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Francois Dengah
2013  Title: Finding Success and Health through God: A Study of Cultural Models and Health among Brazilian Pentecostals.    NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
    
Jenelle Doucet
2012  Title: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: The Sociocultural Influences on Disorder Knowledge and Diagnosis Decision Making.   
    
Lauren Downs
2012  Title: The Glass Site (22WR502): An Investigation of Plaquemine Culture Architecture, Occupation, and Interaction in the Northern Portion of the Natchez Bluffs Region, Mississippi.   
Current Position: Instructor, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) and University of Alabama at Birmingham
Web link: http://anthropology.ua.edu/name/Lauren/Downs/
    
Katy Groves
2012  Title: Roots, Yucas, and Moros: Cultural Models of Food in Cuban Miami.   
Current Position: Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama
Web link: http://anthropology.ua.edu/name/Katy/Groves/
    
Erin Phillips
2012  Title: Social Contexts of Production and Use of Pottery Engraved in the Hemphill Style at Moundville.   
Current Position: Instructor, Bevill State and Judson Colleges and University of Alabama
Web link: http://anthropology.ua.edu/name/Erin/Phillips/
    
B. Blakely Brooks
2011  Title: The Andean Cultural Model of Susto: Cultural Consonance and Historical Trauma in the Andes.   
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Centre College
Web link: http://www.centre.edu/faculty_staff/brooks_blakely.html
    
Richard A. Brown
2011  Title: Biocultural Models, Cultural Consonance, and Salutogenesis in Type 2 Diabetes Treatment; Measuring the Impact of Symbol Systems on Health within a Mexican Community.   
Current Position: In memorium (1970-2013). We miss you, Rick.
Web link: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163794275
    
Claire Nanfro Thompson
2011  Title: Ritual and Power: Examining the Economy of Moundville's Residential Population.   
Current Position: Instructor, Shelton State Community College
    
Sarah Szurek
2011  Title: Cultural Models of Food and Social Networks Among Mexican Immigrants in the Southeastern United States.    NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
Web link: http://www.gravlee.org/lab/people/
    
Meredith Jackson
2009  Title: Cultural models, stress and pregnancy: Examining intracultural variation in southern Jalisco, Mexico.    NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
Current Position: Project Manager, Hellen Keller International, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Web link: http://www.hki.org
    
Cameron Lacquement
2009  Title: Landscape Modification at Moundville: An Energetics Assessment of a Mississippian Polity.   
Current Position: Instructor, University of Alabama Early College and Department of Anthropology
Web link: http://anthropology.ua.edu/name/Cameron/Lacquement/
    
Mary Campbell
2008  Title: Access to Healthcare Among Hispanic Immigrants in Memphis, TN: Consensus and Contention in Cultural Models.   
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Christian Brothers University
Web link: http://www.cbu.edu/24.html?layout=category
    
Toni Copeland
2008  Title: Poverty and Sickness among Women in Nairobi, Kenya: Cultural Models of Managing HIV/AIDS in the Absence of Biomedical Treatment.    NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, University of Alabama and College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Dissertation Awards
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Mississippi State University
Web link: http://www.amec.msstate.edu/faculty/copeland.php
    
Clifford Thomas Lewis, III
2008  Title: Excavations at the Chittoloosa Site (22WR631): Exploration of a Late Prehistoric Frontier in the Lower Big Black Region of West-Central Mississippi.   
Current Position: Senior Archaeologist, Edwards-Pitman Environmental
Web link: http://www.edwards-pitman.com
    
Brad R. Lieb
2008  Title: The Natchez Indian Diaspora: Ethnohistoric Archeology of the Eighteenth-Century Natchez Refuge Among the Chickasaws.   
Current Position: Special Assistant in Cultural Affairs, The Chickasaw Nation
Web link: http://www.chickasaw.net/index.htm
    
Keith J. Little
2008  Title: European Artifact Chronology and Impacts of Spanish Contact in the Sixteenth-Century Coosa Valley.   
Current Position: Senior Archaeologist, Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research
Web link: http://www.tvaresearch.com/staff.html
    
Ashley Dumas
2007  Title: The Role of Salt in the Late Woodland to Early Mississippian Transition in Southwest Alabama.    NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Dissertation Award
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of History and Social Sciences, and Assistant Director of the Black Belt Museum, University of West Alabama
Web link: http://facstaff.uwa.edu/adumas/
    
Erica Gibson
2007  Title: The Effects of Practitioner Choice on Birth Outcomes of Women and Their Infants.   
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Web link: http://people.cas.sc.edu/gibsoneb/Site/Welcome.html
    
Amanda Leigh Regnier
2006  Title: An Examination of the Social-Composition of Late Mississippian Towns in the Alabama River Valley Through Ceramic Styles.    College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Dissertation Award.
Current Position: Archaeologist III, Oklahoma Archaeological Survey, University of Oklahoma
Web link: http://www.ou.edu/cas/archsur/staff/regnier.htm