Summer 2025
Faith Hendrix
Title of Thesis: Role Of C4 Resources In Isotopic Variability In Diet Among Children From Kellis 2 Cemetery, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
Thesis Chair: Lana Williams
Alaina Waldo
Title of Thesis: Starch Analysis Of Shell Tools From The Penny Plot Site (8BR158) For The Cape Canaveral Archaeological Mitigation Project
Thesis Chair: Neil Duncan
Spring 2025
Channing Cook
Title of Thesis: Tools and Trends: An Analysis of Maya Dental Modification
Thesis Chair: Sarah Freidline
Nishtha Tikalal
Title of Thesis: Comparative Semiotic Analysis of Non-Verbal Communication: Apis Mellifera Waggle Dance and Human Kinesic Signaling Systems
Thesis Chair: Monica Rodriguez
Sterlin Bass
Title of Thesis: Florida’s Gifted Education Program: Exploring The Nexus Between Giftedness And Choice Of College Major
Thesis Chair: Donovan Adams
Fall 2024
Milan Alblinger
Title of Thesis: Re-Evaluating Infant Feeding And Weaning Practices In Kellis 2 Cemetery Population, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt By Combining Stable Isotopes From Multiple Tissues
Thesis Chair: Lana Williams
Tyler Pilarski
Title of Thesis: Paleodemographic Research In Ancient Túcume With A Focus On Infant Mortality
Thesis Chair: J. Marla Toyne
Dylan Ornot
Title of Thesis: Assessment Of Forensic And Clinical Criteria Of Orbital Blowout Fractures For Use In Bioarchaeological Analysis
Thesis Chair: Lana Williams
Jeremy Quinn Braga
Title of Thesis: Exploring Filipino Restaurants In Greater Orlando
Thesis Chair: Ty Matejowsky
Otis Fields
Title of Thesis: Estimating Change Over Time In Catfish Size As A Proxy For Prehistoric Resource Use At Cape Canaveral
Thesis Chair: Emily Zavodny
Spring 2024
Melanie Langgle
Title of Thesis: Analysis of the Mortuary Patterns at the Burns Site (8BR85) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and the State of Florida
Thesis Chair: Sandra Wheeler
Alexandria Griffin
Title of Thesis: Identifying the Use of Turtles and Tortoises at the Prehistoric Penny Site at Cape Canaveral
Thesis Chair: Emily Zavodny
Rebecca Galinanes
Title of Thesis: Experiences of Healing with Ayahuasca in the United States
Thesis Chair: Shana Harris
Allisa Castro
Title of Thesis: Curanderismo and Healing: Insights from Hispanic Young Adults
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Leilani Maldonado
Title of Thesis: Concepts and Measures of Human Intelligence and Anthropology: A Systematic Review of Academic Literature from 1930s to 2010s
Thesis Chair: Lana Williams
Griffon Binkowski
Title of Thesis: Handheld X-ray Fluorescence (HHXRF) as a Non-Destructive Method for Trace Element Analysis of Ancient Maya (Pre-Conquest 800 BC – AD950) Teeth from Altun Ha, Belize
Thesis Chair: Lana Williams
Haley Juroviesky
Title of Thesis: Jewish Women’s Reproductive Health Traditions from the Perspective of Midwives in the United States
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Nidhi Patel
Title of Thesis: Bioarchaeological Study of Patterns of Juvenile Oral Health in Ancient Peru
Thesis Chair: J. Marla Toyne
Julienne Zambri
Title of Thesis: Misrepresentation of the Archaeological Record and Identity in Italy
Thesis Chair: Michael Callaghan
Fall 2023
Allyson Shenkman
Title of Thesis: Diet Change Over Time in the Ais Community of Cape Canaveral, Florida
Thesis Chair: Sarah Barber
Saoulkie Bertin
Title of Thesis: “It’s Still Easy To Get”: An Anthropological Analysis Of Nicotine Activist Efforts And User Perspectives In Central Florida
Thesis Chair: Shana Harris
Amy Rodriguez
Title of Thesis: Reconstructing Oral Health in Pre-Hispanic Peru: Antemortem Tooth Loss and Caries as Possible Evidence of Dental Care in Túcume, Peru
Thesis Chair: J. Marla Toyne
Summer 2023
Jacob Woodard
Title of Thesis: Chemical Analysis for Phytochemical Residues on Ceramics from Cape Canaveral Archaeological Sites
