Senior Independent Study Theses from 2025
The Life History of a Queen’s Maimed Stela: An Analysis and Review of the Ethics Regarding the Repatriation of El Perú Stela 34, Sydney Berenson
Department: Archaeology
Private Money and Public Work: Evaluating Funding Sources for US-Based Archaeological Research in Guatemala, Maura Ellenberger
Department: Archaeology
Heaven's Own Doom: An Investigation into the Collapse of Mycenaean Greece and the Downfall of Its Sociopolitical Institutions, Stryder Hellewell
Department: Archaeology
Traversing the Realms: Using Maya Indigenous Ontology to Read the Iconography on Lady K’abel’s Polychrome Circular Plate from Waka’s Burial 61, Teagan Knutson
Department: Archaeology; Religious Studies
The Depths of Archaeology: The Use of Photogrammetry on Underwater Sites for Public Engagement and Collaboration with African Diasporic Communities, Cody Mox
Department: Archaeology
Material Girl in a Material World: Exploring the Material Agency of Human Skeletal Remains and Paleoclimate Proxy Records from Pella, Jordan, Michail Protopapadakis
Department: Archaeology; Earth Sciences
Re-Remembering: An Archaeological Guide to Proactively Locate African American Burials in Ohio., Hope Page Scott
Department: Archaeology; Religious Studies
Patron Deities and Ancestral Maya Ontologies: A Contextual Analysis of the Waka’ Burial 61 Akan Effigy, Petén, Guatemala, Desiree Smith
Department: Archaeology; Earth Sciences
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2024
The Effects of Early Christianity on Early Medieval Scottish Mortuary Practices, Auna Campbell
Department: Archaeology; History
Cosmopolitanism, Commercialism, or Confessionalism? Beirut’s Privatized Heritage Management and its Effects on the Local Identity, Fritz Clingroth
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History
Addressing the Terminology: Scholarship on Gender Non-Conformity in Ancient Rome, Max Forhan
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Mapping Hokkaido: An Accessibility Focused Public Archaeology View of Ainu Space and Japanese Maps, Sean C. Gaston
Department: Archaeology; East Asian Studies
In the King’s Wake: An Analysis of Emerging Maya Political Systems during the Terminal Classic Period at the Site of El Perú-Waka’, Henry McMahon
Department: Archaeology
Mycenaean Trade in The Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age, Ryan Tompkins
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023
Incorporating Indigenous Families: An Exploration of Forensic Archaeological Ethics in Post-Conflict Andean Peru, Olivia Frison De Angelis
Department: Archaeology
The Creation of Black Paradise: Exploring Wealth Accumulation, Racial Politics, and Resilience of Black Neighborhoods In Detroit's East Side Through Archaeological Reconstruction, Jada B. Green
Department: Archaeology; Africana Studies
Wartime Impacts on Maya Culture Heritage, Alyssa Henss
Department: Archaeology
Celestial Bodies and Ancient Maya Women: Shedding (Moon)light on Divine Power, Anna Robinson Russell
Department: Archaeology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2022
Rockin' Cities Underground: An Urban Morphological Lens In The Archaeological Cavate Sites Of Derinkuyu And Naours, Anabelle Valeur Andersen
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History
African Queens: The Unknown Voices Of The Archaeological Record, Raena Gamble
Department: Archaeology
The Forgotten Messiah: A Comparative Analysis Of The Biblical, Historical, And Archaeological Evidence Of Jesus, Jimiria Jones
Department: Archaeology
Living In Unprecedented Times: An Archaeological Comparison Of The 1918 Influenza And Covid-19 Pandemics In The United States Of America, Nic M. Kennady
Department: Archaeology
Performance And Identity Production In Minoan Crete, Gwyn Stith
Department: Archaeology
A Digital Solution To Partage: A Case Study Of The College Of Wooster's Pella Collection, Benton Thomas Thompson IV
Department: Archaeology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2021
Reconsidering the Late Woodland: A Critical Reassessment of Perception and Periodization in the Ohio Valley, 400-1000 CE, Devin A. Henson
Department: Archaeology
We're All A Little Bit Gay: Female Homoeroticism in Greek Art, Devon A. Matson
Department: Archaeology; History
Narrative and Image as Memory: An Alternate History of the Alton Piasa Mural Using Indigenous Contexts, Natalia V. Moonier
Department: Archaeology
도시를 떠나 산지를 향해: Mountain Temple Complexes as an Expression of Korean Buddhism, Anthony Eanraig Riggs
Department: Archaeology; Religious Studies
Action, Adventure, and Artifacts: How Indiana Jones Influences Public Perceptions of Archaeology, Alan Salacain
Department: Archaeology
