Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Afflicted Epistemology: Knowledge, Illness, and New Media After “Truth”, Annika Nilsson
An Integrated Approach to Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) Space Use, Kathryn Judson
Brahminical Infrastructures: States, Roads, and Lands in Dolpo, Nepal, Tashi Tsering Ghale
Coming of Age in the Ancient Andes: A Bioarchaeological Evaluation of Adolescence, Puberty, and Gender in Late Pre-Hispanic Andean Society (800-1400 CE), Bridget Coredlia Bey
Embodying Social Collapse: Diet, Health, and Burial in the East African Urban Center of Mtwapa, Kenya (15th – 17th C), Sewasew Haileselassie Assefa
Fields Under the Hoof: characterizing plant cultivation of agropastoralists in Bronze and Iron Age Inner Asia (3000 BCE - 1000 CE), Melissa Ritchey
Investigating the Dietary, Demographic, and Environmental Correlates of Gut Microbial Community Composition in Emperor (Tamarinus imperator) and Saddleback (Leontocebus weddelli) Tamarins, Alexandra Josephine Sacco
Navigating Uncertainty: An Ethnography of an Abortion Clinic in Post-Dobbs Ohio, Eva Hoffman
Teaching Motherhood: Corporate Strategies to Prevent Chronic Malnutrition in Guatemala, Luisa Gabriela Madrigal Marroquin
The influence of host genetics and microbial interactions on the gut microbiome composition of a wild baboon population, Libardo enrique gomez gomez
The State Made Desire: Eroticism and Fetish Racecraft in Argentine LGBT Tourism, Zeles Vargas
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Land of Limited Opportunities: Disillusionment and Striving for Autonomy Among Refugees and Asylum Seekers in a Madrid NGO, Jacqueline Wagner
Relationships Among Homo erectus Paleodemes Across Time and Space, Rachel Kuzma
The Evolution of Bipedalism in Phylogenetic and Environmental Contexts, Yeganeh Sekhavati
Uberized Care: Gig Nursing in U.S. Nursing Homes, Chia Yu Lien
Unraveling Ancient Andean Camelid Herding Strategies Using Multi-Isotope Analyses, Lucia Diaz
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
An Investigation of Human Relaxin-1 and Relaxin-2 Concentrations in Human Milk Samples from Women from Cebu, Philippines, Alaina Schneider
Effects of Food Preparation and Labor Organizations on Domesticated Millet in Ancient China (8000-1000 BP), Yufeng Sun
Evolutionary History of Populations of Pleistocene Homo with a Focus on East Asia, Catherine Mclean
Pastoralism as Institutions: Modeling the Pastoral Landscape in Tibet in the Second and First Millennium BC, Xinzhou Chen
The Biomechanics of Tooth Strength in australopiths, Rachel Sender
The Evolutionary and Comparative Elements of Social Roles, Jake A. Funkhouser
The Forest and the Factory: Debt, Development, and Community in the Amazon Delta, Matthew Abel
The Historical Ecology of Late Archaic Mound Building in the Lower Mississippi Valley, Grace M. V. Ward
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Becoming with Pigs, Plants, and People: Examining the formation of human-animal mutualisms in Neolithic northeastern China, Ximena Lemoine
Cahokia's Hidden Landscape: Mound Building and Landscape Modification in the Ramey Field, John Grant Stauffer
Cultivating Life: Skill, Sovereignty, and the Nature of Knowledge, Bradley Jones
Reassessing the History of the Poverty Point Phenomenon: A Case Study from the Jaketown Site, Mississippi, USA, Seth Bradley Grooms
Socioecological Factors Influencing Health Profiles of Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the Northern Republic of Congo, Kristena E. Cooksey
The Myriad of Things: Paleoethnobotany of the Chenopodium album Aggregate in Northern China, Mana Hayashi Tang
Wild Roots: Ginseng, Conservation, and Nature in the Appalachian South, Katherine Farley
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Finding Peace: Aging, Solidarity, and Min-Iren, Aaron Hames
