Dissertations from 2021
Bodies on the Line: The Politics of Regulating Pornography in Los Angeles, Christopher J. Baum
Monumentality, Fortification, and Movement: Preclassic Maya Developments as seen at Muralla de León, Petén, Guatemala, Justin D. Bracken
Syrian Refugees and the Politics of Diversity and Belonging in Turkey, Ezgi Canpolat
Marine Resource Specialization in Viking Age Iceland: Exploitation of Seabirds and Fish on Hegranes in Skagafjörður, Grace M. Cesario
Fitness Culture: Making New Persons in Quasi-Socialist Belarus, Emily J. Curtin
Climate Change and the Ancestors: Rain, Gender and Politics in an African Water Catchment, Jessie Fredlund
Documenting the Undocumented: Experimenting Europe at the Biometric Migrant Archive, Romm Lewkowicz
Spectral Urbanism: Modern Ghost Cities, Rare Earths, and Political Time at the Limits of Materialism, Linsey Ly
Reimagining Recovery: Debt, Mutual Aid, and Disaster Governance in Puerto Rico, Sarah Molinari
The Objective Function: Science and Society in the Age of Machine Intelligence, Emanuel D. Moss
Handbook for the Deceased: Re-Evaluating Literature and Folklore in Icelandic Archaeology, Brenda Nicole Prehal
From Poor Campesinos to Tortilla Kings: Mexican Migrant Elites, Yesenia Ruiz
Living in Permanent Transience: An Ethnography of Contemporary Alexandria, Alexandra K. Schindler
The Material Culture of Temperature: Measurement, Capital and Semiotics, Scott W. Schwartz
The Politics of "Dignity" and the Tunisian Truth Commission: Keywords, Violence, Human Rights, Douaa Sheet
Dissertations from 2020
Nutritional Strategy and Social Environment in Redtail Monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius), Margaret Bryer
Dietary Development and Nutritional Ontogeny in Gorilla beringei : A Multi-layered, -Omics Approach, Emma C. Cancelliere
Reclaiming Indiana: The Politics of Crisis Amid the Failures of Liberal Capitalist Modernity, Chris Grove
Climbing Performance and Ecology in Humans, Chimpanzees, and Gorillas, Elaine E. Kozma
“Prepare for Death and Follow Me:” An Archaeological Survey of the Historic Period Cemeteries of New York City, Elizabeth D. Meade
Many Forms of Black Death: Coal Extraction, Transnational Activism and the Value of Life in Colombia, Oscar H. Pedraza Vargas
The Phylogenetic Relationships of Middle-Late Miocene Apes: Implications for Early Human Evolution, Kelsey D. Pugh
Shadow Standards and the Logic of Costs: Care, Stewardship, and Data in U.S. Community Health, Margarite J. Whitten
Dissertations from 2019
Losing Louisiana: Race, Techno-Science, and the Disappearing Geographies of the Lower Mississippi River Delta, Monica Patrice Barra
A New and Unsettling Force: Information Technology, Popular Education and the Movement to End Poverty, Christopher Caruso
Oldowan Tool Behaviors Through Time on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya, Emma M. Finestone
Becoming Legible: The Racial Making of the Negro Mascogo/Black Seminole People in the Coahuila–Texas Borderland, Rocío Gil Martínez de Escobar
Recolonizing Security: An Anthropology of the War on Terror in Kenya, Zoltan Gluck
Commmunity, Ecology, and Modernity: Faunal Analysis of Skútustaðir in Mývatnssveit, Northern Iceland, Megan Hicks
Waiting: History, Fear, and Healing in Ballynafeigh / the Upper Ormeau Road of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Molly J. Hurley-Depret
Being Ethnic on the Eurasian Steppe: Civic Nation-Building Discourse in Kazakhstan and Russia, Nathan P. Jones
The Functional Morphology of Ingestion in the Platyrrhine Sclerocarpic Harvesters (Platyrrhini, Primates), Zachary Stoffel Klukkert
Sedimenting Territory: A Political Geology of Oil, Earth, and Spatial Politics in Turkey, Zeynep Oguz
Development, Expertise, and Infrastructure between the Ohio River and Cincinnati Riverfront, 1895-Present, Raymond W. Pettit
Dios en carne: Rastafari and the Embodiment of Spiritual Blackness in Puerto Rico, Omar Ramadan-Santiago
The Morphology and Evolution of the Primate Brachial Plexus, Brian M. Shearer
Constructing Social Identity Through the Past: The Itza Maya Community Identity Through the Late Postclassic Period (1250–1525CE), Yuko Shiratori
War and Peace in American Seduction: Seduction Communities, Heterosexual Masculinity, and Mediated Intimacy in New York City, Anders Wallace
School Optimism: Fast Life and Slow Debt in the Financialized University, Mark Alan Porter Webb
Dissertations from 2018
Sociality and Stress in Female Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus) in the Cape Peninsula of South Africa: Behavioral Flexibility and Coping Mechanisms, Shahrina Chowdhury
Disorderly Histories: An Anthropology of Decolonization in Western Sahara, Mark Drury
Influence of the Silk Road Trade on the Craniofacial Morphology of Populations in Central Asia, Ayesha Yasmeen Hinedi
Together Without Consensus: Class, Emotions and the Politics of the Rule of Law in the Lawyers’ Movement (2007-09) in Pakistan, Salman Hussain
The Shari'a Courts of Mogadishu: Beyond "African Islam" and "Islamic Law", Ahmed Ibrahim
"When We Demand Our Share of This World”: Struggles for Space, New Possibilities of Planning, and Municipalist Politics in Mumbai, Malav J. Kanuga
Insurgent Difference: An Ethnography of an Indian Resource Frontier, Madhuri Karak
Deconstructing City Hall Park: The Development and Archaeology of the Common, Alyssa Loorya
Military Citizenship in the Post-9/11 Homefront, Estefania Ponti
