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Graduate Programs in Anthropology - Regulations and Procedures

2022

• Antonelli, Caroline E., committee: Marilyn Masson (chair), Robert Rosenswig, Timothy Hare, dissertation: The subsistence economy in urban Mayapán : sustainability and resiliency through diversity
• de la Cruz, Abelardo de la Cruz, committee: Louise M. Burkhart (chair), Walter E. Little, John F. Schwaller, Alan R. Sandstrom, dissertation: Motiochihuanih: Catechists and prayer specialists as religious leaders brokering 'el costumbre' Nahua in Chicontepec, Veracruz, position: Náhuatl Instructor, World Languages and Cultures, The University of Utah
• Lee, Ramon K., committee: Jennifer L. Burrell (chair), James Collins, Elise Andaya, Amanishekete Ani, dissertation: Visions and seeds of change: Pathways to defining and seeking liberation, position: Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Spelman College
• Primeau, Kristy E., committee: Sean M. Rafferty (chair), Christopher B. Wolff, David E. Witt, dissertation: A GIS approach to landscape scale archaeoacoustics

2021

• Appelhans, Sarah E., committee: Elise L. Andaya (chair), Atsushi Akera, Jennifer Burrell, James Collins, dissertation: Flexible lives on engineering's 'Bleeding edge': Gender, migration and belonging in the semiconductor industry, position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Bucknell University
• Dinkel, Rebecca A., committee: Aaron Broadwell and John Justeson (co-chairs), James Collins, David Mora-Marín, dissertation: The materiality of metaphor in Mayan hieroglyphic texts : metaphor in changing political climates, position: Lecturer and Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, University at Albany
• Holdsworth, Elizabeth A., committee: Lawrence M. Schell (chair), Allison A. Appleton, Elise L. Andaya, dissertation: Intergenerational embodiment of stress: How the broader sociocultural environment can shape child growth and development , position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University
• Rodriguez, Jamilläh Shäntel, committee: Lauren Clemens (chair), Lee Bickmore, Laura McPherson, George Aaron Broadwell, dissertation: The phonology and syntax of grammatical tone in Copala Triqui , position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Linguistics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Schafer, Jerred Klint, committee: Adam D. Gordon (chair), Julia Jennings, Timothy B. Gage, Joanna M. Setchell, dissertation: The evolution of sex differences in mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx): Micro- and macroevolution
• Somers, Jessica, committee: Elise L. Andaya (chair), Kendra Smith-Howard, Lawrence M. Schell, dissertation: Tick bites and blood relations: Regional relationships and interpretations of lyme disease risk in New York's Hudson River Corridor , position: Academic Advisor, Human Biology, University at Albany

2020

• Arango-Londoño, José Alejandro, committee: Elise L. Andaya (chair), Jennifer L. Burrell, Barbara Sutton, dissertation: Real men don't get lipos: Gender, political economy, and biomedicine in Colombia's male beauty industry , position: Gender-Based Violence Prevention Specialist, New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence
• Horowit-Hendler, Sharone, committee: James Collins (chair), Brooke Foucault Welles, Elise L. Andaya, dissertation: Navigating the binary: Gender presentation of non-binary individuals
• Núñez-Cortés, Yajaira, committee: Robert M. Rosenswig (chair), Marilyn A. Masson, Verónica Pérez Rodríguez, Silvia Salgado, dissertation: Economy, exchange, and political power at Lomas Entierros, Central Pacific Costa Rica , position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• Vavrasek, Jessica L., committee: Sean M. Rafferty (chair), Marilyn A. Masson, Christina Rieth, dissertation: Interactions between Jefferson County Iroquoian women and men as explored through social network analysis of pottery and pipe decorative motif traits

2019

• Bryant, Jeffrey M., committee: Robert M. Rosenswig (chair), Marilyn A. Masson, Sean M. Rafferty, dissertation: Tribute from the underworld: The historical ecology of the Maya postclassic fish trade with isotopic analysis of otoliths from Mayapán and Caye Coco
• Campbell, Jessica L., committee: Sean M. Rafferty (chair), Lisa Anderson, Timothy Gage, Wendy McQuade, Recai Yucel, dissertation: Bayesian analysis in adult skeletal age-at-death estimation, with additional consideration of pathological variables
• Ferguson, Josalyn M., committee: Marilyn A. Masson (chair), Robert M. Rosenswig, Debra Walker, dissertation: Migration, resettlement, and transition in the aftermath of the Maya collapse: A case study of a terminal classic Maya community in Northern Belize , position: Archaeologist, New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
• Sheedy, Crystal A., committee: Walter E. Little (chair), John Justeson, James Collins, dissertation: The everyday sacred: A symbolic analysis of contemporary Yucatec Maya women's daily realities , position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology & Sociology, University of South Dakota
• Tandon, Indrakshi, committee: Elise L. Andaya (chair), Jennifer Burrell, Robert W. Jarvenpa, dissertation: "We get nothing": An ethnography of participatory development and gender mainstreaming in a water project for the Bhil of Central India , position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, American University in Dubai
• Watson, Jessica E., committee: Sean M. Rafferty (chair), Marilyn A. Masson, Verónica Pérez Rodríguez, Christina Rieth, Christopher Wolff, dissertation: Human interactions with the late Holocene landscape on Martha's Vineyard

