2017
Larry Monocello
Thesis: “Flower Boys and Muscled Men: A Comparison of South Korean and American Body Ideals Using Cultural Consensus Analysis”
Diana Simpson
Thesis: “Cheating Death in Prehistory: Pathology, Trauma, and Care during the Archaic Period in North Alabama”
Anna Bianchi
Thesis: “Framing Health Deservingness of Undocumented Immigrants: Perspectives from Health Workers in Two Alabama Clinics”
Robert Templin
Thesis: “Interpreting Compositional Variability in European Glasses: A Study of Black Glass Trade Beads from 17th-Century Mission Santa Catalina de Guale”
Jacob Aronoff
Thesis: “Life History Strategies, Testosterone, and the Anthropology of Human Development”
2016
Edward Quinn
Thesis: “Explaining inequalities in cell-mediated immunity: An anthropological perspective”
Nikki Henderson
Thesis: “Connections between the Folk Psychiatry of Addiction and Levels of Attributed Stigma”
Camille Morgan
Thesis: “Trauma Fractures and the Brutality of Sport: Exploring Evidence of Gaming in the Mississippian Southeast”
Cassie Medeiros
Thesis: “Lost Lightnin’: Moonshine in Alabama as Represented in the Archaeological Record.”
2015
Kareen Hawsey
Thesis: Vessel Morphology and Function in the West Jefferson Phase of the Black Warrior River Valley, Alabama.
Lessye DeMoss
Thesis: A Cultural Model of Life Goals for Young Men in the Roanoke Valley
Johnna Teresa Dominguez
Thesis: Nice Ink, Man”: A Biocultural, Mixed Methods Approach to Tattooing as Costly Honest Signaling Among Southern Women.
Kelsey Herndon
Thesis: The Embodiment of Status in the Mississippian Component of the Perry Site
Luke Donahoo
Thesis: Group Mobility and Lithic Resource Use in the Archaic to Woodland Transition at the Morrow Site.
Brass Bralley
Non-thesis (Plan II)
Angelica Callery
Non-thesis (Plan II)
2014
Kara Alspaugh
Thesis: The Terminal Woodland: Examining Late Occupation on Mound D at Toltec Mounds (3LN2), Central Arkansas.
Joynn Amrine Goertz
Non-thesis (Plan II)
Achsah Dorsey
Thesis: Food Insecurity, Maternal Mental Health, and Child Well-Being in NW Tanzania.
Honors: University of Alabama and College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Research by a Master’s Student Awards.
Charles Ross Owens
Thesis: How Smart Phones Affect Skin Conductance and Social Support Systems Among Students at the University of Alabama.
Ashley Stewart
Thesis: Entanglements in Life and Death: Multiple Burials from the Pickwick Basin.
Emma Koenig
Thesis: Terminal Deposits and Abandonment Processes at Aguacate Uno, Belize.
Elizabeth Wix
Thesis: Mississippian Kinship and the Organization of Koger’s Island Cemetery Rows.
Elise Duffield
Non-thesis (Plan II)
Clay Nelson
Thesis: Mortuary Practices, Social Status, and Wealth at the Rhodes Site in Moundville, Alabama.
2013
Joseph Anderson
Non-thesis (Plan II)
Michael Goldstein
Non-thesis (Plan II)
Denise Gonzalez
Non-thesis (Plan II)
Petrina Kelly
Thesis: Mound R1 and the Problem of the Minor Mound at Moundville.
Heath Kinzer
Non-thesis (Plan II)
Sarah Morrow
Thesis: Social Capital, Food Secuirty, and Resource Utilization in a Low Income Population.
Maria Panakhyo
Thesis: Evaluation of the Methodology for Addressing Commingled Human Remains from the Lewis Jones Cave Ossuary (1SC42) in St. Clair, Alabama.
Daniel Salberg
Thesis: Ceramics and the Political Economy of Moundville: A Compositional Study Using Neutron Activation Analysis.
Bobbie Simova
Thesis: Identity Formation Formation among the Ancient Maya as Reconstructed from Late Preclassic to Early Classic Domestic Contexts at the Site of Actuncan, Belize.
