Program Graduates and Thesis Titles
2013
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Lisa Dretske An Archaeological and Historical Search for German Ethnicity at the
Janis-Ziegler Site (23SG272)
Montana Martin The Function of a Middle Woodland Site in the Central Illinois
River Valley: A Ceramic Study of Ogden-Fettie Fv196
Jessica Albrecht Bundle Burials in the Middle and Late Woodland Periods: A Shift
in Settlement and Social Organization as Evidenced by Mortuary Practices
Jessica Miller Evidence of Ritual Drink Preparation and the Function of Powell
Plain and Ramey Incised Vessels in Mississippian Society
Germaine Mosher Co-Morbidity and Health Status: A Community Health Survey
of a Prehistoric Late Woodland Osteological Sample from Illinois
Casey Jenkins Auditory Exostoses Prevalence in Western Pre-Columbian
Tennessee: Controlling for Subsistence and Geography
Sean Stretton The Importance of Time: Examining the Expansion of Middle
Woodland Havana Materials Into The Grand River Valley of Western Michigan
2012
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Jessica Griffin In the Shadow of Old Main: Campus Life, Consumer Choice and
Foodways at Illinois State University 1860-1932
Micca Metz The Mortality Patterns of Pioneer Cemeteries on the Fort Campbell,
Kentucky, Military Reservation
Lindsey Helms Health and disease At Ledford Island: A Study Of LateMississippian Human Remains
Susan Kooiman Old Pots, New Approaches: A Functional analysis of Woodland
Pottery from Lake Superior’s south Shore
Elizabeth Kizior Colonial Ethnic Identity, Urban Organization and Ceramic
Variability at Caluco, El Salvador
Shanta Hoard The Role of the African American Church in the Community: the
Wayman African American Methodist Episcopal Church, Bloomington, Illinois.
Valerie Hall These Pots do Talk: Indigenous Women’s Influence in the
Transculturation in the Chesapeake
Whitney Karriger Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of the Vindija and Krapina
Neandertal Molars
2011
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Marissa Wojcinski Paleopathological Comparison of the Subadults from the Late
Archaic and Late Mississippian Cultures of Tennessee and the Issue of Congenital
Treponemal Disease
Lauren Alston Bridges The Social Implications of Ceramic Variability at 19th Century
Hacienda in Western El Salvador
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Cassandra Pardo Health and Disease on Hiwassee Island: A Study of Late
Mississippian Human Remains
Emma Meyer The Burgess-Williams Site: An Early Euro-American Settlement on
Grand Island
Kathrine Hardcastle In Search of the Cult of Domesticity: The Archaeology of
Nineteenth Century Household Gender Roles
Stephanie Owens Regional Health Comparisons of East Tennessee Dallas Phase Sites
2010
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Carl J. Zachman A Study of Consumer Choice and Loyalty Through the Remedies,
Medicines, and Nostrums from Two Midwest Site Assemblages
Miranda Utzinger Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans: Occipital Bunning as
Evidence of Admixture
Kyle Hensley Standards of Living: An Archaeological Comparison of British Military
Households at Fort Michilimackinac, 1761-1781
2009
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Kate O'Toole Folklore, Ceramic Pots, Iron Pots, and Irish Tenant Farmers: A
Comparative Study of Irish Tenant Sites
Matthew A. Cox Living Beyond Their Means: An Archaeological Investigation of
Consumption Patterns at the Janis-Ziegler Site (23SG272)
Matthew Postlewaite Historical Archaeology of Ireland and the Case Study of
Ardkeeran Townland
2008
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Stephanie E. Lechart A Comparative Study of Irish Ceramic Assemblages from
Barlow's Field and the Brogan House
Nathaniel A. Hardwick The Underhill Camp: Exploring the Life History of an Early
Twentieth-Century Logging Site
Amber Taylor In the Glow of the Red Light: Historical Archaeology of the Health and
Quality of Life of Nineteenth-Century Prostitutes
Stephanie Dale The Stone Quarry Docks, Grand Island, Michigan: A Functional and
Methodological Study
2007
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Jason Kaplan Gravestones and Figurines: The Material Culture of Jewish Social
Condition in Ireland and England Between 1600 and 1900, Or Jewish Separateness and
Anti-Jewish Sentiments Within the British Isles
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Meredith Hawkins The Janis-Ziegler Site (23SG272): The Archaeological
Investigation of a House lot in a French Colonial Village
2006
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Adam Fracchia Negotiating Identity: The Missouria’s Response to European Contact
and Trade, 1670-1800
Dana Pertermann Environmental Influences at the Bequette-Ribault Site in Ste.
Genevieve, MO
2005
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Julie Richko Daughters of Éireann: The Roles of Irish Women in Ballykilcline,
Republic of Ireland and Five Points, New York as Revealed in the Archaeological
Ceramic Assemblages
Sheila Wille Peripheralization and Historical Archaeology: A Case for a WorldSystems Perspective on the Material Culture of the Inishkea Islands
Michelle Charest Faded Receipts and Buried Walls: A Historical Archaeological
Investigation of the Material Culture and Identity of the Cooper Family of Riverstown,
County Sligo, Ireland
2004 (first ISU Master’s thesis)
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Amanda Burke Making an Exhibit: Public Presentation of the Native Americans and
Archaeology of Grand Island, Michigan