M.A. Theses 1984-2012


2012	Blankenship, Kate	A Pyramid Out of Place?: An Analysis of Structure L7-11 at the Classic Maya Site of El Zotz.
2012	Hansen, Magnus	"He used to be my grandchild": The Semiotic Construction of Kinship Relations in Acuzulco Otomi Discourse.
2012	Rafiq, Mohamed	De-territorialized Shaykhs: How Tanzanian Muslim Actors Are Addressing Their Socio-Economic Marginalization by Emulating Christian Institutional and Media Practices.
2012	Siravo, Bianca	"I felt like a real person": Pushing the Bounds of Prenatal Patienthood in the United States.
2012	Stainova, Yana	The Music of Becoming: The Social Resonance of Classic Music in the Youth Orchestras of Venezuela's "El Sistema".
2011	Button, Emily	Cutting Edge Technology: Ulus in Museums as Vehicles of Cultural Exchange.
2011	Dias, Paula	Negotiating Identities: Shell's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Quilombola Communities in Brazil.
2011	Flores, Andrea	It's Called Social (or Cultural) Capital Y' All: Migrants in Middle Tennessee and 'Empowerment Education'.
2011	Newman, Sarah	The Last Supper: The Role of Ceramic Serving Vessels in Ancient Maya Mortuary Practice.
2011	Savell, Stephanie	I'm not a Leader: Grassroots Civil Society in a Rio de Janeiro Favela.
2010	Buswala, Bhawani	Man the Producer, Man the Protector: The Gendered Life of Meat Among the Khatiks in Rajasthan.
2010	Carter, Nicholas	Paleographic trends and linguistic processes in Classic Ch'olti'an: a spatiotemporal distributional analysis.
2010	Macleod, Josh	¡No a la Mineria! Gold Mining and Indigenous Citizenship in Post-Conflict Guatemala.
2010	Nye, Alice Coleman	Assembling Previvors: Bodies of Relation and Configurations of Care in the Lifeworlds of Hereditary Cancer Risk.
2010	Vares, Láura	Keeping up Appearances: The Outsourcing of Eldercare, and Its Implications for the Status of Italian Women.
2010	Vaughan-Smith, Maya N.	An Accumulation of Self: Social standing, gender, and shifting demographic landscapes of Nakani Women in the Upper East Region of Ghana.
2010	Walker, Caitlin	A Ceramic Chronology of the El Zotz Region, Petén, Guatemala.
2009	Doyle James A.	A Paleographic Approach to Political Change Using Classic Maya Day Sign Variants.
2009	Ellison, Susan H.	“Replicating” Democracy in El Alto?: Political Subjectivity and American Democracy Promotion in Bolivia.
2009	Kar, Sohini	From Burra Bazar to Big Basaar: Selling the New World Order in the Marketplaces of Kolka.
2009	Porter, Colin A.	Gravestones and King Philip’s War: Commemoration in Seventeenth-Century New England.
2009	Stacey L. Vanderhurst	“Image is Everything”: Transnational Governance and the Management of the Reputation of Nigeria.
2008	Fehrer, Kendra	Seeing the Venezuelan State: Participatory Politics in the Chavez Era.
2008	Leykin, Inna	Where is the Real Russia to be Found?: The Center-Periphery Relationship in Putin’s Russia.
2008	Nuhrat, Yagmur	Unsettling Claims of Migrant Visibilities: Receiving Migration in Istanbul.
2008	Skrabut, Kristin	Legibility and Land Trafficking: Doing Living in Lima’s Central Margins.
2007	Ashley, Jennifer	Mediating Fear: Discourses on Crime in Santiago, Chile.
2007	Barry, Rebekah Callard	The Appropriation of Culture in a U.S. Military Context: An Ethnographic Case Study.
2007	Bethea, Indigo	Journey to Motherhood.
2007	DeLair, Christy	Performing Tradition: The Negotiation of a Pan-ethnic Community in Miss Indian World.
2007	Maldonado, Andrea	A Members' Only Community: Distinction and Performance of Self and Other within Social Clubs in Mexico City.
2007	Peters, Rebecca Amanda Warner	A Life's Work: The Production of International Development through the Professional Career.