Leah Wiegand
Thesis: Detecting Preference in the Archaeological Record: A Study of Glass Trade Beads Among the Natchez Indians.
2012
Hillary Burt
Thesis: An Anthropological Reconstruction of Historic Population Movements in Tuscaloosa County using Cemetery Analysis.
Sara Shults
Thesis: Uncovering Ancient Maya Exchange Networks: Using the Distributional Approach to Interpret Obsidian Exchange at Actuncan, Belize.
Max Stein
Thesis: Examining Urban and Rural Cultural Models of Nervios in Honduras through a Biocultural Lens.
2011
Rachel Virginia Briggs
Thesis: Negotiating the Area Between: Exploration of an Eighteenth Century Upper Creek Settlement in the Lower Black Warrior River Valley.
Catherine Buzney
Thesis: Pubertal Plasticity: Biological, Social, and Cultural Factors Driving Timing of Female Reproductive Maturation.
Heather Long
Thesis: Good Ol’ Boys: Masculinity and Stress in Southern Males.
Erik Porth
Thesis: Raised Ground, Razed Structure: Ceramic Chronology, Occupation and Chiefly Authority on Mound P at Moundville.
J. Andrew Scruggs
Non-thesis (Plan II)
Carolyn Smith
Thesis: Life Goals and Eating Disorders among Adolescent Girls in Birmingham, Alabama.
Anthony Smith
Non-thesis (Plan II)
Kyle Stewart
Non-thesis (Plan II)
2010
Paul Eubanks
Thesis: Interaction, Sedentism, and Aggregation in Woodland-stage Central Alabama.
Dan Mullins
Thesis: Problems and Prospects for a Cognitive Science of Religion: Minimal Counter-intuitiveness, Epistemic Congruency, Sex, and Context in the Epidemiology of Cultural Representations in South India.
Amanda Owens
Thesis: A Reexamination of Cremated Remains from the Archaeological Record: An Evaluation of the Process and Application of Current Methods.
Brian Robbins
Thesis: Osteoarthritis Among the Mississippians: A Comparison of Health and Lifestyle Between the Inhabitants of Moundville and Seven Mile Island.
Merritt Smith
Thesis: Skeletal Evidence of the Treatment of the Elderly between the Archaic and Mississippian Periods in the Southeastern United States.
Martina Thomas
Thesis: Perceptions of Body Image Among Low Socioeconomic Status African American Mothers and their Daughters in Mobile, Alabama.
2009
Andrea Adams
Thesis: Investigation of Late Woodland Social Interactions at the Bridgeport Site (!JA574), Alabama.
Daniel LaDu
Thesis: The Changing Landscape of Mazique (22Ad502), a late prehistoric mound center in Adams County, Mississippi.
Michelle Satcher
Thesis: Mental Health Treatment-Seeking Behaviors of African-American Women in the Southern United States.
Phillip Thompson
Thesis: Soka Gakkai Buddhists in Alabama: Reproduction of SGI’s Cultural Model.
Brandon Thompson
Thesis: A Comparative Health Analysis of the Historic African American Cemetery Population from 1LA151, Foster Cemetery, to Three Contemporaneous Historic Southeastern African American Cemetery Populations.
Sonia Williford
Non-thesis (Plan II)
2007
Casey R. Barrier
Thesis: Surplus Storage at Early Moundville: The Distribution of Oversized Jars at Mound W and Other Off-Mound Locations.
Benjamin Blakely Brooks
Thesis: Using a Social Stress Gauge to Study Chocake and Social Stress Among Participants of the Callejon de Huaylas Valley, Peru: A Case-Control Study.
Jayur Madhusudan Mehta
Thesis: A Study of Sweat Lodges in the Southeastern United States.
Steven M. Meredith
Thesis: An Analysis of Alexander Culture Pottery in the Alabama Valley and Ridge Physiographic Province.
Paul Daniel Noe
Thesis: Indigenous Resistance and Revitalization in Sixteenth-Century Cuba, 1510-550.
2006
Melissa Daniell Chronister
Thesis: Marginalized in Life, Forsaken in Death: Mortuary Practices for the Feeble and Undisireable in the Prehistoric Southeast.
