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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

“You are not the Same Person You Were:” On Diagnosis Seeking During a Liminal Period and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus , Kaylee A. Appleton

Good Times, Politics, and Collapse: The Archaeology of Old St. Joseph, Florida , Christopher N. Hunt

Seminoles, Soldiers, and Settlers: Identity and Power on the Florida Frontier , Jean Louise Lammie

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Entanglements of Teenage Food Security Within High School Pantries in Pinellas County, Florida , Karen T. Díaz Serrano

The Applicability of the Postmortem Submersion Interval Estimation Formula for Human Remains Found in Subtropical Aquatic Environments , Kara L. DiComo

Early Agricultural Lives: Bioarchaeological Inferences from Neolithic and Early Copper Age Tombs in the Central Po Valley, Italy , Christopher J. Eck Jr.

The Process of Government in Clearwater, Florida , Picot deBoisfeuillet Floyd

“I Was Doing the Best with What I Had”: Exploring Student Veterans’ Experiences with Community Reintegration, Food Insecurity, and Health Challenges , Jacquelyn N. Heuer

Transformative Psychedelic Experiences at Music Events: Using Subjective Experience to Explore Chemosocial Assemblages of Culture , Gabrielle R. Lehigh

“We Need to Have a Place to Vent and Get Our Frustrations Out”: Addressing the Needs of Mothering Students in Higher Education using a Positive Deviance Framework , Melissa León

“They’re Still Trying to Wrap Their Head Around Forever”: An Anatomy of Hope for Spinal Cord Injury Patients , William A. Lucas

Foodways of the Florida Frontier: Zooarchaeological Analysis of Gamble Plantation Historic State Park (8MA100) , Mary S. Maisel

The Impacts of Disability Policy and its Implementation on Deaf University Students: An Applied Anthropological Approach , Tailyn Marie Osorio

“I’m Still Suffering”: Mental Health Care Among Central African Refugee Populations in the Tampa Bay Area , C. Danee Ruszczyk

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Immigration-Related Stressors, Pregnancy, Birth, and Post-Partum Experiences of Women Living Along the US-Mexico Border , Isabela Solis

Clinically Applied Anthropology: A Syndemic Intervention. , Jason W. Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

An Assessment of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals Gender Affirming Health Care Practices in the Greater Tampa Bay , Sara J. Berumen

Mound-Summit Practices at Cockroach Key (8HI2) Through the Lens of Practice Theory , Chandler O. Burchfield

Crafting a Scene: The Nexus of Production and Consumption of Tampa Bay Craft Beer , Russell L. Edwards

Applied Anthropology of Addiction in Clinical Spaces: co-Developing and Assessing a Novel Opioid Treatment Pathway , Heather Diane Henderson

Japan’s COVID 19 Infection Rate: A Focus on Tokyo Neighborhoods , Lauren Koerner

Farmers’ Organizations and Development Actors in a Pandemic: Responses to Covid-19 and the Food-Energy-Water Nexus , Atte Penttilä

An Ideology of Racism: Community Representation, Segregation, and the Historical Cemeteries of Panama City, Florida , Ethan David Mauldin Putman

“Even If You Have Food in Your House, It Will Not Taste Sweet”: Central African Refugees’ Experiences of Cultural Food Insecurity and Other Overlapping Insecurities in Tampa, Florida , Shaye Soifoine

Afro-Latinx and Afro-Latin Americans in the United States: Examining Ethnic and Racial Experiences in Higher Education , Glenda Maria Vaillant Cruz

Black Cemeteries Matter: The Erasure of Historic Black Cemeteries in Polk County, Florida , Juliana C. Waters

An Anthropology with Human Waste Management: Non-Humans, The State, and Matters of Care on the Placencia Peninsula, Belize , William Alex Webb

An Edgefield Ceramic Assemblage from the Lost Town of St. Joseph, Northwest Florida , Crystal R. Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Aspiring to “Make it Work”: Defining Resilience and Agency Amongst Hispanic Youth Living in Low-Income Neighborhoods , Sara Arias-Steele

“I Wish Somebody Called Me, Told Me Not to Worry”: Evaluating a Non-Profit’s Use of Social Support to Address Refugee Women’s Resettlement Challenges , Brandylyn L. Arredondo

Of Body and Mind: Bioarchaeological Analysis of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Anatomization and Institutionalization in Siena, Italy , Jacqueline M. Berger

Cannabis Capitalism in Colorado: An Ethnography of Il/legal Production and Consumption , Lia Berman

Analyses Of Woodland Check-Stamped Ceramics In Northwest Florida , John D. Blackburn

“Here Come the Crackers!”: An Ethnohistorical Case Study of Local Heritage Discourses and Cultural Reproduction at a Florida Living History Museum , Blair Bordelon

Privies as Portals: A Ceramic and Glass Bottle Analysis of a Late 19th Century Household Privy in Ellenton, FL , Shana Boyer

Making Change in the Nickel City: Food Banking and Food Insecurity in Buffalo, NY During the COVID-19 Pandemic , Sarah E. Bradley

Ware and Tear in Ancient Tampa Bay: Ceramic Elemental Analyses from Pinellas County Sites , McKenna Loren Douglass

Rethinking Settlement Patterns at the Weeden Island Site (8PI1) on Florida’s Central Gulf Coast , Heather E. Draskovich

Listening to Women: Using a Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Women’s Desires and Experience During Childbirth , Nicole Loraine Falk Smith

Archaeology and Seasonality of Stock Island (8Mo2), a Glades-Tradition Village on Key West , Ryan M. Harke

How Culture and Storytelling Can Influence Urban Development: An Ethnographic Look at the Community-Driven Revitalization of Newtown in Sarasota, Florida , Michala Head

Educational Experiences of Congolese Refugees in West-Central Florida High Schools , Michaela J. Inks

Constructing 'Child Safety': Policy, Practice, and Marginalized Families in Florida's Child Welfare System , Melissa Hope Johnson

"We're the Lucky Ones": A Social Network Analysis of Recovery After the Iowa Derecho , Kayla C. Jones

How Race is Made in Everyday Life: Food, Eating, and Dietary Acculturation among Black and White Migrants in Florida, U.S. , Laura Kihlstrom

Tourism, Education, and Identity Making: Agency and Representation of Indigenous Communities in Public Sites within Florida. , Timothy R. Lomberk II

Pregnancy and Fertility Amongst Women with the MTHFR C677T Polymorphism: An Anthropological Review , Caroline A. MacLean

A Biocultural Analysis of the Impacts of Interactions Between West Africans and Europeans During the Trans-Atlantic Trade at Elmina, Ghana , Heidi Ellen Miller

The Distribution in Native Populations from Mexico and Central America of the C677T Variant in the MTHFR Gene , Lucio A. Reyes

Politics vs. The Environment: The Spatial Distributions of Mississippian Mound Centers in Tampa Bay , Adam J. Sax

Seasonality, Labor Organization, and Monumental Constructions: An Otolith Study from Florida’s Crystal River Site (8CI1) and Roberts Island Shell Mound Complex (8CI40 and 41) , Elizabeth Anne Southard

Eating and Body Image Disorders in the Time of COVID19: An Anthropological Inquiry into the Pandemic’s Effects on the Bodies , Theresa A. Stoddard

The Early Medieval Transition: Diet Reconstruction, Mobility, and Culture Contact in the Ravenna Countryside, Northern Italy , Anastasia Temkina

The Science of Guessing: Critiquing Ancestral Estimation Through Computer Generated Statistical Analysis Within Forensic Anthropology in a Real-World Setting , Christopher J. Turner

Listening to Queens: Ghana's Women Traditional Leaders as a Model for Gender Parity , Kristen M. Vogel

Site Suitability Modeling in the Sand Pine Scrub of the Ocala National Forest , Jelane M. Wallace

Our Story, Our Homeland, Our Legacy: Settlement Patterns of The Geechee at Sapelo Island Georgia, From 1860 To 1950 , Colette D. Witcher

Identifying Skeletal Puberty Stages in a Modern Sample from the United States , Jordan T. Wright

Pollen-Vegetation Relationships in Upper Tampa Bay , Jaime E. Zolik

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Maternal Social Status, Offspring 2D:4D Ratio and Postnatal Growth, in Macaca mulatta (Rhesus Macaques) , Juan Pablo Arroyo

Social Exclusion of Older Mossi Women Accused of Witchcraft in Burkina Faso, West Africa , Clarisse Barbier

Fields Brook Superfund Site: Race, Class, and Environmental Justice in a Blasted Landscape , Richard C. Bargielski

The Effects of Feudalism on Medieval English Mobility: A Biological Distance Study Using Nonmetric Cranial Traits. , Jonathan H. Barkmeier

Before the Storm: Water and Energy Utilities, Human Vulnerability and Disaster Risk , Cori D. Bender

Recipes for the Living and the Dead: Technological Investigation of Ceramics from prehistoric Sicily. The case studies of Sant’Angelo Muxaro and Polizzello , Gianpiero Caso

Save Water Drink Wine: Challenges of Implementing the Ethnography of the Temecula Valley Wine Industry into Food-Energy-Water Nexus Decision-Making , Zaida E. Darley

İYo luché! : Uncovering and Interrupting Silencing in an Indigenous and Afro-descendant Community , Eileen Cecelia Deluca

Unwritten Records: Crime and Punishment in Early Virginia , Jessica L. Gantzert

‘It’s Been a Huge Stress’: An In-Depth, Exploratory Study of Vaccine Hesitant Parents in Southern California , Mika Kadono

Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for Elemental Analysis in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology , Kelsi N. Kuehn

Middle Woodland Mounds of the Lower Chattahoochee, Lower Flint, and Apalachicola River Basin , Michael H. Lockman

Overturning the Turnbull Settlement: Artifact Analysis of the Old Stone Wharf in New Smyrna Beach, Florida , Tracy R. Lovingood

“They will think we are the Cancer Family”: Studying Patterns of Cancer Disclosure and Communication among Indian Immigrants in the United States , Kanan Mehta

Museum Kura Hulanda: Representations of Transatlantic Slavery and African and Dutch Heritage in Post-Colonial Curaçao , April Min

Nurses and Needlesticks: Perceptions of Stigma and HIV Risk , Bethany Sharon Moore

Circadian Rhythms and the Embodiment of Social Zeitgebers: Linking the Bio and Social , Tiffany R. Moore

Civic Engagement amid Civil Unrest: Haitian Social Scientists Working at Home , Nadège Nau

“Placing our breasts on a hot kerosene lantern”: A Critical Study of Microfinancialization in the Lives of Women Entrepreneurs in the Informal Economic Sector in Ibadan, Nigeria , Olubukola Olayiwola

Domestic Life during the Late Intermediate Period at El Campanario Site, Huarmey Valley, Peru , Jose Luis Peña

Archaeology and the Philosopher's Stance: An Advance in Ethics and Information Accessibility , Dina Rivera

A South Florida Ethnography of Mobile Home Park Residents Organizing Against Neoliberal Crony Capitalist Displacement , Juan Guillermo Ruiz

From Colonial Legacy to Difficult Heritage: Responding to and Remembering An Gorta Mór , Ireland’s Great Hunger , Katherine Elizabeth Shakour

The Role of Financial Insecurity and Expectations on Perspectives of Mental Health Services among Refugees , Jacqueline M. Siven

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Trauma Analysis in Cases of Child Fatality , Jaime D. Sykes

Governmentality, Biopower, and Sexual Citizenship: A Feminist Examination of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Experiences of 18-24 Year-Olds in the U.S. Southeast , Melina K. Taylor

Characterizing Childhood and Diet in Migration Period Hungary , Kirsten A. Verostick

An Ethnography of WaSH Infrastructures and Governance in Sulphur Springs, Florida , Mathews Jackon Wakhungu

A Plan for Progress, Preservation, and Presentation at the Safety Harbor Museum and Cultural Center , Amanda L. Ward

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Pathways to Parenthood: Attitudes and Preferences of Eight Self-Identified Queer Women Living in Tampa Bay, FL , Emily Noelle Baker

"It's Not Addiction Until You Graduate": Natural Recovery in the College Context , Breanne I. Casper

Tales of Trafficking: Performing Women's Narratives in a Sex Trafficking Rehabilitation Program in Florida , Jaine E. Danlag

Perceptions of Infrastructure, Flood Management, and Environmental Redevelopment in the University Area, Hillsborough County, Florida , Kris-An K. Hinds

Eating in America: Easing the Transition for Resettled Refugees through an Applied Anthropological Intervention , Emily A. Holbrook

Genetic Testing and the Power of the Provider: Women’s Experiences with Cancer Genetic Testing , Dana Erin Ketcher

An Archaeological Investigation of Enslavement at Gamble Plantation , S. Matthew Litteral

“Right in the Trenches with Them”: Caregiving, Advocacy, and the Political Economy of Community Health Workers , Ryan I. Logan

Exploring Variations in Diet and Migration from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period in the Veneto, Italy: A Biochemical Analysis , Ashley B. Maxwell

Least of My Worries: Food Security, Diet Quality, and Antiretroviral Adherence among People Living with HIV , Charlotte Ann Noble

The Tampa Gym Study: An Ethnographic Exploration of Gyms, Female Gym-Goers and The Quest for Fitness in Tampa, FL , Danielle Reneé Rosen

Environmental Legacies of Pre-Contact and Historic Land Use in Antigua, West Indies , Anthony Richard Tricarico

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Chen, Hsi-Wen (2023)  Provisioning a Pilgrimage Center: Land Use and Settlement Patterns in Niuheliang, Liaoning, China . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Dakovic, Gligor (2023)  Long-term Social Processes and Demographic Dynamics of the Early Bronze Age (2800–1700 BC) in the Northern Banat Region of Serbia . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Li, Xiang (2023)  Social Differentiation among Commoners at Erlitou: A Household Archaeological Perspective . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Neidich, Deborah (2023)  Bioarchaeology of identity formation in Late Antique and Migration Period Bavaria, Germany . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

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Rovito, Benjamin (2021)  Analysis of the A1/A2 Alleyway Peri-Abandonment Deposit at Cahal Pech, Belize . Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.

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Walker, Jessica (2021) Social Identity and Life Course Stress in Nabatean Jordan .  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

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Gremba, Allison (2020): Biocultural Analysis of Otitis Media and its Relationship to Traditional Skeletal Stress Markers in the Assessment of Structural Violence . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Grosso, Alicia (2020): Tissue Variability Effects on Saw Mark Evidence in Bone . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

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Kello, Erin (2020): Facial clefting and the Vietnam War: A Study of DNA Methylation Patterns and Intergenerational Stress.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 

Kojanic, Ognjen (2020)  Ownership vs. Property Rights in a Worker-Owned Company in Post-Socialist Croatia.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)

Krishnamurti, Lauren Sealy (2020) Care with Aloha: Preventing Suicide in Oahu, Hawaii.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

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Zhang Chi (Charles) (2020) A Critical Assessment of Sampling Biases in Geometric Morphometric Analysis: The Case of Homo erectus. Doctoral Dissertation , University of Pittsburgh. 

Zhao, Chao (2020): A Study of Land-use across the Transition to Agriculture in the Northern Yinshan Mountain Region at the Edge of Southern Mongolia Steppe Zone of Ulanqab, China .  

Chen, Peiyu (2019) Big Transitions in a Small Fishing Village: Late Preceramic Life in Huaca Negra, Virú Valley, Peru . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Franchetti, Fernando (2019):  Hunter-gatherer adaptation in the deserts of northern Patagonia.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.  Kocic, Miroslav (2019): Emergence of Social Complexity and Community building in the Late Neolithic (5400-4600 cal. BCE) of the Central Balkans.

Muñoz Rojas, Lizette (2019) Cuisine and the Conquest: Contrasting Two Sixteenth Century Native Populations of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Doctoral Dissertation . University of Pittsburgh.

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Pompeani, Katherine M. (2019): The Bioarchaeology of Life, Death, and Social Status in the Early Bronze Age Community at Ostojićevo, Serbia.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Portillo, Alejandra Sejas (2019):  Local Level Leadership and Centralization in the Late Prehispanic Yaretani Basin, Bolivia . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Yoo, Wonji (2019):  The Making of God's Subject: Christian Conversion and Urban Youth in China. Doctoral Dissertation , University of Pittsburgh.

Cao, Junyang (2018) The Extirpation of the Chinese Alligator in North China. Masters Paper , University of Pittsburgh.

Carlson, Rebecca, (2018) More Japanese than Japanese: Subjectivation in the Age of Brand Nationalism and the Internet. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Pittsburgh.

Chamberlin, Rachel (2018)  Defining the Bio-citizen in Pluralistic Healthcare Settings: The Role of Patient Choice. Doctoral Dissertation .  University of Pittsburgh.

Chechushkov, Igor (2018)   Bronze Age Human Communities in the Southern Urals Steppe: Sintashta-Petrovka Social and Subsistence Organization . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 

Wang, Wenjing (2018)  Lingjiatan Social Organization in the Yuxi Valley China: A Comparative Perspective . Doctoral Dissertation. University of Pittsburgh.

Bridges, Nora (2017)  The Therapeutic Ecologies of Napo Runa Wellbeing. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Pittsburgh.

Chan, Zi Lin Carol (2017)  Gendered Moral Economies of Transnational Migration: Mobilizing Shame and Faith in Migrant-Origin Villages of Central Java, Indonesia . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Guler-Biyikli, Senem (2017)  Sacred Secular Relics: World Trade Center Steel in Off-Site 9/11 Memorials in the United States . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Khalikova, Venera (2017)  Institutionalized Alternative Medicine in North India: Plurality, Legitimacy, and Nationalist Discourses .  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Puzo, Ieva (2017)  The Local LIves of Global Science: Foreign Scientists in Japan's Research Institutions .  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Robinson, Amanda S. (2017)  Animal Socialities: Healing and Affect in Japanese Animal Cafés .  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Sharapov, Denis V. (2017) Bronze Age Settlement Patterns and the Developments of Complex Societies in the Southern Ural Steppes (3500-1400 BC) . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Sturm, Camilla (2017)  Structure and Evolution of Economic Networks in Neolithic Walled Towns of the Jianghan Plain: A Geochemical Perspective.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Vargas Ruiz, Juan Carlos (2017)  Complex Societies, Leadership Strategies and Agricultural Intensification in the Llanos of Casanare, Colombia . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Venegas, Maria (2017)  Alienated Affliction: The Politics of Grisi Siknis Experience in Nicaragua . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Wakefield-Murphy, Robyn (2017)  The Bioarchaeology of Gendered Social Processes Among Pre- and Post-Contact Native Americans: An Analysis of Mortuary Patterns, Health, and Activity in the Ohio Valley .  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Zickefoose, Amanda (2017)  Sustainable Practices and Sustainability Ideology on Small Farms in North-Central West Virginia. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Pittsburgh.

Fajardo, Sebastian (2016)  Prehispanic and Colonial Settlement Patterns of the Sogamoso Valley.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Kesterke, Matthew J. (2016)  The Effects of In-utero Thyroxine Exposure On Mandibular Shape in Mice.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Leeper, Bobbie J. (2016)  Evaluation of Current Methods of Soft Tissue Removal From Bone.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Li, Tao  (2016)  Economic Differentiation in Hongshan Core Zone Communities (Northeastern China): A Geochemical Perspective.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Li, Dongdong  (2016)  The Emergence of Walled Towns and Social Complexity in the Taojiahu-Xiaocheng Region of Jianghan Plain China.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Wentworth Fournier, Chelsea  (2015)  Feasting and Food Security: Negotiating Infant and Child Feeding in Urban and Peri-Urban Vanuatu. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Lin, Hao-Li  (2015)  Vanua as Environment: Conservation, Farming, and Development in Waitabu, Fiji.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Johnson, James  (2015)  Community Matters? Investigating Social Complexity Through Centralization And Differentiation In Bronze Age Pastoral Societies Of The Southern Urals, Russian Federation, 2100 – 900 BC.   Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Ikehara Tsukayama, Hugo C.  (2015)  Leadership, Crisis And Political Change: The End Of The Formative Period In The Nepeña Valley, Peru.   Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Herckis, Lauren R.  (2015)  Cultural Variation in the Maya City of Palenque.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Harmansah, Rabia  (2015)  Performing Social Forgetting in a Post-Conflict Landscape: The Case of Cyprus.   Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Garrido Escobar, Francisco Javier  (2015)  Mining and the Inca Road in Prehistoric Atacama Desert, Chile.   Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

de St. Maurice, Gregory  (2015)  The Kyoto Brand: Protecting Agricultural and Culinary Heritage.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Clark, Julia  (2015)  Modeling Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Pastoral Adaptations in Northern Mongolia's Darkhad Depression.   Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Argüello García, Pedro María  (2015)    Subsistence Economy And Chiefdom Emergence in the Muisca Area. A Study of the Valle De Tena.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Williams, James T.  (2014)  Staple Economies and Social Integration in Northeast China: Regional Organization in Zhangwu, Liaoning, China. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Sung, Shih-Hsiang   (2014)  The Flowing Materiality of Crystal: A Global Commodity Chain of Fengshui Objects From Brazil, China to Taiwan.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Romano, Francisco  (2014)  Changing Bases of Power: The Transition From Regional Classic to Recent in the Alto Magdalena (Colombia).   Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.             

Roman, Michael  (2014)  Migration, Transnationality, and Climate Change in the Republic of Kiribati.   Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.  

Pesantes Villa, Maria Amalia  (2014)  Out of sight out of mind: intercultural health technicians in the Peruvian Amazon.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Ornellas, Melody Li  (2014)  When a Wife is a Visitor: Mainland Chinese Marriage Migration, Citizenship, and Activism in Hong Kong.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Giraldo Tenorio, Hernando Javier  (2014)   Sources of Power and the Development of Sociopolitical Complexity in Malagana, Southwestern Colombia.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Berrey, Charles A.  (2014)  Organization and Growth among Early Complex Societies in Central Pacific Panama.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Ventresca Miller, Alicia (2013)  Social Organization And Interaction In Bronze Age Eurasia: A Bioarchaeological And Statistical Approach To The Study Of Communities.  Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Tulbure, Narcis (2013)  Chary Opportunists: Money, Values, And Change In Postsocialist Romania.  Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Sözer, Hande (2013)  Managing (In)Visibility By A Double Minority: Dissimulation And Identity Maintenance Among Alevi Bulgarian Turks.  Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Sol Castillo, Ricardo Felipe (2013)  Religious Organization And Political Structure In Prehispanic Southern Costa Rica. Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Roman-Lacayo, Manuel/A (2013)  Social And Environmental Risk And The Development Of Social Complexity In Precolumbian Masaya, Nicaragua.  Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Rak, Kimberly (2013)  Seeing Green: Gendered Relationship Expectations And Sexual Risk Among Economically Underserved Adolescents In Braddock, Pennsylvania.  Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Ming, Kevin (2013)  Slow Separations: Everyday Sex Work In Southern China.  Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

McCarthy, Rory G. (2013)  The Sikh Diaspora In Australia: Migration, Multiculturalism And The Imagining Of Home.  Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Lopez Bravo, Roberto (2013)  State Interventionism In The Late Classic Maya Palenque Polity: Household And Community Archaeology At El Lacandon.  Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Lee, Yi-Tze (2013)  Divided Dreams On Limited Land: Cultural Experiences Of Agricultural Bio-Energy Project And Organic Farming Transition In Taiwan.  Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Hoggarth, Julie A.  (2013)  Social Reorganization and Household Adaptation in the Aftermath of Collapse at Baking Pot, Belize.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Guerra-Reyes, Lucia (2013)  Safe motherhood and maternal mortality reduction strategies: a cross cultural perspective.  Master Essay, University of Pittsburgh.

Guerra-Reyes, Lucia (2013)  Changing Birth in The Andes: Safe Motherhood, Culture and Policy in Peru.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Gamez Diaz, Laura (2013)  Cosmology And Society: Household Ritual Among The Terminal Classic Maya People Of Yaxha (Ca. A.D. 850-950), Guatemala.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Marcone, Giancarlo (2012)  Political Strategies And Domestic Economy Of The Lote B Rural Elite In The Prehispanic Lurín Valley, Peru.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Macia, Laura (2012)  Dealing With Grievances: The Latino Experience In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Hooe, Todd (2012)  “Little Kingdoms”: Adat And Inequality In The Kei Islands, Eastern Indonesia.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Hamm, Megan (2012)  Activism, Sex Work, And Womanhood In North India.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Frenopoulo, Christian (2012)  The Referential Functions Of Agency: Health Workers In Medical Missions To Madiha (Kulina) Indians In The Brazilian Amazon.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

DePaoli, Lisa Coffield (2012)  "No Podemos Comer Billetes": Climate Change And Development In Southern Ecuador.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Campbell, Roberto  (2012)  Socioeconomic differentiation, leadership, and residential patterning at an Araucanian chiefly center (Isla Mocha, AD 1000-1700).  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Household Organization and Social Inequality at Bandurria, A Late Preceramic Village in Huaura, Peru.  Alejandro Jose Chu Barrera.  2011.

Kokeshi: Continued and Created Traditions/Motivations for a Japanese Folk Art Doll.  Jennifer E. McDowell.  2011.

Ideology and the Development of Social Hierarchy at the Site of Panquilma, Peruvian Central Coast.  Luis Enrique Lopez-Hurtado Orjeda.  2011.

Our Roots, Our Strength: The Jamu Industry, Women's Health and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia.  Sarah Elizabeth Krier.  2011.

An investigation of sex determination from the subadult pelvis: A morphometric analysis.  Kathleen Ann Satterlee Blake.  2011.

Carrying Out Modernity: Migration, Work, and Masculinity in China .  Xia Zhang.  2011.

Marriage Across the Taiwan Strait: Male Migrants, Marital Desire and Social Location.   Joseph Leo Cichosz.  2011.

Conditions of Social Change at El Dornajo, Southwestern Ecuador .   Sarah Ruth Taylor .  2011 .

Transfers and the Private Lives of Public Servants in Japan: Teachers in Nagasaki’s Outer Islands .   Blaine Phillip Connor .  2010 .

Oapan Nawa Folktales: Links to the Pre-Hispanic Past in a Contemporary Indian Community of Mexico .  Joanne Michel de Guerrero .  2010 .

Communal Tradition and the Nature of Social Inequality Among the Prehispanic Households of El Hatillo (HE-4), Panama .  William A. Locascio .  2010 .

Prehispanic Social Organization in the Jamastrán Valley, Southeastern Honduras .  Eva L. Martinez .  2010 .

Democracy “At Risk”? Governmental and Non-governmental Organizations, “At Risk” Youth, and Programming in Juiz de Fora, Brazil .   Penelope Kay Morrison .  2010 .

Emergent Complexity on the Mongolian Steppe: Mobility, Territoriality, and the Development of Early Nomadic Polities .  Jean-Luc Houle .  2010 .

Between the Kitchen and the State: Domestic Practice and Chimú Expansion in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru.   Robyn E. Cutright. 2009.

Craft Specialization and the Emergence of the Chiefly Central Place Community of HE-4 (El Hatillo), Central Panama .  Adam Clayton Joseph Menzies .  2009 .

