College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. Alumni
2020
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| James R. McGrath | Human Signaling Ecology: A case study of Late Pleistocene mineral pigment assemblages from southernmost Africa (Enloe) |
| Ana-Monica Racila | Providers and Patients as Activists: Bureaucratic Encorpment in Midwest Gender-Affirming Health Clinics (Wentzell) |
| Emma K. Wood | Dental size reduction in the domesticated silver fox: Implications for the domestication syndrome model (Franciscus) |
2019
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Paul Capobianco | Migration and Identity: Japan's Changing Relationship with Otherness (Khandelwal/Ryang) |
| Alejandro Muzzio | Tourism, Development, Representation, and Struggle on the North Coast of Honduras (Chibnik/Schnell) |
2018
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Theodore Marks | Bedtime For the Middle Stone Age: Land Use, Strategic Foraging, and Lithic Technology at the End of the Pleistocene in the Namib Desert, Namibia (Enloe) |
| Meredith Wismer | Hunt, Gather, Garden: Faunal Exploitation During the Adoption of Agriculture in the Tallgrass Prairie (Hill) |
2017
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Toby Avalos | Discerning Hominid Taxonomic Variation in the Southern Chinese, Peninsular Southeast Asian, and Sundaic Pleistocene Dental Record (Ciochon) |
| Christian Haunton | Remaining Faithful in the Outhouse: An Introduction to the Utopian Archaeology of the Amana Colonies (Storey) |
2016
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Jill Davis | Royal Realness: Drag Pageantry in the US (Lewin) |
| Miranda Karban | The Ontogeny of Occipital Bone Convexity in a Longitudinal Sample of Extant Humans (Franciscus) |
| Shelby Putt | Human Brain Activity During Stone Tool Production: Tracing the Evolution of Cognition and Language (Franciscus) |
| Jennifer Trivedi | Biloxi's Recovery from Katrina: Long-Term Influences and Inequalities (Chibnik) |
2015
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Susanna Donaldson | Farmers and Farmworkers: Negotiating Labor and Identity in Rural Northeast Tennessee (Chibnik) |
| Christina Nicholas | The Ontogeny of Nasal Floor Shape Variation in Homo and the Influence of Facial Size, the Anterior Dentition, and Patterns of Midfacial Integration (Franciscus) |
| Tony Pomales | "ESTAMOS DE PIE Y EN LUCHA"/"WE ARE STANDING AND FIGHTING": Aging, Inequality and Activism among Sex Workers in Neoliberal Costa Rica (Prussing) |
| Michelle Quill | Making it Matter: International Non-Governmental Organizations and Humanitarian Intervention in Bangladesh (Lewin) |
| Sarah Trabert | Plural Communities on the Plains: Dismal River People and the Puebloan Diaspora (Beck) |
2014
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Keelin Baine | Mortuary Ritual and Social Change in Neolithic and Bronze Age Ireland (Hill/Lillios) |
| Brandi Jansen | Growing Local Food: Direct Market Agriculture in Iowa (Chibnik) |
| Jonathan Thomas | Emerging Economies: Late Neolithic and Copper Age Beads and Pendants of the Portugese Estremadura (Lillios) |
2013
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Erica Begun-Veenstra | Detecting Ethnicity at Teotihuacan through Archaeology: The West Mexican Presence at Structure N1W5:19 (Glenn Storey) |
| Cindee Calton | Teaching Respect: Language, Identity, and Ideology in American Sign Language Classes in the United States (Graham) |
| Jenna Grant | Technology, Clarity, and Uncertainty: An Ethnography of Biomedical Imaging in Phnom Penh (Erica Prussing) |
| Hannah Marsh | Beyond Thick Versus Thin: Mapping Cranial Vault Thickness Patterns in Recent Homo Sapiens (Russell Ciochon) |
| Cristina L. Ortiz | Making Meatville: Belonging and Migration in a Midwest Meatpacking Town (Meena Khandelwal) |
| Clare Tolmie | Animals for Food, Animals for Tools: Fauna as a Source of Raw Material at Abri Cellier and the Grotte Du Renne, Arcy-Sur-Cure (James Enloe) |
| Alissa M. Whitmore | Small Finds and the Social Environment of the Roman Public (Glenn Storey) |
2012
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Cerisa Reynolds | Meat at the Origins of Agriculture: Faunal Use and Resource Pressure at the Origins of Agriculture in the Northern U.S. Southwest (James Enloe) |
