Dissertations & MA Theses

Recent Doctoral Dissertations and MA Theses

2023

Chen, Hsi-Wen (2023) Provisioning a Pilgrimage Center: Land Use and Settlement Patterns in Niuheliang, Liaoning, China. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Dakovic, Gligor (2023) Long-term Social Processes and Demographic Dynamics of the Early Bronze Age (2800–1700 BC) in the Northern Banat Region of Serbia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Li, Xiang (2023) Social Differentiation among Commoners at Erlitou: A Household Archaeological Perspective. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Neidich, Deborah (2023) Bioarchaeology of identity formation in Late Antique and Migration Period Bavaria, Germany. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Priyadarshini, Aanmona (2023) Shattered Sacred, Broken Lives: Destruction and Reconstruction of Religious Sites in Ramu, Bangladesh. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Suarez, Amanda (2023) Emergence of Social Complexity in the Precolumbian Site Java, Southern Costa Rica. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Qiu, Yijia (2023) Productive Differentiation and Pottery Consumption Among House Groups in Three Districts of Lower Dover During Late Classic Period: A Geochemical Perspective. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

2022

BK, Amar B (2022) Dalit Women’s Struggle for Dignity Through a Charismatic Healing Movement: Caste, Gender, and Religion in Nepal. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 

Beckhorn, Patrick (2022) The Lives of Cycle Rickshaw Men: Labor Migration and Masculinity in North India. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Cai, Yan (2022) The Role of Productive Differentiation in the Development of Early Social Complexity in Palau, Micronesia, 200BC-1800AD. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Farquhar, Jennifer (2022) Human-Environment Interactions: The Role of Foragers in the Development of Mobile Pastoralism in Mongolia's Desert-Steppe. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Mullins, Patrick James (2022) Legacies in the Landscape: Borderland Processes in the Upper Moche Valley Chaupiyunga of Peru. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Netsch-Lopez, Trisha S (2022) Intercultural Health in Ecuador: A Critical Evaluation of the Case For Affirmative Biopolitics. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Ran, Weiyu (2022) Sustaining Ritual: Provisioning a Hongshan Pilgrimage Center at Niuheliang. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Toth, Sharon (2022) ACL rupture rates and disparities: Using dog CCL rupture as a translational medical model for humans. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Wong, Wei Mei (2022) Poetics and politics of purpose: Understanding dating app users in Shanghai. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

2021

Kennedy, Sarah (2021) Marginalized Labor in Colonial Silver Refining: Reconstructing Power and Identity in Colonial Peru (1600-1800 AD).  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Rovito, Benjamin (2021) Analysis of the A1/A2 Alleyway Peri-Abandonment Deposit at Cahal Pech, Belize. Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.

Ruiz-Sánchez, Héctor-Camilo (2021) Facing the Plagues Alone. Men Reshaping the HIV and Heroin Epidemics in Colombia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Walker, Jessica (2021) Social Identity and Life Course Stress in Nabatean Jordan.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

2020

Baiocchi, María Lis (2020) A Law of One’s Own: Newfound Labor Rights, Household Workers' Agency, and Activist Praxis in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Cervantes Quequezana, Gabriela (2020) Urban Layout and Sociopolitical Organization in Sicán, Perú. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Gremba, Allison (2020): Biocultural Analysis of Otitis Media and its Relationship to Traditional Skeletal Stress Markers in the Assessment of Structural Violence. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Grosso, Alicia (2020): Tissue Variability Effects on Saw Mark Evidence in Bone. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Hoyos Gomez, Diana Rocío (2020) Campesinos and the State: Building and Experiencing the State in Rural Communities in the 'Post-conflict' Transition in Montes de María, Colombia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 

Kello, Erin (2020): Facial clefting and the Vietnam War: A Study of DNA Methylation Patterns and Intergenerational Stress. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 

Kojanic, Ognjen (2020) Ownership vs. Property Rights in a Worker-Owned Company in Post-Socialist Croatia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)

Krishnamurti, Lauren Sealy (2020) Care with Aloha: Preventing Suicide in Oahu, Hawaii. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Walker, Jessica (2020) Social Identity and Life Course Stress in Nabataean Jordan.

Zhang Chi (Charles) (2020) A Critical Assessment of Sampling Biases in Geometric Morphometric Analysis: The Case of Homo erectus. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 

Zhao, Chao (2020): A Study of Land-use across the Transition to Agriculture in the Northern Yinshan Mountain Region at the Edge of Southern Mongolia Steppe Zone of Ulanqab, China.
 

