Graduate Alumni

Astroth, Kirk

Measuring the Properties of Rock Varnish on Petroglyphs: A Comparison of Three Methods of Analysis Used on Dated Graffiti and Ancient Petroglyphs at Three Sites in Arizona

Bellorado, Benjamin

Leaving Footprints in the Ancient US Southwest: Visible Indicators of Group Affiliation and Social Position in the Chaco and Post-Chaco Eras

Bridgeman, Lauren

Snake Butte: A Study of Cultural Landscapes and Indigenous Archaeology

Castillo, Victor

Conquest and Religious Change at Chiantla Viejo, Guatemala: The Transition of a Highland Maya Community to Spanish Colonial Rule

Claw, Mariah

Miss Navajo Nation: A Discursive Analysis of Gender, Power, and Settler Colonialism

Duncan, Austin Wiley

The Social Life of TBI

Eklund, Elizabeth

Where the Water Turns: Water and Cultural Memory in the Sierra Madre Foothills

Fox, M

Reconstruction of hominin paleoclimates and applying the analysis of biomarkers to Paleolithic research in the Zinling Mountains of Central China

Hilton, Amanda

Selling or Saving Cultural Heritage? Sicilian Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) Extra-Virgin Olive Oil

Molinares, Stephen

Playing the Game: A Study of Hohokam Ballcourt Structures Using Performance Theory

Moses, Victoria

The Zooarchaeology of Early Rome: Meat Production, Distribution, and Consumption in Public and Private Spaces (9th-5th cent. BCE)

Palomo, Juan Manuel

Local Community and Foreign Groups: Political Changes in the Ancient Maya Center of Ceibal, Guatemala

Phelps, Dani

Intentionally Forgetting: An Anthropological Examination of the Burial of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt

Pickering, Evelyn

Reaching Environmental Sovereignty through Cultural Resilience: The Blackfeet Water Compact

Stein, Kristoffer

Heritage, Identity, and the Santa Cruz River, Tucson

Winter, Matthew

Navigating the Built Environment: Architecture and Social Connectedness in the Southen Levant, 330 BCE - 250 CE

Yarrington, Jonna

A Time to Every Purpose: Kinship, Privilege, and Succession on a Disappearing Island

Burham, Melissa

Defining Ancient Maya Communities: The Social Spatial, and Ritual Organization of Outlying Temple Groups at Ceibal, Guatemala

Byrd, Rachel

Biodistance Evidence for Migration and Gene Flow in the North American Southwest, 2100 BC-AD1700

Fladd, Samantha

Access, Accumulation, and Action: Social Identity at Homol'ovi

MacLellan, Jessica

Households, Ritual, and the Origins of Social Complexity: Excavations at the Karinel Group, Ceibal, Guatemala

Miller, Kerith (Keri)

The Role of Aramaic in the Ethnic and Religious Identity of the Syrian Orthodox

Schott, Amy

Eolian Landscape History and Prehistoric Dune Farming in Petrified Forest National Park: A Geoarchaeological Approach to Understanding the Long-Term Use of a Marginal Landscape

Singletary, Britt

Who Cares? How Caregivers Influence Communicative and Cognitive Development during Early Childhood

Akarsu, Hayal

Reforming the Police: Violence, Security, and the Social in Turkey

Feldman, Lindsey

Forging Selfhood: Masculinity, Identity, and Work in Arizona's Inmate Wildfire Program

Mathwich, Nicole

Landscapes of Resilience: O'odham Landscape Use in the Colonial Pimeria Alta

Mead, Kent

Low-Cost UAV Photogrammetry: An Application for Archaeological Survey in the Upper Gila River Watershed, New Mexico

Nelson, Jessica

Pataxó Hãhãhãe: Race, Indigeneity and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Northeast

Rosenbaum, Rachel

"It's quite a sensitive issue": Grappling with Antxiety and Ambivalence towards Syrian Refugees in Beirut, Lebanon

Sezate, Adam

A Rare Conversation, A Proactive Approach in Cultural Resources Management in Pima County

