2022
Lynn Funkhouser
Title: Medicines at Moundville: An Intrasite Analysis of the Moundville Cemeteries
Current Position: Instructor of Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Nicole Henderson
Title: Cultural Models of Substance Misuse and Stigma in Urban Brazil
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Lawrence Monocello
Title: Cultural Consonance, Body Ideals, and Disordered Eating Among Young South Korean Men
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, St. Louis
2020
Clay Nelson
Title: Material Evidence for Early Coalescence: The Hightower Village Site (1Ta150) in the Coosa River Valley
Current Position: Director, Moundville Archaeological Park, University of Alabama Museums
Ashley Stewart
Title: Reflections of Life in Death: An Investigation of Archaeo-Biographies at the Perry Site (1Lu25)
Current Position: Senior Bioarchaeologist, Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research
2019
Mirjam Holleman
Title: Stigma Toward People with Physical Disabilities in Poland and Its Effects on Social Integration and Lived Experiences
Jessica Kowalski
Title: Hierarchy, Scale, and Complexity: Arcola Mounds (22WS516) and Mississippian Ceremonialism in the Southern Yazoo Basin
Current Position: Research Station Archaeologist, Arkansas Archaeological Survey
2018
Courtney Andrews
Title: Culture’s Role in Immigrant Health: How Cultural Consonance Shapes Diabetes and Depression Among Mexican Women in Alabama
Current Position: Program Manager, Institute for Human Rights, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Max Stein
Title: Embeddedness, Cultural Consonance, and Health in a Dynamic Migration Network in Northern Peru
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Anthropology Program, Florida Gulf Coast University
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: Associate 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: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, School of Social Science and Global Studies, University of Southern Mississippi
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: Senior Project Lead for Alabama, Partners in Health United States
2015
Jenna James
Title: Social Houses at Carson Mounds, 22-CO-518 as Evidenced by Dental Morphological Analysis
Current Position: Psychiatric Nurse, Panola Medical Behavioral Health
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 Louisiana
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Auburn University of Montgomery
2014
Jera Davis
Title: On Common Ground: Memory, Identity, and the Plaza at Early Moundville
Current Position: Archaeologist, New South Associates
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: Associate 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: Director of the Jeffrey L. Brown Institute of Archaeology and Assistant Professor in Social, Cultural, and Justice Studies at University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
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: Assistant Professor, 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
2011
B. Blakely Brooks
Title: The Andean Cultural Model of Susto: Cultural Consonance and Historical Trauma in the Andes
Current Position: Associate 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 memoriam (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
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: National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities
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: Global Technical Advisor at Helen Keller International
Cameron Lacquement
Title: Landscape Modification at Moundville: An Energetics Assessment of a Mississippian Polity
Current Position: Associate 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: Associate Professor and Chair, 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 Award
Current Position: Senior Fellow, Blount Scholars Program, and Instructor, Blount and Anthropology
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
Current Position: Head of User Experience (UX) Design, Deepinsight, Math for Good
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