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

Baiocchi, María Lis (2020)  A Law of One’s Own: Newfound Labor Rights, Household Workers' Agency, and Activist Praxis in Buenos Aires, Argentina . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Cervantes Quequezana, Gabriela (2020) Urban Layout and Sociopolitical Organization in Sicán , Perú. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

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.

Hoyos Gomez, Diana Rocío (2020) Campesinos and the State: Building and Experiencing the State in Rural Communities in the 'Post-conflict' Transition in Montes de María, Colombia . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 

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.

Walker, Jessica (2020) Social Identity and Life Course Stress in Nabataean Jordan .

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.

Ng, Chuen Yan (2019): Subsistence Economics among Bronze Age Steppe Communities: An Archaeobotanical Approach to the study of  Multi-resource Pastoralism in the Southeastern Ural Mountains Region, Russia . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Pantovic, Ljiljana (2019):  Private within the Public: Negotiating Birth in Serbia . Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

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

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https://documents.saa.org/container/docs/default-source/doc-publications/style-guide/saa-style-guide_updated-july-2018c5062f7e55154959ab57564384bda7de.pdf?sfvrsn=8247640e_6

Historical Archaeology

http://www.sha.org/publications/for_authors.cfm

American Journal of Physical Anthropology :

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291096-8644/homepage/ForAuthors.html

All pages in your thesis should be numbered at the bottom center using Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3 . . .) (including Main Text, References Cited section, Figures section, and Tables section).  The Title page is not numbered.  Any preliminary pages (Abstract, Table of Contents, or lists of Figures) use small Roman numerals (i, ii, iii . . .).

Your title page is unnumbered. All text of the title page should be centered and have the same font as the main text  Your title page should have the following elements (note the use of upper and lower case):

[TITLE OF THE UNDERGRADUATE THESIS IN UPPER CASE]

[Author’s Name]

Anthropology

Submitted to the

Thesis Advisor:  [name of the Thesis Advisor]

The Undergraduate Thesis must include a formal abstract (summary) of 100-200 words at the beginning, immediately following your Title page. Your thesis abstract presents a concise summary of the thesis (research problem or issue, the methods or approach used, and results). Do not cite references in the abstract.

Anthropology generally uses in-text citations to refer to published work as you’ll see in the Style Guide above. It is better to over-cite your sources than to under-cite them!  Below are links to the Penn Library’s documentation guide and the University guide to academic integrity.  Please read these documents carefully:

http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/PORT/documentation/

http://www.upenn.edu/academicintegrity/index.html

We discourage the use of footnotes and endnotes for “additional information.”  If necessary, use endnotes rather than footnotes.  Endnotes appear in sequence at the end of the main text as a separate section titled “Endnotes” and are numbered in sequence in the text (using a superscript font). Endnotes are single-spaced with double spaces between them.  

Your Undergraduate Thesis should include a complete “References Cited” section (this is not a “Bibliography”). Refer to the appropriate style guide ( American Anthropologist ,  American Antiquity , Historical Archaeology,  or  American Journal of Physical Anthropology ) above for details on citations.  Your References Cited section must include all and only the references that you’ve formally cited in your main text, endnotes, figures, and tables. Work with your advisor to agree on appropriate citations for archival sources, interviews, museum records, and other research data.

The Undergraduate Thesis in Anthropology is a formal document, so your figures and tables should be sharp, clear, readable and directly relevant to the topic. Your figures should be clear and legible. Scan images from publications and reduce or enlarge these to best fit the margins of your page using Photoshop or Illustrator (available on computers in the Department and in Weigle Information Commons).

Figures includes diagrams, photographs, drawings, graphics, illustrations, and maps. They will be numbered in sequence “Figure X..”. Label all of your tables “Table Y..” in a separate numbered sequence. You should mention each figure and table at least once in your text [for example:  “As Table 5 demonstrates, the alcoholic content of maize beer is low.”]  Each figure or table must have an individual caption on the page where it appears. If information or images in your figures come from published or unpublished work of others, you must include formal citations in your captions and References Cited section (“Figure 3:  Location map showing the excavations completed during the 1994 field season (after Smith et al. 1995).”

Photographs are numbered in the figure sequence. Photographs should be sharp, fit within the required margins, and have direct relevance to your thesis. Like all figures, each photograph must have a caption, must be cited in the text, and must be listed in the table of figures if you include one. You must cite the sources of any published image you reproduce, and that citation must appear in your “References Cited.”

The text, tables and figures of your thesis should have a 1-inch margin on all sides. Your text should be double spaced except for the Title Page, Abstract, Table of Contents, long quoted passages (“block” quotes), References Cited, Endnotes and Captions. Format these sections according to the style guide for your thesis subject area.

Choose a clear standard typeface (Times New Roman, etc.) and format pages with 12-point font throughout your document.

Gibaldi, Joseph.  2009.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  7th ed. New York:  Modern Language Association of America.  A comprehensive guide to writing research papers.

Strunk, W. and E.B. White.  2005.  The Elements of Style.  New York:  Penguin Press.  Appropriate for more humanities-oriented papers (and therefore possibly for cultural- and linguistic anthropology theses).  Focuses on rules of standard English and calls attention to common errors.

Turabian, Kate L.  2007.  A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.  7th ed.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.  Updated in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style.

University of Chicago.  2010.  The Chicago Manual of Style.  16th edition.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.  Another classic, comprehensive style guide; extensively revised for the 16th edition.

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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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All candidates must, in consultation with their advisors, select a dissertation topic and describe their proposed doctoral research in a prospectus. The prospectus should:

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The prospectus will normally be written in the G3 year after the general examination , drawing on their work in the Research Design/Proposal Writing course.

The candidate will discuss and defend the prospectus before his or her dissertation committee. The prospectus defense should take place prior to the beginning of dissertation fieldwork. Completion of the Human Subjects compliance forms and approval of them by Harvard’s Institutional Review Board must be completed before dissertation field work can begin (see the IRB website ).

