Program Graduates and Thesis Titles

2013

  • 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

  • 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 diseaseAt Ledford Island: A Study Of Late-Mississippian 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 AfricanAmerican 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 KrapinaNeandertal Molars

2011

  • 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
  • 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
  • KathrineHardcastle 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

  • 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 FortMichilimackinac, 1761-1781

2009

  • 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 ArdkeeranTownland

2008

  • 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

  • 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
  • Meredith Hawkins The Janis-Ziegler Site (23SG272): The Archaeological Investigation of a Houselot in a French Colonial Village

2006

  • 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

  • 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 World-Systems 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)

  • Amanda Burke Making an Exhibit: Public Presentation of the Native Americans and Archaeology of Grand Island, Michigan