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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Sensitive Developmental Windows in Craniofacial and Dental Fluctuating Asymmetry, Emily Moes
Imperial Architecture and Absolute Chronology in the Inka State: The View from Northern Chile, Beau G. Murphy
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Social Tolerance, Cooperation, and Constraint Shape Differentiated Social Relationships in Female Chimpanzees, Stephanie Fox
Human Diversity in Molecular Sexual Dimorphism and Gender Disparities in Health, Adam Z. Reynolds
Between Casas Grandes and Salado: Community Formation and Interaction in the Borderlands of the American Southwest/Mexican Northwest Region, AD 1200-1450, Thatcher A. Seltzer-Rogers
THE LITHIUM ECONOMY: BOLIVIA'S "NEW" RESOURCE AND ITS ROLE IN REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS, Zsofia J. Szoke
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Relational Peace in Colombia: An Ethnography of Multi-Scalar Affective Relations Among Peace Practitioners, Maria del Pilar File-Muriel
Buying Goodwill: Local and Regional Consumer Relationships in Nineteenth Century New Mexico, Erin N. Hegberg
AN EMPIRICAL AND THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF LEADERSHIP IN TWO EGALITARIAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES, Edmond Seabright
"When the Tide Is Out, the Table Is Set": Shellfish Harvesting Throughout the Holocene at Labouchere Bay, Southeast Alaska, Mark R. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Effects of Environmental Change on Ancestral Pueblo Fishing in the Middle Rio Grande, Jonathan W. Dombrosky Dr.
Paleoindian Response to Climate Change in the Northern Jornada del Muerto, Christopher W. Merriman
ENERGETIC TRADEOFFS, INFECTION, AND IMMUNITY IN WILD CHIMPANZEES OF UGANDA AND TANZANIA, Sarah Renee Phillips
Games People Played: The Social Role of Gambling in the Prehispanic U.S. Southwest, Marilyn B. Riggs
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Sociality of Charitable Giving in an Evolutionary Perspective, Wesley Allen-Arave
The ontogeny of sex-typed social strategies among east African chimpanzees (Pan troglodyes schweinfurthii), Kristin H. Sabbi
Sex Differences in Age-Related Disease, Matthew R. Schwartz
"Where the Land Ends": Knowing and Governing the Limits of Argentina's Soy Boom, Geneva Smith
NESHNABÉ FUTURISMS: INDIGENOUS SCIENCE AND ECO-POLITICS IN THE GREAT LAKES, Blaire K. Topash-Caldwell
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Applying Anthropology, Assembling Indigenous Community: Anthropology and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Southern Arizona, Nicholas Barron
A Noncoherent Governance: Tinkering with Stones in the Old City of Acre, Caitlin Davis
“WE PRACTICE LAKOTA WAY, BUT WE ARE NOT AN INDIAN CHURCH”: THE DIVERSE WAYS LAKOTA CHRISTIANS ARTICULATE, PERFORM AND TRANSLATE ETHNICITY IN CONGREGATIONAL LIFE, Kristin A. Fitzgerald
Seventeenth-Century Spanish Colonial Identity in New Mexico: A Study of Identity Practices through Material Culture, Caroline M. Gabe
The History of Admixture in African Americans, JESSICA M. GROSS
Ethnic identity and genetic ancestry in New Mexicans of Spanish-speaking descent, Meghan Healy
POTTERY AND PRACTICE IN THE LATE TO TERMINAL CLASSIC MAYA LOWANDS: CASE STUDIES FROM UXBENKÁ AND BAKING POT, BELIZE, Jillian Michelle Jordan
A biocultural examination of health risk among New Mexicans of Spanish-speaking descent, Carmen Mosley
Trends in Health, Stress, and Migration in the pre-contact Southwest United States, Alexis O'Donnell
Facial fluctuating asymmetry: developmental origins and implications for long-term health, Katelyn Marie Rusk PhD
AMARO E PICCANTE: THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF TERROIR IN THE SCANDAL OF ITALIAN EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OILS, Daniel Gene Shattuck II
Using Archaeological Remote Sensing to Evaluate Land Use and Constructed Space in Chaco Canyon, Jennie O. Sturm