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• Review the Assignment Guidelines
• Develop a Topic
• Outline your Paper
• Do some Library Research
• Write a Rough Draft
• Write the Paper
• Edit the Paper

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• Review the Assignment Guidelines: your professor may give you some guidelines to follow. To avoid deviating from the instructor’s expectations, spend some time reviewing your assignment guidelines so that you know the exact things you need to accomplish. For example, confirm if there are any stated anthropology research methods and the likes. It is beneficial to have a writing schedule. If you have a lot of time in your hands before the submission time, spreading out the workload will help to ease some of the stress. If you’re naturally a binge writer, sit at your computer early and bleed!
• Develop a Topic:  search for some anthropology research paper ideas and choose from the vast array of anthropology research topics available. Select a topic that revolves around a guiding question. This topic should connect on a deeper level to the theme of the course. The length requirement for the paper will help you know if your topic is too big, too small, or just good enough. For a short paper, you may want to focus on a particular culture or event in the context of a broader topic. Ensure that your thesis focuses on anthropology and that it draws from anthropological theories or ideas. Now, do a quick search to confirm if there are scholarly materials available for this topic. It is easier to write a paper with some available references.
• Introduction/Abstract
• Library Research: now, start the research on your topic, preferably from course materials. A bibliography at the end of a relevant course reading is also a great way to get other related materials. Depending on the requirement of the assignment, feel free to search for other books or articles.
• Write a Rough Draft: during your research, endeavor to make proper jottings and references, which will form the rough draft of your essay. A rough draft will help you create dots that you will be able to connect later on.
• Title: Usually on a separate page and contains the abstract.
• Introduction/Abstract : A short paragraph showing the road map of your thesis.
• Body: Leverages your thesis and presenting your research in a detailed and logical structure.
• Conclusion: The conclusion is a short paragraph that summarizes your fundamental theme and substantiates your thesis.
• References: A citation of the resources you used in your paper. Follow the referencing style which your instructor chooses.
• Edit the Paper:  you may engage any of your friends to help you go through your essay. Make some final checks such as the length requirement, the format and citation style, spelling and grammatical errors, logical flow of ideas and clarity, substantial support of the claim, etc. Once you edit your paper, turn it in and accept an A+!

Without further ado, here are 110 anthropology research paper topics for free! With 18 topics each from the six main subcategories of anthropology, you can’t get it wrong!

• Eugenics — its merits and demerits in the 21st-century world.
• Human Origin: Comparing the creationist versus evolutionist views on the origin of man.
• Ancient Egypt: The preservation of their dead and underlying beliefs.
• Homo habilis: Investigating Contemporary facts supporting their past existence.
• Drowning: Clarifying the cause of drowning by examining the physical and anatomical evidence.
• Smoking and its effects on the physical appearance of humans over decades of indulgence.
• Physical labor: Exploring its long-term impact on the physical appearance of humans.
• The relationship of Kyphosis with human senescence.
• Aging in Western Culture.
• Skin color: Exploring the influence of the environment on human skin color across continents.
• Species and language: Focus on ways species evolve across the world and ways language acquisition affects and influences culture.
• Abiogenesis: Research about abiogenesis and how it affects human development
• Animal stability: How captive animals are different from those that live in the wild.
• Henry Walter: The ways Henry Walter contributed to the field of physical anthropology.
• Cephalization: The process of cephalization and what it entails.
• Genotype: The environment correlation study.
• Genetics: What does genetic hijacking mean?
• Altruism: Do people learn altruism or it is an acquired state.
• Applying the Concepts of Ethnozoology in medicine.
• Critically Assessing the fundamental posits of critical medical anthropology (CMA).
• The 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in Africa: Evaluating the success of control interventions.
• Exploring the applications of Ethnobotany in medicine.
• Nuclear disaster: A research into the life of survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986.
• HIV/AIDS: The reasons for prevalent societal infamy and the way forward.
• HIV/AIDS epidemic in Europe: Exploring the roles of commercial sex workers in the spread of the disease.
• Alternative medicine in China: A comparative review of its weaknesses and possible strengths in the light of Orthodox medicine.
• HIV/AIDS in Africa: A critical assessment of extensively troubled nations and populations.
• Depression in South-East Asia: Sheer social noise or severe threat?
• Adult’s onset diabetes: Research on how diabetes is a major health issue in aboriginal populations in The U.S and Canada.
• ARV rollout: The role of the ARV rollout and campaigns in Africa.
• Sexual diversity in Africa: Research on whether sexual diversity in Africa is being taken into account to help fight against AIDS.
• Chemicals and radiation waste: How the radiation waste and chemicals in the air are affecting people.
• Mercury poisoning: The effects of Mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, and the measures to help put the situation under control.
• Health: The health ramifications of adapting to ecology and maladaptation.
• Health: Domestic healthcare and health culture practices
• Clinic: Clinical interactions in social organizations.
• Growth: Difference between growth and development.
• Engineering: Genetic engineering and what it entails.
• Marriage: Marriage rituals in different cultures.
• Magic: Belief in magic and the supernatural.
• Mythologies: The effects it has on modern culture.
• Anthropology: How to use anthropology as forensic science.
• Heroes: Studies of heroes in different societies.
• Education: How education differs around the world.

Cultural anthropology discusses human societies and their cultural origin, vacation, history, and development. Here is a look at cultural Anthropology topics:

• Women in Africa: The various challenging roles that women in Modern Africa play and how they handle it.
• Homelessness: How homelessness affects and influences the culture and social landscapes.
• India: Methods and measures that India is taking to deal with the issue of homelessness and measures they have put in place to deal with social landscapers.
• Political science: Highlight and discuss the link between cultural anthropology and political science.
• Superstition: Research ways that superstition affects the way of life.
• Sexual discrimination: The evolution of sexual discrimination and its effects in modern times.
• African cultures: Investigating how different religions and beliefs impact African culture.
• Northern Nigeria: How the basic religious beliefs that influence forced nuptials among the children in North Nigeria.
• Gay marriage: The background on gay marriage and how it influences the cultural and social backgrounds.
• Racism: Explain racism and its existence in modern times.
• Religious practices: Ways how religious practices and beliefs affect culture.
• Culture shock: What it is and ways that people can work through it.
• Ethnocentrism: Ways that you can use to minimize it.
• Ancestors: A view of ancestors in African culture.
• Religion: Religious practices in a particular society.
• Culture: About the Rabari culture in India
• Definition of culture
• How culture anthropology links to political science
• Alcoholism: Looking into the socio-economic and cultural history in Eastern Europe.
• Assessing the effects of radioactivity on populations affected by the nuclear disaster of 2011 in Fukushima Daiichi.
• Gay marriage: Exploring the biological aspects of same-sex weddings in North America.
• Minamata disease: A critical look into the origin, populations affected, and transgenerational impact of this disease on Japan.
• Asthma disease in Yokkaichi: A critical look into the cause, people affected, and transgenerational effect on Japan.
• Itai-Itai disease: A critical look into the cause, populations affected, and transgenerational effect on Japan.
• Nuclear bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: An investigation of the transgenerational effects on the health of affected victims to this present time.
• Cocaine use in America: A critical look into the health impact on American cocaine users.
• Making Marijuana use legal in America: Possible woes and beneficial outcomes.
• Cystic fibrosis: Justifications for its preponderance in white populations in America.
• Biological Anthropology: Research on the meaning and definition of biological Anthropology and how it influences different fields.
• Paleoanthropology: Explore ways Paleoanthropology uses fossil records to draw biological anthropology compassion and conclusions regarding human evolution.
• Human social structures: Explain the development of human social structures using biological anthropology.
• Biological anthropologies: Research on some primary geographical locations where biological anthropologies used to research their work.
• Human language: Research how biological anthropology helped in the development of human language and communication.
• Body projects: The changes and the valued attributes.
• Political ecology: The Vector-borne and infectious disease.
• Clinical Interactions: What are clinical interaction and social organization?

Forensic Anthropology Research Paper Ideas

• Radioactive Carbon dating: A critical assessment of the accuracy of this dating technique.
• Human Origin: Pieces of evidential support for Creationist and Evolutionist views on the origin of man.
• Assessing the accuracy of DNA evidence testing and matching on criminology.
• Neanderthals: Exploring environmental influences and migratory paths on their survival and appearance.
• Dating Techniques: A critical review of current archaeological dating techniques.
• Ancient Egypt Mummification: A critical look at the effectiveness of the methods used.
• Nuclear disaster: A research into the impact of radioactivity on life forms due to the atomic catastrophe Chernobyl in 1986.
• A critical look into recent evidence supporting the existence of Homo habilis in the past.
• Crime Scene Forensics: Recent advances in the detection of crime.
• Postmortem Changes: Investigating the primary agents responsible for biological changes in humans.
• Criminal procedure: Research a case with a confession scenario and highlight unique features of the case.
• Criminal procedure: Do your research on the criminal proceedings in a given area and what makes them effective.
• Computer forensic: Ways that the computer forensic help in preserving electronic evidence.
• Digital forensic: Research about the history and features of digital forensic.
• History: Ways that Israel presents itself as a leader in computer forensics.
• Oncology: The latest archaeological dating methods.
• DNA: How accurate is DNA evidence in the matching and testing criminology?
• Crime detention: The recent improvements of crime detection.

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• Reasons for Exploring and Studying Anthropology
• Anthropology Fosters Global Awareness and Appreciation for Cultures
• Humanistic – Interpretive Approaches in Anthropology
• Evaluating Anthropological Data
• Holistic Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Research, and the Global Perspective
• Linguistic Relativity in the History of Linguistic Anthropology
• Reflections on the Business Applications of Cultural Anthropology
• The predicament of Anthropology: A Systematic Review
• Structural Anthropology: A Comprehensive View of Levi-Strauss’s theories
• Ecological and Environmental Anthropology
• Anthropology of East Europe Review
• Historical Development of Applied Anthropology
• Social and Cultural Anthropology: Major Concepts
• Art and Anthropology for a Sustainable World
• Anthropology of the Beginnings and Ends of Life
• Anthropology of Childbirth: A Case Study of U.K.
• Centering a Critical Medical Anthropology of COVID-19
• Anthropology of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Anthropological Contributions to the Covid-19 Crisis
• Evolutionary Anthropology in the Time of COVID-19
• Anthropological Study of COVID-19
• COVID-19 Epidemiological, Sociological, and Anthropological Exploration
• Evolutionary Anthropology During COVID-19: A Case Study of Developing Nations
• Medical Anthropology During Pandemic COVID‐19
•  Anthropological Foundations of Public Health: A Case Study of COVID-19
• The political economy of gender, sex, and family among immigrants
• Gender and schooling in the contemporary-societies
• Climate change perceptions and institutional responses
• The changing structure of independent education and aspiration desires
• Effects of mother’s schooling on the health of the child
• Gay-men and cultural politics
• Changing ideals of fatness, nourishment, and health
• Internal-displacement: Violence, resettlement, and resistance
• Migration, work, and masculinity
• The rediscovery of a language and the renaissance of culture: A comparative study
• The changing social structure and perception of escort-work
• Career woman in the contemporary world: pursuing identities and fashioning lives
• Infected kin: AIDS, Orphan-care, and family
• Livelihood and social- environment changes
• Frequent rural to urban migration causes a lack of agriculture activities in a region.
• Cultural behavior and norms in society.
• Impacts of Heterogeneous cultural evolution.
• Did humans really evolve from apes?
• Comparison between old and new Yoruba culture.
• Population management is highly affected by the change in mortality rate.
• What does the phrase mean, “The world has turned into a global village”.
• Are evolutional theories practical?
• Human beings’ actions are derived from their surrounding environment.
• Modern civilization and its impact on indigenous people.
• Racial and ethnic discrimination among different civilizations.
• Why genocides are becoming common day by day?
• What is the way of communication between chimpanzees?
• How is illness perceived in different mediums of communication?
• Archeology concept in detail.

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The option of writing a dissertation is open to all Part IIB candidates. The dissertation counts towards the final degree as an alternative to the optional paper.