The Interaction of Androgenic Hormone and Craniofacial Variation: Relationship Between Epigenetics and the Environment on the Genome with an Eye Toward Non-Syndromic Craniosynostosis .   James John Cray, Jr. .  2009 .

The Development of Complex Society in the Volcán Barú Region of Western Panama .  Scott Palumbo .  2009 .

Huaracane Social Organization: Change Over Time at the Prehispanic Community of Yahuay Alta, Perú .  Kirk E. Costion .  2009 .

The Social and Political Evolution of Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico: An Analysis of Changing Strategies of Rulership in a Middle Formative Through Early Classic Mesoamerican Political Center .  Timothy D. Sullivan .  2009 .

Social Change in Pre-Columbian San Ramon de Alajuela, Costa Rica, and Its Relation with Adjacent Regions .  Mauricio Murillo Herrera .  2009 .

The Domestic Mode of Production and the Development of Sociopolitical Complexity: Evidence from the Spondylus Industry of Coastal Ecuador .   Alexander Javier Martin .  2009 .

Bread, Sweat, and Tears? The Ascendance of Capitalist Accumulation Strategies in the Russian Republic of Karelia, 2001-2002 .  Mark Wesley Abbott .  2008 .

The Organization of Agricultural Production on the Southwest Periphery of the Maya Lowlands: A Settlement Patterns Study in the Upper Grijalva Basin, Chiapas, Mexico .  Dean H. Wheeler .  2008 .

Donkey Friends: Travel, Voluntary Associations and the New Public Sphere in Contemporary Urban China .  Ning Zhang .  2008 .

Fashioning Change: The Cultural Economy of Clothing in Contemporary China .   Jianhua (Andrew) Zhao .  2008 .

Time and Process in an Early Village Settlement System on the Bolivian Southern Altiplano .  Jason (Jake) R. Fox .  2007 .

Social and Economic Development of a Specialized Community in Chengue, Parque Tairona, Colombia .  Alejandro Dever .  2007 .

Tracing the Red Thread: An Ethnography of Chinese-U.S. Transnational Adoption .  Frayda Cohen .  2007 .

Identity and Development in Rural Bolivia: Negotiating Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in Development Contexts .  Christine Hippert .  2007 .

Three-Dimensional Morphometric Analysis of the Craniofacial Complex in the Unaffected Relatives of Individuals with Nonsyndromic Orofacial Clefts .  Seth M. Weinberg .  2007 .

Cultural Politics and Health: The Development of Intercultural Health Policies in the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua .   Edgardo Ruiz .  2006 .

Ritual and Status: Mortuary Display at the Household Level at the Middle Horizon Wari Site of Conchopata, Peru .  Charlene D. Milliken .  2006 .

“Crafting” Hongshan Communities? Household Archeology In The Chiefing Region Of Eastern Inner Mongolia, PRC .   Christian Eric Peterson .  2006 .

Subsistence, Environment Fluctuation and Social Change: A Case Study in South Central Inner Mongolia .  Gregory G. Indrisano .  2006 .

Power and Competition in the Upper Egyptian Predynastic: A View from the Predynastic Settlement at el-Mahâsna, Egypt .  David Allen Anderson .  2006 .

Dusk Without Sunset: Actively Aging in Traditional Chinese Medicine .   Xiaohui Yang .  2006 .

The Organization of Agricultural Production in the Emergence of Chiefdoms in the Quijos Region, Eastern Andes of Ecuador.   Andrea Cuellar .  2006 .

The Utility of Cladistic Analysis of Nonmetric Skeletal Traits for Biodistance Analysis .  James Christopher Reed .  2006 .

Ethnography of Voting: Nostalgia, Subjectivity, and Popular Politics in Post-Socialist Lithuania .   Neringa Klumbyte .  2006 .

Risky Business: Cultural Conceptions of HIV/AIDS in Indonesia .   Piper Crisovan .  2006 .

The Mahaney Site (UB 666) -- Habitation or Special Purpose Site? .  Catherine M. Serventi .  2006 .

Food for the Dead, Cuisine of the Living: Mortuary Food Offerings from Pacatnamú and Farfán, Jequetepeque Valley, Perú .  Robyn E. Cutright .  2005 .

Czech Balneotherapy: From Public Health to Health Tourism.   Amy Speier.  2005.

Taxonomy of the Genus Perodicticus .  David Paul Stump .  2005 .

Rice Agricultural Intensification and Sociopolitical Development in the Bronze Age, central western Korean Peninsula.   Bumcheol Kim.  2005.

A Cold Of The Heart: Japan Strives To Normalize Depression .  George Kendall Vickery.  2005.

Cayuga Iroquois Households and Gender Relations During the Contact Period: An Investigation of the Rogers Farm Site, 1660s--1680s (New York) .  Kimberly Louise Williams-Shuker.  2005.

The Camutins Chiefdom: Rise and Development of Social Complexity on Marajo Island, Brazilian Amazon . Denise Pahl Schaan.  2004.

Cuban Color Classification and Identity Negotiation: Old terms in a New World. Shawn Alfonso Wells. 2004.

Natural Variation in Human Mating Strategy and the Evolutionary Significance of Mate Choice Criteria.  Helen Katherine Perilloux.  2004.

The Emergence and Development of Chiefly Societies in the Rio Parita Valley, Panama . Mikael Haller.  2004.

The Form, Function, and Organization of Anthropogenic Deposits at Dust Cave, Alabama. Lara Kristine Homsey. 2004.

Does Natal Territory Quality Predict Human Dispersal Choices? A Test of Emlen's Model of Family Formation . Elizabeth R. Blum. 2004.

Pragmatic Singles: Being an Unmarried Woman in Contemporary Japan. Tamiko Ortega Noll. 2004

Regional Settlement Patterns and Political Complexity in the Cinti Valley, Bolivia . Claudia Rivera Casanovas. 2004.

Turning Numbers Against Themselves: Religion, Statistics, and Political Distance in Romania . Mihnea Vasilescu. 2004.

(Re) Producing the Nation: The Politics of Reproduction in Serbia in Serbia in the 1980's and 1990's . Rada Drezgic. 2004.

Female Choice, Male Dominance, and the Evolution of Low Voice Pitch in Men . David Andrew Putz. 2004.

A Cultural History of the Micheal and Mary Jane Brubaker Family of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, with a Focus on Women's Marriage. John Michael Krajnak. 2004.

Cranial Content Changes in Craniosynostotic Rabbits . Wendy Kay Fellows-Mayle.  2004.

Created Unequal: Multiregionalism and the Origins of Anthropological Racism. Adam Wells Davis. 2004.

Gendered Visions of the Bosnian Future: Women’s Activism and Representation in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina . Elissa Lynelle Helms. 2003.

Spirtual Warfare and Social Transformation in Fiji: The Life History of Loto Fiafia of Kioa . Thomas James Mullane. 2003.

Samurai Beneath Blue Tarps: Doing Homelessness, Rejecting Marginality and Preserving Nation in Ueno Park (Japan) . Abby Rachael Margolis. 2003.

The Evolutionary Biology of the Apolipoprotein E Allele System with Special Reference to Alzheimer's Disease . Jessica Ann Garver. 2003

Setting Nets on Troubled Waters: Environment, Economics, and Autonomy Among Nori Cultivating Households in a Japanese Fishing Cooperative. Alyne Elizabeth Delaney. 2003.

Skeletal Maturation and Estimating Age-At-Death During the First Decade of Life . Frank D. Houghton Jr. 2003.

"Civil Society or a Nation-State?" Macedonian and Albanian Intellectuals Building the Macedonian State and Nation(s) . Nevena Dicheva Dimova. 2003.

Sex Determination of the Fragmented Pelvis Using Euclidean Distance Matrix Analysis . Joan A. Bytheway. 2003.

Proximate Mechanisms of Kin Recogniton in Non-human Primates. Aislinn Kelly. 2003.

The Evolution of Hairlessness in Humans a a Means of Increased Vitamin D Biosynthesis . D. A. Putz. 2003.

The Evolution of the Bogota Chiefdom: A Household View . Michael H. Kruschek. 2003.

Multi-Scalar Analysis of Domestic Activities at Parker Farm: A Late Prehistoric Cayuga Iroquois Village . Tracy Sue Michaud Stutzman. 2002.

Late Intermediate Period Political Economy and Household Organization at Jachakala, Bolivia. Christine Beaule. 2002.

Indigenous Federations, NGOs, and the State: Development and the Politics of Culture in Ecuador's Amazon. Patrick C. Wilson. 2002

Wild Resources in the Andes: Algarrobo, Chanar and Palqui: Implications for Archaeology . Claudia Rivera-Casanovas. 2002.

Nonmetric Population Variation In The Skulls of Human Perinates . Seth M. Weinberg. 2002.

Intensive Agriculture and Political Economy of the Yaguachi Chiefdom of Guayas Basin, Coastal Ecuador . Florencio German Delgado-Espinoza. 2002.

Sedentism, Site Occupation and Settlement Organization at La Joya, A Formative Village in the Sierra De Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico . Valerie J. McCormack. 2002.

The Road to Health: The Experience of Tuberculosis in Southern Chile Joan Elizabeth Paluzzi. 2002.

Household and Community Organization of a Formative Period, Bolivian Settlement . Courtney Elizabeth Rose. 2001.

Emerging Cultural Markets and Private Enterprise in Urban China: Managing Change in Values, Families and Futures . David Hudgens. 2001.

Equal Education - Unequal Lives: Life Course Goals of Japanese Female Undergraduates . Judith Lynn Misko. 2001.

Women’s Economic Activities in an Industrializing Malay Village . Margaret Wolfberg Kedia. 2001.

Interisland Interaction and the Development of Chiefdoms in the Eastern Caribbean . John Gordon Crock. 2001.

Public and Private Space at Mohenjo-Daro: the Implications for Social Organization . Sara Clark. 2001.

Anasazi Settlement Patterns: the Importance of Seasonal Mobility . Charlene Milliken. 2001.

Post-Saladoid Age Pottery in the Northern Lesser Antilles: Lessons Learned from Thin Section Photography . Martin Todd Fuess. 2001.

Peasants and the State: The Political economy of a Village in Maoist and Post-Mao China .Young Kyun Yang. 2000.

The Chichén Itzá - Ek Balam Transect Project: An Intersite Perspective on the Political Organization of the Ancient Maya . James Gregory Smith. 2000.

Japanese Adult Learning: Karaoke Naraigoto . Hideo Watanabe. 2000.

Inventing Indigenous Knowledge: Archaeology, Rural Development, and the Raised Field Rehabilitation Project in Bolivia . Lynn Swartley. 2000.

Valuable Women: Gendered Strategies for Success in Korean College Culture . Elise Michelle Mellinger. 2000.

A Study of Late Classic Maya Population Growth at La Milpa, Belize. John Janson Rose. 2000.

Development of the Central Nervous System and the Evolution of the Neocortex . Elizabeth Louise Dick. 2000.

Dynamical Systems Modeling in Archaeology: A GIS Approach to Site Selection Processes in the Greater Yellowstone Region . Thomas G. Whitley. 2000.

Rural Agrarian Diversity in the Late Classic (600-950 A.D.) Naco Valley, Northwest Honduras . John Douglass. 1999.

The Functional Morphology of the Lower Cervical Spine in Non-Human Primates . Susan R. Mercer. 1999.

T he Organization of Agricultural Production at a Maya Center. Settlement Patterns in the Palenque Region, Chiapas, Mexico . Rodrigo Ruben Gregorio Liendo Stuardo. 1999.

The Political Ecology of Indigenous Self-Development in Bolivia’s Multiethnic Indigenous Territory . J. Montgomery Roper. 1999.

Origins Research in Archaeology at the Turn of the Millennium and Giambattista Vico’s New Science (1744) . Stephanie Koerner. 1999.

Social Differentiation at the Kerniskey Site?: A Contribution to the Study of Emerging Social Complexity . Elizabeth Ramos Roca. 1999.

Lithic Economy and Household Interdependence Among the Late Classic Maya of BelizeLithic Economy and Household Interdependence Among the Late Classic Maya of Belize . Jon VandenBosch. 1999.

The Late Formative to Classic Period Obsidian Economy at Palo Errado, Veracruz, Mexico . Charles Leonard Fredrick Knight. 1999.

Postclassic Craft Production in Morelos, Mexico: The Cotton Thread Industry in the Provinces . Ruth Fauman-Fichman. 1999.

The Organization of Staple Crop Production in Middle Formative, Late Formative, and Classic Period Farming Households at K'axob, Belize . Helen Hope Henderson. 1998.

The 'Becoming' Mother: Transitions to Motherhood in Urban China . Suzanne Kelley Gottschang. 1998

Prehispanic Intensive Agriculture, Settlement Pattern and Political Economy in the Western Venezuelan Llanos . Rafael Angel Gassón Pacheco. 1998.

Prehispanic Change in the Mesitas Community: Documenting the Development of a Chiefdom's Central Place in San Agustín, Colombia . Víctor González Fernández. 1998.

"We Just Live Here": Health Decision Making and the Myth of Community in El Alto, Bolivia . Jerome Winston Pettus Crowder. 1998

Bases of Social Hierarchy in a Muisca Central Village of the Northeastern Highland of Columbia . Ana Maria Boada Rivas. 1998.

The Effect of Time Manipulation on the Exchange of Information in the Patient-Provider Encounter. Van Yasek. 1998.

Social Support Networks of Impaired Older Adults . Marcie Caryn Nightingale. 1998.

Early Village-Based Society and Long-Term Cultural Evolution in the South-Central Andean Altiplano. Timothy McAndrews. 1998.

Sacred Confluence: Worship, History and the Politics of Change in a Himalayan Village. Lipika Mazumdar. 1998

Theses and Dissertations

Booklets – m.a. recipients & ph.d. graduates.

• 2019-20, 2020-21, Summer 2021

2023-24 Theses, Reports, and Dissertations

Master’s Theses & Reports

Elizabeth Arnold, M.A. Unveiling Diasporic Markets: An Archaeology of Consumption in California’s Chinatowns Chair: Monica L. Smith, Ph.D.

Natalie Finnegan, M.A. Mitochondrial DNA for phylogeny building: Assessing individual and grouped mtGenes as proxies for the mtGenome in platyrrhines Chair: Jessica Lynch, Ph.D.

Thomas Gabriel Gerz, M.A. Colonialism; Language Ideologies; Linguistic Landscape; Ryukyuan Languages; US Military & Okinawa Chair: Erin Debenport, Ph.D.

Sophie Elizabeth Klitgaard, M.A. An Evolutionary Approach to Privacy Co-Chairs: H. Clark Barrett, Ph.D. and Daniel Fessler, Ph.D.

Leroy F. Moore, M.A. Krip-Hop Nation: Community-Based Education at the Intersection of Blackness & Disability Co-Chairs: H. Samy Alim, Ph.D. and Norma Mendoza-Denton, Ph.D.

Doctoral Dissertations

Vincent M. Belletto, Ph.D. Attitudes of Loss: A Phenomenological Analysis of Identity, Cultural Shift, and Language Death Among the Unserdeutsch Creole German Community of Australia Chair: C. Jason Throop, Ph.D.

Blake Erickson, Ph.D. Challenges to Psychiatric Care: A Clinical and Anthropological Analysis of Psychosis and Dependency Chair: Laurie Kain Hart, Ph.D.

Aditi Anand Halbe, Ph.D. Trademarks of Tradition: Artisan Labor, Development and Place making in Rural India Chair: Akhil Gupta, Ph.D.

Delaney Knorr, Ph.D. Embodied experiences: a mixed-methods approach to understanding stress and resilience in Latina mothers Chair: Molly Fox, Ph.D.

Naakoshie Awurama Mills, Ph.D. Cultures of Foreign Policymaking: State Department Diplomats and Race in US-Africa Strategy Chair: Laurie Kain Hart, Ph.D.

Molly Theodora Billings Oringer, Ph.D. Spatial Relations: Post-War Reconstruction and the Afterlives of Jewish Terrains in Lebanon Co-Chairs: Laurie Kain Hart, Ph.D. and Susan Slyomovics, Ph.D.

Rachel Parks, Ph.D. Translating Pain, Communicating Care: Representing Expertise, Kinship, and Disability Through the DisDAT Form Chair: C. Jason Throop, Ph.D.

Reuven Sinensky, Ph.D. Early Agriculture and Indigenous Foodways in the US Southwest and Mesoamerica: Cuisine and Social Change in Mobile Farming Societies Chair: Gregson Schachner, Ph.D.

Jaime Vela, Ph.D. Diabetes Prevention Strategies for the Diné: Cultural Learning to Implement change. A Qualitative Study Chair: Russell Thornton, Ph.D.

Sasha Lutz Winkler, Ph.D. Evolutionary Perspectives on Play and Laughter Co-Chairs: Erica Cartmill, Ph.D. and Susan Perry, Ph.D.

Haoyan Zhuang, Ph.D. Collective Individualization: Co-living among Youth in Contemporary China Co-Chairs: Nancy E. Levine, Ph.D. and Yunxiang Yan, Ph.D.

2022-23 Theses, Reports, and Dissertations

Madison Aubey, MA

The Archaeology of Sovereignty: Africatown, Black Mobile, and Resistive Consumption

Chair: Justin P. Dunnavant

Amber Kela Chong, MA

Experiments in Sovereignty: Cultivating ʻĀina Momona at Waipā

Chair: Jessica Cattelino  

Dani Heffernan, MA

Constructing the “Cisgender Listening Subject”: Trans-Feminine Speakers’ Commentaries on Voice and Being Heard

Chair: Norma Mendoza-Denton  

Sally Li, MA

Racial and temporal differences in fertility-education tradeoffs highlight the effect of economic opportunities on optimum family size in the US

Chair: Brooke Scelza  

Robin Stevland Meyer-Lorey, MA

Manifest Destiny in Southeast Asia: Archaeology of American Colonial Industry in the Philippines, 1898-1987

Chair: Stephen Acabado  

Victoria Newhall, MA.

Evaluating the Role of Foodways During Large-Scale Socio-Political Transformations at Formative Tres Zapotes

Co-Chairs: Richard Lesure and Gregson Schachner  

Wanda Quintanilla Duran, MA

Chair: Jason De León  

The Force of Intimacy in a Honduran Community

Nicole Smith, M.A.

From Exile to Eviction: Garífuna Indigeneity, Land Rights, and Heritage in Roatán, Honduras

Co-Chairs: Jason De León and Justin Dunnavant

Steven Ammerman, PhD

Human-Animal Interaction at the Ancient Urban Site of Sisupalgarh, India

Chair: Monica L. Smith

Spencer Chao-Long Chen, PhD

Dubbing Ideologies: The Politics of Language and Acoustic Aesthetics in Taiwan’s Mandarin-Voiceover Production

Chair: Paul V. Kroskrity

Kristine Joy Chua, PhD

Environmental, Biological, and Cultural Influences on Health and Behavior

Chair: Abigail Bigham

Rodney R. Gratreaks Jr., PhD

Talking to the Wind: Towards an Understanding of Numic Verbal Art and Language Planning in the Village of Shaxwapats

Emily Virginia Jones, PhD

A Violent Operation: Trauma Surgery, Policing, and the Politics of Care in a Los Angeles County Public Hospital

Chair: Laurie Kain Hart

Sucharita Kanjilal, PhD

Home Chefs: Indian Households Produce for the Global Creator Economy

Chair: Akhil Gupta

Andrew E. MacIver, Ph.D.

The Shang-Zhou Transition: Immanence, Power, and the Micropolitics of Encounter

Chair: Li Min

Joshua L. Mayer, PhD

Conjuring Territory: Afro-Indigenous Authority and Settler Capitalism in Nicaragua

Chair: Shannon Speed

Bianca Romagnoli, PhD

Patrolling North of 60: Military Infrastructure in Canada’s Arctic Communities

Co-Chairs: Salih Can Açiksöz and Laurie Kain Hart

Theodore Samore, PhD

Traditionalism, Pathogen Avoidance, and Competing Tradeoffs During a Global Threat

Chair: Daniel M.T. Fessler

William James Schlesinger, PhD

The Production and Governance of Risky Sexual Subjectivity in the Era of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to HIV

Chair: Salih Can Açiksöz

Saliem Wakeem Shehadeh, PhD

Researching the General Union of Palestine Students from the Diaspora

Co-Chairs: Jemima Pierre and Susan Slyomovics

Madeleine Amee Yakal, PhD

Spanish Colonialism in Bikol, Philippines: Localizing Devotion to Our Lady of Peñafrancia

Chair: Stephen Acabado

2021-22 Theses, Reports, and Dissertations

Master’s Theses & Reports

Emilia Rose Ørsted Holmbeck, MA

Contextualizing PTSD as Diagnosis and Intervention: Situating Trauma and the Subjective Experience of Suffering in Locally Meaningful Worlds

Co-Chairs: Douglas W. Hollan & Linda Garro  

Jewell Ruth-Ella Humphrey, MA

Harboring History: A Maritime Archaeological Analysis of an 18th Century Shipwreck in Coral Bay, St. Jan

Co-Chairs: Stephen Acabado & Justin Dunnavant  

Lillian Kohn, MA

Public Mourning, Online Spaces: Virtual Memorialization and Binational Grief in Israel-Palestine

Chair: Susan Slyomovics  

NaaKoshie Awurama Mills, MA

Par for the Corps: Black Diplomats and Race in U.S. Foreign Policy

Chair: Laurie Hart  

Abdullah Puckett, MA

Decarceration and Social Justice Activism in South Central LA

Chair: Philippe Bourgois

  Matthew James Schneider, MA

Against Accountability: Policing and Public Knowledge in Los Angeles

Chair: Hannah Appel  

Doğa Tekin, MA

Claiming Big Sur: How Places Enter Semiosis

Co-Chairs: Erin Debenport & Paul V. Kroskrity  

Kimberly Tanya Zhu, MA

Genomic Features Underlying Andean High-Altitude Adaptive Hemoglobin Levels

Chair: Abigail Bigham  

Brittany Nicole Florkiewicz, PhD

Properties of Facial Signaling in Captive Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes )

Chair: Brooke Scelza   Yanina Gori, PhD

Re/mediating Revolution: Cultivating Solidarity in a Cuban Queer Community

Co-Chairs: Hannah Appel & C. Jason Throop  

Jananie Kalyanaraman, PhD

Window seats: Making connection through transport and mobility in Bengaluru city, India

  Eva Rose Melstrom, PhD

The Gate of Weeping: Ethiopian Women Returning from Domestic Work in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf

Co-Chairs: Douglas W. Hollan & C. Jason Throop  

Zachary Mondesire, PhD

Region-craft: An Ethnography of South Sudan’s Transnational Intelligentsia

Lauren Textor, PhD

Deserving Abandonment: Governing Pain and Addiction across U.S. Opioid Landscapes

Co-Chairs: Philippe Bourgois & Laurie Hart

2020-21 Theses and Dissertations

Master’s Theses

Sara Isabel Castro Font, MA

Hipsters, Drunks, Tourists, and Locals: Calle Loíza as a Site of Ideological Contestation

Co-Chairs: Erin Debenport & Paul V. Kroskrity

Lilit Ghazaryan, MA

Speak Beautifully – Language Policies and Practices in Public Kindergartens in Armenia

Chair: Erica Cartmill

Nicco Amedeo La Mattina, MA

“Giving the Meaning” as a Social Practice on Pantelleria: The Metasemantics of Atttunement

Chair: Alessandro Duranti

Alessandra May Laurer Rosen, MA

Semiotic Labors of Personalization: Modernization and Access in an American Yoga School

Danielle Leigh Steinberg, MA

A robust tool kit: first report of tool use in crested capuchin monkeys ( Sapajus robustus )

Chair: Jessica Lynch

Jessie Serene Stoolman, MA

Writing Letters and Reading against the Grain of Anthropology’s Past

Chair: Aomar Boum

Donghyoun We, MA

Food and Restaurants: A Review of the Literature and Exploratory Observations of Restaurant Pivots in LA in the Time of COVID-19

Madeleine Louise Zoeller, MA

Eye See You: Investigating Predictors of the Evil Eye

Chair: Joseph Manson

Farzad Amoozegar-Fassaie, PhD

The Pursuit of Happiness and the Other: Being a Syrian Refugee Child in America

Co-Chairs: Alessandro Duranti & C. Jason Throop

Theresa Hill Arriola, PhD

Securing Nature: Militarism, Indigeneity and the Environment in the Northern Mariana Islands

Chair: Jessica Cattelino

Yael Assor, PhD

Objectivity as a Bureaucratic Virtue: The Lived Experience of Objectivity in an Israeli Medical Bureaucracy

Chair: C. Jason Throop

Amanda Jean Bailey, PhD

Alluvial Hope: The Transformative Practices of Placemaking at a Montana Tribal College

Co-Chairs: Paul V. Kroskrity & Cheryl Mattingly

Hannah Addaline Carlan, PhD

Producing Prosperity: Language and the Labor of Development in India’s Western Himalayas

Alejandro Suleman Erut, PhD

Lying: an anthropological approach

Chair: H. Clark Barrett

Nafis Aziz Hasan, PhD

Techno-politics of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) – Investigating Practices and Social Relations in Indian Public Bureaucracies

Tanya Ruth Matthan, PhD

The Monsoon and the Market: Economies of Risk in Rural India

Agatha Evangeline Palma, PhD

The Migrant, The Mediterranean, and the Tourist: Figures of Belonging in Post-Austerity Palermo

Co-Chairs: Aomar Boum & Laurie Kain Hart

Sonya Rao, PhD

Privatizing Language Work: Interpreters and Access in Los Angeles Immigration Court

Alexander Malcolm Thomson, PhD

Mesologues: An Ethnobibliographic Study of Cultural and Lingual Politics in Contemporary Brittany

Co-Chairs: Laurie Kain Hart & Paul V. Kroskrity

2019-20 Theses, Reports, and Dissertations

Ulises Espinoza, MA

Intuitions on Ownership Among the Achuar of Southeastern Ecuador

Eden Franz, MA

Cultural and Interspecific Symbiosis at Salemi, Sicily: Exploring Colonial and Human-Animal Interactions Through Faunal Analysis

Joelle Julien, MA

Haitian Migration to Tijuana, Mexico: Black Migrants and the Political Economy of Race and Migration

Chair: Jemima Pierre

Eric Andrew Sinski, MA

Imagined Communities: Patriotic Sentiment Among Chinese Students Abroad in the Era of Xi Jinping

Chair: Yunxiang Yan

Sasha Lutz Winkler, MA

The Development of Sex Differences in Play in Wild White-Faced Capuchins

Katelyn Jo Bishop, PhD

Ritual Practice, Ceremonial Organization, and the Value and Use of Birds in Prehispanic Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 800-1150 CE

Co-Chairs: Richard Lesure & Gregson Schachner

Molly Josette Bloom, PhD

Thick Sociality: Community, Disability, and Language in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

Chair: Norma Mendoza-Denton

Courtney Evelyn Cecale, PhD

Scientific Governance and the Cultural Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in the Peruvian Andes

Amy Marie Garey, PhD

The People’s Laughter: War, Comedy, and the Soviet Legacy

Chair: Nancy E. Levine

Kotrina Kajokaite, PhD

Social relationships in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys ( Cebus capucinus ): Insights from new modeling approaches