It is a “White Disease”: ALS, Race, and Suffering in a Divided City, Chelsey R. Carter
Paleo-Environmental Pollution of the Bronze Production during the Shang Period at Anyang, Henan Province, China, Yi-Ling Lin
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Anticipating Crisis: Risk, Cost, and Care in German Psychiatry, Lauren Cubellis
Building Communities: Interpreting Oneota and Mississipppian Interaction Through Paleoethnobotanical Analysis at the Morton Village Site (11F2), West-Central Illinois, Kelsey Olivia Nordine
Consuming Local, Thinking Global: Building a Halal Industry in a World of Made in Italy, Lauren Virginia Crossland-Marr
Horse Power: The Merry-go-round of Kentucky's Transforming Thoroughbred Racing Industry, S. Carolyn Barnes
Landesque Capital and Community Organization in a Maya Economic Center: A Case Study at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala, Alexander Ernesto Rivas
Relations of Reproduction: Men, Masculinities, and Pregnancy in Dakar, Senegal, Richard Powis
Rompiendo Alambres: Immigrant Youth Navigating School and Life in St. Louis, Julia Campus Macias
Schisms and Boundaries: Islamic Organizations and Sectarianism between South Asia and Spain, Guillermo Martín-Sáiz
Subjectivities of Struggle: Charting Inscriptions of Violence and Refusal on the “Cuerpo Territorio” of Peru’s Defensoras, Natalia Guzmán Solano
Testing Assumptions on the Relationship between Humans and their Environment: Case Studies from Cahokia Mounds, Illinois, Caitlin Gail Rankin
The Social Dynamics of Antibiotic Use in a Large American Medical Complex, Katharina Rynkiewich
Variability Among Later Stone Age Hunter-gatherers, Mica Jones
Vulnerable Agents: Ugandan Children's Experiences with HIV Rehabilitation and Reintegration, Colleen Walsh Lang
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
A Contextual and Technological Study of Ancient Maya Greenstone Mosaic Masks, Juan Carlos Melendez
Marriage, the Market, and Gendered (In)securities in Kibera, Kenya, Elizabeth Ashley Wilson
Sinning Men, Sinful Places: Spatial Politics of Moral Transgressions in the Franco-German Borderland, Oguz Alyanak
The Ontogeny of Complex Tool Use among Chimpanzees of the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo, Stephanie L. Musgrave
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Collectively Remembering and Living an Emerging Nigerian National Identity, Golda Kosisochi Onyeneho
Earthen Monuments and Social Movements in Eastern North America: Adena-Hopewell Enclosures on Kentucky’s Bluegrass Landscape, Edward Ross Henry
Fort Center’s Iconographic Bestiary: A Reanalysis of the Site’s Carved Wood Assemblage, Sarah Margaret Spivey-Faulkner
Inventing a Moralist Self: The Moral Experiences of Drug Users in China's State-run Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program, Chaoxiong Zhang
Kinship and Religious Identities in Medieval Central Asia (8th-13th c. CE): Tracing Communities of Mortuary Practice and Biological Affinity, Elissa Anne Bullion
Tamarin Vocal Communication: The Roles of Predation and Social Complexity in Promoting Vocal Complexity in Wild Callitrichids, Efstathia Robakis
“There is no care here”: The Conflictual Ethics of Kin and Bureaucratic Care in Botswana, Arielle Justine Wright
We are a Fantasia: Violence, Belonging, and Potentiality in Transgender Latina Sexual Economies, Andrea Bolivar
Wild Primates in Documentary Films: Biodiversity, Behavior, and Pedagogical Applications, Crystal Marie Riley Koenig
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Coexistence of Confamilial, Folivorous Indriids, Propithecus diadema and Indri indri, at Betampona Strict Nature Reserve, Madagascar, Lana Kerker Oliver
For One Drop of Blood: Virginity, Sexual Norms and Medical Processes in Hymenoplasty Consultations in the Netherlands, Sherria Ayuandini