2007	Solomon, Harris	Brand Icon: Medical Tourism in India.
2006	Judd, Maya	A Woman Without a Child Is No Woman At All Coping with Infertility in Southern Nigeria.
2006	Mazzarino, Andrea	Landscapes for Sexuality for Urban Russian Women.
2006	Mesick, Cassandra	The Modification of Maya Monuments: Towards a Local Theory of Sculpural Ontology.
2006	Millar, Kathleen	Recycling Class: Politics of the Informal Economy at a Brazilian Garbage Dump.
2006	Soroko, Jennifer	Water at The Intersection of Militarization, Development, and Democracy on Kwajalein Atoll, In the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
2006	Werner, Allison	A Category Apart: Race, Identity and Assimilation Among Dominican Migrants in Washington, DC.
2005	Bocast, Brooke	Debating the Educated Body: Gender, Discourse and Pedagogy in an Abayudayan Village.
2005	Dion, Sarah	Consumer Choice: Findings from the W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite.
2005	Flores, Gabriel	Medical Pluralism and Identity Among the Napo Runa of Ecuador.
2005	Meyers, Rebecca	The Gendered and Ethnic Politics of Security in Tijuana, Mexico.
2005	Rhine, Kathryn	Marriage and Reproduction Following HIV-positive Diagnoses Among Hausa Women.
2004	Prahl, Rebecca	Unconventionalists: "Dreaming It" at the Rocky Horror Picture Show
2004	Reiser, Christine	Safeguarding the 'Mint": Analysis of the Fort Island Collection in Comparative Perspective.
2003	Chattopadhyay, Sreeparna	Rakta Ebong Biye: Blood and Marriage-Examing the relationship between arranged marriages and a Thalassemia Prevention program in West Bengal, India
2003	Hoover, Elizabeth	Arbiters of Authenticity: Living History in Native American Museums.
2003	Whitehouse, Bruce	Staying Soninke: Migration, Multilocality and Identity in a Community of the West African Sahel.
2002	Archambault, Caroline	"A World of Women" Constraints and Opportunities of Rural "Stayers" in Ugweno, Tanzania.
2002	Koriouchkina, Elisaveta	The Russians Are Leaving? Notions of Identity in the Context of Out-Migration of Russians from Kazakhstan.
2002	McMillan, Angela	African American Heritage Tours in Dakar, Senegal: Authenticity, Contradictions, and Diasporic Connections.
2001	Andrews, Barbara	Migration Over the Life Course: Gender, Generation and Status Change in Afia, Senegal.
2001	Brunson, Jan	Women's use of contraceptives in the Kathmandu Valley: Enduring side effects and strategizing fertility
2001	Esara, Pilapa	"By and By" - Enacting Mobility, Experiencing Change
2001	Krehbiel, Susi	Funga Kabisa and Hamna Athari: Permanency and Side-Effects Considering Female Sterilization and Contraceptive Choice Among the Pare in Ugweno, Tanzania.
2001	Leichtman, Mara	From the Cross and Crescent to the Cedar: The Transformation of Religious Identities Among the Lebanese of Senegal
2001	Poliandri, Simone	Mi'Kmaw Lobster Fishing in St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia: A Traditional Activity?
2001	Rosenmeier, Leah	Economics of Subsistence or Exchange? Examining Production Among 18th Century Labrador Inuit.
2000	Roberston, Molly	Migration and Marginalization: Health Knowledge and Practice in Garca Torta, Brazil
2000	Thompson, Dondrea	The Politics of Display or the Display of Politics? Cultural Policy and the Museum of Dominican Man
1999	Bergstresser, Sara	Young Adulthood and Life Choices for Women in South Korea
1999	Giaquinto, Elisa	"Com 'Un Abbracio' Like an Embrace: The Walls of Buonconvento."
1999	Moyer, Natalie	Kilmainham Gaol and Museum: A Monument to Irish Nationalism
1999	Rogers, Juliette	The Current Middle Ages: The Selective World of Authenticity in the Society for Creative Anchronism
1998	Castellanos, Erick	Il Campanile, la Nutella e l'Europa: Bolognese Identity in the Face of Immigration
1998	Karz, Sara	The Change in Color of "Colorless" Glass at the Great Temple, Petra, Jordan
1998	Lang, Franklin Delano	Witchcraft Beliefs Among the Ashanti: A Dynamic Form of Social Control
1997	DiCarlo, Lisa	Honor and the Asymmetrical Efficiency of the Turkish Migration Network.
1997	Holly, Donald H. Jr.	Revisiting Marginality: Settlement Patterns on the Island of Newfoundland
1997	Moniz, Miguel	"Todos os Americanos sao Malucos" and "we are all Portuguese" Touradas, Forcados and festas - The creation of inferential intimacy through conceptions of ethnicity within the context of the Azorean Diaspora.
1996	Barrett, Deirdre G.	How can the ceramic analysis of lamps reveal the fingerprint of Empire on the material culture of the Southern Temple, Petra, Jordan?
