Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Histories of Stress: a Life Course Approach to Population Health in Late Medieval and Early Modern Berlin, Emily Brennan
British Fortification Strategy in the South Carolina Backcountry During the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Infrastructure and Landscape, Charles Brian Mabelitini
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Structure V-1: A Mississippian Mica Workshop In Kershaw County, South Carolina, John McLellan Dodge
Sex Differentials in Frailty in Medieval Ireland, Allison Claire Ham
A User Needs Assessment For Snowvision/World Engraved, Sam Toren McDorman
“It Looks Like the Future but Feels Like the Past”: Oral (Hi)Stories of Appalachia as COVID-19 News Stories, Ashley Reid McGraw
Ciento Ochenta Grados: South Carolina Promotores de Salud and the COVID-19 Pandemic, Richard Lyle Strater
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
“That Was Denied Thee on Earth”: An Intersectional Bioarchaeology of Institutionalized Euro-American Women Throughout 19th and 20th-Century America, Madeline Maria Atwell
African Seminole Settlement Ecologies of Early Nineteenth Century Florida, Jordan E. Davis
Dying of Pestilence: Gender, Stature, and Mortality From the Black Death in 14th Century Kyrgyzstan, David Wayne Hansen II
“Whoz Ya People?”: Defining Lumbee Citizenship and Belonging in the 21st Century, Timothy Blake Hite
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Inescapable Effects of Discourse as Knowledge and Power: Refugee Youth’s Resistance to “The System” in Pursuit of Higher Education, Fallon Puckett
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Shaftesbury's Atlantis, Andrew Agha
Place-Making Through Performance: Spoken Word Poetry and the Reclamation of “Chocolate City”, Tiffany Marquise Jones
Hunter-Gatherer Behavior at Dorn Levee #1 (38FA608): An Analysis of Lithic Assemblage Formation at a South Carolina Piedmont Site, Robert Altom Cesarini Lyerly
Puruhá Fashion as Aesthetic Sovereignty: Identity Making and Indigenous Dress in Ecuador, Anaïs M. Parada
The Effects of Racialization on Skeletal Manifestations of Disease Among Migrants in Historic ST. Louis, Missouri, Kristina M. Zarenko
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
A Choice to Engage: Selective Marginality and Dynamic Households on the 18th-19th Century Irish Coast, Meagan Conway
¡Tú No Eres Fácil!: Styling Black Hair and Language in a Dominican Beauty Salon, Amber Teresa Domingue
Creating a Place: Mulberry Site (38KE12) Interpretation and Exhibition, Abigail Geedy
African American Hair and Beauty: Examining Afrocentricity and Identity Through the Reemergence and Expression of Natural Hair in the 21st Century, Tiffany Nicole Peacock
The Intersections of Health and Wealth: Socioeconomic Status, Frailty, and Mortality in Industrial England, Samantha Lee Yaussy
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Ground Truthing: The Politics And Culture Of Soil And Water Conservation In Iowa Agriculture, Brianna Farber
That Diabolical Traffic: Archaeological Explorations of the Nineteenth Century Slave Trade in Coastal Guinea, Katherine Goldberg
The Walking Debt: Surviving An Outbreak Of Predatory Lending, Arya Novinbakht
East Branch of the Cooper River, 1780-1820: Panopticism and Mobility, Lisa Briggitte Randle
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Embodied Madness: Contextualizing Biological Stress Among 19th and 20th-Century Institutionalized Euro-American Women, Madeline M. Atwell
The Middle Stone Age in West Africa: Lithics from the Birimi Site in Northern Ghana, Agatha Kenda Baluh
A Critical Analysis of the Effects of Language Policy, Curriculum, and Assessment on Arabic L1 Student Performance in an Esl 1 Classroom, Juliane Bilotta
A Functional Analysis of Yadkin Bifaces in the Middle Savannah River Valley, Jessica M. Cooper
Paleodemographic and Biochemical Analysis of Urbanization, Famine, and Mortality, Brittany S. Walter
Modeling Early Archaic Mobility and Subsistence: Evaluating Resource Risk Across The South Carolina Landscape, Joseph E. Wilkinson
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Sifting Through The Sand: Adaptive Flexibility In The Middle Archaic Occupations Of The Sandhills Province Of South Carolina, Audrey Rachel Dawson
A Spectacle Of The Odd: Constructing Otherness In The Odditoriums Of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!, Sarah Haughenbury
The Cultural Politics Of Affective Bureaucracy In Service Delivery To North Korean Refugees In South Korea, Seo Yeon Park
Enslaved Labor In The Gang and Task Systems: A Case Study In Comparative Bioarchaeology Of Commingled Remains, William D. Stevens