Population Genomics of a Baboon Hybrid Zone in Zambia, Kenneth Lyu Chiou
Regulating Reproduction: Abortion Reform and Reproductive Governance in Mexico, Elyse Ona Singer
Seeds as Artifacts of Communities of Practice: The Domestication of Erect Knotweed in Eastern North America, Natalie Graham Mueller
The Maternity Ward as Mirror: Maternal Death, Biobureaucracy, and Institutional Care in the Tanzanian Health Sector, Adrienne Elizabeth Strong
The Technological and Socio-Economic Organization of the Elmenteitan Early Herders in Southern Kenya (3000-1200 BP), Steven Thomas Goldstein
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Agonism, Affiliation, and Social Organization in a Community of Savanna Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal, Joshua Leon Marshack
A Paleoethnobotanical Study of Two Classic Maya Sites, El Peru-Waka and La Corona, Clarissa Cagnato
A Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Craniofacial Variation in Baboons, Jessica Lynn Joganic
Cultivating Knowledge: The Production and Adaptation of Knowledge on Organic and GM Cotton Farms in Telangana, India, Andrew Flachs
Farming through the Auca Runa: Agricultural Strategies and Terraces during the Late Intermediate Period, Altiplano, Peru, Brieanna Sylvia Langlie
How Do the Largest and Smallest Baboon Species Compete for Reproductive Success in a Natural Hybrid Zone?, Monica McDonald
“I’m trying to do the right thing”: Competing Responsibilities Among Teen Parents in the Context of Neoliberalism, Jennifer Kimberly Heipp
Lactating in St. Louis: Attachments, Technologies, and Disparities, Sarah Sobonya
Surviving Collapse: Collective Memory and Political Reorganization at Actuncan, Belize, David Williams Mixter
The Non-Masticatory Use of the Anterior Teeth Among Late Pleistocene Humans, John Charles Willman
The Violence of Abstraction: Learning to Live With Type-2 Diabetes in Everyday Life, Jenny Epstein
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Case Studies in Ancient Maya Human-Animal Relations: El Perú, La Corona, and Commensal Mammals, Diana Nicole Fridberg
From Tibetan Refugees to Transmigrants: Negotiating Cultural Continuity and Economic Mobility Through Migration, Namgyal Choedup
Interrogating the Superlative Sufferer: Experiencing Obstetric Fistula and Treatment Seeking in Niger, Alison Heller
Transformation of Sympathies: Gendered Mediation of Jordanian Education Reform for a Knowledge Economy, Rebecca Hodges
Urban Herders: An Archaeological and Isotopic Investigation into the Roles of Mobility and Subsistence Specialization in an Iron Age Urban Center in Mali, Abigail Chipps Stone
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Becoming a Moral Child: Morality, Culture, and Mind in Contemporary China, Jing Xu
Bronze Age Potters in Regional Context: Long-Term Development of Ceramic Technology in the Eastern Eurasian Steppe Zone, Paula Naify Doumani
Landscape Genetics of Western Black Crested Gibbons (Nomascus concolor) in China, Joseph Daniel Orkin
Measuring and Predicting Total Energy Expenditure Among Highly Active Humans in Natural Environments, Cara Ocobock
Oral Health and its Implications in Late Pleistocene Western Eurasian Humans, Sarah Ashlyn Lacy
So That All Shall Know: Memory Activism & Epistemic Authority in Guatemala, Doc McAlister Billingsley
The Afar Caravan Route: Insights into Aksumite (50 BCE-CE 900) Trade and Exchange from the Low Deserts to the North Ethiopian Plateau, Helina Woldekiros
We Were Alway United, Except When We Were Not: Bivocal Memory and Georgia's Geopolitical Dilemma, Nino Batiashvili
When Life Happens: Theatres of HIV and Complexity in South Africa, Jessica S. Ruthven
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Art, Ideology, and Politics at El Achiotal: A Late Preclassic Frontier Site in Northwestern Petén, Guatemala, Mary Jane Acuña