Recent Dissertations
Dissertations are listed by year in reverse order.
- 2018
Amirpouyan Shiva
"Being Written While Writing: Crafting Selves in the Persian Blogosphere"
Advisor: William BeemanMai See Thao
"Bittersweet Migrations: Type II Diabetes and Healing in the Hmong Diaspora"
Advisor: Karen-Sue TaussigIvy 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 WellsJason Massey
"Pattern of Cranial Ontogeny In Populations of Gorilla and Pan"
Advisor: Kieran McNultyThomas Doyle-Walton
"Psychiatric Selves: Managing Disorder in Community Mental Health"
Advisors: Karen Ho, David LipsetKirsten Jenkins
"Taphonomy on Rusinga Island, Kenya"
Advisors: Kieran McNulty, Martha Tappen - 2017
Ryan Knigge
"Understanding Primate Mandibular Symphyseal Fusion: Function, Integration, And Ontogeny"
Advisor: Kieran McNulty - 2016
Amélie Allard
"Communities on the Move: Practice and Mobility in the late Eighteenth-Century Western Great Lakes Fur Trade"
Advisor: Katherine HayesMurat Altun
"Of Conspiracies and Men: The Politics of Evil in Turkey"
Advisor: Hoon SongReed Coil
"Spatial approaches to site formation and carnivore-hominin interaction at Dmanisi, Georgia"
Advisor: Martha TappenKristina Golubiewski-Davis
"Reconstructing Past Craft Networks: A Case Study using 3D scans of Late Bronze Age Swords to reconstruct Specialized Craft Networks"
Advisor: Peter WellsMatthew Hunstiger
"Three Dimensional Aggregate Flake Scar Analysis and Hominin Behavior at Tabun Cave, Israel"
Advisor: Gilbert TostevinTracy Zank
"'Assimulation” in the Land of Ten-Thousand Iranian Communities: Public Assimilation Strategies, Private Preservation Identities"
Advisor: William BeemanLeonore Phillips
"Maker Made: Creating a Silicon Place in Berlin, Germany"
Advisor: Karen Ho - 2015
Jennifer Lee Immich
"Siting of castles in the Midlands of Ireland: a spatial approach to cultural landscapes"
Advisor: Peter WellsMara Taft
"Lithic Analysis and Spatial Patterning at the Bremer Site (21DK06), Dakota County, Minnesota"
Advisor: Gilliane MonnierAaron Armstrong
"Small Mammal Taphonomy and Utilization by Middle Stone Age Humans in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa"
Advisor: Martha TappenJohn Champe
"Multicultural Community Building in an Urban Neighborhood"
Advisor: Karen Ho - 2014
Ursula Dalinghaus
"Accounting for Money: Keeping the Ledger of Monetary Memory in Germany"
Advisors: Karen Ho and Stuart McLeanKatherine 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 WellsLaura Eleanor McLeod
"Hungry Spirits: Anishinaabe resistance and revitalization"
Advisor: Stephen GudemanHeather Elaine O'Leary
"Uneven Absorption: World Class Delhi, Domestic Workers and the Water that Make Them"
Advisor: William Beeman - 2013
Michelle D. Stillinger
"Archaeomagnetic Dating of Bronze Age Pottery from Tell Mozan, Syria"
Advisors: Katherine Hayes and Ellery FrahmMark 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 - 2012
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 BeemanAlexandra Caroline Moyer
"Deep reflection: an archaeological analysis of mirrors in Iron Age Eurasia"
Advisor: Peter WellsNaheed Gina Aaftaab
"Branding a global identity: labor anxieties, conspicuous consumption, and middle class culture in Hyderabad, India"
Advisor: Gloria Goodwin RaheejaHeather Flowers
"Shifting Shapes and Shaping Self: Social Identity, Animal Art, and Mortuary Ritual in Early Medieval Northwest Europe"
Advisor: Peter S. WellsSolveig Moen Brown
"Minnesota mothering: An anthropological exploration of middle-class mothers in American culture"
Advisor: John InghamRitika Ganguly
"Staging 'Open-minded Science': Culture and Evidence in Contemporary Ayurvedic Laboratory Research in India"
Advisors: Jean Langford and Karen-Sue Taussig - 2011
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 MillerJoseph Walsh Esser
"From hyperghettoization to the hut: Dilemmas of identity among transmigrant tipoti in the kingdom of Tonga"
Advisor: David LipsetReed Allen Coil
"Spatial analysis of the faunal assemblage at Dmanisi, Georgia: A look at analysis methods in theory and in practice"
Advisor: Martha Tappen - 2010
Claire Ann Kirchoff
"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 - 2009
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