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Recent Theses and Dissertations

Name, Degree Chair Thesis/Dissertation Title
2009 William Mangold Peebles The Middle Woodland Occupations of the Kankakee River Valley and Beyond: The Goodall Tradition Revisited and Reinterpreted
  Sarah L. Quick Royce Performing Heritage: Metis Music, Dance, and Identity in a Multicultural State
  Cynthia Wirth Conrad  

2008 Kelly Branam DeMallie Constitution-Making in Crow Country: Law, Power and Kinship
  Lucinda M. Carspecken    
  Carlina de la Cova Cook Silent Voices of the Destitute: An Analysis of African American and Euro-American Health During the Nineteenth Century
  Alison Doubleday Kaestle LRP5 Polymorphisms and Bone Mineral Density in the Baboon (Papio hamadryas anubis/cynocephalus)
  Mary Kozub Phillips The Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders in the US: Trends and Family Experiences
  Hisato Kawata Parnell "Something" That You Can't Say: Indescribable Intelligibility and "Otherness" in the Making of Art and Ethnography
  Jennifer Raff Kaestle  
  Joshua Wells    

2007 Charles Egeland Pickering Zooarcheological and Taphonomic Perspectives on Hominid and Carnivore Interactions, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
  Julie Fairbanks Royce Adyg Identity, Performance and Historical Memory
  Sue Je Gage Royce "Pure Mixed Blood: The Multiple and Contested Identities of Amerasians in South Korea"
  Alfredo Minetti Royce

Sensivel: A Study on Social Aesthetics, Group Creativity, and Collective Emotion

  Daniel Osborne Cook An Analysis of Developmental Plasticity in Structural Geometry at the Proximal Femur in Adolescent Females Living in the U.S.
  Marvin Richardson DeMallie  
  Julienne Rutherford Hunt Litter Size Effects on Placental Structure and Function in Common Marmoset Monkeys (Callithrix jacchus): Implications for Intrauterine Resource Allocation Strategies
  Sarah Willie Pyburn Sociopolotics and Community Building: The Entanglement of Pre-Hispanic Maya Culture, Objects, and Place at Chau Hiix, Belize

2006 Stefano Fiorini, PhD Brondizio/Royce Physical and Symbolic Landscapes of Identity: The Arbereshe of Southern Italy in the European Context
  Emily Joan Frank, PhD Wilk

Negotiating Futures in the Time of AIDS

  Jason Heaton Pickering Taxonomy of the Sterkfontein Fossil Cercopithecinae: the Papionini of Members 2 and 4 (Gauteng, South Africa)
  Elizabeth Pennefather-O'Brien, PhD Cook

Biological Affinities Among Middle Woodland Populations Associated with the Hopewell Horizon

  Katherine E. Petrie, PhD Shahrani

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

  Ann Marie Reed, PhD Clark

Gateway to Africa: The Pilgrimage Tourism of Diaspora Africans to Ghana

  Paul Rene' Tamburro, PhD Baumann/Thomas

Ohio Valley Native Americans Speak: Indigenous Discourse on the Continuity of Identity

James VanderVeen, PhD Conrad Subsistence Patterns as Markers of Cultural Exchange: European and Taino Interactions in the Dominican Republic
Virginia A. Visconti Clark/Schwandt

Parents' Wishes and Children's Choices: An Ethnographic Study of Rural Household Economies and Formal Schooling in a Northern Vietnamese Commune


2005 Christopher R. Andres, PhDPyburnBuilding Negotiation: Architecture and Sociopolitical Transformation at Chau Hiix, Lamanai, and Altun Ha, Belize
Casey C. Bennett, MAKaestleA Reanalysis of Eurasian Population History: Ancient DNA Evidence of Population Affinities
Linda Cumberland , PhD Parks A Siouan Language of the Northern Plains
Deborah Fenichel , PhD Bahloul Exhibiting Ourselves as Others: Jewish Museum in Israel
Rexford Garniewicz, PhD  

