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Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Mississippi

Anthropology MA Theses

The following is a list of recent Anthropology M.A. graduates and their theses. PDF copies of theses are available via ProQuest, but you will need to log in through the University of Mississippi’s WedID system. Older theses available through the University of Mississippi Libraries’. UM theses-Anthropology

2024

  • Max Conrad (2024) “Dixieland do Sul: Brazilian Racial Democracy and the Recontextualization of Transnational Confederate Symbols” Marcos Mendoza (Chair), Simone Delerme, Jodi Skipper, Catarina Passidomo
  • Kaitlyn Sisco (2024) “Patagonian Precarity: Extractive Tourism and Subaltern Activism in El Chaltén, Argentina” Marcos Mendoza (Chair), Kristin Hickman, Nora Sylander
  • Kolbe Verdun (2024) “Outdoorsman Culture in the Deep South: Understanding Cultural Capital and Social Capital Formation” Simone Delerme (Chair), Marcos Mendoza, Kate Centellas

2023

  • Nikki Wilcox (August) “Classic Maya Subadult Age Estimates from Ambergris Caye, Belize”
    Carolyn Freiwald (Chair), Lexi O’Donnell, Kate Centellas
  • Cal McGehee (May) “Assessing the Accuracy of Dental Age Estimation Methods in a Native
    American Pediatric Sample” Lexi O’Donnell (Chair), Carolyn Freiwald, Matthew Murray
  • Taylor Greene (May) “Ceremony on the Frontier: An Analysis of a Thirteenth and Fourteenth
    Century Multi-Phase Mississippian Structure at the Carter Robinson Site, Lee County, Virginia”
    Matthew Murray (Chair), Jodi Skipper, Krista Eschbach

2022

  • Raymond Doherty (August) “The Colbert-Walker Site (22Le1048): History and Archaeology of
    a Chickasaw Home, Council House, and Travelers’ Stand” Robbie Etheridge (Chair), Jay Johnson, Tony Boudreaux
  • Riley Freeman (August) “Excavating Ethnohistory: Archaeological Signatures of Ceremony in
    the Southeast” Tony Boudreaux (Chair), Robbie Etheridge, Jay Johnson
  • Matthew Perry (August) “Regional Variations in Gravel-Based Lithic Economies: Archaeological Investigations at Stark Farm (22OK778) and Grand Village (22AD501)” Tony Boudreaux (Chair), Robbie Etheridge, Jay Johnson
  • Cheyenne Bennett (May) “Transforming Place: The Socio-Environmental Afterlives of Tellico”
    Marcos Mendoza (Chair), Simone Delerme, Catarina Passidomo

2021

  • Daniel Shawl. “Chronology of the Fatherland Site, a New Perspective from Mound E”
  • Shannon Wooten. “Relationship on the Frontier: A Ceramic Analysis of Carter Robinson (44LE12) Mound Sites”
  • Bryce Krumcke. “Time and Place at Prospect Hill: A Phase I Survey of a Historic Plantation”
  • Martha Grace Mize. “Revitalization in the Alabama Black Belt: Cultivation of a New Civic Hegemony in Rural Main Street America”
  • Raychel Durdin. “A Diagnosis of Cribra Orbitalia and Porotic Hyperostosis Using Cranial Vault Thickness

202o

  • Harris, Jacob. “Bone Tool Technologies at the Terminal Classic Maya Site Ucanal, Guatemala.”
  • Smith, Rachel. “Isotopic Analysis of Human Migration among the Ancient Maya of Ambergris Caye, Belize.”
  • Street, Dakota. “A Ceramic Analysis of the Mound A Enclosure at Carson Mounds, Coahoma County, Mississippi (22CO518).”
  • Utley, Wilson. “An Attribute Analysis of Pottery from the Stark Farm Site in Northeast Mississippi.”

