Theses supervised
Sponsored Theses by Year of Graduation
New College requires a thesis as a graduate criterion. Faculty sponsor a thesis and the student defends the work in front of a baccalaureate committee (for the below, typically two from Anthropology and a third from another discipline). Below are the theses I have supervised, organized by year; the vast majority are in Anthropology, some are Anthropology/Gender Studies and others are International Studies/Middle East, Anthropology/Environmental Studies, and Social Sciences and General Studies; the key words come from the library classification. The theses are available at the college’s Cook Library (as PDFs for the New College community and as physical volumes in the Thesis Room).
Personal Plots: Domination and Resistance in the Soviet Kolkhozy 1928-1938/Matthew Varnon
The Gravestones of Bow, New Hampshire: 1800-1865/Alison L. Blanding
Adrift at Sea: Narratives of Cuban Rafters/Anna Maria Diaz-Balart
An Investigation of Human Remains from Casey Key/Lisa Kuhn
And the Brides Shall Ride Horses: Contested Spaces of Gender in a Rajasthani Village/Robert W. Rollings
Archaeological Perspectives on Ethnicity on Cyprus/Aaron Caldwell
Gay Turks in Germany: The Invisible Minority/Dennis Tyson Harkins
The East Goes West: The Reunification of Germany as Seen From the Ethnography of the East/Catherine Ann Heath
The Translation of Distance: Travel Narrative and Orientalism in the Eastern Mediterranean/Anna Moore Higgins
Glass Inlayed Gravestones: Historical Archaeology of Irish Funerary Folk Art/Shannon Dunn
Native Americans and Archaeologists: The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act/Leslie G. Trinkle
The Pharaohs Go Global: The Commodification of Ancient Egypt and Its Sale on eBay/Alison Jacobs
Baile na hAilte: The History and Landscape of a Nineteenth Century Irish Village/Daniel Pettit, Jr.
History, Identity, and the Politics of Exclusion: The Roma of Northern Europe/Alicia Windsor
Permanent Displays of Social Distinction: AVisual Ethnographic Analysis of the Facially Tattooed/Mandy L.
Larson
The Historical Archaeology of Brothels/Lynn Robinson
Touring a Florida Plantation: Historical Archaeology of Gamble Plantation 1842-1858/Felicia Silpa
Moluscan Exploitation at the Lighthouse Bayou Site (8GU114), A Multi-Companent, Large-Gastropod Midden/Sean P.A. Desjardins
Recovering the Landscapes of the Second Seminole War: A Historical Archaeological Approach/William
Werner
Teaching Peace to Youth: Coexistence in Israel and Abroad/Jeff Huber
The Application of the Harris Matrix to Rosemary Cemetery/Kimberly M. Sumrow
An Introduction to Traditional Healing and Protection of the Middle East in Contemporary America/Michael Antoszewski
Archaeocartography: 'Muffling Inclusiveness' in the Maps of Medieval and Early Modern London/Mary Kathryn Shanks
Hidden Histories A Historical Archaeology Approach to the Tabby House Ruins at Desoto National Memorial/Sherry Robinson Svekis
Striking Ybor Gold: Heritage Marketing in a Latin Quarter of Tampa, Florida/Kate Irwin
Ancient Adventures in a Newly Constructed Past Exploring the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Florida/Tara C. Ingram
Gendered Archaeology of the God Pan on Cyprus/Sarah Mullersman
Tea Tasting: A Historic-Anthropological Study of Tea Cultivation and Commodification/Christine E. Savage
An Ecological Anthropology of the Israeli National Water Carrier/Mitchell Gomez
The Ethiopian Jewish Community: Transition and Change in Israel/Miriam Schwartz
The Five Points of the Pentacle: Pagan Identity in Sarasota Florida/Story L. L. M. D. Boyle
Interracial Intimacy in Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa/Salome Blignaut
Myths, Floods and Archaeology of the Ancient Middle East/Jennifer Sullivan
Radio Silence: Paradoxes in Audioethnography at Tallevast, FL/Sam Greenspan
Constructing a Public Archaeology at Historic Spanish Point in Osprey, Florida/Steven Garte-Wolf
Looking East: Muslim Identity in the Archaeological Record of American Enslavement/Kacie Allen
Shopping for Ornaments at the "Ornament of All Galilee": Zippori National Park in Israel/Lisa Avron
1.5 Generation; Immigrants; Refugees; Acculturation; Cultural Brokerage/Jennifer H. LeLaurin
Was Bedeutet Bio fur Euch Exploring Collaborative Research on a Demeter Farm in Germany/Lee Ellen
Reed
Recovering The Temple Mount: The Politics of Place, Memory and Identity/Britney Summit-Gil
Representing Rwanda: Anthropology's Role in Witnessing Genocide/Kaitlyn Collins
Traditional Place and Feminist Space: The Japanese Tea Ceremony Makes Room for Empowerment/Morgan Boecher
