PhD - Doctor of Philosophy
MA - Master of Arts
2014
| Name | Degree | Semester | Dissertation Title |
| Barros, Luis | PhD | Spring | A Case-Study of Tohono O'odham Governance in History: The Impact of Alienation, Anomie, and Accomodation in the Social Organization |
| Bloom, Molly | MA | Spring | Disability and Gender in 'Wheelchair Talk' : Language and Identity on a Womens Wheelchair Basketball Team |
| Boyer, Micah | PhD | Spring | Making Sense with Stories: Rumor, Social Transformation, and Treatment-Seeking Behavior in Benin |
| Burghardt, Laura | MA | Spring | The Vernacular Architecture of Homesteads in Cebolla Canyon, New Mexico |
| Campbell, Jacob | PhD | Spring | The Nature of Hydrocarbons: Industrial Ecology, Resource Depletion, and Politics of Renewability in Trinidad and Tobago |
| Canova, Paola | PhD | Spring | Initmate Encounters: Ayoreo Sex Work in the Mennonite Colonies of Western Paraguay |
| Cerezo-Román, Jessica I. | PhD | Spring | Unpacking Personhood and Identity in the Hohokam Area of Southern Arizona |
| Copperstone, Chance | MA | Spring | Labor, Status and Power: Slave Foodways at James Madison's Montepelier AD 1810-1836 |
| Daughtrey, Cannon | MA | Spring | Pima County's Open Space Ranch Preserves: Predictive Modeling of Site Locations for Three Time Periods at Ranch Seco |
| Davis, Allison | PhD | Spring | |
| E, Chen-Chun | PhD | Spring | The Syntax of Comparative Correlatives in Mandarin Chinese |
| Ericksen, Annika | PhD | Spring | Politics of Responsibility in an Increasingly Hazardous Climate: The Case of Herding in Post-Socialist Mongolia |
| Foster, Adam | PhD | Spring | Ontogeny of Bipedal Traits in an Animal Model for the Quadrupedal-to-Bipedal Transistion |
| Haas, W. Randall | PhD | Spring | Forager Mobility, Constructed Environments, and Emergent Settlement Hierarchy: Insights from Altiplano Archaeology |
| Kocamaner, Hikmet | PhD | Spring | Politics of the Family: Islam, Secularism, Governance, and Religious Media in Turkey |
| Labotka, Lori | PhD | Spring | Healthy, Beautiful Hair: Gender, Punishment, and Hair Care in a Women's Prison |
| Mathwich, Nicole | MA | Spring | |
| McMahan, Ben | PhD | Spring | Risk, Luck, and Resiliency: Hurricanes and Disaster on the US Gulf Coast |
| Medeiros, Melanie | PhD | Spring | "Then Come the Thorns": An Ethnography of Marriage, Divorce and Distress Among Afro-Brazilians in Rural Northeast Brazil |
| Miller, D. Shane | PhD | Spring | From Colonization to Domestication: Historical Ecology and the Origins of Agriculture in Central Tennessee |
| Moses, Victoria | MA | Spring | |
| Ortiz, Jose Raul | MA | Spring | |
| Radonic, Lucero | PhD | Spring | Claiming Territory and Asserting Indigeneity: The Urbanization of Nature, its History and Politics in Northwestern México |
| Stinnett, Ashley | PhD | Spring | 'Blood-Talk': A Language Network Analysis of English Speaking Heritage Butchers in the Southwestern United States |
| Taha, Maisa | PhD | Spring | Cultivating Convivencia: Youth & Democratic Education in Southeast Spain |
| Tsukamoto, Kenichiro | PhD | Spring | Politics in Plazas: Classic Maya Ritual Performance at El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico |
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Tumonggor, Meryanne |
PhD | Spring | Genetic Insights on the Human Colonization of Indonesia |
| Xie, Liye | PhD | Spring | Early to Middle Holocene Earth-Working Implements and Neolithic Land-Use Strategies on the Ningshao Plain, China |
| Yarrington, Jonna | MA | Spring | Driots and Frontières: Sugar and the Edge of France; 1800-1860 |
| Pickering, Evelyn | MA | Fall | The Social Construction of Water in Dominica and how it has Influenced Use and Exploration |
| Wey, Rebecca Lynn | MA | Fall | Fiction and Necessity: Literary Interventions in the Drug War |
2013
| Name | Degree | Sememster | Dissertation Title |
| Aragon, Leslie D. | MA | Spring | Figuring Out Figurines: An Ontological Approach to Hohokam Anthropomorphic Figurines from the Phoenix Basin |
