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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

Environmental Justice from the Ground(water) Up: Coping with Contamination in Tallevast, Florida , Grey W. Caballero

The Local Neurologies of Substance Use Triggers , Breanne I. Casper

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

Ethnographic Insight on the Construct of Blackness: Heritage, ‘Home,’ Community, and Reality in Carver City-Lincoln Gardens, Tampa, Florida, 1928-2021 , Lisa Katina Armstrong

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

Mental Health and the Effects of Stress and Violence on Migrant Farmworker Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic , Russell Rice Manzano

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

Beyond Health and Animal Rights: A Study in Black Veganism , Wendy J. Rib

“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

“That’s What We Call ‘Aesthetics’”: The Social Construction of Tap Water Mistrust in an Underbounded Community , Abby Vidmar

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

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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

ENDING THE DOOM CYCLE: REDEFINING HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND RECLAIMING TOTAL HERITAGE THROUGH COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY , Nikki Marie Manning

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

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

Sensitive Developmental Windows in Craniofacial and Dental Fluctuating Asymmetry , Emily Moes

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Social Tolerance, Cooperation, and Constraint Shape Differentiated Social Relationships in Female Chimpanzees , Stephanie Fox

Human Diversity in Molecular Sexual Dimorphism and Gender Disparities in Health , Adam Z. Reynolds

Between Casas Grandes and Salado: Community Formation and Interaction in the Borderlands of the American Southwest/Mexican Northwest Region, AD 1200-1450 , Thatcher A. Seltzer-Rogers

THE LITHIUM ECONOMY: BOLIVIA'S "NEW" RESOURCE AND ITS ROLE IN REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS , Zsofia J. Szoke

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Relational Peace in Colombia: An Ethnography of Multi-Scalar Affective Relations Among Peace Practitioners , Maria del Pilar File-Muriel

Buying Goodwill: Local and Regional Consumer Relationships in Nineteenth Century New Mexico , Erin N. Hegberg

AN EMPIRICAL AND THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF LEADERSHIP IN TWO EGALITARIAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES , Edmond Seabright

"When the Tide Is Out, the Table Is Set": Shellfish Harvesting Throughout the Holocene at Labouchere Bay, Southeast Alaska , Mark R. Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Effects of Environmental Change on Ancestral Pueblo Fishing in the Middle Rio Grande , Jonathan W. Dombrosky Dr.

Functional Changes in Fortified Places: Strategy and Defensive Architecture in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras , Scott Kirk

Paleoindian Response to Climate Change in the Northern Jornada del Muerto , Christopher W. Merriman

ENERGETIC TRADEOFFS, INFECTION, AND IMMUNITY IN WILD CHIMPANZEES OF UGANDA AND TANZANIA , Sarah Renee Phillips

Games People Played: The Social Role of Gambling in the Prehispanic U.S. Southwest , Marilyn B. Riggs

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

The Sociality of Charitable Giving in an Evolutionary Perspective , Wesley Allen-Arave

Ecologically driven changes in subsistence strategies: an examination of bone cross-sectional geometrical properties in hunter-gatherers from Australia and early agriculturists from Belize , Ethan C. Hill

The ontogeny of sex-typed social strategies among east African chimpanzees (Pan troglodyes schweinfurthii) , Kristin H. Sabbi

Sex Differences in Age-Related Disease , Matthew R. Schwartz

"Where the Land Ends": Knowing and Governing the Limits of Argentina's Soy Boom , Geneva Smith

NESHNABÉ FUTURISMS: INDIGENOUS SCIENCE AND ECO-POLITICS IN THE GREAT LAKES , Blaire K. Topash-Caldwell

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Applying Anthropology, Assembling Indigenous Community: Anthropology and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Southern Arizona , Nicholas Barron

A Noncoherent Governance: Tinkering with Stones in the Old City of Acre , Caitlin Davis

“WE PRACTICE LAKOTA WAY, BUT WE ARE NOT AN INDIAN CHURCH”: THE DIVERSE WAYS LAKOTA CHRISTIANS ARTICULATE, PERFORM AND TRANSLATE ETHNICITY IN CONGREGATIONAL LIFE , Kristin A. Fitzgerald

Seventeenth-Century Spanish Colonial Identity in New Mexico: A Study of Identity Practices through Material Culture , Caroline M. Gabe

The History of Admixture in African Americans , JESSICA M. GROSS

Ethnic identity and genetic ancestry in New Mexicans of Spanish-speaking descent , Meghan Healy

POTTERY AND PRACTICE IN THE LATE TO TERMINAL CLASSIC MAYA LOWANDS: CASE STUDIES FROM UXBENKÁ AND BAKING POT, BELIZE , Jillian Michelle Jordan

A biocultural examination of health risk among New Mexicans of Spanish-speaking descent , Carmen Mosley

Trends in Health, Stress, and Migration in the pre-contact Southwest United States , Alexis O'Donnell

Facial fluctuating asymmetry: developmental origins and implications for long-term health , Katelyn Marie Rusk PhD

