M.A. Graduates

2004-2012

Tabitha Denae Epperson (Fall 2012) - Thesis Title: A Place Like Home

Kelly Jo Davila (Spring 2012) - Thesis Title: Distant Neighbors: Negotiating Space and Urban Development in a Southern Mississippi Community

Barbara Ann Hester (Spring 2012) - Thesis Title: Cross-Cultural Contact on Ship Island Mississippi: An Analysis of the French Warehouse Site Ceramic Assemblage from an Aboriginal and Engendered Perspective

Patricia Lynn Miller-Beech (Spring 2012) - Thesis Title: German POWs, Biopolitics, & the Piney Woods: Using Foucault to Analyze Resistance at Camp Shelby's POW Camp during World War II

Heather Kay Sanchez  (Spring 2012) - Thesis Title: East of the Tracks: Grassroots Environmentalism in South Mississippi

Amanda Rose Harvey (Fall 2011) - Thesis Title: Consequences of Contact: An Evaluation of Childhood Health Pattern using Enamel Hypoplasias Among the Colonial Maya of Tipu

Cassie Mechelle Chandler (Fall 2011) - Thesis Title: The Relationship between Salivary Cortisol Levels and Stressful Behaviors upon the Introduction of a New Exhibit Mate in Captive Black and Gold Howler Monkeys (Alouatta caraya) at the Hattiesburg Zoo

Danielle Nicole Cook (Fall 2011) – Thesis Title: An Analysis of Ancestry at the French Colonial Cemetery at the Moran Site (22HR511), Biloxi, Mississippi

Stacy Ann Scott (Fall 2011) - Thesis Title: The Shady Grove Site (22QU525), Quitman County, Mississippi:  Analysis of Demographics and Mortuary Practices

Donald Louis Craig (Spring 2011) - Thesis Title: The Deer Island Site (22HR500) Prehistoric Ceramics and Their Meaning on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Angela Kristin Vandenbroek (Fall 2010) - Thesis Title: Who I am/am Not: Identity and Practice Among Muslim American Women in Louisiana

Jennifer Winter (Fall 2010) - Thesis Title: Features of Habit: An Archaeological Assessment of Patterns in the Arrangement of Historic German-Russian Farmsteads in Hutchinson County, South Dakota.

Diana Flosenzier (Summer 2010) - Thesis Title: Mississippian Feasting in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Archaeobotanical Analysys of two Features from Winterville Mounds (22WS500)

Michael Fedoroff (Fall 2009) - Thesis Title: Earth-Oven Technology in the Mississippi Pine Hills: An Experimental Approach to Archaeological Investigations and Method Development

Jessica Kowalski (Summer 2009) - Thesis Title: The Early Mississipian Period in the Southern Yazoo Basin: An Analysis of Ceramics from the Winterville Site (22WS500)

Nicole Harris (Spring 2009) - Thesis Title: Aculturation in Southern Lousisiana: Cajun and Native American Foodway, 1755-1955.

Cindy Ponder ( Spring 2009) - Thesis Title: A Systematic Study of Wound Differentiation Dependent on Bullet Construction Variability.

Julie Shedd (Spring 2009) - Thesis Title: Anthropological Literature on Social Phobia: An Examination of Publishing and Indexing Patterns.

Matthew Freeman (Fall 2008) - Thesis Title: Cultural Complexity at Deathly Silent (22FO826): A Middle Woodland Mound in the Mississippi Pine Hill.

Susan Olin (Fall 2008) - Thesis Title: Slave Labor and Ceramics: A Statistical Analysis from Mount Locust Plantation in Natchez, Mississippi.

David Martin (Fall 2008) - Thesis Title: A Bioarchaeological Comparison of Childhood Health in Two Nineteenth Century Populations from New York.

Catherine Bowers (Summer 2008) - Thesis Title: Consuming Bollywood in Print and on Screen.

Tiffany Hensley (Summer 2008)

Andy Thompson (Summer 2008) - Thesis Title: Reconstructing Life in the Protohistoric Southeast: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Oliver Site (22CO503), Coahoma Co, Mississippi.

Natalie Brooke Cruthirds (Spring 2008) - Thesis Title: Crazy or Hungry: Oral Accounts of Continuity and Change in a Mississippi Gulf Coast Commercial Fishing Fleet.

Ashley Marie Siedell (Summer 2007) - Thesis Title: Racial Health Disparities in the Antebellum South: The Childhood Disease Experience in Nineteenth Century Natchez

Daniel Benjamin Zivin (Summer 2007) - Thesis Title: An Analysis of Secular Change and Sex and Race Differences in the Sacrum.

Miranda Dawn Page (Spring 2007) - Thesis Title: Dietary Reconstruction Through Stable Isotope Analysis at the Moran French Colonial Cemetery on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Erin Royal ( Spring 2007) - Thesis Title: The Maya Classic Collapse in an Urban Environment: A Study of Enamel Defects in Human Teeth from Tikal, Guatemala

Krista Lynee Burleigh (Fall 2006) - Thesis Title: Use of Radiographs of Patients with Arthritis and Pain Questionnaire Results to Aid in the Identification of Forensic Anthropology Cases

James M. Pittman (Fall 2006) - Thesis Title: The Construction of Alfombra and Identity in La Antigua Guatemala

Jason A. Gardner (Fall 2005) - Thesis Title: An Analysis of Ceramics from the Andrews Place Site (1MB1), Southern Mobile County, Alabama

Patricia Condon (Fall 2005) - Thesis Title: Move Beyond: Education, African Americans & the American Dream in the Jim Crow South

Bryan Tate (Summer 2005) - Thesis Title: Architecture, Archaeology and Landscape at Saragossa and Mount Locust Plantations in the Natchez District of Mississippi

Jeffrey Caillouet (Spring 2005) - Thesis Title: Roadside Memorials: A Cultural Response to Sudden Death along Pearl River County Roadways

Stacey L. Young (Fall 2004) - Thesis Title: An Analysis of Sub-Floor Pits and What Their Use Implies About Slave Lifeways and African-American Culture

Valerie A. Plested(Summer 2004) - Thesis Title: Place in Irish Traditional Music: An Analysis of Tune Repertory and Musicians

Brad J. Kavan (Summer 2004) - Thesis Title: The Rise and Decline of Mobile Street: Race and the Impact of Camp Shelby on African-American Hattiesburg

Kelly McAllister (Spring 2004) - Thesis Title: A Little Turn-of-the 20th Century Town in the Piney Woods: An Ethnohistorical Examination of Howison, Mississippi

Phillip Hodge (Spring 2004) - Thesis Title: Revisting Archusa Creek: An Analysis of Middle and Late Gulf Formational Ceramics from Southeast Mississippi

Dale Norton (Spring 2004) - Thesis Title: Intersite Relationship Analysis: Comparative Study Between Two Prehistoric Cemeteries in Northeastern Alabama Using Discrete Genetic Traits and Mortuary Material Remains