recent alumni
Sarah Adcock
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 (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.
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 (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.
Anne Cunningham
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (1999): Landscapes of India and the Ideology of Antiquity.
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 (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.
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 (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.
Anthropology
PhD dissertation (2017): Institutionalizing Incorporation: Foodways, Sectarian Pluralism, and Royal Authority at the Capital Āśramas of Angkor, Cambodia.
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.
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 (2005): Space and the Spice of Life: Food, Politics and Landscape in Ancient Yemen.
Hu Lin
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 (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.