2019

Chen, Peiyu (2019) Big Transitions in a Small Fishing Village: Late Preceramic Life in Huaca Negra, Virú Valley, Peru. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Franchetti, Fernando (2019): Hunter-gatherer adaptation in the deserts of northern Patagonia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 

Kocic, Miroslav (2019): Emergence of Social Complexity and Community building in the Late Neolithic (5400-4600 cal. BCE) of the Central Balkans.

Muñoz Rojas, Lizette (2019) Cuisine and the Conquest: Contrasting Two Sixteenth Century Native Populations of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Pittsburgh.

Ng, Chuen Yan (2019): Subsistence Economics among Bronze Age Steppe Communities: An Archaeobotanical Approach to the study of  Multi-resource Pastoralism in the Southeastern Ural Mountains Region, Russia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Pantovic, Ljiljana (2019): Private within the Public: Negotiating Birth in Serbia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Pompeani, Katherine M. (2019): The Bioarchaeology of Life, Death, and Social Status in the Early Bronze Age Community at Ostojićevo, Serbia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Portillo, Alejandra Sejas (2019): Local Level Leadership and Centralization in the Late Prehispanic Yaretani Basin, Bolivia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Yoo, Wonji (2019): The Making of God's Subject: Christian Conversion and Urban Youth in China. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

 

2018

Cao, Junyang (2018) The Extirpation of the Chinese Alligator in North China. Masters Paper, University of Pittsburgh.

Carlson, Rebecca, (2018) More Japanese than Japanese: Subjectivation in the Age of Brand Nationalism and the Internet. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Pittsburgh.

Chamberlin, Rachel (2018) Defining the Bio-citizen in Pluralistic Healthcare Settings: The Role of Patient Choice. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Pittsburgh.

Chechushkov, Igor (2018)  Bronze Age Human Communities in the Southern Urals Steppe: Sintashta-Petrovka Social and Subsistence Organization. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 

Wang, Wenjing (2018) Lingjiatan Social Organization in the Yuxi Valley China: A Comparative Perspective. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Pittsburgh.

2017

Bridges, Nora (2017) The Therapeutic Ecologies of Napo Runa Wellbeing. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Pittsburgh.

Chan, Zi Lin Carol (2017) Gendered Moral Economies of Transnational Migration: Mobilizing Shame and Faith in Migrant-Origin Villages of Central Java, Indonesia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Guler-Biyikli, Senem (2017) Sacred Secular Relics: World Trade Center Steel in Off-Site 9/11 Memorials in the United States. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Khalikova, Venera (2017) Institutionalized Alternative Medicine in North India: Plurality, Legitimacy, and Nationalist Discourses. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Puzo, Ieva (2017) The Local LIves of Global Science: Foreign Scientists in Japan's Research Institutions. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Robinson, Amanda S. (2017) Animal Socialities: Healing and Affect in Japanese Animal Cafés. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Sharapov, Denis V. (2017) Bronze Age Settlement Patterns and the Developments of Complex Societies in the Southern Ural Steppes (3500-1400 BC). Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Sturm, Camilla (2017) Structure and Evolution of Economic Networks in Neolithic Walled Towns of the Jianghan Plain: A Geochemical Perspective. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Vargas Ruiz, Juan Carlos (2017) Complex Societies, Leadership Strategies and Agricultural Intensification in the Llanos of Casanare, Colombia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Venegas, Maria (2017) Alienated Affliction: The Politics of Grisi Siknis Experience in Nicaragua. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Wakefield-Murphy, Robyn (2017) The Bioarchaeology of Gendered Social Processes Among Pre- and Post-Contact Native Americans: An Analysis of Mortuary Patterns, Health, and Activity in the Ohio Valley. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Zickefoose, Amanda (2017) Sustainable Practices and Sustainability Ideology on Small Farms in North-Central West Virginia. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Pittsburgh.