Soto, Gabriella

The Border Enforcement "Funnel Effect": A Material Culture Approach to Border Security on the Arizona-Sonora Border, 2000-Present

Soza, Danielle

Points of View: Landscape Persistence in Northeastern AZ

Mandache, Luminita-Ande

Utopian Projects and the Troubled Paradise: Grassroots Discourses and Strategies of Change at the Periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil

Bailey, Kassi Sue

Investigations of the taphonomic context of a microfaunal assemblage: Emergence of pest-host and commensal relationships at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey

Barker, Claire

Inconspicuous Identity: Using Corrugated Pottery to Explore Social Identity within the Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster, A.D. 1260-1400

Curry, Benjamin

An Environmental and Archeological History of Ranching at Rancho Refugio - Wilder Ranch

Grace, Samantha

The Citizen Life Course: Age Identity in Ecuador's Educational Revolution

Hayes, Lauren

Shaping the Ideal Worker: Power, Gender, and Responsibility on the Production Line in Appalachian Kentucky

Hedquist, Saul

A Colorful Past: Turquoise and Social Identity in the Late Prehispanic Western Pueblo Region, A.D. 1275–1400

Lanoë, François B.

The Lion’s Share: Human Paleoecological Integration in Subarctic Eastern Beringia

MacFarland, Kathryn Anne

Religious and Ritualized Landscapes of Iron Age North Central Eurasia

Murray, Wendi Field

We Agree as One People: Co-residence, Convergence, and Community Transformation among the Arikara in North Dakota

Renkert, Sarah Rachelle

Community-Owned Tourism: Pushing the Paradigms of Alternative Tourisms?

Ryan, Stacy Lynn

Variation in Projectile Point Design and Obsidian Use in Southeastern Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico, A.D. 1200-1450

Shin, Priscilla

A Colorful Past: Turquoise and Social Identity in the Late Prehispanic Western Pueblo Region, A.D. 1275–1400

Spears, Michael

Program Plan and Preservation Plan for the Pueblo of Acoma Historic Preservation Office

Steiner, Robin

Between Oil Pasts and Utopian Dreams: Making State and Economy in Oman’s Citizen Labor Industry

Stoll, Marijke

The Seriousness of Play: What Ballcourts Tell Us About Sociopolitical Negotiation in Nejapa and the Eastern Sierra Sur, Oaxaca, Mexico

Taber, Peter

Rational Enchantment: Instituting Ecuadorian Biodiversity

White, William

The River Street Neighborhood: An Multi-Racial Urban Region of Refuge in Boise, Idaho

Yutzy, Christopher

From Insurgent to Participatory Citizens: (Re)Making Politics in Northeastern Brazil

Borck, Lewis

Lost Voices Found: An Archaeology of Contentious Politics: Case Studies in the Greater Southwest, A.D. 1100 – 1450

Coskun, Ufuk

Job Searching among College-educated Americans: Managing Emotion Work, Social Networks, and Middle Class Identity

Crocker, Rebecca

"Sadness Is a Great Pain for the Body": The Emotional Trauma and Embodied Impacts of Migration from Mexico to Tucson, Arizona

Higgins, Richard

Pre-Classic Hohokam Obsidian in the Tucson Basin: Examing Patterns in Procurement and Use

Kelly, Kim

Making Bodies Commensurate: The Social Construction of Humans, Animals, and Microbes as Objects of Scientific Study

Magrath, Priscilla

Moral Landscapes of Health Governance in West Java, Indonesia

Reinecke, Robin

Naming the Dead: Identification and Ambiguity along the U.S.-Mexico Border

Sheehan, Megan

Everyday Visibility: Race, Migration, and National Identity in Santiago, Chile

Storey, Angela

Infrastructure and Informality: Contesting the Neoliberal Politics of Participation and Belonging in Cape Town, South Africa

Anderson, Donald

In Cisio Scribere: Labor, Knowledge, and Politics of Cabdriving in Mexico City and San Francisco

Armin, Julie

Organizing Care: U.S. Health Policy, Social Inequality, and the Work of Cancer Treatment