AMARO E PICCANTE: THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF TERROIR IN THE SCANDAL OF ITALIAN EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OILS , Daniel Gene Shattuck II

Using Archaeological Remote Sensing to Evaluate Land Use and Constructed Space in Chaco Canyon , Jennie O. Sturm

COMPARATIVE PROCESSES OF SOCIOPOLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE SOUTHERN MAYA MOUNTAINS , Amy E. Thompson

EXPLAINING VARIATION AND CHANGE AMONG LATE PLEISTOCENE AND EARLY HOLOCENE MICROBLADE-BASED SOCIETIES IN NORTHEASTERN ASIA , Meng Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Mainland Southeast Asia in the Longue Durée: A Zooarchaeological Test of the "Broad Spectrum Revolution" in Northern Thailand , Cyler Norman Conrad

Relanzamiento of Nicaragua’s Christian Base Communities: Forging New Models of Church and Society for the Twenty-First Century , LARA M. GUNDERSON

Reconstructing Landscape Use Patterns Using Strontium Isotope Ratios , Marian I. Hamilton

Sociocultural Diversity in the Prehispanic Southwest: Learning, Weaving, and Identity in the Chaco Regional System, A.D. 850-1140 , Edward A. Jolie

THE STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE OF MAYA SACRIFICE: A CASE STUDY OF RITUALIZED HUMAN SACRIFICE AT MIDNIGHT TERROR CAVE, BELIZE , C. L. Kieffer Nail

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Paradise Found? Local Cosmopolitanism, Lifestyle Migrant Emplacement, and Imaginaries of Sustainable Development in La Manzanilla del Mar, Mexico , Jennifer Cardinal

The Past in the Present: Federal Implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act , Erin J. Hudson

Bodies of Water: Politics, Ethics, and Relationships along New Mexico's Acequias , Elise Trott

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

A GIS-Based Investigation Into Social Violence and Settlement Patterns in the Gallina Area of the American Southwest , Adam M. Byrd

Questions of Sovereignty: Pyramid Lake and the Northern Paiute Struggle for Water and Rights , Andrew W. Carey

Ambivalent Subjects in Neoliberal Times: Non-Governmental Organizations and Binational Same Sex Couples in the United States , Jara M. Carrington

Economies Set in Stone? Magdalenian Lithic Technological Organization and Adaptation in Vasco-Cantabrian Spain , Lisa Marie Fontes

Basketmaker II Warfare and Fending Sticks in the North American Southwest , Phil R. Geib

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WOODLAND ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE LOWER ILLINOIS RIVER VALLEY: A REGIONAL MODEL , Jason Louis King

Estimating Ancestry and Genetic Diversity in Admixed Populations. , Anthony Koehl

Artifacts of Representation: The Makings of Indigeneity in Argentine Museums , A.K. Sartor

Sleep as an evolved behavior: ecological opportunity costs and sleep optimization , Gandhi Yetish

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Mens Life History, Testosterone, and Health , Louis Alvarado

Explanations For Morphological Variability In Projectile Points: A Case Study From The Late Paleoindian Cody Complex , Cheryl Fogle-Hatch

SOCIAL AND RITUAL DYNAMICS AT EL CHOLO: AN UPPER GENERAL VALLEY FUNERARY VILLAGE OF THE DIQUÍS SUBREGION, SOUTHERN COSTA RICA , Roberto Herrera

Identity and Material Practice in the Chacoan World: Ornamentation and Utility Ware Pottery , Hannah Mattson

New Deal Navajo Linguistics and Language Documentation , Char Peery

Cultural interaction and biological distance among Postclassic Mexican populations , Corey Steven Ragsdale

Speaking in Circles: Interpretation and Visitor Experience at Chaco Culture National Historic Park , Maren Else Svare

From Rural Street Theater to Big City Extravaganza: The Meaning of the Manaus Boi-bumbá in an Urbanizing Brazil. , Margaret Kathleen Watson

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Variable Education Exposure and Cognitive Task Performance Among the Tsimane, Forager-Horticulturalists. , Helen Elizabeth Davis

Afro-Colombians and the Encroachment of Paramilitaries on the African Palm Oil Sector , Stacie Hecht

Maturing Temporal Bones as Non-Neural Sites for Transforming the Speech Signal during Language Development , Lisa Hogan

The Paradoxes of Poverty: Urban Space and Ideologies of Intervention in the "Compassionate" City of San Francisco , Andrea Lopez

"Ellos Son Mi Familia." Testing the Embodied Capital Theory in Dominican Populations in the Dominican Republic and in New York City , Elvira Pichardo

Women and Cultural Production: Fiestas, Families, and Foodways in San Rafael, New Mexico , Stephanie M. Sanchez

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Application of GIS and Spatial Data Modeling to Archaeology: A Case Study in the American Southwest , Veronica Arias

Sowing Seeds for the Future to Honor Tigua History and Tradition: Diabetes Prevention and Management at Ysleta del Sur Pueblo , Sean Bruna

Looking Forward Rather Than Backward: Cultural Revitalization at the Poeh Cultural Center and Museum , Kaila Cogdill

