Recent Dissertations
Dissertations are listed by year in reverse order.
Milica Milic-Kolarevic
“Negotiating Responsibility: Ethics of Choice and Care in Postsocialist Oncology Wards in Serbia”
Advisors: Karen-Sue Taussig, Thomas Wolfe
Tessa Cicak
“A Multifaceted Approach for Analyzing Primate Dietary Diversity and Competition”
Advisor: Kieran McNulty
Maud Mouginot
“Male reproductive strategies in bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)”
Advisor: Michael Wilson
Britt Van Paepeghem
"Museums of Melancholy: Empire, Antiquities, and Cultural Policy in Turkey"
Advisors: Hoon Song, Jean Langford
Nisarg Desai
"Exploring the form and functions of chimpanzee pant-hoots from basic evolutionary principles."
Advisor: Michael Wilson
Erin Crowley-Champoux
"Cattle, Food, and the Rise of Early Ireland"
Advisor: Peter Wells
Somaye Khaksar
“The role of gross-edge curvature in stone tool slicing efficiency and production during the Pleistocene”
Advisor: Gilbert Tostevin
Kristin Crouse
"B3GET: A new computational approach for understanding and exploring ecology, evolution, and behavior"
Advisors: Michael Wilson, Clarence Lehman
Carrie Miller
"Does Paternity Certainty Elicit Protection and Support of Offspring by Male Gelada Monkeys (Theropithecus gelada)?"
Advisor: Michael Wilson
Caroline Rowe
"Application of Microscopic Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Advanced Anthropological Questions Involving" Microbial Modifications"
Advisors: Martha Tappen, Gilliane Monnier
Damon Lynch
"What War Does to a Survivor’s Sense of Time: The Spatiotemporal Self After Violence in Tajikistan"
Advisor: William Beeman
Beverly Fok
"Chattel Land: Legal and Labor Histories of Reclamation in Singapore"
Advisor: Jean Langford
Samantha Porter
"A Lithic-Behavioral Investigation of Cultural Transmission Across the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Western Europe"
Advisor: Gilbert Tostevin
Rutger Jansma
"Anatomy, Systematics, and Evolution of Catarrhines from the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene of Eastern Africa"
Advisor: Kieran McNulty
Steven Kensinger
"Unsettling Recovery: Natural Disaster Response and the Politics of Contemporary Settler Colonialism"
Advisor: David Lipset
Brooke Creager
"Dynamics of Religious Ritual: Migration and Adaptation in Early Medieval Britain"
Advisor: Peter Wells
David Mather
"The Archaeobiology of Bears and Bear Ceremonialism in Minnesota"
Advisor: Guy Gibbon
Rebecca Nockerts
"Stable Isotope Ecology of Gombe National Park: A Modern Analogue for Fossil Hominins"
Advisors: Michael Wilson, David Fox
Laurie Moberg
"Fluid Landscapes: Materializing the Future on Thailand's Flooded Rivers"
Advisor: Stuart McLean
Amirpouyan Shiva
"Being Written While Writing: Crafting Selves in the Persian Blogosphere"
Advisor: William Beeman
Mai See Thao
"Bittersweet Migrations: Type II Diabetes and Healing in the Hmong Diaspora"
Advisor: Karen-Sue Taussig
Ivy Faulkner-Gentry
"Cross-Cultural Interaction and Migration: Retheorizing Greek Colonization in the 7th-4th Centuries BC with the Exchange of Attic Figured Pottery"
Advisor: Peter Wells
Jason Massey
"Pattern of Cranial Ontogeny In Populations of Gorilla and Pan"
Advisor: Kieran McNulty
Thomas Doyle-Walton
"Psychiatric Selves: Managing Disorder in Community Mental Health"
Advisors: Karen Ho, David Lipset
Kirsten Jenkins
"Taphonomy on Rusinga Island, Kenya"
Advisors: Kieran McNulty, Martha Tappen
Timothy Gitzen
