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Dissertations from 2024
Behavior and Ecology of the Kinda baboon, Anna H. Weyher, Anthropology
THE POSSIBILITIES OF PROTOCOLS: PATHWAYS TO RELATIONAL KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN A SETTLER COLONIAL CONTEXT, Julie Woods, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2023
The Abolition of Care: An Engaged Ethnography of the Progressive Jail Assemblage, Justin Helepololei, Anthropology
PUBLIC HEALTH, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND TUBERCULOSIS OUTCOMES AMONGST WOMEN IN 19th-20th CENTURY CLEVELAND, Sarah Mathena, Anthropology
Sociocultural and familial factors associated with symptom experience at midlife among women in Nagaland, India, Peteneinuo Rulu, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2022
Reclaiming the future through Small-Scale Agriculture: Autonomy and Sustainability in the Caribbean, Dana M. Conzo, Anthropology
Violence and Indigenous Women in Mexico: Towards an Unsettled Feminist Ethnography of (in)Security, Ana Del Conde, Anthropology
BALL OR DIE: UNDERSTANDING BLACK MALE STUDENT-ATHLETE COUNTERSTORIES AT AN HWCU, Derek J. Doughty, Anthropology
Beyond Revolutionaries, Victims, and Heroic Mothers. Reproductive Politics in War and Peace in Colombia, Vanesa Giraldo Gartner, Anthropology
Rules of Recognition: Indigenous Encounters with Society and the State, Erica Kowsz, Anthropology
“ETHNICITY IN THE CLOUDS:” HERITAGE GOVERNANCE IN POST-DISASTER QIANG COMMUNITIES IN SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA, Ying Li, Anthropology
Digital Indigeneity: Digital Media's Uses for Identity Formation, Education, and Activism by Indigenous People in the Northeastern United States, Virginia A. McLaurin, Anthropology
NAHUATL DISCOURSES AND POLITICAL SPEECHES AS WAYS TO NEGOTIATE THE RACIAL MONOLINGUAL IDEOLOGY OF THE MEXICAN STATE IN HIDALGO, MEXICO, Vanessa Miranda Juárez, Anthropology
Blood for Bread: Kurdish Kolbers, State Violence, and Another Call for Militant Anthropology. (A Dissertation Portfolio), Ahmad Mohammadpour, Anthropology
The survivors of the train: disability, testimonio, and activism in migrants with disabilities, claudia j. morales, Anthropology
Making the Old City: Life Projects and State Heritage in Rhodes and Acre, Evan Taylor, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2021
Diversity and Evolution of Human Eccrine Sweat Gland Density, Andrew W. Best, Anthropology
Liberation and Gravy: An Engaged Ethnography of Queer and Trans Power in Georgia, Elias Capello, Anthropology
THE PROMISE OF EMPOWERMENT: REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, DECOLONIAL FEMINISMS, AND THE CASES OF FORCED STERILZIATION IN PERU, Julie Chaparro, Anthropology
A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE SYMPTOMS AND CAREGIVING IN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO, Eric Erastus Griffith, Anthropology
Above the Oxbow: The Construction of Place on Mount Holyoke, Danielle R. Raad, Anthropology
The Boundaries of Safety: The Sanctuary Movement in the Inland Empire, Cecilia I. Vasquez, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2020
Monitored Reproduction: Surveillance, Labor, and Care in Pro-Natalist Turkey, Seda Saluk, Anthropology
PARALLEL POLITICS: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE 2013 MEXICAN EDUCATION REFORM, Ashley Sherry, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2019
Production and Power at Idalion, Cyprus in the First Millennium BCE, Rebecca Bartusewich, Anthropology
Modeling the Local Political Economy of Adulis: 1000 BCE-700 ACE, Daniel Habtemichael, Anthropology
What Will You Do Here? Dignified Work and the Politics of Mobility in Serbia, Dana N. Johnson, Anthropology
RECOLLECTIONS: MEMORY, MATERIALITY, AND MERITOCRACY AT THE DR. JAMES STILL HISTORIC OFFICE AND HOMESTEAD, Marc Lorenc, Anthropology
The Political Work of Memory in Collaborative Caribbean Archaeology, Elena Sesma, Anthropology
The Politics of Return: Migration, Race, and Belonging in the Russian Far East, Lauren Woodard, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2018
Embodied Heritage: Obesity, Cultural Identity, and Food Distribution Programs in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Kasey Aliene Jernigan, Anthropology
LABOR MIGRATION AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE IN POSTSOCIALIST RURAL ROMANIA, Alin Rus, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2017
Can Long Bone Structural Variability Detect Among-Population Relationships?, Gina Agostini, Anthropology
On the Landscape for a Very, Very Long Time: African American Resistance and Resilience in 19th and Early 20th Century Massachusetts, Anthony Martin, Anthropology