2016

Fajardo, Sebastian (2016) Prehispanic and Colonial Settlement Patterns of the Sogamoso Valley. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Kesterke, Matthew J. (2016) The Effects of In-utero Thyroxine Exposure On Mandibular Shape in Mice. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Leeper, Bobbie J. (2016) Evaluation of Current Methods of Soft Tissue Removal From Bone. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Li, Tao (2016) Economic Differentiation in Hongshan Core Zone Communities (Northeastern China): A Geochemical Perspective. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Li, Dongdong (2016) The Emergence of Walled Towns and Social Complexity in the Taojiahu-Xiaocheng Region of Jianghan Plain China. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

2015

Wentworth Fournier, Chelsea (2015) Feasting and Food Security: Negotiating Infant and Child Feeding in Urban and Peri-Urban Vanuatu.Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Lin, Hao-Li (2015) Vanua as Environment: Conservation, Farming, and Development in Waitabu, Fiji. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Johnson, James (2015) Community Matters? Investigating Social Complexity Through Centralization And Differentiation In Bronze Age Pastoral Societies Of The Southern Urals, Russian Federation, 2100 – 900 BC. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Ikehara Tsukayama, Hugo C. (2015) Leadership, Crisis And Political Change: The End Of The Formative Period In The Nepeña Valley, Peru. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Herckis, Lauren R. (2015) Cultural Variation in the Maya City of Palenque. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Harmansah, Rabia (2015) Performing Social Forgetting in a Post-Conflict Landscape: The Case of Cyprus. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Garrido Escobar, Francisco Javier (2015) Mining and the Inca Road in Prehistoric Atacama Desert, Chile. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

de St. Maurice, Gregory (2015) The Kyoto Brand: Protecting Agricultural and Culinary Heritage. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Clark, Julia (2015) Modeling Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Pastoral Adaptations in Northern Mongolia's Darkhad Depression. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Argüello García, Pedro María (2015)  Subsistence Economy And Chiefdom Emergence in the Muisca Area. A Study of the Valle De Tena. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

2014

Williams, James T. (2014) Staple Economies and Social Integration in Northeast China: Regional Organization in Zhangwu, Liaoning, China.Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Sung, Shih-Hsiang (2014) The Flowing Materiality of Crystal: A Global Commodity Chain of Fengshui Objects From Brazil, China to Taiwan. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Romano, Francisco (2014) Changing Bases of Power: The Transition From Regional Classic to Recent in the Alto Magdalena (Colombia). Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.             

Roman, Michael (2014) Migration, Transnationality, and Climate Change in the Republic of Kiribati. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 

Pesantes Villa, Maria Amalia (2014) Out of sight out of mind: intercultural health technicians in the Peruvian Amazon. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Ornellas, Melody Li (2014) When a Wife is a Visitor: Mainland Chinese Marriage Migration, Citizenship, and Activism in Hong Kong. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Giraldo Tenorio, Hernando Javier (2014)  Sources of Power and the Development of Sociopolitical Complexity in Malagana, Southwestern Colombia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Berrey, Charles A. (2014) Organization and Growth among Early Complex Societies in Central Pacific Panama. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

2013

Ventresca Miller, Alicia (2013) Social Organization And Interaction In Bronze Age Eurasia: A Bioarchaeological And Statistical Approach To The Study Of Communities. Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Tulbure, Narcis (2013) Chary Opportunists: Money, Values, And Change In Postsocialist Romania. Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Sözer, Hande (2013) Managing (In)Visibility By A Double Minority: Dissimulation And Identity Maintenance Among Alevi Bulgarian Turks. Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Sol Castillo, Ricardo Felipe (2013) Religious Organization And Political Structure In Prehispanic Southern Costa Rica.Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Roman-Lacayo, Manuel/A (2013) Social And Environmental Risk And The Development Of Social Complexity In Precolumbian Masaya, Nicaragua. Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Rak, Kimberly (2013) Seeing Green: Gendered Relationship Expectations And Sexual Risk Among Economically Underserved Adolescents In Braddock, Pennsylvania. Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Ming, Kevin (2013) Slow Separations: Everyday Sex Work In Southern China. Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

McCarthy, Rory G. (2013) The Sikh Diaspora In Australia: Migration, Multiculturalism And The Imagining Of Home. Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Lopez Bravo, Roberto (2013) State Interventionism In The Late Classic Maya Palenque Polity: Household And Community Archaeology At El Lacandon. Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Lee, Yi-Tze (2013) Divided Dreams On Limited Land: Cultural Experiences Of Agricultural Bio-Energy Project And Organic Farming Transition In Taiwan. Doctoral Dissertation, University Of Pittsburgh.