Brian David Padgett
Thesis: Islands in the River of Time: The Bioarcheology of Two Village Sites (1MS32 and 1MS100) in Marshall County, Alabama, with New Interpretations of the Ethnohistoric and Archeological Records (Vols 1 and 2).
Erin Elizabeth Phillips
Thesis: Social Status as Seen Through the Distribution of Paint Palettes, Stone Pendants, and Copper Gorgets in Moundville Burials.
Mary Spanos
Thesis: Mississippian Textiles at Beckum Village (1CK24), Clarke County, Alabama.
2005
Patty Alleman-Velez
Thesis: Cervical Cancer and Family Planning: Culture, Beliefs and Behaviors in Northeastern Jamaica.
Toni J. Copeland
Thesis: HIV-Positive Women in Nairobi, Kenya: Poverty, Urban Migratin and Cultural Models of Social Support.
Matt Grunewald
Thesis: Prehistoric Tallahatta Sandstone, Procurement, Reduction, and Utilization at the Joe Long Site, 1Ck305.
Alice A. Ivas
Thesis: Caught in the Middle: the Apalachees of Colonial Mobile.
Pamela Anne Johnson
Thesis: The Occupational History of Mound ‘W’ at Moundville, Alabama.
Brad R. Lieb
Thesis: The Grand Village is Silent: An Archeological and Ethnohistorical Study of the Natchez Indian Refuge Among the Chickasaws in the Eighteenth Century.
2004
Steven Edward Barry
Thesis: Lithic Raw Materials and Chipped Stone Tools: A Comparison of Two Sites in the Moundville Chiefdom.
Christine Newton Newkirk
Thesis: Social Class and Food Knowledge in Ribeirao, Brazil.
Robert Scott
Thesis: Artifact Distributions, Activities and Material Culture at the Historic Lower Creek Town of Kasita.
Laura Wood
Thesis: The Middle Woodland Hyland Mound Site (22WR679) in Mississippi: The Utility of Systematic Surface Collections.
2003
Ryan Wesley Shaw
Thesis: Preference, Function and the Law: Examining Changes in Tabasco Bottle Design.
Ben Shields
Thesis: Occupational/Welfare-Related Trauma in the Pickwick Basin/Middle Archaic.
Kimberly Walters
Thesis: Predicting the Holy Ghost: LDS Conversion in India
Matthew P. White
Thesis: A Culture History Mystery Along the Banks of the Tennessee: Determining the Cultural Affiliation of the Red Fox Mound Site Through Its Ceramic Assemblage.
2002
Clifford Thomas Lewis
Thesis: Yellowed Pages and Faded Print: Nineteenth-century Indians in Southwest Alabama Newspapers.
Miranda Moore
Thesis: From Plantaino to Industry in the Landscape of Homestead Hill (16Ib130), Avery Island, Louisiana.
Jennifer L. Myer
Thesis: Among the Fields: Mississippian Settlement Patterns in the Black Warrior Valley, Alabama.
Honors: University of Alabama and College of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Research by a Masters Student
2001
Ashley A. Dumas
Thesis: Archaeology at the Original Tabasco Factory, Avery Island, Louisiana.
Honors: University of Alabama and the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Research by a Masters Student
Christina Ann Hendrickson
Thesis: The Use of Cranial and Postcranial Nonmetric Skeletal Traits to Determine Genetic Relationships at site 1Ja574, Bridgeport, AL.
Kimberly Sue Neutziling
Thesis: Trauma: Changes from the Middle to Late Archaic in the Pickwick Basin.
Amanda Leigh Regnier
Thesis: Stylistic Analysis of Burial Urns from the Protohistoric Period in Central Alabama.
Tara Christine Robertson
Thesis: Patterns of Help-Seeking Behavior of Residents in a Battered Women’s Shelter: The Role of Social Support.
2000
Jessica Malini Edwards
Thesis: Reproductive Perceptions and Family Planning Among the Iban.
Matthew David Gage
Thesis: Ground-Penetrating Radar and Core Sampling at the Moundville Site.
Honors: University of Alabama and the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Research by a Masters Student Award
Scott Hammerstedt
Thesis: Characteristics of Mississippian Settlement in the Black Warrior Valley, Alabama.