2018

• Berg, Kimberly Anne, committee: Walter E. Little (chair), Louise M. Burkhart, Patricia Pinho, dissertation: Exemplary Welshness: The role of the transnational Welsh heritage network and being Welsh in Patagonia , position: Program Planner, New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council
• Leo, Aaron, committee: James Collins (chair), Jennifer Burrell, Margaret Sheehy, Kristen Wilcox, dissertation: Aspiration, attainment, and assimilation: A critical ethnography of newcomer youth in an American high school
• Loucks, Jordon Douglas, committee: Sean M. Rafferty (chair), Michael T. Lucas, Robert M. Rosenswig, dissertation: Lock, hull, wheel, and rail: An archaeological study of the construction of ethnicity and industry in New York

2017

• Clark, Andrew J., committee: Sean M. Rafferty (chair), Marilyn A. Masson, Larry J. Zimmerman, dissertation: Landscape of war: A spatial analysis of village settlements in the middle Missouri subregion of the North American Great Plains
• Ledogar, Sarah Heins, committee: Marilyn A. Masson (chair), Robert S. Feranec, Gwyn D. Madden, Robert M. Rosenswig, Stuart Swiny, dissertation: A zooarchaeological and geochemical analysis of the faunal remains from the Tripolye Site Verteba Cave, Ukraine
• Leeming, Benjamin H., committee: Louise M. Burkhart (chair), David Carrasco, Walter E. Little, dissertation: Aztec Antichrist: Christianity, transculturation, and apocalypse on stage in two sixteenth-century Nahuatl dramas
• Mendelsohn, Rebecca R., committee: Robert M. Rosenswig (chair), Marilyn A. Masson, Sean M. Rafferty, dissertation: Resilience and interregional interaction at the early Mesoamerican city of Izapa: The formative to classic period transition , position: Co-Director of University Museums and Curator of the Longyear Museum of Anthropology; Research Affiliate and Instructor in Sociology and Anthropology, Colgate University
• Spriggs, Amanda Nicole, committee: Adam D. Gordon (chair), Brenda J. Bradley, Julia A. Jennings, David S. Strait, Suzanne G. Strait, dissertation: Evolution of lemur pelage color variation , position: Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University at Albany

2016

• Carioto, Jeanette, committee: Sean M. Rafferty (chair), Walter E. Little, Robert M. Rosenswig, dissertation: Exploring mortuary behaviors during the Rural Cemetery Movement in the Capital District of New York State
• Díaz Montejo, María M., committee: Walter E. Little (chair), Louise M. Burkhart, Jennifer L. Burrell, John M. Watanabe, dissertation: Jakaltek identity and the Fiesta Maya in Jupiter, Florida: Ethnic belonging, community, and home , position: Lecturer, Department of History and Geography, University of Central Oklahoma
• El Kotni, Mounia, committee: Jennifer L. Burrell (chair), Elise Andaya, Walter E. Little, dissertation: "Porque tienen mucho derecho": Parteras, biomedical training and the vernacularization of human rights in Chiapas , position: Post-Doctorante en Anthropologie, Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé, Santé Mentale, Société (CERMES3)
• Nadeau, Jaclyn, committee: Sean M. Rafferty (chair), Hetty Jo Brumbach, Marilyn A. Masson, dissertation: Rethinking settlement and mobility models in Eastern New York , position: Biology Teacher, Arturo A Schomburg Satellite Academy Bronx
• Paling, Jason S. R., committee: Marilyn A. Masson (chair), Francisco Estrada-Belli, John S. Justeson, Sean M. Rafferty, Robert M. Rosenswig, dissertation: Leaving no stone unturned: Investigating Preclassic lithic production, consumption, and exchange at San Estevan, Belize and K'o and Hamontún, Guatemala , position: Teaching Lecturer, Anthropology, Plymouth State University
• Ravenscroft, Julia, committee: Lawrence M. Schell (chair), Deborah L. Crooks, Gail H. Landsman, dissertation: Environmental contamination and the transformation of food choice, dietary patterns, and health in adolescents from the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne , position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky
• Tamtomo, Kristian, committee: James Collins (chair), George Aaron Broadwell, J. Joseph Errington, dissertation: The push and pull of language ideologies: Multilingual communicative practices among youths in an Indonesian city

2015

• Ek, Jerald D., committee: Marilyn A. Masson (chair), William Folan, Robert M. Rosenswig, Michael E. Smith, dissertation: Resilience in the midst of collapse: A regional case study of socio-ecological dynamics in the Río Champotón Drainage, Campeche, Mexico , position: Senior Instructor of Anthropology, Western Washington University
• Ledogar, Justin A., committee: David S. Strait (chair), Adam D. Gordon, Barth W. Wright, dissertation: Human feeding biomechanics: Intraspecific variation and evolution , position: Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences, East Tennessee State University
• Robinson, Francis W., IV, committee: Hetty Jo Brumbach (chair), Robert W. Jarvenpa, Jonathan C. Lothrop, Sean M. Rafferty, Robert M. Rosenswig, dissertation: The initiation and maintenance of the Early Woodland interaction sphere (ca. 3,000-2,000 B.P.): The view from six northeastern mortuary sites , position: Vermont State Archaeologist and Lecturer in Anthropology, The University of Vermont
• Smith, Amanda L., committee: David S. Strait (chair), dissertation: Examining the craniofacial biomechanics of Paranthropus boisei , position: Assistant Professor of Anatomy, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences
• Tamvada, Kelli Hamm, committee: David S. Strait (chair), Sharon N. DeWitte, Adam D. Gordon, dissertation: The biomechanical and behavioral significance of the Neanderthal femur , position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Russell Sage College