Thesis Chair: Neil Duncan
Spring 2023
Delaney McLinden
Title of Thesis: Beauty in Sorority Life: An Anthropological Analysis of Beauty Ideals and Body Modification
Thesis Chair: Shana Harris
Fall 2022
Jackie Beery
Title of Thesis: Seasonality and Lanscape Management in the Bolivian Amazon: Landsat Imagery Analysis of the Quinato Wetland
Thesis Chair: John Walker
Lissette Osorio
Title of Thesis: Exploring the Relationship Between Nutrition and Cribra Orbitalia: The Comparison of Dietary Stable Isotope Comparisons of Juveniles from Kuelap, Peru
Thesis Chair: J. Marla Toyne
Summer 2022
Jennifer Moreno Palacios
Title of Thesis: Paleoethnobotanical Investigation of Pre-Columbian Archaeological Site 8BR158, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Thesis Chair: Neil Duncan
Melissa Marks
Title of Thesis: Evaluating Morphometric Analysis of the Talus for Biological Sex Assessment in Ancient Maya and Egyptian Archaeological Populations
Thesis Chair: Lana Williams
Fall 2021
Emma Angell
Title of Thesis: Coffee is Fluid: A Discussion on Coffee and its Modernity Tattooing
Thesis Chair: Ty Matejowsky
Summer 2021
Rosalie Johnson
Title of Thesis: Marked Membership: Anthropological Perspectives on North American Contemporary Tattooing
Thesis Chair: Ty Matejowsky
Spring 2021
Jessica Clark
Title of Thesis: PXRF Analysis of Yugüe Obsidian
Thesis Chair: Brigitte Kovacevich
Genevieve Hall
Title of Thesis: An Anthropological Analysis of Ancient, Historic, and Modern Anatolian Cities
Thesis Chair: Scott Branting
Marisa Norzagaray
Title of Thesis: The Mobilizer and Mobilized: An Exploration of the “Latinx”
Thesis Chair: Nessette Falu
Andrea Ocasio-Cruz
Title of Thesis: Parallel Systems of Health Care: How Grassroots Organizations and Health Care Practitioners Perceive Farmworker Health
Thesis Chair: Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Charlotte Robinson
Title of Thesis: Fish Weirs et alia: A GIS Based Use-Analysis of Artificial, Pre-Columbian Earthworks in West Central Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia
Thesis Chair: John Walker
Fall 2020
Nicholas Kopp
Title of Thesis: Social Change and Games of Chance at Gallon Jug
Thesis Chair: Brigitte Kovacevich
Chandel Perez
Title of Thesis: “The Milk is Love”: Understanding Mothers’ Emotional Attachment to Breastmilk
Thesis Chair: Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Summer 2020
Corey Bazemore
Title of Thesis: Ob/Gyn Women in a #MeToo Movement World: Unraveling Agency, Gender Bias, and Gender Inequity in the Workplace
Thesis Chair: Nessette Falu
Guadalupe Rivas Navarro
Title of Thesis: ‘Yo Indocumentadx:’ Latinx Undocumented Immigrant Identity, Freedom, and Anti-Immigrant Discourses in the United States
Thesis Chair: Nessette Falu
Sarah Wenger
Title of Thesis: Examining Variation in Intentional Cranial Modification in Ancient Tucume, Peru
Thesis Chair: J. Marla Toyne
Spring 2020
Javier Cintron
Title of Thesis: The Experience of Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Patients in Healthcare
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Selina Hays
Title of Thesis: “It’s Just a Bad Period” and Other Ways of Dismissing Women’s Pain: An Ethnographic Look into the Experience of Endometriosis
Thesis Chair: Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Fall 2019
Akanne Torres
Title of Thesis: “Our Roots:”: Latinx Parents’ Language Ideologies Concerning Bilingualism
Thesis Chair: Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Summer 2019
Michelle Labbe
Title of Thesis: Sex Determination Using Discriminant Function Analysis of Carpals from Maya Sites in Belize from Pre-Classic to Spanish Colonial Period
Thesis Chair: Lana Williams
Spring 2019
Caleb Hernandez
Title of Thesis: Experiences of Young Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Latinx People in Healthcare