Keith J. Little
Thesis: Late Holocene Climate Fluctuations and Culture Change in the Southeastern United States: Evidence from the Tennessee Valley.
Jon Bernard Marcoux
Thesis: Display Goods Production and Circulation in the Moundville Chiefdom: A Mississippian Dilemma.
Stacy McGrath
Thesis: An Ethnohistorical, Archaeological, Osteological, and Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of a 19th Century African American Cemetery: A Methodological Case Study.
Honors: College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Thesis Award
1999
Mikael Haller
Thesis: Was Napoleon the Result of a Great Event of Being a Big Man or Was He Just a Pig? In Search of the Origin of Hereditary Inequality at Paso de la Amada, Chiapas, Mexico.
Clete Rooney
Thesis: Institutional Expression in Nineteenth Century Cemeteries: The Alabama Insane Hospital Cemetery.
Karen Yvonne Smith
Thesis: From Pots to Potters: Ceramic Manufacture at Fairchild’s Landing, Seminole County, Georgia.
1998
Judith Gillies
Thesis: A Preliminary Study of Moundville Hemphill Representational Engraved Ceramic Art Style.
Kenton Paul Johnson
Thesis: Middle Bronze II Age Fortified Sites in Cisjordan: Functional or Symbolic?
Meghan LaGraff
Thesis: Change in Material culture of the Huron Indians as a Result of Contact.
Michael Lucas Loughlin
Thesis: Debating the Olmec: Cultura Madre vs. Cultura Hermana.
Scott C. Meeks
Thesis: The Use and Function of Late Middle Archaic Projectile Points in the Midsouth.
Janelle Marie Meyer
Thesis: Medical Treatment Choice in Martinique.
Godfrey Fuji Noe
Thesis: Love and Happiness: An Ethnographic Study of Young Black Men at a Black Baptist Church.
Mary Shannon Weiss
Thesis: Alabama Mound Exploration by the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of Ethnology, 1882-1886.
Karla Wesley
Thesis: Ecotourism in the Peruvian Amazon: A Case Study from the Bora Village of San Andres.
Kristen M. Zschomler
Thesis: Impact of European Materials on the Traditional Tool Culture of the Copper Inuit.
1997
Virgil Beasley
Thesis: Excavations at the Mound 4, Block 1 Locale of the Anna Site (22Ad1), Adams County, Mississippi.
Robin A. Beck
Thesis: Burke Phase Settlements in the Upper Catawba Valley.
Honors: College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Thesis Award
Edmond A Boudreaux III
Thesis: Chronology at the Cotton Mounds, Warren County, Mississippi.
Ryan A. Crutchfield
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Ceramic Manufacturing Techniques Between the Guana Caste-Nicoya, Central Highlands-Atlantic Watershed and Diquis Archaeological Zones, Costa Rica.
Vanessa Louise Fuller
Thesis: Physician Characteristics and Patient Patterns in Prenatal Care.
Hunter B. Johnson
Thesis: An Archaeological Survey of Lower Big Black River, Mississippi.
Charlan D. Kroelinger
Thesis: An Analysis of Unwanted Pregnancy in Lower Income Women.
Jill Hancock Miller
Thesis: The NLU-UAB Research Project at Poverty Point Excavation Ridge 2 N.W. Sector.
Elizabeth Anne Ryba
Thesis: Summit Architecture on Mound E at Moundville.
Kevin E. Schatte
Thesis: Stylistic Analysis of the Winged Serpent Theme at Moundville.
1996
Robyn L. Astin
Thesis: Mound M: Chronology and Function at Moundville.
Greg Hendryx
Thesis: Settlement Preferences Among Prehistoric Peoples of Alabama.
Paul D. Jackson
Thesis: An Examination of Late Woodland Features in the Tombigbee Black Warrior, and Tennessee River Valleys.
Lynette M. Nyman
Thesis: Purity, Pollution, and Power Among Rom Women in a Southern Polish Town.
Honors: College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Thesis Award
Aleta B. Robertson
Thesis: Cranial Discrete Trait Analysis of Four Mississippian Sites: An Investigation of Genetic Relationships Between Prehistoric Populations in Alabama.
Kristi E. Taft
Thesis: Functionally Relevant Classes of Pottery at Moundville.
