Fall 2011

Patrick Barrett

Advisor: Dr. Rosalyn Howard
Title of Thesis: A Sense of Place: Ethnographic Reflections of Two Palestinian Immigrants
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Rachel Egan

Advisor: Dr. Arlen Chase and Dr. Sarah Barber
Title of Thesis: New Perspectives on the Quatrefoil in Classic Maya Iconography: The Center and the Portal
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Brittany Jardine

Advisor: Dr. Tosha Dupras
Title of Thesis: Differential Diagnoses of the Temporal Bone Defects and Zygomatic Bone Lesions Found in Fetal and Infant Individuals from the Kellis 2 Cemetery, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
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Joshua Robin

Advisor: Dr. Tosha Dupras
Title of Thesis: A Paleopathological Assessment of Osteoarthritis in the Lower Appendicular Joints of Individuals From the Kellis 2 Cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
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Summer 2011

Heba Abd El Salam

Advisor: Dr. Tosha Dupras
Title of Thesis: The Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Examine Spatial Questions Linked to Mortuary Practices in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
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Kelly Anderson

Advisor: Dr. Tosha Dupras
Title of Thesis: Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analyses of Subfossil Giant Rats from Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia)
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Petra Cunningham-Smith

Advisor: Dr. Arlen Chase
Title of Thesis: Fish from Afar: Marine Resource Use at Caracol, Belize
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Lisa Duffy

Advisor: Dr. Arlen Chase
Title of Thesis: Maize and Stone: A Functional Analysis of the Manos and Metates of Santa Rita Corozal, Belize
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Keith Edwards

Advisor: Dr. Arlen Chase
Title of Thesis: A Proposed Methodology for Predicting the Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Measures of K’inich Yax K’uk Mo’, Copan Dynastic Founder
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Spring 2011

Michael Anderson

Advisor: Dr. Joanna Mishtal
Title of Thesis: Understanding the Spiritual Subjectivities of Pastors and Beliefs about the Current American Church Culture
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Jeffrey Brzezinski

Advisor: Dr. Sarah Barber
Title of Thesis: Worldview, Ideology, and Ceramic Iconography: A Study of Ideological Messaging on Late Terminal Formative Grayware Serving Vessels form the Lower Rio Verde Valley of Pacific Coastal, Oaxaca, Mexico
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Joanna Fletcher

Advisor: Dr. John Schultz
Title of Thesis: Monitoring Shallow Controlled Graves with Small Cadavers Using Ground Penetrating Radar
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William Hawkins

Advisor: Dr. John Schultz
Title of Thesis: Monitoring Long-Term Controlled Grave Scenarios Using Ground Penetrating Radar
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Beth Keller

Advisor: Dr. Matthew McIntyre
Title of Thesis: The Origin of Lactase Persistence and Ongoing Convergent Evolution
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Jacqueline Siven

Advisor: Dr. Joanna Mishtal
Title of Thesis: Yogic Diffusion: The Effects of Yogic Practice and Philosophy on Beliefs about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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