| Cutright-Smith, Elizabeth | PhD | Spring | Mapping Ancestral Hopi Archaeological Landscapes: An Assessment of the Efficacy of GIS Analysis for Interpreting Indigenous Cultural Landscapes |
| Feldman, Lindsey R | MA | Spring | |
| Kidder, Emily E | PhD | Spring | Prominence in Yucatec Maya: The Role of Stress in Yucatec Maya Words |
| Lehmkuhl, Iva L | MA | Spring | Authenticity in Portrayals of Navajo Culture at Two Heritage Sites |
| Kielhofer, Jennifer | MA | Fall | |
| Lewis, Larea M | MA | Spring | The Desert Cahuilla: A Study of Cultural Landscapes and Historic Settlements |
| Palomo Mijangos, Jose Manuel | MA | Spring | |
| Penney, Lauren S | PhD | Summer | Mind the Gap: The Dynamics and Work of Aging and Caring at Home |
| Reuther, Joshua D | PhD | Summer | Late Glacial and Early Holocene Geoarchaeology and Terrestrial Paleoecology in the Lowlands of the Middle Tanana Valley, Subarctic Alaska |
| Seibert, David | PhD | Spring | An Ethnographic Poetics of Placed-and-Found Objects and Cultural Memory in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands |
| Singletary, Brittany Anne | MA | Spring | |
| Trainer, Sarah S | PhD | Spring | Local Interpretations of Global Trends: Body Concerns and Self-Projects Enacted by Young Emirati Women |
| Webber, James | MA | Spring | |
| Iizuka, Fumie | PhD | Spring | Early Pottery in the Tropics of Panama (ca. 4,500-3,200 B.P): Production Processes, Circulation, and Diagenesis |
| Ryan, Susan C | PhD | Summer | Architectural Communities of Practice: Ancestral Pueblo Kiva Production During the Chaco and Post-Chaco Periods in the Northwestern Southwest |
| Vogt, Wendy A | PhD | Summer | Ruptured Journeys, Ruptured Lives: Central American Migration, Transnational Violence, and Hope in Southern Mexico |
| Huffer, Donelle Joy | MA | Fall | 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 | MA | Fall | Exploring the Community of University Indian Ruin |
| Mountain, Rebecca Vivienne | MA | Fall | Social Stress and Bone Loss at Point of Pines Pueblo, Arizona: A pQCT Study on Archaeological Bone |
2012
| Name | Degree | Semester | Dissertation Title |
| Stauber, Leah | PhD | Spring | Chicanismo in the New Generation: "Youth, Identity, Power" in the 21st Century Borderlands |
| Rattray, Nicholas A | PhD | Spring | Embodied Marginalities: Disability, Citizenship, and Space in Highland Ecuador |
| Orr, Yancey A | PhD | Spring | The Emergence of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Cognition, Perception and Social Labor in Indonesian Society |
| Munson, Jessica L | PhD | Spring | Temple Histories and Communities of Practice in Early Maya Society: Archaelogical Investigations at Caobal, Petèn, Guatemala |
| Milliken, Ian Minot | MA | Spring | The Significance of Heritage Value from Historic Properties to Cultural Resources |
| Jelinek, Lauren E | PhD | Spring | The Protohistoric Period in the Pimeria Alta |
| Janz, Lisa | PhD | Spring | Chronology of Post-Glacial Settlement in the Gobi Desert and the Neolithization of Arid Mongolia and China |
| Hopkins, Maren P | MA | Spring | A Storied Land: Tiyo and the Epic Journey Down the Colorado River |
| Echenique, Ester | MA | Spring | |
| Del Cairo Silva, Ester | PhD | Spring | Enviormentalizing Indigeneity: A Comparative Ethnography on Multiculturalism, Ethnic Hierarchies, and Political Ecology in the Columbian Amazon |
| Burke, Brian J | PhD | Spring | "Para que cambiemos" / "So we can (ex)change" : Economic Activism and Socio-Cultural Change in the Barter Systems of Medellin, Colombia |
| Borck, Lewis S | MA | Spring | Patterns of Resistance: Violence, Migration, and Trade in the Gallina Heartland |
| Vogt, Wendy A | PhD | Summer | Ruptured Journeys, Ruptured Lives: Central American Migration, Transnational Violence, and Hope in Southern Mexico |
| Tumberg, Timothy A | PhD | Summer | Digging Up Whiskey Row: An Archaeological and Historical Investigation of Industrial Capitalism on the North Shore of Lake Superior |