2019

  • Bryant, Hamilton. “Crafting Discoidals on the Frontier: Production and Identity in Southwest Virginia.”
  • Davis, Ben. “Household and Changing Use of Space at the Transitional Early Mississippian Austin Site.”
  • Stewart, Caitlin. “Minimum Number of Individuals: A Methodological Comparison using Human Remains from Caves Branch Rockshelter in the Cayo District of Belize.”
  • Zechman, Hannah D. “Archaeological Investigations at a Mississippian Platform Mound Site in Lowndes County, Mississippi.”

2018

  • Capps, Dalton. “Searching through Debris: A Mass Lithic Analysis from the Carter Robinson Mound Site in Lee County, Virginia.”
  • Davidson, Suzanne Renee. “African American Roots Tourism at ‘Home:’ History, Memory, and Heritage in Holly Springs, Mississippi.”
  • Mattson, Lacy Nicole. “Community Connections: Public Outreach and Education at the Batesville Mounds Site.”
  • Warner, Emily. “Analysis of Prehistoric Ceramics from a Fourteenth-Century Native American House, Carter Robinson Site (44LE10), Lee County, Virginia.”s in Northeast Mississippi.”

2017

  • Clark, Emily. “The Analysis of the Contact-Era Settlements in Clay, Lowndes, and Oktibbeha Counties in Northeast Mississippi.”
  • Coggin, Gabrielle. Research at the Catacombs of Santa Lucia (St. Lucy), Syracuse, Sicily.
  • Meyer, Grace. “Into Ireland: An Analysis of Cultural Hybridity, Immigration, Food, and Place in the Silicon Docks Market in Dublin, Ireland.”
  • Smith, Allison M. “Sherds with Style: A Ceramic Analysis from a Protohistoric Site in Okitbbeha County, Mississippi.”
  • Issacs, Morgan. “Fluorine dating of human bone at the pre-Columbian Maya cemetery of Caves Branch Rockshelter, Belize.”

2016

  • Billstrand, Nicholas. “Linearly stressed to death: Consideration of early childhood stress as a main contributor to the regional variability in classic Maya mortuary profiles.” ProQuest/UMI:10160607
  • Gardner, Garreth Blake. “Project meshnet and the politics of scientific practice.” ProQuest/UMI:10127500
  • Orsini, Stephanie R. “From turkeys to tamales: Paleoindian to Preclassic period faunal use at Maya Hak Cab Pek rockshelter in southern Belize.” ProQuest/UMI:10127482
  • Howell, Cameron Smith. “A comparison of shovel testing and surface collection as archaeological site discovery methods: A case study using Mississippian farmsteads.” ProQuest/UMI:10127499
  • Waalk, Jacob. “Pocket monsters and pirate treasure: Fantasy and social platforms in the 21st century.” ProQuest/UMI:10127297

2015

  • Broughton, Whitney. “Childhood growth in an Oneonta community: Examining long bone growth differencecs in the juveniles at Norris Farms 36.” ProQuest/UMI:1573518
  • Butz, Samuel Henri. “Excavations of Mound B: A ridge-top mound at the Carson site, a Mississippian mound center in the Northern Yazoo Basin.” ProQuest/UMI:1591228
  • Harrison, Kimberly Nicole. “Temper, mounds, and palisades: the Walford site (22SU501) of Sunflower County, Mississippi.” ProQuest/UMI:1591249
  • McLeod, Todd. “Developing an architectural sequence for a portion of the Mound A enclosure at the Carson Mound Group, Coahoma County, Mississippi.” ProQuest/UMI:1601201
  • Martin, Paul. “An Evaluation of Geohysical Methods in the Detection of Toddler-Sized Burials during teh First Six MOnths of Burials.

2014

  • Cureton, Travis B. “Cohonina social organization and the role of forts in integration and interaction: A view from the Pittsberg community.” ProQuest/UMI:1560806
  • Stewart, Hanna. “From the mouths of Mississippian: Determining biological affinity between the Oliver site (22-Co-503) and the Hollywood site (22-Tu-500).” ProQuest/UMI:1566369
  • Wendt, LeeAnne J. “Understanding Strawberry Plains through landscape archaeology.” ProQuest/UMI:1566379