Departmental Ph.D. Dissertations

• (2023) Vallejo Cáliz, Daniel, Social Transformation during the Middle - Late Preclassic (1,000 BCE - 150 BCE at Ucí, Yucatan Mexico

• (2022) Beasley, Sia, 'I Went to the One Game in Town': Obstetric and Maternity Unit Closures, Dwindling Birth Choices, and Resilience in Rural Appalachia
• (2022) Casserly, Anna Marie, Assessing Stress Biomarkers as Embodied Identity in Kentucky's Green River Archaic
• (2022) Hasemann Lara, Ana, Development with Identity or Commodities with Identity? Lenca Craftswomen, Honduras’ Cultural Identity Politics and Global Economies of Culture
• (2022) Koempel, Annie, We Can Still Feed Ourselves: Food Sovereignty, Aid, Sickness, and Health in Eastern Kentucky
• (2022) Lamb, Céline, Social Differentiation Among Rural Maya Households in Chunhuayum, Yucatán, Mexico, During the Late Preclassic through the Early Classic (300 B.C. – A.D. 600)
• (2022) Moqadam, Erfan Saidi, Negotiating Islam: Debating Authority and Ethnoreligious Authenticity Among Iranian Americans in the US South
• (2022) Mullen, Kyle, Classic Period Dune Settlement in the Eastern Lower Papaloapan Basin, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
• (2022) Zapel, Kaitlin, Otavalan Women Weavers: Rethinking Gendered Labor and Crafts in Ecuador
• (2021) Clemons, Tammy, Producing Possibilities: Envisioning and Mediating Youth Identities and Futures in Central Appalachia, Advisor: Kingsolver
• (2021) Cutright, Chelsea, The Antithesis of 'Business as Usual': Youth, Class, and Volunteer Organizations in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Advisor: Udvardy
• (2021) Delisle, Takami Shiratori, Breaking the Silence of Racially Minoritized Students: Structural and Everyday Injustice in U.S. Anthropology Graduate Training, Advisor: Kingsolver
• (2021) Hatchett, Diana Patterson, Captivating State: Youthful Dreams and Uncertain Futures in Kurdistan, Advisor: King
• (2021) Hatfield, Stacie, Reimagining Care: Surviving and Thriving Among LGBTQ African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama, Advisor: Monroe
• (2021) Matossian, Anahid, "Roses remind me of Aleppo": Memories, Strategies, Aspirations of Ethnic Armenian Women from Syria Living in Armenia, Advisor: King
• (2021) Roll, Lydia Shanklin, Challenging Narratives: Kurdish Young Adults in Istanbul and Chicago, Advisor: King
• (2021) Starnes, Dayton Daniel, ‘It’s about more than just animals’: Environmental Politics of Zoo-Adjacent Conservation(ists) in the U.S, Advisor: Cliggett
• (2020) Bullock, Edward Lee, Community Development, Livelihood Strategies, and Carceral Privatization in the U.S. South, Advisor: Koch
  (2020) Ball, Daniel, We Died and Were Reborn: An Anthropological Study of Health-Seeking Strategies for Mental and Emotional Distressin post-War Eastern Sri Lanka, Advisor: Koch
• (2020) Encalada Falconi, Karla, Beyond Extractivism and Governmentality: The Postneoliberal State, Development, and the Circulation of Oil Rents among Indigenous Peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Advisor: Kingsolver
• (2020) Sanmugeswaran, Pathmanesan, Village-Temple Consciousness in Two Jaffna Tamil Villages in Post-War Sri Lanka, Advisor: Whitaker
• (2020) Systo, Mauri Elizabeth, Restructuring Work 'the Chattanooga Way': Urban Revitalization, Contingent Labor, and Trying to Get By in Tennessee, Advisor: Kingsolver
• (2019) Bundy, Henry, The Wages of Precarious Work: An Ethnography of Health and Inequalities among Upstate South Carolina's Reserve Army of the Laboring, Advisor: Anglin
• (2019) Joseph, Daniel, Experiencing Displacement and Statelessness: Forced Migrants in Anse-à-Pitres, Haiti, Advisor: Monroe
• (2019) Kidder, Barry Bruno, Negotiating Household Quality of Life and Social Cohesion at Ucanha, Yucatan, Mexico, during the Late Preclassic to Early Classic Tradition, Advisor: Hutson
• (2019) Komara, Zada, Consuming Appalachia: An Archaeology of Coal Company Towns, Advisor: Jefferies
• (2019) Krebs, Vaughn Matthew, Making Experts: An Ethnographic Study of "Makers" in FabLabs in Japan, Advisor: Cliggett