Chair: Susan Perry

Matthew Richard McCoy, PhD

Unsettling Futures: Morality, Time, and Death in a Divided Belfast Community

Dalila Isoke Ozier, PhD

City of Magic: Aesthetic Value in the Los Angeles Magic Scene

Chair: Sherry B. Ortner

Mindy Gayle Steinberg, PhD

Legal Status and the Everyday Lives of Mexican-Origin Youth in Los Angeles: Family, Gratitude, and the High School Transition

Chair: Thomas S. Weisner

Christopher Shawn Stephan, PhD

“Focus on the Users”: Empathy, Anticipation, and Perspective-Taking in Healthcare Architecture

Anoush Tamar Suni, PhD

Palimpsests of Violence: Ruination and the Politics of Memory in Anatolia

Chair: Susan Slyomovics

Gwyneth Ursula Jean Talley, PhD

Gunpowder Women: Gender, Kinship & Horses in Moroccan Equestrian Performance

Co-Chairs: Nancy E. Levine & Susan Slyomovics

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Anthropology Theses, Dissertations, and Professional Papers

This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of Anthropology. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

Peoples of India: The use of craniometric data to distinguish a separate ancestral group , Stephanie A. Craig

REIMAGINING THE ACCURACY OF THE LOVEJOY ET AL. (1985) AGE ESTIMATION METHOD OF THE AURICULAR SURFACE OF THE ILIUM THROUGH MODERN COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS , Alyssa L. Edwards

SWIMMING THROUGH TIME: ANCIENT DNA ANALYSIS OF SALMONID REMAINS AT HOUSEPIT 54, BRIDGE RIVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA , Kara K. Fox

BEARING WITNESS: ANCIENT DNA ANALYSIS AND THE DYNAMICS OF FOOD PROCUREMENT IN A HISTORIC MISSOULA CHINESE COMMUNITY , Sarah Elizabeth Grenfell

FOODWAY COMPARIONS AND PATTERNS OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR: THE USE OF ORPHAN AND SALVAGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS FROM HISTORIC MISSOULA, MONTANA , Emily Thea Meick

Repatriation and a Biological Profile of Indigenous Remains of West Texas , Haley P. Rebardi

A HOME FOR ALL: INNOVATIVE MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES FOR HISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGISTS AT FEDERALLY REGULATED LANDSCAPES AT THE GARNET GHOST TOWN , Andrea Jean Shiverdecker

Zooming in on a Snapshot of Care: Adapting the Index of Care for Historical and Modern Individuals in the Terry Collection , Felicia Robyn Sparozic

Complexities of Companionship: Exploring the Human-Dog Relationship Through mtDNA Analysis of Bridge River Canine Remains , Seth Warnick

AN ETHNOHISTORY OF THE BANNOCK TRAIL , Katharine Lucienne White

Puerto Rican Haplogroup Distribution: A Taíno History , Paige Mackenzie Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

THE ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT DNA: FROM MITOCHONDRIA TO PATHOGENS , Tre Joseph Marcus Blohm

AN EXAMINATION OF THE FOOD SYSTEM, FOODSCAPE, DIETARY PATTERNS, AND ACCOLATED HEALTH OUTCOMES OF SALISH PEOPLE WITHIN THE CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI NATION , Joshua William Brown

Activity Pattern Analysis from a Commingled and Fragmentary Necropolis: Entheseal Changes at Kourion Amathus Gate Cemetery (KAGC) , Hannah Burgess Carson

All Under One Roof: An Ethnographic Commons in the Missoula Public Library , Caitlin Ervin

NEGOTIATING THE SACRED: UNDERSTANDING IMPACTS TO IKS AND ITEK FROM USE OF REMOTE SENSING AND GIS TECHNOLOGIES WITHIN TRIBAL LANDSCAPES , Renelda R. Freeman

Ancient Migrations in West Mexico: MtDNA Analyses , Patricio Gutiérrez Ruano

UNDERSTANDING IDENTITY, POWER, AND USE OF SPACE OVER TIME WITHIN HOUSEPIT 54, BRIDGE RIVER SITE (K’ETXELKNÁ’Z), BRITISH COLUMBIA , Ashley Elizabeth Hampton

META-ANALYSIS OF SCENT DETECTION CANINES AND POTENTIAL FACTORS INFLUENCING THEIR SUCCESS RATES , Molly Marie Jaskinia

FLICKER FEATHER FILMS: VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY, INDIGENOUS FILM, AND DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING , Martin I. Lopez

Venturing into the Virtual: An Analysis of Virtual Museums and Creation of UMACF Southwestern Basketry Virtual Exhibit , Monica D. Lusnia

Re-Curation and Recognition: Addressing The Curation Crisis Through the Garnet Ghost Town , Jocelyn A. Palombo

The Cultivation of Therapeutic Landscapes: A Medical Anthropological Approach to Understanding the Health and Wellbeing Qualities of the Garden of 1,000 Buddhas , Andrew Thomas Ranck

CHINESE MATERIAL CULTURE SIGNATURES IN NATIVE NORTH AMERICA: A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN ONLINE COLLECTIONS AND PLAINS , Erin Drin Rosenkrance and Erin D. Rosenkrance

SEEKING A COMMON THEME: A STUDY OF CERAMIC EFFIGY ARTIFACTS IN THE PRE-HISPANIC AMERICAN SOUTHWEST AND NORTHERN MEXICO USING COMPUTER IMAGE PATTERN RECOGNITION AND PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS , Lee Roger Tallier Jr.

UMFC 140 A COMPREHENSIVE CASE REPORT , Daniel D. Warila

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

USING BONE BIOLOGY TO ENHANCE FORENSIC AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGICAL DNA ANALYSIS , Keith M. Biddle

Linear Programming Analysis and Diet Breadth Modeling at Bridge River, British Columbia , Sean Patrick Boyd

MORPHOMETRIC ANCESTRAL ANALYSIS OF INFRAORBITAL FORAMEN AND MAXILLO-FACIAL LANDMARKS OF ADULT NORTH AMERICAN SKULLS USING X-RAY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANS , Anna-Marie Lynn David

The Mountain Home: Spatial and Optimal Foraging Assessments of Hunter- Gatherer Mountain Landscape Use In The Beartooth Mountains, Montana , Scott William Dersam

Revisiting the Ladle House Site: A Starch Granule Analysis of Ground Stone Artifacts from 5MT3873, Cortez, Colorado , Kathryn Marie Kemp

TRACING MIGRATION AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN SUBADULTS AT THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF CONVENTO: A PRELIMINARY STRONTIUM ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS , Holli Kaye McDonald

Identifying Skeletal Trauma Markers Associated with Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) , Haley K. Omeasoo

THE SYNDEMIC LANDSCAPE: A NEW PARADIGM FOR MONTANA SUICIDE PREVENTION GROUNDED IN AGRICULTURAL RENEWAL , Emory Chandler Padgett

PRELIMINARY STUDY IN MORE EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF 87Sr/86Sr ANALYSIS IN THE FIELD OF FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY , Samantha Powers

The effects humidity & temperature has on DNA contamination during storage , Samantha L. Ramey

THE EFFECTS HUMIDITY & TEMPERATURE HAS ON DNA CONTAMINATION DURING STORAGE , Samantha Leigh Allison Ramey

NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AT 48PA551: LAND TENURE AND SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES AMONG MIDDLE HOLOCENE ROCKY MOUNTAIN HUNTER-GATHERERS , Ethan Patrick Ryan

MOCCASIN ECONOMICS: ENTANGLED MUSEUM STORIES OF NIITSITAPI WOMEN, LABOR, AND FOOTWEAR , Michaela Ann Shifley

FOR THE LOVE OF LANGUAGE: MICRORITUEL IN THE SOCIALIZATION OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS , Rebekah Morgan Skoog

A COMPREHENSIVE FORENSIC CASE REPORT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY LAB UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FORENSIC CASE #167 , Tyler J. Trettin

Y-Chromosome DNA Extraction from Post-Cranial Skeletal Elements , Mykala D. Ward

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AND HISTORIC ARTIFACT ANALYSIS FOR THREE PROJECTS IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK , Monte Keoua White

HE, SHE, THEY, OTHER: AN EXAMINATION OF GENDER ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE CHATELAINE IN THE ANGLO-SAXON CULTURE , DANE A. WILLIAMS

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

THE ECOLOGY OF PUHA: IDENTITY, ORIENTATION, AND SHIFTING PERCEPTIONS REFLECTED THROUGH MATERIAL CULTURE AND SOCIORELIGIOUS PRACTICE , Aaron Robert Atencio

Mapping Ethnophysiographies: An Investigation of Toponyms and Land Cover of Missoula County, Montana , Emily L. Cahoon

A Moral Influenza: An Historical Archaeological Investigation of the Prohibition Era in the United States 1920-1933 , Kelli Michele Casias

A COMPREHENSIVE FORENSIC CASE REPORT FOR THE BONNER COUNTY CORONER CASE #20-100 , Megan Copeland

Uncovering Cooperation in Housepit 54, Bridge River, British Columbia, Canada , Megan Denis

Exploring Indigenous Involvement in the Fur Trade at the Bridge River Pithouse Village, British Columbia , Rebekah Jean Engelland

THE EFFECTS OF HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION IN SOIL ON DNA DEGRADATION AFTER DECOMPOSITION , Samantha Hofland

Devastation and Displacement: The Destruction of Native Communities as a Result of Specifically the Garrison Dam on the Missouri River in North Dakota and the Dalles Dams on the Columbia River in Oregon , Farryl Elisa Hunt

Buffalo in the Mountains: Mapping Evidence of Historical Bison Prescence and Bison Hunting in Glacier National Park , Kyle Langley

Summer Vacation in the Wild: An Historical and Archaeological Study of Timber Land Fraud in the Tobacco Plains, Montana , Tyler Jay Rounds

READING THE BONES: A TAPHONOMIC INVESTIGATION OF ARCHAEOFAUNAL REMAINS RECOVERED FROM SITE 48PA551, NORTHWEST WYOMING , Morgan H. Thurman

The Influence of Ancestry, Sex, and Age on the Morphology of the Frontal Sinus in Black and White Individuals , Hope Annelise Vance

The Lost Histories of the Shetayet of Sokar: Contextualizing the Osiris Shaft at Rosetau (Giza) in Archaeological History , Nicholas Edward Whiting

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC SEX DETERMINATION AND MODELED FRAGMENTARY ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN PUBIC BONE , Katherine Scot Baca

SPIRIT EYE CAVE: REESTABLISHING PROVENIENCE OF TRAFFICKED PREHISTORIC HUMAN REMAINS USING A COMPOSITE COLLECTION-BASED ANCIENT DNA APPROACH , Tre Blohm

Conceptions and Receptions: A Case Study Analysis of Community Engagement at Four Local Museums , Mary L. Casey

A Comparative Analysis of Homicide Rates Utilizing the University of Tennessee Forensic Data Bank , Anna F. Hampton

SYNCHRONY: AN ASPECT OF THE ABILITIES OF STEPPE HORSE ARCHERS IN EURASIAN WARFARE (525 BCE – 1350 CE) , Chris Hanson

Alas, Poor Yorick: A DNA Analysis of Ancestry Using Crania , Claire Hanson

SECRETS OF SOIL: A GEOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF THE EARLY LIVING FLOORS OF HOUSEPIT 54, BRIDGE RIVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA , Nathaniel Louis Perhay

DIET-BREADTH ANALYSIS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST: METABARCODING METHOD WITH COPROLITES , Paige Nicole Plattner

A Snapshot of Care: Creating Models of Care for Individuals Included in the Terry Collection , Felicia Robyn Sparozic

THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AT PLAZA H, CAHAL PECH: A STUDY IN RESILIENCY , Rachel A. Steffen

A Chip off the Old Rock: An Investigation of Hunter-Gatherer Lithic Behavior at Site 48PA551 Using the FIeld Processing Model , Emma Lydia Vance

HANDING DOWN THE HERITAGE: PRESERVING IRISH DIASPORIC IDENTITIES IN THE FESTIVAL CITY OF MONTANA , Margaret Mary Walsh

A NEW CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING BURNED HUMAN REMAINS , Amanda Noel Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

3D PRINTING OF THE PROXIMAL RIGHT FEMUR: IT’S IMPLICATIONS IN THE FIELD OF FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND BIOARCHAEOLOGY , Myriah Adonia Jo Allen

THE QUEST OF VISION: VISUAL CULTURE, SACRED SPACE, RITUAL, AND THE DOCUMENTATION OF LIVED EXPERIENCE THROUGH ROCK IMAGERY , Aaron Robert Atencio

Sexual Dimorphism in Skeletal Trauma Associated with Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) , Keith Biddle

RECONNECTING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE TO THE SUNLIGHT BASIN: INTEGRATING TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY , Liz Dolinar

GRANT-PROPOSAL WRITING AS A CRAFT AND POTENTIAL WAYS TO IMPROVE GRANT-PROPOSAL WRITING KNOWLEDGE AND APPLICATION READINESS FOR STUDENTS SEEKING FUNDING ASSISTANCE ATTENDING POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION , Eileen L. Flannigan-Lewis

A Comprehensive Forensic Case Report for the University of Montana Forensic Collection Case #141 , Nohely Gonzalez

“IF THE WATER IS TAKING IT AWAY, LET THE WATER TAKE IT AWAY…”: A STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF CONSULTATION AT LAKE KOOCANUSA , Kayla Ciara Johnson

Cultural Property Protection and Preservation During Counterinsurgency Operations: A Handbook for Archaeologists Choosing to Serve with the American Military in the Global War on Terrorism , Thomas Joseph Livoti

HERITAGE ALCHEMY: A MODEL FOR SUSTAINING THE BUILT HERITAGE OF MONTANA IN THE CHANGING LANDSCAPES OF THE 21ST CENTURY VIA PERSPECTIVES FROM THE NETHERLANDS ON POLICY, EDUCATION, AND STEWARDSHIP , Jeffrey MacDonald

NATIVE AMERICAN CONSERVATION CORPS PROGRAMS: CULTURAL HERITAGE AS AN APPROACH TO COMMUNITY WELL-BEING , Michaelle Anne Machuca

HUMAN VS. NON-HUMAN BONE: A NON-DESTRUCTIVE HISTOLOGICAL METHOD , Haley N. O'Brien

Mapping Ideologies: Place Names in Glacier National Park , Kaitlin E. Pipitone

DNA ANALYSIS ON CERAMIC COOKING VESSELS , Britney J. Radford

DNA integrity in forensic samples , Samantha L. Ramey

LEARNING FROM THE LANDSCAPE: INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND PLACER MINING LANDSCAPES IN THE ELK CREEK MINING DISTRICT, WESTERN MONTANA , Brent Stephen Rowley

Learning From Stone: Using Lithic Artifacts to Explore the Transmission of Culture at Bridge River, British Columbia , Anne V. Smyrl

IS HUMLA, NEPAL REALLY OPEN DEFECATION FREE? LATRINE USAGE AND UPKEEP POST ODF , Evan William Stewart

A Comprehensive Case Report for the University of Montana Forensic Anthropology Laboratory Case #18-188 , Elizabeth Rose Valentine

An Investigation of Historic Euro-American Inscriptions at Madison Buffalo Jump , Jay Thomas Vest

THE ANZICK ARTIFACTS: A HIGH-TECHNOLOGY FORAGER TOOL ASSEMBLAGE , Samuel Stockton White V

CONSTRUCTING DISTANCE, RESPONSIBILITY, AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT THEORIES: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO DEATH NOTIFICATION INTERACTIONS , Teresa Ann 'Lilly' White

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT , Erin Chiniewicz

8HG1312 Amanda's Terrace Lithic Analysis , SEAN FLYNN

The Sylvan Blindspot: The Archaeological Value of Surface Vegetation and a Critique of its Documentation , John S. Harris

VARIATION OF TOOL MARK CHARACTERISTICS IN FROZEN BONE AS IT RELATES TO DISMEMBERMENT , Elena Hughes

A CERAMIC ANALYSIS OF TWO TERMINAL CLASSIC MAYA SITES: EXAMINING ECONOMIC TIES THROUGH POTTERY , Kara B. Johannesen

PIG TRAUMA MODELS: A CIVILIAN PERSPECTIVE ON AR-15 POST-CRANIAL SKELETAL TRAUMA , Lauren M. Kenney

TRIBAL CONSULTATION: A CRITICAL REMINDER OF CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT LAWS AND OBLIGATIONS , Natasha F. LaRose

SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON THE PROCESS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION , Cheyenne Louise Laue

The Battle of the Little Bighorn Gunshot Trauma Analysis: Suicide Prevalence Among the Soldiers of the 7th Cavalry , Genevieve M. Mielke

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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Conflict: An Autoethnography on Anthropology and Conflict Management , Rachel Koch

The Influence of K9 Partners on Law Enforcement Officers , Sydney Schultz

The Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Female Health at St. Benet Sherehog , Anastasia S. Slack

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

The Intersections of Sex and Inequality in a Mixed Status Industrial London Sample , Anna Green

Sexually Selected Preferences for Human Altruism Across Sexual Orientation, Gender, Age, and Reproductive Status , Katherine Valinske Kappelman

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

The Influence of Ecological Variables on Archaeological Site Density in the Owyhee Region, Southwest Idaho , Jennifer Cuthbertson

Stepfather Investment and Reproductive Outcomes Among US Couples , Daniela Gomez

Community Food: A Pilot Ethnographic Study of Local, Small-Scale, & Sustainable Agriculture in Boise, Idaho , Evan Leacox

Comparative Investigations of Population Health in Urban Military and Non-Military Communities of Roman Britain , Marina Elizabeth Noble

Queer Lives in Idaho and the Surrounding Region: Impacts of Anti-Discrimination Laws, High School Environment, and the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health , Ollie Shannon

Assessing Population Variation Using Heritable Nonmetric Traits: A Bronze Age Assemblage from Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates , Katie Marie Taylor

Local Ecological Knowledge Exchange of Steelhead , Mikaela A. Weisenfluh

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Arranged Marriage, Partner Traits and Parental Investment: Examining the Reproductive Compensation Hypothesis in Humans , Annemarie M. Hasnain

Using a Species Distribution Approach to Model Historic Camas ( Camassia quamash ) in Southern Idaho and Implications for Foraging in the Late Archaic , Royce Johnson

Exploring Cooperative Behaviors Among the Sena of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique and the Dolgan/Nganasan of Ust'-Avam, Siberia , Victoria Silva

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Effects of Intention Status and Social Support on Parental Investment , Kayla Downs

How Extrinsic Mortality Affects Age at Menarche and Fertility in a 1970 British Cohort , Kimberly Marie Neagle

Variation in the Configuration of the Middle Snake River and Its Relationship to Prehistoric Fishing Site Locations , Joseph Wardle

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Risk and Uncertainty Regarding Inuit Transportation in the Face of Climate Change , Mitchell Brinton

Social Learning Biases in the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine , Marie Denell Letourneau

An Analysis of the Impact of Birthing Practices On Long-Term Health and Reproductive Outcomes from the 1970 British Cohort Study: Insights from Evolutionary Theory , Elizabeth Turner

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Spangle Lakes: An Investigation of Late Archaic Human Land-Use within the Sawtooth Mountains , Kaitlyn Mansfield

Sexual Conflict and Resolution Among Contemporary Indonesian Couples , James Joseph Nelson

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Participation and Perception: Early Exposure, Environmental Attitudes, and Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Recreation in the Boise Metropolitan Area , Michelle Lee Kinney

Reading Between the Lines: Indicators of Developmental Stress in Prehistoric Ohio Valley Children from Linear Enamel Hypoplasias , Emily Moes

Revisiting the Age Old Problem of Old Age: Estimating Age of Mature Adults from the Sternal End of the Clavicle , Katherine Petersen

The Impact of Mycobacterium leprae : A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of the Paleopathological Literature , Mallory Alexis Schreier

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Local Ecological Knowledge and Chronic Disease in the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe , Mark S. Beil

Mobility and Economy of the Evenkis in Eastern Siberia , Karl Mertens

Reassessing the Use of Kelly’s Mobility Index in Examining Late Archaic Assemblage Variability in Southern Idaho , Shawn Elizabeth Roberts

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Using X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry to Assess Variance in Obsidian Source Distribution in Southern Idaho , Marielle Loryn Pedro Black

Explaining Variance in Reproductive Success and Food Sharing in Ust’-Avam , Joellie Rasmussen

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Effects of Sediment Consolidation and Frost-Heaving on the Vertical Movement of Lithic and Ceramic Artifacts , Samuel William Smith

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Investigation of Histomorphometric Values in an East Arctic Foraging Group, the Sadlermiut , Joseph Kenneth Purcell

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Middle Paleolithic Hominin Lake Environments in Saharan North Africa , Cynthia Anne Bradbury

Recent Archaeological Investigations at Three Island Crossing: Insights Regarding Late Archaic Diet Breadth and Mobility , Meghan Kim Eastman

Geographic Information Systems Correlation Modeling as a Management Tool in the Study Effects of Environmental Variables’ Effects on Cultural Resources , Brian Wallace

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Does Mean Osteon Size Change with Age, Sex or Handedness? Analysis of the Second Metacarpal in a 19th Century Sample from Belleville, Ontario, Canada , Bridget Jennifer Denny

Environmental Impact of the Euro-American Emigration Through Southwestern Idaho (1840-1862): Effect on Native Lifeways , Garrett G. Webb

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Household and Property Relations in Tuva , Tayana Arakchaa

The Archaeology and Mobility at 10-Cn-05, an Archaeological Site, Middle Snake River, Idaho , Tedd D. Jacobs

Histomorphometry of the Human Rib Cortex in Methamphetamine Users , Robert Chancey Karinen

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Theses from 2024 2024

Recipes for Resistance: Examining the Reproduction of Indigeneity Through Foodways at the Seneca Boston-Florence Higginbotham House, Nantucket, MA , Caitriona Mackenzie Parker

Sanctified Spaces: An Analysis of Lived Religion and Ceramic Tableware at the Martin Luther Orphans' Home in West Roxbury, Massachusetts , Alexander Gartland Patterson

By the Bootstraps: Transformations in Class, Mobility, and the Shoe Industry in 19th Century Grafton, Massachusetts , Lauren Schumacher

Theses from 2023 2023

Spirits and Spirituality: Temperance and Racial Uplift in Nineteenth-Century Nantucket, MA , John T. Crawmer

Sisters and Stewards: Women and Community-Building at the African Meeting House on Nantucket, MA , Sean A. Fairweather

Comparisons Across Time: Natural Resource Use at Two New Mexican Colonial Sites , Ivana M. Ivanova

Sartorial Practices and Daily Life: Examining Black Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century Boston , Erica A. Lang

Shellfish Utilization by the Pequots during the Early Seventeenth Century: An Analysis of Seven Shell Middens at the Calluna Hill Site (59-73) in Mystic, Connecticut , Matthew Picarelli-Kombert

Planting the "Yankee" Identity: An Analysis of the Macrobotanical Assemblage at the ca. 1638 Waterman House Site in Marshfield, Massachusetts , Katharine Rieder Reinhart

“Provisioned, Produced, Procured,” and Purchased?: A Macrobotanical Study of Enslaved Individuals’ Economic Engagement in the Shenandoah Valley , Linda A. Seminario

Material Consumption of an 18th-Century Middling Urban Craftsman in Boston, Massachusetts , Lauryn E. Sharp

Theses from 2022 2022

Changing to Stay the Same: Spatial Analyses of Tobacco Pipes from 18th- and 19th-Century Eastern Pequot Households , Stephen P. Anderson

The Function of a Nail: An Archaeological Examination of Three 18th- and 19th-Century Eastern Pequot Reservation Homes in Southeastern Connecticut , Salvatore A. Ciccone

“The Circle Of Your Acquaintance”: Early 19th Century Ceramic Symbolism and Constructions of Black Womanhood at the Boston-Higginbotham House, Nantucket, MA , Lissa J. Herzing

Opening Barrel 13: Reconstructing Provenience of a 19th-Century Excavation on Pimu Catalina Island, California, Through a Shell and Glass Bead Analysis , Melanie S. Lerman

Centers of Community: A Spatial Analysis of the Mid-19th Century Populaton Residing on Beacon Hill, Boston, MA , Justin Malcolm

Changing Tides, The Boston’s North End 1830-1930 , Megan E. Sheehan

Beakers, Berkemeiers, and Roemers: Glass Drinking Vessels from the 17th-Century Dutch Settlement of Fort Orange, New Netherland , Kristina Staats Traudt

Lithic Debitage and Geospatial Analysis of Hemish Obsidian Procurement and Reduction Strategies in Colonial New Mexico , Adam Vitale

Theses from 2021 2021

Constructing Spaces, Deconstructing Meaning: An Examination of Architecture and Labor at a 17th-Century New Mexican Ranch , Katherine A. Albert

Archaeology of Disease and Medicinal Practices in 18th-Century Boston, Massachusetts , Kaitlyn N. Ball

Spaces of Time: An Archaeological Perspective on the Deborah Newman Homesite , Gary L. Ellis

More Than Just a School: Medicinal Practices at the Abiel Smith School , Dania D. Jordan

Creating Community: Examining Black Identity and Space in New Guinea, Nantucket , Jared Muehlbauer

“A Permanent Blemish…in the Centre of the Village": Archaeology and Heritage Tourism on Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts , Justin A. Warrenfeltz

Theses from 2020 2020

Useful Materials: PXRF Analysis of 17th-Century Flat Glass from Plymouth Colony , Grace E. Bello

Small Towns and Mining Camps: An Analysis of Chinese Diasporic Communities in 19th-Century Oregon , Jocelyn Lee

Form, Function, and Context: Lithic Analysis of Flaked Stone Artifacts at a 17th-Century Rural Spanish Estancia (LA 20,000), Santa Fe County, New Mexico , Clint S. Lindsay

“We May Have Profitable Commerce And Trade Together”: An Analysis of 17th-Century Ceramics in Plymouth Colony , Elizabeth G. Tarulis

Small Scale Ironmaking in Viking Age Skagafjörður, North Iceland , Nicholas Zeitlin

Theses from 2019 2019

Comales and Colonialism: An Analysis of Cuisine and Ceramics on a 17th-Century New Mexican Estancia , Adam C. Brinkman

Cultures and Comfort: A Study of Personal Adornment at Avery's Rest , Julianne Danna

Set in Stone: Recontextualizing the Lithic Assemblage of a Seventeenth-Century Storage Cellar in Charlestown, Massachusetts , Anna M. Greco

Exploring the Social and Environmental Conditions of 17th-Century Estancias in New Mexico , Stephanie Hallinan

Eat This in Remembrance: The Zooarchaeology of Secular and Religious Sites in 17th-Century New Mexico , Ana C. Opishinski

Social Movements and Charitable Dress: An Examination of 19th Century Adornment at the Industrial School for Girls in Dorchester, Massachusetts , Madelaine A. Penney

Potters' Norms: Examining the Social Organization of Ceramic Production of Panamanian Majolica and Criolla Wares in Panama la Vieja (1519-1673) , Jean-Sebastien Pourcelot