1996	Bonander, Jason	Being a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner: Notes on the Constructing of Professional Identity and Practice in Belize
1996	Feldman, Aimee	Social Nudism: Refashioning Naked Bodies
1996	Garcia, Maria E	Cebiche, Penas and Chicha Morada: Food, Music and the Creation and Negotiation of Identity in a Peruvian Immigrant Community
1996	Harper, Walter	An Anthropological Investigation of African-American Adolescent Male Parents in the South Providence Community of Providence, RI
1996	Hartley, Jennifer A.	You Are What You Eat: The Food-Health Connection Model in a Maine Community
1996	Hrychuck, Beth	The Archaeology of the Baptiste Settlement Site: Reconstructing Twentieth Century Metis Lifeways in Alberta
1996	Lanzendorf, Brenda	The Grounding and Abandonment of the Maria Louisa: A Behaviorist Approach
1996	Rodrigues, Isabel Feo	Homes for the Road: Resettlement of a Shantytown in Portugal
1996	Roy, Andrew Ivan	Tattooing Against the Norm: Stereotype, Solidarity, and Choice in American Tattooed Identity
1996	Sullivan, Celeste	Implications of Two Dialects of Old Egyptian in the Pyramid Texts
1996	Zafiroglu, Alexandra	Remodeling the MainstreamÍs Adolescent: Straight Edge Attitudes, Practices and Identity
1995	Allen, Scott	Africanisms, Mosaics, and Creativity: The Historical Archaeology of Palmares
1995	Fernando, Rolando	Industrialization, Food Systems, and the Transformation of the Filipino Family
1995	Moser, Brigitte	The Survival of the Fittest? An Ethnohistorical Study of the Last Commercial Fishing Fleet in the State of Connecticut
1995	Wang, Danyu	Family, Kinship and Networks of Migration: A Study of a Migrant Community in Beijing
1994	Barnard, Suzanne N.	Imagined Communities in Puerto Rico: The Strategy of Covert Nationalism
1994	Conlin, David L.	The Loggerhead Reef Ship Trap: Maritime Site Formation Processes on DRTO-036 and Beyond
1994	Crane, Hillary, K.	Spiritualizing Marianismo: The Virgin Mary as a Symbol of Religious Inversion for Filipinas in the United States
1994	Lubkemann, Stephen C.	Contested Identities: The Narrative Construction of Refugee Identity in Portugal in the Wake of Decolonization
1994	Ramirez, Josue	The Artist and the City: Gentrification and Multiculturalism in the East Village.
1994	Upton, Rebecca	Making Ends Meet: Networks and Family Among Women of Color in New Orleans
1993	Hill, Nancy	Discourse Strategies of the Egyptian Women's Health Collective in Hayat al mar'a wa-shihatuha
1993	Odess, Daniel	Lithic Raw Material Exchange Among Frobisher Bay Paleoeskimos: Building a Model of Regional Contact and Interaction
1993	Touval, Amitai	A Question of Character: Israeli Residents of Boston
1993	Veech, Andrew	Material Expressions of Chieftainship During LaFlorida's Mission Period: An Analysis of Franciscan Mission Sites
1993	Velovski, Tony	Living Together with AIDS: Identity Work in Social Context
1992	Busby, Virginia	An Archaeological Examination of Occupational Phases in 17th Century Chapel Field St. Mary's City, Maryland
1992	Chase-Alexander, Sarah	"BAD" is Better: An Analysis of the Learning & Conception of Self
1992	Esons, Susan	Narrating Identity: Indians, Children and Anthropology
1992	Foster, Joyce	The Blending of Black: Different Ethnicities Selecting a Shared and/or Distinctive Identity in the United States
1992	Hall, Catharine K.	Hunters & Harvesters: Adaptive Strategies Among the Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay
1992	Kingsbury, Mary Beth	Hospice Care: Negotiation for a Domain of Care Within a Discourse of Hope
1992	Soman, Kanchan L.	"Traditional Fabric, Modern Times": A Study of the Values of Handloom Cloth in India With Special Reference to Ikat Production at Koyalaguddam in the Post-colonial Context
1991	Bouknight, Gail A.	A Study in the Chinese Retail Grocery Trade and Its Impact Upon Chinese Ethnicity and Sino-Jamaican Relations
