Recent MA and PhD graduates
Master’s and doctoral degree recipients, committee chairs and thesis or dissertation titles
Fall 2018
Adams, Jacob; PhD, Chair: William Andrefsky
’Tis the Season: An Experimental Examination of Toolkit Variability, Late Pleistocene – Early Holocene Interior Alaska
Jung, Chaise; MA, Chair: Jeannette Mageo
Considering Cultural Contact: Psychosocial Identity in the Kingdom of Tonga
You, Yawei; MA, Chair: Steve Weber
Climate Change, Agriculture and Human Adaption at the Indus Site of Harappa
Spring 2019
Casillas, Emily; PhD, Chair: Jeannette Mageo
La Manta and La Clinica: Raising Children in a Limeno Migrant Community
Fulgham, Samantha; 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; MA, Chair: Ed Hagen
The Impact of Emotional Signals on Perceived Need and Propensity to Help
Helmer, Emily; MA, Chair: Shannon Tushingham
Places of Practice: Interpreting Settlement Patterns and Persistent Places in Southern Oregon
Karimitar, Arian; MA, Chair: Jeannette Mageo
Mourning Rituals and Their Psychological Meanings in Iranian Culture
Roulette, Jennifer; PhD, Chair: Marsha Quinlan
Ethnobiology, Illness Perceptions, and Health Education Among Maasai Children in Northern Tanzania
Sheets, Kimberly: MA, Chair: Andrew Duff
Sourcing Nonlocal Bighorn Sheep Using Strontium Isotope Analysis, Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster, Northeast Arizona
Smith, Caroline; 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; MA, Chair: Julia Cassaniti
Good Feelings and the Buddha: Healing in a Thai Bhikkhuni Monastery
Zena, Ashenafi; PhD, Chair: Andrew Duff
Megalithic Stele Monuments of Gedeo, South Ethiopia
Zhao, Xinyi; 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; PhD, Chair: Ed Hagen
Leadership, Prestige, and Social Learning Across Traditional Societies