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Graduate Theses

2022

Anthropology

Trent Carney (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Thesis: Insular Interconnectivity in the Viking Age: A Geospatial View from Norse Jarlshof

William Darwin Hertzel (Supervisor: Phil Geib)

Thesis: A Fusion of Microscopy Technique in Human Coprolite Analysis: The Dyck Cliff Dwelling and the Arid West Cave

Gabrielle Mace (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis: Implications of Ancestry Estimation: An analysis of identification rates in unidentified persons cases

Mason McKinney (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis: TRACKING AND ESTIMATING THE COMMINGLING OF MISSING U.S. SERVICE PERSONNEL: A GIS AND FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH

Brianna Petersen (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis: Systematic Stress in Mid-Century American Military Service Members: The Impact of Socioeconomic Status and Military Service Length on the Human Skeleton

Andrea Sbei (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis: Odontometric Sex Estimation Using a Modern Forensic Skeletal Collection

Erik Schulz (Supervisor: Sophia Perdikaris)

Thesis: Teaching Pedagogy of On-Line versus In-Person Learning: Relative to Osteology

Geography

Morgan Ryan (Supervisor: Robert Shepard)

Thesis: Reexamining the Desert: A Study of Place-Based

Victoria Alapo (Supervisor: David Wishart)

Dissertation: The Spatial Organization of Pre-Colonial African Kingdoms: The Empires of Ethiopia and Mali

Carissa Dowden (Supervisor: Rebecca Buller)

Thesis: Commemorating the Past: Nebraska Museum Practices in Interpreting, Memorializing, and Mythologizing History

Will Helmer (Supervisor: David J. Wishart)

Thesis: Film and the Making of a Modern Nebraska (1895-1920): A Historical Geography

Christy Hyman (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Dissertation: Contested Space: Mobilities, Networks, and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Great Dismal Swamp

2021

Anthropology

Olivia Thomsen (Supervisor: Carrie Heitman)

Thesis: Women and the Mealing Room: Presenting a Comparative Analysis of Female Spaces Across the Chacoan Landscape

Ruth Grady (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Thesis: Expedient GIS and 3D Technology to Promote Public Awareness of European Crypts as Digital Heritage

Bailey Oettel (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis: Quantification of the Mincer et al. 1993 Method of Age Estimation for the Purpose of Increasing the Reliability and Accuracy of Scores Within the System

Jessica Smith (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis: Recovery Method for Mites Discovered in Mummified Human Tissue

June Weber (Supervisor: Effie Athanassopoulos)

Thesis: Urbanization of the Salt Plains: Early Industry and Material Culture of the Kauffman Neighborhood

Geography

Glenn Humphress (Supervisor: David J. Wishart)

Dissertation: Votes and Voters in Time and Space: The Changing Landscape of Political Party Support in Kentucky, 1974-2020

James Baker (Supervisor: David J. Wishart)

Dissertation: For Meeting Up Again: Getting Stuck and Unstuck in Time-Spaces of COVID-19