The Department of Anthropology had an impressive showing at this year's UW Undergraduate Research Symposium (May 15, 2026), with 43 students delivering 27 combined poster and oral presentations from across the archaeological, biological, and sociocultural subfields. Thank you to our 14 faculty and affiliate mentors: Holly Barker, Heather Clark, Jade d'Alpoim Guedes, Ben Fitzhugh, Christine Harper, Darryl Holman, Patricia Kramer, Marcos Llobera, Ben Marwick, Melanie Martin, Jamaal Muwwakkil, Tiffany Pan, Paula Saravia, Stephanie Selover, and Marieke S. van Eijk. Congratulations to all our student presenters!
Posters
Leveraging Community-Based Participatory Research To Support Asset-Based And Intensive Tutoring Strategies In Partnership With A T1 K-5 School — Juliana-Symone Tabura, Charlotte Parry, Joyce Zheng, Vivian Guy, Molly Victoria Berinato, Jack Lue, Hailey Chadrow
Disparities in Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Prevalence and the Role of Non-Prescriptive Mitigation Strategies Among University of Washington College Students — Ishan Mehta
"Staying out the way": The assimilation of progressive language as a tool to maintain the violent status-quo — Joshua Miller
Is Gambling a Possible Form of Healing, or is it Justification for an Addiction? — Aidan Maynard
First pedal ray angle variation in parous and nulliparous individuals — Addie Lomax, Paige S. Whitman
The Toys of Enslaved African Children on 18th and 19th-Century Plantations in the Anglophone Atlantic — Raquel Matthews
Center of Pressure Responses to Burdened Gait at Varying Velocities — Abraham Cole, Angela Grachev, Izak Veals
Affective and Moral Dimensions of Human Service Work — Haolin Wang
Using Radiocarbon Ages as a Proxy for Human Population Dynamics in Late Pleistocene Mainland Southeast Asia — Brandon Nguyen
Insurance Obstacles and Price Transparency: Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives on Providing Affordable Care — Pragnya Gudipati, Allen Richardson, Aaron Hwang, Simon Huang, Jake Yunfeng He
Sex Differences in Trunk and Pelvic Motion Throughout the Gait Cycle — Kaila Buchanan
Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphological Change in Southern Song Silver Bullion — Jade Jiang
Constructed Crisis: Discourse Strategies of Health Communication of COVID-19 across the US and Nigeria — Delila Shami
Archaeobotanical Analysis of Materials From the Tanginak Spring Site, Kodiak, AK — Remy Cogan, Reilly Deegan
Belief vs. Biology: A Look Into the Effects of Vaccine Hesitancy on the Health of Modern American Society — Raelynn Wheeler
Influence of Sociodemographic Factors on Restaurant-Origin Foodborne Illness Rates in King County, Washington — Sofia Geherin
Impact of Field-Friendly Storage Conditions on Dried Blood Spots on Downstream Molecular Analyses — Heather O'Corry-Crowe
The Effect of Sleep Routines and Leisure Activities on Stress — Leo Sun, Caleb DeBoer
More Than Medicine: Nuclear Impacts on the Diné — Mina Kim
Oral Presentations
From Paganism to St Patrick: The Archaeology of Religious Change in Fifth Century Ireland — Zoe Bradley-Hart
Understanding Mobility through Residential Architecture in the Archaeology of Kodiak Island — Lucille Katzman-Tranah
From Refuse to Ritual: Intentionality in the Burials of Tomb 903 from Early Bronze Age Megiddo — Mary Amiotte
Fighting Inch by Inch, Site by Site: Ethnographic Interviews on Cultural Heritage and Archaeology in Palestine — Ayden Erickson
Psychedelic Care in the Shadow of Policy: A Qualitative Analysis — Kali Boone
Snapshots of Self: Exploring Seattle-based autistic young adults' experiences with identity and friendship through participatory photography — Nia Brice