Theses from 2014
Mossy Oak Revisited: A Case Study in Mississippian Ceramics, Lillian Cadwell
Medicinal Vessels of the First Gilded Age (1870-1929): Properties of Promise or Hokum of False Hope?, David L. Cook
Traditional Healing and Medical Pluralism in an Ohio Amish Community, Maeghan Dessecker
Evaluating Population Origins and Interpretations of Identity: a Case Study of the Lemba of South Africa, Jessica R. Engel
Biocultural Consequences of Spanish Contact in the Lambayeque Valley Region of Northern Peru: Internal Enamel Micro-defects as Indicators of Early Life Stress, Carey James Garland
The Fashion of Frill: The Art of Impression Management in the Atlanta Lolita and Japanese Street Fashion Community, Chancy J. Gatlin
Vem Pra Rua/Come to the Street: The Power of Protest in Brazil, Jessica Glass
Maya Ceramic Production in the Yalahau Region: A Diagnostic Analysis of Unslipped Sherds From Vista Alegre, Quintana Roo, Joseph Horne
Examining The Social Networks Of Internationally Married Couples And Divorced Individuals: Are Relationships Autonomous Entities?, Kimberly Johnson-Diouf
A Paleoethnobotanical Perspective on Late Classic Maya Cave Ritual at the Site of Pacbitun, Belize, Megan Parker
Theses from 2013
Coming to Christ: Narratives of Prayer and Evangelism from Born-Again Christians in Atlanta, Richard B. Bledsoe
Atlanta Public Schools (APS) Case Study: A Tale of Two Schools, Karen J. Cook
Dental Microwear Analysis of Cercopithecoides Williamsi, Elise Geissler
A House is Not (Necessarily) a Home: Nomads, American Truck Drivers, and the Creation and Conception of Home, Brooke Marshall
An Archaeological Survey at Oak Level Mound: Investigating Settlement Patterns and Intrasite Use During the Middle Mississippian Period (A.D. 1150-1350), Billy J. McCarley
Ethical and Sociocultural Considerations for use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies Among the Baganda OF Uganda, Martha N. Mukasa
Dietary Reconstruction in Medieval Holbæk, Denmark using Dental Microwear and Macrowear, Isotopic Analyses, and Dental Caries, Sara A. Turner
Investigations of a Ground Stone Tool Workshop at Pacbitun, Belize, Drew T. Ward
Theses from 2012
A Landscape of Conflict: An Archaeological Investigation of the New Hope Church Battlefield, Jason N. Brooks
Òyötùnjí Village: Making Africans in America, Antionette B. Brown-Waithe
"Yeah, But Can It Kill You?" Understanding Endometriosis in the Atlanta Area, Amanda Day
Analysis of Secular Change and a Novel Method of Stature Estimation Utilizing Modern Skeletal Collections, Tony A. Fitzpatrick
"Where There is No Love, Put Love": Homeless Addiction Recovery Perspectives and Ways to Enhance Healing, Mark W. Flanagan
The Promise of Gayness: Queers and Kin in South Korea, Timothy Gitzen
Mortuary Variability in the Final Palatial Period on Crete: Investigating Regionality, Status, and “Mycenaean” Identity, Heather K. Kerr
Passing through Dink – A Closer Look at How Couples in the United States Make the Decision to Have Children, Allyson H. Korb
What's to Know?: Navigating Knowledge Gaps of Hansen's Disease in the U.S., Kristen E. Kuhns
Refining Dietary Estimates at Machu Picchu Using Combined Dental Macro/Microwear and Isotopic Analyses, Sarah Victoria Livengood
Negotiations for Spooky Spaces during the Halloween Season: Trunk-or-Treats in the Bible Belt South, Michael D. Sharbaugh
Negotiating Beauty Ideals: Perceptions of Beauty Among Black Female University Students, Fiana O. Swain
Political Theatre in Public Spaces: Manifesting Identity in Venice, Italy, Ivey R. Tapp
Theses from 2011
Volunteerism in the University Culture, Stephanie V. Blocker
Strategic Neighboring and "Beloved Community" Development in West Atlanta Neighborhoods, Cheryl L. Case
Labor and Identity: Latina Migrant Women and the Service Industry of Atlanta, Kaitlin E. Case
La Vida Online: The Parallel Public Sphere of Facebook as Used by Colombian Immigrant Women in Atlanta, Michaelanne M. Dye
The Role of Social Support Systems in the Advancement of Professional Chefs, Emily Hansford
The Lacy Hotel Site: Gender Ideologies and Domestic Activities in a 19th Century Boardinghouse Context, melissa scharffenberg
Bioarchaeological Investigations of Community and Identity at the Avondale Burial Place (McArthur Cemetery), Bibb County, Georgia, Emily Vanderpool
Investigating the Ancient Maya Landscape: A Settlement Survey in the Periphery of Pacbitun, Jennifer Weber
Theses from 2010
"They Need Labels": Contemporary Institutional and Popular Frameworks for Gender Variance, Ophelia Bradley
Small Finds From Chogha Gavaneh Site in the Islamabad Plain, Central Zagros Mountains, Iran, Firoozeh Forouzan
Borders and Barriers: Perspectives on Aging and Alternative Medicine Among Transnational North Indian Immigrants, Kanan B. Mehta
