M.A. Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations: 2010-present

2010

M.A. Sarah Brooke Cluff

Participatory Development in the Gambia: The Struggle for Local Control and Ownership of the Development Process (Clark)

M.A. Anna Lise Sullivan

Mound F Historic Cemetery: Angel Mounds State Historic Site, Vanderburgh County, Indiana (Peebles)

M.A. Laura Linderman

The Gendered Feast: Experiencing a Georgian Supra (Phillips)

M.A. Abigail Rich

Capturing the Fleeting Moment: Preserving the Paul Taylor Dance Company's Repertoire Through Student Reconstructions (Royce)

Ph.D. Ryan Thomas Adams

Elite Landowners in Santarem: Ranchers, Gauchos and the Arrival of Soybeans in the Amazon (Wilk)

Ph.D. Lauren Miller Griffith

Capoeira Pilgrims: Negotiating Legitimacy in a Foreign Field (Royce)

Ph.D. Pearl Chan

Chinese-Canadian Community Organizing and the Pursuit of Multiculturalism, Unity, and Diversity (Royce)

Ph.D. William Eastwood

Georgian Baptists: Church Reform, Orthodox Christianity, and National Belonging (Stoeltje)

Ph.D. Pauline Siegel

The Practice of Citizenship: Public Participation and the Controversy Over New Interstate Highway 69 (Stoeltje)

Ph.D. Abby L. Drwecki

Dangerous Women: Self-Defense, Gender and Individuation in Post-Socialist Poland (Phillips)

Ph.D. Melanie Everett

The Paleoecology of the Pleistocene Upper Busidima Formation, Gona, Afar Depression, Ethiopia (Schick)

Ph.D. Kathryn V. Boswell

Migration, War, and Repatriation from Cote D'Ivoire to Burkina Faso, West Africa (Clark)

2011

Ph.D. Staffan Peterson

Townscape Archaeology at Angel Mounds, Indiana: Mississippian Spatiality and Community (Pyburn and Cook)

Ph.D. Sean P. Dougherty

Broken Bones, Broken Lives: Injury-Related Morbidity and Mortality in a Turn of the Century Pauper Cemetery (Cook)

Ph.D. Persephone Hintlian

Paradise Ph(F)antasies: A Phenomenological Exploration of Touristic Heterotopia on Roatan, Honduras (Girshick)

Ph.D. Ellen Salter-Pedersen

Rinconada Alta: Biological Anthropology of the Inca Imperialism in the Rimac Valley, Peru (Cook)

Ph.D. Polly Husmann

Osteoporosis Prevalence during the Transition to Agriculture: the Schild and Pete Klunk Mound Groups (Cook)

Ph.D. Noemic Waldhubel Noemie

Learning Culture in An Urban Tribe: An Indian School in Milwaukee (DeMallie)

Ph.D. Jessica Chelekis

Direct Sales in the Amazon: Gender, Work, and Consumption in Ponta de Pedras, Para, Brazil (Wilk)

Ph.D. Emma Bate

Analysis of Artifacts from the Long Bay Site, San Salvador Island, The Bahamas (Conrad)

Ph.D. Charla Marshall

An Ancient DNA Perspective on Angel Mounds (12-VG-1): A Mississippian Archaeological Site (Kaestle)

Ph.D. Zarko Tankosic

Southern Euboea-Northern Cyclades: An Integrated Analysis of Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Interactions (Conrad)

M.A. Catherine Bishop

African Occasional Testiles (Kahn, Akou, Buggenhagen)

Ph.D. Wendell Schwab

Islam in Print: The Diversity of Islamic Literature and Interpretation in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan (Shahrani)

2012

Ph.D. Kelly Hogue

"We Are All Related": Kinship, Identity, and Pilgrimage in the Kateri Movement (Royce & Sterling)

Ph.D. Caroline Subino Sullivan

Dancing Connections: The Practice of Guinean Dance and drum in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico (Royce)

Ph.D. August Costa

A Pleistocene Passage to India: The Paleoanthropology of Early Human Settlement in Costal Western India (Sept)

Ph.D. Evelyn Dean-Olmsted

Speaking Shami: Syrian Jewish Mexican Language Practices as Strategies of Integration and Legitimation (Suslak)

Ph.D. Lydia N. Garver

The German American Consumer: Ethnicity, Opportunity, and Community in Colonial America (Pyburn)

Ph.D. Maria Roditis

An Anthropological Exploration of Childhood Obesity in Greece (Jamison)

Ph.D. Rodrigo Penne Firme Pedrosa

Nature Conservation, Ethnic Identity, and Poverty: The Case of a Quilombola Community in SÃo Paulo, Brazil (Brondizio)

Ph.D. Alicia Beth Ebbitt McGill

AAL A WI DA WAN?: Cultural Education, Heritage, and Citizenship in the Belizean State (Pyburn)

Ph.D. Laurah B Turner

Diet, Physical Activity and Breast Cancer Risk:  An Integrative Science Cross-Populational Approach (Muehlenbein)

Ph.D. Suncem Kocer

Media, Performance, and Transpolitics:  Kurdish Culture Production in Turkey (Stoeltje & Goodman)