| Kenda Stewart | In or Out of Bounds?: The Cultural and Political Implications of Palestinian Women’s Soccer in Israel (Virginia Dominguez/Michael Chibnik) |
| Anna Waterman | Marked in Life and Death: Identifying Biological Markers of Social Differentiation in Late Prehistoric Portugal (Katina Lillios/Robert Franciscus) |
| Chad S. Uran | The Aesthetics and Politics of Ojibwe Language Revitalization (Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld/Scott Schnell) |
2011
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Rachel Horner Brackett | Savoring Ideology: An Ethnography of Production and Consumption in Slow Food’s Italy (Erica Prussing) |
| Scott D. Maddux | A Quantitative Assessment of Infraorbital Morphology in Homo: Testing for Character Independence and Evolutionary Significance in the Human Midface (Robert Franciscus) |
| Jerry L. Wever | Dancing the Habanera Beats (In Country Music): Empire Rollover and Postcolonial Creolizations in St. Lucia (Laura Graham) |
| Brandyce Case Haub | Together We Stand Apart: Island and Mainland Puerto Rican Independentistas (Virginia Dominguez/Michael Chibnik) |
| Jason Thompson | Views to the Past: Faunal and Geophysical Analysis of the Open-Air Upper Paleolithic Site of Verberie (James Enloe) |
| Alexander Woods | The Effects of Lithic Raw Material Quality on Aurignacian Blade Production at Abri Cellier (James Enloe) |
2010
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Steven Miller | The Patterning and Determinants of Craniofacial Robusticity in Extant Homo Sapiens (Robert Franciscus) |
| Sarah Ono | From Redfield to Redford: Hollywood and Understandings of Contemporary American Community (Laura Graham) |
| Daniel Proctor | Three-Dimensional Morphometrics of the Proximal Metatarsal Articular Surfaces of Gorilla, Pan, Hylobates, and Shod and Unshod Humans (Russell Ciochon) |
| Lavanya Proctor | Discourses on Language, Class, Gender, Education, and Social Mobility in Three Schools in New Delhi, India (Meena Khandelwal/Virginia Dominguez) |
2009
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Nathan Holton | Modeling of Masticatory Biomechanics in Living Humans as a Baseline for Testing Functional Hypotheses in Neandertals (Robert Franciscus) |
| Alexis R. Matza | The Boston “T” Party: Masculinity, Testosterone Therapy, and Embodiment Among Aging Men and Transgender Men (Ellen Lewin) |
| Tomomi Naka | In the World but Not of the World: Virtuous Economic Practices among Lancaster Mennonites (Michael Chibnik) |
| Joshua Polanski | Morphological Integration of the Cranium During Ontogeny in Homo Sapiens and Pan Troglodytes (Robert Franciscus) |
| Judith Siebert | Ethnic Identities in the German-Chilean Lake District (Laura Graham) |
| Andria Timmer | Integration through Education: NGO Action to Redress Roma/Gypsy Exclusion from the Hungarian Education System (Virginia Dominguez) |
2007
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Stephen Tulley | A Culture of Chocolate: Commercial Cacao Processing in Oaxaca, Mexico (Michael Chibnik) |
| Gudrun Putz Willett | Crises of Self and Other: Russian-Speaking Migrants in the Netherlands and European Union (Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld/Florence Babb) |
| Benjamin M. Willett | Ethnic Tourism and Indigenous Activism: Power and Social Change in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala (Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld) |
2006
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Erik Paul Filean | Domestic Cattle and Economic Change in the Roman Period Lower Rhineland: The Civitas Batavorum Volumes I & II (Glenn Storey) |
| Carolyn A. Hough | Disruption and Development: Kanyalengs in the Gambia (Ellen Lewin) |
| Grant S. McCall | Lithic Technological Perspectives on Early Hominid Site Use and Mobility Strategies (James Enloe) |
| Samantha Leigh Solimeo | Living with Parkinson’s Disease: Narratives and the Practice of Embodiment Among Elder Iowans (Mac Marshall) |
| Jessica L. White | Functional Morphology and Evolution of the Adapiform Dentition, with Particular Emphasis on the Asian Sivaladapidae (Russell Ciochon) |
2005
