M.A. and Ph.D. Theses: 2000-present

2000

Ph.D. Takyiwaa Manuh

Migrants and Citizens in Ghana and the Search for Opportunity in Toronto, Canada (Greenhouse)

Ph.D. Stephen Ball

The Practical Application of Geophysical Surveys to Prehistoric Sites in Eastern North America (Peebles)

Ph.D. Bridget L. Edwards

Making the Floor Talk: Irish Social Dance as Cultural Juncture (Royce)

Ph.D. Eduardo Goes Neves

Paths in Dark Waters: Archaeology as Indigenous History in the Upper Rio Negro Basin, Northwest Amazon (Conrad)

M.A. Patricia Pitaluga

Cultural Marketing and Archaeology" A Good Deal for Communities in Brazil (Vitelli)

2001

Ph.D. Kazuko Yamazaki

Nihon Buyo: Classical Dance of Modern Japan (Royce)

Ph.D. Olga Kalentzidou

Historically Informed Ethnorchaeology: Production and Distribution of Ceramics in the Late 19 th and 20 th Centuries, Evros in Greece (Vitelli)

Ph.D. Van Buskirk, Serena

Reunion and recollection on the May Crosses of Granada (Girshick)

Ph.D. Morgan, Mindy J.

Alternating Literacies: An Ethnohistorical Examination of Literacy Ideologies on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Montana

(DeMallie)

2002

Ph.D. Bush, Leslie L.

Boundary Conditions: Botanical Remains of the Oliver Phase, Central Indiana. A.D. 1200-1450 (Peebles)

Ph.D. Havill, Lorena Mylinda

Osteon Remodeling Dynamics in the Rhesus Macaque: Normal Variation and the Genetic Contribution (CooK)

M.A. Seib, Daniel

The Analysis of Faunal Remains From the Pottersville Site (120W 431) and It's Significance to Other Oliver Phase Sites (Conrad)

Ph.D. Katchka, Kinsey A.

Putting Art in Place: Exhibiting Commumunity and Cultural Policy in 20th Century Senegal (Girshick)

M.A. Meier, Kristen Harley

The Ballcourt at Chau IIX: Architectural Insight into Changing Patterns of Political Dominance (Pyburn)

Ph.D. Carlson, Kristian J.

Shape and Material Properties of African Pongid Femora and Humeri: Their Relationship to Observed Positional Behaviors (Hunt)

Ph.D. Margaret Dorsey

Borderlands Music, United States Politics, and Transnational Marketing (Greenhouse)

Ph.D. Irani, Laurie

Maneuvering in Narrow Spaces: An Analysis of Emergent Identity, Subjectivity, Political Institutions among Palestinian Citizens in Israel Two Volumes (Herzfeld and Bahloul)

2003

M.A. Beeker, Charles

San Felipe 1733 Spanish Shipwreck: A Call to Preserve a Unique Submerged Cultural and Biological Resource (Conrad) (February 2003)

Ph.D. Moore, Patrick

Point of View: In Kaska Historical Narratives, volumes I and 2

Ph.D. Staats, Susan

Communicative Ideology in Kapon Religious Discourse (Bauman)

M.A. Wille, Sarah

The Calhoun Site Ceramic Assemblage: A Typological and Technological Classification (Vitelli)

Ph.D. Moniz, Jill

Pariah in Paradise: A Essay on Black Subjectivity, AUthroship and the Politics of Indentity (Royce)

M.A. Grieshaber, Britta May

Effects of X-Ray And Computed Tomography Exposure On The Amplification of DNA From Bone (Kaestle)

Ph.D. Babcock, Elizabeth

Belizean Transnationalism: The Role of Migrant Voluntary Associations (Wilk)

Ph.D. Alcalde, Maria Cristina

“Más Me Pegas, Más Te Quiero”?: Gender Violence, Resistance, and Poverty in Women's Lives in Lima, Peru ( Clark )

Ph.D. Metzo, Katherine

“It Didn't Used to be This Way”: Households, Resources, and Economic Transformation in Tunka Valley, Buriata, Russian Federation (Wilk)

Ph.D. Strezewski, Michael

Mississippian Period Mortuary Practices in the Central Illinois River Valley: A Region-Wide Survey and Analysis(Munson)

2004

Ph.D. Warren, Diane

Skeletal Biology and Paleopathology of Domestic Dogs from Prehistoric Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee (Cook)

Ph.D. Donahoe, Brian

A Line in the Sayans: History and Divergent Perceptions of Property among the Tozhu and Tofa of South Siberia (Shahrani)

Ph.D. Hollowell, Julia

"Old Things" on the Loose: The Legal Market for Archaeological Materials from Alaska's Bering Strait (Wilk)

Ph.D. Wrobel, Gabriel

Metric and Nonmetric Dental Variation Among the Ancient Maya of Northern Belize (Cook)

Ph.D. Colwell-Chanthaphonh, John

The Place of History: Social Meaning of the Archaeological Landscape in the San Pedro Valley of Arizona (Conrad)

Ph.D. Castaneda, Angela Nicole

"Veracruz Tambien es Caribe": Power, Politics, and Performance in the Making of an Afro-Caribbean Identity (Royce)

M.A. Mobley, Rebecca

Picturing Identity: On Being Cape Verdean-American Through the Lens of Ronald Barboza (Girshick)

Ph.D. Tisone, Christine

The Realtionship Between Family Health Care Practices and Child Growth in the Dominican Republic (Meier)