"The Queer Threat: National Security, Sexuality, and Activism In South Korea"
Advisor: David Valentine
Anna Hardin
"Heritability and genetic correlations in the dental dimensions of Saguinus fuscicollis and Macaca mulatta"
Advisor: Kieran McNulty
Meryl Lauer
"Empire of Bodies: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in South African Ballet"
Advisor: David Valentine
Ryan Knigge
"Understanding Primate Mandibular Symphyseal Fusion: Function, Integration, And Ontogeny"
Advisor: Kieran McNulty
Amélie Allard
"Communities on the Move: Practice and Mobility in the late Eighteenth-Century Western Great Lakes Fur Trade"
Advisor: Katherine Hayes
Murat Altun
"Of Conspiracies and Men: The Politics of Evil in Turkey"
Advisor: Hoon Song
Reed Coil
"Spatial approaches to site formation and carnivore-hominin interaction at Dmanisi, Georgia"
Advisor: Martha Tappen
Kristina Golubiewski-Davis
"Reconstructing Past Craft Networks: A Case Study using 3D scans of Late Bronze Age Swords to reconstruct Specialized Craft Networks"
Advisor: Peter Wells
Matthew Hunstiger
"Three Dimensional Aggregate Flake Scar Analysis and Hominin Behavior at Tabun Cave, Israel"
Advisor: Gilbert Tostevin
Tracy Zank
"'Assimulation” in the Land of Ten-Thousand Iranian Communities: Public Assimilation Strategies, Private Preservation Identities"
Advisor: William Beeman
Leonore Phillips
"Maker Made: Creating a Silicon Place in Berlin, Germany"
Advisor: Karen Ho
Jennifer Lee Immich
"Siting of castles in the Midlands of Ireland: a spatial approach to cultural landscapes"
Advisor: Peter Wells
Mara Taft
"Lithic Analysis and Spatial Patterning at the Bremer Site (21DK06), Dakota County, Minnesota"
Advisor: Gilliane Monnier
Aaron Armstrong
"Small Mammal Taphonomy and Utilization by Middle Stone Age Humans in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa"
Advisor: Martha Tappen
John Champe
"Multicultural Community Building in an Urban Neighborhood"
Advisor: Karen Ho
Ursula Dalinghaus
"Accounting for Money: Keeping the Ledger of Monetary Memory in Germany"
Advisors: Karen Ho and Stuart McLean
Katherine M. Erdman
"Engaging the intranatural at the source of the Douix (Côte-d'Or, France): objects, communication, and ritual in a fluid environment"
Advisor: Peter Wells
Laura Eleanor McLeod
"Hungry Spirits: Anishinaabe resistance and revitalization"
Advisor: Stephen Gudeman
Heather Elaine O'Leary
"Uneven Absorption: World Class Delhi, Domestic Workers and the Water that Make Them"
Advisor: William Beeman
Michelle D. Stillinger
"Archaeomagnetic Dating of Bronze Age Pottery from Tell Mozan, Syria"
Advisors: Katherine Hayes and Ellery Frahm
Mark William Doperalski
"An Assessment of the Limitations of Macroscopic Lithic Raw Material Identification and Parent Nodule Assignment within Archaeological Contexts in Minnesota and an Analysis of Lithic Raw Material Utilization at 21LN2"
Advisor: Katherine Hayes
Andrea Joanna Alveshere
"Multivariate DNA taphonomy: evaluating the effects of environmental context, specimen properties, and laboratory strategies on the preservation and detection of DNA in ancient and challenging specimens"
Advisor: William Beeman
Alexandra Caroline Moyer
"Deep reflection: an archaeological analysis of mirrors in Iron Age Eurasia"
Advisor: Peter Wells
Naheed Gina Aaftaab
"Branding a global identity: labor anxieties, conspicuous consumption, and middle class culture in Hyderabad, India"
Advisor: Gloria Goodwin Raheeja