"I'm afraid [of] my future.": Secrecy, Biopower, and Korean High School Girls , Noelle Easterday

Nanta Hosh Chahta Immi? (What Are Choctaw Lifeways?): Cultural Preservation in the Casino Era , Sean Everette Gantt

Storied Lives in a Living Tradition: Women Rabbis and Jewish Community in 21st Century New Mexico , Miria Kano

Albuquerque the Frontier? Exploring Migration and Social Identity in the Albuquerque Area During the Late Developmental to Coalition Period Transition , Dorothy L. Larson

Changing Hearts and Minds: The Politics of Sentimentality and The Cultural Production of the Gay Family in New Mexicos Same-Sex Marriage Debate , Nicolae Lavinia

LOCAL FOOD AND POWER DYANMICS IN SOUTHEAST GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN , Christy Mello

Lost Worlds: Locating submerged archaeological sites in southeast Alaska , Kelly Monteleone

Spanish Missionization and Maya Social Structure: Skeletal Evidence for Labor Distribution at Tipu, Belize , Lara Noldner

THE SOCIOECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF COMMUNAL HUNTING: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF SHOSHONE COLLECTIVE ACTION , Matthew O'Brien

Women's Toolkits: Engendering Paleoindian Technological Organization , Susan Ruth

Tsehootsooidi baa hane: Emergent oral histories from a Navajo community based oral history project in Ft. Defiance, AZ , Gwendolyn Saul

Soy Gaucho: Nationalism and Modernity in Argentina , Geneva Smith

The Bioarchaeology of Changes in Social Stratification, Warfare, and Habitual Activities among Iron Age Samnites of Central Italy , Vitale Sparacello

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Zapatista Materiality Disseminated: A Co-Construction Reconsidered , Ilse Biel

Florentine Palaces, Costly Signaling, and Lineage Survival , Michael Church

PREDICTIVE GEOSPATIAL MODELING FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION: CASE STUDIES FROM THE GALISTEO BASIN, VERMONT AND CHACO CANYON , Wetherbee Bryan Dorshow

NEW PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES IN ARCHAEOLOGY: Applications in Greece, New Mexico, and Portugal , Brandon Lee Drake

Feeding Ecology and Life History Strategies of White-faced Capuchin Monkeys , Elizabeth Eadie

Finding Hope: Guatemalan War Orphans' Responses to the Long-Term Consequences of Genocide , Shirley Heying

Women Living Islam in Post-War and Post-Socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina , Emira Ibrahimpasic

Coffee and the Countryside: Small Farmers and Sustainable Development in Las Segovias de Nicaragua , Patrick Staib

Planting Seeds is a Metaphor: Being Agrarian, Agricultural Activism, and Emergent Identity in New Mexico , Elise Trott

Investigating Epistemological Implications of Geospatial representation in the Making of Histories of the Pueblos, Using an Exploratory Mixed Methods Approach , Judith van der Elst

Health Parameters Across the Lifespan Among the Ache of Paraguay , John Wagner

Early-life influences on body composition, metabolic economy, and age at menarche , Megan Workman

Tribes, States, and Landscapes: The Ecological Impacts of Changing Land Use During the Islamic Period in Southern Portugal , F. Scott Worman

THE EFFECTS OF GENETIC ANCESTRY AND SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS ON PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS SUSCEPTIBILITY IN NORTHEASTERN MEXICO , Bonnie Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Making Modernity: Ideological Pluralism and Political Process in Zinacantán , Kristen Adler

Ceramic Resource Selection and Social Violence in the Gallina Area of the American Southwest , Connie Constan

Predicting Body Mass from the Skeleton with an Application to the Georgia Coast , Shamsi Daneshvari

The Discourse and Practice of Native American Cuisine: Native American Chefs and Native American Cooks in Contemporary Southwest Kitchens , Lois Ellen Frank

Against the Odds: Indian Gaming, Political Economy, and Identity on the Pala Indian Reservation , Shasta Gaughen

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Anthropology Theses and Dissertations

This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Anthropology, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

"It’s not a science isolated in a bubble": Grave Encounters in Forensic Anthropology in Colombia and Peru , Franziska Albrecht

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of infant feeding practices and stress in 18th-19th century Pointe-aux-Trembles, Québec , Sydney Holland

Bioarchaeological Knowledge Mobilization and the Museum as Knowledge Broker , Teegan Muggridge

Birds of the ancient Nile: Species identification in Egyptian animal mummies using multi-resolution computed tomography and deep learning image segmentation , Maris A. Schneider

In Society's Shadow: Identifying Structural Violence in MUNA, a Burial Community from Late Intermediate Period (1100 - 1470 CE) Pachacamac, Peru. , Ashley C. Ward

Hands-On History: Applying a Strong Like Two People Approach to Archaeology Education , Kaylee Woldum

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Teachers’ Work: Communicating on Difficult Knowledge in Ontario Schools , Zsofia Agoston Villalba

Variation in Habitual Activity and Body Composition: A Segmental Body Comparison of Runners and Swimmers , Madelyn Hertz