A Resource for Harmony: An Ethnographic Study of Exhibition, Heritage, and Race at Family Heritage House/Christina Chavez
An Anthropology of Remembering: Queer Theory, Collaborative Archaeology and the Apalachee Past/Lee
Bloch
Custodian of Inclusion: An Exploration of Parliamentary Democracy and the Ambiguity of Identity Politics/Cassie Chesley
Handling Sushi: People and Places of a Transnational Cuisine/Mark Wilco
The Great Ringling: A Critical Archaeology of Cad'zan in Sarasota, Florida/Michael Sanderson
What Do the Textbooks Say? An Anthropological Study of Highschool American History Curriculum Content/Chelsea Montgomery
A Blaze In The Northern Sky - A Symbolic Analysis of Ethnicity in the Early Norwegian Black Metal Scene/Eric Van de Castle
A Giant's Strength: A Multisited Spatial Biography in 19th Century Florida/Elizabeth Ann Usherwood
Archaeology Rolls into the Public Sphere: An Introduction to Florida Public Archaeology Network/Rozalyn E. Crews
Creating an Interactive Past: Digital Technologies for Public Representation of Archaeological Sites/Alexis
Santos
The Enduring Landscape the Archaeology of Seminole Ethnogenesis in West-Central Florida/Michael Waas
The Ethical and Practical Limitations of the Use of Anthropology in The Military/Morgan Dolan
The Ainu of North Japan/Evan Darrow
Gender and the African Burial Ground/Ashley Parks
Meaningful Ruins: Public Memory and the Transitional Landscape of the Braden Castle of Bradenton, Florida/Rachel Roach
Across Borders: A Historical Archaeological Approach to Plantation Landscapes in Florida, Jamaica, and Western Cuba/Travis Small
Iraq in Jordan: An Anthropological Examination of Iraqi Refugees in Jordan/Silvia Ulloa
Cornerstone of Zion: The Archaeology of the Latter-Day Saints/Matt Andersen
Public Archaeology on Private Property: A Case Study of Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park/Arielle Bernhardt
A Wreck of a Site: An Archaeological Examination of Cauldrons from the Storm Wreck, 8SJ5459/Annie Carter
The Multiplicity of Heritage at Warm Mineral Springs/Jodi Johnson
Exploring Anthropology's Potential as a Catalyst for Reformation in American Pedagogy/Nicole Ouellette
Frog Creek Burial Mound (8Ma44): An Addition to the Safety Harbor Period Archaeological Record/Theresa
Paschal
The Manasota Key Cemetery (8SO1292): Insights into Everyday Life in the Manasota Period (800 BCE-500 CE) on Florida's Gulf Coast/Aric Archebelle-Smith
The Ground Shakes Even in Paradise: Identity, Resistance, and Image in Waiahole-Waikane Valley, Hawaii/James Carillo
Conversations on Race, Mental Health, and Community in Newtown, Sarasota/Leah Duncan
No Future in Progress: The Embodiment of "Illegality" in Rabat, Morocco/Zachary Natale
Talking Landscapes and Ways of Seeing: A Multidisciplinary Archaeological Perspective on Oral Tradition Among Turkana Peoples/Katherine O'Brien
Played to the Bone: Skeletal Trauma, Assumptions of Warfare, and an Apalachee Ballgame in Spanish La Florida/Nancy Shipley
Heroines, Healers, and Heretics: Examining the Iconography of the Witch from Antiquity to Now/Eve Burns
10 Square Miles of Food Justice: How Ithaca, New York is Breaking Bread to Bridge Communities/Julia de Aragon
Living With/In Disaster: Interpreting Heritage Through Performance in the Time of Climate Change/Rachel Ceciro
Queer as Florida: Gender and Sexuality Diversity in the Sunshine State/Hal Trejo
Playing Hong Kong: Defining Culture and Representing Identity in Sleeping Dogs/Kris Brzostek
Social Segmentation and K-means Analysis at Jiangzhai: Quantitative Analysis and the Social Formation of a Pre-dynastic Yangshao Banpo Phase Community/Kirkland Judge Jones
“The Forward March of Humanity” in an Era of Change: Creative Works with Progressive Ideas and their Impact on Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century European Society/Alexander Koutelias
Anthropology’s [Digital] Skeletons: Photogrammetry and the Documentation of Human Remains/Kara diComo
Performance Art and the Disruption of Colonialism in Museums/Evan Murdoch
Globalized Wedding Traditions of Contemporary Istanbul’s Urban Elite/Isabella Cibelli DuTerroil
The COVID-19 Pandemic, Brownfields, and Racism: Environmental Perspectives on Crisis Multipliers/Charlotte Leavengood
Cryptozoological Tourism/Savannah Worthington
“It’s Not About Food, it’s About Keeping Those Ants in Line”: How Childrens Films Have Impacted a Generation/X Gonzalez
Sustainable Tourism: How We Can Reduce the Negative Impacts of Tourism in the National Parks/Lily Burse
An Investigation and Practical Reconstruction of Brushstroke Pottery in the Style of the 18th-century Seminoles of Florida/ Claire Stout