"The diet has been altered as agreed upon & is now very satisfactory": Socioeconomic Factors and Dietary Reform at the Dorchester Industrial School for Girls , Liz M. Quinlan

Regional Variation in Grass, Sedge, and Cereal Cultivation During the Viking Age in Skagafjörður, North Iceland , Melissa M. Ritchey

Environments Explored: An In-Depth Analysis of Soil Movement in Northern Iceland , Lauren Welch O'Connor

Theses from 2018 2018

“There are Among the Coloured People of this Place Remains of the Nantucket Indians:” Identity through Ceramics at the Boston-Higginbotham House , Victoria Anne Cacchione

An Analysis of Form and Function of Ceramic Rim Sherds from LA 20,000, A 17th Century Estancia Outside Santa Fe, New Mexico , Caitlin M. Connick

Community Through Consumption: The Role of Food in African American Cultural Formation in the 18th Century Chesapeake , Alexandra Crowder

Palynological Investigations of Agropastoralism and Ecological Change at LA 20,000, New Mexico , Anya Gruber

“The True Spirit of Service": Ceramics and Toys as Tools of Ideology at the Dorchester Industrial School for Girls , Sarah N. Johnson

Corporeal Expressions of Identity at Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, New York, 1652-1735 , Elise Nadia Kline

Understanding Epidemic and Encampment: Yellow Fever and the Soldiers of Smallpox Bay, Bermuda , Leigh Koszarsky

A Century of Ceramics: A Study of Economic Engagement on the Eastern Pequot Reservation in the 18th and 19th Centuries , Kelton M. Sheridan

Military and Economic Power in the Structuring of the Barbados Landscape , Ashby M. Sturgis

Quantifying the Reliability of Ground Penetrating Radar at Archaeological Sites , Joseph Trebilcock

Tools of Teaching: Metal at Magunkaquog , Nadia E. Waski

Theses from 2017 2017

A Diachronic Archaeology of Piscataway Displacement, 1680-1743 , Alex J. Flick

Household Activities and Areas: A Reanalysis of the John and Priscilla Alden First Home Site , Caroline Gardiner

Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Tracing Fuel Use and Landscape Change on the Eastern Pequot Reservation 1740-1850 , Kalila Herring

Negotiating Space and Maintaining Place: Time, Materiality, and Lived Experience at Stewart Indian School , Jessica R. Hughston

Identity Behind Glass: The Second Gore Place Greenhouse , Sean P. Romo

Smoking as a Form of Persistence in a Christian Nipmuc Community , Jessica Ann Rymer

Systems of Sheep Husbandry at Stóra-Seyla in Northern Iceland , Katherine R. Wagner

Theses from 2016 2016

Fashioning Identity: An Analysis of Consumption and Production Activity at a Nipmuc Farmstead , Allison K. Carlton

Chase Home for Children: Childhood in Progressive New England , Katherine M. Evans

Measured Resistance: A Black Feminist Perspective on the Domestic Reform Movement , Carolyn Horlacher

'Improvement the Order of the Age': Historic Advertising, Consumer Choice, and Identity in 19th Century Roxbury, Massachusetts , Janice A. Nosal

The Martha's Vineyard Experience: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Diet and the Local Ecology , Richie Roy

Ceramic Consumption in a Boston Immigrant Tenement , Andrew J. Webster

Theses from 2015 2015

Native Interactions and Economic Exchange: A Re-Evaluation of Plymouth Colony Collections , Kellie J. Bowers

Environmental Dimensions of Colonial Settlement: A Palynological Investigation of La Cienega, New Mexico , Kyle W. Edwards

Deep Coring, Viking Age Accumulation Rates and Household Wealth in Skagafjörður, Northern Iceland , Eric D. Johnson

Living the History: The Role of Archaeology in the Interpretation of the Wampanoag Homesite at Plimoth Plantation , Meredith P. Luze

Connecting Networks of History and Heritage at America's Oldest Seaport , Kimberly Montoni

Ubiquitous and Unfamiliar: Earthenware Pottery Production Techniques and the Bradford Family Pottery of Kingston, MA , Martha L. Sulya

Theses from 2014 2014

Orchard House and the Making of Little Women , Allison Conner

Disturbed But Not Destroyed: New Perspectives on Urban Archaeology and Class in 19th century Lowell, Massachusetts , Katelyn M. Coughlan

Corporeal Negotiation at the Margins of the Colonial Landscape: An Examination of Late Eighteenth-Century Embodiment on the Eastern Pequot Reservation , Keely B. Lewis

Altered Lives, Altered Environments: Creating Home at Manzanar Relocation Center, 1942-1945 , Laura W. Ng

Final Rest at the Hilltop Sanctuary: The Community of Mount Gilead AME Church , Meagan M. Ratini

Seeing Red: Characterizing Historic Bricks at Sylvester Manor, Long Island, NY 1652-1735 , Martin John Schmidheiny

From Horse to Electric Power at the Metropolitan Railroad Company Site: Archaeology and the Narrative of Technological Change , Miles Shugar

Changing Environments and Economies: A Comprehensive Zooarchaeological Study of the Eastern Pequot , Courtney Williams

Theses from 2013 2013

Cultural Continuity in a Nipmuc Landscape , Joseph Bagley

Understanding Slave Subsistence in the Context of Changing Agricultural Practices: Paleoethnobotany at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest , Samantha J. Henderson

Architectural Debris and Construction Sequencing at an 18th-Century Rural Native American Household in Connecticut , Timothy D. Hollis

"On Long Run Under the Blue Hills": An Archaeology of Tenancy on the Pennsylvania Frontier , Thomas J. Kutys

Spatial Analysis and Subsurface Survey at a 19th-Century Eastern Pequot Site in Connecticut , Starla C. Lane

"Put That In Your Pipe and Smoke It": An Exploratory Study of Native American Ceramic Tobacco Pipes at the James Fort Site in Virginia Using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence , Michael S. Ligman

The Huguenot Home: Consumption Practices and Identity in Early 18th-Century New York City , Theodor M. Maghrak

Residence, not Confinement: Daily Life at the Westport Town Farm, Westport, Massachusetts , Joshua Loyal Stewart

Whitehall: Newport's History in a House , Katherine Malone Tarascio

Indigenous Cuisine: An Archaeological and Linguistic Study of Colonial Zapotec Foodways On The Isthmus of Tehuantepec , Michelle R. Zulauf

Theses from 2012 2012

The Battle Of Chelsea Creek, May 27-28, 1775: KOCOA Military Terrain Analysis Applied To Heavily Urbanized And Coastal Marine Environments Boston, Chelsea, And Revere, Massachusetts , Craig James Brown

Comparing Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) Techniques in 18th-Century Yard Spaces , Christiane Marie Carducci

Subsistence in the Shrinking Forest: Native and Euro-American Practice in 19th-Century Connecticut , William A. Farley

Bound in Stone: A Landscape and Architectural Analysis of the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation Reservation, Connecticut , Sarah LeAnn Hasho

Household Spaces: 18th- and 19th-Century Spatial Practices on the Eastern Pequot Reservation , Anna Katharine Hayden

Coastal Connections and Reservation Contexts: Eastern Pequot Collection and Consumption of Shellfish in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries , Ryan Hunter

Growing Up a Washington: Childhood in 18th-Century Virginia , Heidi Elizabeth Krofft

Sheep and Wool in Nineteenth-Century Falmouth, MA: Examining the Collapse of a Cape Cod Industry , Leo Patrick Ledwell

Firearms Curation in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth Century Maritime Contexts: A Comparative Study , Edward John Rodley

Bones in the Landfill: A Zooarchaeological Study from Faneuil Hall , Linda M. Santoro

"She of Gentle Manners": An Examination of the Widow Pomeroy's Table and Tea Wares and the Emerging Domestic Sphere in Kinderhook, New York , Megan E. Sullivan

Theses from 2011 2011

A Viking Age Political Economy from Soil Core Tephrochronology , Kathryn Anne Catlin

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Theses from 2024 2024.

Bridging Spaces: An Ethnographic Study of Transnational African Art in Atlanta , Bukunmi Kehinde Bifarin

American Essentialism, Weirdo Habitus, and the Tensions of Queer Performativity , Michael-Anthony Claytor

More Than Words: An In-Depth Examination of Materiality in MS Junius 11 and Manuscript Digitization , Allie M. Hayes

The Impact of Obesity in Estimating Age-At-Death: An Analysis of Senescence of Features on the Auricular Surface , Dawson W. Lamb

An Analysis of Pottery from Western North Carolina Using pXRF , Mark Pifer

Langaj Pale, Langaj Konprann: The Role of Langaj in Haitian Ritual Life , Alexandra St Tellien

Trans* in the Neoliberal University: Students’ Relationship with Georgia State University and its LGBTQ+ Support Structures , Elizabeth Townsend

Theses from 2023 2023

Applied Anthropological Perspectives on the Use of Art Therapy and Creative Expression for Adults in Georgia , Juel Ables

Paleoindian and Early Archaic Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Use: A Case Study from the Brier Creek Drainage in Burke County, Georgia , Quinn Connally

A Space for Grace: Avenues to Ameliorate Obstacles Faced by Human Trafficking Survivors and Resource Providers , Cassandra L. Eng

Postmortem Interval Estimation Within the Context of Adipocere Formation , Emily Fields

Gendered Division of Labor among the Late Woodland Iroquois: Lithic Scrapers and Hide Production at the Simmons Site, New York , Brittany G. Hart

Teaching Truth: Grassroots Reactions to Classroom Censorship Legislation in Georgia , Emma Hugonnet

The Image Bank: Reflections on an Incomplete Archive , Anuolapo Boluwatife Oluleye

Sexual Dimorphism of the Second Cervical Vertebra in Humans , Morgan Paskins

The Debt I Owe: Consequences of Criminal-Legal Debt in Metro Atlanta , Daniel A. Pizarro

Community Recovery in Eastern Kentucky after the July 2022 Flooding , Margaret L. Smith

No Easy Path: A Ground-Penetrating Radar Investigation of the Historic Penfield Cemetery. , Robert Paul Theberge

Theses from 2022 2022

Pre-Hispanic Frailty and Mortality in the Lambayeque Valley: Wilson Bands as Evidence of Early Life Stress , Chelsea B. Batchelder

Representations of Southern Tourism Imaginaries and Negotiations of Difficult History in Plantation Site Interpretation , Elizabeth C. Johnson

Increasing the Accessibility of Archaeological Education: Exploring the Possibilities of Inquiry-Based Pedagogy Through Collections Research , Aspen Kemmerlin

Finding Lost Voices: An Archaeological Study of Historic, African American Burial Sites in North Georgia , Ayesha Khan

Filling in the Gap: A quantitative analysis of dental restoration types among body donors of Asian descent at the Mann-Labrash Osteological Collection , Melissa Bernadette Romero McCarthy

Barriers to Abortion Access: An Ethnography of the Clinic , Amelia Phan

An Art Museum at the Intersection of Science and Technology:  An Anthropological Approach , Birney L. Robert

Theses from 2021 2021

Maternal Inheritance in Colonial Lambayeque, Peru , Lateefa Abel

“We’re Still Learning and Growing”: An Ethnographic Program Evaluation of an After-School Program for Refugee Youth , Shelby M. Anderson-Badbade

Artifact Discard Eligibility: A Potential Alleviation to the Growing Curation Crisis , Andrew Jerome Blank

Role of Civil Society Under Autocratic Regime: Evaluating Activists' Role in a Nondemocratic Setting to Promote Sociopolitical Awareness , Yanet E. Fundora

Archaeological Analysis of Built Environments at Coastal Ancient Maya Port Sites , Lindsey A. Goff

Coyote- A Wily, New Emblem for the Anthropocene? Why One of the Most Reviled Predators in North America Could Change Conservation Forever. , Kimberly Myers

Chen Mul Modeled Type Effigy Censers, Maya Caves, and Their Relationship with Ritual Practices: Emerging Evidence in Quintana Roo, Mexico , Joy A. Przybyla

Enhancing the Safety of People Who Inject Drugs: A Program Evaluation of a Syringe Services Program in Atlanta , Megan A. Sarmento

Theses from 2020 2020

Sacred History, Sacred Time: A comparative cultural study of the commemoration of Independence Wars in Modern Greece and the USA , Emmanouil Androulakis

Osteoarthritis of the Thoracic Spine: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Sex Differences and Degeneration of the Thoracic Spine During the Life Course , Kelsey Lauren Bagwell*

Elliptical Fourier Analysis of Maxillary Molars in the Belgian Neolithic , Brandon Cory Bryan

The Representation of the Archaic Record at Traversant, Troup County, Georgia , Ethan Gilbert

Urban Spaces, Places, and Identity in Early Medieval Britain , David Grogan

Oral Health in the Inka Heartland During the Late Horizon: A Tale of Two Sites , Macie Orrand

Theses from 2019 2019

Post-resettlement Health Realities of Rohingya Refugees: An Ethnographic Study in the Context of U.S. Health Care System in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area , Md Asaduzzaman

Exploring Intersections of Art, Labor, and Identity in Urban Atlanta , Samantha Camirand

Residential Mobility in the Late Pre-hispanic Osmore Drainage: Isotopic Analyses of Hair from the Estuquiña , Danielle E. Carmody

Necrotic Machines/Zombie Genders: Transfeminine Disruptions of Feminist Progress , Alexandra Chace

The Georgia IUD Project: An Ethnography of Birth Control and Biopolitics , Nicole Elliott

Analysis of Experimental Bone Tools from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa , Sara Gardner

Elemental Analysis of Pre-Contact and Contact Period Ceramics From Northeastern Florida , Jeanie R. Jackson*

Childhood Trauma in Refugee Children: Caretakers’ Perspectives , Ghazal Khaksari

A Comparison of Molar Morphology from Extant Cercopithecid Monkeys and Pliocene Parapapio from Makapansgat, South Africa Using Elliptical Fourier Analysis , Alexander Chil Kim*

Military Members: Body, Identity, and The Transformations of Military Service , Valerie Masutier

Healthcare Providers´ Experience With Wellness Seeking Refugees In Clarkston, Georgia , Litza Pabon Malave

Diversity, Culture, and Islam in Higher Education: An Anthropological Approach , Laila Panjwani

Feminist Music in Brazil and its Effects on Women's Identity: Feminism, Sexuality, and Blackness , Alexis Lynn Powers

From the Past to the Present: Collaborating on the Production of a Community Museum in Chiquilá, Quintana Roo, Mexico , Mikaela Razo

Lion Dance in the United States: Exploring Panethnicity and Identity Through Performance Arts , Rachel Watford

Theses from 2018 2018

Bridging Loves: How Korean-American Mothers and Daughters Trouble "Tradition and Modernity" through Love , Su C. Choe

Orfean Harmony: An Ensemble's Creation Of Ancient Greek Music As Ode To The Resilience Of Modern Greece , Aikaterini Grigoriadou

Fracture Patterning and Distribution in the Appendicular Skeleton of Pigs Resulting from Explosions: Implications of Blast Trauma in Forensic Anthropological Investigations of Human Rights Abuses , Katherine M. Lane

The Educational Experience of Virtual Reality: An Archaeological Case Study of the Maya Site, Vista Alegre , Jessica M. Moss

Unintentional Secrets of a Museum: Exploring Possibilities of an Underutilized Museum Collection , Theresa LJ Nosacek

Investigating Paleodiet and Mobility throughout Stable Isotope Analysis at the Site of Tumilaca La Chimba, Moquegua, Peru , Breidy Ivan Quispe Vilcahuaman

Dental Morphology and Diet Use-wear of the Belgian Neolithic: A Study of Mass Cave Burials in the Meuse River Basin , Katherine E. Sherrill Ms

Theses from 2017 2017

Sexual Education Among Indigenous Ngöbe Costa Ricans: A Tale of Two Schools , Maria G. Alvarado

Cultural Competence in Theory and Practice , Britni Ashkinazy

Diet and the Dietary Niches of the Malagasy Subfossil Lemurs: An Analysis of Dental Microwear, Dental Proportions, and Grit Accumulation , Cristel Bender

Needle Exchange: Social Value for Outreach Workers , Elise D'Alessandro

Dietary Study of The Postclassic Sites of El Rey and San Miguelito, Isla Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico , Emily Duke

Psychosocial Stress, Race, and Social Support among Breastfeeding Mothers in the American South , Brandice Evans

Craft Production and Exchange in the Pre-Hispanic Andes: LA-ICP-MS and pXRF Analyses of Tiwanaku Ceramics , Colette V. Gabler

Exploring Settlement Patterns at the Ancient Maya Port Site of Conil, Quintana Roo, Mexico , Verna Gentil

Albinism: Cultural and Ethnographic Perspectives in a Southern City , Tabitha C. Green

Embodying Cosplay: Fandom Communities in the USA , NATASHA L. HILL

Watering Fruits: How the State "Develops Culture" in Korea , Sunhyeong Kwon

“… Next Time”: Gulf Coast Residents’ Relationship with Hurricanes , Robert Lloyd

A Bioarchaeological Approach to Social Transition in the Pre-Hispanic Andes: A Diachronic Study of Health at Tumilaca la Chimba, Peru , Shannon A. Lowman

A Morphometric Study of Maxillary Post Canine Dentition in Australopithecus Africanus from Sterkfontein, South Africa: One Species or Two? , Lesley K. Mackie

GIS on the Qualla Boundary: Data Management for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Historic Preservation Office , Emma Mason

Watching for Wolves: Perspectives on Policing Among Experienced Officers in Atlanta , William G B Odum

Sacrifice Reconsidered: Interpreting Stress From Archaeological Hair At Huaca De Los Sacrificios , Benjamin J. Schaefer

Theses from 2016 2016

Dental Microwear and Stable Isotope Analyses as Indicators of Changes in Subsistence Practices During the Spanish Colonial Period in the Lambayeque Valley Region of Northern Peru , Keegan Trace Brooks

Transnational Health Seeking Behavior of Bangladeshi People Living in Atlanta , Md Tanveer Hassan

Brushing Off the Dust: Transitionary Diet at the site of Cerro del Oro , Brittany Hundman

Functional Morphology of the Distal Forelimb and the Evolution of Tool Use in Humans , Sarah Love

Does tooth size matter?: A dental measurement analysis on StW 252 from Sterkfontein, South Africa , Caitlin Mayer

Remaking Resistance: Cultural Meaning and Activism in the SOA Watch Movement , Kevin McGuire

The MARTA Collection: An Investigation of an Archaeological Legacy and Cache of History , Lori C. Thompson

Elemental Analysis of Colonial Period Ceramics from Moquegua, Peru , Joshua Wackett

Inaka ga Kokoro ni Fureru: The Practices and Parlance of Cultural Exchange in the Japan-America Grassroots Summit , Gary Walsh

Theses from 2015 2015

Eating at the Desk: Human Encounters with Workplace Food , Chinelo Arinze

Arte Clandestino: Rebellion, Graphic Art and Youth Culture in Oaxaca, Mexico , Elizabeth Barnett

Isla Palenque Revisited: An Archaeological Community Study , Johnny Bogle

The Atlanta Phoenix Project: Applications of Gamification for Online Civic Engagement , Robert Bryant

Extrinsic Effects of Cranial Modification: A Case Study of Cranial Porosity and Cranial Modification Intensity in Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000 - AD 1400) Andahuaylas, Peru , Davette N. Gadison

Both Ends of the Leash: Pit Bull Ownership and Activism in Atlanta, Georgia , Sarah Goss

Bioarchaeological Analysis of Isolated Crania from the Elizabeth Site in the Lower Illinois River Valley , Daniel Jones

Medical Music: Anthropological Perspectives on Music Therapy , Stephen McMasters

The Mobile Phone and You: Human Interaction and Integration with Mobile Technology , Ryan C. Miller

Come To The Cypress Pond: The Archaeological Survey of an Antebellum Plantation , Lindsey Renaud

The Others: Self-Perception And Social Stratification Amongst Incarcerated United States Citizens , Hannah Spadafora

Space, Settlement, and Environment: Detecting Undocumented Maya Archaeological Sites with Remotely Sensed Data , Andrew Vaughan

Holy Bass: Spirituality in Electronic Dance Music Culture , Malone H. Walker

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The thesis is a major requirement for those in the MA in anthropology thesis track.  The thesis should demonstrate the student's ability to apply knowledge and skills gained from the anthropology department's curriculum.  A desirable goal for an excellent thesis would be a work of sufficient rigor and quality that it could be considered for publication. Original data collection ("fieldwork") is recommended but not required for the thesis.  Analysis of secondary data-whether quantitative, qualitative, visual or other formats--is perfectly acceptable as long as the research is informed by a clearly articulated research question and under-girded by a research proposal.

The traditional thesis is a single document that often incorporates a literature review, definition of a problem, discussion of methods to address the problem, the subsequent research activity and results.  However, the student may design a thesis with different emphases, in consultation with their advisor.  For example the goal may instead be a more compact paper submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.  Other thesis plans may combine some research activity such as a video production, museum exhibit or an internship, with an accompanying paper.  Students pursuing the thesis option must develop a topic and research proposal that specifies their plans in the semester after their completion of 18 credit hours.

The thesis must be defended before a committee of three faculty, at least two of whom need to be on the Department of Anthropology faculty (which includes senior instructors and research faculty).  The structure of the thesis is largely determined by the  University of Colorado Denver Graduate School Rules ; i.e., a thesis must conform to the rules.

• For the thesis, students must prepare a full research proposal which must be approved by their thesis chair before beginning their research. This proposal must be completed by the semester after the student has completed 18 credit hours. Sections of the proposal should include, at a minimum:
• Introduction and statement of the problem: Should include a one sentence statement of the problem on the first page, and a discussion of its significance (i.e., why is it important that this topic be researched).
• Literature review covering theoretical and topical material.
• Research design and methods including a data analysis plan.

Note:   Wenner-Gren and National Science Foundation both provide good models and templates for the research proposal. Those in the medical anthropology track might want to consider following the NIH model, depending the nature of their research questions and career goals.

• All students proposing to work with humans or data on modern humans must apply for and receive approval from the  Human Subjects Research Committee  before they begin their research. Note: most of the material for the application will be drawn from the research proposal.
• The draft thesis must be reviewed and approved as "defensible" by the student’s thesis committee faculty chair before a thesis defense date can be set. Defensible means the chair has reviewed the draft and suggested changes have been made.
• The draft sent to the student’s committee must be substantively complete: All references must be in the text and properly formatted in a references cited section; there should be no "track changes" comments in the text; the text should be formatted according to Graduate School requirements.
• Given the complexity of faculty and student schedules, consultation on a defense date should be done as far in advance as possible.
• There must be a minimum of three weeks between the agreed-upon date for the defense and distribution of the draft thesis defined as defensible by the student’s chair. If you would like feedback from your committee members before the defense, you should plan to distribute the thesis at least 4 weeks before the defense date.

Note:  If you intend to graduate the same semester you defend your thesis, you must schedule, successfully defend, and complete all recommended changes in accordance with UC Denver Thesis and Dissertation Guidelines  . This effectively translates to having the thesis completed and “defensible” before the middle of the semester.

Your Thesis Committee

The committee generally consists of your major advisor and two other faculty members with whom you have worked during the course of your program. You may choose committee members from outside the department, particularly if they are experts in an area that you explore in the thesis. However, at least two of your committee members must be from the anthropology department. And, all committee members must belong to the Graduate Faculty.  See the rules of the Graduate School .

Thesis Preparation

Click here to obtain a copy of Directions for Preparing Masters and Doctoral Theses .

The Process of Submitting a Thesis

In the semester in which a student intends to submit the thesis for examination, he/she must first submit an  Application for Admission to Candidacy . This initiates a process of determining if the student has met all of the other requirements for the degree, and is eligible to submit a thesis. The application for candidacy form should be completed in consultation with your major advisor, and the graduate director. A  Diploma Card  is submitted at the same time, to initiate the process of preparing final records for graduation.

The completed thesis itself is then submitted for a format review. This review ensures that the material is presented in a readable format that is consistent with the standards of the university. The student then submits a  Request for Examination,  which publicly announces the exam or defense for all interested parties.

At the exam or defense, the student may be asked to revise or add to the thesis before it is approved. The revised thesis is then submitted to the examination committee for final approval, and then copies are handed in to the Graduate School. These copies are permanently kept in the library as a resource for other scholars in the field.

Thesis Submission

Questions concerning matters not discussed in this document must be directed to the thesis committee chairperson. Theses must be reviewed by the Graduate School for format review before the final examination or defense. Once the thesis is signed by the appropriate faculty committee, submit three reproduced or original copies of the thesis, two on CU bond and one on regular paper. The University keeps all three of these copies. You may also order additional copies at this time. The binding fee is due and payable when the thesis is submitted to the Graduate School. Since fees are subject to change, contact the Graduate School for current fees.

The Thesis Examination

The exam consists of a public presentation and defense of the work. The tradition calls for the following steps to be completed:

• Your thesis committee greets you, and then sends you out of the room while the chair of your committee discusses the thesis, asks if there are any particular concerns, and establishes the particular procedure for the conduct of the examination.
• After you are invited to reenter the examination room, the chair will invite you to provide a formal presentation of your research, which should generally not exceed 30 minutes in length.
• After your presentation, the committee will ask you questions about the thesis, work related to it, and perhaps general questions about theory, method, and practical implications of the research.
• When questioning is completed, you will be asked to leave the room again so that your committee may discuss the defense, and decide on whether to give you a pass or fail.
• A "pass" may take many forms, including a request for revision that must be approved by the full committee, or simply a request that revisions be reviewed by the chair.

Registration Issues

Students must be registered during the semester of their final examination/ defense. Students who choose to perform these examinations or defend their thesis on a date that falls between semesters (between Fall and Spring; Spring and Summer, or between Summer and Fall), must register for the semester immediately after their exam/defense.