COMPARATIVE PROCESSES OF SOCIOPOLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE SOUTHERN MAYA MOUNTAINS, Amy E. Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Mainland Southeast Asia in the Longue Durée: A Zooarchaeological Test of the "Broad Spectrum Revolution" in Northern Thailand, Cyler Norman Conrad
Relanzamiento of Nicaragua’s Christian Base Communities: Forging New Models of Church and Society for the Twenty-First Century, LARA M. GUNDERSON
Reconstructing Landscape Use Patterns Using Strontium Isotope Ratios, Marian I. Hamilton
Sociocultural Diversity in the Prehispanic Southwest: Learning, Weaving, and Identity in the Chaco Regional System, A.D. 850-1140, Edward A. Jolie
THE STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE OF MAYA SACRIFICE: A CASE STUDY OF RITUALIZED HUMAN SACRIFICE AT MIDNIGHT TERROR CAVE, BELIZE, C. L. Kieffer Nail
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Paradise Found? Local Cosmopolitanism, Lifestyle Migrant Emplacement, and Imaginaries of Sustainable Development in La Manzanilla del Mar, Mexico, Jennifer Cardinal
The Past in the Present: Federal Implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Erin J. Hudson
Bodies of Water: Politics, Ethics, and Relationships along New Mexico's Acequias, Elise Trott
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A GIS-Based Investigation Into Social Violence and Settlement Patterns in the Gallina Area of the American Southwest, Adam M. Byrd
Questions of Sovereignty: Pyramid Lake and the Northern Paiute Struggle for Water and Rights, Andrew W. Carey
Ambivalent Subjects in Neoliberal Times: Non-Governmental Organizations and Binational Same Sex Couples in the United States, Jara M. Carrington
Economies Set in Stone? Magdalenian Lithic Technological Organization and Adaptation in Vasco-Cantabrian Spain, Lisa Marie Fontes
Basketmaker II Warfare and Fending Sticks in the North American Southwest, Phil R. Geib
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WOODLAND ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE LOWER ILLINOIS RIVER VALLEY: A REGIONAL MODEL, Jason Louis King
Estimating Ancestry and Genetic Diversity in Admixed Populations., Anthony Koehl
Artifacts of Representation: The Makings of Indigeneity in Argentine Museums, A.K. Sartor
Sleep as an evolved behavior: ecological opportunity costs and sleep optimization, Gandhi Yetish
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Mens Life History, Testosterone, and Health, Louis Alvarado
Explanations For Morphological Variability In Projectile Points: A Case Study From The Late Paleoindian Cody Complex, Cheryl Fogle-Hatch
SOCIAL AND RITUAL DYNAMICS AT EL CHOLO: AN UPPER GENERAL VALLEY FUNERARY VILLAGE OF THE DIQUÍS SUBREGION, SOUTHERN COSTA RICA, Roberto Herrera
Identity and Material Practice in the Chacoan World: Ornamentation and Utility Ware Pottery, Hannah Mattson
New Deal Navajo Linguistics and Language Documentation, Char Peery
Cultural interaction and biological distance among Postclassic Mexican populations, Corey Steven Ragsdale
Speaking in Circles: Interpretation and Visitor Experience at Chaco Culture National Historic Park, Maren Else Svare
From Rural Street Theater to Big City Extravaganza: The Meaning of the Manaus Boi-bumbá in an Urbanizing Brazil., Margaret Kathleen Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Variable Education Exposure and Cognitive Task Performance Among the Tsimane, Forager-Horticulturalists., Helen Elizabeth Davis
Afro-Colombians and the Encroachment of Paramilitaries on the African Palm Oil Sector, Stacie Hecht
Maturing Temporal Bones as Non-Neural Sites for Transforming the Speech Signal during Language Development, Lisa Hogan
The Paradoxes of Poverty: Urban Space and Ideologies of Intervention in the "Compassionate" City of San Francisco, Andrea Lopez
"Ellos Son Mi Familia." Testing the Embodied Capital Theory in Dominican Populations in the Dominican Republic and in New York City, Elvira Pichardo
Women and Cultural Production: Fiestas, Families, and Foodways in San Rafael, New Mexico, Stephanie M. Sanchez
