| Rhianon O'Neal | English Language in Japanese |
| Chirstopher Hagan | Buddhism in America --Winner 2005 American Anthropological Association student paper competition |
| Molly Mays | Political discourse at Scared Grounds |
| Jennifer Fichtner | Collecting for teaching: The history and theory of the Anthropology Teaching Museum |
| Charity Smith | Analysis of skeletal remains on loan from the Illinois State Museum |
| Kelly Arnold | Southern Illinois ceramic figurine: A temporal study |
| Christine Boston | Human skeletal remains from Eommos site --First place winner (shared) 2005 Illinois Archaeological Survey student paper competition --Undergraduate Research Academy --Second Place 2005 Illinois Archaeological Survey student paper cometition |
| Kyle Hensley | Mayan ceramics in the University Museum collection |
| Melissa Moggio | Animal remains from the Baehr-Gust site |
| Megan Mueller | Recording and analyzing a brewery in Belleville |
| Miranda Yancy | Survey and analysis of artifacts from Hitchins site |
| Erin Finney | Chinese immigrants and assimilation |
| Christina House | Culture and German reunification |
| Tawn Kenner | The race and IQ controversy |
| David Ludwig | A new spin on cultural resource protection: The analysis and comparison of common theft crime theories with archaelogical lotting |
| Tramaine Stovell | Olmec Culture: African or indigenous origins |
