Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2020): After the End: Animal Economies, Collapse and Continuity in Hittite and Post-Hittite Anatolia.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2007): Animals, Agriculture, and Religion among Native Americans in Precontact Illinois: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Perception and Representation.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2018): Transforming the Irish Spirit: Colonialism through the Commodification of "Drinkways" in Early Modern Ireland, c. 1540-1700.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2015): The Archaeology of a Maroon Reduccion: Colonial Beginnings to Present Day Ruination.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (1998): Yula, Yucatan, Mexico: Terminal Classic Maya Settlement and Political Organization in the Chichen Itza Polity. 

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2019): Style, Aesthetics, and Politics: Polychrome Ceramic Iconography in the Tiwanaku Valley, AD 500-1100.

NELC

PhD dissertation (2017): Cultural Change in Upper Egypt from the late Middle Kingdom through the Second Intermediate Period: A New Analysis of the Ceramic Material.

Egyptology

PhD dissertation (2016): The Exploitation of Live Avian Resources in Pharaonic Egypt: A Socio-Economic Study.

Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World

PhD dissertation (1998): Amphibious Operations in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean and Near East.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2010): Socializing environments and ecologizing politics: Social differentiation and the production of nature in Iron Age northern Karnataka.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (1999): Elite Power Strategies and External Connections in Ancient Eastern Honduras. 

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (1999): Tiwanaku Regional Interaction and social Identity: A Bioarchaeological Approach.

Anthropology

PhD Dissertation (2018): Everything if Full of Gods: Representing Religion at the Edges of Empire

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2016): Performing the Past in the Historical, Ritual, and Mythological Landscapes of Huarochirí, Perú (ca. AD 1400-1700).

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2016): The Politics of Pasture: The Organization of Pastoral Practices and Political Authority in the Late Bronze Age in the South Caucasus.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2002): The construction of power : monumental space and elite residence at Tiwanaku, Bolivia.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (1999): Landscapes of India and the Ideology of Antiquity.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (1998): Reorganization and Intensification on the Mesopotamian Periphery: Late Prehistoric Ceramic Production and Exchange in the Karababa Basin, Southeastern Turkey.

NELC

PhD dissertation (2015): Narratives in the Landscape: Political Discourses of Authority and Identity in the Armenian Highland, ca. 200 B.C.E. – 200 C.E.

Classics

PhD dissertation (2002): Archaic Kerkyra: An Historiographic Examination of the Formation and Formulation of an Ancient Greek Polis.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2000): The Fate of Sacrifice and the Making of Wa History.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2016): This World is an Inn: Cosmopolitanism and Caravan Trade in late Medieval Armenia.

Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World

PhD dissertation (2006): The Use of Phoenician Infant Sacrifice in the Formation of Ethnic Identities.

History

PhD dissertation (2018): Strategies of Resistance: Cretan Archaeology and Political Networks During the Late 19th and Early 20th Century

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2000): Stone Tool Production in the Tiwanaku Heartland: The Impact of State Emergence and Expansion on Local Households.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2009): Lords of the Snowy Ranges: Politics, Place, and Landscape Transformation in Two Tairona Towns in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2016): A House in Waiting: Food and Hospitality on Antiguan Plantations, 1783-1904.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2011): The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition: Consumption, Tourism, and the Archaeology of Event in Chicago's Jackson Park.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2006): Economy and Society: An Archaeological Reconstruction of the Political and Informal Economy of Northwestern Syria in the Third Millennium BC. 

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2012): Effacing the "Imagined Slum": Space, Subjectivity, and Sociality in the Margins of New Orleans.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2013): The Social Lives of Pottery in the Plain of Flowers: An Archaeology of Ceramic Production, Distribution, and Consumption in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus.

NELC

PhD dissertation (2013): Early Bronze Age Hamoukar: A Settlement Biography.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2014): Monte Viudo: Residential Architecture and the Everyday Production of Space in a Chachapoya Village.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2018): Jain Monks, Merchants, and Kings in Early Historic South India.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2017): Institutionalizing Incorporation: Foodways, Sectarian Pluralism, and Royal Authority at the Capital Āśramas of Angkor, Cambodia.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2019): Community, Pottery, and Political Culture: Crafting the State in the Luoyang Basin, North China, 3000-1500 BCE

NELC

PhD dissertation (2012): Persepolis in context: A landscape study of political economy in ancient Persia.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2010): The Virtues of Vice: Colonialism, Consumption and the Politics of Identity in Late and Post-Medieval Galway, Ireland. 

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (1994): State and local power in a prehispanic Andean polity : changing patterns of urban residence in Tiwanaku and Lukurmata, Bolivia.

History

PhD dissertation (​2018): Producing a Province: Suburbanization and Agriculture in the Social Landscape of Roman Greece.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2009): A Political Economy of Space: Social Organization and the Production of an Iron Age Settlement Landscape in Northern Karnataka.

Classics: Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World

PhD dissertation (2012): Land of Experiment: The Ptolemies and the Development of Hellenistic Cyprus, 312–58 BC.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2010): Of Bricks and Blood: Vernacular Spatial Practice and Social Relations in the City of LaPaz, Bolivia. 

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2009): Becoming Inka: The Transformation of Political Place and Practice during Inka State Formation (Cusco, Perú).