Hoggarth, Julie A. (2013) Social Reorganization and Household Adaptation in the Aftermath of Collapse at Baking Pot, Belize. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Guerra-Reyes, Lucia (2013) Safe motherhood and maternal mortality reduction strategies: a cross cultural perspective. Master Essay, University of Pittsburgh.

Guerra-Reyes, Lucia (2013) Changing Birth in The Andes: Safe Motherhood, Culture and Policy in Peru. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Gamez Diaz, Laura (2013) Cosmology And Society: Household Ritual Among The Terminal Classic Maya People Of Yaxha (Ca. A.D. 850-950), Guatemala. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

2012

Marcone, Giancarlo (2012) Political Strategies And Domestic Economy Of The Lote B Rural Elite In The Prehispanic Lurín Valley, Peru. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Macia, Laura (2012) Dealing With Grievances: The Latino Experience In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Hooe, Todd (2012) “Little Kingdoms”: Adat And Inequality In The Kei Islands, Eastern Indonesia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Hamm, Megan (2012) Activism, Sex Work, And Womanhood In North India. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Frenopoulo, Christian (2012) The Referential Functions Of Agency: Health Workers In Medical Missions To Madiha (Kulina) Indians In The Brazilian Amazon. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

DePaoli, Lisa Coffield (2012) "No Podemos Comer Billetes": Climate Change And Development In Southern Ecuador. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Campbell, Roberto (2012) Socioeconomic differentiation, leadership, and residential patterning at an Araucanian chiefly center (Isla Mocha, AD 1000-1700). Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

2011

Household Organization and Social Inequality at Bandurria, A Late Preceramic Village in Huaura, Peru.  Alejandro Jose Chu Barrera.  2011.

Kokeshi: Continued and Created Traditions/Motivations for a Japanese Folk Art Doll.  Jennifer E. McDowell.  2011.

Ideology and the Development of Social Hierarchy at the Site of Panquilma, Peruvian Central Coast.  Luis Enrique Lopez-Hurtado Orjeda.  2011.

Our Roots, Our Strength: The Jamu Industry, Women's Health and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia.  Sarah Elizabeth Krier.  2011.

An investigation of sex determination from the subadult pelvis: A morphometric analysis.  Kathleen Ann Satterlee Blake.  2011.

Carrying Out Modernity: Migration, Work, and Masculinity in China.  Xia Zhang.  2011.

Marriage Across the Taiwan Strait: Male Migrants, Marital Desire and Social Location.  Joseph Leo Cichosz.  2011.

Conditions of Social Change at El Dornajo, Southwestern Ecuador.  Sarah Ruth Taylor2011.

2010

Transfers and the Private Lives of Public Servants in Japan: Teachers in Nagasaki’s Outer Islands.  Blaine Phillip Connor2010.

Oapan Nawa Folktales: Links to the Pre-Hispanic Past in a Contemporary Indian Community of MexicoJoanne Michel de Guerrero2010.

Communal Tradition and the Nature of Social Inequality Among the Prehispanic Households of El Hatillo (HE-4), PanamaWilliam A. Locascio2010.

Prehispanic Social Organization in the Jamastrán Valley, Southeastern HondurasEva L. Martinez2010.

Democracy “At Risk”? Governmental and Non-governmental Organizations, “At Risk” Youth, and Programming in Juiz de Fora, Brazil.  Penelope Kay Morrison2010.

Emergent Complexity on the Mongolian Steppe: Mobility, Territoriality, and the Development of Early Nomadic PolitiesJean-Luc Houle2010.

2009

Between the Kitchen and the State: Domestic Practice and Chimú Expansion in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru.  Robyn E. Cutright. 2009.

Craft Specialization and the Emergence of the Chiefly Central Place Community of HE-4 (El Hatillo), Central PanamaAdam Clayton Joseph Menzies2009.

The Interaction of Androgenic Hormone and Craniofacial Variation: Relationship Between Epigenetics and the Environment on the Genome with an Eye Toward Non-Syndromic Craniosynostosis.  James John Cray, Jr.2009.

The Development of Complex Society in the Volcán Barú Region of Western PanamaScott Palumbo2009.

Huaracane Social Organization: Change Over Time at the Prehispanic Community of Yahuay Alta, PerúKirk E. Costion2009.

The Social and Political Evolution of Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico: An Analysis of Changing Strategies of Rulership in a Middle Formative Through Early Classic Mesoamerican Political CenterTimothy D. Sullivan2009.