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Karli Reeves
Title of Thesis: Sex Education or Self Education? LGBT+ Experiences with Exclusionary Curricula”
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Fall 2018
Justin Malcolm
Title of Thesis: A Method for Determining Damage within Historic Cemeteries: A First Step for Digital Heritage Preservation
Thesis Chair: Scott Branting
Megan Sarmento
Title of Thesis: Reimagining Drugs: An Anthropological Analysis of U.S. Drug Policy Frameworks and Student Activism
Thesis Chair: Shana Harris
Summer 2018
Marley Denierio
Title of Thesis: Feeding the children: A Paleodietary Reconstruction of Juveniles from Kuelape
Thesis Chair: J. Marla Toyne
Lindsey Lefebvre
Title of Thesis: Dental age and pathological analysis of a sample of Maya juveniles from Altun Ha, a Maya Lowlands site in northeastern Belize
Thesis Chair: John J. Schultz & Lana Williams
Erin Martin
Title of Thesis: Trends in Grave Marker Attributes in Greenwood Cemetery, Orlando
Thesis Chair: John J. Schultz
Spring 2018
Tyra Robinson
Title of Thesis: Comparative Headstone Analysis and Photogrammetry in Orange County, Florida
Thesis Chair: John J. Schultz
Summer 2017
Emily Dovydaitis
Title of Thesis: Political Ecology of Medicinal Plant Use in Rural Nepal: Globalization, Environmental Degradation, and Cultural Transformation
Thesis Chair: Rani Vajravelu; Anthropology members: Neil Duncan and Joanna Mishtal
Amanda Sumner
Title of Thesis: New Courland, Tobago: A GIS analysis of a 17th-century settlement
Thesis Chair: Scott Branting
Spring 2017
Christy Box
Title of Thesis: The Effects of Hegemonic Support of Endangered Languages on Language Ideologies
Thesis Chair: Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Jesann Gonzalez-Cruz
Title of Thesis: A Formal Study of Applied Ancient Water Management Techniques in the Present Water Crisis
Thesis Chair: Michael Callaghan
Thomas Lee
Title of Thesis: Archaeological GIS Analysis of Raised Field Agriculture in the Bolivian Amazon
Thesis Chair: John Walker
Fall 2016
Mikaela Mendoza-Cardenal
Title of Thesis: Forced Motherhood? An Ethnographic Study on State Gender Expectations in Nicaragua
Thesis Chair: Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Amaris Santiago
Title of Thesis: Exploring the Therapeutic Roles of Santeria for Latinx Living in Florida
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Spring 2016
Jacqueline Devaney
Title of Thesis: Attitudes of Mothers and Daughters Towards Menstrual Suppression
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Fall 2015
Holly Bahamonde
Title of Thesis: The Effects of Western Medicine on the Livelihood of Zulu Traditional Herbal Healers in South Africa
Thesis Chair: Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Nicholas Casorio
Title of Thesis: Linguistic Relativity and Multilingualism
Thesis Chair: Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Summer 2015
Maleia Mikesell
Title of Thesis: Playing with Fire: An Ethnographic Look at How Polyamory Functions in the Central Florida Burner Community
Thesis Chair: Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Shannon Payne
Title of Thesis: The Performance of Health? Motivations Behind University Students’ Decisions to Wear Athletic Attire
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Spring 2015
Tiernan Middleton
Title of Thesis: Homophobia and HIV Transmission: A Six-Country Comparative Analysis
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Amber Morrison
Title of Thesis: Understanding Gender Identity Among Women Cosplayers of the Gotham City Sirens
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Serenela Pelier
Title of Thesis: Stable Isotope Evidence for the Geographic Origins and Military Movement of Napoleonic Soldiers During the March from Moscow in 1812
Thesis Chair: Tosha Dupras
Fall 2014
Leslie Gannon
