First wave feminists (1849-1919) advocated for all manner of political and social reform beyond achieving the vote. Dress reform, which sought to create healthier and simpler clothing, had variations across religious and class lines. Reform was influenced by two sources. The first were opinions regarding female vanity. The second was a copious body of publications […]
B25: Intercultural Research in Multimedia Design with Pokémon
What does “culture” mean in terms of visual style? How do we determine when our art resonates authentically to the people in the communities from which we have borrowed these elements? As a multimedia designer, this becomes integral to be aware of when utilizing cultural inspiration. A perfect case study of multimedia medium that holds […]
B62: Unpacking Inequity: Choice and Judgement in Food Pantries
Global health is dedicated to understanding the health status of different populations and creating strategies to improve health equity worldwide. This project allowed me to examine the United States’ social services more deeply and understand the varying complexities of food insecurity. This experience consisted of volunteering in local food pantries and interacting with those who […]
C52: Effects on travel velocity in wild woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii) at Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador
Travel is a crucial function animals use to fulfill needs including food acquisition, reproduction, and finding sleeping sites. Given the cognitive demands of locating preferred resources both spatially and temporally across a landscape, studies on naturalistic travel paths may help us better understand the cognitive capacities and spatial memory of the species in question. In […]
C44: Intergroup dynamics of lowland woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii) at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador
Intergroup interactions in nonhuman primates can vary greatly from affiliative to agonistic. While many researchers have focused on factors that lead to aggressive intergroup encounters (IGEs), few have investigated those that lead to more tolerant outcomes. Here, we examine how fruit productivity, mating opportunities, group composition, and location of encounter affect IGEs in wild woolly […]
C45: Uncovering the Lost Tapes of Mahale: A Preliminary Analysis of Play Behavior in Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii
Within the context of affiliative interactions among primates, social play is one of the most commonly observed behaviors. Specifically, social play allows younger individuals such as infants and juveniles to learn social roles and help in furthering their social development. Here, we examine social play and behavioral sequences among a wild eastern chimpanzee community (Pan […]
C49: Inheritance of Maternal Ranging Patterns in White-Bellied Spider Monkeys (Ateles belzebuth) at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador
This research project is within the field of Biological Anthropology, specifically Primatology. In previous years, teams of researchers collected spatial data of observed individuals through Garmin handheld GPS units on two communities of White-Bellied spider monkeys at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in Amazonian Ecuador. The spatial data has been used to build representations of home […]
C50: Ripeness of Spondias mombin, influence on feeding behaviour and food processing by Woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha) in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Author: Billy Browning, Anthropology Major Advisor(s): Kelsey Ellis, Department of Anthropology
C66: Rediscovering Oxford: The 2023 Anthropology Department Campus Archaeology Field Season
In Fall 2023, students in Anthropology 416: Applying Archaeology conducted field and lab research, including excavation, on a historical site on the Oxford campus of Miami University. Continuing from previous field seasons (2018, 2021), these excavations focused on an area 30 meters south of the McGuffey House Museum. Previous research suggested a later household than […]
A07: Comparing Social Dynamics Between Three Troops of Captive Western Lowland Gorillas
My general research area is biological anthropology. I observed eleven individuals across three troops of western lowland gorillas (gorilla gorilla) at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden between 2022 and 2023 (N = 105 hrs). Behavioral data were collected under the context of focal animal sampling to assess differences in social interactions and spatial proximity […]