Social Change in Pre-Columbian San Ramon de Alajuela, Costa Rica, and Its Relation with Adjacent RegionsMauricio Murillo Herrera2009.

The Domestic Mode of Production and the Development of Sociopolitical Complexity: Evidence from the Spondylus Industry of Coastal Ecuador.  Alexander Javier Martin2009.

2008

Bread, Sweat, and Tears? The Ascendance of Capitalist Accumulation Strategies in the Russian Republic of Karelia, 2001-2002Mark Wesley Abbott2008.

The Organization of Agricultural Production on the Southwest Periphery of the Maya Lowlands: A Settlement Patterns Study in the Upper Grijalva Basin, Chiapas, Mexico Dean H. Wheeler2008.

Donkey Friends: Travel, Voluntary Associations and the New Public Sphere in Contemporary Urban ChinaNing Zhang2008.

Fashioning Change: The Cultural Economy of Clothing in Contemporary China.  Jianhua (Andrew) Zhao2008.

2007

Time and Process in an Early Village Settlement System on the Bolivian Southern AltiplanoJason (Jake) R. Fox2007.

Social and Economic Development of a Specialized Community in Chengue, Parque Tairona, ColombiaAlejandro Dever2007.

Tracing the Red Thread: An Ethnography of Chinese-U.S. Transnational AdoptionFrayda Cohen2007.

Identity and Development in Rural Bolivia: Negotiating Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in Development ContextsChristine Hippert2007.

Three-Dimensional Morphometric Analysis of the Craniofacial Complex in the Unaffected Relatives of Individuals with Nonsyndromic Orofacial CleftsSeth M. Weinberg2007.

2006

Cultural Politics and Health: The Development of Intercultural Health Policies in the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.  Edgardo Ruiz2006.

Ritual and Status: Mortuary Display at the Household Level at the Middle Horizon Wari Site of Conchopata, PeruCharlene D. Milliken2006.

“Crafting” Hongshan Communities? Household Archeology In The Chiefing Region Of Eastern Inner Mongolia, PRC.  Christian Eric Peterson2006.

Subsistence, Environment Fluctuation and Social Change: A Case Study in South Central Inner MongoliaGregory G. Indrisano2006.

Power and Competition in the Upper Egyptian Predynastic: A View from the Predynastic Settlement at el-Mahâsna, EgyptDavid Allen Anderson2006.

Dusk Without Sunset: Actively Aging in Traditional Chinese Medicine.  Xiaohui Yang2006.

The Organization of Agricultural Production in the Emergence of Chiefdoms in the Quijos Region, Eastern Andes of Ecuador.  Andrea Cuellar2006.

The Utility of Cladistic Analysis of Nonmetric Skeletal Traits for Biodistance AnalysisJames Christopher Reed2006.

Ethnography of Voting: Nostalgia, Subjectivity, and Popular Politics in Post-Socialist Lithuania.  Neringa Klumbyte2006.

Risky Business: Cultural Conceptions of HIV/AIDS in Indonesia.  Piper Crisovan2006.

The Mahaney Site (UB 666) -- Habitation or Special Purpose Site?Catherine M. Serventi2006.

2005

Food for the Dead, Cuisine of the Living: Mortuary Food Offerings from Pacatnamú and Farfán, Jequetepeque Valley, PerúRobyn E. Cutright2005.

Czech Balneotherapy: From Public Health to Health Tourism.  Amy Speier.  2005.

Taxonomy of the Genus PerodicticusDavid Paul Stump2005.

Rice Agricultural Intensification and Sociopolitical Development in the Bronze Age, central western Korean Peninsula.  Bumcheol Kim.  2005.

A Cold Of The Heart: Japan Strives To Normalize Depression.  George Kendall Vickery.  2005.

Cayuga Iroquois Households and Gender Relations During the Contact Period: An Investigation of the Rogers Farm Site, 1660s--1680s (New York).  Kimberly Louise Williams-Shuker.  2005.

2004

The Camutins Chiefdom: Rise and Development of Social Complexity on Marajo Island, Brazilian Amazon. Denise Pahl Schaan.  2004.

Cuban Color Classification and Identity Negotiation: Old terms in a New World. Shawn Alfonso Wells. 2004.

Natural Variation in Human Mating Strategy and the Evolutionary Significance of Mate Choice Criteria.  Helen Katherine Perilloux.  2004.

The Emergence and Development of Chiefly
Societies in the Rio Parita Valley, Panama
. Mikael Haller.  2004.

