Recent Dissertations

Adegbite, Adebimpe Ayooluwa (2025). Family Reserving Language Shift: Yoruba Proverbs as a Tool for Language Acquisition. (Chair: Judith Maxwell)

Auld-Thomas, Luke (2025). The Pyramids, the Polity, and the People: Socio-spatial Scales and the Problem of Protoclassica Resilience at El Achiotal, Peten, Guatemala. (Chair: Marcello Canuto)

Chang, Shao-Yun (2025). Mediated Belonging: The Politics of Advocacy for Southeast Asian Migrants in Taiwan. (Chair: Allison Truitt)

Eschenbrenner, Celine (2025). Invisible Guests: Security and Solidarity in the French-Italian Borderlands. (Chair: Adeline Masquelier)

Simova, Borislava (2025). Emerging Social Complexity Among the Maya: Insights from Preclassical Monumental Architecture in Western Belize. (Chair: Marcello Canuto)

Sullivan, Daniel Vincent (2025). A Case for Increased Collaboration of Forensic Pathologists and Anthropologists: Firearm Projectile Analysis. (Chair: John Verano)

Buehler, Margaret (2024). Why males matter: The benefits of multimale groups in wild white-faced capuchins. (Chair: Katharine Jack)

Davis-Hale, Emily (2024). The More Things Change: Grammatical Conservatism in Historical Narrative at Late Classic Tikal. (Chair: Marc Zender)

Fink, Travis (2024). Shiwiar Winiáwai (The Enemies are Coming): Shiwiar Identity Formation and Transformation in the Ecuadorian Amazon. (Chair: William Balée)

Pigott, Michelle (2024). The Place Called Joara': A Native History of the Upper Catawba Valley. (Chair: Christopher Rodning)

Ponce, Jocelyne (2024). Lowland Maya Lifeways across the Settlement Density Continuum at La Corona. (Chair: Marcello Canuto)

Reynolds, Sarah (2024). Vodun: Race, Identity, and the Politics of Representation. (Chair: Adeline Masquelier)

Witt, Rachel (2023). Death that Endures: A Bioarchaelogical and Biogeochemical Study of Human Sacrifices from the Late Intermediate Period and Late Horizon, Moche Valley, Peru. (Chair: John Verano).

Haley, Bryan (2023). Mississippian Polities of the Northern Yazoo Basin: Archaeological Investigations at Hollywood Mounds in Northwestern Mississippi. (Chair: Christopher Rodning)

Hill, Rebecca (2023). Terminal Classica Architectural Transitions: Archaeological Investigation of Grupo Chanchich, Yucatan, Mexico. (Chair: Christopher Rodning).