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2020 – Present

Driscoll, Joshua Strategic Drinking: The Archaeology of Alcohol in Early Iron Age West Central Europe (PhD, 2023) Advisor: B. Arnold

Gansemer, Rebekah Visibility and Intervisibility: A Viewshed Analysis of the Oneota Component of the Lake Koshkonong Locality (MS, 2023) Advisor: R. Jeske

Janik, Tarryl Soul Quest Church of Mother Earth: Ayahuasca Decriminalization and the Struggle of an Institution to Become a Church (PhD, 2023) Advisor: I. Jordt

Lara, Joseph Monitoring Welfare in Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Using Individual Positional Behavior and Substrate Use Profiles (MS, 2023) Advisor: E. Middleton

Manresa, Armando The Role of Fake and Fraudulent Objects Within the Museum Context: A Case Study of Tiwanaku Ceramics in the Milwaukee Public Museum Collection (MS, 2023) Advisor: W. Wood

Milosavljevic, Tania A Paleoethnobotanical Comparison of Mortuary and Village Langford Tradition Sites in Northern Illinois (MS, 2023) Advisor: R. Jeske

Moriarity, Paul The Dehumanizing Violence Index: An Old World/New World Comparison of Overkill in Archaeological Contexts (MS, 2023) Advisor: B. Arnold

Stanton, Emily Life Styles, Death Styles, and Posthumous Portraiture: Elite Female Burials in Iron Age Europe (PhD, 2023) Advisor: B. Arnold

Ahlrichs, Robert Social Networks and Archaic Foragers in the Western Great Lakes: A case study in the Old Copper Complex (PhD, 2022). Advisor: R. Jeske

Brennaman, Ashley Tales from the Tooth Worm: Reconstruction of the Historic Oral Microbiome at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (PhD, 2022). Advisor: P. Richards

Densmore, Allison Virtual Excavations: Digital Repositories, Data Reuse, and Ethically Accessible Archaeology (MS, 2022). Advisor: J. Sherman

Forbush, Morgan Practice, Community, and Algorithms: How YouTube Creators Learn Through Making (MS, 2022). Advisor: T. Malaby

Forester, Abby Let Go and Let God: An Ethnographic Study of Overeaters Anonymous (PhD, 2022) Advisor: P. Brodwin

Fourshee, Jordan Differentiating Human From Nonhuman Bone: Insights From a Medical Examiner’s Collection, Kenosha, Wisconsin (MS, 2022) Advisor: E. Middleton

Gansemer, Jo Stress and Parity Among Female Vervet Monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) at Two Sites in South Africa (MS, 2022) Advisor: T. Turner

Johnson, Sydne Two Cemeteries in One: An Historic Archaeological Analysis of the Cemeteries that Comprise Today’s Liberty Cemetery in Trevor, Wisconsin (MS, 2022) Advisor: P Richards

Jones, Catherine Evidence of Lives Not Seen: The Bioarchaeology of Material Personhood at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (PhD, 2022). Advisor: P. Richards

Konkol, Luke Incipient Games: Restoring the Past Through Play in Historical Reenactment (MS, 2022) Advisor: T. Malaby

McConnel, Sean Entangled Conquest: A Study of Cultural Hybridization and Change in Norman Ireland (PhD, 2022) Advisor: B. Arnold

Rivers, Joshua The Caretaking of EVE Online: Institutional Ethics and Enactments at CCP Games (PhD, 2022) Advisor: T. Malaby

Sanders, Aislinn Function and Aesthetic Value: An Analysis of the Milwaukee Public Museum’s Thai Royal Silver Collection (MS, 2022) Advisor: W. Wood

Schumacher, Cody The Effects of Hybridization on Skeletel Morphology in Two Closely Related Populations of Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) (MS, 2022) Advisor: E. Middleton

Strohl, Rachel Interpreting the Socio-Symbolic Value of Jet and Amber Artifacts as Markers of Religious Transformation in Early Christian Britain (MS, 2022). Advisor: B. Arnold

Volz, Kendra The Case of the Benin Bronzes: Exploring Repatriation in U.S. Museums (MS, 2022) Advisor: W. Wood

Allen, Christopher Facing the Past: Engendering the Study of Iron Age Celtic Human Imagery in Continental Europe (MS, 2021). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Annis, Karissa Archaeological Representation in Speculative Fiction: The Image of the Archaeologist in Star Wars (MS, 2021). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Ebling, Todd Care in Crisis: The Ethical, Affective, and Subjective Worlds of Homeless Service Providers in a US City (PhD, 2021). Advisor: E. Bornstein.

Esche-Eiff, Karen “Making God’s Love Manifest”: American Expressions and Productions of Charisma in Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi’s Global Following (PhD, 2021). Advisor: E. Bornstein

Greenlee, Dominic Geostatistical Perspectives on Recuay Mortuary Landscapes in Highland Peru (MS, 2021) Advisor: J. Sherman

Harding, Megan Oneota Lithic Economy and Tool Function at the Schmeling Site (47JE833) in Southeastern Wisconsin. (MS, 2021) Advisor: R. Jeske.

Skinner, Jessica Bodily Memory in Digital Space: Personalized Bioarchaeological Research and Musculoskeletal Modeling at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (PhD, 2021). Advisor: P. Richards.

Vang-Roberts, Andrew Impacts of Politicization and Conflict on Archaeological Resources: An Analysis of Trends in Iraq (MS, 2021) Advisor: B. Arnold

Barca, Maria The Impact of Gender and Class on Disease and Trauma in 18th Century London: A Case Study of Three Cemetery Populations (MS, 2020). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Bomkamp, Samantha Typological and Iconographic Analyses of Casas Grandes Pottery at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2020). Advisor: J. Sherman.

Burant, Eric ‘Penniless and Unknown’: Temporality of the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery – A GIS Analysis (MS, 2020). Advisor: P. Richards.

Brinkman, Heather Videogame Tourism: Spawning the Digital into the Physical Realm in the British Isles (PhD, 2020). Advisors: T. Malaby and W. Wood.

Eisner, Emma Investigating the Contents of a Maya Tomb: An Analysis of the Milwaukee Public Museum’s Ceramic Collection from Chajul, Guatemala (MS, 2020). Advisor: J. Sherman.

Ernat, Rebekah Prehistoric Humans and Elk (Cervus canadensis) in the Western Great Lakes: A Zooarchaeological Perspective (MS,2020). Advisor: J. Hudson.

Gallagher, Tara Practical Problems and Moral Discourses: An Ethnography of Breastfeeding (MS, 2020). Advisor: P. Brodwin.

Schmidt, Katrina A Collection Divided: An Analysis of Accession 16082, The Ohio Hopewell Site Collection at The Milwaukee Public Museum (MS,2020). Advisor: P. Richards.

Thornton, Megan Compositional Analysis of Pottery from Middle Woodland Waukesha Phase Sites in Southeastern Wisconsin and Havana Hopewell Related Sites in Northeastern and Northwestern Illinois (MS, 2020). Advisor: J. Richards.

Timler, Kiley Learning and Expertise of Equestrians: A Qualitative Assessment of Combining Humans and Equines in a Sport (MS, 2020). Advisor: P. Brodwin.

2015 – 2019

Akemann, Kevin Collecting Aztalan: An Analysis of the Chipped Stone Projectile Points from the Milwaukee Public Museum’s Aztalan (JE-0001) Legacy Collections (MS, 2019). Advisor: J. Richards.

Anthony, Alexander Less Than Human: A Study of the Institutional Origins of the Medical Waste Recovered at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (MS, 2019). Advisor: P. Richards.

Bodenstein, Nicole Documenting Cordage Impressions on Archaeological Ceramics: A Methodological Comparison of Casting and Digital Representation (MS, 2019). Advisor: J. Richards.

Charles, B. “Buried…like a Human Being” at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Defining Fetal and Infant Personhood through Biological Development, Historical Discourse, and Diapering (PhD, 2019). Advisor: P. Richards.

Cooley, Christopher Looking for Group: Sociality, Embodiment, and Institutions in World of Warcraft (PhD, 2019). Advisor: T. Malaby.

Eberwein, Ann Food for Thought: An Analysis of the Robenhausen Botanicals at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2019). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Eiseman, Emily Sexual Dimorphism and the Shape of the Proximal Tibia in a Radiographic Sample (MS, 2019). Advisor: J. Gray.

Haas, Jennifer Community Identity, Culinary Traditions and Foodways in the Western Great Lakes (PhD, 2019). Advisor: J. Richards.

Halaska, Rachelle Heirloom and Hybrid Corn in the American Corn Belt: An Ethnography of Seed Saving Practices (MS, 2019). Advisor: T. Heatherington.

Hassman, Monique Everyday Perseverance and Meaningful Toil: Mapping the (In)Distinguishable Process of Recovery Post-Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana (PhD, 2019). Advisor: W. Wood.

Hill, Susan The Waiting Room: Re-Making Adulthood among America’s Underemployed (PhD, 2019). Advisor: K. Applbaum.

McTavish, Rachel Foodways and a Violent Landscape: A Comparative Study of Oneota and Langford Human-Animal-Environmental Relationships (PhD, 2019). Advisor: R. Jeske.

Saleh, Andrew Using Historic Glo and GIS to Assess the Potential for Local Bison bison near Two Wisconsin Late Prehistoric Oneota Localities (MS, 2019). Advisor: J. Hudson.

Thomas-Flores, Heather Pena, Pinahua, and Prestige: Shame and Linguistic Insecurity in Upper Balsas Classrooms (MS, 2019). Advisor: B. Perley.

Vander Heiden, Robert Lithic Technological Organization at the Aztalan Site (47-JE-0001) (MS, 2019). Advisor: J. Richards.

Werner, Helen That Other Form of Madness: A Multidisciplinary Study of Infectious Disease within the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (PhD, 2019). Advisor: P. Richards.

Werner, Nikita Minors in the Mines: Archaeological Indicators of Child Labor in Prehistoric Mining Contexts in Europe (MS, 2019). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Auten, Madison Ancient Andean Tattooing Practices (MS, 2018). Advisor: J. Hudson.

Carlson, Sarah An Evolving Experiment in Community Engagement: The Philippine Co-Curation Partnership at the Field Museum (MS, 2018). Advisor: W. Wood.

Carpiaux, Natalie T he Koshkonong Creek Village Site (47JE0379): Ceramic Production, Function, and Deposition at an Oneota Occupation in Southeastern Wisconsin (MS, 2018). Advisor: R. Jeske.

Coffey, Cassandra Creating Inclusive Experiences in Children’s Museums for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (MS, 2018). Advisor: W. Wood.

Drew. Brooke Death in Anonymity: Population Dynamics and the Individual within the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery, 1882-1925 (PhD, 2018). Advisor: P. Richards.

Janik, Tarryl Jr. A Return to Dark Shamans: Kanaima and the Cosmology of Threat (MS, 2018). Advisor: I. Jordt.

Klemmer, Amy A Zooarchaeological Study of Fishing Strategies over Time at the Rio Chico Site on the Central Coast of Ecuador (MS, 2018). Advisor: J. Hudson.

LaBerge, Michelle The Heart of the Madder: An Important Prehistoric Pigment and its Botanical and Cultural Roots (MS, 2018). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Pagel, Victoria Fluid Functionality: An Examination of Shifting Identities Using North American Indian German Silver Brooches at the Milwaukee Public Museum as a Case Study (MS, 2018). Advisor: W. Wood.

Spott, Elizabeth Identity in the Archaeological Record: Richardville Natoequah and the Fur Trade in Northeastern Indiana (PhD, 2018). Advisor: R. Jeske.

Sterner Miller, Katherine Stone Tools and Agricultural Communities: Economic, Microwear, and Residue Analysis of Wisconsin Oneota Lithic Assemblages (PhD, 2018). Advisor: R. Jeske.

Thorson, Lindsey Population Change in Times of War: Biodistance Analysis of Medieval and Early Modern Skeletal Populations from Adriatic Croatia (PhD, 2018). Advisor: P. Richards.

Albert, Elizabeth Unveiling Recovery: A Discourse Analysis of Mental Illness Recovery Narratives (MS, 2017). Advisor: P. Brodwin.

Birnbaum, Michelle The Richter Site (47DR80): A Millennium of Prehistoric Technological and Cultural Change on Washington Island, Door County, Wisconsin (PhD, 2017). Advisor: J. Richards.

Draxler, Sean The Influence of Hierarchy Steepness on Cooperation: A Comparison Between Captive Japanese Macaques and Black-Handed Spider Monkeys (MS, 2017). Advisor: T. Turner.

Edwards, Richard The Canine Surrogacy Approach and Paleobotany: An Analysis of Wisconsin Oneota Agricultural Production and Risk Management Strategies (PhD, 2017). Advisor: R. Jeske.

Frankel, Alexandra Mother Bright the Henna: K’na Gecesi and Fragmented Imaginations of the Nation-State (MS, 2017). Advisor: T. Heatherington.

Freire, Shannon A Public Humanity: The Application of Isotopic Analysis to the Intersection between Body and Law at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (PhD, 2017). Advisor: P. Richards.

Frie, Adrienne Cultural Constructions of Nature: Animal Representations and Use in Early Iron Age Southeastern Slovenia (PhD, 2017). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Garstki, Kevin Production and Technological Change: Ironworking in Prehistoric Ireland (PhD, 2017). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Ghisleni, Lara Shifting Ground: Rethinking Concepts of Continuity and Change in Late Iron Age and Early Roman Landscapes of Southern England (PhD, 2017). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Gilliland-Lloyd, Auriana Variation in Stress among Vervet Monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) at Different Stages of Rehabilitation in South Africa (MS, 2017). Advisor: T. Turner

Hassam, Stephan Melita in Milwaukee: The Milwaukee Public Museum’s Leopardi Collection (MS, 2017). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Liebeseller, Laya Rules of the House: Strategy. Tactic, and Violence in One World by Night, World of Darkness, Live-Action Role-Play Games (MS, 2017). Advisor: T. Malaby.

Rodenbeck, Erica An Intersectional Examination of the Portrayal of Native American Women in Wisconsin Museum Exhibits (MS, 2017). Advisor: W. Wood.

Strange, David The Saints Peter and Paul Parish and the Milwaukee County Poor Farm: A Comparative Osteological Analysis Between Two Historic Cemeteries in Wisconsin (MS, 2017). Advisor: R. Jeske.

Trotter, Katherine A Matter of Suspension: An Experimental Approach to Hammerstone Hafting in Prehistoric Keweenaw Copper Mining (MS, 2017). Advisor:  B. Arnold.

Beer, Kaitlin “It’s My Job to Keep Punk Rock Elite”, Information and Secrecy in the Chicago DIY Punk Music Scene (MS, 2016). Advisor: W. Wood.

Billings, Traci Gender Reflections: A Reconsideration of Pictish Mirror and Comb Symbols (MS, 2016). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Bindley, Kathleen Consumerism and Ceramics at the Stephen Field Farmstead, Walworth County, Wisconsin (MS, 2016) Advisor: P. Richards.

Buntin, Maisie Babies and Biomedicine: Knowledge System Negotiation in the Domain of Infant Care (MS, 2016). Advisor: B. Campbell.

Epping, Amanda Captive Chimpanzee Group and Individual Space Use in a Naturalistic Enclosure (MS, 2016). Advisor: T. Turner.

Epstein, Emily Nobi Ni-Tse’tse’ede (House on the Cold One): Hunter-gatherer Household Archaeology and Climate Change, Harney County, Oregon (PhD, 2016). Advisor: J. Hudson.

Epstein, Ethan Late Paleo-Indian Period Lithic Economics, Mobility, and Group Organization in Wisconsin (PhD, 2016). Advisor: R. Jeske.

Geraci, Peter The Prehistoric Economics of the Kautz Site: A Late Archaic and Woodland Site in Northeastern Illinois (MS, 2016). Advisor: R. Jeske.

Gray, Shukrani The New Orleans Festival Arts Community: Embodying Culture, Performing Afrocentric Identity (MS, 2016). Advisor: W. Wood.

Klingman-Cole, Sarah Land Use Analysis of the Milwaukee County Institutional Grounds: A Chronological and Spatial Depiction of Cultural Change (MS, 2016). Advisor: P. Richards.

Malone, Krista-Lee Islands in the Making: National Investment and the Cultural Imagination in Taiwan (PhD, 2016). Advisor: T. Malaby.

Liu, Yang Configuring the Qualification of Good Coffee: An Ethnography on the Specialty Coffee Industry in Milwaukee (MS, 2016). Advisor: T. Heatherington.

Mollerud, Katy The Cambria Connection: Identifying Ceremic Production and Community Interaction in Late Prehistoric Minnesota, A.D. 1050-130 (PhD, 2016). Advisor: J. Richards.

Ponte, Victor Regional Perspective of Recuay Mortuary Practices: A View from the Hinterlands, Callegon de Huaylas, Peru (MS, 2016). Advisor: J. Hudson.

Pozza, Jacqueline Investigating the Functions of Copper Material Culture from Four Oneota Sites in the Lake Koshkonong Locality of Wisconsin (MS, 2016). Advisor: R. Jeske.

Price, Cheri To Temper or Not to Temper: A Petrographic Textual Study of Clays and Formative Ceramic Sherds from the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico (MS, 2016). Advisor: J. Sherman.

Pruhs, Erin Powell Mound, Titterington, and the Cahokia Ceramic Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2016). Advisor: J. Richards.

Roller, Amanda Death Keeps No Calendar: Dating Mortuary Hardware from the Saints Peter and Paul Parish Church Cemetery (MS, 2016). Advisor: P. Richards.

Skinner, Jessica Entheses and Activities: The Multivariate Mechanisms of Entheseal Change for Individuals Represented by the 2013 Excavations of the Milwaukee County Institutional Grounds Cemetery (MS, 2016). Advisor: F. Anapol.

Wilson, Stephen Late Prehistoric Lithic Economies in the Prairie Peninsula: A Comparison of Oneota and Langford in Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois (MS, 2016). Advisor: R. Jeske.

Barone, Lindsay The New Pulpit: Museums, Authority, and the Cultural Reproduction of Young-Earth Creationism (PhD, 2015). Advisor: B. Campbell.

Bluma, Jacquelyn I. Incorporating the Skeletal Remains in Two German Lutheran Cemeteries into the surrounding Immigrant Population of Mequon, Wisconsin (MS, 2015). Advisor: P. Richards.

Connelly, Clare A Partial Reading of the Stones: A Comparative Analysis of Irish and Scottish Ogham Pillar Stones (MS, 2015). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Dicks, Andrew Enlightening the Bats: Sound and Place Making in Burmese Buddhist Practice (MS, 2015). Advisor: I. Jordt.

Fafara-Thompson, Antoinette Distinguishing Venereal Syphilis from other Treponenal Infections on the Human Skeleton (MS, 2015) Advisor: F. Anapol.

Fetzer, Rebecca Collecting in Context: A Study of the Milwaukee Public Museum’s French Paleolithic Faunal Collection (MS, 2015). Advisor: J. Hudson.

Henry, Jamie A Preliminary Museological Analysis of the Milwaukee Public Museum’s Euphrates Valley Expedition Metal Collection (MS, 2015). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Hooyer, Katinka Mentally Disordered or Culturally Displaced? How the PTSD Label Transforms Personhood in U.S. Military Veterans (PhD, 2015). Advisor: P. Brodwin.

Jones, Anika Welfare Queens to Childcare Queens: The Political Economy of Low-income Childcare (PhD, 2015). Advisor: E. Bornstein.

Kubek, Margaret Food (In)Security: Provisioning Strategies in a Northern Wisconsin Town (MS, 2015). Advisor: T. Heatherington.

Kukes, Tabitha Defining Genocide: A Biological Perspective of Mass Burials in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina (MS, 2015). Advisor: F. Anapol.

McIlraith, Devyn Forgotten Sherds: Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics from the Riverside Site (20ME01), Michigan (MS, 2015). Advisor: J. Richards.

McClendon, Barbara The Sickle’s Edge: An Experimental Use-wear Approach to Investigating Sickle Deposition in Bronze Age Europe (MS, 2015). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Mottl, Kristen Re-examined and Re-defined: An Exploration and Comparative Analysis of Moche Ceramic Vessels in the Milwaukee Public Museum Collections (MS, 2015). Advisor: J. Hudson.

Murphy, Liam Charles Rau’s Swiss Lake Dwelling Collection at the Smithsonian Institution (MS, 2015). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Reeves, Cara Head and Shoulders above the Rest: Birch-Bark Hats and Elite Status in Iron Age Europe (MS, 2015). Advisor: B. Arnold.

Schneider, Seth Onoeta Ceramic Production and Exchange: Social, Economic, and Political Interactions in Eastern Wisconsin between A.D. 1050 – 1400 (PhD, 2015). Advisor: R. Jeske.

Stencil, Zachary Vertebrate Evidence for Diet and Food-Processing at the Multicomponent Finch Site (47-Je-0902) in Jefferson County, Southeastern Wisconsin (MS, 2015). Advisor: J. Hudson.

Werner, Helen Molecular Identification of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in the Milwaukee County Institution Grounds Cemetery (MS, 2015). Advisor: P. Richards.

Arnold, William Fire on the Mountain: The Bronze and Iron Alpine Ash Altar Material in the Frankfurth Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2014). Advisor: Arnold

Balistreri, Amanda Putting the Dead on Display: An Exploration of Visitor Perceptions and Motivations Regarding Preserved Human Remains in Museums with Particular Emphasis on the Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato and Body Worlds & the Cycle of Life (MS, 2014). Advisor: Villamil

Freeman, Allyse Investigating Sociopolitical Complexity through the Presentation of Food: An Analysis of Middle to Late Formative Ceramics from Amalucan, Puebla, Mexico (MS, 2014). Advisor: Sherman

Kincade, Kaitlin The Razor’s Edge: Constructing Male Identity in Bronze and Iron Age Northern Europe (MS, 2014). Advisor: Arnold

Kotwasinski, Jill Understanding Use and Fuction: An Intrasite Comparative Analysis of the 2011 UWM Aztalan Ceramic Assemblage (MS, 2014). Advisor: J. Richards

Leigl, Megan An Intra-Site Spatial Analysis of Selected Faunal Remains from the Aztalan Site (47JE01) (MS, 2014). Advisor: Hudson

Miller, Sara Historiographical and Archaeological Study of the M. S. Thomson Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2014). Advisor: Sherman

Mortensen, Jenna The Implications of Content Analysis for the Interpretation of Unguentaria in Museum Collections (MS, 2014). Advisor: Arnold

Newbury, Diane Andean Archaeological Featherwork at the Milwaukee Public Museum: A Case Study in Researching Potential Context for Limited-Provenience Artifacts (MS, 2014). Advisor: Hudson

Smith, Sarah Colonial Contacts and Individual Burials: Structure, Agency, and Identity in 19th Century Wisconsin (MS, 2014). Advisor: P. Richards

Barnes, Katherine Do No Harm: Prescription Abuse and the Paraprofessionalism of Pharmacists (MS, 2013). Advisor: Brodwin

Dore, Kerry An Anthropological Investigation of the Dynamic Human-Vervet Monkey ( Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus ) Interface in St. Kitts, West Indies (PhD, 2013). Advisor: Turner

Flannery, Amanda Oral History and Archaeology of the Keith’s Siding Site (MS, 2013). Advisor: P. Richards

Ireland, Jessica “Democracy” in a Virtual World: Eve Online’s Council of Stellar Management and the Power of Influence (MS, 2013). Advisor: Malaby

Kaczmarek, Amy Vessel Form and Function in the Ceramic Assemblages from Bilbao and Santa Lucia Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala (MS, 2013). Advisor: Sherman

Kotowicz, Allison Maasai Identity in the 21st Century (MS, 2013). Advisor: Ajirotutu

Kreutzer, Daniel “The Ruins and Us Go Together”: The Neoliberal Challenge to Archaeological Heritage and Patrimony in Mexico (PhD, 2013). Advisor: P. Richards

Maxwell, Katherine Historic Museum Collections as Primary Sources: Thomas Wilson’s Robenhausen Material at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (MS, 2013). Advisor: Arnold

McTavish, Rachel Faunal Subsistence Strategies Among Initial Period Coastal Fishers at the Gramalote Site in the Moche Valley of Peru (MS, 2013). Advisor: Hudson

Picard, Jennifer Northern Flint, Southern Root: A Diachronic Analysis of Paleoethnobotanical Remains and Maize Race at the Aztalan Site (47-JE-0001) (MS, 2013). Advisor: J. Richards

Samuelson, Amy Frustration and Creativity: Environmentalism in the Republic of Moldova (PhD, 2013). Advisor: Heatherington

Tenorio, Ramona Medicina Del Barrio: Shadow Medicine among Milwaukee’s Latino Community (PhD, 2013). Advisor: Heatherington

Zimmerman, Lisa Brick by Brick: A Comparative Analysis of Brickworks and Structures in the Belgian-American Community of the Door Peninsula (MS, 2013). Advisor: P. Richards

Zych, Thomas The Construction of a Mound and a New Community: An Analysis of the Ceramic and Feature Assemblages from the Northeast Mound at the Aztalan Site (MS, 2013). Advisor: J. Richards

Balco, William Material Expressions of Social Change: Indigenous Sicilian Responses to External Influences in the First Millennium B.C. (PhD, 2012). Advisor: Arnold

Boor, Jocelyn E. Pots to People: The Tell Hadidi Ceramics from Area C at the Milwaukee Public Museum (PhD, 2012). Advisor: Arnold

Clauter, Jody Effigy Mounds, Social Identity, and Ceramic Technology: Decorative Style, Clay Composition, and Petrography of Wisconsin Late Woodland Ceramic Vessels (PhD, 2012). Advisor: Jeske

Danzy, Jennifer L. Sociosexual Communication and Female Mate Choice among South African Vervet Monkeys (PhD, 2012). Advisor: Turner

Fritsch, Andrea D. Generating Legitimate Authority in Water Initiative Planning: Watershed Restoration and Urban River Corridor Redevelopment (MS, 2012). Advisor: Applbaum

Gaetano, Tegan Hormonal and Morphological Aspects of Growth and Sexual Maturation in Wild-Caught Male Vervet Monkeys ( Chlorocebus aethiops pygerythrus ) (MS, 2012). Advisor: Turner

Herron, Ciera M. An Osteological and Ceramic Analysis of the 18 Mile Point Site, Santa Rosa, Florida (MS, 2012). Advisor: P. Richards

Hulit, Elissa The Promise and Potential in Generating Models of Prehistoric Clay Resources using Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescensce (MS, 2012). Advisor: J. Richards

Kirchner, Julia Never Put Your Head Down Unless You Pray: The Stories of African American Men in the Wisconsin Prison System (PhD, 2012). Advisor: Gray

Koziarski, Ralph Meskwaki Fur Trade Economics: The Zooarchaeology of Cultural Contact (PhD, 2012). Advisor: Hudson

Lindsay, Patrick A. Conjuntures Contrived: The Constant Re-Identification of Glasgow Rangers Fans (PhD, 2012). Advisor: Malaby

Murphy, Arianna The Poetics and Politics of Ivory Collecting and Display at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2012). Advisor: Wood

O’Brien, Erin E. Selling an Organic Experience: Exploring the Interface between Hmong and Non-Hmong Farmers and their Customers at Two Wisconsin Farmers’ Markets (MS, 2012). Advisor: Jordt

Schaub, Donald C. “Helpers of Each Other”: Collective Purpose Volunteers at a Faith-Based Ministry Mentor to Formerly Incarcerated Individuals (MS, 2012). Advisor: Applbaum

Sharpless, Megan S. The Archaeology of Working-class Children in the Nineteenth Century in New York’s Five Points Neighborhood and Paterson, New Jersey (MS, 2012). Advisor: J. Richards

Sterner, Katherine M. Oneota Lithics: A Use-wear Analysis of the Crescent Bay Hunt Club Assemblage from the 2004 Excavations (MS, 2012). Advisor: Jeske

Warwick, Matthew In the Shadow of the Penon: A Zooarchaeological Study of Formative Diet, Economy, and Sociopolitics in the Rio Pukara Valley, Peru (PhD, 2012). Advisor: Hudson

Wawrzyniak, Andrea M. Connecting to Community: Polania and the Polish Museum of America (MS, 2012). Advisor: Heatherington

Zanskas, Michelle C. Lasting Impressions: Museum Visits and Bonding Between Care Receivers with Dementia and their Caregivers (MS, 2012). Advisor: Perley

Caywood, Alyssa M. The Choice of Legions: The Terra Sigillata Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2011). Advisor: Arnold

