Graduate theses

Anthropology

2022

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

2021

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

2020

Ellis Codd (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Thesis: Applying Settlement Scaling at Copán: Furthering Exploration Into Ancient Maya Urban Dynamics

Sarah Ghannam (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis: Estimating Age from 2D and 3D Imaging of Skeletal Remains: an Assessment of Reliability Using the Medial Clavicle

Amy S. Peterson (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Thesis: When Leaders Surrender Their Divine Lineage: The Loss of Cosmic Connection Between Maya Local Lords and Their Supernatural Deities

Maxwell Rooney (Supervisor: William Belcher)

Thesis: Learning From Those Who Served: Application of Regression-Based Body Mass Estimation Methods to the U.S.S. Oklahoma Population

2019

Andrea Kruse (Supervisor: Phil Geib)

Thesis: Lithic Analysis of an Early Archaic Assemblage on the Great Plains: The Spring Creek Site

Sara Anderson(Supervisor: Carrie C. Heitman)

Thesis: Humeri Spatulate Tools Associations and Function in Chaco Canyon, NM

Ryan Mathisan (Supervisor: Phil Geib)

Thesis: OSL and Ceramic Analysis at the Humphrey Site

Anna Dempsey-Alves (Supervisor: Carrie C. Heitman)

Thesis: An Analysis of Ground Stone from the Basketmaker Communities Project in Montezuma County, Southwest Colorado

Brian C. Goodrich (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Thesis: The Search for Fort Lisa in the Vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska: A GIS Site Location Model

Cole F. Juckette (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Thesis: Using Virtual Reality and Remotely Sensed Data to Explore Object Identity and Embodiment in a Virtual Mayan City

2018

Graham Goodwin (Supervisor: Heather Richards-Rissetto)

Thesis: Modeling Sound in Ancient Maya Cities: Moving Towards a Synesthetic Experience using GIS & 3D Simulation

Amy Neumann (Supervisor: Effie Athanassopoulos)

Thesis: Life in Lincoln: Deciphering the Archaeological Material Culture of a Turn of the 20th Century Neighborhood

Jade L. Robison (Supervisor: Carrie C. Heitman)

Thesis: Referencing People and Places: Multivocality and the Materiality of Memory in Archaeological Landscapes

Rebecca A. Salem (Supervisor: Effie Athanassopoulos)

Thesis: Archaeology and Tourism in the Early 20th Century: Pompeii Through a Photographic Archive

2017

Kami Ahrens (Supervisor: Effie Athanassopoulos)

Thesis: Dressing the Part: Clothing and Gender Identity on the Frontier Artifacts from Steamboat Bertrand

Jonathan E. Ferguson (Supervisor: Raymond Hames)

Thesis: COFFEE QUALITY, LAND USE, AND PROCESSING IN THE CAJAMARCA REGION OF PERU

Livia A. Taylor (Supervisor: Emily Hammerl)

Thesis: Patterns of Variation in Deciduous Second and Permanent first Molars Among Chimpanzee Taxa

2016

Morgan C. Beyer (Supervisor: Effie Athanassapoulos)

Thesis: Metal and Glass: An Investigation of Possible Historic Period Native American Sites in Wind Cave National Park

Zachary Day (Supervisors: LuAnn Wandsnider & Matthew Douglass)

Thesis: Preliminary Studies in Using X-Ray Diffraction for Analyzing the Atomic Structure of Central Plains Tradition Constituents

Nora C. Greiman (Supervisors: LuAnn Wandsnider & Matthew Douglass)

Thesis: A Pilot Study for Examining Population Movement During the Peri-Medieval Climatic Anomaly in the Nebraska Sand Hills

Luke R. Hittner (Supervisors: LuAnn Wandsnider & Matthew Douglass)

Thesis: Meeting Halfway: Collaborative Public Outreach and Lithic Material Sourcing in the High Plains of Nebraska

Aaron C. Pattee (Supervisor: Effie Athanassopoulos)

Thesis: INTEGRATIVE 3D RECORDING METHODS OF HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE: BURG HOHENECKEN FROM SOUTHWEST GERMANY

Margaret Robinson (Supervisor: Carolyn Heitman)

Thesis: ILLUMINATING HOPEWELL LEGACY DATA: A CASE STUDY OF MOUND 23 AT HOPEWELL MOUND GROUP

2015

Michael Chodoronek (Supervisor: Matthew Douglass)

Thesis: The Use and Application of Photogrammetry for the In-field Documentation of Archaeological Features: Three Case Studies from the Great Plains and Southeastern Alaska

Maria G. Lapera (Supervisor: Daniel Osborne)

Thesis: Exploring the Evolutionary Origins of Obesity through the Endocrine-Physical Activity-Bone Axis

Allen J. Myhra (Supervisor: Daniel Osborne)

Thesis: Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Pan Frontal Bone Morphology