The Babe, the Virgin, and the Crone: Female Pubertal Development in Medieval and Post-Medieval Arnhem, The Netherlands , Victoria Lavallee

Head shapes and toothaches: A study of cranial modification and dental pathology at MUNA, a late pre-Hispanic cemetery from the Archaeological Sanctuary of Pachacamac (Lima, Perú). , T Naomi Nakahodo Moromizato

From Micro to Macro: Examining Potential Microbiome Mediated Influences on Human Growth and Health Outcomes Through Breastfeeding and Antibiotic Exposures , Nicole K. Phillips

Surveying the Industry: A Professional Profile of Cultural Resource Management in Canada , Sydney Rowinski

Investigating neutral and climate-linked morphological variation in human femora: A geometric morphometrics approach , Isabelle Rutherford

Stable Isotope Analysis of Breastfeeding and Weaning Practices in 19th Century Montreal , Jess Sadlowski

Exploring the Woodland Period Within the Lake Wawanosh Region Through Two Archaeological Sites: AgHn-12 and AgHn-14 , Matthew Severn

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

The impact of energetic trade-offs on the developmental trajectory and life history strategy of Homo sapiens: The modern human female phenotype , Laura Ann Hope Atkinson

Legs and Hills , Aidan Attema

Discourses of Tension in a Rainbow Nation: Transcultural Identity Formations among Hakka Mauritians , Federica Guccini

Autoethnography of a Pregnant Doula: An Anthropological Investigation of Birth Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ontario and Quebec , Fattimah A. Hamam

Inuvialuit Living Art: Co-Creating Local Community Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Research , Jason YF Lau

Assumed identities and the construction of self among the West Indian diaspora in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) , Badarinarayan A. Maharaj

An Investigation into the Curation of Archaeological Collections in Cultural Resource Management in Ontario, Canada , Vienna Raven Mann

Localized Activism in the Bangladeshi Garments Industry: Mobilizing the Labour Movement from the Ground Up , Raisa Masud

Transforming the Dead: The Taphonomy and Ritual Economy of Funerary Bundles on the Pre-Hispanic Central Coast of Peru (1000-1532 CE) , Joanna Motley

3D Morphometric Analysis of Late Paleoindigenous Projectile Points from the Mackenzie I Site, Northwestern Ontario, and surrounding regions , Dave Norris

Colombian women’s experiences of the Canadian refugee and asylum adjudication process , Camila N. Parra Carrillo

Dental Health in the Aqllakuna from Farfán (Peru): A New Perspective on an Inca Female Institution (ca. 1470-1532 A.D.) Using Micro-CT and Histological Analysis , Émy Roberge

Of Mice and Mummies: Experimental Mummification and Radiological Examination of Neoplastic Disease and Cancer in Mummified Remains from Ancient Egypt and Peru , Jennifer L. Willoughby

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Social Stratification & Mummification in Ancient Egypt: The Inevitability of Variability in the Post-New Kingdom Mummification Program , Andrew Arsenault

Evaluating Cranial Nonmetric Traits in Mummies from Pachacamac, Peru: The Utility of Semi-Automated Image Segmentation in Paleoradiology , Cameron J. Beason

Indigenous Language Revitalization Efforts in Canada during COVID-19: Facilitating and Maintaining Connections using Digital Technologies , Laura Gallant

Ancient Egyptian Subadult Mummies: Unwrapping Childhood in the Ancient Past , Jillian A. Graves

Visualizing Anishinaabe Ceramics: A Collaborative Approach to Digital Archaeology , Hillary V. Kiazyk

Quebec’s Uninhabitable Community: Identity and Community among Anglo-Quebecer Out-Migrants , Evan A. Mardell

From Stateless People to Citizens: The Reformulation of Territory and Identity in India-Bangladesh Border Enclaves , Md Rashedul Alam

Ridge Pine 3: A Late Archaic site in the southern Lake Huron Basin , Jessica Russell

Life in Between: Prehispanic Settlement Patterns of the Carabamba Valley, Northern Peru , Amedeo Sghinolfi

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Cellar Dwellers: Historic Feature Sampling Strategies in Ontario Commercial Archaeology , Corbin Berger

Taking Ethics Seriously: Navigating the Ethics Approval Process at a Canadian University , Marie-Pier Cantin

Ethnoprimatology and Nature-Based Tourism: An Exploration of Macaque Ecology and Behaviour at the Sepilok Orang-utan Rehabilitation Center in Sabah, Malaysia , Lauren J. Gilhooly

Seeing the Invisible: An Integrated Remote Sensing Approach to Mapping Buried Architecture at Las Colmenas, Virú Valley, Peru , Kayla C. Golay Lausanne

Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? Communicative Frequencies and Multimodality in Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) , Hilary Hager

Indigenous Coaches and the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships , Dallas Gerald Hauck

Blackness, Gender and the State: Afro Women's Organizations in Contemporary Ecuador , Beatriz A. Juarez-Rodriguez