The Form, Function, and Organization of Anthropogenic Deposits at Dust Cave, Alabama.
Lara Kristine Homsey. 2004.

Does Natal Territory Quality Predict Human Dispersal Choices? A Test of Emlen's Model of Family Formation. Elizabeth R. Blum. 2004.

Pragmatic Singles: Being an Unmarried Woman in Contemporary Japan. Tamiko Ortega Noll. 2004

Regional Settlement Patterns and Political Complexity in the Cinti Valley, Bolivia. Claudia Rivera Casanovas. 2004.

Turning Numbers Against Themselves: Religion, Statistics, and Political Distance in Romania. Mihnea Vasilescu. 2004.

(Re) Producing the Nation: The Politics of Reproduction in Serbia in Serbia in the 1980's and 1990's. Rada Drezgic. 2004.

Female Choice, Male Dominance, and the Evolution of Low Voice Pitch in Men. David Andrew Putz. 2004.

A Cultural History of the Micheal and Mary Jane Brubaker Family of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, with a Focus on Women's Marriage. John Michael Krajnak. 2004.

Cranial Content Changes in Craniosynostotic Rabbits. Wendy Kay Fellows-Mayle.  2004.

Created Unequal: Multiregionalism and the Origins of Anthropological Racism. Adam Wells Davis. 2004.

2003

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Gendered Visions of the Bosnian Future: Women’s Activism and Representation in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina. Elissa Lynelle Helms. 2003.

Spirtual Warfare and Social Transformation in Fiji: The Life History of Loto Fiafia of Kioa. Thomas James Mullane. 2003.

Samurai Beneath Blue Tarps: Doing Homelessness, Rejecting Marginality and Preserving Nation in Ueno Park (Japan). Abby Rachael Margolis. 2003.

The Evolutionary Biology of the Apolipoprotein E Allele System with Special Reference to Alzheimer's Disease. Jessica Ann Garver. 2003

Setting Nets on Troubled Waters: Environment, Economics, and Autonomy Among Nori Cultivating Households in a Japanese Fishing Cooperative. Alyne Elizabeth Delaney. 2003.

Skeletal Maturation and Estimating Age-At-Death During the First Decade of Life. Frank D. Houghton Jr. 2003.

"Civil Society or a Nation-State?" Macedonian and Albanian Intellectuals Building the Macedonian State and Nation(s). Nevena Dicheva Dimova. 2003.

Sex Determination of the Fragmented Pelvis Using Euclidean Distance Matrix Analysis. Joan A. Bytheway. 2003.

Proximate Mechanisms of Kin Recogniton in Non-human Primates. Aislinn Kelly. 2003.

The Evolution of Hairlessness in Humans a a Means of Increased Vitamin D Biosynthesis. D. A. Putz. 2003.

The Evolution of the Bogota Chiefdom: A Household View. Michael H. Kruschek. 2003.

2002

Multi-Scalar Analysis of Domestic Activities at Parker Farm: A Late Prehistoric Cayuga Iroquois Village. Tracy Sue Michaud Stutzman. 2002.

Late Intermediate Period Political Economy and Household Organization at Jachakala, Bolivia. Christine Beaule. 2002.

Indigenous Federations, NGOs, and the State: Development and the Politics of Culture in Ecuador's Amazon. Patrick C. Wilson. 2002

Wild Resources in the Andes: Algarrobo, Chanar and Palqui: Implications for Archaeology. Claudia Rivera-Casanovas. 2002.

Nonmetric Population Variation In The Skulls of Human Perinates. Seth M. Weinberg. 2002.

Intensive Agriculture and Political Economy of the Yaguachi Chiefdom of Guayas Basin, Coastal Ecuador. Florencio German Delgado-Espinoza. 2002.

Sedentism, Site Occupation and Settlement Organization at La Joya, A Formative Village in the Sierra De Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico.
Valerie J. McCormack. 2002.

The Road to Health: The Experience of Tuberculosis in Southern Chile Joan Elizabeth Paluzzi. 2002.

2001

Household and Community Organization of a Formative Period, Bolivian Settlement. Courtney Elizabeth Rose. 2001.

Emerging Cultural Markets and Private Enterprise in Urban China: Managing Change in Values, Families and Futures. David Hudgens. 2001.

Equal Education - Unequal Lives: Life Course Goals of Japanese Female Undergraduates. Judith Lynn Misko. 2001.