The Upright Battle: Morphological Trends of the Bipedal Pelvis, Nicole M. Webb
Dissertations from 2017
Yellowing the Logarithm: How Money Solved the Problem of Freedom, Neil S. Agarwal
Thule Iron Use in the Pre-contact Arctic, Eileen Colligan
Zooarchaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of Newly Excavated Middle Pleistocene Deposits from Elandsfontein, South Africa, Frances L. Forrest
Youth Activists in Kashmir: State Violence, Tehreek, and the Formation of Political Subjectivity, Mohamad Junaid
The Failure of Post-War Reconstruction in Jaffna, Sri Lanka: Indebtedness, Caste Exclusion and the Search for Alternatives, Ahilan Kadirgamar
Archaeology of Void Spaces, Cory Look
Like A Natural Woman - Black Women’s Theatre Aesthetics: Agency & Resistance on the Chitlin’ Circuit, Adrienne R. Lotson
Affective Afterlives: An Ethnography of Activism Between Movements, Manissa Maharawal
Sick Systems: How Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Became Practically Incurable in Romania, Jonathan Stillo
The End of AIDS: Gender, Race and Class Politics in New York's Campaign to End the Epidemic, Lauren Suchman
What is the Language of Islam?: Reform, Translation, and Secularism in Turkey, Yunus Dogan Telliel
Dissertations from 2016
Saving Animals: Everyday Practices of Care and Rescue in the US Animal Sanctuary Movement, Elan L. Abrell
Extracting Indigeneity: Oil, Environment and Self-Determination in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), James J. A. Blair
Climate, Ecology, and Human Evolution during the Plio-Pleistocene, Scott Adam Blumenthal
Declining City, Born-Again Citadel: Faith-Based Organizations and the Reconstitution of Inequality in Postindustrial America, Michael J. Boyle
Lucumi and the Children of Cotton: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Mapping of a Black Atlantic Politics of Religion, Akissi M. Britton
Millets from the Margins: Value, Knowledge and the Subaltern Practice of Biodiversity in Uttarakhand, India, Priya R. Chandrasekaran
Left of Maidan: Self-Organization and the Ukrainian State on the Edge of Europe, Emily S. Channell-Justice
Saving: Stem Cell Science, Christian Adoption, and Frozen Embryo Potential in the United States, Risa Cromer
The Antipolitics of Food in Middle-Class America, Neri de Kramer
Reshaping National Imaginations in the Midst of Civil Genocide: Denationalization in the Dominican Republic and Transnational Activism, Javiela Evangelista
Breaking Cover: Confronting Crisis and Displacement in Timbuktu, Mali, Andrew Hernann
Post-Apartheid Citizenship and the Politics of Evictions in Inner City Johannesburg, Anthony Johnson
In Search of Argentinidad: Identity Affirming Bodies in Movement in Latino-America, Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo
What the Tides May Bring: Political "Tigueraje" Disposession and Popular Dissent in Samaná, Dominican Republic, Ryan A. Mann-Hamilton
Losing Values: Illiquidity, Personhood, and the Return of Authoritarianism in Skopje, Macedonia, Fabio Mattioli
Connectivity: An Ecological Paradigm for the Study of Bronze Age, Slobodan Mitrović
A Means to An End: Articulations of Diasporic Blackness, Class and Survival among Female Afro-Caribbean Service Workers in New York City, Christine A. Pinnock
Through the Gateway: Marijuana Production, Governance, and the Drug War Détente, Michael Polson
Transnational Indigenous Migration: Racialized Geographies and Power in Southern Highland Ecuador, Victoria Stone-Cadena
Kongo to Kings County, Marcus Alan Watson
From Coercion to Consent?: Governing the Formerly Incarcerated in the 21st Century United States, Karen G. Williams
Dissertations from 2015
Social-Ecological Resilience in the Viking-Age to Early-Medieval Faroe Islands, Seth Brewington
Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity, Maggie Dickinson
Was There a Sensory Trade-off in Primate Evolution? The Vomeronasal Groove as a Means of Understanding the Vomeronasal System in the Fossil Record., Eva Christine Garrett
Of Truths, Secrets, and Loyalties: Political Belonging and State Building in Poland after State Socialism, Saygun Gokariksel
Rebellion under the Palm Trees: Memory, Agrarian Reform and Labor in the Aguán, Honduras, Andres Leon
Privilege in Haiti: Travails in Color of the First Bourgeois Nation-State in the Americas, Philippe-Richard Marius
Disrupting the Narrative: Labor and Survivance for the Montauketts of Eastern Long Island, Allison Manfra McGovern
Right to Land and the Rule of Law: Infrastructure, Urbanization and Resistance in India, Preeti Sampat
'May God Cure You': Contemporary Egyptian Therapeutic Landscapes Between Qur'anic Healing And Psychiatry, Ana Maria Vinea
Environmental Expertise In The Age of Research: Institutional Process And Environmental Science In the American Far West, 1950-2014., Nathan D. Woods
Dissertations from 2014
Our Day Has Finally Come: Domestic Worker Organizing in New York City, Harmony Goldberg
"My People is a People on its Knees": Mexican Labor Migration from the Montana Region and the Formation of a Working Class in New York City, Rodolfo Hernandez-Corchado
"We are Refugees in Our Own Homeland": Land Dispossession and Resettlement Challenges in Post-Conflict Teso, Uganda, Matt Kandel
The Struggle for Recognition: Muslim American Spokesmanship in the Age of Islamophobia, Nazia Kazi
Claiming the Right to the City: Towards the Production of Space from Below, Mehmet Baris Kuymulu