Undergraduate Research
The Anthropology Faculty at Kansas State University offers several research opportunities to Undergraduate Students. These research activitiese are developed within the frame of ongoing faculty-led research projects, an internship course, or through the McNair Scholars Program which allows students to develop their own research project with the mentorship of one of our faculty members.
- Alfonso-Durruty, MP, Nicole Misarti, Flavia Morello, Manuel San-Roman, Jimena Torres, Noah Clayman, Luis A. Borrero. 2023. Coastal resources in Fuego-Patagonia’s Paleodiets: a micro-scape and temporal stable isotope approach. INQUA, Rome, Italy. Mentor: Dr. Alfonso-Durruty
- Casper Bendixsen, Trevor J. Durbin, and Jakob Hanschu. 2020. Progressive Ranching’ and Wrangling Wind as Ecocultural Identity Maintenance in the Anthropocene. in the Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity. pp. 164-178. Routledge.
- Durbin, Trevor K, Casper Bendixsen, Daniel Jensen-Ryan, Abigail Molzer, and Sarah Strauss. 2019. The Dangerous Middle: Situational Awareness and Worker Perception of Beetle Kill. Journal of Agromedicne, 24(2), 157-166.
- Kobiskie, Kendra, and Lauren W. Ritterbush. 2007. Ceramic Analysis. In Windmill Creek National Register of Historic Places Evaluation of a Central Plains Tradition House Site, Lovewell Reservoir, Jewell County, Kansas, 2006, by Brad Logan, pp. 27-34. Technical report prepared for the Nebraska-Kansas Area Office, Great Plains Region, Bureau of Reclamation, Grand Island, NE.
- Ross, Katherine R., and Lauren W. Ritterbush. 2007. Lithics. In Windmill Creek National Register of Historic Places Evaluation of a Central Plains Tradition House Site, Lovewell Reservoir, Jewell County, Kansas, 2006, by Brad Logan, pp. 34-38. Technical report prepared for the Nebraska-Kansas Area Office, Great Plains Region, Bureau of Reclamation, Grand Island, NE.
- Estes, Mark B., Lauren W. Ritterbush, and Kirsten Nicolaysen. 2010. Clinker, Pumice, Scoria, or Paralava? Vesicular Artifacts of the Lower Missouri Basin. Plains Anthropologist 55 (213):67-81. Mentor: Dr. Ritterbush
- Hanschu, Jakob. 2018. Quantifying the Qualitative: Locating Burial Mounds in Northcentral Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 121(3-4):261-278. Mentor: Dr. Ritterbush
- Hanschu, Jakob, and Lauren W. Ritterbush. 2016. Identification and Protection of a Burial Mound in Riley County, Kansas: Archeological Investigation of 14RY652. The Kansas Anthropologist 37:1-45. Mentor: Dr. Ritterbush
- Middleton, Jessica L. 2003. A Nebraska Phase Occupation at the Leary Site. The Kansas Anthropologist 24:35-44. Mentor: Dr. Ritterbush
- Kreiser, Kelsey. 2014. Analysis of Leary Site Ceramics. 36th Annual Flint Hills Archaeological Conference, Fort Osage, Sibley, MO. Mentor: Dr. Ritterbush
- Stackley, Taylor D. 2014. Testing the Feasibility of Neutron Activation Analysis using White Rock Oneota Ceramics. 36th Annual Flint Hills Archaeological Conference, Fort Osage, Sibley, Missouri. Mentor: Dr. Ritterbush
- Frasier, Tuesday (McNair Scholar) and MP Alfonso-Durruty. 2017. Assessment of cortical thickness as a non-specific indicator of stress in bone: an experimental animal model. 86th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropology. New Orleans. Mentor: Dr. Marta Alfonso-Durruty.
- Padilla, Matthew J. (Developing Scholar), and Lauren W. Ritterbush. 2005. White Rock Oneota Chipped Stone Tools. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 30. 259-297. Mentor: Dr. Lauren Ritterbush.
- Prokopio, Kasssandra. (McNair Scholar) 2019. Understanding Urban and Rural Cultural Changes through Morphological Disparities Among Cemetery Gravestone Markers. Mentor: Dr. Marta Alfonso-Durruty.
- Coltrane, Ellie. 2022. The Byzantine Textiles: The Story of the Collection from the Kansas State University Historic Costume and Textile Museum. Independent research completed during internship with K-State's Historic Costume and Textile Museum, Manhattan, Kansas. Mentor: Dr. Ritterbush