| Niang, Aminata | PhD | Summer | Mining as Development? Corporate / Community Relationships in the New Gold Mining Sector of West Africa: The Case of Sabodala, Senegal |
| Hedges, Kristin E | PhD | Summer | Compound Risk: An Analysis of Biocultural, Familial, and Structural Risks Among Substance Using Adolescent Girls |
| Good, Mary K | PhD | Summer | Modern Moralities, Moral Modernities: Ambivalence and Change Among Youth in Tonga |
| Fox, Karyn Marie | PhD | Summer | Resilience in Action: Adaptive Governance for Subaks, Rice Terraces, and Water Temples in Bali, Indonesia |
| Curry, Benjamin A | MA | Summer | |
| Cole, Steven M | PhD | Summer | Exploring Models of Economic Inequality and the Impact on Mental and Physical Health Outcomes in Rural Eastern Province, Zambia |
| Schott, Amy Michelle | MA | Fall | |
| Phaneuf, Victoria M | PhD | Fall | National and Minority Cultures in 21st Century France: North African and Pied-Noir Cultural Associations |
| Mehalic, David S | PhD | Fall | The Archaeological Geography of Small Architectural Sites of the Mogollon Plateau Region of East Central Arizona |
| Fladd, Samantha G | MA | Fall | |
| Da Silva, Antonio B | PhD | Fall | Voicing Race and Anti-Racism: Rethinking Black Consciousness among Black Activists in Salvador, Brazil |
| Cano, Jenny Ruth Moral | PhD | Fall | Crafting Community, Reconstructing Identities, and Performing Traditions: Ethnoarchaeology of Burnay Pottery Tradition and Community Integration in Vigan Ilocos, Sur, Philippines |
| Byrd, Rachael | MA | Fall |
2011
| Name | Degree | Semester | Dissertation Title |
| Pitezel, Todd A | PhD | Spring | From Archaeology to Ideology in Northwest Mexico: Cerro de Moctezuma in the Casas Grandes Ritual Landscape |
| Jenks, Kelly L | PhD | Spring | Vecinos en la Frontera: Interaction,Adaptation, and Identity at San Miguel del Vado, New Mexico |
| Hermes, Taylor R | MA | Spring | |
| Fenn, Thomas R | PhD | Spring | Applications of Heacy Isotope Research to Archaeological Problems of Provenance and Trade on Cases from Africa and the New World |
| Eichelberger, Laura P | PhD | Spring | Manufacturing Insecurity: Power, Water, Waster and the Silences of Sustainability and Suffering in Northwest Alaska |
| Carrasco Moraga, Anita G | PhD | Spring | One World, Many Ethics. The Politics of Mining and Indigenous People in Atacama, Chile |
| Alvarez, Jose M | MA | Spring | |
| Starkovich, Britt M | PhD | Summer | Trends in Subsistence from the Middle Paleolithic through Mesolithic at Klissoura Cave 1 (Peloponnese, Greece) |
| Mentzer, Susan M | PhD | Summer | Macro- and Micro-Scale Geoarchaeology of Ucagizli Caves I and II, Hatay, Turkey |
| Grimstead, Deanna N | PhD | Summer | Applications of Evolutionary Ecology and Isotope Geochemistry Shed Light on North American Prehistoric Human Behavior and Regional Procurement Systems |
| Friederic, Karin U | PhD | Summer | La Violencia Adentro (Violence in the Interior): Gender VIolence, Human Rights, and State-Community-NGO Relations in Coastal Ecuador |
| Duwe, Samuel G | PhD | Summer | The Prehispanic Tewa World: Space, Time, and Becoming in the Pueblo Southwest |
| Begum, Ukm Shawkat Ara | PhD | Summer | Modernization, Vulnerability and Climate Change in the Southwest Bangladesh |
| Ruette, Krisna | PhD | Fall | The Left-Turn of Multiculturalism: Indigenous and Afrodescendant Social Movements in Northwestern Venezuela |
| Nelson, Jessica Fae | MA | Fall | |
| Maclellan, Jessica A | MA | Fall | |
| Dampilon, Zhargal | MA | Fall | Environmental Movements in Russia (An Example from the Baikal Region) |
| Coffey, Michael John | PhD | Fall | A Meta-Analysis of Haitian Rural Household Surveys |
| Carruth, Lauren | PhD | Fall | The Aftermath of Aid: Medical Insecurity in the Northern Somali Region of Ethiopia |
2010
| Name | Degree | Semester | Disseration Title |