Barros, Luis Silva

Is Participatory Governance Necessary? A Case Study of Alternative Education Initiatives in Gu-Vo Community, Tohono O'odham Nation 2011-14

Battaglia, Mario

Boyer, Micah

Questioning Assumptions about Decision-Making in West African Households: Examples from Longitudinal Studies in Benin and Mali

Brogden, Mette

Refugee Odysseys: an ethnography of refugee resettlement in the U.S. after 9-11

Chu, Joon-Beom

Barring the Unsound: Knowledge, Language, and Agency in the Evaluation of Law Students in Mock Trial Competitions

Clark, Amy

Spatial structure and the temporality of assemblage formation: a comparative study of seven open air Middle Paleolithic sites in France

Dungan, Kathryn

Religious Architecture and Borderland Histories: Great Kivas in the Prehispanic Central Southwest, 1000 to 1400 CE

Eaves, Emery

TMD Revisited: Appreciating the Work of Illness, the balancing of risks, and the construction of moral identities involves in dealing with chronic pain

Giomi, Evan

Hart, Sharlot

Heacock, Erika

Holst, Joshua Ryan

Development and Conflict at the Ecological Margins: Grassroots Approaches to Democracy and Natural Resources

Laluk, Nicholas

Historical-Period Apache Occupation of the Chiricahua Mountains in Southeastern Arizona: An Exercise in Collaboration

Martin, Stephanie

Martinez-Taguena, Natalia

And the Giants Keep Singing: Comcaac Anthropology of Meaningful Places

Mayfield, Tracie

Historical-Archaeological Analysis of the Nineteenth-Century British Plantation Settlement at Lamanai, Belize (1837-1868)

Miljour, Heather

Osborne, Dana

Negotiating the Hierarchy of Languages in Ilocandia: The Social and Cognitive Implications of Massive Multilingualism in the Philippines

Pailes, Matthew

Political Landscapes Of Late Prehispanic Sonora: A View From The Moctezuma Valley

Pathak, Gauri Sanjeev

Polycystic ovary syndrome in contemporary India: An ethnographic study of globalization, disorder, and the body

Prescott, Megan

The New Heroes: The localized production and migration of Filipino nurses out of the Philippines

Price Steinbrecher, Barry

Rahman, Ashiqur

Governance Matters: Power, Corruption, Social Exclusion, Climate Change in Bangladesh

Raskin, Sarah

Decayed, Missing, and Filled: Subjectivity and the Dental Safety Net in Central Appalachia

Renteria-Valencia, Rodrigo F.

Hunting Cartographies: Individualism, Morality and Wildlife Conservation among the Comcaac

Schoon, Danielle

Becoming Roma: Gypsy Identity, Civic Engagement, and Urban Renewal in Turkey

Silverman, Gila

Complexities and Contradictions: Prayer, healing, belief and identity among liberal American Jews

Barros, Luis

A Case-Study of Tohono O'odham Governance in History: The Impact of Alienation, Anomie, and Accomodation in the Social Organization

Bloom, Molly

Disability and Gender in 'Wheelchair Talk' : Language and Identity on a Womens Wheelchair Basketball Team

Boyer, Micah

Making Sense with Stories: Rumor, Social Transformation, and Treatment-Seeking Behavior in Benin

Burghardt, Laura

The Vernacular Architecture of Homesteads in Cebolla Canyon, New Mexico

Campbell, Jacob

The Nature of Hydrocarbons: Industrial Ecology, Resource Depletion, and Politics of Renewability in Trinidad and Tobago

Canova, Paola

Initmate Encounters: Ayoreo Sex Work in the Mennonite Colonies of Western Paraguay

Cerezo-Román, Jessica I.