Dybowski, Daniel G. The Analytical Limits of 19th Century Lithic Collections in Identifying Variation and Lithic Variability in Thirteen French Paleolithic Assemblages from the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2011). Advisor: Jeske

Farley, Ned W. The Garden Archaeology of Frontier Cemeteries: An Archaeological Survey of the Mount Hope Cemetery Group (Walworth County, Wisconsin) (PhD, 2011). Advisor: P. Richards

Foley Winkler, Kathleen M. Oneota and Langford Mortuary Practices from Eastern Wisconsin and Northeast Illinois (PhD, 2011). Advisor: Jeske

Freire, Shannon K. Wormian Bones: A Reliability Study of Methods for Scoring a Non-metric Human Oesteological Trait (MS, 2011). Advisor: P. Richards

Jones, Catherine R. Hope Dies Last: Applying Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy to the Elemental Analysis of Human Bone (MS, 2011). Advisor: P. Richards

Ko, Jen-Li Cultural Representations and Museums: The Construction of Ethnic Identity in Chicago’s Chinatown (PhD, 2011). Advisor: Brodwin

Oestreich, Rebecca L. Commemoration and Memory in the Museum (MS, 2011). Advisor: Washabaugh

Magnuson, Christopher Transcending Gender: Experiences and Perceptions of Gender Transition (PhD, 2011). Advisor: Jordt

Nemetz, Brenda S. An Examination of Authenticity in Performance and Narrative within the Midwestern Ghost Tour (MS, 2011). Advisor: Washabaugh

Ross, Katherine R. Counting the Discounted: A Preliminary Zooarchaeological Study of Swiss Lake-Dwelling Collections in Two U.S. Museums (MS, 2011). Advisor: Hudson

Schulenburg, Marcus A. Ceramic Analysis in the Upper Miami Valley: Using Clay Sourcing to Determine Intraregional Contact (MS, 2011). Advisor: Jeske

Segal, Oren Fashion and Indentity in Post-Socialist Slovakia (PhD, 2011). Advisor: Applbaum

Schutte, Michele L. Evidence of Trauma Resulting from Vehicular Impacts Present Among Individuals in the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery Collection (MS, 2011). Advisor: P. Richards

Winkler, Daniel M. Plainview Lithic Technology and the Late Paleoindian Social Organization in the Western Great Lakes (PhD, 2011). Advisor: Jeske

Bloedorn, Andrew L. A Ceramic Analysis for the Shrake-Gilles Village: An Oneota Habitation Site in Trempealeau, Wisconsin (MS, 2010). Advisor: J. Richards

Dalstrom, Matthew D. The Medical Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (PhD, 2010). Advisor: Brodwin

Edwards, Richard Wynn IV Oneota Settlement Patterns around Lake Koskonong in Southeast Wisconsin: An Environmental Catchment Analysis using GIS Modeling (MS, 2010). Advisor: Jeske

Ghisleni, Lara Gender, Domestic Space and Temporality in Late Iron Age and Early Roman Dorset (MS, 2010). Advisor: Arnold

Grimm, Peter Vertebrate Resource Utilization at the McCauley Site (47-WN-222): Impacts of the Fur Trade on Subsistence & Seasonality in Eastern Wisconsin (MS, 2010). Advisor: Hudson

Hassman, Monique D. Planting Place and Purpose in Milwaukee: An Ethnography of Localizing Urban Agriculture (MS, 2010). Advisor: Ajirotutu

Haugen, Carrie J. Autonomy Ideas and Ideals: Medical Decision Making with Community Based Human Services for Adults with Developmental Disabilities (MS, 2010). Advisor: Brodwin

Hopper, Jessica L. Where Saints and Souls Meet: An Examination of the Intersections of Life and Death in Gozo, Malta (MS, 2010). Advisor: Malaby

Lemke, Andrea A. The Associations between Allomothering and Oxytocin: Examining Females with and without Exposure to Children (MS, 2010). Advisor: Campbell

Moss, James D. Intrasite Feature Analysis of the Crescent Bay Hunt Club Site (47JE904), An Oneota Site in Southeastern Wisconsin (MS, 2010). Advisor: Jeske

Pampush, James D. Human Food Access and it Effects on South African Vervet Body Mass (MS, 2010). Advisor: Turner

Pierson, Alisa A. Exhibiting Indo-America: Representation and the Construction of Ethnic Identity at the Indo-American Heritage Site (MS, 2010). Advisor: Bornstein

Reddy, Alexandra J. Use of Gesture by Great Ape Mother-offspring Dyads: A Comparative Analysis of Captive Populations of Bonobos, Orangutans, and Gorillas (MS, 2010). Advisor: Turner

Shillinghaw, Katherine Skeletal Analysis of the Remains of Juveniles from the Milwaukee County Institutional Grounds Poor Farm Cemetery, 1880-1920, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (MS, 2010): Advisor: P. Richards

Thao, Phillipe N. Proprietors without a Spiritual Pillar: The Search for Revitalization among the Hmong in the Midwestern United States (PhD, 2010). Advisor: Jordt

Van Devender, Martha N. Shelf Life: Anthropological Reflections on African Collection Development (MS, 2010). Advisor: Perley

Vang, Mai Nhia The Good Wife: A Study of Hmong American Women’s Transient Status and their Experiences in the Formal Hmong Marriage and Divorce Process (MS, 2010). Advisor: Brodwin

Zellmer, Laura Jean Oxytocin, Vasopressin and Dominance Rank in a Large Captive Group of Bonobos ( Pan paniscus ) (MS, 2010). Advisor: Turner

Zweig, Christina L. The Formative Ceramic Figure Collection from the Site of Cahal Pech, Belize (MS, 2010). Advisor: Sherman

Barone, Lindsay M. Digit Ratio (2D:4D) and Ponderal Index as Predictors of Half-Marathon Performance (MS, 2009). Advisor: Campbell

Dosemagen, Shannon M. Performing Politics in Milwaukee: An Ethnography of Hip Hop Appropriation (MS, 2009). Advisor: Bornstein

Esche-Eiff, Karen M. Beyond Borders of Belief: Milwaukee Devotees in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Amritapuri, India (MS, 2009). Advisor: Bornstein

Evans, Terri K. Orphans as Alloparents: A Study on the Influence of Adoption of Unrelated Infants on Rank, Behavior, and Troop Formation among Vervet Monkeys at a Rehabilitation Facility (MS, 2009). Advisor: Turner

Gilliland, Erin Archaeological Value: Contingent, Constructed, Contested (MS, 2009). Advisor: Arnold

Glasker, Angela Changing Perspectives: “A Tribute to Survival” as a Case Study for Museums and Social Responsibility (MS, 2009). Advisor: Perley

Johnson, Paul F. The Hebior Mammoth: Skeletal Analysis and Experimental Butchery for a Proboscidean and Paleoindian Interaction Site in Southeastern Wisconsin (MS, 2009). Advisor: Hudson

Jordan, Alexis A Preliminary Study of Iron Age Glass in Ireland, with Particular Emphasis on the Glass Beads (MS, 2009). Advisor: Arnold

Pizza, Murphy Paganistan: The Emergence and Persistence of a Contemporary Pagan Community in Minnesota’s Twin Cities (PhD, 2009). Advisor: Arnold

Rudolph, Katie Z. A Taphonomic Analysis of Human Skeletal Material from Aztalan: Cannibalism, Hostility, and Mortuary Variability (MS, 2009). Advisor: P. Richards

Vigue, Kim Behavioral and Hormonal Variability in Vervet Monkeys under Stressed Conditions (MS, 2009). Advisor: Turner

Zemecnik, Angela M. An Osteological Investigation of the Late Woodland Raisbeck Effigy Mound Group Grant County, Wisconsin (MS, 2009). Advisor: Jeske

Brown, Melissa E. Reporting Cultural Resources through Digital Collections: A Case Study of Materials from the Williamsonville Site (47DR241) Door County, Wisconsin (MS, 2008). Advisor: J. Richards

Cullen, Kevin M. The Enigma of Amlash: Recontextualizing a Decontextualized Museum Collection from Northwestern Iran (MS, 2008). Advisor: Arnold

Farley, Erin L. The Multivocality of Weapons: Functional and Symbolic Aspects of Celtic Weaponry (MS, 2008). Advisor: Arnold

Deeken, Michael G. Second to Fourth Digit Ratio (2D/4D) in Males with Different Subtypes of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (MS, 2008). Advisor: Gray

Estrin, Alejandra A. Mujeres Mexicanas de Milwaukee: Stress and the Social Support of Women (PhD, 2008). Advisor: Turner

Hanna, Nicole N. The Juvenile Justice System in Japan and the United States: A Study of Collectivist and Individualist Perspectives (MS, 2008). Advisor: Gray

Karss-Siemers, Brenda K. An Evaluation-Based Pilot Study of Museum Professional and Teenager Opinions of Teen Programming (MS, 2008). Advisor: Arnold

Kubicek, Richard H. Contextualizing a “Lost” Collection: The Field Museum’s La Tène Material (MS, 2008). Advisor: Arnold

McAuliffe, Kerry A. Genetic Variability in Three South African Vervet Monkey ( Chlorocebus aethiops ) Populations (MS, 2008). Advisor: Turner

Sabin, Alan New Dragon: Reinventing Chinese Martial Arts for the Midwestern USA (MS, 2008). Advisor: Jordt

Sampson, Kurt A. Getting to the Point: Typology, Morphology, and Lithic Material Variation in the Milwaukee Public Museum Projectile Point Collection from the Aztalan Site (MS, 2008). Advisor: J. Richards

Smith, Kathleen An Osteological and Activity Pattern Analysis of the Kratz Creek Effigy Mound Site, Marquette County, Wisconsin (MS, 2008). Advisor: P. Richards

Tagliaferri, Christine The Impact of Nutrition and Animal Exposure on the Specific Health Complaints of Settled and Nomadic Turkana (MS, 2008). Advisor: Campbell

Bilyeu, Erin Living in an Imagined Past: Visitor Responses to the European Village Exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2007). Advisor: Arnold

Bjork, Stephanie R. Diasporic Moments: Practicing Clan in the Somali Diaspora (PhD, 2007). Advisor: Malaby

Cannizzo, Anna Enlightened: An Analysis of a Collection of Ancient Mediterranean Oil Lamps from the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2007). Advisor: Arnold

Dahlen, Timothy N. An Analysis of the Copper-Based Metal Artifacts from the Flynn Site: An Orr Phase Oneota Cemetery in Northeastern Iowa (MS, 2007). Advisor: Jeske

Drake, Saul Consumer Culture: How Cultures are Consumed: Research into the Symbolic and Physical Environment (MS, 2007). Advisor: Gray

Epstein, Ethan Distant Cores: Lithic Technology Group Mobility and Late Archaic Economic Adaptations at the Mortar Riddle Site, Steens Mountain, Oregon (35HA2627) (MS, 2007). Advisor: Jeske

Fiene, Julia Policies, Pills, and Procedures: The Complexities of Medical Pluralism and Structural Violence among Hispanic Immigrant and Migrant Women (MS, 2007). Advisor: Brodwin

Freeman, Antonio The Political Economy of Ambivalence in the Dominican Republic: Race, Ethnicity, and the Formation of National Identity (PhD, 2007). Advisor: Brodwin

Gredell, Erin Research Potential of Poorly Provenienced Museum Collections: a Case Study of a Mexican Cave Assemblage at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS 2007). Advisor: J. Richards

Hamlin, Christine The Material Expression of Social Change: The Mortuary Correlates of Gender and Age in Late Pre-Roman Iron Age and Roman Dorset (PhD, 2007). Advisor: Arnold

Handwerk, Elizabeth An Osteological and Mortuary Analysis of the McClaughry Effigy Mound Site, Marquette County, Wisconsin (MS 2007). Advisor: P. Richards

Malone, Krista-Lee Governance and Economy in a Virtual World: Guild Organization in World of Warcraft (MS, 2007). Advisor: Malaby

Mueller, Emily Jane Multitasking on the Mountain: An Analysis of a Northern Great Basin Zooarchaeological Assemblage, Mortar Riddle Site (35HA2627), Steens Mountain (Tse’tse’ede), Oregon (MS, 2007). Advisor: Hudson

Naunapper, Linda History, Archaeology and the Construction of Ethnicity: Bell Type II Ceramics and the Potawatomi (PhD, 2007). Advisor: Jeske

Sabo, Bridget Procuring Pipestone: an Examination of Pipe Material Selection in Wisconsin from the Late Archaic to the Historic Periods (MS 2007). Advisor: J. Richards

Stroik, John An Analysis of Four Lohmann to Early Stirling Phase Structures in the Mound 72 Precinct at the Cahokia Site (MS 2007). Advisor: J. Richards

Trumbull, Alexandra The New Age in Perspective: Transcending the Spirituality-Consumerism Divide (MS, 2007). Advisor: Jordt

Thimke, Elisabeth A. Urinary Testosterone and Cortisol Levels and Rank in Male and Female Bonobo Apes ( Pan paniscus ) (MS, 2007). Advisor: Turner

Asmussen, Cyra Gone “Phishin”: An Ethnographic Study on the Jam Band Phish (1983-2004) and the Phish Head Community that Formed around the Music (MS, 2006). Advisor: Washabaugh

Bohms, Jeralyn A Preliminary Analysis of Maya Incensarios Deposited in Lake Amatitan, Guatemala. (MS, 2006). Advisor: J. Richards

Brandon, Angela Exploring Possible Associations between Effigy Mounds and Petroforms in Dodge and Fond Du Lac Counties (MS, 2006). Advisor: Jeske

Buechel, Michael Between the Sun and the Moon: Espace Sobo Bade Encountering Globalization and the Production of Local Meaning through Place (MS, 2006). Advisor: Jordt

Carr, Alyson The Roles of Bilingual Hmong Professionals in the Maintenance of the Hmong Language in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (MS, 2006). Advisor: Perley

Johnson, James Different Strokes for Different Folks: Contingency, Entanglement and Bone and Antler Tools in the Swiss Neolithic (MS, 2006). Advisor: Arnold

Lange, Allison A Regional Analysis of Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in Iowa and Juneau Counties, Wisconsin (MS, 2006). Advisor: J. Richards

Petit, Melissa Gender Shifts: Archaeological Correlates of Transgendered Ritual Practitioners (MS, 2006). Advisor: Arnold

Van Beckum, Jonathan The “Rediscovery” of the First Fort Crawford: a Study Using Archaeological and Archival Data to Interpret and Date an Early Nineteenth Century American Fortification (MS, 2006). Advisor: P. Richards

Wellner, Kari An Analysis of the Human Remains from the Richter Site (47DR80): Diet and Health at a North Bay Phase, Middle Woodland Site in Door County (MS, 2006). Advisor: P. Richards

Williams, Ann A Women’s Nonprofit Organization in Crises: An Ethnography of Volunteerism (PhD, 2006). Advisor: Applbaum

Bradley, Melissa Paleopathology and Nutritional Health at the Nitschke Effigy Mound Site, Dodge County, WI (MS, 2005). Advisor: Jeske

Dalke, Karen The Real and the Imagined: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Wild Horse in the American Landscape (PhD, Fall 2005). Advisor: Ajirotutu

de Bie, Melissa Who’s Who in Plateau Cornhusk Bags? An Analysis of Maker Marks on Cornhusk Bag (MS, 2005). Advisor: Arnold

Her, Vincent Hmong Mortuary Practices: Self, Place and Meaning in Urban America (PhD, 2005). Advisor: Brodwin

Heydt-Nelson, Jessie Sheela-na-gigs and the Expedient Transmutation of Female Imagery (MS, 2005). Advisor: Arnold

Kaufmann, Kira E. Effigy Mound Sites as Cultural Landscapes: A Geophysical Spatial Analysis of Two Late Woodland Sites in Southeastern Wisconsin (PhD, 2005). Advisor: Jeske

Lillis, Jaclyn Weaving Our Way Through the Past: An Examination of Textiles from the Swiss Lake-Dwelling Site of Robenhausen at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2005). Advisor: Arnold

Lowry, Brett Animal Sacrifice and Feasting in Celtic Gaul: Regional Variation, Costly Signaling and Symbolism (MS, 2005). Advisor: Arnold

Mollerud, Katy Messages, Meanings and Motifs: An Analysis of Ramey Incised Ceramics at the Aztalan Site (MS, 2005). Advisor: J. Richards

Moore, Gregory Archaeological Correlates of Warfare in the Iron Age Mortuary Record: Patterns and Variations (MS, 2005). Advisor: Arnold

Robinson, Jacqueline The Translocality of the Ciwara Tradition in Rural and Urban Mali (PhD, 2005). Advisor: Ajirotutu

Robinson, Matthew Repercussions or Re-percussions? The History, Politics, and Regulation of Style and Style Change in Senegalese Mbalax (MS, 2005). Advisor: Applbaum

Rosenow, Leah Small Things Remembered: The Tell Hadidi Beads at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2005). Advisor: Arnold

Sera, James Social Hierarchy and Mobility: Capoeira in Salvador, Brazil (PhD, 2005). Advisor: Brodwin

Snell, Samuel Geographic Information Systems and Intrasite Analysis at the Bell Site (47WN9) (MS, 2005). Advisor: J. Richards

Sorenson, Nicole Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire: A Historical Archaeological Investigation of the Peshtigo Fire’s Impact at the Williamsonville Site, Door Country Wisconsin (MS, 2005). Advisor: P. Richards

Stavish, Patricia Women and Children First: the Distribution of Grave Goods at the La Tène Cemetery at Münsingen-Rain, Switzerland (MS, 2005). Advisor: Arnold

Watson, Robert The Creation of Space and Place at Cahokia: Mound 72, Mound 96, and the Mound 72 Precinct (PhD, 2005). Co-Advisors: Arnold and Fowler

2000 – 2004

Blodgett, Dustin The Richter Site: A Lithic Analysis of a North Bay Site on Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula (MS, 2004). Advisor: Jeske

Boczkeiwiez, Roberta I. What’s Good for the Goose: The Use of Faunal Remains to Identify the Ethnicity and Economic Status of a Pomeranian Immigrant Farmstead (MS, 2004). Advisor: Hudson

Foley Winkler, Kathleen Oneota Mortuary Practices in Southeast Wisconsin (MS, 2004). Advisor: Jeske

Halverson, Laura Clam River Focus Ceramics Re-examined: Variation within the Type Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2004). Advisor: J. Richards

Hewitt, Lindsey Resistance and Reproduction: Day-to-Day Negotiations of Gender Identity Construction at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (MS, 2004). Advisor: Malaby

Koziarski, Ralph Vertebrate Resource Utilization at the Late Prehistoric Component of the Bell Site (47WN9): an Application of Optimal Foraging Theory to Subsistence Analysis (MS, 2004). Advisor: Hudson

Mollet, Janean Identifying Children in the Archaeological Record at the Jeremiah Curtin House (MS, 2004). Advisor: P. Richards

Naseri, Masoud Medical Pluralism among Iran’s Nomadic Pastoralist Ethnic Minorities (MS, 2004). Advisor: Brodwin

Park, SunWoo Lithic Technology and Subsistence Change in the Thirteenth through Seventeenth Centuries: An Example from the Zimmerman/Grand Village of the Kaskaskia Site in the Upper Illinois River Valley (PhD, 2004). Advisor: Jeske

Shanoor, Nazima Morphological Adaptations to Diet in Primate Masticatory Muscles (PhD, 2004). Advisor: Anapol

Somlai, Mathew C. Cultural Sovereignity: The Maintenance and Performance of Urban Community among American Indians (PhD, 2004). Advisor: Brodwin

Winkler, Daniel Transitional Middle to Late Archaic Lithic Technology in Southeastern Wisconsin: The Kelly North Tract at Carcajou Point (MS, 2004). Advisor: Jeske

Boyajian, Kimberly Creative Ideology and Economic Strategies as Process: Oshogbo Artists in New York (MS, 2003). Advisor: Applbaum

Casey, Timothy Effigy Mounds in Southeastern Wisconsin: An Analysis of Site Location and Environmental Factors (MS, 2003). Advisor: Jeske

Clauter, Jody Late Woodland Cultural Complexity In Southeastern Wisconsin: A Ceramic Analysis from the Klug (47OZ26) and Klug Island Sites (MS, 2003). Advisor: Jeske

Fantle, Peter Archaic Period Marine Mammal Hunting Strategies on the South Coast of Peru (MS, 2003). Advisor: Hudson

Johnsen, Teresa Description and Analysis of Preserved Fabrics from the Northwest Mound at Aztalan: A Late Prehistoric Site in Southeastern Wisconsin (MS, 2003). Advisor: J. Richards

Macenka-Brown, Tammy Gender and Status Analysis of Four Arras Culture Cemeteries in Great Britain: Rudston, Burton Fleming, Garton Station and Kirkburn (MS, 2003). Advisor: Arnold

Olsen, M. Lee Oneota Subsistence in Southern Wisconsin: Agriculture and Plant Domestication at the Crescent Bay Hunt Club Site (MS, 2003). Advisor: Jeske

Perez-Lizano, Elena Consensus Analysis as a Method to Measure Visitor Knowledge in Museums (MS, 2003). Advisor: Gray

Roffers, Mary Nindoojibwem. Anishinaabe Indaw! I Speak Ojibwe, I am Ojibwe! The Study of Ojibwemowin as a Tool to Reestablish a Middle Ground (MS, 2003). Advisor: Washabaugh

Schneider, Seth Ancestor Veneration and Ceramic Curation: An Analysis from Speckhau Tumulus 17, Southwest Germany (MS, 2003). Advisor: Arnold

Blaszczyk, John Working the Program: Personal Stories of Gay Men with HIV/AIDS in the Alcoholic [Sic] Anonymous Program (MS, 2002). Advisor: Brodwin

Buelow, Tedd Remembering the Histories of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial and the Black Hills Claim (MS, 2002). Advisor: Washabaugh

Dickson, Randy Archaeological Survey: Probability, Problems and Plowed Contexts (MS, 2002). Advisor: J. Richards

Ellman, Joseph North American Jews in Israel: The Cultural Distinction and Identity of American-Anglo Olim (PhD, 2002). Advisor: Brodwin

Hunter, Chrisie Comparative Study of Oneota and Langford Traditions (MS, 2002). Advisor: Jeske

Kelly, John Delineating The Spatial And Temporal Boundaries Of Late Woodland Collated Wares From Illinois And Wisconsin (MS, 2002). Advisor: Jeske

Litton, Chad Negotiating Religious Identity at Borden State College (PhD, 2002). Advisor: Gray

Quall, Rebecca Three Dimensional Morphometric Measurements in an Ontogenetic Sample of Minipigs Fed Solid and Liquid Diets (MS, 2002). Advisor: Anapol

Talsky, Kathleen Consensus Analysis of High School Students’ Perceptions of High School Athletes (MS, 2002). Advisor: Gray

Theobald, Patsy The Effects of Managed Care on the Professionalization of Staff Nurses (MS, 2002). Advisor: Brodwin

Warwick, Matthew A Diachronic Study of Animal Exploitation at Aztalan, A Late Prehistoric Village in Southeast Wisconsin (MS, 2002). Advisor: Hudson

Zietz, Vanessa Pass the Duiker, Please: Spatial Analysis of Animal Bone to Identity Social Differences (MS, 2002). Advisor: Hudson

Ademola, Stephanie Watched Weddings: Circulating Videos and Transnational Community-Building amongst Somalis in Finland (MS, 2001), Advisor: Ajirotutu

Boor, Jocelyn The Ubiquitous Ushabti: A Study in Regional Variation (MS, 2001). Advisor: Arnold

Bubinas, Kathleen An Anthropological Study of the Employment of Asian Immigrants in an Ethnic Enclave Economy (PhD, 2001). Advisor: Brodwin

Cooper, Linda Searching for Sex Differences in Cheater Detection : An Extension of Cosmides and Tooby’s Social Contract Theory (MS, 2001). Advisor: Gray

Cornell-Swanson, LaVonne Transmission of Culture in an American Sign Language (ASL) Immersion Classroom. (PhD, 2001) Advisor: Ajirotutu

Darbyshire Moore, Mary Conservation Challenges in Historic House Museums: The Conflict between Collections Use and Historic Site Preservation (MS, 2001). Advisor: Arnold

Frederick, Aaron A Look in the Broom Closet: The Beliefs and Practices of the Modern Day Witch (MS, 2001). Advisor: Arnold

Gonzales, Sara Pestles, Powder Horns and Pot Hooks : An Analysis of the Thomas R. Roddy Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2001). Advisor: Arnold

Grubisha, Diane Analysis of the Steatite Artifacts from the Archaeological Site of Aila, Jordan (MS, 2001). Advisor: Arnold

Nodal, Roberto “Strangers In A New Land”: Palo Mayombe, an African-Cuban Religious Tradition in the Diaspora (PhD, 2001). Advisor: Brodwin

Randolph, Joseph Aboriginal Rock Art oftThe Lake Owyhee Reservoir, Oregon (MS, 2001). Advisor: J. Richards

Stanton, Sally Family Business: Museum Visitation as Gender Performance (PhD, 2001). Advisor: Arnold

Tharps, Quincy Childbearing as Resistance: One Possible Explanation for Single Parenting among Some African-American Females in an Urban Setting (PhD, 2001). Advisor: Brodwin

Watt, Richard Settlement Location Shifts in Northeastern Wisconsin during the Late Prehistoric and Historic Periods (MS, 2001). Advisor: J. Richards

Demel, Scott Understanding Remnant Archaic Settlement along the Western Coast of Lake Michigan (PhD, 2000). Advisor: J. Richards

Heckenkamp, Luke From Civilians to Soldiers: The Historical and Archaeological Context of Wisconsin’s Civil War Camps (MS, 2000). Advisor: P. Richards

Kowrach, Nicole Children, Museums and Multiculturalism: Using Museums as a Forum for Cultural Education (MS, 2000). Advisor: Arnold

Naunapper, Linda Value in the Use of Historical Sources in Archaeological Research: A Case Study at the Historic Period Robinson’s Reservation (MS, 2000). Advisor: Jeske

Robinson, Jacqueline Cultural Analysis of the Ciwara Headdress in Mali (MS, 2000). Advisor: Ajirotutu

Steffens, Rebecca Pre-Columbian to Post-Colonial: Continuity and Change in Highland Mayan Ceramics (MS, 2000). Advisor: Arnold

Ariens, Molly Fostering Curiosity, Enjoyment and Increased Understanding of Anthropology: The Presentation of Archaeology in Museums (MS, 1999). Advisor: Arnold

Crass, Barbara Pre-Christian Inuit Mortuary Practices: A Compendium of Archaeological and Ethnographic Sources (PhD, 1999). Advisor: Arnold

Dineen, Kathleen The Irish Language in Milwaukee, Wisconsin: An Application of the Theory of Symbolic Ethnicity (MS, 1999).

Gaff, April Canid Digging Behavior in the Archaeological Record: A Comparative Study of Wolves and Dogs (MS, 1999). Advisor: Jeske

Gaines, Shirley Decomposition: An Analysis of Five Organs (MS, 1999).