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Application of GIS and Spatial Data Modeling to Archaeology: A Case Study in the American Southwest, Veronica Arias
Looking Forward Rather Than Backward: Cultural Revitalization at the Poeh Cultural Center and Museum, Kaila Cogdill
"I'm afraid [of] my future.": Secrecy, Biopower, and Korean High School Girls, Noelle Easterday
Nanta Hosh Chahta Immi? (What Are Choctaw Lifeways?): Cultural Preservation in the Casino Era, Sean Everette Gantt
Storied Lives in a Living Tradition: Women Rabbis and Jewish Community in 21st Century New Mexico, Miria Kano
Albuquerque the Frontier? Exploring Migration and Social Identity in the Albuquerque Area During the Late Developmental to Coalition Period Transition, Dorothy L. Larson
Changing Hearts and Minds: The Politics of Sentimentality and The Cultural Production of the Gay Family in New Mexicos Same-Sex Marriage Debate, Nicolae Lavinia
LOCAL FOOD AND POWER DYANMICS IN SOUTHEAST GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, Christy Mello
Lost Worlds: Locating submerged archaeological sites in southeast Alaska, Kelly Monteleone
Spanish Missionization and Maya Social Structure: Skeletal Evidence for Labor Distribution at Tipu, Belize, Lara Noldner
THE SOCIOECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF COMMUNAL HUNTING: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF SHOSHONE COLLECTIVE ACTION, Matthew O'Brien
Women's Toolkits: Engendering Paleoindian Technological Organization, Susan Ruth
Tsehootsooidi baa hane: Emergent oral histories from a Navajo community based oral history project in Ft. Defiance, AZ, Gwendolyn Saul
Soy Gaucho: Nationalism and Modernity in Argentina, Geneva Smith
The Bioarchaeology of Changes in Social Stratification, Warfare, and Habitual Activities among Iron Age Samnites of Central Italy, Vitale Sparacello
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Zapatista Materiality Disseminated: A Co-Construction Reconsidered, Ilse Biel
Florentine Palaces, Costly Signaling, and Lineage Survival, Michael Church
PREDICTIVE GEOSPATIAL MODELING FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION: CASE STUDIES FROM THE GALISTEO BASIN, VERMONT AND CHACO CANYON, Wetherbee Bryan Dorshow
NEW PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES IN ARCHAEOLOGY: Applications in Greece, New Mexico, and Portugal, Brandon Lee Drake
Feeding Ecology and Life History Strategies of White-faced Capuchin Monkeys, Elizabeth Eadie
Finding Hope: Guatemalan War Orphans' Responses to the Long-Term Consequences of Genocide, Shirley Heying
Women Living Islam in Post-War and Post-Socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, Emira Ibrahimpasic
Coffee and the Countryside: Small Farmers and Sustainable Development in Las Segovias de Nicaragua, Patrick Staib
Planting Seeds is a Metaphor: Being Agrarian, Agricultural Activism, and Emergent Identity in New Mexico, Elise Trott
Investigating Epistemological Implications of Geospatial representation in the Making of Histories of the Pueblos, Using an Exploratory Mixed Methods Approach, Judith van der Elst
Health Parameters Across the Lifespan Among the Ache of Paraguay, John Wagner
Early-life influences on body composition, metabolic economy, and age at menarche, Megan Workman
Tribes, States, and Landscapes: The Ecological Impacts of Changing Land Use During the Islamic Period in Southern Portugal, F. Scott Worman
THE EFFECTS OF GENETIC ANCESTRY AND SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS ON PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS SUSCEPTIBILITY IN NORTHEASTERN MEXICO, Bonnie Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Making Modernity: Ideological Pluralism and Political Process in Zinacantán, Kristen Adler
Ceramic Resource Selection and Social Violence in the Gallina Area of the American Southwest, Connie Constan
Predicting Body Mass from the Skeleton with an Application to the Georgia Coast, Shamsi Daneshvari
The Discourse and Practice of Native American Cuisine: Native American Chefs and Native American Cooks in Contemporary Southwest Kitchens, Lois Ellen Frank