Unpacking Personhood and Identity in the Hohokam Area of Southern Arizona

Copperstone, Chance

Labor, Status and Power: Slave Foodways at James Madison's Montepelier AD 1810-1836

Daughtrey, Cannon

Pima County's Open Space Ranch Preserves: Predictive Modeling of Site Locations for Three Time Periods at Ranch Seco

Davis, Allison

E, Chen-Chun

The Syntax of Comparative Correlatives in Mandarin Chinese

Ericksen, Annika

Politics of Responsibility in an Increasingly Hazardous Climate: The Case of Herding in Post-Socialist Mongolia

Foster, Adam

Ontogeny of Bipedal Traits in an Animal Model for the Quadrupedal-to-Bipedal Transistion

Haas, W. Randall

Forager Mobility, Constructed Environments, and Emergent Settlement Hierarchy: Insights from Altiplano Archaeology

Kocamaner, Hikmet

Politics of the Family: Islam, Secularism, Governance, and Religious Media in Turkey

Labotka, Lori

Healthy, Beautiful Hair: Gender, Punishment, and Hair Care in a Women's Prison

Mathwich, Nicole

McMahan, Ben

Risk, Luck, and Resiliency: Hurricanes and Disaster on the US Gulf Coast

Medeiros, Melanie

"Then Come the Thorns": An Ethnography of Marriage, Divorce and Distress Among Afro-Brazilians in Rural Northeast Brazil

Miller, D. Shane

From Colonization to Domestication: Historical Ecology and the Origins of Agriculture in Central Tennessee

Moses, Victoria

Ortiz, Jose Raul

Radonic, Lucero

Claiming Territory and Asserting Indigeneity: The Urbanization of Nature, its History and Politics in Northwestern México

Stinnett, Ashley

'Blood-Talk': A Language Network Analysis of English Speaking Heritage Butchers in the Southwestern United States

Taha, Maisa

Cultivating Convivencia: Youth & Democratic Education in Southeast Spain

Tsukamoto, Kenichiro

Politics in Plazas: Classic Maya Ritual Performance at El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico

Tumonggor, Meryanne

Genetic Insights on the Human Colonization of Indonesia

Xie, Liye

Early to Middle Holocene Earth-Working Implements and Neolithic Land-Use Strategies on the Ningshao Plain, China

Yarrington, Jonna

Driots and Frontières: Sugar and the Edge of France; 1800-1860

Pickering, Evelyn

The Social Construction of Water in Dominica and how it has Influenced Use and Exploration

Wey, Rebecca Lynn

Fiction and Necessity: Literary Interventions in the Drug War

Aragon, Leslie D.

Figuring Out Figurines: An Ontological Approach to Hohokam Anthropomorphic Figurines from the Phoenix Basin

Cutright-Smith, Elizabeth

Mapping Ancestral Hopi Archaeological Landscapes: An Assessment of the Efficacy of GIS Analysis for Interpreting Indigenous Cultural Landscapes

Feldman, Lindsey R

Kidder, Emily E

Prominence in Yucatec Maya: The Role of Stress in Yucatec Maya Words

Lehmkuhl, Iva L

Authenticity in Portrayals of Navajo Culture at Two Heritage Sites

Kielhofer, Jennifer

Lewis, Larea M

The Desert Cahuilla: A Study of Cultural Landscapes and Historic Settlements

Palomo Mijangos, Jose Manuel

Penney, Lauren S

Mind the Gap: The Dynamics and Work of Aging and Caring at Home

Reuther, Joshua D

Late Glacial and Early Holocene Geoarchaeology and Terrestrial Paleoecology in the Lowlands of the Middle Tanana Valley, Subarctic Alaska

Seibert, David

An Ethnographic Poetics of Placed-and-Found Objects and Cultural Memory in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Singletary, Brittany Anne

Trainer, Sarah S

Local Interpretations of Global Trends: Body Concerns and Self-Projects Enacted by Young Emirati Women

Webber, James

Iizuka, Fumie

Early Pottery in the Tropics of Panama (ca. 4,500-3,200 B.P): Production Processes, Circulation, and Diagenesis

Ryan, Susan C

Architectural Communities of Practice: Ancestral Pueblo Kiva Production During the Chaco and Post-Chaco Periods in the Northwestern Southwest

Vogt, Wendy A

Ruptured Journeys, Ruptured Lives: Central American Migration, Transnational Violence, and Hope in Southern Mexico

Huffer, Donelle Joy

A Spatial Analysis and Zooarchaeological Interpretation of Archaeological Bison Remains in the Southwest and the Wildlife Management Implications for the House Rock Valley Bison Herd in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