Fanning the Flames of Disaster: The Role Colonialism Plays in the Impact of Wildfire on Indigenous People in Northern Alberta , Alana K. Kehoe

Growing Relations: An ethnographic study on rice, vanilla, and yams in Madagascar , Tyler MacIntosh

Epigenetics a Decolonizing Science , Wade Paul

Inside Perspectives on Ceramic Manufacturing: Visualizing Ancient Potting Practices through Micro-CT Scanning , Amy St. John

Newcomer Integration Programs and London, Ontario’s Diversity Agenda: Views from within and without , Jutta Zeller-Beier

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

'I Honoured Him Until the End': Storytelling of Indigenous Female Caregivers and Care Providers Focused on Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias (ADOD) , Danielle E. Alcock

Life as "Half and Half": A Grandfather and Granddaughter's Sharing of Story , Kalley Armstrong

Exploring the occupational history of the Middle Ontario Iroquoian Dorchester Village site , Johnathan Freeman

Digital Technology and Communications in Today's Cuba , Diana Gavric

Digital Representation of Inuvialuit Traditional Knowledge: A case study in community engagement using Google Earth , Jeffrey Grieve

Getting Better All The Time: Re-evaluating Macroscopic Dental Age Estimation Standards In Egypt , Casey Kirkpatrick

Communities Based on “Sweaty Infestations of Joy”: A look at the Temporary Moral Communities Formed through International Volunteering Trips. , Sarah A. Knowles

South Bend and Ridge Pine 2: Fraternal Twins , Gabryell Kurtzrock Belyea

Childhood Stress at Rinconada Alta (AD 1470-1532): An Examination of Linear Hypoplastic Enamel Defects on the Central Coast of Peru , Jessica Lacerte

International Englishes, Dialects and Glocalized Englishes: Translanguaging in South Korea , Cameron Bruce Lawrence

Cultivating Knowledge: Agrarian Science and Ecological Engagements in Southern Ontario Agriculture , Kelly Linton

The Life Histories of Aztec Sacrifices: A Stable Isotope Study (C, N, and O) of Offerings from Tlatelolco and the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan , Diana K. Moreiras Reynaga

The Anishinaabeg of Chief's Point , Bimadoshka Pucan

Weathering Storms and Flooded Waters: Anthropological Perspectives of Policy and Risk in Toronto, Ontario , Jennifer Spinney

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Perceptions of Primates and Protected Areas: Ethnoprimatological Implications for Conservation in the Pacoche Refuge , Tamara L. Britton

Intelligible Variability: Narratives of Male Sex Work in London Ontario Canada , Nathan Dawthorne

Indigenous Political Organization in Huamachuco, Peru, in the Early Seventeenth Century. , Carolina Delgado Domínguez

Pushing the Limits: Testing, Magnetometry and Ontario Lithic Scatters , John E. Dunlop

Reconstructing The Social Landscape Of Cerro Arena, Peru , Felipe Gonzalez-Macqueen

Soccer, Space, and Community Integration: Being and Becoming Canadian in London, Ontario Through the World's Game , Marcelo Eduardo Herrera

'We are the Big Six:’ Maasai Perceptions and Organization of Cultural Tourism in Kenya , Kara D. Kelliher

Unsettling the Homeland: Fragments of Home and Homeland among Iraqi Exiles in Amman, Jordan , Abdulla Majeed

Guided by Smoke: A Comparative Analysis of Early Late Woodland Smoking Pipes from the Arkona Cluster , Shane McCartney

On Convivencia , Bridges and Boundaries: Belonging and exclusion in the narratives of Spain’s Arab-Islamic past , K. Elaine McIlwraith

Petrographic Analysis of Inuit Ceramics , John F. Moody

Storied Realities: A Case Study of Homelessness, Housing Policy, and Gender in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory , Alexandra E. Nelson

The Semi-Subterranean Sweat Lodges of the Redeemer Site , Amanda Parks

A House of Healing: The Importance of Friendship Centres to Urban Aboriginal Populations , Emily Pitts

"Too Hard to Pronounce"- Examining Immigration Ideologies in the Treatment of Newcomer Youths' Names , Nadja Schlote

Mothers Who Blog: An Exploration of Advice, Personal Stories and Motherhood Online , Rachael Simser

Social Identities in Chimu Times: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Burials from Chayhuac Walled Complex in Chan Chan site, Peru , Katya Valladares

From Buried Treasure and Risky Adventure to Sobering Matters of Concern: the Ring of Fire Discourse in Ontario Mining Events , Brianne L. Vescio

"Being Chinese" in Madagascar , Mingyuan Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Tourism and state violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh , Hana S. Ahmed

Virtual Archaeology, Virtual Longhouses and "Envisioning the Unseen" Within the Archaeological Record , William M. Carter

Language as Function or Fashion? Multilingual Identity Formation Through Korean Language Learning , Hannah C. Cho

”Not Just Based On Land”: A Study On The Ethnic Tibetan Community in Toronto , Diyin Deng

Hunting for (dis)connections in Northern Ontario: "nature," wild meat, and community in Hearst , Daphné Gagnon