2014

• Karsten, Jordan K., committee: Sean M. Rafferty (chair), Adam D. Gordon, Gwyn Madden, dissertation: A biocultural perspective on the transition to agriculture in Ukraine , position: Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Global Religions and Cultures, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
• Kushnet, Marvin W., committee: Stuart Swiny and Andrew Meadows (co-chairs), John C. Overbeck, Sean M. Rafferty, dissertation: Coinage and imported Greek pottery as comparative indicators of economy in 6th through 4th century B.C. Cyprus
• Nachilongo, Mwaka, committee: Jennifer L. Burrell (chair), Elise L. Andaya, Louise M. Burkhart, dissertation: Refugee protection and assistance: Locating gender in refugee policies, programs, and experiences , position: Personnel Associate, Human Resources Management, University at Albany
• Navarro-Castillo, Marx, committee: Robert M. Rosenswig (chair), John S. Justeson, Marilyn A. Masson, Hector Neff, dissertation: Household economies: The production and consumption of Plumbate at Miguel Alemán, the Conquista Campesina Complex and the Piñuela complex
• Nicholls, Heidi J., committee: Walter E. Little (chair), Robert W. Jarvenpa, Kevin J. Williams, dissertation: Dialogic festivity: Tourism, diaspora, and the hybridization of being and becoming , position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Global Religions and Cultures, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
• Preble, Christine, committee: Walter E. Little (chair), Jennifer L. Burrell, Quetzil E. Castaneda, Patricia de Santana Pinho, dissertation: Imperial consumption, cruise ship tourism and Cozumel, Mexico , position: Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Salisbury University
• Vázquez Leiva, Ricardo, committee: Robert M. Rosenswig (chair), Robert M. Carmack, Marilyn A. Masson, dissertation: Turrialba, una encrucijada: Arqueología regional y rutas de comunicación en un valle del trópico húmedo de Costa Rica (11.000 a.C.-1600 d.C.)

2013

• Chovanec, Zuzana, committee: Stuart Swiny (chair), Igor K. Lednev, Sean M. Raffert, dissertation: Products of social distinction: Organic residue analysis of specialized products in Bronze Age Cyprus
• Flores, Ilona M., committee: Walter E. Little (chair), Elise Andaya, Jennifer Burrell, dissertation: The anti-abortion legislation in Nicaragua: Gender hierarchies and ideologies in reproduction , position: Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology, SUNY Plattsburgh
• Kiyamu Tsuchiya, Melisa, committee: Tom Brutsaert and Timothy B. Gage (co-chairs), David S. Strait, dissertation: Developmental adaptation hypothesis: Aerobic capacity, submaximal arterial saturation and pulmonary volumes in peruvian quechua natives
• Lowry, Justin P., committee: Marilyn A. Masson (chair), Traci A. Ardren, Sean M. Rafferty, dissertation: Farmers on the edge: A study of late-preclassic Maya houses and rejolladas at the site of Xuenkal, Yucatan, Mexico , position: Assistant Professor of Archaeology, SUNY Plattsburgh
• Makedonska, Jana A., committee: David S. Strait (chair), Timothy B. Gage, Mary Katherine Gonder, Adam D. Gordon, dissertation: The consumption of mechanically resistant foods by anthropoid primates and its influence on cranial integration and variation , position: Programme Manager in Health Research, European Health and Digital Executive Agency
• Sargsyan-Pittman, Nelli, committee: James Collins (chair), Jennifer Burrell, Walter E. Little, Khachig Tololyan, dissertation: Negotiating ethnosexual difference in the Armenian transnation , position: Associate Professor, Emerson College

2012

• Hughes-Morey, Gail Margaret, committee: Sharon N. DeWitte (chair), Adam D. Gordon, Sean M. Rafferty, Daniel D. White, dissertation: Body size and mortality in post-Medieval England
• Kurlanska, Courtney Brooke, committee: Walter E. Little (chair), Jennifer Burrell, Robert M. Carmack, dissertation: Grains, greenbacks and governance: The political economy of rural microfinance in Nicaragua , position: Assistant Professor of Teaching, The Global School, Worchester Polytechnic Institute
• Loughmiller-Newman, Jennifer Ann, committee: John S. Justeson and Sean M. Rafferty (co-chairs), Marilyn A. Masson, Dmitri Zagorevski, dissertation: The analytic reconciliation of Classic Mayan elite pottery: Squaring pottery function with form, adornment, and residual contents
• Marín-Guadarrama, Nadia, committee: Louise M. Burkhart (chair), Jennifer L. Burrell, Gail H. Landsman, dissertation: Childrearing in the discourse of friars and Nahaus in early colonial central Mexico
• Matsukawa, Kosuke, committee: George Aaron Broadwell (chair), Lee S. Bickmore, John S. Justeson, dissertation: Phonetics and phonology of Chicahuaxtla Triqui tones
• Paris, Elizabeth H., committee: Marilyn A. Masson (chair), John S. Justeson, Robert M. Rosenswig, Michael E. Smith, dissertation: Political economy on the postclassic western Maya frontier , position: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary
• Scott, Winston K., committee: Walter E. Little (chair), Lee Bickmore, Jennifer Burrell, James Collins, dissertation: Beyond coffee plantations: Coffee production, emerging economic and social spaces, and the Q'eqchi' Maya in Senahú, Guatemala , position: Independent Q'eqchi' Mayan Interpreter for the Executive Office of Immigration Review, Immigration Youth Shelters, Medical Services, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, United States Federal District Courts, Catholic Charities
• Taylor, Sarah R., committee: Walter E. Little (chair), Robert W. Jarvenpa, Ronald B. Loewe, Marilyn A. Masson, dissertation: Maya cosmopolitans: Everyday life at the interface of archaeology, heritage, and tourism development , position: Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Dominguez Hills