Many students find writing a dissertation to be one of the most challenging and enjoyable parts of their course.  It allows them to explore issues more widely or deeply than is possible within the supervision essay format and many excellent dissertations have been produced in the Department. For those planning to continue at postgraduate level, it also gives a sense of research possibilities.

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Past Dissertation  

• At the start of your IIA year you should consider whether or not you wish to offer a dissertation in your final year. If you decide to go ahead, you will need as soon as possible to discuss it with your Director of Studies. You will need to have some idea as to a possible subject and source of data, but finalisation of the topic and how it should be tackled is best left for discussion with whoever is appointed by your Director of Studies to be the supervisor. During the initial discussion a possible supervisor may be suggested and the next stage – ideally still early within the Part IIA year – will be to talk the matter through with the supervisor. The idea is to work out a possible topic and begin preliminary reading during the second year. A key element to writing a good dissertation is posing a question to which the thesis is an answer . You should also attend the compulsory Part IIA dissertation workshops (in Lent and Easter terms of your IIA year). Most people gather the basic data for their dissertation and write it up in a preliminary form during the second year long vacation. We require students to complete FORM1 Proposal to Offer a SAN Dissertation form very early in Easter term of their IIA year. Deadline to submit the form is Friday 3 May 2024.
• The date to submit   FORM2 Title of Dissertation  is on  Friday 20 October 2023 . 
• Any changes of title after that date must be submitted on the appropriate form  FORM3 Change to a Dissertation Title   Friday 26 January 2024 . Deadlines are noted on the Part IIB Dissertation Moodle Course .
• The Head of Department will formally approve your title by the Division of the Lent term in your final year. After the title has been approved, no change may be made without further approval from the Head of Department.

The  dissertation   must be  uploaded to the Assignment section of the Social Anthropology  Dissertation Moodle Course  not later than noon on 3 May 2024.

The dissertation should be accompanied by a cover sheet containing the following: (a) a brief synopsis of the contents; (b) your blind grade numbers (as issued by the exams office); (c) a declaration of the word count of the dissertation (see Dissertation Style Guide for wording and the Dissertation Moodle Course resources section for a Template Cover Sheet). 

You will be asked to sign an electronic declaration statement that your dissertation is your own original work and that it does not contain material that has already been used to any substantial extent for a comparable purpose. 

Following the dissertation submission, one or two of the examiners will hold a short oral examination (viva) with you on its scope and content and on background knowledge relevant to the topic.

A reminder of key points and deadlines:

• Be thinking about your plans for a dissertation during your Part IIA year
• Topic: should not duplicate material on which you will be examined
• Length: 10,000 words excluding footnotes, appendices, and bibliography
• Deadline for FORM2 Title of Dissertation  is  on Friday 20 October 2023
• Final deadline for revised titles submitted on the FORM3 Change to a Dissertation Title  is on  Friday 26 January 2024
• Deadline for submission of dissertation is  noon on   3 May 2024
• HSPS have a policy of mandatory screening of all assessed work. The policy on Plagiarism can be read here .
• Viva Voce Examinations: June 2024

All Social Anthropology IIB Dissertations conclude with a  Viva Voce  examination. This is between 15 and 20 minutes long. In general, the viva is an opportunity to confirm your conclusions and to speak meaningfully about your anthropological research and writing. It is unusual for the viva to reduce a student's mark - far more likely is that a student clarifies any matters that may have puzzled the assessors or indeed does so well in the viva as to invite the assessors to raise their mark.

The Dissertation Viva will be conducted b y   two assessors of your Dissertation, so you should come in expecting to have an interesting conversation about your Dissertation and your fieldwork.  The  vi vas  will be held in the Meyer Fortes room.  Whilst it is a formal event, and may at first seem intimidating, most students greatly enjoy the opportunity to speak about their thesis and the ideas therein to an anthropologist who has read and marked it.

The only real preparation you need to do before your viva is to read through your dissertation carefully so as to remind yourself of what you wrote. You will be invited to start off by saying a few words (no more than 5 minutes) about the project itself and why it interested you, what choices you had to make, what you found most interesting or surprising about the research and whether you think there are any weaknesses or anything you would now change. The brief is fairly open-ended and intended as a way to open up the conversation in the viva. At the very least, this should constitute great interview practice for the future!

Please note: The deadline for submission of Part IIB dissertations is strict and final. If you anticipate any problem in submitting your Part II dissertation on time you must consult your supervisor, Director of Studies and College Tutor immediately. Extensions will only be granted under exceptional circumstances. Work submitted late and without certification will be penalised. The examiners will deduct marks from dissertations in the event they are submitted late without prior Departmental agreement.

Penalties For Late Submission:

• 1 point per hour or part thereof – up to 3 points (1 point per the first hour, another point for the second hour, and a third point for any further delay up to 12 noon the next day) 
• Next 10 days or part thereof – 3 points per day 
• Any work submitted after 10 days is marked 0 
• Electronic submission is mandatory 
• Submission times are standardised at 12pm (BST) on the due date, with daily penalties applied every 24 hours from the due time.
• Hand-in times are standardised at 12pm (noon) on the due date, with daily penalties applied every 24 hours from the due time.

The general topic of the dissertation may be on any suitable subject within Social Anthropology provided that its content does not overlap with that presented in any paper being offered for examination. In other words it should address arguments and materials in addition to those drawn on for the written examinations. You will need to think about collecting the materials, sorting them and addressing arguments through them as a piece of independent research.

The research may be library-based or may include an element of survey- or ‘field’-work. The latter two kinds of project depend on the student’s initiative; the Department of Social Anthropology does not offer training in field research methods at this level. Where students have the opportunity to bring in ‘field’ experiences, they are encouraged to draw on them, as on any other resource, but there is no preference for a particular research approach. A library-based dissertation is given equal weight to a project-based one.