If Pits Could Talk: An Analysis of Features from the Figura Site (AgHk-52) , Kelly Gostick

The Richness of Food: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Huaca Santa Clara and Huaca Gallinazo, North Coast of Peru , Arwen M. Johns

E-kawôtiniket 1876: Reclaiming Nêhiyaw Governance in the Territory of Maskwacîs through Wâhkôtowin (Kinship) , Paulina R. Johnson

Shifting State Plans and the Politics of Street Food Vending in Cuba , Lina Johnston

Entangled Resurgence: Investigating 'Reconciliation' and the Politics of Language Revitalization in the Oneida Nation of the Thames , Hannah E. McGregor

Trees for the Primates: A Community-Based Assessment of Crowned Lemur (Eulemur coronatus) Habitat Preferences and Conservation in Northern Madagascar , Fernando Mario Mercado Malabet

Rethinking Holocene Ecological Relationships Among Caribou, Muskoxen, and Human Hunters on Banks Island, NWT, Canada: A Stable Isotope Approach , Jordon S. Munizzi

Exploring Community Formation and Coalescence at the Late 14th-Early 15th Century Tillsonburg Village Site , Rebecca Parry

The Human First Metatarsal in Bioarchaeological Research: New Insights into Human Variation and Bone Health Research from Kellis 2, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt (50-450CE) , Mathew A. Teeter

Engaging Past and Future on a Community Supported Agriculture Farm , Catherine Villar

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Prohibited Practice: Drug Use, Harm Reduction and Benefit Enhancement in Toronto Rave Culture , Hilary Agro

Accounts of Engagement: Conditions and Capitals of Indigenous Participation in Canadian Commercial Archaeology , Joshua Dent

Buried Dreams: Refitting and Ritual at the Mount Albert Site, Southern Ontario , Kyle D. Forsythe

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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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Theses/dissertations from 2021 2021.

The Materiality of Metaphor in Mayan Hieroglyphic Texts: Metaphor in Changing Political Climates , Dinkel A. Rebecca

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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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Anthropology Theses and Dissertations

Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

"I'll Stay Where You Want Me To Stay": How Latter-Day Saints Navigate Conflicting Social Values While Remaining Committed to Their Faith , Venice Jardine

Spatial Patterns in Anthropomorphic Fremont Rock Imagery of Central Utah , Alyssa Pitts Merrill

Regional Variations in Nabataean Jewelry , Emily Marie Yankura

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Pop Gugak and E-sang: Negotiating Traditional and Pop Genre Categories in Expressions of Identity , Jessica Ellis

Remembering and Forgetting: The Commemoration of the First World War and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic in Salt Lake City, Utah , Bethany Kathleen Gustafson

Healing Practices and Ritual Feasts Among the Nabateans: A Study of Absorbed Residues From Ceramics on the Ad-Deir Plateau , Jake Hubbert

Viejo Period Architecture in the Casas Grandes Region of Northern Mexico , Samuel J. Jensen

Returning Home: The Thesis of a Master , Yang Thai Vang

Becoming Good: Muslims Pursuing Moral Personhood in a Rural French Town , Clayton S. Van Woerkom

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Orienting Pacha: Value as Action in the Late Horizon Xauxa-Pachacamac Axis , Ridge C. Anderson

Going Cold Turkey? Changes to Faunal Subsistence in the Northern San Juan Region from Basketmaker II Through Pueblo III , Tenaya Gatrell-Bedard

Lost in Translation: Implications for Translating Psychometric Tests as Seen With the Nunchi Scale , Jacob A. Larson

Communities of Water: An Examination of Cooperation and Conflict in Water Management Practices in the Central Peruvian Andes , Sylvie D. Littledale

Archaic Sites, Ecological Zones, and Wetlands Resources in the Eastern Great Basin , Lindsey R. Lyle

Authenticity Without Belief in Western Tibetan Buddhist Practice , Hannah Sharp-Wang

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Tessellated Pictures and Traditional Piety , Matthew K. Higham

Detecting Remnants of the Past: Archaeo-Geophysical Prospection of Fremont Sites in Southern Utah Valley , Jacob P. Jepsen

The Nabataean Façade Monuments of Petra, Jordan: An Assessment of the Façade Monuments and Their Geological Environment. , Josie M. Newbold

Subsistence Practices at Nancy Patterson Village , Elizabeth C. M. Whisenhunt

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

A Study of Fremont Snake Valley Black-on-gray Ceramics from Sites in Northern Utah and the Parowan Valley , Stephanie K.Y. Abo

Spherical Objects Among the Fremont , Emily Crump

Long Distance Interaction in Viejo Period Casas Grandes , Jaron Troy Davidson

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of San Juan Red Ware , Robert Jacob Bischoff

The Beef Basin Occupation as an Extension of the Northern San Region: An In-Depth Analysis of the Ceramics in Beef Basin, Utah , Jaclyn Marie Eckersley

A GIS Approach to Archaeological Settlement Patterns and Predictive Modeling in Chihuahua, Mexico , Haylie Anne Ferguson