Ph.D. Cash, Jennifer

In Search of an Authentic Nation: Folkloric Ensembles, Ethnography, and Ethnicity in the Republic of Moldova (Royce)

Ph.D. Braun, Sebastian

Contemporary Tribal Bison Ranching on the Northern Plains: The View from Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation (DeMallie)

Ph.D. Gooding, Erik

Sing from the Heart, Sing for the People: An Ethnography of Dakotan Singing, 1160-2000 (DeMallie)

M.A. Ribick, Amy

Dickison Mounds 11-P477 and 11-P478: A Reanalysis of Two Middle Woodland Burial Mounds from Illinois (Cook)

Ph.D. Bratton, Angela

Teenage Pregnancy, Education and the Construction of Sexuality in Ghana (Clark)

2005

M.A. Bennett, Casey

A Reanalysis of Eurasian Population History: Ancient DNA Evidence of Population Affinities (Kaestle

Ph.D. Andres, Christopher

Building Negotiation: Architecture and Sociopolitical Transformation at Chau Hiix, Lamanai, and Altun Ha, Belize (Pyburn)

Ph.D. Hart, Kimberly

Aci Tatli Yiyoruz: Bitter or Sweet We Eat: The Economices of Love and Marriage in Orselli Village (Shahrani)

Ph.D. Luedke, Tracy

Healing Bodies: Materiality, History, and Poser among the Prophets of Central Mozambique (Clark)

Ph.D. Cumberland, Linda

Grammar of Assiniboine: A Siouan Language of the Northern Plains

Ph.D. Fenichel, Deborah

Exhibiting Ourselves as Others: Jewish Museum in Israel (Bahloul)

Ph.D. Garniewicz, Rexford

Zooarchaeological Measures of Resource Intensification and Depletion: Examples from Eastern North America

Ph.D. Lowe, Candice

When Diaspora Rules: (Dis)Qualifying Creoles for a Multicultural Maruitius (Royce/Wilk)

Ph.D. Mortensen, Lena

Constructing Heritage at Copan, Honduras: An Ethnography of the Archaeology Industry (Wilk)

2006

Ph.D. Frank, Emily Joan

Negotiating Futures in the Time of AIDS (Wilk)

Ph.D. Petrie, Katherine

Transformation and Persistence in the Performance of the Ikh Bayar Naadam Ceremony of Mongolia (Shahrani)

Ph.D. Reed, Ann Marie

Gateway to Africa: The Pilgrimage Tourism of Diaspora Africans to Ghana (Clark)

Ph.D. Tamburro, Paul Rene'

Ohio Valley Native Americans Speak: Indigenous Discourse on the Continuity of Identity (Caumann/Thomas)

Ph.D. VanderVeen, James

Subsistence Patterns as Markers of Cultural Exchange: European and Taino Interactions in the Dominican Republic (Conrad)

2007

Ph.D. Egeland, Charles

Zooarcheological and Taphonomic Perspectives on Hominid and Carnivore Interactions at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (Pickering)

Ph.D. Fairbanks, Julie

Adyg Identity, Performance and historical Memory (Royce)

Ph.D. Gage, Sue Je

Pure Mixed Blood: The Multiple and Contested identities of Amerisians in South Korea (Royce)

Ph.D. Minetti, Alfredo

Sensivel: A Study on Social Aesthetics, Group Creativity, and collective Emotion (Royce)

Ph.D. Osborne, Daniel

An Analysis of Developmental Plasticity in Structural Geometry at the Proximinal Femur in Adolescent Females Living in the U.S. (Cook)

Ph.D. Rutherford, Julienne

Litter Size Effects on Pacental Sturcture and Function in Common Marmoset Monkeys (Callithrix jacchus): Implications for Intrauterine Resource Allocation Strategies (Hunt)

Ph.D. Wille, Sarah

Sociopolitics and Community Building: The Entanglement of Pre-Hispanic Maya Culture, Objects, and Place at Chau Hiix, Belize (Pyburn)

2008

Ph.D. Kozab, Mary

The Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum disorders in the US: Trends and Family Experiences (Phillips)

 

PhD Jennifer Raff

As of 9/09 we have not received a copy of Raff’s dissertation

PhD Alison Doubleday

LRP5 polymorphisms and bone minerald density in the baboon (Papio hamadryas anubis/cynocephalus)(Kaestle)

PhD Hisato Kawata

“Something” That You Can’t Say: N-67 Indescribable Intelligibility and “Otherness” in the Making of Art and Ethnography (Parnell)

PhD Carlina de la Cova

Silent Voices of the Destitute: An Analysis of African American and Euro-American Health During the Nineteenth Century (Cook)

PhD Kelly Branam

Constitution–Making in Crow Country: Law, Power and Kinship(DeMallie)

PhD Lucinda M. Carspecken

we have not received department copy

PhD Joshua Wells

we have not received department copy

2009

MA Cynthia Wirth

The Graduate School should be sending us a bound thesis (Conrad)

PhD William Mangold

The Middle Woodland Occupations of the Kankakee River Valley and Beyond: The Goodall Tradition Revisited and Reinterpreted (Peebles)

PhD Sarah L. Quick

Performing Heritage: Metis Music, Dance, and Identity in a Multicultural State (Royce)

PhD Patricia Ann Hardwick

Stories of the Wind: The Role of Mak Yong in Shamanistic Healing in Kelantan, Malaysia (Glassie & Royce)