Length and format: The word limit is 10,000 words excluding footnotes, abstracts/synopsis, contents page, appendices, acknowledgements, glossary or bibliography. NB Students should not include important information in footnotes that could be included in the body of the text, as examiners are not obliged to read footnotes. Dissertations must be typewritten unless permission has been obtained from the Faculty Board to present work in manuscript. Apart from these two stipulations, there are no formal requirements concerning presentation and layout but the Department of Social Anthropology offers suggested guidelines as a useful rule of thumb (see Dissertation style guide on the Moodle course).

Use of video: candidates may submit a video or videoed material as an appendix. However, a special case can be made for video being submitted as integral to the subject of the dissertation. In that case, it will substitute for up to 25% of the written text. Written application must be made at the same time as titles are submitted for Departmental approval. In neither case should video material be longer than 20 minutes. Please note that instruction in the making of anthropological videos is not offered to Part II students; candidates considering this option should take advice from their Director of Studies, and should give careful consideration as to whether or not they wish to submit video for formal assessment. We have filming and editing facilities in our Visual Anthropology Lab , available for students to use for video projects whether formally submitted as part of the dissertation or not.

Examination: the dissertation counts towards the final degree as though it were a single examination paper and carries equal weighting. It will be read independently by two examiners, one of whom (who will not be the candidate’s supervisor) will hold a short oral examination (viva) on its scope and content and on background knowledge relevant to the topic.

Quality: successful candidates are expected to show both a theoretical grasp of intellectual issues in Social Anthropology and a substantive grasp of a body of knowledge. The range is assumed to include familiarity with a number of case studies/ ethnographies, as a basic training in comparative enquiry, and the dissertation affords excellent scope to demonstrate this. Examiners will look for evidence of the ability to formulate, develop and complete a piece of research. 

Research Ethics and Integrity

The University of Cambridge Research Integrity website provides extensive ethics and integrity guidelines to support staff and students. The Association of Social Anthropologists also provides extensive and detailed ASA ethics guidelines , which you should consult carefully while planning your research. As the statement from the ASA chair usefully points out, the above guidelines are not intended to provide ready-made answers or to absolve researchers from ethical responsibilities, but should be a starting point for a concrete reflection on the specific ethical issues which may have to be borne in mind in the case of your specific research:

“Codes of practice and guidelines are of necessity succinct documents, couched in abstract and general terms. They serve as a baseline for starting to think about ethical issues, but cannot of their nature encompass the complexities of concrete situations and the dilemmas of choice and positioning that anthropologists routinely face as they navigate through a variety of intersecting fields of power and responsibility and start to consider how their own work both reflects and affects power relations. If ethics is seen simply as a question of avoiding a lawsuit and our codes are simply a list of restrictions on conduct designed to protect us from interference, our ethical purpose will simply be a matter of self-serving professional interest.” (Statement from the Chair, ASA)

Researchers should also be aware of data protection issues that arise as a result of conducting research. In particular, you should keep in mind that when using cloud-based storage, or programmes such as Evernote, data will be crossing international borders even if your research does not. This means you should be aware of any issues raised concerning not only the security of your own research data, but also the legal issues surrounding data protection of all personal data. Further information on data protection can be found at the following places: The University of Cambridge Staff and Student Information Research data Q&A from Jisc Legal

If, having read these guidelines, you have any questions or would like any advice relating to research ethics, please consult the Department’s research ethics officer. 

For those considering conducting fieldwork, see the film ‘Fieldwork in the Himalayas’ narrated by Professor Alan Macfarlane. This film takes the viewer through the fieldwork endeavour, from leaving one’s own country through to getting back to it after fieldwork.  

Past Dissertations

There are over 2000 social anthropology and archaeology dissertations stored in the Haddon Library on the Downing site which can be read as reference documents in the library, dissertations from 2020 to present are available to view online. For more information please see the Haddon library  website.

Dissertation Resources

For deadlines, forms, past exam reports and to upload the final electronic version of your dissertation please see the  Social Anthropology Dissertation Moodle Course .

Please note students enrolled on the Dissertation will automatically be enrolled on the Part IIB Social Anthropology Dissertation Moodle course and you will find a link to the course in the ‘My Home’ section of Moodle.

If you are a member of the University of Cambridge and you wish to view the past exam reports for dissertations then you can access the Moodle Course as a guest. For more information on how to access Moodle Courses as a guest please see Moodle Help .

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Thesis Proposals

Students wishing to write a thesis (fieldwork- or library-based) must submit a proposal to the department, due on the Friday before spring break of their junior year.  Essay writers do not need to submit a research proposal.   

Your proposal should include all of the following elements. Be sure to include your name, and save the file as a word document titled "YourName.ThesisProposal." Proposals should be no more than 5 double-spaced pages, excluding the bibliography. The thesis proposal is due the Friday before Spring Break . All documents should be uploaded to the  Thesis (and Ethics) Proposal Moodle . 

How to write a thesis proposal

A proposal should set out what you want to do, how you hope to do it, and why it’s worth doing. It should also make clear that you have done the necessary preliminary research (literature review, understanding of the topic, and, where relevant, the history of your particular geographical area) to embark on a successful independent research project. Thus, consider how your project builds on and contributes to anthropological knowledge in your chosen area. Your proposal should also include an estimation of expenses, in time and money. This will allow you to compete for departmental funding, and also demonstrate that you have thought through the practicality and feasibility of your project plan.    

Anthropologists often deviate from what we initially plan to do. Fieldwork is an interactive process that depends on other people and is largely aimed at understanding what is important to others. So, a proposal is read only in part as a statement of what you will do; in part it is read as evidence of how well you can formulate a problem, think of ways to investigate it, and link it to other issues.

Your proposal should include all of the following elements: 

1. Introduction

In one paragraph, explain what do you want to do, how, and why. Why does this research matter?

2. Background

A. Research Location(s) : Identify the research site and describe the historical and contemporary factors relating to this site that are relevant to your research. What will your research add to our knowledge of this part of the world?