• (2019) Thapa, Sneha, Flexible Liminality among the Tibetan Diaspora: Tibetan Exiles Adjusting Cultural Practices in Dharamsala, India and the United States, Advisor: Whitaker
• (2019) Waugh-Quasebarth, Jasper, Finding the Singing Spruce: Craft Labor, Global Forests, and Musical Instrument Makers in Appalachia, Advisor: Kingsolver
• (2018) Buer, Lesly-Marie, Unending Mazes: Gendered Inequalities, Drug Use, and State Interventions in Rural Appalachia, Advisor: Anglin
• (2018) Carlson, Justin Nels, Middle to Late Holocene (7000-3000 cal. BP) Archaeological Site Formation Processes at Crumps Sink and Changing Land Use Patterns in the Central Kentucky Karst, USA, Advisor: Crothers
• (2018) Davies, Gavin Roger, Community Resilience and Political Centralization During the Classic to Postclassic Tradition in the Lake Atitlan Basin of Highland Guatemala, Advisor: Hutson
• (2018) Hensler, Rachel Paige, Ceramic Variation in the Big Bend Region of Lower Ocmulgee River Valley AD 1540 to AD 1715, Advisor: Jefferies
• (2018) Jones, James Scott, Late Pleistocene Adaptations in the Midsouth: the Paleoindian Occupation of the Carson-Conn Short Site and the Lower Tennessee River Valley, Advisor: Jefferies
• (2018) Kolavalli, Chhaya Ruth, "We're Being Left to Blight" Green Urban Development and Racialized Space in Kansas City, Advisor: Kingsolver
• (2018) Milanés, Lilian Luisa, Stories of Strength: Chicago Latin@s' Navigation of Chronic Disease, Advisor: Anglin
• (2018) New, Elizabeth Jane, Racism, Resistance, Resilience: Chronically Ill African American Women's Experiences Navigating a Changing Healthcare System, Advisor: Anglin
• (2018) Sawyer, Heather Jan, Precarity in Paradise: Tourism, Migration, and the Broader Causes of Instability in Roatán, Honduras, Advisor: Lyon
• (2018) Schmid, Mary Elizabeth Wheeler, Binational Farming Families of Southern Appalachia and the Mexican Bajío, Advisor: Kingsolver
• (2017) Howell, Britteny, Healthy Aging in the North:Sociocultural Influences on Diet and Physical Activity among Older Adults in Anchorage, Alaska, Advisor: Crooks
• (2017) Maurer, Megan, To Nurture Something that Nurtures You: Care, Creativity, Class, and the Production of Urban Environments in Deindustrial Michigan, Advisor: Monroe
• (2017) Milanzi, Tony, Living on the Edge: Smallholder Grower Responses to a Changing Tobacco Economy in Malawi, Advisor: Cliggett
• (2017) Miranda, Veronica, Reproducing Childbirth: Negotiated Maternal Health Practices in Rural Yucatan, Advisor: Anglin
• (2017) Shepherd-Powell, Julie A., Beyond the Coal Divide: The Cultural Politics of Natural Resource Extraction in Central Appalachia, Advisor: Anglin
• (2016) Davidson, Matthew J., Interaction on the Frontier of the 16th-17th Century World Economy: Late Fort Ancient Hide Production and Exchange at the Hardin Site, Greenup County, Kentucky
• (2016) Grosh, Chris, Adaptability in a Bhutanese Refugee Community: Navigating Integration and the Impacts on Nutritional Health after U.S. Resettlement
• (2016) Jaime-Riveron, Olaf, The People of Stone: A Study of the Basalt Ground Stone Industry at Tres Zapotes and Its Role in the Evolution of Olmec and Epi-Olmec Political-Economic Systems
• (2016) Sears, Erin L., A Reflection of Maya Representation, Distribution, and Interaction: Ceramic Figurines from the Late Classic Site of Cancuen, Peten Department, Guatemala
• (2016) Stottman, Michael J., The Making and Remaking of Portland: The Archaeology of Identity and Landscape at the Portland Wharf, Louisville, Kentucky 
• (2015) Gunn, Christopher, Exchange Mechanisms, Consumption, and Household Provisioning Strategies: Maya Economy and Political Economy in the Kiuic Polity, Yucatan, Mexico
• (2015) Mink, Phillip,  Living on the Edge: Rethinking Pueblo Period Indigenous Settlement Patterns within Grand Canyon National Park, Northern Arizona
• (2014) Anderson, Ryan, The Value of a Place: Development Politics on the East Cape of Baja California Sur, Mexico, Advisor: Lyon
• (2014) Moreno, Maria, Warmikuna Juyayay! Ecuadorian and Latin American Indigenous Women Gaining Spaces in Ethnic Politics, Advisor: Lyon
• (2013) Chrostowsky, Mary Beth, The Effects of Migration on Gender Norms and Relations: The Post-Repatriation Experience in Bor, South Sudan, Advisor: Udvardy