Examining Large Game Utility and Transport Decisions by Fremont Hunters: A Study of Faunal Bone from Wolf Village, Utah , Spencer Francis Lambert

Lithics and Mobility at Land Hill and Hidden Hills: A Study of the Stone Tools and Debitage at Sites in the Santa Clara River Basin and on the Shivwits Plateau , Megan Ellice Mangum

Exploring Ceramic Vessel Use at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, Through Use-Alteration Analyses , Jessica Simpson

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Burial Plots: Finding Theatre in the Thanatology of Colonial North Coast Peru , Connie Ericksen

Nabataean Subadult Mortuary Practices , Courtney Dotson Ewert

Chiapa de Corzo Mound 3 Revisited: Burials, Caches, and Architecture , Michaela Ann Ostler

Laying the Foundation for a Fremont Phytolith Typology Using Select Plant Species Native to Utah County , Madison Natasha Pearce

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

An Investigation of the Manufacture and Use of Bone Awls at Wolf Village (42UT273) , Joseph A. Bryce

Reconstructing Prehistoric Human/Plant Relationships at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico Through a Microfossil Analysis of Dental Calculus , Daniel James King

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

The Greco-Roman Water Catchment Theater: Identification and Distribution , Allison Nicole Lee

Prototype for Zion: The Original Provo Tabernacle and the Construction of Mormon Zion in the American West , Ryan W. Saltzgiver

Grave Matters: A Presentation and Comparative Analysis of the Late Classic Burials from Guajilar, Chiapas, Mexico , Shelley Lorraine Wells

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Comparative Analysis of Ceramics from Three Great Houses and One Small House Site in Southeast Utah , Rachel Marie Harris

The Roman Riders: Ethnicity and Iconography on Roman Cavalrymen Tombstones , Jessica Colleen Kramer

An Analysis of the Archaeological Work of the Provo River Delta, Utah , Adrien Carole Mooney

Fremont Ceramic Designs and Their Implications , Katie Kristina Richards

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Promontory Culture: The Faunal Evidence , Lindsay Deanne Johansson

Izapa Group B: Excavations, Burials, and Offerings , Rosemary Lieske

Parowan Valley Potting Communities: Examining Technological Style in Fremont Snake Valley Corrugated Pottery , Scott M. Ure

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Roman and Early Byzantine Burials at Fag el-Gamus, Egypt: A Reassessment of the Case for Religious Affiliation , Kristin Hacken South

Parowan Fremont Faunal Exploitation: Resource Depression or Feasting? , Sara E. Stauffer

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

The Terminal Classic at El Mirador, Peten, Guatemala. , Richard M. Allen

Dirty Talking Cracked Pots: Inferring Function and Use of Decorated Ceramic Bowls at Fourmile Ruin, AZ , Heather E. Bullock

Macrobotanical Evidence of Diet and Plant Use at Wolf Village (42UT273), Utah Valley, Utah. , Wendy Dahle

The Origins of the Maya: A Comparative Analysis of Narratives , Thomasina Ilene Morris

A Re-examination of the Early Pueblo I Components at Monument Village, 42SA971 , Rachel K. Pollock

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Construction of Complex A at La Venta, Tabasco, Mexico: A History of Buildings, Burials, Offerings, and Stone Monuments , Arlene Colman

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Residential Mobility of Paleoarchaic and Early Archaic Occupants at North Creek Shelter (42GA5863): An Analysis of Chipped Stone Artifacts , Mark L. Bodily

Fremont Site Distribution in the Upper Escalante River Drainage , Deborah C. Harris

Paleoindian Lifeways of Paleoarchaic Peoples: A Faunal Analysis of Early Occupations at North Creek Shelter, Utah , Bradley A. Newbold

Monkey Pots: Inferring Meaning Through Time and Space from Function, Decoration, and Context , Benjamin Jacob Skousen

Distribution, Function, And Value Of Parowan Valley Projectile Points , Aaron R. Woods

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Late Homestead Period Householding at Benmore and Tintic Junction: Comparing Rural and Sub-Rural Communities in Tooele and Juab Counties, Utah , Jennifer Aurora Beard

Parowan Valley Gaming Pieces and Insights into Fremont Social Organization , Molly Allison Hall

Hidden Village (42SA2112): A Basket Maker III Community in Montezuma Canyon, Utah , Donald G. Montoya

Cultic Niches in the Nabataean Landscape: A Study in the Orientation, Facade Ornamentation, Sanctuary Organization, and Function of Nabataean Cultic Niches , Holly A. Raymond

Parentage Statements and Paired Stelae: Signs of Dynastic Succession for the Classic Maya , Daniel Moroni Stewart

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Fremont Finery: Exchange and Distribution of Turquoise and Olivella Ornaments in the Parowan Valley and Beyond , Cady Brooke Jardine

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

The Acropolis at Kaminaljuyu: A Study of Late Classic Occupation , Kelleigh Waimarie Cole

Parowan Pottery and Fremont Complexity: Late Formative Ceramic Production and Exchange , Christopher N. Watkins