| Wroblewski, Michael | PhD | Spring | Voices of Contact: Politics of Language in Urban Amazonian Ecuador |
| Villanueva, Ronald Hector Andrada | PhD | Spring | The Human Endeavor of International Communities: The Gawad Kalinga Movement |
| Taber, Peter A | MA | Spring | |
| Sanchez De Carpenter, Maria | PhD | Spring | Los Primeros Mexicanos: Late Pleistocene / Early Holocene Archaeology of Sonora, Mexico |
| Reifschneider, Meredith A | MA | Spring | |
| Prakash, Preetam | MA | Spring | |
| Medeiros, Melanie A | MA | Spring | 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 | PhD | Spring | Between Homeland and Exile: Poetry, Memory and Identity in Sahrawi Communities |
| Daughters, Anton T | PhD | Spring | Globalization at the 'Ends of the Earth': Ritual Livelihoods, Wage Labor, and the Struggle over Identity on the Archipelago of Chiloe |
| Arendt, Nicole Marie | PhD | Spring | A Palynological Study of Landscape Change During the Spanish Colonial Period in the U.S. Southwest |
| Thompson. Jennifer Jo | PhD | Summer | Managing Menopause: An Ethnographic Study of Women's Midlife Information-Seeking and Decsion-Making in the Southwest U.S |
| Orzech, Kathryn McElveen | PhD | Summer | Adolescent Sleep Patterns, Perceptions and Coping Behaviors |
| Orcutt- Gachiri, Heidi Ann | PhD | Summer | 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 | PhD | Summer | 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 | PhD | Summer | Public Wildlands at the U.S. - Mexico Border: Where Conservation, Migration, and Border Enforcement Collide |
| Newell, Gillian E | PhD | Summer | A Total Site of Hegemony: Monutmental Materiality at Teotihuacan, Mexico |
| Murphy, John T | PhD | Summer | Exploring Complexity in the Past: The Hohokam Water Management Simulation |
| Young, Monica Z | MA | Fall | |
| Scholnick, Jonathan B | PhD | Fall | Apprenticeship, Cultural Transmission and the Evolution of Cultural Traditions in Historic New England Gravestones |
| Manne, Tiina Helena | PhD | Fall | Upper Paleolithic Foraging Decisions and Early Economic Intensification at Vale Boi, Southwestern Portugal |
| MacFarland, Kathryn Anne | MA | Fall | |
| Ballenger, Jesse Albertice | PhD | Fall | Late Quaternary Paleoenvironments and Archaeology in the San Pedro Basin, Southeastern Arizona, U.S.A. |
| Baires, Francisco Javier | MA | Fall |
2009
| Name | Degree | Semester | Dissertation Title |
| Villanueva, Zandro V | PhD | Spring | Cultural Encounters and Transformation of Early Historical Polities on Lubang Island, the Phillippines, Ca. A. D. 1200-1800 |
| Tsukamoto, Kenichiro | MA | Spring | |
| Suelmann, Erin E | MA | Spring | Breastfeeding Among Adolescent Mothers: A Biocultural Perspective |
| Strand, Thea R | PhD | Spring | Varieties in Dialogue: Dialect Use and Change in Rural Valdres, Norway |
| Steiner, Robin T | MA | Spring | A Phenomenology of Taste: Brewmasters and the Production of Lived Taste Expierence |
| Renteria-Valencia, Rodrigo | MA | Spring | Hunting on the Slopes of Tiburon: Bighorn Sheep's Market-Oriented Conservation in Northern Mexico |
| Reineke, Robin C | MA | Spring | |
| Radonic Monteverde, Lucero Maria | MA | Spring | |
| Murray, Wendi F | MA | Spring | |
| Gabler, Brandon M | PhD | Spring | Panarchy on the Plateau: Modeling Prehistoric Settlement Pattern, Land Use and Demographic Change on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico |
| Dungan, Katherine Ann | MA | Spring | Visibility, Monumentality, and Community in the Chacoan Community at Kin Bineola, New Mexico |
| Coskun, Ufuk | MA | Spring | Ahiska/Meskhetian Turks in Tucson: An Examination of Ethnic Identity |
| Blythe, Ashley A | MA | Spring | Social Differentiation in Animal Use and Subsistence: A Case Study of the Marana Platform Mound |
| Aquino-Centeno, Salvador | PhD | Spring | Contesting Social Memories and Identities in the Zapotec Sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico |
| Morgan, Martha Ethel | PhD | Summer | Reconstructing Early Islamic Maghribi Metallurgy |