B. Literature Review: What have others (especially anthropologists!) written about your topic and/or area? Given what has already been written on the topic, why is your research important? What will it contribute to our knowledge, within the discipline of anthropology or within another field of scholarly interest? Are there debates in the literature to which your research will contribute? Does your research test out old assumptions and/or take ideas in a new direction? Discuss comparable studies and explain how your research is similar to or different from them. If there is limited work in your chosen area, consider whether there are similar processes going on in other parts of the world. How will your research scale up from a local site/problem to broader analytical or theoretical questions or problems? In short, explain how your research will expand on existing anthropological ideas and how it promises to advance our understanding of the world or a particular problematic. This is also the place to state the main research questions guiding your work.

A. What methods will you use? To get what sort of information? How will your methodology produce information that you can link into an argument or description? Will your methods provide cross-checks on one another, or multiple ways to understand your research site or topic? If your methods are a signal improvement on existing ones in the field, offering the promise of more precise, more reliable, more abundant or more complete results, say so, and say why.

B. Analysis: Be sure you indicate not only what you want to find out and how you will go about it, but also how you plan to make sense of what you discover. How are you going to organize the material you learn? What tools will you use to analyze the information gathered in participant observation, or interview (for example)? Also, make sure to explain how you will gather the contextual information (background, regional history, other necessary social or political context) needed to support the more specific argument you hope to make.

4. Timetable and budget

Include key dates and all estimated expenses, as well as a budget for what you want the department to support.

5. Significance and Style

What contribution do you hope your project will make to anthropological literature and ideas? What kind of ethnography do you plan to produce: a life history, a problem-oriented ethnography, a comparative survey, a personal narrative, etc.? Is the style of the ethnography important for the work you hope to do?

6. Preliminary Bibliography

Make sure to provide a thorough list of sources you have consulted for your project: this will demonstrate that you have undertaken the necessary preparation for a project of this scale and magnitude.

Other guides to writing research proposals that might be helpful to explore:

* Sydel Silverman, “Writing Grant Proposals for Anthropological Research” for Wenner-Gren available here

* Michael Watts, "The Holy Grail: In Pursuit of the Dissertation Proposal" at UC Berkeley available here

The Anthropology Department's Ethics and Thesis Proposal Review Committee, composed of all faculty members in residence in any given spring semester, will review the Ethics Questionnaire and Thesis Research Proposals. Details regarding the review process can be found  here .   

--> see the Guidelines for the Ethics Questionnaire

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195 Top Anthropology Topics For Great Thesis

Anthropology is one of the most interesting disciplines that you can pursue at the university level. The whole idea of exploring everything known about human beings, from their origins to evolution, is pretty exciting.

However, the study requires preparing multiple assignments, which can be pretty challenging because you need a deep understanding of biology, history, and culture. The first step, which is even more stressful when preparing an anthropology paper, is selecting the right topic. So, we are here to help.

In this post, we have a list of the best anthropology topics that you can use to get good grades. To help you increase the chances of scoring the best grade in your paper, we have also included a comprehensive guide on how to write your paper like a pro.

What Is Anthropology?

Anthropology is the study of humanity, and it is concerned about human biology, behavior, societies, cultures and linguistics in the past and present. The discipline stretches back to the study of past human species. Because of its broad nature, it is broken down into a number of units, with each focusing on a specific area:

Social anthropology: Focuses on patterns of human behavior. Cultural anthropology: This branch mainly focuses on culture, including values and norms in the society. Linguistic anthropology: Unlike the other two, this branch of anthropology targets determining how language impacts people’s lives. Biological anthropology: This branch focuses on studying the biological development of humans. Archaeological anthropology: This branch of anthropology is concerned with investigating humans in the past. In some jurisdictions, such as Europe, it is considered a full discipline like geography or history.

How To Write Best Quality Anthropology Research Paper

When your professors issue anthropology research paper prompts, one of the questions that you might have is, “how do I write a high level paper?” Here are the main steps that you can use to write a great college paper.

Step One: Understand the Assignment The biggest mistake that you can make is starting an assignment without understanding what it entails. So, read the prompt carefully and grasp what is needed. For example, does your teacher want a qualitative or quantitative research paper? For masters and graduate students, it might be a quantitative anthropology dissertation. Step Two: Select the Preferred Research Paper Topic The topic that you select is very important, and it is advisable to go for the title that is interesting to you. Furthermore, the topic should have ample resources to help you complete the paper smoothly. If there are no books, journals, and other important resources to prepare the paper, there is a risk of getting stuck midway. Once you select the topic, carry preliminary research to gather key points that you will use to prepare the paper. However, these points are not final and will need to get updated along the way. Step Three: Develop Your Research Paper Outline An outline defines the structure of the paper. It makes further research and preparing the paper pretty straightforward. Also, it eliminates the risk of forgetting important bits of the research paper. To make the paper more informative, make sure to add supportive information progressively. Step Four: Write the Thesis Statement of Your Paper The thesis statement of a paper is your stand about the topic that you are writing about. The statement comes in the introduction but will further be restated in conclusion. The information you present on the research paper will approve or disapprove your thesis statement. Step Five: Write the Draft Paper After gathering the information about the topic, it is time to get down and prepare the first draft. So, strictly follow the prepared outline to craft a good paper, starting with the introduction to the conclusion. If you are writing a dissertation, it might be good to tell your supervisor about the progress. Remember that a dissertation is more comprehensive than a research paper. To write a dissertation, you should start with the introduction, followed by the literature review, research methods, results, discussion, and finally, conclusion. Step Six: Write the Final Paper After finishing the draft, it is time to refine it further and make the work exceptional. Therefore, you might want to go through more resources to establish if there is anything more helpful to add. Finally, edit your paper and proofread the paper. You might also want to ask a friend to help with proofreading to identify mistakes that might have skipped your eye.

Next, we will highlight the leading anthropology topics that you should consider. So, pick the preferred one or tweak it a little to suit your needs.