1995
R. Colby Allsbrook
Thesis: Limestone, Grog and Shell: An Intemperate View of Pottery Temper in the Tennessee Valley.
Jennifer Y. Fillion
Thesis: Diaphyseal Remodeling in the Femur and the Prediction of Body Weight in Adult Humans.
Hyla L. Lacefield
Thesis: A Preliminary Study of Moundville Engraved Pottery.
Patrick M. McElroy
Thesis: The Confederate Battle Flag: Social History and Cultural Contestation.
Allan D. Meyers
Thesis: Characteristics of Historic Creek Household Organization: Evidence from Plow-Disturbed Contexts.
1994
Terry L. Lolley
Thesis: Ethnohistory and Archaeology: A Map Method for Locating Historic Upper Creek Indian Towns and Villages.
David W. Morgan
Thesis: An Analysis of Historic Period Chickasaw Settlement Patterns.
Honors: University of Alabama Outstanding Thesis Award
Shannon Rogers
Thesis: A Brief History of the Problem of Etruscan Origins and Language.
Orval E. Shinn
Thesis: Red Fox Mound: An Analysis of the Pottery and Stone.
1993
Amy L. Knight
Thesis: The Effects of Modernization on Blood Pressure in Samoan Men and Women.
Honors: College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Thesis Award
1992
Billy J. Grantham
Thesis: Modern Bugata and Ancient Gasrin: The Ethnoarchaeology of Cuisine in the Golan Heights.
Honors: College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Thesis Award
1991
Chris S. McLaughlin
Thesis: Early Historic Exploitation of the Lower Mississippi Valley: Exploring the Non Caloric Values of Hard Tissue.
1990
Caryn R. Hollingsworth
Thesis: The Archaeology of Sheeps Bluff Shelter (1Fr324), Franklin County, AL.
Agneta Johannsen
Thesis: Applied Anthropology and Post-Modernist Ethnography.
Honors: University of Alabama Outstanding Thesis Award
1989
Paula D. Gwin
Thesis: Attitudes and Knowledge About Breast-Feeding Among Medical Residents in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
William S. McGraw
Thesis: An Analysis of Various Demographic Parameters for Eighteen Primate Species at the Birmingham Zoo.
1988
Abebe Kifleyesus
Thesis: Strategies in a Native North American Primary: The Politics of Tribal Election Among the Dine.
Chen-Hsin Lo
Thesis: Ritual and Community in a Southern Town.
Honors: University of Alabama Outstanding Thesis Award
Judy A. Sproles
Thesis: Ritual and Consciousness: An Evaluation of Approaches.
1987
James M. Callaghan
Thesis: The Morphology of the Snodgrass Small Mound (1JA99), Jackson County, Alabama.
Beverly S. Curry
Thesis: Bahamian FoodWays: A Study of Two Islands in the Bahamas.
1985
Wonhee Lee
Thesis: An Ethnographic Study of a Methodist Church in West Alabama.
1984
Mary C. Argo
Thesis: Patterns of Childhood Illness and Malnutrition in Komchen, Yucatan.
Claudina E. Cabrera
Thesis: Variation in Samoan Blood Pressure.
1983
Lawrence S. Alexander
Thesis: A Tradition of White Oak Basketry in Tennessee.
1982
Sadakah A. Barashi
Thesis: Transformation in Islamic Religious Architecture: An Anthropological Perspective.
Michael P. Donisi
Thesis: The Incidences and Patterns of Long Bone Fractures in Selected Prehistoric Human Skeletal Series from the Central Tennessee River Valley of Alabama.
Ibrahim M. Reseeni
Thesis: The Traditional and the Modern in Domestic Architecture: A Saudi Arabian Example.
1981
Glenda J. Driskell
Thesis: An Ethnomusicological Account of the Yucatan Fiesta.
Hal B. Ensor
Thesis: Lithic Morphology, Technology, and Use in the Central Tombigbee Drainage: The Miller II and Miller III Phases.
Faiz Ali Hussein Saleem
Thesis: An Anthropological Survey of the Al-Jharadiyah Tribes.