The Chipped Stone Tool Industries of Blackman Eddy, Belize , Matthew Patrick Yacubic

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

Murals and the Development of Merchant Activity at Chichen Itza , De Luna Lucha Aztzin Martinez

Mayan Metate Ethnoarchaeology , Michael T. Searcy

Fremont Storage and Mobility: Changing Forms Through Time , David T. Yoder

Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004

The Pueblitos of Palluche Canyon: An Examination of the Ethnic Affiliation of the Pueblito Inhabitants and Results of Archaeological Survey at LA 9073, LA 10732 and LA 86895, New Mexico , Leslie-Lynne Sinkey

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

Prehistoric Timberline Adaptations in the Eastern Uinta Mountains, Utah , Michelle Knoll

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

The Historical Ceramics of Camp Floyd , Jennifer L. Elsken

Theses/Dissertations from 1999 1999

The Precepts of Zion and Joseph Smith's City of Zion Plan: Major Influences For the Planning of Nauvoo , Marjorie E. Eddy

Theses/Dissertations from 1998 1998

Mormon Mortuary Patterns at the Block 49 and Seccombe Lake Cemeteries , Howard S. Irvine

Theses/Dissertations from 1975 1975

An Archaeological Survey of North Cottonwood Canyon, San Juan County, Southeastern Utah , Larry D. Davis

Theses/Dissertations from 1973 1973

Archaeological Excavations at the Chauncey Webb Site (127-4) Nauvoo, Illinois, 1970 , Richard L. Hansen

Theses/Dissertations from 1968 1968

An Archaeological Survey of Goshen Valley, Utah County, Central Utah , Leland Gilsen

An Archaeological Survey of West Canyon and Vicinity, Utah County Utah , Edward A. Wheeler II

Theses/Dissertations from 1952 1952

Evidences of Culture Contacts Between Polynesia and the Americas in Precolumbian Times , John L. Sorenson Sr.

Theses/Dissertations from 1950 1950

The Tree of Life Symbol; Its Significance in Ancient American Religion , Irene M. Briggs (Woodford)

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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

Social Support and Wellbeing Among Latinx Latter-day Saints in Dallas, Texas , Elizabeth Bingham Thomas

Moral Agency in Flux: Rohingya Refugees Envisioning and Establishing a “Good Life” in Dallas, Texas , Nusaiba Chowdhury

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

The Geography of Altithermal Subsistence Adaptations on the North American Great Plains , Ryan Breslawski

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Making Forests, Making Communities: An Ethnography of Reforestation in Monteverde, Costa Rica , Megan Brown

Economic Agency and Risk Mitigation Among the Classic Period Maya at Holtun, Guatemala , Dawn Crawford

In Search of Disimmuration: Well-Being, Help-Seeking, and Community Support Among Latinx LGBTQ+ Immigrants , Katherine Fox

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Food Security in Ancestral Tewa Coalescent Communities: The Zooarchaeology of Sapa'owingeh in the Northern Rio Grande, New Mexico , Rachel Burger

The Zooarchaeological Dimension of Preceramic Human-Environment Dynamics in the Highlands of Southwestern Honduras , Alejandro J. Figueroa

Making Scents: Multispecies Partnership, Security, and Affect Among Canine Search and Rescue Teams , Kara Griffin

Texas Hospitality: Pro-Refugee Activism, Volunteerism, and Coalition-Building in Xenophobic Times , Sara Mosher

Mourning Practices On Facebook: Facebook Shrines And Other Rituals Of Grieving In The Digital Age , Sydney Yeager

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

A Way of Life: Trauma and Resilience among Muslim Sexual Minorities in Cape Town, South Africa , Afshan Kamrudin

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Communities of Consumption on the Southeastern Mesoamerican Border: Style, Feasting, and Identity Negotiation in Prehispanic Northeastern Honduras , Whitney Annette Goodwin

“I Am Not My Illness!”: Navigating the Mental Healthcare System in New Orleans , Saira Mehmood

Locating Human Security In the City: The Case of Rohingya Refugees In New Delhi , Ashvina Patel

Rethinking Repatriation: Karen Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border , Carrie Perkins

Women’s Experiences With Maternity Care and Medical Discourse In Florence, Italy , Michaela Wallerstedt

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Pharmaceutical Territories: Contested Pharmacopoeias and Environmental Debates in Brazil , Kerri Brown

Nongovernmental China: 300 Million Migrant Workers and the NGO Response , Ian Dorfman

Dignity in Decision-Making: Modernity and Social Navigation among Rural French Polynesian Youth , Laura Jarvis

Gendered Reproductive Negotiation and Family Formation: Latino/a Parents and Voluntarily Childless Couples in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas , Jessica Lott

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Common Goods in Uncommon Times: Water, Droughts, and the Sustainability of Ancestral Pueblo Communities in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, AD 1100-1700 , Michael Aiuvalasit

Supplementing Maize Agriculture in Basketmaker II Subsistence: Dietary Analysis of Human Paleofeces from Turkey Pen Ruin (42SA3714) , Jenna M. Battillo

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