Recent Dissertations

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Deniz Coral-Irwin
"Sensing the markets: the crisis of Turkish financial markets"
Advisor: Karen Ho

Sophie Minor
“Enslavement at Fort Snelling: Challenging Colonialism at One of Minnesota's Most Celebrated Historic Sites”
Advisor: Katherine Hayes

Sean Devlin
“An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Social Landscape of a Jamaican Sugar Estate, 1754-1828”
Advisor: Katherine Hayes

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