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2014): Uneven Fields: Transnational Expertise and the Practice of Andean Archaeology.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2012): "Ajiwsin (You move from one place to another)": Mobility, Emplacement and Politics in (Post-)colonial Nova Scotia.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2005): Space and the Spice of Life: Food, Politics and Landscape in Ancient Yemen. 

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2009): Urban Landscape and Politics: The Making of Liao Cities in Southeast Inner Mongolia.

Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World

PhD dissertation (2004): The Sons of Earth and the Starry Heaven: Greek Theogonic Traditions and their Northwest Semitic Background.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (1998): The Senorio of Chiribaya: A Bio-archaeological Study In the Osmore Drainage of Southern Peru. 

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2011): Investigating the Material Dimensions of Colonialism: The Impact of the Roman State in Southern Gaul. 

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2014): Subject(ed) bodies: A bioarchaeological investigation of Late Bronze Age - iron I (1500-800 B.C.) Armenia.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2017): Values Materialized: An Interdisciplinary Archaeology of Socio-historical Transformation in the Celto-Germanic Iron Age and Roman Period.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2017): Moving Mosaics: Locating the Mobile Foundations of Chicago's Late Prehistoric Landscapes.

Classics: Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World

PhD dissertation (2016): A Doctor on the Clock: Hourly Timekeeping and Galen’s Scientific Method.

History of Science

PhD dissertation (1999): Redefining the Celts: Rival Disciplinary Traditions and the Peopling of the British Isles, 1706-1904,

Anthropology

PhD Dissertation (1999): Laetoli Pliocene Paleoecology: A Reanalysis via Morphological and Behavioral Approaches.

Classics: Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World

PhD dissertation (2014): A Hotbed of Healing: Ritual Cures in Roman and Late Antique Syria-Palestine.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2001): Immigrants and Indigenes: Morphological Variability and Irish-Viking Interactions in the Early Historic Period.

NELC

PhD dissertation (2011): Consuming Transitions: A Study of Ceramic Vessels Associated with Cooking and Serving Practices in the Levant during the Early Bronze to Middle Bronze Age Transition.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2014): Neighborhood Politics: Diversity, Community, and Authority at El Purgatorio, Peru.

Art History

PhD dissertation (2014): Locating Identity: Mixed Inscriptions and Multiple Media in Greek Art.

NELC

PhD dissertation (2015): Grain storage and the moral economy in Mesopotamia (3000-2000 BC).

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2007): Changing Technologies and Transformations of Value in the Eurasian Steppes and Caucasus, ca 3000-1500 BCE. 

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (1997): Microfaunal Indicators of Paleoenvironment from El Juyo, Santander, Spain. 

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2006): Political Pastures: Navigating the Steppe in the Middle Volga Region (Russia) during the Bronze Age.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2015): Spaces of Possession: Negotiating 'Ruin' at the Mexican Periphery.

Anthropology

PhD Dissertation (1995): Biological Correlates of Social Structure in the Early Bronze Age Cemetery at Mokrin (former Yugoslavia).

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2002): Food, Eating and Objects of Power: Class Stratification and Ceramic Production and Consumption in Colonial Mexico.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (1991): Realms of Ritual: The Form and Rise of Civitas and Urbs in Southeastern Viti Levu, Fiji.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2014): Imperial environments: The politics of agricultural practice at Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey in the first millennium BCE.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2004): Material Culture, Colonialism, and Identity in the Middle Orinoco, Venezuela. 2004 Edward Swenson, Ritual and Power in the Urban Hinterland: Religious Pluralism and Political Decentralization in Late Moche Jequetepeque, Peru.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2006): Picking Up the Pieces: Ceramic Production and Consumption on the Middle Orinoco

Colonial Frontier.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (1998): Ritual, Power, and the Development of a Complex society: The Island of the Sun and the Tiwanaku State. 

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2001): Bioarchaeological Analysis of St. Jorgensgard, A Medieval Leprosy Hospital in Odense, Denmark.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (1998): Material Culture and Behavioral Change: Organic Artifacts from the Site of El Juyo and the Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2019): In the Shadow of Industry: The Lively Decay of Mill Creek Ravine.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2006): Materializing Islam: An Archaeology of Landscape in Early Islamic Period Syria (c. 600- 1000 CE).

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2008): Between the Patterns of History: Rethinking Muaryan Imperial Interaction in the Southern Deccan.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2004): Ritual and Power in the Urban Hinterland: Religious Pluralism and Political Decentralization in Late Moche Jequetepeque, Peru.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2020): The Archaeology of Virtue: Tradition, Islam and the Materiality of Conversion in Medieval North India.

NELC

PhD dissertation (2004): Urbanism and Society in the Third Millennium Upper Khabur Basin.

History

PhD dissertation (2018): How to Move a God: Shifting Religion and Imperial Identities in Roman Athens.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (1993): The Role of the Camelid in the Development of Tiwanaku State.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2015): In the Shadow of the Cathedral: The production of urban landscapes, human environment interaction, and ruination in Velha Goa during Portuguese colonial occupation.

Anthropology

PhD Dissertation (1994): The Sacrifice of the Earth? Diet, Health and Inequality in the Pasion Maya Lowlands.

Anthropology

PhD dissertation (2019): Hybrid Objects and InterculturalL Assemblages: Low-Fired Handmade Earthenwares in Colonial New Orleans