The Tel Kabri Wall and Floor Paintings: Microcosms of Mediterranean Middle Bronze Age Trade and Representations of a Canaanite Palatial Economy, Christine Weber
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2020
Songs, Storytellers, and Science: An Examination of Long-Distance Interaction in the Cook Islands, Cyrus Hulen
Department: Archaeology
Nascent Archaeology: The Reception of Classical Antiquity During the Renaissance, Lauren Ashley Kozlowski
Department: Art and Art History; Archaeology
Civic-Ceremonial Monumental Architecture and Expressions of Imperial Power, Sarah Niner
Department: Archaeology
Tools of the Trade: An Ethnohistoric and Archaeological Investigation of Late Fort Ancient Bifacial Endscrapers, Kevin Andrew Rolph
Department: Archaeology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2019
The Problem with the Problematical: An Investigation and Critique of Typological Categories in Maya Archaeology, Hannah Elizabeth Bauer
Department: Archaeology
Have You Ever Seen the Rain? An Investigation of the Climatic Variations and the Resulting Changes to Social and Environmental Dynamics at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, Melissa Dods
Department: Archaeology; Earth Sciences
To Gaze on the Headwaters: A Temporal Examination of Settlement Patterns at 33CN66-73 in Clinton County, Ohio, Devin A. Henson
Signing in the Margins: Manifestations of Professional Identity and Creative Agency in Viking Age Oval Brooches, Eleanor Howell
Department: Archaeology
Starved in Stone: An Examination of the Future Preservation of the Elephanta Caves of Mumbai, India, with Focus on Digital and Public Archaeology, Clare L. Kreuzwieser
Department: Archaeology
Grateful Dead: A Focus in Taphonomy and Genetics in Forensic Anthropology, Kassady A. Murphy
Department: Archaeology
An Analysis of How Political Agendas Affect Archaeological Research, Trevin O'Keefe
Department: Archaeology
Seeraq'ik Pek: Sharing Stories Written in Stone, Hannah Paredes
Department: Archaeology
Tel Kabri Wall Paintings: A Microcosm of Mediterranean Middle Bronze Age Trade and Interconnectedness, Christine Weber
A Cross-Cultural Study of Ancient Beer Production at Hochdorf, Hierakonpolis, and Cerro Baúl, Simon Weyer
Department: Archaeology
To Conserve or Not to Conserve: Lessons from the Management of Harappan Sites in India, Dipanvita Yadav
Department: Archaeology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2018
Production, Function, and Conservation of Ancient Roman Mosaics and their Display in Museums in the United States, Arabella Goodrich
Department: Archaeology
Zero to Hero: Elite Burials and Hero Cults in Early Iron Age Greece and Cyprus, Alina M. Karapandzich
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Trade Winds: A Study of Roman Ceramic Trade in the Balearic Islands, Abigail Varlan
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Trade and Production of Seatite Vessels in New England, Dan Wilcox
Trade And Production of Steatite Vessels in New England, Daniel Wilcox
Department: Archaeology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2017
Gotland and the East: A Study of Viking Age Trade Relationships Between Major Ports and the Swedish Island of Gotland, Maxwell D. Becker
Department: Archaeology
“50 Years Old? Demand a Recount!”: A Re-estimation of Helton Mound 20 Adult Skeletal Remains in Relation to the Middle to Late Woodland Transition, Moeana A. Franklin
Department: Archaeology
All Hands on Deck: The Role of Ship Burial Reentry in the Maintenance and Construction of Narrative in the Vendel and Viking Periods, Gina Malfatti
Department: Archaeology
"Great Spirits of All Who Lived Before": Exploring the Original Peopling of the Americas through the Examination of Paleoindian Skeletal Remains, Hannah E. Matulek
Department: Archaeology
"Great Spirits of All Who Lived Before": Exploring the Original Peopling of the Americas Through the Examination of Paleoindian Skeletal Remains, Hannah E. Matulek
One Site, Multiple Histories: A Study of the Numerous Phases of Habitation at Fort Caswell, North Carolina, Sophie M. Minor
Department: Archaeology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2016
The Problematical, The Cave, and The Maya: A Theoretical Discussion and Ethnoarchaeological Investigation, Haley N. Austin
Department: Archaeology
The Problematical, The Cave, and the Maya: A Theoretical Discussion and Ethnoarchaeological Investigation, Haley Noel Austin
Insurgency in the Late Bronze Age Levant: A World-Systems Analysis of Three Egyptian Garrison Sites, Eric T. Hubbard
Department: Archaeology
Insurgency in the Late Bronze Age Levant: A World-Systems Analysis of Three Egyptian Garrison Sites, Eric T. Hubbard