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

Kimberly Hart, PhD Shahrani Aci Tatli Yiyoruz: Bitter or Sweet We Eat: The Economics of Love and Marriage in Orselli Village.
Candice Lowe , PhD Royce/Wilk When Diaspora Rules: (Dis)Qualifying Creoles for a Multicultural Mauritius
Tracy Luedke , PhD Clark

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

Lena Mortensen, PhD Wilk

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

James VanderVeen, MA Conrad

History of a Pioneer House: Domestic Archaeology in Context


2004 Angela Bratton, PhDClarkTeenage Pregnancy, Education, and the Construction of Sexuality in Ghana
Sebastian Braun, PhDDeMallieContemporary Tribal Bison Ranching on the Great Plains: A View from Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation
Angela N. Castañeda, PhDRoyce"Veracruz también es Caribe": Power, Politics, and Performance in the making of an Afro-Caribbean Identity
Jennifer Cash, PhDRoyceIn Search of an Authentic Nation: Folkloric Ensembles, Ethnography, and Ethnicity in the Republic of Moldova
Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, PhDConradThe Place of History: Social Meanings of the Archaeological Landscape in the San Pedro Valley of Arizona
Brian Donahoe, PhDShahraniA Line in the Sayans: History and Divergent Perceptions of Property among the Tozhu and Tofa of South Siberia
Erik Gooding, PhDDeMallieSing from the Heart, Sing for the People: An Ethnography of Dakotan Singing, 1660-2000
Julia Hollowell, PhDWilk"Old Things" on the Loose: The Legal Market for Archaeological Materials from Alaska's Bering Strait
Rebecca Mobley, MAGirshickPicturing Identity: On Being Cape Verdean-American Through the Lens of Ronald Barboza
Amy Ribick, MACookDickison Mounds 11-P477 and 11-P478: A Reanalysis of Two Middle Woodland Burial Mounds from Illinois
Christine Tisone, PhDMeierThe Relationship Between Family Health Care Practices And Child Growth In the Dominican Republic
Diane Warren, PhDCookSkeletal Biology and Paleopathology of Domestic Dogs from Prehistoric Alabama, N-Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee
Gabriel Wrobel, PhDCookMetric and Nommetric Dental Variation Among the Ancient Maya of Northern Belize

2003Maria Cristina Alcalde, PhDClark"Más Me Pegas, Más Te Quiero"?: Gender Violence, Resistance, and Poverty in Women's Lives in Lima, Peru
Elizabeth Babcock, PhDWilk Belizean Transnationalism: The Role of Migrant Voluntary Associations
Charles Beeker, MAConradSan Felipe 1733 Spanish Shipwreck: A Call to Preserve a Unique Submerged Cultural and Biological Resource
Alissa Caprood, MAVitelliIndiana Archaeology in Greece: A Guide and Preliminary Exhibit Design for the Preparation of an International Exhibit Loan
Britta Grieshaber, MAKaestleEffects of X-Ray And Computed Tomography Exposure On The Amplification of DNA From Bone
Katherine Metzo, PhDWilk"It Didn't Used to be This Way": Households, Resources, and Economic Transformation in Tunka Valley, Buriata, Russian Federation
Jill Moniz, PhDRoycePariah in Paradise: An Essay on Black Subjectivity, Authorship and the Politics of Identity
Patrick Moore, PhDParksPoint of View: In Kaska Historical Narratives
Susan Staats, PhDBaumanCommunicative Ideology in Kapon Religious Discourse
Dietrich Stout, PhDTothStone Tools and the Evolution of Human Thinking: Cultural, Biological, and Archaeological Elements in an Anthropology of Human Origins
Michael Strezewski, PhDMunsonMississippian Period Mortuary Practices in the Central Illinois River Valley: A Region-Wide Survey and Analysis
Sarah Wille, MAVitelliThe Calhoun Site Ceramic Assemblage: A Typological and Technological Classification