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

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 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

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