2017
Rachel V. Briggs
Title: From Bitter Seeds: A Historical Anthropological Approach to Moundville’s Origins.
Current Position: Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at UNC Chapel Hill
Erik S. Porth
Title: Reconsidering Institutional Collapse and Social Transformation at Moundville During the Fifteenth Century
Honors: NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
Current Position: Senior Archaeologist, Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research
2016
Paul N. Eubanks
Title: Salt Production in the Southeastern Caddo Homeland.
Honors: NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Middle Tennessee State University
Daniel LaDu
Title: The View from Mazique (22AD502): the Coles Creek/Plaquemine Cultural Transition from the Perspective of the Natchez Bluffs Region of the Lower Mississippi Valley.
Current Position: Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama
Martina Thomas
Title: Sociocultural HIV Risk Knowledge and Behavior Among Female African-American Adolescents and Emerging Adults in the Southeast.
Honors: NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Dissertation
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of History, Juniata College
2015
Jenna James
Title: Social Houses at Carson Mounds, 22-CO-518 as Evidenced by Dental Morphological Analysis.
LisaMarie Malischke
Title: The Heterogeneity of Early French and Native Forts and Settlements. A Comparison to Fort St. Pierre (A.D.1719-1729) in French Colonial Louisiane.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology/Archaeology, Mercyhurst University
2014
Jera Davis
Title: On Common Ground: Memory, Identity, and the Plaza at Early Moundville.
Current Position: Cultural Resources Investigator, Office of Archaeological Research, University of Alabama Museums
Becky Read Wahidi
Title: A Model Guadalupan: Devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe and Psychosocial Stress among Mexican Immigrants.
Current Position: Assistant Research Professor at the Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University.
2013
Francois Dengah
Title: Finding Success and Health through God: A Study of Cultural Models and Health among Brazilian Pentecostals.
Honors: NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, College of Arts & Sciences and University of Alabama Outstanding Dissertation Awards
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology, Utah State University
Brooke Persons
Title: Pottery, People, and Place: Examining the Emergence of Political Authority in Late Ceramic Age Cuba.
Honors: College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Dissertation Award
Current Position: Cultural Resources Investigator, Office of Archaeological Research, University of Alabama Museums
2012
Jenelle Doucet
Title: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: The Sociocultural Influences on Disorder Knowledge and Diagnosis Decision Making.
Lauren Downs
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: Research Associate and Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Katy Groves
Title: Roots, Yucas, and Moros: Cultural Models of Food in Cuban Miami.
Current Position: Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama
Erin Phillips
Title: Social Contexts of Production and Use of Pottery Engraved in the Hemphill Style at Moundville.
Current Position: Staff Archaeologist, Coastal Environments, Inc.
2011
B. Blakely Brooks
Title: The Andean Cultural Model of Susto: Cultural Consonance and Historical Trauma in the Andes.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University
Richard A. Brown
Title: Biocultural Models, Cultural Consonance, and Salutogenesis in Type 2 Diabetes Treatment; Measuring the Impact of Symbol Systems on Health within a Mexican Community.
In memorium (1970-2013). We miss you, Rick.
Claire Nanfro Thompson
Title: Ritual and Power: Examining the Economy of Moundville’s Residential Population.
Current Position: Instructor, University of Alabama and Adjunct Faculty in Behavioral Sciences, Shelton State Community College
Sarah Szurek
Title: Cultural Models of Food and Social Networks Among Mexican Immigrants in the Southeastern United States.
Honors: NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
Current Position: Research Scientist, Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, University of Florida College of Medicine
2009
Meredith Jackson-de Graffenried
Title: Cultural Models, Stress and Pregnancy: Examining Intracultural Variation in Southern Jalisco, Mexico.
Honors: NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
Current Position: Country Director, Hellen Keller International, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Cameron Lacquement
Title: Landscape Modification at Moundville: An Energetics Assessment of a Mississippian Polity.
Current Position: Assistant Teaching Professor, University of Alabama Department of Anthropology
2008
Mary Campbell
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
Toni Copeland
Title: Poverty and Sickness among Women in Nairobi, Kenya: Cultural Models of Managing HIV/AIDS in the Absence of Biomedical Treatment.
Honors: NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, University of Alabama and College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Dissertation Awards
Clifford Thomas Lewis, III
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
Brad R. Lieb
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
Keith J. Little
Title: European Artifact Chronology and Impacts of Spanish Contact in the Sixteenth-Century Coosa Valley.
Current Position: Senior Archaeologist, Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research
2007
Ashley Dumas
Title: The Role of Salt in the Late Woodland to Early Mississippian Transition in Southwest Alabama.
Honors: NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Dissertation Award
Current Position: Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of History and Social Sciences, University of West Alabama
Erica Gibson
Title: The Effects of Practitioner Choice on Birth Outcomes of Women and Their Infants.
2006
Amanda Leigh Regnier
Title: An Examination of the Social-Composition of Late Mississippian Towns in the Alabama River Valley Through Ceramic Styles.
Honors: College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Dissertation Award
Current Position: Director of the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey, University of Oklahoma