• (2013) Harnish, Allison, Missing "Links": Investigating the Age and Gender Dimensions of Development, Conservation and Environmental Change in a Southern Zambian Frontier, Advisor: Cliggett 
• (2013) Hedwig, Travis H., The Cultural Politics of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and the Diagnosis of Difference, Advisor: Anglin
• (2013) Meyer, Patti A., The Health Consequences and Healthcare-Seeking Strategies for South American Immigrant Careworkers in Genoa, Italy, Advisor: Anglin 
• (2013) Williams, Jennifer L., Advice, Influence and Independence: Adolescent Nutritional Practices and Outcomes in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Advisor: Crooks 
• (2012) Ellender Compretta, Caroline, Growing Gaps: Children's Experiences of Inequality in a Faith-Based Afterschool Program in the U.S. South, Advisor: Crooks 
• (2012) Loughlin, Michael L., El Mesón Regional Survey: Settlement Patterns and Political Economy in the Eastern Papaloapan Basin, Veracruz, Mexico, Advisor: Pool 
• (2012) Rignall, Karen, Land Rights, and the Practice of Making a Living in Pre-Saharan Morocco, Advisor: Cliggett
• (2011) Fletcher, Rebecca Adkins, Global Transformations, Local Activism: "New" Unionism's Engagement with Economic and Health Care Transformation in Urban Central Appalachia, Advisor: Anglin 
• (2011) Greenough, Karen, Strategic Flexibility: Household Ecologies of Ful'Be in Tanout, Niger, Advisor: Little
• (2011) Meyers, Maureen, Political Economy of Exotic Trade on the Mississippian Frontier: A Case Study of a Fourteenth Century Chiefdom in Southwestern Virginia, Advisor: Jefferies 
• (2011) Moore, Christopher R., Production, Exchange and Social Interaction in the Green River Region of Western Kentucky: A Multiscalar Approach to the Analysis of Two Shell Midden Sites, Advisor: Jefferies
• (2011) Murphy, Daniel J., Going on Otor: Disaster, Mobility and the Political Ecology of Vulnerability in Uguumur, Mongolia, Advisor: Little
• (2011) Stephenson, Keith, Mississippi Period Occupational and Political History of the MIddle Savannah River Valley, Advisor: Jefferies 
• (2011) Stoner, Wesley, Disjuncture among Classic Period Cultural Landscapes in the Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico, Advisor: Pool
• (2010) Evans, Carol Jo, "Everyday Symbols for Mediation" Conflict and Cooperation over the Management of Cultural and Natural Resources within the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Advisor: Van Willigen
• (2010) Isenhour, Cynthia, Building Sustainable Societies: Exploring Sustainability Policy and Practice in the Age of High Consumption, Advisor: Cliggett
• (2010) Maggard, Greg, Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Colonization and Regionalization in Northern Perú: Fishtail and Paiján Complexes of the Lower Jequetepeque Valley, Advisor: Dillehay 
• (2010) O'Daniel, Alyson, Social Categories and Health Care Outcomes: African American Women and HIV Survival in the Urban South, Advisor: Anglin 
• (2010) Scott, Mary Alice, La Mujer Se Va Pa'Bajo: Women's Health at the Intersections of Nationality, Class and Gender, Advisor: Anglin
• (2010) Warner, John, Interpreting the Architectonics of Power and Memory at the Late Formative Center of Jatanca, Jequetepeque Valley Peru, Advisor: Dillehay 
• (2009) Meharie, Anduamlak, Urban Development and Displacement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Impacts on Livelihoods, Advisor: Little
• (2009) Kant, Kristin, Painting the Mountains: An Investigation of Tourist Art in North America, Advisor: Anglin
• (2008) Ricci, Erin, Cultivating change: New products from Costa Rica's countryside, Advisor: Cliggett
• (2008) Stackelbeck, Kary, Adaptational flexibility and processes of emerging complexity: early to mid-holocene foragers in the lower Jequetepeque Valley, northern Perú, Advisors: Dillehay & Jefferies
• (2008) Venter, Marcie, Community Strategies in the Aztec Imperial Frontier: Perspectives from Totogal, Veracruz, Mexico, Advisor: Pool

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