Heather Flowers
"Shifting Shapes and Shaping Self: Social Identity, Animal Art, and Mortuary Ritual in Early Medieval Northwest Europe"
Advisor: Peter S. Wells
Solveig Moen Brown
"Minnesota mothering: An anthropological exploration of middle-class mothers in American culture"
Advisor: John Ingham
Ritika Ganguly
"Staging 'Open-minded Science': Culture and Evidence in Contemporary Ayurvedic Laboratory Research in India"
Advisors: Jean Langford and Karen-Sue Taussig
Avigdor Edminster
"This dog means Life”: making interspecies relations at an assistance dog agency"
Advisor: Stuart McLean
Dennis Stromback
"Gesturing towards Shambhala: the mimesis of modernity, the Dharma, and science in McLeod Ganj"
Advisors: Hoon Song, Jean Langord, and Roger Jackson
Kent Einar Bakken
"Lithic raw material use patterns in Minnesota"
Advisor: Gilbert Tostevin
Laura Eileen Hauff
"Biological and social factors associated with reduced lactation duration in overweight women"
Advisors: Michael Wilson and Gregory Laden
Melissa Riviere
"Son Dos Alas: A Multimedia ethnography of hip-hop between Cuba and Puerto Rico"
Advisor: Frank Miller
Joseph Walsh Esser
"From hyperghettoization to the hut: Dilemmas of identity among transmigrant tipoti in the kingdom of Tonga"
Advisor: David Lipset
Reed Allen Coil
"Spatial analysis of the faunal assemblage at Dmanisi, Georgia: A look at analysis methods in theory and in practice"
Advisor: Martha Tappen
Claire Ann Kirchhoff
"From birth to bones: skeletal evidence for health, disease, and injury in the Gombe chimpanzees"
Advisor: Martha Tappen
Ellery Edward Frahm
"The Bronze-Age obsidian industry at Tell Mozan (Ancient Urkesh), Syria: redeveloping electron microprobe analysis for 21st-Century sourcing research and the implications for obsidian use and exchange in Northern Mesopotamia after the neolithic"
Advisor: Gilbert Tostevin
Eric William Bangs
"Threads of identity: the persistence and change of expressed memetic variants of the Suebi and Alamanni in Southwest Germany, the first century BC through the sixth century AD"
Advisor: Peter Wells
Silas John Mallery
"Rite Springs Eternal: religious confluence in the origins of Irish Holy Wells"
Advisor: Peter Wells
Sylvia Herold Olney
"Practicing under the influence: the medicalization of psychotherapy"
Advisor: John Ingham
Vinodh Kutty
"Tol, Xeer, and Somalinimo: recognizing Somali and Mushunguli refugees as agents in the integration process"
Advisor: David Lipset
Yiu-Kang Hsu
"Archaeological investigations of Xiongnu-Hun cultural connections"
Advisor: Peter Wells
Bradley Edward Perkl
"The late Archaic-Early Woodland transition in Southeastern Minnesota"
Advisor: Guy Gibbon
David Charles Tennessen
"Stone Tools and Behavioral Ecology on Alaska's Katmai Coast"
Advisor: Peter Wells
Edward Paul Fleming
"Community and aggregation in the Upper Mississippi River Valley: the Red Wing Locality"
Advisor: Guy Gibbon
Sabrina Christiene Curran
"Hominin Paleoecology and cervid ecomorphology"
Advisor: Martha Tappen
Sara Kaiser-Holt
"Contradictory economies in post-socialist rural Hungary: the emergence, endurance and persistence of the hoop-house economy in Balastya"
Advisor: Stephen Gudeman
Sebastian C. LeBeau II
"Reconstructing Lakota ritual in the landscape: the identification and typing system for traditional cultural property sites"
Advisor: Guy Gibbon
Susan Ann Goette
"Accessioning visions of the people"
Advisors: Timothy Dunnigan and Kathleen Barlow