Gauthier, John An Examination of Sociosexuality and Risk-Taking Behavior (MS, 1999).

Rohe, Randall Contextual Analysis of a Pioneer Logging Camp: The Sherry and Gerry Site (FS-09-06-04-156) (MS, 1999).

Ruth, Christine Decay and Reconstruction: An Osteological Analysis of Effigy Mound Material from Wisconsin (PhD, 1999). Advisor: Turner

Kirchner, Julia View from the Bottom: The Experiences of W-2 Transitionals under Wisconsin’s “Welfare Reform” Law (MS, 1999). Advisor: Gray

Lotter, Franklin Euro-American Ethnicity in the Archaeological Record of Nineteenth Century Southeastern Wisconsin: A Review of Site Excavations (MS, 1999).

Lueders Bolwerk, Carol Dairy Farm Women In Wisconsin: The Changing Nature of Their Work, Roles, and Choices Over Three Generations (PhD, 1999).

Nanayakkara, Sanjay Sinhala Buddhist Conceptions of Health, Illness, And Yaktovil (MS, 1999).

Ozawa, Hiroko A View on the Skew: The Construction of Japanese Peruvian Identity through Immigration and Forced Replacement, 1899-1999 (MS, 1999).

Aho, Melissa Bead Colors in the Upper Mississippi Valley and the American Fur Company (MS, 1998).

Fernandez, Ricardo Dialectic Between the Archaeological and Historical Records: Consumer Choice and Symbolic Value in 19th Century British Pottery from the Warren House Site (MS, 1998).

Gabryszak, Beth ‘A Good Many Indian Things’: An Analysis of the William Mitchell Collection at the MPM (MS, 1998).

Hutchins, Laura Standards of Infant Long Bone Diaphyseal Growth from a Late Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century Almshouse Cemetery (MS, 1998).

Jakel, Gwendolyn Differential Skull Development in an Ontogenetically Scaled Sample of Minipigs Fed a Nutritionally Equivalent Diet of Different Consistencies, Hard and Soft (MS, 1998).

Jarosh, Christopher Statistics and Style in Rock Art Research (MS, 1998).

Johnson, Richard Pre-Clovis Possibilities in Southeastern Wisconsin (MS, 1998).

Magley, Melissa Mapping Gender a Drax Hall Plantation St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica (MS, 1998).

Oldani, Michael The Union Experience and the Anthropology of Trouble (MS, 1998).

Roberts, Joseph Sociobiological Examination of Ethnocentrism among Two Ethnic Units, Tamils and Gujaratis, in the City of Pune, India (PhD, 1998).

Shand, Angela The Dorian Dancers: An Ethnography of a Greek-American Folk Dance Troupe in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (MS, 1998).

Bird, M. Catherine Langford Tradition Settlement System and the Role of Material Culture in the Maintenance of Social Boundaries (PhD, 1997).

Bowles, Susannah An Analysis of Two Early Twentieth Century Collections from Central Africa (MS, 1997).

Freed, Fielding Willing Suspensions of Disbelief: Anthropological Dioramas and Museum Culture (MS, 1997).

Florence-Lackey, Jill Reclaiming the Honor: Central City Parents Who Resist the Blame (PhD, 1997).

Gaff, Donald It Crawled from the South: Mortuary Practices at Aztalan and Their Implication for Aztalan’s Origin (MS, 1997).

Hourigan, Dawn Yorkville Cemetery Project (MS, 1997).

Joyce, Amy Museum Archaeology: An Analysis of the Research Potential of Five Milwaukee Public Museum Collections (MS, 1997).

Kieselburg, James Museum Exhibition and Documentary Film: Visual Representations, Public Education, and the Future of Anthropology (MS, 1997).

Kuehn, Steven A Model Of Late Paleoindian Subsistence Behavior for the Western Great Lakes (MS, 1997).

Mevis, Molly The Research Potential of Museum Collections: Iroquois False Face Masks in the New York State Museum (MS, 1997).

Nicholls, Brian Sacred Landscapes: A New Approach to the Late Archaic in the Upper Midwest (MS, 1997).

Osborn, Sannie Death in the Daily Life of the Ross Colony: Mortuary Behavior in Frontier Russian America (PhD, 1997).

Richards, Patricia Unknown Man No 198: The Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (PhD, 1997).

Rodell, Roland The Diamond Bluff Site Complex: Time and Tradition in the Northern Mississippi Valley (PhD, 1997).

Sanders, Ronald The Sanders Site: Excavation, Problems, and Re-Interpretation (MS, 1997).

Twinde, Vicki A Critical Evaluation of Oneota Radiocarbon Dates in Eastern Wisconsin (MS, 1997).

Vanderlinden, Daniel Mississippi Turning: From Caste to Class in a Southern Town (MS, 1997).

Willems, Thomas GIS Predictive Modeling of Prehistoric Site Distributions in Central Wisconsin (MS, 1997).

Willems, Wendy Dancing Bears, Puppets and Cowering Beasts: Images of the Other in Milwaukee Newspaper Articles, 1920-1997 (MS, 1997).

St. George, Dawn Population Genetics of Yellow Baboons ( Papio hamadryas cynocephalus ) (PhD, 1997).

Schaepe, Karen A Qualitative Study of the Milwaukee Museum Studies Program (MS, 1997).

Ambrose, Mollie Paternity Analysis in Primates: Methods and Techniques (MS, 1996).

Hammerburg, Nikki The Future of the Past: The Condition of Archaeological Collections in The United States (MS, 1996).

Christensen, Judith Breaking the Code of Museum Exhibits: Learning and Attraction in Museum Exhibits (MS, 1996).

Crosby, Nancy Across the Bering Land Bridge: An Analysis of DNA Sequence Data Examining the Relationship between American Indian and Siberian Populations (MS, 1996).

Cunningham, Peter Chinese Mortuary Rituals: Their Potential for Archaeological Study (MS, 1996).

Denton, Glenn Astronomical Mound Alignment in the Lower Mississippi Valley: A Comparative Approach (MS, 1996).

Fajzi, Ester Cybermuseology: The Relationship of Visitor Age, Behavior, and Holding Power at Low-Tech Displays in the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 1996).

Hooijer, Katinka Sex, Symbols, and Subjectivity: An Anthropological Approach to Feminist Rhetoric and the Construction of Sexuality (MS, 1996).

Newell, Loxley The Microbe Conquest af North America (MS, 1996).

O’Gorman, Jodie Domestic Economics and Mortuary Practices: A Gendered View of Oneota Social Organization (PhD, 1996).

Randall, Christine The Influence of Anthropological Concepts on American Indian Exhibits at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 1996).

Schram, Jacqueline Completing the Circle: A Look at Three North American Indian Groups after Repatriation (MS, 1996).

Baumann, Timothy Missouri’s Neglected History: Establishing a Framework for African-American Archaeology (MS, 1995).

Crosby, Nancy Across the Bering Land Bridge: An Analysis of DNA Sequence Data Examining the Relationship between American Indian and Siberian Populations (MS, 1995) Advisor: Turner.

Dahedl, Brian Archaeology, Space, and Geographic Information Systems (MS, 1995).

Keller, Kristy Evaluating a Video Station at The Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 1995).

Locke, Elizabeth An Assessment of the Egyptian Necklaces in the Collections of the Milwaukee Public Museumn (MS, 1995).

Lucke, Joyce We All Agree: A Study of Cultural Consensus in a Hmong Community (PhD, 1995).

Pope, Carol Women’s Ice Hockey in the Madison Area: Finesse Style Hockey and Counter Hegemonic Practice (MS, 1995).

Tharps, Quincy Socioeconomic Status as a Condition that May Affect Variation in the Primary Sex Ratio: A Study of the Trivers and Willard Hypothesis Regarding Parental Biasing of Offspring using a Sample of Females in the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (MS, 1995).

Barry, Karen Comparative Morphology and Fiber Architecture of The Hindlimb Muscles of Cercopithecus aethiops And Cercopithecus ascanius (MS, 1994).

Rabbani, Mian Honor And Modesty: Underlying Principles of Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures (MS, 1994).

Scher Thomae, Dawn From Heathen to Hero: American Indian Participation in the United States Military (MS, 1994).

Wendt, Peter “Learning To Live With It”: Elements of Ritual in the Biomedical Treatment of Chronic Pain (MS, 1994).

Clappier, Virginia The Ladies Have Style: A Comparison of Selected Near Eastern Female Figurines (MS, 1993).

Flick, Geralyn Between Description and Explanation: Middle Range Considerations of Ceramic Visibility in Southeastern Wisconsin (MS, 1993).

Hardy, James Angels with Only One Wing: Servicemen and the Strategies and Tactics of Philippine Women (PhD, 1993).

Nelson, Candice The “Rite” To Dance: A Study of the Hamatsa (MS, 1993).

Pagelsdorf, Janelle The Role of the Mother in Brother-Sister Incest Avoidance: An Examination of Childhood Association and Mother-Child Attachment Theories (MS, 1993).

Watson, Robert Symbolic Information and Legitimization as Evidenced by Ramey Incised Ceramics. (MS, 1993).

Brubaker, Robert Father Proximity and Child Training: A Holocultural Study (MS, 1992).

Hagglund, Karl Households and American Archaeology: Household Archaeology as a Paradigm for Archaeological Interpretation (MS, 1992).

Mier, Lawrence Ceramic Typology: A Historical Perspective (MS, 1992).

Paulus, Ellen Mounds as Mortuary Sites: The Initial Investigation into a Bioarchaeological Study (MS, 1992).

Richards, John Ceramics and Culture at Aztalan, A Late Prehistoric Village in Southeast Wisconsin (PhD, 1992).

Krouse, Susan A Window into Indian Culture: The Powwow as Performance (PhD, 1991).

Napier, Nancy A Preliminary Investigation of Postnatal Osteogenesis of the Surface of the Brow Region in Papo cynocephalus cynocephalus : A Developmental Model (MS, 1991).

Bellomo, Randy The Use of Actualistic Studies of Fire on Contemporary African and North American Landscapes for Assisting in the Identification of Traces of Natural and Humanly Controlled Fire in the Archaeological Record (PhD, 1990).

Bischoff, Elizabeth A Comparative Study of Dimensions of the Skeletal Elements in the Shoulder-Forelimb Complex of Three Spider Monkey Species (MS, 1990).

Cadotte, Sheila Investigating Functional Differences in the Foot Region of Three Species of African Monkeys (MS, 1990).

Hallin, Kurt Paleoindian Proboscidian Hunting in North America: A Paleoecologic/Behavioral Approach (MS, 1990).

Moleski, Jacqueline Community without Borders: Media Fan Discussion in On-Line Listservs (MS, 1990).

Schuh, James Gaze Behavior as a Measure of Communicative Withdrawal among Adult Stutterers (PhD, 1990).

Skoll, Geoffrey Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk: An Ethnography of a Drug Treatment Facility (PhD, 1990).

Wilson, Sarah The Ethnography of Death, Dying and Hospice Care (PhD, 1990).

Zelazo, Ziona The Relevance of “Minority Group Status Hypothesis” to Fertility Behavior of Immigrants to Israel (MS, 1990).

1980 – 1989

Browne, Clayton Linguistic Codes and Obscurity in Discourse (MS, 1989).

Gabor, Greg Conflict and Cohesion in a Planned Community in the Netherlands (PhD, 1989).

Kachel, Kate The Paleoindian Period in Wisconsin in Context (MS, 1989).

Wolforth, Thomas Small Settlements and Population Movement in the Mississippian Settlement Pattern (MS, 1989).

Daron, Steven Style and the Analysis of Social Organization: A Critique of Five Theories (MS, 1988).

Davis, Randall From Effervescene to Knowledge: The Role of Power in the Evolution of a Christian Church (PhD, 1988).

Huang, Maureen Chinese without a Chinatown (PhD, 1988).

Maiers, Jerald Fuzzy Sets and Anthropology: Approximate Reasoning as a Methodological Framework (PhD, 1988).

Neitzke, David Mound Organization in and Around Amalucan, Mexico (MS, 1988).

O’Malley, Mark Quartz Artifacts from Sengal (MS, 1988).

Patnode, Daniel Making the Most of What You’re Dealt: Lexical Expansion in the Menominee Development of Play Card Terminology (MS, 1988).

Smith, Sylvia The Censers and Canoeleros of Santa Barbara, Honduras (MS, 1988).

St. George, Dawn Reexamination of Female Dispersal in Two Populations of Chimpanzees (MS, 1988).

Whitman, Linda Redigging the Past: The Condition of Archaeological Museum Collections (MS, 1988).

Bade, Mary The Jersey Bluff Mounds: The Importance of, and Application of a Museum Collection in the Analysis of Late Woodland Mortuary Behavior in the Lower Illinois Valley (MS 1987).

Gade, Susan Classification and Conceptual Consequences: The Oneota Example (MS, 1987).

Kohl, Thomas The Materialist/Idealist Debate on Food Taboos: Toward a Synthesis of the Meaningful and the Practical (MS, 1987).

Lucke, Joyce M. P. Carroll’s Methodology Tested: Further Contributions to the Study of Myth (MS, 1987).

Marcucci, Derrick Economic Specialization and Regional Symbiosis: A New Perspective of Mississippian Craft Specialization (MS, 1987).

Mott, Carol Genetic and Morphological Differentiation in three Subspecies of Mitis Monkeys ( Cercopithecus mitis ) From Kenya (PhD, 1987).

Osborn, Sannie Types Through Time and Space: An Historical and Current Perspective of Projectile Point and Ceramic Typology (MS, 1987).

Schroder, Sissel Variation In Secondary Disposal of the Dead: A World Wide Survey (MS, 1987).

Spang, Thomas The Applicability of Instrumental Analyses to Archaeology: An Example Involving East-Central Wisconsin Rhyolites (MS, 1987).

Spink, Joan A Cross-Cultural, Cross-Species Examination of Primate Homosexuality (MS, 1987).

Deutsch, Richard Continuity and Social Change on Spetses Island, Greece (PhD, 1986).

Marks, Eric Subsistence Modeling and Faunal Methodology: Some Basic Problems (MS, 1986).

Peters, Lynne Late Mississippian Village: Community and Society of the Mouse Creek Phase in Southeastern Tennessee (PhD, 1986).

Turck, Thomas The Lithic Assemblage of Mound 72 Cahokia (MS, 1986).

Gasper, Linda A Comparative Analysis of Three Pastoral Societies in a Cultural Ecology Framework (MS, 1985).

Green, Pamela Museum Volunteers in Milwaukee County: The Present and Future Prospects (MS, 1985).

Jonas, Karen Old and New Friendships of Elderly Residents of Public Housing (PhD, 1985).

Keyes, Grace Mexican-American and Anglo Midwifery in San Antonio, Texas (PhD, 1985).

Lurenz, Paul Occusal Wear in Juvenile Baboons (MS, 1985).

Martin, Jean-Claude Sexual Differences in the Shape and Growth of the Pelvis among Four Species of Old World Monkeys (PhD, 1985).

Olsen, Marion Staff and Visitor Relationships at the Milwaukee Public Museum (PhD, 1985).

Terras, Donald Material Culture Studies and Museums: An Example of an Integrated Approach to the Study of Anthropology in Museums (MS, 1985).

Ahler, Steven Archaic Settlement Strategies in the Modoc Locality, Southwest Illinois (PhD, 1984).

Etler, Dennis Lufeng Fossil Ape Site and the Place of Chinese Sivapithecines in Hominoid Phylogeny (MS, 1984).

Hanson, Jerry Adaptation smong Corn Belt Grain-Livestock Farmers: A Case Study (PhD, 1984).

Korenic, Mary The Place of Samoan Bark Cloth Designs in Samoan Culture (MS, 1984).

Lass, Egon Projectile Points of the Modoc Rock Shelter (MS, 1984).

Ryden, Nancy Lithic Assembages of the Lower Rock River Valley: Illinois: Archaeological Expectations and Realities (MS, 1984).

Sandy, Stephanie The Hmong In Milwaukee: Patterns in Migration and Settlement (MS, 1984).

Cavadias, Pamela Australopithecus afarensis : A Closer Look at its Classification (MS, 1983).

Davis, Randall The Use of the Concept of Shamanism in Anthropology (MS, 1983).

Precourt, Prudence Settlements, Systems, and Patterns: An Ecological Systems Analysis of Settlement Systems Near Amozoc De Mota, Puebla, Mexico (PhD, 1983).

Rodell, Roland The Late Prehistory of Eastern Wisconsin: A Survey of the Archaeological Research and Interpretations Pertaining to Oneota Settlement and Subsistence (MS, 1983).

Bruhy, Mark The Huron and Iroquois in Early History: European Trade and Societal Change (MS, 1982).

Clark, Frances Knife River Flint and Interregional Exchange (MS, 1982).

DePuydt, Peter A Hypothetical Archaeological Record of Ainu Subsistence and Settlement (MS, 1982).

Jurkoic, Lisa A Survey of Morphological Changes in the Mandible from the Australopithecines to Modern Man (MS, 1982).

Kolb, Michael The Schroeder Mounds Site: A Preliminary Analysis from a Spatial Perspective (MS, 1982).

Musil, Jennifer The Effigy Mound Tradition in Wisconsin (MS, 1982).

Richards, John Archaeological Inference and Ecological Models: Some Considerations of Theory and Practice (MS, 1982).

Bruhy, Patricia The Historic Winnebago: Settlement and Subsistence in The Crawfish and Rock River Valleys (MS, 1981).

Meer, Rosanne The Anthropology of Southwestern Alaska: An Overview and Evaluation of Theories of Cultural, Linguistic, and Physical Affinities of the Aboriginal Inhabitants (MS, 1981).

Mudgett, Carol Navajo Ambulatory Care Utilization Patterns (PhD, 1981).

Rudman, Steven Observations on Uintasorex parvulus (Mammalia, Primates) from the Bridger Formation, Southwestern Wyoming (MS, 1981).

Clauser, Donald Functional and Comparative Anatomy of the Primate Spinal Column: Some Locomotor and Postural Adaptations (PhD, 1980).

Graber, Robert The Sociocultural Differentiation of a Religious Sect: Schisms among the Pennsylvania German Mennonites (PhD, 1980).

Graham, David Stress, Administrative Policy, and the Collapse of the Classic Maya (MS, 1980).

Grau, Lois Residents, Their Families, and Governmental Regulations: Sources of Control on the Organization of the Nursing Home (PhD, 1980).

Hartwig, Laura A Survey of the Negative Effects of Maize Agriculture on the Health of Populations in the Eastern United States (MS, 1980).

Horstman, Connie Problems in Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene Hominid Taxonomy: A Model Seeking Solutions (MS, 1980).

Koenen-Birong, Marcia Archaeological Interpretations of the Hinterland Sites and Foci on the Northern and Western Boundaries of the Central Mississippi Valley: A Synthesis (MS, 1980).

Kwas, Mary Bannerstones as Chronological Markers in The Southeastern United States (MS, 1980).

McDonald, James An Historical Materialist Model of Acculturation and Application (MS, 1980).

Robinson, Lizabeth Native Americans and Small Museums: Some Considerations for Anthropologists (MS, 1980).

Stark, James The Ranieri-Hicks House: An Exercise in Historical Archaeology (MS, 1980).

VanderLeest, Barbara Ramey Field, Cahokia Surface Collection: A Functional Analysis of Spatial Structure (PhD, 1980).

Wintheiser, John Saltatorial Locomotion in Primates and Rodents. (PhD, 1980). Advisor: Tappen

1970 – 1979

Andrews, Joan Collections Management in Anthropology: Solving the Problem of Inaccessible Museum Collections (MS, 1979).

Cope, Thomas A Profile of Participants in a Rotating Credit Association in Mexico (MS, 1979).

Dimock, Anne Men’s Role in Abortion (MS, 1979).

Gebo, Daniel An Analysis of Muscle Morphology and Biomechanics of the Lower Extremity in Three Primate Species (MS, 1979).

Kind, Robert An Environmental Reconstruction of the Crawfish and Rock Rivers Archaeological Project’s Study Area and its Implications for Prehistoric Settlement-Subsistence Behavior (MS, 1979).

Mott, Carol Analysis of Weathering Cracks on Fifty Femurs from Chirikof Island, Alaska (MS, 1979).

Muehlbauer, Eugene Common Interest Associations, Intensification of Factionalism and New Leadership: Responses to Economic Change in a Swiss Alpine Community (PhD, 1979).

Padgett, Deborah Settlers and Sojourners: A Study of Serbian Adaptation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (PhD, 1979).

Smutko, Gregory Two Missionary Models and their Implications on Several Latin American Societies (MS, 1979).

Stevenson, Joan Immunoglobulin Haplotype Distributions in Europe as Support for Historically Based Hypotheses (PhD, 1979).

Whiteford, Linda Family Relations in Seco County: A Case Study of Social Change (PhD, 1979).

Ahler, Steven Some Effects of Subsistence Changes on Social Organization (MS, 1978).

Hassen, Harold The Effect of European and American Contact on the Chugach Eskimo of Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1741-1930 (PhD, 1978).

James, Gregory An Exploration of a Hunter and Gatherer Subsistence and Settlement Model Using Data from Highland Mexico (MS, 1978).

Keyes, Grace The Political Role of Women in Pre-Industrial Societies (MS, 1978).

Van Dyke, Allen A Review of Some Quantitative Methods Used in Archaeological Faunal Analysis: Their Utility and Limitations (MS, 1978).

Anderson, Ralph Males in a Female World: Men in Public Housing for the Elderly (PhD, 1977).

Fazio, Linda Comparative Analysis of Hopi and Navajo Weaving Technology: Cultural-Ecological Implications for Acceptance and Modification of Innovation (MS, 1977).

Fletemeyer, John Closed Group Concept in Baboons (MS, 1977).

Fox, Greysolynne Social Dynamics in Siamang (PhD, 1977).

Halper, Jeffrey Ethnicity and Education: The Schooling of Afro-Asian Children in a Jerusalem Locality (PhD, 1977).

Mitchell, Kathleen Aspects of Taxonomies (PhD, 1977).

Peters, Lynne Mississippian Social Organization and Ethnohistorical Implications (MS, 1977).

Scheibengraber, Karl Coherent Optical Correlation: A New Method of Craniological Comparison (PhD, 1977).

Sidoff, Phillip An Ethnohistorical Investigation of the Medicine Bundle Complex among Selected Tribes of the Great Plains (MS, 1977).

Yeaw, Susan The Social Context of Second Language Acquisition: The Example of Decreolization (MS, 1977).

Gladstone, Laraine Some Observations on the Social Behavior of a One-Male Group of Erythrocebus patas in Captivity (MS, 1976).

Goldstein, Vida Coping with Long-Term Illness at Home (PhD, 1976).

Graber, Robert Personal Wealth, Family Size and Age as Predictors of Leaders’ Affiliations in a Sectarian Schism (MS, 1976).

Hirsch, Gregory The Concept of Multicentric Spheres in Economic Systems (MS, 1976).

Mudgett, Carol Carneiro’s Theory of Cultural Evolution (MS, 1976).

Overstreet, David Grand River, Lake Koshkonong, Green Bay and Lake Winnebago Phases: Eight Hundred Years of Oneota Prehistory in Eastern Wisconsin (PhD, 1976).

Ralin, Peter Cranial Discrete Traits: An Example of Epigenetic Nonmetric Variation (MS, 1976).

Wojciechowski, Laura A Survey of Anthropology in the Milwaukee Public Schools 1975-1976 School Year (MS, 1976).

Birmingham, Robert Langford Tradition and its Environmental Context in the Rock River Valley, Illinois (MS, 1975).

Blakeslee, Donald Plains Interband Trade System: An Ethnohistoric and Archeological Investigation (PhD, 1975).

Bohnert, Allen Privacy in One Type of Communal Dwelling (MS, 1975).

Boyer, Eunice Factors influencing Health Perception among the Elderly in Public Housing (PhD, 1975).

Ebert, Gail Re-Interpretation of the Minoan Prepalatial Era (MS, 1975).

Gabor, Greg Actonic Ethnography in the Field: A Case Study in Observed Behavior among two Urban Waste Collection Crews (MS, 1975).

Gregg, Michael Settlement Morphology and Production Specialization: The Horse Lake Site, a Case Study (PhD, 1975).

Guillen, Ann Cyphers The Preclassic Ceramic Chronology at Chalcatzingo, Morelos Mexico: Implications for Internal Growth and External Contacts (MS, 1975).

Saylor, Leslie Omaha Marriage Patterns: Urban Vs Reservations (MS, 1975).

Stevenson, Joan The Meaning of Caucasian with Respect to the HLA System (MS, 1975).

Weil, John Functional Analysis: It’s Methods, Techniques and Potential as a Research Tool for Anthropological Archaeology (MS, 1975).

Awald, John Rise of Cities in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (MS, 1974).

Benchley, Elizabeth Mississippian Secondary Mound Loci: A Comparative Functional Analysis in a Time-Space Perspective (PhD, 1974).

Barsamian, Gayle Visual Anthropology: Is the Medium the Message? (MS, 1974).

Brazeau, Linda House 4-Cahokia: Description and Analysis (MS, 1974).

Buhler, Elizabeth Homo Erectus in the Far East (MS, 1974).

Dudzik, Mark Aboriginal Subsistence-Settlement Systems in the Upper Mississippi River Valley (MS, 1974).

Edwards, John The Mousterian Complex (MS, 1974).

Florey, Martha A Statistical Correlation of Sequence of Dental Wear Patterns with Sequence of Ephiphyseal Union in Two Populations of South American Monkeys (MS, 1974).

Goldstein, Vida Early Man in America: A Review of the Evidence (MS, 1974).

Hamill, James Studies in Trans-Cultural Logic (PhD, 1974).

Hirth, Kenneth Precolumbian Population Development along the Rio Amatzinac: The Formative Through Classic Periods in Eastern Morelos, Mexico (PhD, 1974).

Moiser, Judith Downtown Medical and Health Services: A Case Study (MS, 1974).

Pearson, James Social Networks and Urban Neighbors: An Essay (MS, 1974).

Scheibengraber, Karl Bioholography and Holovariate Analysais in Physical Anthropology (MS, 1974).

Barnstable, Robert Japan: Why Modernization? (MS, 1973).

Clauser, Donald The Spinal Column and Associated Muscles of Macaca speciosa (MS, 1973).

Jonas, Karen Cultural Aspects of Drinking, Drunken Behavior and Problems Resulting from Such Behaviors (MS, 1973).

Rountree, Helen Indian Land Loss in Virginia: A Prototype of U.S. Federal Indian Policy (PhD, 1973).

Showman, Margaret Nilo-Hamite Age-Set Organizations: Responses to Subsistence Risk in Three Environmental Zones (MS, 1973).

Vena, Ralph Two Studies in Cross-Cultural Research Compared and Contrasted (MS, 1973).

Anderson, Ralph An Analysis of Demographic Variables in Prehistoric and Non-Census Societies (MS, 1972).

Cowles, Joan Education and Development (MS, 1972).

Erickson, Jon Explanations of Aztec Human Sacrifice (MS, 1972).

Farmer, Michael U.S. Government Policy Toward Native Americans: 1867-1971 (MS, 1972).