Women’s Economic Activities in an Industrializing Malay Village. Margaret Wolfberg Kedia. 2001.

Interisland Interaction and the Development of Chiefdoms in the Eastern Caribbean. John Gordon Crock. 2001.

Public and Private Space at Mohenjo-Daro: the Implications for Social Organization. Sara Clark. 2001.

Anasazi Settlement Patterns: the Importance of Seasonal Mobility. Charlene Milliken. 2001.

Post-Saladoid Age Pottery in the Northern Lesser Antilles: Lessons Learned from Thin Section Photography. Martin Todd Fuess. 2001.

2000

Peasants and the State: The Political economy of a Village in Maoist and Post-Mao China.Young Kyun Yang. 2000.

The Chichén Itzá - Ek Balam Transect Project: An Intersite Perspective on the Political Organization of the Ancient Maya. James Gregory Smith. 2000.

Japanese Adult Learning: Karaoke Naraigoto. Hideo Watanabe. 2000.

Inventing Indigenous Knowledge: Archaeology, Rural Development, and the Raised Field Rehabilitation Project in Bolivia. Lynn Swartley. 2000.

Valuable Women: Gendered Strategies for Success in Korean College Culture. Elise Michelle Mellinger. 2000.

A Study of Late Classic Maya Population Growth at La Milpa, Belize. John Janson Rose. 2000.

Development of the Central Nervous System and the Evolution of the Neocortex. Elizabeth Louise Dick. 2000.

Dynamical Systems Modeling in Archaeology: A GIS Approach to Site Selection Processes in the Greater Yellowstone Region. Thomas G. Whitley. 2000.

1999

Rural Agrarian Diversity in the Late Classic (600-950 A.D.) Naco Valley, Northwest Honduras. John Douglass. 1999.

The Functional Morphology of the Lower Cervical Spine in Non-Human Primates. Susan R. Mercer. 1999.

The Organization of Agricultural Production at a Maya Center. Settlement Patterns in the Palenque Region, Chiapas, Mexico. Rodrigo Ruben Gregorio Liendo Stuardo. 1999.

The Political Ecology of Indigenous Self-Development in Bolivia’s Multiethnic Indigenous Territory. J. Montgomery Roper. 1999.

Origins Research in Archaeology at the Turn of the Millennium and Giambattista Vico’s New Science (1744). Stephanie Koerner. 1999.

Social Differentiation at the Kerniskey Site?: A Contribution to the Study of Emerging Social Complexity. Elizabeth Ramos Roca. 1999.

Lithic Economy and Household Interdependence Among the Late Classic Maya of BelizeLithic Economy and Household Interdependence Among the Late Classic Maya of Belize. Jon VandenBosch. 1999.

The Late Formative to Classic Period Obsidian Economy at Palo Errado, Veracruz, Mexico. Charles Leonard Fredrick Knight. 1999.

Postclassic Craft Production in Morelos, Mexico: The Cotton Thread Industry in the Provinces. Ruth Fauman-Fichman. 1999.

1998

The Organization of Staple Crop Production in Middle Formative, Late Formative, and Classic Period Farming Households at K'axob, Belize. Helen Hope Henderson. 1998.

The 'Becoming' Mother: Transitions to Motherhood in Urban China. Suzanne Kelley Gottschang. 1998

Prehispanic Intensive Agriculture, Settlement Pattern and Political Economy in the Western Venezuelan Llanos. Rafael Angel Gassón Pacheco. 1998.

Prehispanic Change in the Mesitas Community: Documenting the Development of a Chiefdom's Central Place in San Agustín, Colombia. Víctor González Fernández. 1998.

"We Just Live Here": Health Decision Making and the Myth of Community in El Alto, Bolivia. Jerome Winston Pettus Crowder. 1998

Bases of Social Hierarchy in a Muisca Central Village of the Northeastern Highland of Columbia. Ana Maria Boada Rivas. 1998.

The Effect of Time Manipulation on the Exchange of Information in the Patient-Provider Encounter. Van Yasek. 1998.

Social Support Networks of Impaired Older Adults. Marcie Caryn Nightingale. 1998.

Early Village-Based Society and Long-Term Cultural Evolution in the South-Central Andean Altiplano. Timothy McAndrews. 1998.

Sacred Confluence: Worship, History and the Politics of Change in a Himalayan Village. Lipika Mazumdar. 1998