1979
Gloria M. Caddell
Thesis: Plant Resources, Archaeological Plant Remains, and Prehistoric Plant Tombigbee River Use Patterns in the Central Valley.
1977
Bruce D. Bizzoco
Thesis: Archaeological Salvage Investigations at 1Ba196: Baldwin County, Alabama.
Susan D. Gillespie
Thesis: The Use of Procedural Modes to Classify Chipped Stone Tools.
William H. Pelham
Thesis: Polyandry: A Cross-Cultural Study.
Shelby K. Zeanah
Thesis: Ideal Patterns, Approved Variations, Patterned Scandals and Beyond in a Small Southern Community.
1976
Victor K. Fleming
Thesis: Historic Aboriginal Occupation of the Guntersville Basin, Alabama.
1975
Bascom M. Brooms
Thesis: The Collier-Boone House: A Study in Historical Archaeology.
John W. O’Hear
Thesis: Site 1Je32: Community Organization in the West Jefferson Phase.
1974
Julia R. Hixon
Thesis: Adaptability of the Indian Caste System.
1973
Nancy J. Brock
Thesis: Egyptian Copts in National and World Context: A Coptic View.
Cailup B. Curren
Thesis: An Ethnozoological Analysis of the Vertebrate Remains, Little Bear Creek Site (Ct8).
Eugene M. Futato
Thesis: I-65 Highway Salvage: The Position of Twelve Archaeological Sites in Central Alabama Prehistory.
1972
Ralph H. Bunn
Thesis: An Analysis of the Dental Material from Pinson Cave.
Regina J. Kinsaul
Thesis: Microscopic Analysis of Certain Stone Tools from 1Mg74.
Richard T. Roberts
Thesis: Tahiti: Focal Point of Diffusion in Polynesia.
1971
Lois A. Bartelme
Thesis: A Comparative Study of Two Rural Markets: Ticul, Yucatan and Northport, Alabama.
Carey B. Oakley
Thesis: An Archaeological Investigation of Pinson Cave (1Je20).
George H. Stopp
Thesis: The Impact of the 1964 Civil Rights Act on an Isolated Tri-Racial Group.
1970
John W. Cottier
Thesis: Preliminary Archaeological Investigations at X-Kukican, Yucatan, Mexico.
Jerry J. Nielsen
Thesis: Archaeological Investigations at Site 1Au28 in the Jones Bluff Reservoir on the Alabama River.
Noel R. Stowe
Thesis: Prehistoric Cultural Ecology in Northwest Alabama.
1969
Charles H. Ainsworth
Thesis: A Study of Cultural Change Among the Ute Indians.
Oscar W. Brock
Thesis: The Transition from the Paleo-Indian to the Archaic in the Tennessee Valley.
Robert I. Gilbert
Thesis: Papua: Its Transformation by Culture Contact.
Jane Inez Lumpkin
Thesis: The Archaeology of Tell es-Sultan (Palestine) and Windmill Hill (England) and Their Chronological Positions in the Old Word Neolithic.
1968
Leon Gillaspie
Thesis: Applied Anthropology in Christian Missions: Problems, Practices, and Potentialities.
1967
Vincent J. Fasano
Thesis: The Australian Aborigines, 1788-1967: Socio-Cultural Transformations and Present Conditions.
Guy H. Wolf
Thesis: Shilluk Social Structure, Political Process, and Divine Kingship.
1966
Joseph Langford Benthall
Thesis: A Study of Flint and Ceramic Relationships at Four Selected Alabama Aboriginal Sites.
J. Bennett Graham
Thesis: An Archaeological Local Sequence Chronology in the Lock 3 Reservoir.
Carole E. Hill
Thesis: Acculturation in the Sahara: Its Impact on Nomadism.
1964
Edward Barna Kurjack
Thesis: Domestic Architecture and Social Stratification at Dzibilchaltum, Yucatan.
1963
Lynn Ross Morrell
Thesis: The Woods Island Site in Southeastern Acculturation 1625-1800.
1958
David L. DeJarnette
Thesis: An Archeological Study of a Site Suggested as the Location of the Upper Creek Indian Community of Coosa Visited by Hernando de Soto in 1540.
1954
Margaret Z. Searcy
Thesis: Tuscaloosa County Hunting.