillips
2009 Erin Phillips
2010 Daniel LaDu
2011 Jeremy Davis
2015 Rachel Briggs
2016 Paul Eubanks
2017 Ted Clay Nelson
2019 Claiborne Sea
2020 Allison Smith
DeJarnette Scholarship
1994-95 Hyla Lacefield
1995-96 Robyn Astin
1996-97 Kevin Schatte
1997-98 Judith Giles
1998-99 Matthew D. Gage
1999-2000 Scott Hammerstedt
2000-01 Amanda Regnier
2001-02 Jennifer Myer
2002-03 Steve Barry
2003-04 Cameron Lacquement
2004-05 Pamela Johnson
2005-06 Cameron Lacquement
2006-07 Claire Nanfro
2007-08 Jeremy Davis
2008-09 Erin Phillips
2009-10 Claire Thompson
2010-11 Erin Phillips
2011-12 Erik Porth
2012-13 Petrina Kelly
2013-14 Rachel Briggs and Ted Clay Nelson
2014-15 Paul Eubanks and Kareen Hawsey
2015-16 Lynn Funkhouser and Jessica Kowalski
2016-17 Jenna Hurtubise
2017-18 Ashley Stewart
2018-19 Camille Morgan
Maxwell Scholarship
2014-15 Max Stein
2015-16 Greg Batchelder
2016-17 Courtney Andrews and Mirjam Holleman
2017-18 Nikki Henderson and Lessye DeMoss
2018-19 Rob Else
Knight Endowed Scholarship
2017-18 Ted Clay Nelson
2018-19 Kareen L. Hawsey
Milady Endowed Scholarship
2017-18 Nicole Henderson
2018-19 Kohl Dothage
Outstanding Research by a Masters Student, College of Arts and Sciences
2001 Matthew Gage, Ground Penetrating Radar and Core Sampling at the Moundville Site (Faculty Advisor: Jim Knight)
2002 Ashley Dumas, Archaeology of the Original Tabasco™ Factory, Avery Island, Louisiana (Faculty Advisor: Ian Brown)
2003 Jennifer Myer, Among the Fields: Mississippian Settlement Patterns in the Black Warrior Valley (Faculty Advisor: Jim Knight)
2005 Christine Newkirk, Social Class and Food Knowledge in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil (Faculty Advisor: Bill Dressler)
2006 Laura Minnich, Cultural Models of HIV AIDS in Trinidad (Faculty Advisor: Bill Dressler)
2011 Daniel Mullins, Problems and Prospects for a Cognitive Science of Religion: Minimal Counter-Intuitiveness, Epistemic Congruency, Sex, and Context in the Epidemiology of Cultural Representations in South India (Faculty Advisor: Michael Murphy)
2015 Achsah Dorsey, Selected Successors: An Investigation of the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis in Mwanza, Tanzania (Faculty Advisor: Jason DeCaro)
2021 Dillon Patterson, The Agency of Ibogaine: Emic Understandings of a Grassroots Psychiatry in Mexico (Facuty Advisor: Christopher Lynn)
Outstanding Research by a Masters Student, University of Alabama
2001 Matthew Gage, Ground-Penetrating Radar and Core Sampling at the Moundville Site (Faculty Advisor: Jim Knight)
2003 Jennifer Myer, Among the Fields: Mississippian Settlement Patterns in the Black Warrior Valley (Faculty Advisor: Jim Knight)
2005 Christine Newkirk, Social Class and Food Knowledge in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil (Faculty Advisor: Bill Dressler)
2006 Laura Minnich, Cultural Models of HIV AIDS in Trinidad (Faculty Advisor: Bill Dressler)
2011 Daniel Mullins, Problems and Prospects for a Cognitive Science of Religion: Minimal Counter-intuitiveness, Epistemic Congruency, Sex, and Context in the Epidemiology of Cultural Representations in South India (Faculty Advisor: Michael Murphy)
2015 Achsah Dorsey, Selected Successors: An Investigation of the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis in Mwanza, Tanzania (Faculty Advisor: Jason DeCaro)
2021 Dillon Patterson, The Agency of Ibogaine: Emic Understandings of a Grassroots Psychiatry in Mexico (Facuty Advisor: Christopher Lynn)
Outstanding Research by a Doctoral Student, College of Arts and Sciences
2016 Paul N. Eubanks, Salt Production in the Southeastern Caddo Homeland (Faculty Advisor: Ian Brown)
Outstanding Thesis Award, College of Arts and Sciences
1990 Chen Hsin Lo, Ritual and Community in a Southern Town (Faculty Advisor: Michael Murphy)
1991 Agneta Johannsen, Applied Anthropology and Post-Modernist Ethnography (Faculty Advisor: Michael Murphy)
1993 Billy J. Grantham, Modern Buqata and Ancient Qasrin: The Ethnoarchaeology of Cuisine in the Golan Heights (Faculty Advisor: Brian Hesse)
1995 Amy Knight, The Effects of Modernization on Blood Pressure in Samoan Men and Women (Faculty Advisor: Jim Bindon)
1996 David Morgan, Culture Change and Contact: Prehistoric to Historic Chickasaw Settlement Patterns in Lee County, Mississippi (Faculty Advisor: Ian Brown)
1997 Lynette Nyman, Purity, Pollution, and Power Among Rom Women in a Southern Polish Town (Faculty Advisor: Michael Murphy)
