Recent MA and PhD graduates
Master’s and doctoral degree recipients, committee chairs, and thesis or dissertation titles
Spring 2019
Casillas, Emily; 2019, PhD, Chair: Jeannette Mageo
La Manta and La Clinica: Raising Children in a Limeno Migrant Community
Fulgham, Samantha; 2019, MA, Chair: Colin Grier
Hearth and Home: Paleobotanical and Zooarchaeological Analysis of Thirteen Bulk Soil Samples from DGRV-006 Galiano Island, British Columbia
Gaffney, Michael; 2019, MA, Chair: Ed Hagen
The Impact of Emotional Signals on Perceived Need and Propensity to Help
Helmer, Elliot; 2019, MA, Chair: Shannon Tushingham
Places of Practice: Interpreting Settlement Patterns and Persistent Places in Southern Oregon
Karimitar, Arian; 2019, MA, Chair: Jeannette Mageo
Mourning Rituals and Their Psychological Meanings in Iranian Culture
Roulette, Jennifer; 2019, PhD, Chair: Marsha Quinlan
Ethnobiology, Illness Perceptions, and Health Education Among Maasai Children in Northern Tanzania
Sheets, Kimberly: 2019, MA, Chair: Andrew Duff
Sourcing Nonlocal Bighorn Sheep Using Strontium Isotope Analysis, Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster, Northeast Arizona
Smith, Caroline; 2019, MA, Chair: Ed Hagen
Psychological Pain and Life History: Examining Predictors of Postpartum Depression in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
Weber, Daphne; 2019, MA, Chair: Julia Cassaniti
Good Feelings and the Buddha: Healing in a Thai Bhikkhuni Monastery
Zena, Ashenafi; 2019, PhD, Chair: Andrew Duff
Megalithic Stele Monuments of Gedeo, South Ethiopia
Zhao, Xinyi; 2019, MA, Chair: Julia Cassaniti
Interpreting Madness in Northern Thailand: Conceptualization of Health and Illness for an Interdependently Oriented Porosity of Mind
Summer 2019
Garfield, Zachary; 2019, PhD, Chair: Ed Hagen
Leadership, Prestige, and Social Learning Across Traditional Societies
Fall 2019
Anady, Rachel; 2019, MA, Chair: Marsha Quinlan
Social Transformation and Its Effect on Teenage Pregnancy in Mpumalanga, South Africa
King, Roxanna; 2019, PhD, Chair: Nancy McKee
Diet and Nutrition Among the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation
Zimmermann, Mario; 2019, PhD, Chair: Steve Weber
Subsistence of Pre-Columbian Maya Urban Communities: A Microscopic View on Alternative Staples
Spring 2020
Chambers, Jaime N.; 2020, MA, Chair: Rob Quinlan
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Canine Personhood: A Qualitative-Quantitative Analysis
Fulkerson, Tiffany J.; 2020, PhD, Chair: Shannon Tushingham
Feminist Approaches to Archaeological Practice and the Archaeological Past: Case Studies from Western North America and Beyond
Scanlan, Kathleen K.; 2020, MA, Chair: Colin Grier
Engendering the House: A 1500-Year-Old Southwest Alaska Ena at Dil-088
Syme, Kristen L.; 2020, PhD, Chair: Ed Hagen
Mental Health and Social Conflict: An Evolutionary Approach
Tadesse, Mulye G.; 2020, PhD, Chair: Barry Hewlett
The Lived Experiences of Hadiya Emigrants to South Africa and the Gulf States: Cultural Models, Social Learning, and Transnationalism
Summer 2020
Fournier, Nichole A.; 2020, PhD, Chair: Shannon Tushingham
Childhood in Times of Change: A Diet and Life History Study of San Francisco Bay Area Ohlone Juveniles