Who Ate the Subfossil Lemurs? A Taphonomic and Community Study of Raptor, Crocodylian and Carnivoran Predation of the Extinct Quaternary Lemurs of Madagascar., Lindsay Meador, Anthropology
POTTERS ON THE PENOBSCOT: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL CASE STUDY EXPLORING HUMAN AGENCY, IDENTITY, AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHOICE, Bonnie D. Newsom, Anthropology
The effects of industrialization and urbanization on growth and development: A comparison of boys and girls from three Industrial European skeletal collections, Sarah Reedy, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2016
A Conflict of Interest? Negotiating Agendas, Ethics, and Consequences Regarding the Heritage Value of Human Remains, Heidi J. Bauer-Clapp, Anthropology
Change of Sight, Sites of Creativity: The Visual Arts in Albania after Socialism, Sofia Kalo, Anthropology
Clay Pot Cookery: Dairy, Diet and Class during the South Levantine Iron Age II Period, Mary K. Larkum, Anthropology
Ideological Conflict Embedded in Anthropology and the Road to Restructuring the Discipline, Donna L. Moody, Anthropology
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Development, Implementation, and Sustainability of a Safe Infant Sleep Education Campaign in Springfield, MA, Julie Skogsbergh, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2015
Uncovering and Recovering Cleared Galloway: The Lowland Clearances and Improvement in Scotland, Christine B. Anderson, Anthropology
Illegal Hunting on the Masoala Peninsula of Madagascar: Its Extent, Causes, and Impact on Lemurs and Humans, Cortni Borgerson, Anthropology
Ts'msyen Revolution: The Poetics and Politics of Reclaiming, Robin R. R. Gray, Anthropology
The Political Ecology of Early Childhood Lead Exposure at the New York African Burial Ground, Joseph Jones, Anthropology
An Ethnography of African Diasporic Affiliation and Disaffiliation in Carriacou: How Anglo-Caribbean Preadolescent Girls Express Attachments to Africa, Valerie Joseph, Anthropology
From Green Economies to Community Economies: Economic Possibility in Massachusetts, Boone W. Shear, Anthropology
On Belonging, Difference and Whiteness: Italy's Problem with Immigration, Flavia Stanley, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2014
Palm Trees y Nopales: The Commodification and Hybridization of the South Texas Borderlands, Andriana M. Foiles Sifuentes, Anthropology
Searching for a Praxis of Possibility: Civic Engagement and the Corporatized University, Deborah Keisch, Anthropology
Curious Monuments of the Simplest Kind: Shell Midden Archaeology in Massachusetts, Katharine Vickers Kirakosian, Anthropology
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF TWO CASE STUDIES HIGHLIGHTING COMMUNITY-RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS IN SPRINGFIELD, MA, Vanessa Martinez, Anthropology
Loss of Cell Surface aGal during Catarrhine Evolution: Possible Implications for the Evolution of Resistance to Viral Infections and for Oligocene Lineage Divergence, Idalia Aracely Rodriguez, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2013
Framed: Native American Represtations in Contempoary Visual Mediums, Marta Carlson, Anthropology
Mind The Gap: Materiality of Gendered Landscapes in Deerfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1870 - ca. 1920, Elizabeth Ann Harlow, Anthropology
Continuity in the Face of Change: Mashantucket Pequot Plant Use From 1675-1800 A.D., Kimberly Carol Kasper, Anthropology
An Archaeology Of Improvement In Rural New England: Capitalism, Landscape Change, and Rural Life In The Early 19th Century, Quentin Lewis, Anthropology
Contested Subjects: Biopolitics & the Moral Stakes of Social Cohesion in Post-Welfare Italy, Milena Marchesi, Anthropology
Knuckle-Walking Signal in the Manual Phalanges and Metacarpals of the Great Apes (Pan and Gorilla), Stacey Ann Matarazzo, Anthropology
Inhabiting Spaces, Making Places: Creating a Spatial and Material Biography of David Ruggles, Linda M Ziegenbein, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2012
Biocultural Perspectives on Gender, Transitions, Stress, and Immune Function, Leo Zachary DuBois, Anthropology
Orientations of the heart: Exploring hope & diversity in undergraduate citizenship education, Mary Hannah Henderson
Virtual Black Spaces: An Anthropological Exploration of African American Online Communities' Racial and Political Agency Amidst Virtual Universalism, Kamela S Heyward, Anthropology
Remaking the Political in Fortress Europe: Political Practice and Cultural Citizenship in Italian Social Centers, Angelina Ione Zontine, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2011