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Catherine M. Douillet | A Contradictory Callaloo: Ethnic Divisions and Mixing in Trinidad (Douglas Midgett) |
| Katherine Boris Dernbach | Popular Religion: A Cultural and Historical Study of Catholicism and Spirit Possession in Chuuk, Micronesia (Mac Marshall) |
2004
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Bryan Eldredge | The Role of Discourse in the Formation and Maintenance of Deaf Identity and the Deaf-World (Laura Graham) |
| Christina Taylor Beard-Moose | Public Indians, Private Cherokees: Indigenous Identity at them Intersection of Tourism, Acculturation, and Cultural Continuity (Florence Babb) |
| Wolseth, Jon | Taking on Violence: Gangs, Faith, and Poverty Among Youth in a Working-Class Colonia in Honduras (Florence Babb) |
2003
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Kari Olson | Methods of Control: An Anthropological Analysis of Fertility Regulating Technologies in Urban China (Mac Marshall) |
2002
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Michael Dunne | Change and Continuity in Prehistoric Foodways: A Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of the Middle to Late Woodland Transition at the Gast Farm Site (13LA12) in Southeast Iowa (Mary Whelan) |
| Gudrun Haraldsdottir | Cooperation and Conflicting Interests: An Ethnography of Fishing and Fish Trading on the Shores of Lake Malawi (Paul Durrenberger) |
| Douglas Hertzler | Agrarian Cultures of Solidarity: Campesino Unions and the Struggle for Land and Community Development in Santa Cruz, Bolivia (Michael Chibnik) |
| Velana Huntington | Bodies in Contexts: Holistic Ideals of Health, Healing, and Wellness in an American Orisha Community (Margery Wolf) |
| Rebecca Johnson | Change in Woodland Diet and Vessel Form at the Gast Farm Site in Southeast Iowa (Mary Whelan/William Green) |
| Emily Lee | A Story of Strategies: Negotiating State and Society in Chengdu, China (Margery Wolf) |
| Michelle L. Ramirez | Suffering, Modernity and Morality: Menopause in Urban Oaxaca, Mexico (Ellen Lewin) |
| William Whittaker | Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Roman Frontier Economy in the Eastern Netherlands (James Enloe and Glenn Storey) |
2001
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Margaret Cassity Bradford | Caribbean Perspectives on Settlement Patterns: The Windward Island Study (James Enloe) |
| Jacqueline Marie Comito | Remembering Nana and Papu: The Poetics of Pasta, Pane and Peppers Among an Iowan Calabrian Family (Laura Graham) |
| Brigittine M. French | Language Ideologies and Collective Identities in Post-Conflict Guatemala (Laura Graham) |
| Karen Elizabeth Haslett | Crossing Linguistic Borders in an Iowan Town: Language Ideologies and the Education of Latino/A Students (Nora England) |
| Margot Neverett | A Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Middle to Late Woodland Transition at the Gast Farm Site (13LA12) in Southeastern Iowa (Mary Whelan) |
| Jolene Marie Stritecky | Looking Through a Moral Lens: Morality, Violence, and Empathyin The Solomon Islands (Virginia Dominguez) |
2000
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Paula Jean Ford | Narratives of Social Healing: Cultural Politics and the Nicaraguan Women’s Movement (Florence Babb) |
| Sharon Rorbakken | Bar Belles: An Exploration of Gender Identity (Margery Wolf) |
1999
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| 1999 | |
| Balmurli Natrajan | Ailing Artisans, Dubious Development: Potters in Central India (Virginia Dominguez) |
| Anastasia Papathanasiou | A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Health, Subsistence, and Funerary Behavior in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin: A Case Study from Alepotrypa Cave, Greece (Mary Whelan) |
1998
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Marcela Mendoza | Politics and Leadership Among the Toba of Northern Argentina (Michael Chibnik) |
1997
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Linda Allen | Enid “Atoll”: A Marshallese Migrant Community in the Midwestern United States (Mac Marshall) |
| Maureen McCue | Women in Transition, Health Care in Translation: Nicaraguan Women and the Challenge of Cervical Cancer Prevention (Mac Marshall/Robert Wallace) |
