SMU Anthropology Newsletter
Dallas, Texas
September 2007

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

Lambda Alpha members for 2006-2007 are: Amy Susan Broihier, Rachael Dunlap, Olivia C. Farr, Michael Ryan Fisher, Marco Axel Flores, Emily George, Matthew Roberts Gray, Emily Lane Ham, Elizabeth Marie Kobus, Krystal Lynn Kulka, Dawn Marie Lassiter, Diana Hoang Le, George Daniel Marshall V, Micah Louis Nerio, Zoe Elizabeth Niesel, Ashley Payne, Dava Stephanie Rabb, Meryl Ann Rescoe, Tiffany Lynn Smith, Ashley Brooke Tindell, Matthew Rusk Tunnell, Matthew P. Turner, Richard Ian Van Every, Benjamin Phillip Wells, Courtney Lynne West, Catrina Banks Whitley.

Brandi Terrell received the "Edward I. and Peggy Fry Award for Academic Excellence".

Rachel Hearn received the "Outstanding Senior in Anthropology Award".

Hannah Kolni, Rachel Hearn, and Brandi Terrell were initiated formally into the local Iota chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, at a ceremony in McCord Auditorium on April 11, 2007.

Jill Dozier
She has obtained employment with an On-line Market Research Company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. e-Rewards is an on-line member only panel which conducts consumer research via on-line survey invitations. Although she did not know exactly where her Anthropology degree would take her, it has landed her a great job with a fabulous company. She currently works in the new division of Healthcare Solutions. She works with the sales managers to put together proposals for pharmaceutical companies to obtain physician and other healthcare personnel opinions via our panel of participants. It is a unique position in which she tries to bring together two different entities into a common link viable for both parties.

Micah Nero
He was in Singapore for two months through an internship, was able to travel to other countries in Southeast Asia, blogged for Student Adventures (website off the main SMU site), and noted some of his culture experiences.

Benjamin Wells
He received a stipend for doing work with Dr. Kemper's project from a "progressive" organization called Young People For. They give the stipend out to fellows in order to help support them in the career goals of their choosing and to help carry out progressive values in doing that work. During summer 2007, Ben worked with other undergraduate students processing the many thousands of pages of field notes from the George M. Foster ethnographic files. Ben also was awarded the Felix Chen Asian Studies Scholarship from the Asian Studies Program here at SMU; he hopes to apply this award to research in China in December 2007.

Degrees Awarded in 2006-2007

Undergraduates with Anthropology BA (BS) Degrees - May 2007 (BS degrees in parentheses):
Jennifer Kay Anderson, Sarah Katherine Cotney, Jenise L. Dornenburg, Jill Lynn Dozier, Marco Axel Flores, Harvey John-August Herr III (BS), Lauren Sims Jasinski, Christopher Kirby Limbaugh, Lan Anh Thi Nguyen, Kathryn L. Rowe, Tiffany Lynn Smith, Carol Marie Stanfill (BS), Brandi Michelle Terrell (BS, (Edward I. and Peggy Fry Award, Magna Cum Laude), Ashley Brooke Tindell, Brittany Elizabeth Marie Touchon (BS), Matthew Tunnell, Brittany Lynn Weygandt.

Undergraduates with Anthropology BA (BS) Degrees - August 2007 (BS degrees in parentheses):
Matthew Tunnell, Courtney Elizabeth O'Reilly, James Patrick O'Neill, Reynaldo Pellerin, Harvey Herr (BS), Rachel Hearn (BS, Outstanding Senior in Anthropology), Rachel Garzarelli, Jennifer Kay Bowie (BS)

Individualized Study in Medical Anthropology
John Christopher Hunninghake, (Magna Cum Laude)