Halper, Jeffrey A Network Analysis of Sociocultural Change: The Political Evolution from Tribe to Chiefdom (MS, 1972).

Hirth, Kenneth Project on Olmecs (MS, 1972).

Houlihan, Patrick Art and Social Structure on the Northwest Coast (PhD, 1972).

Kaesar, Susan An Analysis of the Culture of Poverty Concept: Its Implications, Interpretations, and Criticisms and Why It Gets So Much Attention (MS, 1972).

Mitchell, Kathleen A Theoretical Framework for Determining the Effects of Environment on the Social Organization of Non-Human Primates (MS, 1972).

Mochon, Marion Stockbridge-Munse Cultural Adaptations “Assimilated Indians” (PhD, 1972).

Whiteford, Linda Factors Influencing Urban Job Satisfaction (MS, 1972).

Becker, Steven Group Identity and Social Image of Working Class Teenagers (MS 1971).

Greysolynne, Jean Some Comparisons Between Siamang and Gibbon Behaviour (MS, 1971).

Ulrich, George Plant Transpiration Rates and Political Integration in the Kenya Highlands (MS, 1971).

Conaway, Mary Essay On Social Networks (MS, 1970).

Fox, Greysolynne Some Comparisons between Siamang and Gibbon Behavior (MS, 1970).

Krajewski, Sandra S. The Comparison of Prehensile and Nonprehensile Tail Musculature in Two Species of New and Old World Monkeys (MS, 1970).

Schenk, Fred The Triad in the Social Network (MS, 1970).

Abler, Thomas Traffic Pattern and Exhibit Design: A Study of Learning in the Museum (MS, 1965).

Mochon, Marion Toward Urbanism: The Cultural Dynamics of the Prehistoric and Historic Societies of the American Southeast (MS, 1966).

Sever, Lowell ABO Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn: An Analysis of a Series of Cases from the Milwaukee Blood Center (MS, 1968).

Vanderwal, Ron Prehistory of Jamaica: A Ceramic Study (MS, 1968).

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Theses/dissertations from 2022 2022.

Investigating the built environment of Fort George Wright, Spokane, Washington: a historic archaeological approach , Conlan Shane Vance

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Homelessness in the West: business improvement districts as the strategic weaponization of class monopoly rent , Zachary Roger Arms

Cultural competence and mental health care: an assessment of Lutheran Community Services Northwest-Spokane , Olivia Beals

Overcoming loneliness: first-generation Slavic immigrants' experience with loneliness in the Inland Northwest , Charles C. Crook

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

'Armageddon': the unholy trinity of class monopoly rent in the Emerald City , Elijah Connor Hansen

Rocks for the homeless: the health conditions of Spokane homeless people , Brandon T. Poepping

A hard kind of labor: an archaeological analysis of small-scale hard rock mines in northeast Washington , Samantha J. Thiel

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Population dynamics and water resource consumption in Spokane, WA , Daniel Jesus Castillo

The Gundlach Collection : a study of projectile points from the Albeni Falls Reservoir , Jeffrey Cortlund Johnson

The academic performances of community college transfer students at Eastern Washington University (EWU) , Amanda S. Lee

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

RADIO HOME: GIVING A VOICE TO THE HOMELESS IN SPOKANE, WASHINGTON , Aaron R. Bocook

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Sacred versus secular: Celtic watery depositions of Iron Age human crania in the British Isles , Katherine R. Carlson

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Theses from 2018 2018.

Revisiting Magee: A Mississippian Mound Center Site , Nicholas Glass

From Dago to White: The Story of Sicilian Ethnic Evolution in New Orleans Amidst the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1905 , H. Denise LoPresto Saucier

Theses from 2017 2017

A Microdebitage Analysis of the Winterville Mounds Site (22WS500) , Stephanie Leigh-Ann Guest

Austin (22TU549): Mississippian Emergence In the Northern Yazoo Basin , Elizabeth Kay Hunt

Lois Lenski, A Friend to Children: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of a Children's Book Author , Stephanie Evans Thomas

Theses from 2016 2016

Being with Bees: An Anthropological Study on Human-Animal Relations in Southern Beekeeping , Kori Nadine Armstrong

Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Development of Upper Arm Musculoskeletal Stress Markers in Late Adolescents and Young Adults of Archaic and Mississippian Populations of Tennessee , Heather Marie Guzik

The Organization of Technology in the Pine Hills of Mississippi , Ronald W. Wise Jr.

Theses from 2015 2015

Unsortable Wares: A Petrographic Analysis of Addis Temper from the Fatherland Site (22AD501), Adams County, Mississippi , David Benjamin Abbott Jr.

Paleopathology at the Shady Grove Site (22QU525): A Study of Health in the Upper Yazoo Basin During the Middle Mississippian Period , Christopher Brady Davis

Bioarchaeological Analysis of Oak View Landing (40Dr1): An Archaic Population in the Kentucky Lake Reservior , Katy D. Grant-McLemore

An Ethnography of Taste: Craft Beer Culture in Hattiesburg , Yingkun Hou

Burial Chronological Sequencing of the Colonial Maya Cemetery at Tipu, Belize Using Fluoride Ion Analysis , Nicole Musselwhite

Theses from 2014 2014

The Effects of the Nat Turner Slave Revolt on the Health and Welfare of 19th-Century Slaves in Southeastern Virginia , Jeffrey Clifford Auerbach

A Paleopathological Analysis of the Moran French Colonial Cemetery , Jennifer Lynn Funkhouser

Did Money Matter? Interpreting the Effect of Displayed Wealth on Social Relations within an Enslaved Community , Matthew Clark Greer

Prehistoric Life on the Mississippi Coast: Chronology and Function of Ceramics from Three Shell Middens in the Grand Bay Estuary , Samuel Michael Huey

One Big Puzzle, Two Thousand Tiny Pieces: An Analysis of the Juvenile Remains from the Shady Grove Ossuary , Jaimie Arlene Ide

Selling Tradition: Impression Management and Draft Animal Agriculture of a Mississippi Farmstead , Matthew Corbin Lance

An Evaluation of Metric Methods of Race Differentiation in the Human Pelvic Girdle for the Application of Expert Witness Testimony , Laura Natalie Yurka

Theses from 2013 2013

The Oaks: Interpretation and Analysis of the Support Structures of a 19th Century Urban Farmstead , Justin Dwayne Beavers

Analysis of Post-Cranial Traits for the Assessment of Biological Distance among Temporally Distinct New World Populations of African Descent , Claire Marie Dansereau

Settlement, Mobility, and the Organization of Technology at the Clark Lake Site (22SH535): A Small-Scale Woodland Settlement , Michelle Renee Hammond

Theses from 2012 2012

Distant Neighbors: Negotiating Space and Urban Development in a Southern Mississippi Community , Kelly Jo Davila

A Place Like Home , Tabitha Denae Epperson

Cross-Cultural Contact on Ship Island, Mississippi: An Analysis of the French Warehouse Site Ceramic Assemblage from an Aboriginal and Engendered Perspective , Barbara Thedy Hester

German POWs, Biopolitics, & the Piney Woods: Using Foucault to Analyze Resistance at Camp Shelby's POW Camp During World War II , Patricia Lynn Miller-Beech

East of the Tracks: Grassroots Environmentalism in South Mississippi , Heather Kay Sanchez

Theses from 2011 2011

The Relationship Between Salivary Cortisol Levels and Stressful Behaviors upon the Introduction of a New Exhibit Mate in Captive Black and Gold Howler Monkeys ( Alouatta caraya ) at the Hattiesburg Zoo , Cassie Mechelle Chandler

Ancestral Analysis of the French Colonial Moran Cemetery, Biloxi, Mississippi , Danielle Nicole Cook

The Deer Island Site (22HR500): Prehistoric Ceramics and Their Meaning on the Mississippi Gulf Coast , Donald Louis Craig

Consequences of Contact: An Evaluation of Childhood Health Patterns Using Enamel Hypoplasias Among the Colonial Maya of Tipu , Amanda R. Harvey

Shady Grove Site (22QU525) Quitman County, Mississippi: Analysis of Demographics and Mortuary Practices , Stacy Ann Scott

Theses from 2010 2010

Mississippian Feasting Strategies In the Lower Mississippi Valley: Archaeobotanical Analysis of Two Features From Winterville Mounds (22WS500) , Diana Boney Flosenzier

Theses from 2001 2001

Poetry and the State: The Politics of Nabat Tradition in Kuwait , Abdullah Alajmi

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Anthropology M.A. Theses

The following is a list of recent Anthropology M.A. graduates and their theses. PDF copies of theses are available via ProQuest, but you will need to log in through the University of Mississippi’s WedID system. Older theses available through the University of Mississippi Libraries’. UM theses-Anthropology

• Max Conrad  (May) “Dixieland do Sul: Brazilian Racial Democracy and the Recontextualization of Transnational Confederate Symbols” Marcos Mendoza (Chair), Simone Delerme, Jodi Skipper, Catarina Passidomo
• Kaitlyn Sisco (May) “Patagonian Precarity: Extractive Tourism and Subaltern Activism in El Chaltén, Argentina” Marcos Mendoza (Chair), Kristin Hickman, Nora Sylander
• Kolbe Verdun (December 2023) “Outdoorsman Culture in the Deep South: Understanding Cultural Capital and Social Capital Formation” Simone Delerme (Chair), Marcos Mendoza, Kate Centellas
• Nikki Wilcox (August) “Classic Maya Subadult Age Estimates from Ambergris Caye, Belize” Carolyn Freiwald (Chair), Lexi O’Donnell, Kate Centellas
• Cal McGehee (May) “Assessing the Accuracy of Dental Age Estimation Methods in a Native American Pediatric Sample” Lexi O’Donnell (Chair), Carolyn Freiwald, Matthew Murray
• Taylor Greene (May) “Ceremony on the Frontier: An Analysis of a Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Multi-Phase Mississippian Structure at the Carter Robinson Site, Lee County, Virginia” Matthew Murray (Chair), Jodi Skipper, Krista Eschbach
• Raymond Doherty (August) “The Colbert-Walker Site (22Le1048): History and Archaeology of a Chickasaw Home, Council House, and Travelers’ Stand” Robbie Etheridge (Chair), Jay Johnson, Tony Boudreaux
• Riley Freeman (August) “Excavating Ethnohistory: Archaeological Signatures of Ceremony in the Southeast” Tony Boudreaux (Chair), Robbie Etheridge, Jay Johnson
• Matthew Perry (August) “Regional Variations in Gravel-Based Lithic Economies: Archaeological Investigations at Stark Farm (22OK778) and Grand Village (22AD501)” Tony Boudreaux (Chair), Robbie Etheridge, Jay Johnson
• Cheyenne Bennett (May) “Transforming Place: The Socio-Environmental Afterlives of Tellico” Marcos Mendoza (Chair), Simone Delerme, Catarina Passidomo
• Daniel Shawl. “Chronology of the Fatherland Site, a New Perspective from Mound E”
• Shannon Wooten. “Relationship on the Frontier: A Ceramic Analysis of Carter Robinson (44LE12) Mound Sites”
• Bryce Krumcke. “Time and Place at Prospect Hill: A Phase I Survey of a Historic Plantation”
• Martha Grace Mize. “ Revitalization in the Alabama Black Belt: Cultivation of a New Civic Hegemony in Rural Main Street America”
• Raychel Durdin. “A Diagnosis of Cribra Orbitalia and Porotic Hyperostosis Using Cranial Vault Thickness
• Harris, Jacob. “Bone Tool Technologies at the Terminal Classic Maya Site Ucanal, Guatemala.”
• Smith, Rachel. “Isotopic Analysis of Human Migration among the Ancient Maya of Ambergris Caye, Belize.”
• Street, Dakota. “A Ceramic Analysis of the Mound A Enclosure at Carson Mounds, Coahoma County, Mississippi (22CO518).”
• Utley, Wilson. “An Attribute Analysis of Pottery from the Stark Farm Site in Northeast Mississippi.”
• Bryant, Hamilton. “Crafting Discoidals on the Frontier: Production and Identity in Southwest Virginia.”
• Davis, Ben. “Household and Changing Use of Space at the Transitional Early Mississippian Austin Site.”
• Stewart, Caitlin. “Minimum Number of Individuals: A Methodological Comparison using Human Remains from Caves Branch Rockshelter in the Cayo District of Belize.”
• Zechman, Hannah D. “Archaeological Investigations at a Mississippian Platform Mound Site in Lowndes County, Mississippi.”
• Capps, Dalton. “Searching through Debris: A Mass Lithic Analysis from the Carter Robinson Mound Site in Lee County, Virginia.”
• Davidson, Suzanne Renee. “African American Roots Tourism at ‘Home:’ History, Memory, and Heritage in Holly Springs, Mississippi.”
• Mattson, Lacy Nicole. “Community Connections: Public Outreach and Education at the Batesville Mounds Site.”
• Warner, Emily. “Analysis of Prehistoric Ceramics from a Fourteenth-Century Native American House, Carter Robinson Site (44LE10), Lee County, Virginia.”s in Northeast Mississippi.”
• Clark, Emily. “The Analysis of the Contact-Era Settlements in Clay, Lowndes, and Oktibbeha Counties in Northeast Mississippi.”
• Coggin, Gabrielle. Research at the Catacombs of Santa Lucia (St. Lucy), Syracuse, Sicily.
• Meyer, Grace. “Into Ireland: An Analysis of Cultural Hybridity, Immigration, Food, and Place in the Silicon Docks Market in Dublin, Ireland.”
• Smith, Allison M. “Sherds with Style: A Ceramic Analysis from a Protohistoric Site in Okitbbeha County, Mississippi.”
• Issacs, Morgan. “Fluorine dating of human bone at the pre-Columbian Maya cemetery of Caves Branch Rockshelter, Belize.”
• Billstrand, Nicholas. “Linearly stressed to death: Consideration of early childhood stress as a main contributor to the regional variability in classic Maya mortuary profiles.” ProQuest/UMI:10160607
• Gardner, Garreth Blake. “Project meshnet and the politics of scientific practice.” ProQuest/UMI:10127500
• Orsini, Stephanie R. “From turkeys to tamales: Paleoindian to Preclassic period faunal use at Maya Hak Cab Pek rockshelter in southern Belize.” ProQuest/UMI:10127482
• Howell, Cameron Smith. “A comparison of shovel testing and surface collection as archaeological site discovery methods: A case study using Mississippian farmsteads.” ProQuest/UMI:10127499
• Waalk, Jacob. “Pocket monsters and pirate treasure: Fantasy and social platforms in the 21st century.” ProQuest/UMI:10127297
• Broughton, Whitney. “Childhood growth in an Oneonta community: Examining long bone growth differencecs in the juveniles at Norris Farms 36.” ProQuest/UMI:1573518
• Butz, Samuel Henri. “Excavations of Mound B: A ridge-top mound at the Carson site, a Mississippian mound center in the Northern Yazoo Basin.” ProQuest/UMI:1591228
• Harrison, Kimberly Nicole. “Temper, mounds, and palisades: the Walford site (22SU501) of Sunflower County, Mississippi.” ProQuest/UMI:1591249
• McLeod, Todd. “Developing an architectural sequence for a portion of the Mound A enclosure at the Carson Mound Group, Coahoma County, Mississippi.” ProQuest/UMI:1601201
• Martin, Paul. “An Evaluation of Geohysical Methods in the Detection of Toddler-Sized Burials during teh First Six MOnths of Burials.
• Cureton, Travis B. “Cohonina social organization and the role of forts in integration and interaction: A view from the Pittsberg community.” ProQuest/UMI:1560806
• Stewart, Hanna. “From the mouths of Mississippian: Determining biological affinity between the Oliver site (22-Co-503) and the Hollywood site (22-Tu-500).” ProQuest/UMI:1566369
• Wendt, LeeAnne J. “Understanding Strawberry Plains through landscape archaeology.” ProQuest/UMI:1566379

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Graduate theses, anthropology.

Trent Carney (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Thesis: Insular Interconnectivity in the Viking Age: A Geospatial View from Norse Jarlshof

William Darwin Hertzel (Supervisor: Phil Geib)

Thesis: A Fusion of Microscopy Technique in Human Coprolite Analysis: The Dyck Cliff Dwelling and the Arid West Cave

Gabrielle Mace (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis:  Implications of Ancestry Estimation: An analysis of identification rates in unidentified persons cases

Mason McKinney (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis:  TRACKING AND ESTIMATING THE COMMINGLING OF MISSING U.S. SERVICE PERSONNEL: A GIS AND FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH

Brianna Petersen (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis: Systematic Stress in Mid-Century American Military Service Members: The Impact of Socioeconomic Status and Military Service Length on the Human Skeleton

Andrea Sbei (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis:  Odontometric Sex Estimation Using a Modern Forensic Skeletal Collection

Erik Schulz (Supervisor: Sophia Perdikaris)

Thesis: Teaching Pedagogy of On-Line versus In-Person Learning: Relative to Osteology

Olivia Thomsen (Supervisor: Carrie Heitman)

Thesis: Women and the Mealing Room: Presenting a Comparative Analysis of Female Spaces Across the Chacoan Landscape

Ruth Grady (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Thesis: Expedient GIS and 3D Technology to Promote Public Awareness of European Crypts as Digital Heritage

Bailey Oettel (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis: Quantification of the Mincer et al. 1993 Method of Age Estimation for the Purpose of Increasing the Reliability and Accuracy of Scores Within the System

Jessica Smith (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis: Recovery Method for Mites Discovered in Mummified Human Tissue

June Weber (Supervisor: Effie Athanassopoulos)

Thesis: Urbanization of the Salt Plains: Early Industry and Material Culture of the Kauffman Neighborhood

Ellis Codd (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Thesis: Applying Settlement Scaling at Copán: Furthering Exploration Into Ancient Maya Urban Dynamics

Sarah Ghannam (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis: Estimating Age from 2D and 3D Imaging of Skeletal Remains: an Assessment of Reliability Using the Medial Clavicle

Amy S. Peterson (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Thesis: When Leaders Surrender Their Divine Lineage: The Loss of Cosmic Connection Between Maya Local Lords and Their Supernatural Deities

Maxwell Rooney (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis: Learning From Those Who Served: Application of Regression-Based Body Mass Estimation Methods to the U.S.S. Oklahoma Population

Andrea Kruse (Supervisor: Phil Geib)

Thesis: Lithic Analysis of an Early Archaic Assemblage on the Great Plains: The Spring Creek Site

Sara Anderson (Supervisor: Carrie C. Heitman)

Thesis: Humeri Spatulate Tools Associations and Function in Chaco Canyon, NM

Ryan Mathisan (Supervisor: Phil Geib)

Thesis: OSL and Ceramic Analysis at the Humphrey Site

Anna Dempsey-Alves (Supervisor: Carrie C. Heitman)

Thesis: An Analysis of Ground Stone from the Basketmaker Communities Project in Montezuma County, Southwest Colorado

Brian C. Goodrich  (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Thesis:  The Search for Fort Lisa in the Vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska: A GIS Site Location Model

Cole F. Juckette  (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Thesis:  Using Virtual Reality and Remotely Sensed Data to Explore Object Identity and Embodiment in a Virtual Mayan City

Graham Goodwin  (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Thesis:  Modeling Sound in Ancient Maya Cities: Moving Towards a Synesthetic Experience using GIS & 3D Simulation

Amy Neumann  (Supervisor: Effie Athanassopoulos)

Thesis:  Life in Lincoln: Deciphering the Archaeological Material Culture of a Turn of the 20th Century Neighborhood

Jade L. Robison (Supervisor: Carrie C. Heitman)

Thesis:  Referencing People and Places: Multivocality and the Materiality of Memory in Archaeological Landscapes

Rebecca A. Salem  (Supervisor: Effie Athanassopoulos)

Thesis:  Archaeology and Tourism in the Early 20th Century: Pompeii Through a Photographic Archive

Kami Ahrens  (Supervisor: Effie Athanassopoulos)

Thesis:  Dressing the Part: Clothing and Gender Identity on the Frontier Artifacts from Steamboat Bertrand

Jonathan E. Ferguson (Supervisor: Raymond Hames)

Thesis:  COFFEE QUALITY, LAND USE, AND PROCESSING IN THE CAJAMARCA REGION OF PERU

Livia A. Taylor  (Supervisor: Emily Hammerl)

Thesis:  Patterns of Variation in Deciduous Second and Permanent first Molars Among Chimpanzee Taxa

Morgan C. Beyer  (Supervisor: Effie Athanassapoulos)

Thesis:  Metal and Glass: An Investigation of Possible Historic Period Native American Sites in Wind Cave National Park

Zachary Day (Supervisors: LuAnn Wandsnider & Matthew Douglass)

Thesis:  Preliminary Studies in Using X-Ray Diffraction for Analyzing the Atomic Structure of Central Plains Tradition Constituents

Nora C. Greiman (Supervisors: LuAnn Wandsnider & Matthew Douglass)

Thesis:  A Pilot Study for Examining Population Movement During the Peri-Medieval Climatic Anomaly in the Nebraska Sand Hills

Luke R. Hittner  (Supervisors: LuAnn Wandsnider & Matthew Douglass)

Thesis:  Meeting Halfway: Collaborative Public Outreach and Lithic Material Sourcing in the High Plains of Nebraska

Aaron C. Pattee (Supervisor: Effie Athanassopoulos)

Thesis:  INTEGRATIVE 3D RECORDING METHODS OF HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE: BURG HOHENECKEN FROM SOUTHWEST GERMANY

Margaret Robinson (Supervisor: Carolyn Heitman)

Thesis:  ILLUMINATING HOPEWELL LEGACY DATA: A CASE STUDY OF MOUND 23 AT HOPEWELL MOUND GROUP

Michael Chodoronek (Supervisor: Matthew Douglass)

Thesis:  The Use and Application of Photogrammetry for the In-field Documentation of Archaeological Features: Three Case Studies from the Great Plains and Southeastern Alaska

Maria G. Lapera (Supervisor: Daniel Osborne)

Thesis:  Exploring the Evolutionary Origins of Obesity through the Endocrine-Physical Activity-Bone Axis

Allen J. Myhra (Supervisor: Daniel Osborne)

Thesis:  Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Pan Frontal Bone Morphology

Morgan Ryan (Supervisor: Robert Shepard)

Thesis: Reexamining the Desert: A Study of Place-Based

Victoria Alapo (Supervisor: David Wishart)

Dissertation: The Spatial Organization of Pre-Colonial African Kingdoms: The Empires of Ethiopia and Mali

Carissa Dowden (Supervisor: Rebecca Buller)

Thesis:  Commemorating the Past: Nebraska Museum Practices in Interpreting, Memorializing, and Mythologizing History

Will Helmer  (Supervisor: David J. Wishart)

Thesis:  Film and the Making of a Modern Nebraska (1895-1920): A Historical Geography

Christy Hyman (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Dissertation: Contested Space: Mobilities, Networks, and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Great Dismal Swamp

Glenn Humphress (Supervisor: David J. Wishart)

Dissertation: Votes and Voters in Time and Space: The Changing Landscape of Political Party Support in Kentucky, 1974-2020

James Baker (Supervisor: David J. Wishart)

Dissertation: For Meeting Up Again: Getting Stuck and Unstuck in Time-Spaces of COVID-19

Andrew Husa (Supervisor: David J. Wishart)

Dissertation: Population Sustainability in Rural Nebraska Towns

Theresa Glanz (Supervisor: David J. Wishart)

Dissertation: Federal Land-Use Policy and Resettlement in the Great Plains: An Experiment in Community Development During the New Deal Years, 1933-1941

Mikal Stewart (Supervisor: John Clark Archer)

Dissertation: Charting Food Bank Usage and Demand: A Targeted Geospatial Approach to Identifying Census Tracts in Lincoln Nebraska Experiencing Food Insecurity from 2013 to 2018

Ashley K. Larsen (Supervisor: Paul R. Hanson)

Thesis:  Timing and Formation of Linear Dunes South of the Niobrara River Valley, North-Central Nebraska Sand Hills

Christian J. Cruz  (Supervisor: Paul R. Hanson)

Thesis:  Assessing Landslide Susceptibility With GIS Using Qualitative & Quantitative Methods In Knox County, Nebraska

Thesis:  A Historical Geography of Six and Eight-Man Football in Nebraska

Joseph. J. Lehnert (Supervisor: Arthur I. Zygielbaum)

Thesis:  Utilizing a Consumer-Grade Camera System to Quantify Surface Reflectance

Gunnar Malek-Madani (Supervisor: Elizabeth Walter-Shea)

Thesis:  Modeling Gross Primary Production of Midwest Maize and Soybean Croplands with Satellite and Gridded Weather Data

Roy Yao (Supervisor: Clark Archer)

Thesis:  Spatial Analysis of Ethnic and Racial Segregation in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, 2000 - 2014

Jacob C. Bruihler (Supervisor: Paul R. Hanson)

Thesis:  Dating Late Quaternary Alluvial Fills in the Platte River Valley using Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating

Gabrielle C. Tegeder (Supervisors: Paul R. Hanson & Christina Dando)

Dissertation:  A Research Framework for the Geographic Study of Exotic Pet Mammals in the USA

Anthropology@Princeton

Landscape of a good man.

Lucas Bessire is an American writer, filmmaker and anthropologist.  His work focuses on politics, environment and media in the Americas. Bessire is Stanley Kelley, Jr., Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the Department of Anthropology for the academic year.

An avid traveler, Bessire has conducted ethnographic fieldwork and collaborative research across the hemisphere. Between 2001 and 2021, he spent 56 months living among Ayoreo-speaking peoples of the Gran Chaco region of Bolivia and Paraguay. Additional field research has taken him from lowland South America to the high plains of western Kansas and Arctic Alaska.

In recent years, Bessire authored Behold the Black Caiman: a Chronicle of Ayoreo Life (University of Chicago Press, 2014), an ethnographic study of crisis and change among recently-contacted Ayoreo peoples. He is co-editor of Radio Fields: Anthropology and Wireless Sound in the 21 st Century (New York University Press, 2012), and the director of the documentary films Asking Ayahai, From Honey to Ashes , and The Workshop,  which documents the Ayoreo Video Project (2015-17), a collaborative community media initiative. His most recent book is  Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains ( Princeton University Press, 2021).

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The Graduate School and Graduate Student Association are excited to announce the inaugural Graduate Student Expo . This event will take place on Friday, September 6, 2024 , from 9 am to 12 pm at the Russell House Ballroom (RUSSELL 207) .  

The Graduate Student Expo is designed to help new and current graduate students connect with essential campus resources, engage in valuable workshops, and discover opportunities to enhance their academic journey. Highlights of the event include: 

• Resource Fair: Interact with representatives from over 30 campus organizations and departments.
• Workshops: Participate in sessions covering a variety of topics relevant to graduate student success.
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• Refreshments: Enjoy breakfast goods and coffee/tea provided at the event. 

This family-friendly event is a unique opportunity to connect with peers, gain insights from experienced professionals, and kickstart your semester with valuable resources and information. We encourage all graduate students to register and take full advantage of this exciting event. 

Please register using the registration form . The form will automatically collect your name and USC email address so you must be logged in to your account.   

For questions about the Graduate Student Expo, contact Kesha Clavon at [email protected] .  

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