| Randy Ziegenhorn | Networking the Farm: The Social Structure of Cooperation and Competition in Iowa Agriculture (Paul Durrenberger) |
1996
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Rockey L. Sexton | Cajuns, Germans, and Les Americanins: A Historical Anthropology of Cultural and Demographic Transformations in Southwest Louisiana, 1880 to Present (Mac Marshall/Douglas Midgett) |
1994
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Stanley H. Hunnisett | Suicide, Alcohol, and Rapid Change in a Subarctic Indian Society: An Ethnography of Change 1920-1990 (June Helm/Mac Marshall) (Posthumous Ph.D.) |
| Katerina Semendeferi | Evolution of the Hominoid Prefrontal Cortex: A Quantitive and Image Analysis of Areas 13 and 10 (Russell Ciochon/Gary Van Hoesen |
1993
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Mary Jean Baker Cornell | Hindu Women’s Physiology and the Socially Constructed Reality of Their Everyday Lives (Mac Marshall/Toni Tripp-Reimer) |
| Richard A. Nisbett | The Functional Ecology of Howling Monkey Positional Behavior (Russell Ciochon) |
1992
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Maria Elena Mujica | Women’s Grassroots Organizations: Communal Kitchens in Lima, Peru (Florence Babb) |
| Kendall Thu | Norwegian Farm Strategies and the State: Implications for a Global Pattern (Paul Durrenberger) |
1991
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Susan Garzon | Language Variation and Viability in a Bilingual Mayan Community (Nora England) |
1989
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Susan Leigh Flinspach | An Evaluation of Basque Language Status Planning (Nora England) |
| Francis A O’Connor | The Intensification of Artisan Production and Sociocultural Change in San Pedro de Cajas, Tarma, Junin, Peru (Douglas Midgett) |
1998
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Christopher A. Reichl | Japanese Newcomers in Brazil: A Social Model of Migration (Douglas Midgett) |
1987
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Russell Charles Rogers | Something About Nothing: Death, Meaning and Identity (Mac Marshall) |
1986
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Royce Delbert Kurtz | Economic and Political History of the Sauk and Mesquakie: 1780’s-1845 (June Helm) |
1985
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Pamela Cressey | The Alexandria, Virginia City-Site/Archaeology in an Afro-American Neighborhood, 1930-1910 (Thomas Charlton) |
1984
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Stephen Craig Lensink | A Quantitative Model of Central-Place Foraging among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers (Duane Anderson) |
| Margie Lou Staab | Peisker: An Examination of Middle Woodland Site Function in the Lower Illinois Valley (Marshall McKusick) |
1983
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Barbara Darling Ito | Entrepreneurial Woman in Urban Japan: The Role of Personal Networks (Mac Marshall) |
1982
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Nicola Tanenbaum | Agricultural Decision Making among the Shan of Maehongson Province, Northwestern Thailand (Paul Durrenberger) |
| Marilyn Rose | On the Move: A Study of Migration and Ethnic Persistence among Mennonites from East Freeman, South Dakota (Mac Marshall) |
1977
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Mark Borthwick | Aging and Social Change on Lukunor Atoll, Micronesia (Mac Marshall) |
| Paul Freund | Social Change among the Kasua, Southern Highlands Papua New Guinea (June Helm) |
1975
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Jack Barnes | An Ecological Study of Environmental Utilization among the Mountain Lapps of Arctic Sweden (June Helm) |
1974
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Terry Alliband | Suburbanization and Survival: An Anthropological Study of West Branch, Iowa (Mac Marshall) |
1972
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Virginia Lawson | Object Categorization and Nominal Classification in Some Northern Athapaskan Languages: A Generative Semantic Analysis (June Helm) |
1971
| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Ph.D. Chair) |
|---|---|
| Stanley Witkowski | A Universalist Account of Kinship Semantics (June Helm) |