2011

• Richie, Annette D., committee: Louise M. Burkhart (chair), Robert M. Carmack, Walter E. Little, dissertation: Confraternity and community: negotiating ethnicity, gender and place in colonial Tecamachalco, Mexico , position: Director of Global Academic Programs, Center for International Education and Global Strategy, University at Albany

2010

• Bazylevych, Maryna Yevgenivna, committee: Gail H. Landsman (chair), Elise L. Andaya, Robert W. Jarvenpa, Sarah D. Phillips, dissertation: Negotiating new roles, new moralities: Ukrainian women physicians at a post-socialist crossroad
• Duncan, Lachlan, committee: George Aaron Broadwell (chair), Lee S. Bickmore, John S. Justeson, dissertation: The syntactic structure of K̕'ichee̕' Mayan
• Montiel, Lisa M., committee: Robert M. Rosenswig and Michael E. Smith (co-chairs), Robert M. Carmack, Kenneth G. Hirth, dissertation: Teotihuacan imperialism in the Yautepec Valley, Morelos , position: Research Scientist, Rockefeller Institute of Government, University at Albany
• Servio-Mariano, Boyd Malcolm, committee: Robert M. Carmack (chair), Louise M. Burkhart, Robert W. Jarvenpa, James W. Wessman, dissertation: Garifunaduáü: Cultural continuity, change and resistance in the Garifuna diaspora

2009

• Fleischer, David Ivan Rezende, committee: Walter E. Little (chair), William H. Fisher, Robert W. Jarvenpa, dissertation: Ecotourism, sea turtles, and livelihoods: Adaptation and resistance to development and conservation in Mexico and Brazil , position: Representative for Brazil and Uruguay, Inter-American Foundation
• Lynn, Christopher D., committee: Lawrence M. Schell (chair), Gordon G. Gallup, Walter A. Little, dissertation: Glossolalia influences on stress response among Apostolic Pentecostals , position: Professor, Department of Anthropology, The University of Alabama

2008

• Bosire, B. Mokaya, committee: Lee Bickmore (chair), George Aaron Broadwell, James Collins, dissertation: Sheng, the phonology, morphology and social profile of an urban vernacular , position: Senior Instructor of African Studies, University of Oregon
• Campisi, Elizabeth, committee: James Collins, Louise M. Burkhart, dissertation: Guantánamo: Trauma, culture, and the Cuban rafter crisis of 1994-96
• Dary Fuentes, Claudia, committee: Robert M. Carmack and Walter E. Little (co-chairs), Robert W. Jarvenpa, dissertation: Ethnic identity, community organization and social experience in eastern Guatemala: The case of Santa Maria Xalapán
• Russell, Bradley W., committee: Marilyn A. Masson (chair), Micahael Smith, Hetty Joe Brumbach, dissertation: Postclassic Maya settlement on the rural-urban fringe of Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico , position: State Historic Preservation Office Contact (Archaeology Unit), New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
• Stanford, Catherine M., committee: Liliana Goldman, Robert W. Jarvenpa, James W. Wessman, dissertation: Religion and politics in Nicaragua: A historical ethnography set in the city of Masaya
• Tseng, Yu-Ching, committee: George Aaron Broadwell (chair), dissertation: A typology of syntactic OCP effects: A study of OCP in Hakka syntax and optimality theory

2007

• Gallo, Mia V., committee: Lawrence M. Schell (chair), Timothy B. Gage, Gail Landsman, dissertation: The influence of toxicants on growth among Native American adolescents of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation , position: Associate Director of Operations and Research, Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities, University at Albany
• Hays, Jennifer L., committee: James Collins (chair), Iris Berger, Lee Bickmore, dissertation: Education, rights and survival for the Nyae Nyae Ju'hoansi: Illuminating local and global discourses
• Lei, Jing, committee: James Collins (chair), Robert W. Jarvenpa, Istvan Keskes, dissertation: A language socialization approach to the interplay of ethnic revitalization and heritage language learning: Case studies of Chinese American adolescents

2006

• Martín del Campo, Edgar, committee: Louise M. Burkhart (chair), James Collins, John Justeson, Walter E. Little, dissertation: The nagual hiding in shadows: Metamorphic supernaturals, contested discourse, and the complications of field work in the Huasteca Veracruzana of northeast Mexico
• Maupin, Jonathan N., committee: Robert Carmack and Liliana Goldin (co-chairs), Lawrence M. Schell, dissertation: Fruit of the accords: Health care reform, decentralization, and community participation in highland Guatemala , position: Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
• Solano, Martin C., committee: Richard G. Wilkinson (chair), Penelope Drooker, Timothy B. Gage, Lawrence M. Schell, dissertation: The life stresses of poverty: Skeletal and historical indicators of activity patterns in the Albany County Almshouse skeletal collection, 1825-1925
• Taylor, Matthew S., committee: Richard G. Wilkinson (chair), Lawrence M. Schell, dissertation: Diachronic changes in hunter-gatherer dental health and disease on the Texas Central Gulf Coastal Plain