Title of Thesis: Cultural Relevance in Medicine: An Evaluation of Cultural Competence Curriculum Integration in Southeastern Medical Schools
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Summer 2014
Vu Tran
Title of Thesis: Determining the Minimum Number of Individuals and Significance of the Kuelap Ossuary in Chachapoyas, Peru
Thesis Chair: J. Marla Toyne
Spring 2014
Rebecca Young
Title of Thesis: Perceptions of Homelessness and Strategies for Receiving Services Among the Florida Homeless
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Emily Yurasek
Title of Thesis: Native American and Alaskan Native Youth Suicide
Thesis Chair: Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Fall 2013
Armando Anzellini
Title of Thesis: Investigating Patterns of Interpersonal Violence Using Frequency Distributions of Cranial Vault Trauma
Thesis Chair: J. Marla Toyne
Jennifer Dewey
Title of Thesis: Survey of Comparative Human and Non-human Osteology: Common Florida Species
Thesis Chair: John J. Schultz
Lorraine Humbert
Title of Thesis: A Preliminary Study for Estimating Postmortem Interval of Fabric Degradation in Central Florida
Thesis Chair: John Schultz
Spring 2013
Natasha Tate
Title of Thesis: Sleeping, Napping and Staying Up: The Means of Sleep Among College Students
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Fall 2012
Matthew Filiault
Title of Thesis: Digitization Protocols and Applications for Laser Scanning Human Bone in Forensic Anthropology
Thesis Chair: John Schultz
Summer 2012
Patrisha Reynolds
Title of Thesis: Temporal Trends in Grave Marker Attributes: An Analysis of Headstones in Florida
Thesis Chair: John Schultz
Spring 2012
Samantha Angel
Title of Thesis: Music and Paleolithic Man: The Soundtrack of Human Cognitive Development
Thesis Chair: John Walker
Kendall McCollough
Title of Thesis: Establishing the Biological Sex of Juveniles Based Upon the Primary Dentition
Thesis Chair: Tosha Dupras
Lillian Milanes
Title of Thesis: Health Care Providers’ Perspectives on Male Involvement in their Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Needs
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Fall 2011
David Birnbaum
Title of Thesis: Using GIS to Determine the Influence of Wetlands on Cayuga Iroquois Settlement Location Strategies
Thesis Chair: John Walker
Lillie Dao
Title of Thesis: The Role of Rain in Postclassic Maya Religious Belief
Thesis Chair: Sarah Barber
Pamela Kacerosky
Title of Thesis: What is the Importance of Age at Menarche on Adult Height Relative to Other Known Factors?
Thesis Chair: Matthew McIntyre
Spring 2011
Dara Shore
Title of Thesis: A Meal Made Fit by a King: Influences of Production, Trade, Tribute, and Feasting on Anglo-Saxon Kingship
Thesis Chair: John Walker
Jordon Munizzi
Title of Thesis: A Comparative Study of the Occurrences of Transverse Radiopaque Lines in Archaic, Early Modern, and Holocene Human Populations
Thesis Chair: Tosha Dupras
Fall 2010
Michael Gyurnek
Title of Thesis: Peopling of the Americas: The South Pacific Route
Thesis Chair: John Walker
Spring 2010
Shainna Ali
Title of Thesis: Contemporary Hijra Identity in Guyana: Colonial and Postcolonial Transformations in Hijra Gender Identity
Thesis Chair: Rosalyn Howard
Sara Blackwelder
Title of Thesis: Syncretism in Contemporary Pagan Purification Practices
Thesis Chair: Ty Matejowsky
Stephanie Boothby
Title of Thesis: From a Bird’s Eye View: Using Satellite Imagery to Map and Analyze the Forest Islands of the Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia
Thesis Chair: John Walker
Georgia Brieck
Title of Thesis: Young Women’s Perceptions of HPV Vaccination in the Context of Prevention, Risk, and Sexual Norms
Thesis Chair: Joanna Mishtal
Kelin Flanagan
Title of Thesis: Ethnobotany in Florida: Seminole Cosmology and Medicinal Plant Use
Thesis Chair: Leslie Lieberman
Michael Napolitano
