Dissertations from 2024
THE EFFECT OF ALTITUDE ON DECOMPOSITION: TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE POSTMORTEM INTERVAL IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION OF COLORADO., Christiane Irene Baigent
THE EVOLUTION OF HYLOBATID POSITIONAL BEHAVIOR AND POSTCRANIAL OSTEOLOGY, Matthew Gerard Nowak
Dissertations from 2023
AN INVESTIGATION INTO INTRAINDIVIDUAL VARIATION IN HUMAN SKELETAL SEXUAL TRAIT MORPHOLOGY, Kaleigh Christine Best
INVESTIGATING THE HIGHER COGNITIVE COMPONENTS OF MEMORY IN HYLOBATIDS, Gina Munir
Formative Pottery Production in Mesoamerica: Tayata and the Mixteca in Macroregional Perspective, Maria Teresa Palomares Rodriguez
ANDEAN URBAN PROCESSES AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL-SOCIAL INTERPLAY: THE CASE OF CAJAMARQUILLA, PERUVIAN CENTRAL COAST (ca. AD 650-1400), Rafael Antonio Segura
Life and Health on the Desert Frontier: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of the Transition Between the Roman and Byzantine Empires at Umm el-Jimal, Jordan, Jessica Rose Spencer
Through Irish and Ulster-Scots Texts and "Troubles": Languages, Land and Linguistic Identities, Kamden S. Summers
Kukama Radio: the Politics and Aesthetics of Indigenous Media in Peruvian Amazonia, Gabriel Torrealba Alfonzo
Acting Locally: Vegetable Gardening in Southern Illinois, Aimee L. Trojnar
Dissertations from 2022
Making the Ancestors: Materials, Manufacturing, and Modern Replicas of Recuay Monumental Stoneworks, Ancash Highlands, Peru, Melissa A. Litschi
Dissertations from 2021
ACOUSTIC TEMPORAL VARIATION, CALL ORDER, AND TRAVEL IN RESPONSE TO ANTHROPOGENIC NOISE IN WILD SIAMANG (SYMPHALANGUS SYNDACTYLUS), Justin D'Agostino
Places Set Apart: Stone Forts and Late Woodland Ritual Practice in the Shawnee Hills of Southern Illinois, AnneMarie Cobry DiCosola
TASTING TEA, TASTING CHINA: TEAROOMS AND THE EVERYDAY CULTURE IN DALIAN, Yingkun Hou
Dissertations from 2019
TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES: IRAQI AMERICAN MIGRANTS BRIDGING HOME AND HOST SOCIETIES, Ahmed J. Alansari
Biological Stress and Sociocultural Reactions to Environmental Change on the Central Coast of Peru: A Case of the Lima From Huaca 20 in the Maranga Complex, Megan Kathleen Cleary
ANIMATING KNOWLEDGE: RITUAL, POWER, AND RELATEDNESS AMONG LIANGSHAN YI IN SOUTHWEST CHINA, Jiaying Liu
Value and Depositional History of Early Maya Pottery in the Petén Lakes Region of Guatemala, Katherine E. South
MALE REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES IN WILD NORTHERN PIG-TAILED MACAQUES (MACACA LEONINA): TESTING THE PRIORITY-OF-ACCESS MODEL, Florian (Allen Trebouet
Dissertations from 2018
SHIFTING PATTERNS OF LIMB STRENGTH AMONG PLAINS VILLAGE HORTICULTURALISTS: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE USE OF CROSS-SECTIONAL GEOMETRY TO UNDERSTAND CULTURAL CHANGE, Ryan Michael Campbell
Mosaic Landscape Use by a Primate Community of Northeastern Peru, with Particular Focus on Red Uakaris (Cacajao calvus ucayalii), Rose M. Hores
Labor and Social Identity in Ancient Peru: A Bioarchaeological Perspective, Sarah Katherine Muno
HEALTH WITHIN THE NORTHEAST (ISAN) REGION OF THAILAND: AN ANALYSIS OF STRESS INDICATORS IN A MODERN SAMPLE OF SKELETAL REMAINS, Maria Panakhyo
INVESTIGATING THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DEPOPULATION IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS, A.D. 1500-1700, Robert Scott