2005

• Denham, Melinda M., committee: Lawrence M. Schell (chair), Gail Landsman, Linda Layne, dissertation: Experiences of in vitro fertilization donor egg recipients: The impact of technology on reproduction
• MacKenzie, Christopher James, committee: Robert M. Carmack (chair), Liliana Goldin, dissertation: Maya bodies and minds: Religion and modernity in a K'che' town
• White, Daniel D., committee: Dean Falk (chair), Gordon G. Gallup, Timothy B. Gage, dissertation: Size and shape of the cerebellum in catarrhine primates and Plio-Pleistocene fossil hominis: A paleoneurological anyalysis of endocranial casts

2004

• Astor-Aguilera, Miguel Angel, committee: Gary H. Gossen and Marilyn A. Masson (co-chairs), Robert W. Jarvenpa, Karl Taube, John Justeson, dissertation: Unshrouding the communicating cross: The iconology of a Maya quadripartite symbol , position: Associate Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
• Knutson, Kristen L., committee: Lawrence M. Schell (chair), Timothy B. Gage, V. Mark Durand, dissertation: Sleep, health and socioeconomic status among adolescents of the national longitudinal study of adolescent health
• Kroefges, Peter C., committee: Michael E. Smith (chair), Louise M. Burkhart, Marilyn A. Masson, dissertation: Sociopolitical organization in the prehispanic Chontalpa de Oaxaca, Mexico: Ethnohistorical and archaeological perspectives , position: faculty, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
• Samson, C. Mathews, committee: Robert M. Carmack (chair), dissertation: Re-enchanting the world: Maya identity and protestantism in the western highlands of Guatemala , position: Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Latin American Studies, Davidson College
• Shih, Ling-Ling L., committee: Robert M. Carmack (chair), dissertation: Inventing new womenhood in China/Taiwan: A historical anthropology of gender

2003

• Choi, Jinsook, committee: James Collins (chair), Robert M. Carmack, John Justeson, Liliana Goldin, dissertation: Language choice and language ideology in a bilingual Maya community: The politics of identity in Guatemala
• Selka, Stephen, committee: James Collins (chair), Liliana Goldin, Louise M. Burkhart, dissertation: Religion and the politics of ethnic identity in Bahia, Brazil
• Smith, Timothy J., committee: Robert M. Carmack and Gary H. Gossen (co-chairs), dissertation: A tale of two governments: Rural Maya politics and competing democracies in Sololá, Guatemala , position: Professor, Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University
• Tatar, Bradley, committee: Robert M. Carmack (chair), Robert W. Jarvenpa, Liliana Goldin, dissertation: Narrating the revolution: Sandinistas and the politics of memory in Masaya, Nicaragua

2002

• Choh, Audrey C., committee: Timothy B. Gage (chair), Tom D. Brutsaert, Lawrence M. Schell, Stephen T. McGarvey, dissertation: The genetics of obesity and obesity related factors among Samoans
• Keating, Neal B., committee: Robert M. Carmack (chair), James Collins, Robert M. Carmack, dissertation: Pictures and power: The historical anthropology of Iroquois painting, A.D. 1600-2000
• Lloyd, Timothy Charles, committee: Gary A. Wright (chair), dissertation: Mortuary patterns, social organization, and ideology at the Hopewell Site , position: State Historic Preservation Office Contact (Archaeology Unit), New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
• Muse, Erika A., committee: James Collins and Walter Zenner (co-chairs), dissertation: With the sinfulness of this world comes the holiness and separateness of the church: A discourse of identity among Christian Chinese in Boston, Massachusetts
• Rogers, Matthew H., committee: Robert W. Jarvenpa (chair), dissertation: Totems and tourists: Tourism and cultural production on Haida Gwaii/The Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia

2001

• Abel, Timothy James, committee: Gary A. Wright (chair), Robert Kuhn, Robert M. Carmack, William Engelbrecht, dissertation: The Clayton Cluster: Cultural dynamics of a late prehistoric village sequence in the upper St. Lawrence valley , position: Consulting Archaeologist and Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology, SUNY Canton
• Forand, Nancy Anne, committee: Gary H. Gossen (chair), dissertation: Mayas in the age of apocalypse: Folk evangelicals and Catholics in Quintana Roo , position: Senior Director of Research Development, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Hare, Timothy S., committee: Michael E. Smith (chair), Louise M. Burkhart, Robert M. Carmack, Marilyn A. Masson, dissertation: Political economy, spatial analysis, and postclassic states in the Yautepec Valley, Mexico , position: Professor of Anthropology, Deptartment of Sociology, Social Work & Criminology, Morehead State University
• Mora-Marín, David F., committee: Robert M. Carmack (chair), John Justeson, George Aaron Broadwell, dissertation: The grammar, orthography, content, and social context of Late Preclassic Mayan portable texts , position: Professor, Department of Linguistics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Olson, Jan Marie, committee: Michael E. Smith (chair), dissertation: Unequal consumption: A study of domestic wealth differentials in three late postclassic Mexican communities
• Phillips, Shawn M., committee: Richard G. Wilkinson (chair), dissertation: Inmate life in the Oneida County asylum, 1860-1895: A biocultural study of the skeletal and documentary records