A Question of Comfort: Race, Whiteness, and the Creation of Diverse, Inclusive, and Engaged Learning Environments, H. Elizabeth Braun, Anthropology
Politics by Other Means: Rhizomes of Power in Argentina's Social Movements, Graciela G. Monteagudo, Anthropology
The Human Factor In Mouse Lemur (Microcebus Griseorufus) Conservation: Local Resource Utilization And Habitat Disturbance At Beza Mahafaly, SW Madagascar, Emilienne Rasoazanabary, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2010
Reproductive Biology of Mouse and Dwarf Lemurs of Eastern Madagascar, With an Emphasis on Brown Mouse Lemurs (Microcebus rufus) at Ranomafana National Park, A Southeastern Rainforest, Marina Beatriz Blanco, Anthropology
Increasing the scale of inquiry: A GIS approach to archaeology, environment and landscape during the early Holocene in Central Massachusetts, Kathryn Curran
That Which Is Not What It Seems: Queer Youth, Rurality, Class and the Architecture of Assistance, Kaila Gabrielle Kuban, Anthropology
New England Terrestrial Settlement in a Submerged Context: Moving Pre-Contact Archaeology into the Twenty First Century, Kerry J. Lynch, Anthropology
Making Peace On The Island Of Love: An Ethnographic Exploration Of Peacebuilding In Cyprus., Lisa Modenos, Anthropology
Breastfeeding and the Individual: The Impact of Everyday Stressful Experience and Hormonal Change on Breastfeeding Duration Among Women in São Paulo, Brazil, Alanna Emilia Frances Rudzik, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2009
High Stakes: A Poly-Communal Archaeology Of The Pocumtuck Fort, Deerfield, Massachusetts, Siobhan M Hart, Anthropology
Cold Spring, Hot Foundry: An Archaeological Exploration of the West Point Foundry’s Paternal Influence Upon the Village of Cold Spring and its Residents, Elizabeth M. Norris, Anthropology
From “Spanish choices” to Latina /o voices: Interrogating technologies of language, race, and identity in a self -serving American moment, Ramon Solorzano
The Adoption of Shamanic Healing into the Biomedical Health Care System in the United States, Lori L. Thayer, Anthropology
“To Promote, Encourage Or Condone:” Science, Activism And The Political Role Of Moralism In The Formation Of Needle Exchange Policy In Springfield, Massachusetts, 1998–2005, Jon E Zibbell, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2008
Unwrapping the anatomical gift: Donors, cadavers, students, Carol N Coan
“Driven” women: Gendered moral economies of women's migrant labor in postsocialist Europe's peripheries, Leyla J Keough
From infancy to death? An examination of the African burial ground in relation to Christian eighteenth century beliefs, Ruth Annette Mathis
Dissertations from 2007
Towards the within: Visual culture, performance, and aesthetics of acupuncture, Kevin Taylor Anderson
Historical erasure and cultural recovery: Indigenous people in the Connecticut River Valley, Margaret M Bruchac
Localization of central vasopressin V1A receptors in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), Diane M Toloczko
The Croatian public sphere and the journalistic milieu, Richard Wallace
Dissertations from 2006
Chronic pain and working women in Berkshire County: Towards a critical physical therapy, James R Brennan
An integrative analysis of how zinc in teeth reflects maternal environments and predicts infant function in a rural Mexican community, Alexis E Dolphin
Breastfeeding and bone density change, Karen L Pearce
The house of the jaguar: The engaged anthropology of Gertrude Duby Blom at Museo Na Bolom, Mary L Robison
Good Fridays, Celtic Tigers and the Drumcree Church Parade: Media, politics and the state in Northern Ireland, Thomas H Taaffe
Archaeology and normalcy: Disciplining a discipline, Joannah L Whitney
Dissertations from 2005
Negotiating power: A new discourse of the maquiladora industry in Ciudad Juarez, James H Hamm
From scientific risk to paysan savoir -faire: Divergent rationalities of science and society in the French debate over GM crops, Chaia L Heller
The formulation of Turkish immigrant subjectivities in the German region of Swabia, Tilman Lanz
American Indian identity: The Menominee experience, Carol N Nepton
Dissertations from 2004
Confronting the tribal zone: Toward a critical ethnohistory of colonial state formation in San Juan through the system of encomiendas, 1509–1520, Gabriel De La Luz-Rodriguez
Of visions and sorrows: Manuel Quintín Lame's Indian thought and the violences of Colombia, Monica Espinosa Arango
Contested place, nature, and sustainability: A critical anthropo -geography of biodiversity conservation in the “Zona Maya” of Quintana Roo, Mexico, Jose Eduardo Martinez-Reyes