Top 20 Anthropology Paper Topics

• How does the environment impact the color of a person?
• The advantages and disadvantages of eugenics in the 21st century.
• A closer look at the aging process in the western culture.
• What are the implications of physical labor on the physique of a person?
• Define the relationship between Kyphosis to human senescence
• Does smoking impact the appearance of a human being?
• Death caused by drowning: How to determine it through examination of physical and anatomical evidence.
• Existence of Homo Habilis is supported by modern facts.
• Compare two theories that explain the origins of human beings.
• A review of key beliefs about human body preservation in ancient Egypt.
• The role played by storytelling in different cultures.
• Applying anthropology as forensic science.
• Heroes in society.
• Closed societies.
• Emergency of terrorism into a culture.
• Feminism application in different cultures.
• A review of the concept of wellness in different cultures.
• What role does literature play in human development?
• Analyzing conflicts in Latin American and Asian cultures.
• Genetic engineering and anthropology: How are they related?

Interesting Anthropology Topics

• Investigating how religious beliefs impact the Hispanic cultures.
• A review of the evolution of sexual discrimination.
• The impact of culture on same sex marriages: A case study of LGBT community in France.
• A closer look at racism in modern societies.
• Causes of homelessness among the Hispanic communities.
• Causes and effects of homelessness among the Indian people in Asia.
• Comparing the strategies adopted to deal with homelessness in the US and India.
• Cultural anthropology and political science: How are they related?
• Identify and review two most important organizations when it comes to advancing anthropology.
• Peru’s Quechua people.
• Contemporary policy and environmental anthropology.
• What influences human social patterns?
• A review of the impact of western culture on indigenous people in North America.
• Analyzing the caste systems and ranking in societies.
• A review of ancient Roman culture.
• The evolution of the human ear.
• Comparing the evolution of man to the evolution of birds.
• What is the origin of modern humans?
• A closer look at the main issues in female circumcision.

Biological Anthropology Research Paper Topics

• Exploring the meaning of biological anthropology and its application in different fields.
• Analyzing how primatologists use primates to understand human evolution.
• How paleontologists use fossil records for anthropological comparisons.
• Biological anthropology: How does it explain human behavior development?
• Identify and review top geographical locations where anthropologists do their work: Why are these locations so important?
• Define the connection between social sciences and biological anthropology.
• The evolution of the primate diet.
• Analyzing the evolution of tapetum lucidum.
• A closer look at the extinction of giant lemurs in Madagascar.
• Human resistance to drugs: Human pathogen coevolution.
• How to determine the age of an animal using its bones.
• How does syphilis impact bones?
• Poaching and habitat destruction.
• The application of natural selection in the animal kingdom.

Good Cultural Anthropology Research Paper Topics

• Religious beliefs in the Asian cultures.
• Comparing religious beliefs in African and Aboriginal cultures.
• A review of the key cultural concepts in a culture of choice in Europe.
• Comparing the idea of worldview from the perspectives of two societies.
• Marriage in a traditional society of your choice.
• A review of early development of economic organizations.
• The role of women in Indian society.
• A closer look at the process of language acquisition in African culture.
• Missionary and anthropology: What is the relationship?
• What strategies would you propose to minimize ethnocentrism?
• How can society minimize the notion of cultural baggage?
• Culture shock: Insights on how to address it.
• Belief in magic in different societies.
• A review of the impacts of globalization on nutritional anthropology.

Anthropological Research Questions

• Should anthropology be merged fully with biology?
• Is DNA evidence accurate in criminology applications?
• How does the practice of anthropology application in China compare to that of the US?
• Use of radiological tools in anthropology: What is their level of effectiveness?
• What are the main hazards and risks of forensic anthropology?
• What effect do mythologies have in modern society?
• How does language acquisition impact the culture of a society?
• Body project change projects: What are the valued attributes?
• Halloween celebrations: How have they evolved over the years?
• What are the impacts of adaptive mutation?
• How did WWI and WWII impact human societies?
• What are the impacts of climate change on animal evolution?
• Location of crime: What can you learn about it?
• What are the impacts of long-term alcohol addiction on the human body?
• Magic and science: Are they related?

Easy Anthropological Ideas

• Development of anthropology in the 21st century.
• Important lessons about humans that can be drawn from anthropological studies.
• Anthropological issues in pre-capitalist societies.
• A closer look at folk roles and primitive society.
• Urban centers and modern man.
• How is automation impacting human behavior?
• How does biology impact human culture?
• Reviewing racial identity and stereotypes in society.
• Comparing ancient Aztec to Maya civilizations.
• Analyzing religious diversity in the United States.
• Comparing religious diversity in the UK and Italy.
• Why is studying anthropology important?
• Comparing different death rituals in different cultures on the globe.
• What is the relationship between literature and human development?
• Analyzing the influence of anthropology on modern art.
• How has social media impacted different cultures on the globe?

Linguistic Anthropology Research Topics

• What led to the emergence of linguistics anthropology?
• A review of the main theories in linguistic anthropology.
• Linguistics used by different communities in the same nation.
• Comparing sign and verbal communication.
• How did Dell Hymes contribute to linguistic anthropology?
• Language is the most important component among Bengal immigrants.
• Language endangerment: What is it?
• Comparing different categories of arts from an anthropological context for an Asian and Western country.
• The impact of colonization on the language of a specific society of your choice.
• Explore three different indigenous languages in America.

Controversial Anthropology Topics

• Social anthropology is not worth studying because it is very general.
• Human societies are cultural constructs.
• The past should be considered a foreign nation.
• What are your views of petro behavior in chimps?
• Man is natural killer
• Infant killing is an important evolutionary strategy.
• The war on infanticides: Which side do you support?
• Evaluating the concept of human morality.
• Should all the political leaders be required to undertake training in cultural anthropology?
• Human cleansing: Evaluating the driving factors in different societies.
• Analyzing the concept of political correctness in the 21st century.
• What are the earliest life forms to exist on the planet?

Medical Anthropology Research Topics List

• Comparing and contrasting physical and medical anthropology studies.
• Do we have evidence of evolution over the last 2000 years?
• Exploring the importance of anthropology in modern medicine.
• The health implications of adapting to ecology.
• Domestic health culture practices in two societies of choice.
• A review of clinical anthropology applications.
• Political ecology of infectious diseases.
• What is the relationship between violence, diseases and malnutrition?
• The economic aspect of political health in a country of choice.
• Perception of risk, vulnerability and illnesses: A case study of the United States.
• What are the main factors that drive good nutrition and health transition?
• The adoption of preventive health practices in society.
• Important cultural conditions that help shape medical practices.
• Comparing the medical practices during the colonial and post-colonial eras in a county of choice.
• Use of mitochondria in forensic and anthropology.
• Commercialization of health and medicine: What are the implications in society?
• Analyzing health disparity in a society of your choice.