2000

• Burke, Adrian L., committee: Dean R. Snow (chair), Hetty Jo Brumbach, Gary A. Wright, Claud Chapdelaine, dissertation: Lithic procurement and the ceramic period occupation of the interior of the Maritime Peninsula , position: Professeur titulaire, Département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal
• Ibechem, Cindy M., committee: Gail Landsman and Gary Gossen (co-chairs), Iris Berger, Adeline Apena, dissertation: When women leave the village: An evaluation of women's power and their protest actions in Ofodim, Umuneke, Imo State, Nigeria
• Jones, Stephen Doniphin, committee: Michael E. Smith (chair), Robert W. Jarvenpa, Hetty Jo Brumbach, Michael Werner, Thomas McGovern, John Collis, dissertation: Deconstructing the Celts: A skeptic's guide to the archaeology of the Auvergne
• Redmond, John Charles, Jr., committee: Dean Falk (chair), Timothy B. Gage, Gordon Gallup, dissertation: Behavioral lateralization and cerebral asymmetries in Hylobates syndactylus

1999

• Boulanger, Lori A., committee: Gail Landsman (chair), Gary H. Gossen, James Collins, Jonathan Friedman, dissertation: "Resisting coercive assimilation": Identity, empowerment, and activism in the Native Hawaiian Movement of Hawai'i Island
• Diamond, Joseph E., committee: Gary A. Wright (chair), Hetty Jo Brumbach, Robert E. Funk, dissertation: The terminal late woodland/contact period in the Mid-Hudson Valley , position: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, SUNY New Paltz
• Gabany-Guerrero, Tricia, committee: Robert M. Carmack (chair), dissertation: Deciphering the symbolic heritage of the Tarascan Empire: Interpreting the political economy of the Pueblo-Hospital of Parangaricutiro, Michoacán
• Jenkins, Gwynne Lee, committee: Robert Carmack and Gary Gossen (co-chairs), Lawrence M. Schell, dissertation: The bureaucratization of birth: Midwifery programs, national health care, and local birth conventions in rural Costa Rica

1998

• Czerwinski, Stefan A., committee: Lawrence M. Schell (chair), Timothy B. Gage, Alice Stark, dissertation: Determinants of blood lead levels in socioeconomically disadvantaged children from birth to two years: A biocultural perspective , position: Director and Professor, Division of Health Sciences, The Ohio State University
• Montag, Richard, committee: Gary H. Gossen (chair), George Aaron Broadwell, Louise Burkhart, dissertation: A tale of Pudicho's people: Cashinahua narrative accounts of European contact in the 20th century
• Yastion, Lyla, committee: Gary H. Gossen (chair), dissertation: Networks of contemplative action in American culture: A study of mystic practice and emergent community in a contemporary Christian-Catholic comtemplative movement

1997

• Molnar, James S., committee: Dean R. Snow (chair), Gary A. Wright, Robert W. Jarvenpa, dissertation: Interpreting fishing strategies of the Odawa
• Rieth, Christina B., committee: Dean R. Snow (chair), Gary A. Wright, Hetty Jo Brumbach, Robert Kuhn, dissertation: Culture contact during the Carpenter Brook phase: A tripartite approach to the study of the spatial and temporal movement of early Iroquoian groups throughout the Upper Susquehanna River Valley

1996

• Drooker, Penelope B., committee: Gary A. Wright (chair), Robert W. Jarvenpa, Dean R. Snow, Richard G. Wilkinson, dissertation: The view from Madisonville: Continuity and change in late prehistoric-protohistoric western Fort Ancient interaction patterns , position: Curator of Anthropology Emerita, New York State Museum
• Salgado González, Silvia, dissertation: Social change in a region of Granada, Pacific Nicaragua (1000 B.C. -- 1522 A.D.)
• Squire, Mariella R., committee: Gail Landsman (chair), dissertation: The contemporary western Abenakis: Maintenance, reclamation, and reconfiguration of an American indian ethnic identity

1995

• Bond, Stanley C., committee: Dean R. Snow (chair), James Wessman, Eugene Lyon, dissertation: Tradition and change in first Spanish period 1565-1763 St. Augustine architecture: A search for colonial identity
• Metz, Brent E., dissertation: Experiencing conquest: The political and economic roots and cultural expression of Maya-Chorti ethos
• O'Connor, Kathleen Ann, committee: Timothy B. Gage (chair), Richard G. Wilkinson, Mark Cohen, Carolyn Olsen, dissertation: The age pattern of mortality: A micro-analysis of Tipu and a meta-analysis of twenty-nine paleo-demographic samples
• Raemsch, Carol A., committee: Richard G. Wilkinson (chair), John Relethford, Lyle Konigsberg, Timothy B. Gage, Gary A. Wright, dissertation: Craniometric variation within skeletal samples of diverse biological composition

1994

• Asturias de Barrios, Linda, committee: Gary H. Gossen and Liliana Goldin (co-chairs), dissertation: Mano de mujer, mano de hombre: Produccion artesanal testil en Comalapa, Guatemala
• Bigler, Ellen, committee: James Collins (chair), Emillio Pantojas-Garcia, Gail Landsman, dissertation: Multiculturalism in upstate New York: Contested identities and the schooling of Puerto Rican youth in a de-industrializing economy
• Dauria, Susan R., committee: Liliana Goldin, Gary H. Gossen, Walter Zenner, dissertation: Deindustrialization and the construction of history and ethnic identity: A case in upstate New York
• Fabri, Antonella, committee: Gary H. Gossen (chair), dissertation: (Re)composing the nation: Politics of memory and displacement in Maya testimonies from Guatemala
• Wentworth, Ann Kennedy, committee: Dean R. Snow (chair), Gary A. Wright, Susan J. Bender, Mary C. Beaudry, dissertation: Woman of business or lady of the manor?: An archaeological examination of changes in gender roles among the Hudson Valley elite during the eighteenth century