Documenting Belizean Mopan: An Exploration on the Role of Language Documentation And Renewal from Language Ideological, Affective, Ethnographic, and Discourse Perspectives, Yuki Tanaka-McFarlane
Dissertations from 2017
PUBLIC, PRIVATE, PAST, AND PRESENT: AN EXPLORATION OF THE LANGUAGE AND MUSICAL STRUCTURES OF KOTIRIA/WANANO WOMEN’S KAYA BASA ‘SAD SONGS’, Aimee Jean Hosemann
Anna He Purnabramha: Deorukhe Women’s Agency in the Making of Bodies, Cuisines, and Culture in Maharashtra, India, Gauri Anilkumar Pitale
Dissertations from 2016
Biological Distance in Middle and Late Archaic Populations of the Mid-South United States, Meadow Lea Campbell
Afterimages of Kincaid Mounds, Corin Clayton O'Brien Pursell
African American Mortality: A Biocultural Study of Missouri Cemetery Records, Dawn Christine Stricklin
Dissertations from 2015
Making Muslim Identities: Contested Meaning, Identities, and Racialization of Islam in Saint Louis, Missouri, Bethany Beyyette
STABLE ISOTOPE RATIOS AS A PROXY FOR HUMAN GEOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE: BIOGEOGRAPHICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE 2H, 18O, AND 13C SIGNATURES IN MODERN HUMAN TEETH, Anastasia Holobinko
Behavioral Reconstruction of the Kerma Era Nubians, D.C. Martin
BURIAL AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN ITALIAN IRON AGE NECROPOLES: TESTING A BIODISTANCE APPROACH, Evan Muzzall
Dissertations from 2014
MISSISSIPPIAN COMMUNITY-MAKING THROUGH EVERYDAY ITEMS AT KINCAID MOUNDS, Tamira Kathleen Brennan
PAPER PEOPLE AND DIGITAL MEMORY: RECREATING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN JAPAN, Meghan Sarah Fidler
Ancestor Worship in the Middle Sicán Theocratic State, Go Matsumoto
Technological Systems of Small Point Weaponry of the Postclassic Lowland Maya (A.D. 1400 - 1697), Nathan Joseph Meissner
The Ape Ecological Niche: Posture and Hand Use in Gibbons and Macaques and the Influence of Manual Skill on Cognitive Development in Apes and Humans, Jacqueline Marie Prime
Living The Crisis: Identities And Materialities In A Transnational Greek Setting, Leonidas Vournelis
Blood, Mud, and Money: Place and Public Land Conflicts in the Shawnee Hills, Karen Wolf
Dissertations from 2013
Domestic Landscapes, Power, and Political Change: Comparing Classic Maya Communities in the Three Rivers Region of Northwestern Belize (A.D. 600 - 1000), Jason James Gonzalez
Dissertations from 2012
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: ANTHROPOLOGY AND MUSEUM PRACTICES AT WORK, Michael David Hernandez
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEX ESTIMATION METHODS IN FOUR PREHISTORIC NATIVE AMERICAN SKELETAL SAMPLES, Kyle Douglas Lubsen
Popular Media, Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ghana, Joseph Oduro-Frimpong
Dissertations from 2011
Bilateral Asymmetry in Incisors: Implications for Miocene Hominoid Species Diagnosis, Candace Ann Davis
RHETORICAL STRATEGIES AND POLITICAL GIFT GIVING IN THE ORINOCO DELTA, Juan Luis Rodriguez
Dissertations from 2010
Interpreting Cultural and Sociopolitical Landscapes in the Upper Piura Valley, Far North Coast of Perú (1100 B.C.- A.D. 1532), Jorge Antonio Montenegro
Changing Continuities: The Removal Period (1795-1830) Archaeology of the Potawatomi and Kickapoo Peoples of Illinois, Mark Joseph Wagner
Dissertations from 2009
Classic Maya Political Organization: Epigraphic Evidence Of Hierarchical Organization In The Southern Maya Mountains Region Of Belize, Phillip Julius Wanyerka