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Beyond Ideals: Proslavery Reforms on a Nineteenth-Century Cotton Plantation, Kevin R. Fogle
Negotiating The Interconnections of Sociality, Identity, Fan Activism And Connectivity Within The Twilight Community, Amy A. O’Brien
Framing Death: Politics, Meaning, and the Strategic Communication of Organ Donation Messages in South Carolina, Jeremy T. VanderKnyff
Frailty, Famine, and Plague: Crisis Mortality in Medieval London, Samantha Lee Yaussy
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Identifying Identity: An Archaeological Investigation of the Intersection of Place and Identity at an African American Lowcountry Site, Katherine Elisabeth Goldberg
Embodying Ritual Performance: An Iconographic Analysis of Burial 38 at the Etowah Site, Amy M. Goldstein
Anthropogenic Ecological Impacts of 17th and 18th Century Chickasaw Through a Study of Faunal Remains, Marybeth Harte
Going Up the Country: A Comparison of Elite Ceramic Consumption Patterns in Charleston and the Carolina Frontier, Rebecca E. Shepherd
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Shifting Landscapes: the Social and Economic Development of Aqaba, Jordan, Kimberly K. Cavanagh
Ruminating on Ruminants: Goats and the People Who Raise Them in South Carolina, Brianna Dyan Farber
Congeries In the Backcountry, James Andrew Stewart
An Analysis of Lead Shot from Fort Motte, 2004-2012: Assessing Combat Behavior in Terms of Agency, Stacey Renae Whitacre
`Open' for Collective Business: The Governance of Contemporary Economic Cooperatives in a Corporate Q'EQCHI' Maya Town, Michael Frederic Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
"Freedom From Camps": Housing and Power In theExperience of Sri Lankan Long-Term Refugees In India, Sasikumar Balasundaram
Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 38Bk1633, Walter Allen Clifford IV
Capitalist Entrepreneurs and Industrial Slavery in the Rural Antebellum South, Brooke Elizabeth Kenline
Reinterpreting Reproduction: An Ethnography Discourses, Ideologies, and Practices among Midwifery Participants In South Carolina, Christy Kollath
Back from Costa Rica: A Perspective on Migration from Nicaraguan Sending Communities, Micah Kristin Sorum
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Using Media-Based Representations of Reproductive Health Choices to Discuss the Real and Ideal Experiences of Latina Women, Jessica Bichler
Colonoware, Creolization, and Interactions Between African Americans and Native Americans During the Colonial Period in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Martha Brooke Brilliant
"A Democracy of Goods": An Archaeology of Commodity Landscapes in Columbia, South Carolina, 1870-1930, Jakob Crockett
Reconnecting the Physical and Cultural Landscapes At the Hampton-Preston Mansion In Columbia, South Carolina, Helena Lopez Ferguson
Photovoice With Persons Affected by Tuberculosis Intervening In the Bio-Political Spheres of Communicability: A Study of the Circulation of Power, Romel Saulog Lacson
Cultural Pluralism, Migration and Ceramics: Reconsidering An Eighteenth Century Yuchi Settlement On the Savannah River (9Ef169), Maggie Marie Needham
The Ashley Series as Native American Persistence: Lowcountry Indians in the Period of European Expansion, James Allan Nyman
Cultural Politics of South Korean Ngos In Neoliberal Era, seo yeon Park
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Candles, Co-Ops and Credit Funds: Exploring the Matrix of Grassroots Development Strategies in a Dominican Batey, Kristen E.G. Hudgins
That Belongs In A Museum: Archaeology and Audiences, Erika Heimbrook Shofner
Archaeological Perspectives On Partisan Communities: Francis Marion At Snow'S Island In History, Landscape, And Memory, Steven Donald Smith
Cassava, Coconut and Curry: Food and National Identity in Post-Colonial Fiji, Craig Spurrier
Investigation of the Effects of Timber Harvest On Artifact Locations, Sean Garett Taylor
A Ceramic Vessel Function Analysis and Foodways Approach to the Late Woodland/Mississippian Interface in Kershaw County, South Carolina, Jeremy Allen Vanier
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Structural Violence of Sterilization: Politics of Sterilization In the Plantation Tamil Communities of Sri Lanka, Sasikumar Balasundaram
Maize Consumption In Pre-Tarascan Michoacán: Dental Caries In Two Classic Period Sites In Guayangareo Valley, Elizabeth Bell
A Techno-Functional Analysis of Early Archaic Lithic Production Debris: Assessing Technological Practice and Settlement in the Middle Savannah River Valley of South Carolina, David Edward Rigtrup
An Analysis of Architecture and Power in the Ceremonial Centers of the South Appalachian Mississippian Built Environment, Christopher Louis Thornock