1993

• Bamann, Susan E., committee: Dean R. Snow (chair), Robert Kuhn, Richard M. Leventhal, Michael E. Smith, dissertation: Settlement nucleation in Mohawk Iroquois prehistory: An analysis of a site sequence in the lower Otsquago drainage of the Mohawk Valley
• Bronson, Elizabeth, dissertation: Agriculture, adaptation, and attitudes: Decision making among farm families in southern Costa Rica
• Jamison, Thomas R., dissertation: Symbolic affiliation, architecture and settlement patterns in Southern Belize: Nim Li Punit and Xnaneb during the late classic
• Pitarch Ramón, Pedro, dissertation: Ethnografía de las almas en Cancúc, Chiapas

1992

• Pfeiffer, John Edward, committee: Dean R. Snow (chair), Robert E. Funk, Gary A. Wright, Floyd Henderson, dissertation: Late and terminal archaic cultural adaptations of the lowest Connecticut Valley
• Re Cruz, Alicia, dissertation: The two milpas of Chan Kom: A study of socioeconomic and political transformations in a Maya community

1991

• Castañeda, Quetzil E., dissertation: An "archaeology" of Chichén Itza: Discourse, power, and resistance in a Maya tourist site
• Leidy, Lynnette E., committee: Timothy B. Gage (chair), Lawrence M. Schell, dissertation: The timing of menopause in biological and socio cultural context: A life span opproach , position: Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Scotchmer, David G., committee: Robert M. Carmack (chair), dissertation: Symbols of salvation: Interpreting highland Maya protestantism in context
• Wurtzburg, Susan Jane, committee: Richard M. Leventhal (chair), Liliana Goldin, Jeremy A. Sabloff, J. Theodore Peña, Gary A. Wright, dissertation: Sayil: Investigations of urbanism and economic organization at an ancient Maya city

1990

• Ciborski, Sara, dissertation: Culture and power: The emergence and politics of Akwesane Mohawk traditionalism
• Dunham, Peter S., committee: Richard M. Leventhal (chair), Garry H. Gossen, Gary A. Wright, dissertation: Coming apart at the seams: The classic development and demise of Maya Civilization: A segmentary view from Xnaheb, Belize , position: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cleveland State University

1989

• Black, Nancy Johnson, dissertation: Transformation of a frontier mission province: The order of Our Lady of Mercy in Western Honduras

1988

• Krasniewicz, Louise, dissertation: The difference within: The politics of representation, identity and gender informing the 1983 Seneca Women's Peace Encampment
• Lanphear, Kim M., committee: Dean R. Snow, Lawrence M. Schell, Timothy B. Gage, Richard Wilkinson, dissertation: Health and mortality in a nineteenth century poorhouse skeletal sample

1987

• Byers, A. Martin, committee: Gary A. Wright (chair), Gary H. Gossen, Robert W. Jarvenpa, Dean R. Snow, dissertation: The earthwork enclosures of the Central Ohio Valley: A temporal and structural analysis of Woodland Society and Culture
• Cuevas Suárez, Susana, dissertation: The Amuzgo's zoological world: An ethnoscientific approach
• Hunter, Susan S., dissertation: Health status: An anthropological model of its determinants
• Lindner, Chris, committee: Gary H. Gossen (chair), Robert E. Funk, Gary A. Wright, dissertation: Geoarchaeology of culturally induced flood impacts: Schoharie Valley, Eastern New York
• Rojas Lima, Flavio, dissertation: La cofradía mesoamericana: Un reducto cultural indígena
• Rosenbaum, Brenda Picciotto, dissertation: With our heads bowed: Women, society and culture in Chamula, Chiapas

1986

• Benyo, Julie C., committee: Dean R. Snow (chair), Kenneth Hirth, Robert Sharer, Gary A. Wright, dissertation: An archaeological investigation of intra-community social organizations at La Ceiba, Comayagua, Honduras
• Goldin, Liliana R., dissertation: Organizing the world through the market: A symbolic analysis of markets and exchange in the western highlands of Guatemala
• Guldenzopf, David B., committee: Dean R. Snow, William A. Starna, Charles Gehring, James Wessman, dissertation: The colonial transformation of Mohawk Iroquois Society
• Hodges, Denise Carrol, committee: Richard G. Wilkinson (chair), Lawrence M. Schell, dissertation: Agricultural intensification and prehistoric health in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
• Muntzel, Martha C., dissertation: The structure of Ocuilteco
• Orphanides, Andreas G., committee: Gary A. Wright (chair), Paul W. Wallace, Richard M. Leventhal, dissertation: Towards a theory for the interpretation of material remains in archaeology: The Bronze Age anthropomorphic figurines from Cyprus
• Reeve, Stuart A., committee: Gary A. Wright (chair), Dean R. Snow, Robert W. Jarvenpa, dissertation: Root crops and prehistoric social process in the Snake River headwaters, northwestern Wyoming