| Mjahed, Mourad | PhD | Summer | Neighborly Governance: Neighborhood Associations and Participative Democracy in Tucson, Arizona |
| Basaldu, Robert C | PhD | Summer | We Should Come Together with a Good Thought: The Importance of Relationships in the Life of Native American Church Roadman |
| Trowbridge, Meaghan A | MA | Fall | |
| Tonyot, Stanzin | MA | Fall | |
| Storey, Angela D | MA | Fall | |
| Schulthies, Becky | PhD | Fall | The Social Circulation of Media Scripts and Collaborative Meaning-Making in Moroccan and Lebanese Family Discourse |
| Leza, Christina | PhD | Fall | Divided Nations: Policy, Activism and Indigenous Identity on the U.S.-Mexico Border |
| Hayes, Lauren A | MA | Fall | |
| Downey, Sean S | PhD | Fall | Resilient Networks and the Historical Ecology of Q'eqchi Maya Swidden Agriculture |
| Chu, Joon-Beom | MA | Fall |
2008
| Name | Degree | Semester | Dissertation Title |
| Young, Alyson G | PhD | Spring | Younf Child Health Among Eyasi Datoga: Socioeconomic Marginalization, Local Biology and Infant Resilience within the Mother-Infant Dyad |
| Tumonggor, Meryanne K | MA | Spring | |
| Niangjijia, Niangjijia | MA | Spring | The Peopling of the Tibetan Plateau |
| Metni, Maya Christine | PhD | Spring | |
| May, Elizabeth M | MA | Spring | Human Resources to Enviormental Hazards: Sunset Crater as a Case Study |
| Martinez-Taguena, Natalia | MA | Spring | |
| Kuhn, Meredith Green | PhD | Spring | The Eye of Beauty: Creating a Place for Elite and Aging Elders |
| Klokler, Daniela M | PhD | Spring | Food for Body and Soul: Mortuary Ritual in Shell Mounds (Laguna-Brazil) |
| Holst, Joshua R | MA | Spring | Resources, Realpolitik, and Rebellion: Rethinking Grievance in Aceh, Indonesia |
| Goldade, Kathryn Rose | PhD | Spring | South-to-South Migration, Reproduction, Health and Citizenship: The Paradoxes of Proximity for Undocumented Nicaraguan Labor Migrant Women in Costa Rica |
| Ericksen, Annika L | MA | Spring | |
| Cowie, Sarah E | PhD | Spring | Industrial Capitalism and the Company Town: Structural Power, Bio-Power and Identity in 19th Century Fayette, Michigan |
| Clark, Amy E | MA | Spring | |
| Boyer, Micah | MA | Spring | Perceptions of AIDS and AIDS Education in Rural Benin: A Case Study in the Collines Department |
| Pikington, Maya Christine Metni | PhD | Spring | An Appointment of African Genetic Diversity Based on Mitochondrial, Y Chromosomal and X Chromosonal Data |
| Thomas, Noah H | PhD | Summer | Seventeenth Century Metallurgy on the Spanish Colonial Frontier: Transformations of Technology, Value and Identity |
| Roos, Christopher I | PhD | Summer | Fire, Climate and Social-Ecological Systems in the Ancient Southwest: Alluvial Geoarcheology and Applied Historical Ecology |
| Al-Bashaireh, Khaled | PhD | Summer | Chronology and Technological Production Styles of Nabataean and Roman Plasters and Mortars at Petra (Jordan) |
| Sheehan, Megan A | MA | Fall | La Frontera Runs through the Kitchen: Border Negotiations Among Peruvian Domestic Laborers and Chilean Employers |
| Pailes, Matthew C | MA | Fall | Differentiation and Social Organization at Cerro Prieto: An Early Classic, Hohokam Cerros de Trincheras |
| Osborne, Dana M | MA | Fall | History and Phoricity in the Deictic Construction of Los Angeles |
| Newon, Lisa Ann | MA | Fall | So Basically What We Need to Do: A Liguistic Ethnography of Expert/Novice Player Interactions in an MMORPG Community of Practice |
| Labotka, Lori A | MA | Fall | Dollar Bills, Waistbands and Bra Straps: An Exploration of the TIp Exchange at a Drag Queen Performance |
| Higgins, Rylan G | PhD | Fall | Negotiating the Middle: Interactions of Class, Gender and Consumerism Among the Middle Class in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| Campbell, Jacob D | MA | Fall | |
| Anand, Ari S | PhD | Fall | Ethical Selfhood and the Status of the Secular: Islam, Modernity and Everyday Life in Mumba |