1991	Cheung, Donna Y.	Invisible Autonomy: Women, Aids Prevention, and the Struggle of Meanings
1991	Choi, Kildo	Experimental Analysis of the Backel Blades From Star Carr Site
1991	Fish, Steven T.	Development, Power and the Peace Corps
1991	Malefyt, Timothy D.	The Social Construction of Self in Dance: An Ethnography of the Dancers of Ballet Hispanico
1991	Rosen, Rochelle K.	"Is it Real?" The Representation of the Other in an Anthropology Museum Education Program
1991	Souza, Donna J.	An Archaeological Survey of a 19th Century Shipwreck
1990	Khatib, Maha K.	The Role Played by Honour in Shaping the Conduct of Palestinian Women in the United States
1990	McMullen, Ann	Rereading and Rewriting the Past: Toward an Historic Ethnography of the Etchemin
1990	Stevens, Alta Mae	Hallelujah and Amen!
1990	Tieng-Trakul, Chanasai	Equality Under the Eyes of God
1989	Fitts, Robert K.	Puritans, Yankees, and Gravestones A Linguistic Analysis of New England Gravestone Inscriptions
1989	Kim, Hyunchul	The Controlling Hands in Corporation: The Van Scoy Case
1989	Kim, Tongwey	I am the Other?
1989	Larson, Mary Ann	An Interpretation of the Band 3, Level 2 Choris House at the Site of Onion Portage, Alaska
1989	Murphy, Larry E.	SSL17: Natural Site Formation processes of a Multiple-Component Underwater Site in Florida
1989	Niver, William Michael	Grist Mills and the Theory of Agglomeration
1988	Anderson, Kenneth Thomas	An Ethnography of Communication Approach to Electronic Mail in a Computer Science Department
1988	Chami, Felix A.	The Coastal Iron Age Site in Kirsarawe Tanzania
1988	Goodby, Robert G.	The Seabrook Phase and Post-Hopewillian Interaction in the Northeast
1988	Kusel, Lisa G.	B-Flat on the Mall: Street Musicians as a Reference Group
1988	Kyara, Onesphor A.	Raw Material Considerations as Deteminants of Pleistocene Stone Tool Variation in Africa
1988	Matteru, Elikunda	Pre-Portuguese Contact along the coast of Tanzania: A Discourse
1988	McClard, Anne Page	Becoming Butterflies: The Mediation of Paradox at Paradise Street Theater
1988	Titterington, Patrice	An Historical and Archaeological Perspective on Community Decline and Abandonment: Dogtown, MA.
1987	Alaug, Abdul Karim S.	Motives for Migration and Structural-cultural Assimilation: The Yemeni Immigrant Community in Detroit, Michigan
1987	Chatterjee, Nilanjana	Defining the Self: Bihari Doms in Calcutta
1987	Finn, Leila P.	Change in an American order of Catholic Nuns: The Sisters of Mercy of the Union
1987	Hodge, Laura Q.	Womens' Roles and Migration Strategies
1987	Hsieh, Camilla	Staying Buddhist Or Turning Christian
1987	Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth	The Jireh Bull Site Reanalyzed. The Formation of a Seventeenth Century Frontier
1987	Newman, David D.	Culture Contact in 17th Century Souteastern New England: An Ethnohistorical and Material Culture Analysis
1987	Ragone, Helena	The Differential Impact of AIDS on Gay Male Lifestyle
1987	Robinson, Brian S.	Middle Archaic Mortuary Evidence and a Proposed Chronological Sequence for the Northeast Coastal Archaic Tradition
1987	Ybarrola, Steven	Intermarriage Assimilation, and Ethnicity Maintenance: A Basque American Case Study
1986	Hoffmann, Mary Ann	Mugangala: The Structure of an Enanga Epic
1986	Lourie, Kevin J.	On the Contradictions of Working Class Drug Subscultures: A Comparative Ethnography
1986	Msemwa, Paul J.	Pattern Recognition: Some Reflections on Lithic Use From Paleo-Indian Sites of New England
1986	Parker, Linda Ann	The Providence Black Community in Early 19th Century: A Problem in Archaeological Visibility
1986	Reinhardt-Brophy, Kristen	Tuluata and the Maupua Adze Quarry: The Lithic Manufacturing Center of Samoa
1985	Adams, Virginia H.	Individual Agrarian Economic Strategies: Exchange in Eighteenth Century Rehoboth, Massachusetts
1985	Busby, Annette C.	The Development and Maintenance of Kurdish Ethnic Identity among Kurdish Immigrants in Sweden
1985	Loparto, Leonard V.	A Preliminary Observation on Behalf of a Revised View of the Expansion of the Susquehanna Tradition into Southeastern New England and the Coexistence of the Coburn and Orient Phases
1985	Wheelersburg, Robert	The Development of Fort Ancient Through an Archaeo-botanical Analysis of the State Line Site, Ohio
1985	Zacks, Sarah	An 18th Century Plantation Support Structure on the Caribbean Island of Montserrat
1984	Harrington, Peter	Museum Studies (NO PAPER NEEDED)
1984	Kavanagh, Nancy E.	Through the Safety Net: Urban Homeless Women
1984	Pate, Frank Donald, Jr.	Mortuary Practices & Paleodiet as Archaeological Signatures of Social Organization & Status at Roonka on the Lower Murray River of So. Australia