1998 Vanessa Fuller, Physician Characteristics and Patient Patterns in Prenatal Care (Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Oths)
1999 Robin A. Beck, The Burke Phase: Late Prehistoric Settlements in the Upper Catawba River Valley, North Carolina (Faculty Advisor: Jim Knight)
2002 Stacy McGrath, An Ethnohistorical, Archaeological, Osteological and Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century African American Cemetery: A Methodological Case Study (Faculty Advisor: Jim Bindon)
2005 Meredith Jackson, Conflicting Imperatives in Pregnancy: To Feed the Fetus or Stay Thin (Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Oths)
2006 Sarah Szurek, Social Identity and Food Choice in a Southeastern Community (Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Oths)
2008 Amanda Regnier, An Examination of the Social Composition of Late Mississippian Towns in the Alabama River Valley through Ceramic Styles (Faculty Advisor: Jim Knight)
2009 Katy Groves, Differences in Disordered Eating Behavior Between Sorority and Non-Sorority Women (Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Oths)
2016 Johnna Dominguez, ‘Nice Ink, Man’: A Biocultural Mixed Methods Approach to Tattooing as Costly Honest Signaling Among Southern Women (Faculty Advisor: Christopher Lynn)
2017 Nicole Henderson, Connections Between the Folk Psychiatry of Addiction and Levels of Attributed Stigma (Faculty Advisor: William Dressler)
2020 Cayla Colclasure, Examining Change, Persistence, and Variation in the Role of Invertebrate Fauna in Mission-Era Guale Foodways on St. Catherines Island, GA (Faculty Advisor: Elliot Blair)
2021 Wade Tidwell, Archaeological Investigations of Magnetic Anomalies in the Northern Settlement Area at Actuncan, Belize (Faculty Advisor: Lisa LeCount)
Outstanding Thesis Award, University of Alabama
1990 Chen Hsin Lo, Ritual and Community in a Southern Town (Faculty Advisor: Michael Murphy)
1991 Agneta Johannsen, Applied Anthropology and Post-Modernist Ethnography (Faculty Advisor: Michael Murphy)
1996 David Morgan, Culture Change and Contact: Prehistoric to Historic Chickasaw Settlement Patterns in Lee County, Mississippi (Faculty Advisor: Ian Brown)
2020 Cayla Colclasure, Examining Change, Persistence, and Variation in the Role of Invertebrate Fauna in Mission-Era Guale Foodways on St. Catherines Island, GA (Faculty Advisor: Elliot Blair)
2021 Wade Tidwell, Archaeological Investigations of Magnetic Anomalies in the Northern Settlement Area at Actuncan, Belize (Faculty Advisor: Lisa LeCount)
Outstanding Dissertation Award, College of Arts and Sciences
2008 Amanda Leigh Regnier, An Examination of the Social Composition of Late Mississippian Towns in the Alabama River Valley through Ceramic Styles (Faculty Advisor: Jim Knight)
2009 Ashley Dumas, The Role of Salt in the Late Woodland to Early Mississippian Transition in Southwest Alabama (Faculty Advisor: Ian Brown)
2010 Toni Copeland, Poverty and Sickness Among Women in Nairobi, Kenya: Cultural Models of Managing HIV/AIDS in the Absence of Biomedical Treatment (Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Oths)
2014 Henri Francois Dengah, Finding Success and Health through God: A Study of Cultural Models and Health Among Brazilian Pentecostals (Faculty Advisor: William Dressler)
2015Brooke Persons, Pottery, People, and Place: Examining the Emergence of Political Authority in Late Ceramic Age Cuba (Faculty Advisor: Jim Knight)
2017 Martina Thomas, Sociocultural HIV Risk Knowledge and Behavior Among Female African-American Adolescents and Emerging Adults in the Southeast (Faculty Advisor: Jason DeCaro)
2020 Mirjam Holleman, Stigma Toward People with Disabilities in Poland and Its Effects on Social Integration and Policy Implementation (Faculty Co-Advisors: Marysia Galbraith and Jason DeCaro)
Outstanding Dissertation Award, University of Alabama
2010 Toni Copeland, Poverty and Sickness Among Women in Nairobi, Kenya: Cultural Models of Managing HIV/AIDS in the Absence of Biomedical Treatment (Advisor: Kathryn Oths)
2014 Henri Francois Dengah, Finding Success and Health through God: A Study of Cultural Models and Health Among Brazilian Pentecostals (Faculty Advisor: William Dressler)
2020 Mirjam Holleman, Stigma Toward People with Disabilities in Poland and Its Effects on Social Integration and Policy Implementation (Faculty Co-Advisors: Marysia Galbraith and Jason DeCaro)