Kingston, Lauren Margaret

Exploring the Community of University Indian Ruin

Mountain, Rebecca Vivienne

Social Stress and Bone Loss at Point of Pines Pueblo, Arizona: A pQCT Study on Archaeological Bone

Stauber, Leah

Chicanismo in the New Generation: "Youth, Identity, Power" in the 21st Century Borderlands

Rattray, Nicholas A

Embodied Marginalities: Disability, Citizenship, and Space in Highland Ecuador

Orr, Yancey A

The Emergence of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Cognition, Perception and Social Labor in Indonesian Society

Munson, Jessica L

Temple Histories and Communities of Practice in Early Maya Society: Archaelogical Investigations at Caobal, Petèn, Guatemala

Milliken, Ian Minot

The Significance of Heritage Value from Historic Properties to Cultural Resources

Jelinek, Lauren E

The Protohistoric Period in the Pimeria Alta

Janz, Lisa

Chronology of Post-Glacial Settlement in the Gobi Desert and the Neolithization of Arid Mongolia and China

Hopkins, Maren P

A Storied Land: Tiyo and the Epic Journey Down the Colorado River

Echenique, Ester

Del Cairo Silva, Ester

Enviormentalizing Indigeneity: A Comparative Ethnography on Multiculturalism, Ethnic Hierarchies, and Political Ecology in the Columbian Amazon

Burke, Brian J

"Para que cambiemos" / "So we can (ex)change" : Economic Activism and Socio-Cultural Change in the Barter Systems of Medellin, Colombia

Borck, Lewis S

Patterns of Resistance: Violence, Migration, and Trade in the Gallina Heartland

Vogt, Wendy A

Ruptured Journeys, Ruptured Lives: Central American Migration, Transnational Violence, and Hope in Southern Mexico

Tumberg, Timothy A

Digging Up Whiskey Row: An Archaeological and Historical Investigation of Industrial Capitalism on the North Shore of Lake Superior

Niang, Aminata

Mining as Development? Corporate / Community Relationships in the New Gold Mining Sector of West Africa: The Case of Sabodala, Senegal

Hedges, Kristin E

Compound Risk: An Analysis of Biocultural, Familial, and Structural Risks Among Substance Using Adolescent Girls

Good, Mary K

Modern Moralities, Moral Modernities: Ambivalence and Change Among Youth in Tonga

Fox, Karyn Marie

Resilience in Action: Adaptive Governance for Subaks, Rice Terraces, and Water Temples in Bali, Indonesia

Curry, Benjamin A

Cole, Steven M

Exploring Models of Economic Inequality and the Impact on Mental and Physical Health Outcomes in Rural Eastern Province, Zambia

Schott, Amy Michelle

Phaneuf, Victoria M

National and Minority Cultures in 21st Century France: North African and Pied-Noir Cultural Associations

Mehalic, David S

The Archaeological Geography of Small Architectural Sites of the Mogollon Plateau Region of East Central Arizona

Fladd, Samantha G

Da Silva, Antonio B

Voicing Race and Anti-Racism: Rethinking Black Consciousness among Black Activists in Salvador, Brazil

Cano, Jenny Ruth Moral

Crafting Community, Reconstructing Identities, and Performing Traditions: Ethnoarchaeology of Burnay Pottery Tradition and Community Integration in Vigan Ilocos, Sur, Philippines

Byrd, Rachael

Pitezel, Todd A

From Archaeology to Ideology in Northwest Mexico: Cerro de Moctezuma in the Casas Grandes Ritual Landscape

Jenks, Kelly L

Vecinos en la Frontera: Interaction,Adaptation, and Identity at San Miguel del Vado, New Mexico

Hermes, Taylor R

Fenn, Thomas R

Applications of Heacy Isotope Research to Archaeological Problems of Provenance and Trade on Cases from Africa and the New World

Eichelberger, Laura P

Manufacturing Insecurity: Power, Water, Waster and the Silences of Sustainability and Suffering in Northwest Alaska