"Cooking with Love": Food, Gender, and Power, Melinda Anne Mills
Narratives of Social Change in Rural Buryatia, Russia, Luis Ortiz-Echevarria
Eating Disorder Narratives: Personal Experiences of Anorexia and Bulimia, Veronica Ashley Przybyl
The Mehmooni and Diasporic Iranian Identities in Atlanta, Tina Rezvani
"Now I Turn the Remainder of the Service into the Hands of the Pulpit": Leadership in an African American Church, Kaniqua Robinson
Stitching Together: An Exploration of Women's Sociality Through an Urban Knitting Group, Gillian Barbara Ruland
Human Cranial Growth and Shape Change: Are Fetal Rates and Morphologies Extended Throughout the First Year of Life?, Dana J. Russell
Aging of the Lumbar Vertebrae Using Known Age and Sex Samples, April K. Smith
Analysis of Osteoarthritis on Appendicular Joint Surfaces in Known Age and Sex Samples from the Terry and Spitalfields Collections, Michelle Lynn Webb
Theses from 2009
Old Stories, New Narratives: Public Archaeology and the Politics of Display at Georgia's Official Southeastern Indian Interpretive Center, Erin Leigh Andrews
Embodied Identities: Negotiating the Self through Flamenco Dance, Pamela Ann Caltabiano
A Prison within a Prison: Segregation of HIV Positive Inmates and Double Stigma, Emily Hilyer Gaskin
Body, Speech and Mind: Negotiating Meaning and Experience at a Tibetan Buddhist Center, Amanda S. Woomer
Theses from 2008
Movement Against Disaster: An Ethnography of Post-Katrina Volunteerism in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, Patrick W. Huff
New Scenarios for Racial and Social Segregation in the Politics of Public Space and Social Fear, Angela Klepach
Being Italian American: Performing Ethnicity in Atlanta, Stephen Murray
Boys' Love and Female Friendships: The Subculture of Yaoi as a Social Bond between Women, Amy Ann O'Brien
The Effects of Antiretroviral Access on the Creation and Maintanence of HIV-Seropositive Identity., Kyle Patrick Peplinski
Riverfront Village and the Practice of Storage: A Subterranean Feature Analysis, Kim Wescott
Theses from 2007
"I am Not my Hair! Or am I?": Black Women's Transformative Experience in their Self Perceptions of Abroad and at Home, Yolanda Michele Chapman
Immigrant and Minority Student Visual Narratives of High School Dropout in Atlanta, Anahita Modaresi
Taxon, Site and Temporal Differentiation Using Dental Microwear in the Southern African Papionins, Darby Proctor
Theses from 2006
Agency and Transnationalism: Social Organization among African Immigrants in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area, Felicia Chigozie Anonyuo
Paleoecological Reconstructions of the South African Plio-Pleistocene Based on Low-Magnification Dental Microwear of Fossil Primates., Brian D. Carter
Foraging Responses to Nutritional Pressures in Two Species of Cercopithecines: Macaca mulatta and Papio ursinus, Gretchen A. Clymer
Museums in the Age of Neoliberalism: A Multi-Sited Analysis of Science and Health Museums., Taren Laine Dailey
The Wisconsin Hmong Resettlement Taskforce: An Ethnographic Analysis of Public Policy as a Cultural Process and Product, Karen Fink DeVivo
A Comparison of Change Detection Methods in an Urban Environment Using LANDSAT TM and ETM+ Satellite Imagery: A Multi-Temporal, Multi-Spectral Analysis of Gwinnett County, GA 1991-2000, Paul Alrik DiGirolamo
Identity as Politics, Politics as Identity: An Anthropological Examination of the Political Discourse on Same-Sex Marriage, Jeremy Jay Greenup
The Influence of Economic Factors on Black Migration to and within Metropolitan Atlanta, Walter Holmes Jr.
Influenza Prevalence in the US Associated with Climatic Factors, Analyzed at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales., Arie Ponce Manangan
The Past in the Present: Archaeology and Identity in a Historic African American Church, John Roby
Consumption Practices and Middle-Class Consciousness among Socially Aware Shoppers in Atlanta, Desiree Lynn Tabor
Theses from 2005
Geographic Analysis of Two Suburban Mega Church Congregations in Atlanta: A Distance and Demographic Study, Ulrike Krampe Ingram
Cartography, Discourse, and Disease: How Maps Shape Scientific Thought about Disease, Stacey L. Martin
Recovering a Sense of Place in the Edge City, Michael Chance Page
The Relationship Between High Ozone Days and Atmospheric Patterns in Atlanta, Georgia, Edward Eugene Unger
World War I and the Principle of National Self-Determination: A Closer Look at Kurdistan, Robbyn Michelle Usherwood
Development as Destruction; Geographic Analysis of Land Use Changes in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Carla Waldron
Spatial Precipitation Variability, Snowfall, and Historical Bison Occurrence in the Northwest United States, Heather Anna Williams