1985

• Kuhn, Robert D., committee: Dean R. Snow (chair), Gary A. Wright, William A. Starna, Robert W. Jarvenpa, dissertation: Trade and exchange among the Mohawk-Iroquois: A trace element analysis of ceramic smoking pipes
• McCarthy, Michael Francis, committee: Lyle Campbell (chair), Gary H. Gossen, Francis C. Lees, Edwin D. Reilly, dissertation: An investigation of some proposed universals of script borrowing
• Robertson, Rosalie M., dissertation: Oneida Indian educational planning in Wisconsin
• Sosa, John Robert, committee: Gary H. Gossen (chair), Peter T. Furst, Robert W. Jarvenpa, NA Aveni, NA Anthony F., dissertation: The Maya sky, the Maya world: A symbolic analysis of Yucatec Maya cosmology

1984

• Cohen, Colleen Ballerino, dissertation: The true light beavers: The reproduction and transformation of an American counterculture commune
• Earle, Duncan Mac Lean, committee: Robert M. Carmack (chair), dissertation: Cultural logic and ecology in community development: Failure and success cases among the highland Maya

1983

• Bender, Susan J., committee: Gary A. Wright, Dean R. Snow, Robert W. Jarvenpa, dissertation: Hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement in a mountainous environment: The prehistory of the Northern Tetons
• Fisher, Charles, dissertation: Social organization and change during the early horticultural period in the Hudson River Valley
• Knab, T. J., dissertation: Words great and small: Sierra Nahuat narrative discourse in everyday life
• Mascia-Lees, Frances E., dissertation: A cross-national analysis of sexual stratification in contemporary societies
• Ochiai, Kazuyasu, dissertation: When the saints come marching in: Inter-community public rituals among the Tzotzil Indians of Southeastern Mexico

1982

• Kempf, Judith, committee: Peter T. Furst, Robert M. Carmack, Gertrude D. Dole, Robert L. Carneiro, dissertation: The dynamics of culture and health: Disease and curing among the Ecuadorian Coaiquer Indians under the impact of acculturation
• Norelli, Richard Joseph, committee: Richard G. Wilkinson (chair), Francis Lees, Lawrence M. Schell, dissertation: Differential mortality in a lower Mohawk Valley community: Waterford, New York, 1790-1880
• Tierson, Forrest D., committee: Francis Lees (chair), Lawrence M. Schell, dissertation: Influences of dietary cravings and aversions during pregnancy on maternal diet and pregnancy outcome

1981

• Cook, Garrett W., dissertation: Supernaturalism, cosmos and cosmogony in Quichean expressive culture
• Mondloch, James L., committee: Lyle Campbell, Robert M. Carmack, Marianne Mithun, dissertation: Voice in Quiché-Maya
• Simms, David M., dissertation: Tourism, entrepreneurs, and change in southwest Ireland

1980

• Marqusee, Steven Jack, committee: Robert M. Carmack (chair), Lyle Campbell, Peter T. Furst, Dean R. Snow, dissertation: An analysis of late postclassic period quichean art from the highlands of Guatemala
• Relethford, John, committee: Francis Lees (chair), dissertation: Population structure and anthropometric variation in rural western Ireland , position: SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, SUNY Oneonta
• Weeks, John M., committee: Robert M. Carmack and Dean R. Snow (co-chairs), Gary A. Wright, dissertation: Dimensions of social differentiation at Chisalin, El Quiche, Guatemala, A.D. 1400-1524

1979

• Whelehan, Patricia, dissertation: Group homes: An alternative to institutionalization for troubled adolescents

1978

• Bossen, Laurel, committee: Robert M. Carmack (chair), Peter T. Furst, Bille Jean Isbell, Bette Denich, dissertation: Women and dependent development: A comparison of women's economic and social roles in Guatemala
• Brumbach, Hetty Jo, dissertation: Middle Woodland Fishing Economics: The Upper Hudson River Drainage
• Tedlock, Barbara, dissertation: Quiché Maya divination: A theory of practice

1977

• Baum, Ruth Elizabeth, committee: Robert M. Carmack (chair), Dr. Zenner, Dr. Olsen, Dr. Isbell, dissertation: The ethnohistory of law: The Hutterite case
• Childs, Stephen Murray, dissertation: Political correlates of socioeconomic change in rural society: A study of three Malay communities
• Colee, Philip Sauve, dissertation: The Housatonic-Stockbridge Indians, 1734-1749
• Herrick, James W., dissertation: Iroquois medical botany

1976

• Howard, Lois Greenwood, dissertation: Philosophical assumptions underlying the Kubler-Coe controversy in Mesoamerican prehistory
• Starna, William A., committee: Dean R. Snow (chair), Gary A. Wright, Richard G. Wilkinson, Robert E. Funk, dissertation: Late archaic lifeways in the Middle Mohawk Valley: A framework for further study

1975

• Foley, Denis, dissertation: An ethnohistoric and ethnographic analysis of the Iroquois from the aboriginal era to the present suburban era
• Fox, John W., committee: Dwight T. Wallace (chair), Robert M. Carmack, Dean R. Snow, dissertation: Centralism and regionalism: Quiche acculturation processes in settlement patterning. An archaeological and ethnohistoric study of late postclassic highland Maya ethnic groups

1974

• Campisi, Jack, dissertation: Ethnic identity and boundary maintenance in three Oneida communities