Title of Thesis: Power Relation and Dominance Hierarchy Correlations in Primates
Thesis Chair: Libby Cowgill
Thuy Nguyen
Title of Thesis: The Prevalence of STI’s and HIV Risk Amongst Vietnamese Immigrants
Thesis Chair: Matthew McIntyre
Samantha Pietruszewski
Title of Thesis: A Formal and Functional Analysis on the Ceramic Rims of the Little Midden Site: The Identitifcation of Site Function
Thesis Chair: Sarah Barber
Patricia Urdzik
Title of Thesis: From the Land of the Inca to the Land of Mickey Mouse: The Trajectory of Female Peruvian Migration from Peru to Central Florida
Thesis Chair: Joanna Misthal
Fall 2009
Ryan Collins
Title of Thesis: Transition through the Abyss: Archaeological Interpretations of the Iconographic Raised-Heel in Classic Maya Culture
Thesis Chair: Arlen Chase
Jessica Lowell
Title of Thesis: Dental Disease in Ancient Egypt
Thesis Chair: Tosha Dupras
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Summer 2009
Amrita Shiwlochan
Title of Thesis: Prenatal Androgens and Visceral Fat
Thesis Chair: Matthew McIntyre
Richard Skandera
Title of Thesis: You get Rained on Last: A Study of the Cultural Implications of Male Height in the United States
Thesis Chair: Elayne Zorn
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Spring 2009
Chelsea Horton
Title of Thesis: Opening Our Hearts to the Magic of Other Kingdoms: Cultural Sharing between Japan and the United States in Kingdom Hearts
Thesis Chair: Ty Matejowsky
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Valeri Madigan
Title of Thesis: A Comparison of Tomb Art from New Kingdom Egypt and Classic Period Oaxaca, Mexico
Thesis Chair: Sarah Barber
Megan O’Shea
Title of Thesis: Anthropological Reflections on Tattoos amongst Punk Women
Thesis Chair: Ty Matejowsky
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Spring 2008
Sarah Baker
Title of Thesis: A Biocultural Analysis of Natural Mummification: The Importance of Preservation on the Examination of Biological and Cultural Evidence
Thesis Chair: Tosha Dupras
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Nathan Lawres
Title of Thesis: Native and African Cultures and Their Resistance to Oppression in Florida Prior to 1850
Thesis Chair: Rosalyn Howard
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Kathryn Roberts
Title of Thesis: Bioarchaeology: Digging for the Truth
Thesis Chair: Tosha Dupras
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Lindsey Thomas
Title of Thesis: Skeletal Manifestations of Child and Associated Sociological Risk Factors
Thesis Chair: Tosha Dupras
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Summer 2007
Roberta Murphy
Title of Thesis: Headstone Iconography: Documentation and Interpretation of Fraternal Emblems at Greeenwood Cemetery, Orlando
Thesis Chair: John Schultz
Summer 2006
Mary Rezos
Title of Thesis: The Forensic Significance of Identifying the Ritual Use of Human Remains
Thesis Chair: John Schultz
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Spring 2006
Heather Rackin
Title of Thesis: Female Same-Sex Sexual Desires: An Evolutionary Perspective
Thesis Chair: Ron Wallace
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Spring 2005
Zachary Blair
Title of Thesis: Same-Sex Marriages: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Thesis Chair: Rosalyn Howard
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Mark Putchinski
Title of Thesis: Hominoid Ancestors of the Miocene
Thesis Chair: Tosha Dupras
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Summer 2004
Serena Franklin
Title of Thesis: Ill Beats: Black Women Rap Artists and the Representations of Women in Hip Hop Culture
Thesis Chair: Rosalyn Howard
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Spring 2004
Emily (Gollnick) Slabaugh
Title of Thesis: Leprosy in the Dakhleh Oasis (Egypt) During Roman Rule
Thesis Chair: Tosha Dupras