Current Topics In Anthropology

• Using anthropology studies to determine the impact of political systems on different societies.
• Human rights of people who are convicted of crimes.
• What are the most important organizations when studying anthropology?
• A closer look at the dialect of a modern feminist.
• A study of current queer life in Germany.
• Implications of Barack Obama as the African American President.
• Reviewing the Pagan rituals and their impacts.
• Comparing aging in the west and growing old in the African setting.
• Cultural implications of deviant behavior in society.
• The new concept of childhood in the emerging economies.

Physical Anthropology Research Topics

• What does genetic hitchhiking mean?
• Analyzing the cephalization process.
• What is adaptive mutation?
• Altruism: Is it learnt or a natural trait?
• What is abiogenesis in human development?
• A study of Australian marsupial’s convergent evolution.
• Comparing stability of animals in stability and those in the wild.
• Evolution of different animals in different parts of the globe. What drives the differences?
• A review of physical anthropology trends.
• The future evolution of human beings.
• Physical anthropology: The human and digital culture.
• What really makes people human?

Special Anthropology Topics to Write About

• Enlightenment and Victorian Anthropological Theory.
• Race and ethnicity: The anthropologist’s viewpoint.
• A closer look at reciprocity in the native aboriginal communities in Australia.
• What is the relationship between Neanderthal and modern humans?
• Cultural anthropology versus sociology.
• Anthropology of Mormonism.
• What is the biggest change since WWI?
• What is reflexive anthropology?
• What is the main purpose of rituals in society?
• Comparing rituals around childbirth in Asia.
• Evaluating the connection between religion and myths in different societies.
• Comparing the 20th and 21st century’s method of collecting anthropological data.
• Why is medical anthropology so important today?
• The importance of Benin artifacts in the history of the world.
• The sociology theory: A review of its structure and shortcomings.
• Christian believes in anthropology.
• Comparing Anthropology of Europe to Anthropology of Africa.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of reflexivity use in ethnographic studies.

Forensic Anthropology Paper Topics

• What are the primary agents that cause biological changes in the human body?
• Are the biological change agents in a human being similar to those of other animals?
• Assessing the accuracy of carbon dating technology.
• Analyzing the latest improvements in crime detection technology.
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New Anthropology Professor Amy Elizabeth Clark researches the evolutionary role of human living spaces

When academics talk about early modern humans, especially those living way back in the Lower Paleolithic, the conversation frequently turns to hunting. When did our species start eating meat? What were the first animals we killed and consumed?

Amy Elizabeth Clark, a newly appointed assistant professor of anthropology , understands why. “A big part of our record comes from stone tools, and a certain number of those tools are weapons,” she said.

But Clark gravitates to other varieties of Stone Age artifacts. A specialist in the earliest reaches of the archaeological record, Clark is particularly fascinated by the first iterations of designated living spaces. Motivating this interest is what Clark calls a “feminist approach” to studying human history. “It’s a way of forwarding women when we think about the past,” she explained.

Clark’s interest dates to her time as an anthropology major at New York University. Upon earning her bachelor’s in 2005, she leapt at the opportunity to participate in excavations of early rockshelters in the southwest of France.

Once inhabited by the first Homo sapiens in Europe, these sites were “really integral to my thinking about the origins of the home,” Clark said. “The walls were decorated with engraved animals. They had these hearth-like features configured in a very specific way, and that configuration was repeated at several different sites. It seems they had a blueprint for what makes a home.”

Clark received her doctorate at the University of Arizona, doing her dissertation on some open-air Neanderthal sites, also located in southwestern France. It’s unclear how long these spaces were occupied. Nevertheless, Clark found them comparatively chaotic, littered with stone tools and bones. “You can see that to a certain degree in the modern human sites,” she said, “but there’s a greater sense of organization and also decorative elements.”

Next came postdoctoral fellowships and research opportunities with France’s Fyssen Foundation and the University of Oklahoma. While co-authoring papers on the early harnessing of fire — a central feature of the emerging human home — Clark also broadened the geographical scope of her research. “I had thought a lot about the differences between Neanderthals and modern humans,” she explained. “What I really want to know is how modern humans evolved — what happened in Africa that brought about these changes.”

This inspired her current involvement with two excavations in Morocco, both located in an understudied area along the southwestern Atlantic coast (and both spared by the recent earthquake). One of those sites is Jorf el Hamam , a Middle to Late Stone Age rockshelter excavation where Clark serves as co-director. Unearthed there last year was a series of cemented hearths , all lined up toward the back of the structure.

Today, Clark is settling into her first semester as an assistant professor following three years as a College Fellow and lecturer. In 2020, she introduced the popular course “Game of Stones: The Archaeology of Europe from Handaxes to Stonehenge.”

She’s also set about writing a book on human living spaces. “Archaeologists are kind of scared to say words like ‘home,’” she noted. “We don’t want to put too much meaning in them.”

That changed for Clark during the pandemic, amid the long months of socially isolating with her partner and two children. Suddenly she saw an opportunity to articulate the home’s defining role across human history.

Actually, the book will go back further than that.

“Primates build sleeping platforms — a chimpanzee, for example, will make a kind of nest in the tree,” Clark explained. Our hominid ancestors also slumbered on high branches. Clark will start the story there in exploring how the nature of home changed alongside everyday life. When did humans start sleeping on the ground? When did we start eating and sleeping in one place? At what point did homes assume their crucial familial and social role?

Because homes are so closely associated with women, Clark argues, they were too often “demoted” by past generations of academics. Her mission is to change that for future anthropologists and archaeologists, inspiring fresh interest and new lines of inquiry. As she put it, “I’m working to elevate the home and its importance to human evolution.”

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