Carrasco Moraga, Anita G

One World, Many Ethics. The Politics of Mining and Indigenous People in Atacama, Chile

Alvarez, Jose M

Starkovich, Britt M

Trends in Subsistence from the Middle Paleolithic through Mesolithic at Klissoura Cave 1 (Peloponnese, Greece)

Mentzer, Susan M

Macro- and Micro-Scale Geoarchaeology of Ucagizli Caves I and II, Hatay, Turkey

Grimstead, Deanna N

Applications of Evolutionary Ecology and Isotope Geochemistry Shed Light on North American Prehistoric Human Behavior and Regional Procurement Systems

Friederic, Karin U

La Violencia Adentro (Violence in the Interior): Gender VIolence, Human Rights, and State-Community-NGO Relations in Coastal Ecuador

Duwe, Samuel G

The Prehispanic Tewa World: Space, Time, and Becoming in the Pueblo Southwest

Begum, Ukm Shawkat Ara

Modernization, Vulnerability and Climate Change in the Southwest Bangladesh

Ruette, Krisna

The Left-Turn of Multiculturalism: Indigenous and Afrodescendant Social Movements in Northwestern Venezuela

Nelson, Jessica Fae

Maclellan, Jessica A

Dampilon, Zhargal

Environmental Movements in Russia (An Example from the Baikal Region)

Coffey, Michael John

A Meta-Analysis of Haitian Rural Household Surveys

Carruth, Lauren

The Aftermath of Aid: Medical Insecurity in the Northern Somali Region of Ethiopia

Wroblewski, Michael

Voices of Contact: Politics of Language in Urban Amazonian Ecuador

Villanueva, Ronald Hector Andrada

The Human Endeavor of International Communities: The Gawad Kalinga Movement

Taber, Peter A

Sanchez De Carpenter, Maria

Los Primeros Mexicanos: Late Pleistocene / Early Holocene Archaeology of Sonora, Mexico

Reifschneider, Meredith A

Prakash, Preetam

Medeiros, Melanie A

The Piki Complex at the Homol'ovi Settlement Cluster: Defining the Power, Prestige, and Status of Women at a Pueblo IV Community

Deubel, Tara F

Between Homeland and Exile: Poetry, Memory and Identity in Sahrawi Communities

Daughters, Anton T

Globalization at the 'Ends of the Earth': Ritual Livelihoods, Wage Labor, and the Struggle over Identity on the Archipelago of Chiloe

Arendt, Nicole Marie

A Palynological Study of Landscape Change During the Spanish Colonial Period in the U.S. Southwest

Thompson, Jennifer Jo

Managing Menopause: An Ethnographic Study of Women's Midlife Information-Seeking and Decsion-Making in the Southwest U.S

Orzech, Kathryn McElveen

Adolescent Sleep Patterns, Perceptions and Coping Behaviors

Orcutt- Gachiri, Heidi Ann

Kenyan Language Ideologies, Language Endagerment, and Gikuyu (Kikuyu): How Discourses of Nationalism, Education, and Development have Places a Large, Indigenous Language at Risk

Thompson, Kerry F

Alkidaa' da hooghanee (They Used to Live Here): An Archeological Study of Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Navajo Hogan Households and Federal Indian Policy

Piekielek, Jessica

Public Wildlands at the U.S. - Mexico Border: Where Conservation, Migration, and Border Enforcement Collide

Newell, Gillian E

A Total Site of Hegemony: Monutmental Materiality at Teotihuacan, Mexico

Murphy, John T

Exploring Complexity in the Past: The Hohokam Water Management Simulation

Young, Monica Z

Scholnick, Jonathan B

Apprenticeship, Cultural Transmission and the Evolution of Cultural Traditions in Historic New England Gravestones

Manne, Tiina Helena

Upper Paleolithic Foraging Decisions and Early Economic Intensification at Vale Boi, Southwestern Portugal

MacFarland, Kathryn Anne

Ballenger, Jesse Albertice

Late Quaternary Paleoenvironments and Archaeology in the San Pedro Basin, Southeastern Arizona, U.S.A.

Baires, Francisco Javier