Early Iron Age Tholio as Indicators of Increasing Social Complexity: A Study of the Tholos Tomb at Azoria, East Crete, Alina Karapandzich
Phoenician Colonization of Nuragic Sardinia: A World-Systems Model of Periphery-Semiperiphery Interaction, Jade Robison
Phoenician Colonization of Nuragic Sardinia: A World-Systems Model of Periphery-Semiperiphery Interaction, Jade Robison
Department: Archaeology
The Queen’s Serpent: An Examination of the Serpent Vessel from Burial 61 from El Perú-Waka’, Sarah Van Oss
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History
Sanisera, a Roman Area of Trade: Examination of Ceramic Evidence from Building 13, Abigail Varlan
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2015
Forming and Debating National Identity: Three Case Studies of the Ownership of Ancient Artifacts, Rachael Aleshire
Department: Archaeology
Do You Have the Heart For It?: An Anthropological Examination of Portrayals of Aztec Human Sacrifice in Popular Culture, Courtney F. Astrom
Department: Archaeology; Sociology and Anthropology
Reflections of Foreign Influence and Social Class in Cypriot Art During the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, Bianca Hand
Department: Archaeology
Tomb of the Goblets: Revisiting a Middle Bronze Burial from Pella in Jordan, Blair Heidkamp
Department: Archaeology
Phoenician Colonization of Nuragic Sardinia: A World-Systems Model of Periphery-Semiperiphery Interaction, Jade Robison
The Domestication and Migration of Zea mays L. in Association with Holocene Climatic Variance, Kelsey L. Salmon Schreck
Department: Archaeology
Anglo-Saxon and Viking Ship Burials as Indicators of Status and Power, Meagan Shirley
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History
Sacred and Mortuary Landscapes in Iron Age Cyprus: A GIS Analysis, James P. Torpy
Department: Archaeology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2014
Lithic Raw Material Procurement at the Prehistoric Wansack Site (36ME61) in Mercer County, Pennsylvania: Evidence for Mobility and Trade Patterns from the Archaic to the Late Prehistoric in Elemental XRF Data, Stephanie Bosch
Department: Archaeology
The Accuracy of the Ethnohistoric Data by La Page Du Pratz about the Natchez, Jensen L. Buchanan
Department: Archaeology; Sociology and Anthropology
Further Down the Spiral: Analyzing Calleva Atrebatum in the Context of Collapse and Abandonment During the Withdrawal of Roman Britain, Peregrine Grosch
Department: Archaeology
Confronting Archaeology's Political Nature: An Evaluation of Archaeology as a Tool of Social Action in the Post Conflict Societies of Spain and the Former Yugoslavia, Allison C. Ham
Department: Archaeology
An Investigation of Cultural Identity: A Comparison of Mortuary, Ceramic, and Architectural Traditions between Cerro Magoni, Teotihuacan, and Northwestern Mexico, Emily J. Kate
Department: Archaeology; Sociology and Anthropology
If You Were Buried In A Ship, You Might Be A Viking: An Investigation of Scandinavian Influence Over Anglo-Saxon Identity in Mortuary Practices, Kathryn Z. Libby
Department: Archaeology; History
Finding the Thread of Transmission: An Examination of Hohokam Ceramic Production Through Regional Distribution and Production Patterns, Anna Mazin
Department: Archaeology
Upper Paleolithic Cave Art, Lauren Perrino
Canaan as a Contested Periphery: An Investigation of the Core and Peripheral Cultural Interactions of the Early Bronze Age Levant through World-Systems Analysis, Brian Porrett
Department: Archaeology
Written In Stone: Mortuary Analysis of the Cemetery in Athienou, Cyprus, Ashleigh Sims
Department: Archaeology; Sociology and Anthropology
The Roman Military Industrial Complex: A Study of the Relationship of the Evolution of Roman Equipment and the Roman Economy, Owen E. Yeazell
Department: Archaeology
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
What's for Dinner? An Exploration of the Nature of Aztec Cannibalism, Courtney Astrom
The Abandonment of Roman Britain in the Context of Collapse, Peregrine Grosch
An Analysis of the Innovative Methodology Used in the Exhumations of the Spanish Civil War, Allison Ham
The Prevalence of Goddess Sanctuaries in the Mesaoria Plain, Bianca Hand
A Preliminary Analysis of Epiclassical Burials at Cerro Megoni, Emily Kate
Changes in Anglo-Saxon Mortuary Practices Before and After Christian Conversion, Kathryn Libby
Gendering Ceramic Production in Hohokam Society, Anna Mazin
Monongahela Site Usage in the Late Prehistoric Period As Expressed in the 33ME61 Wansack Site (2-03), Jared Prestenbach
Department: Archaeology
Mortuary Analysis of Athienou-Malloura, and the Rise of Social Complexity in Archaic Cyprus, Jim Torpy
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Preservation of the Past: A Comparison of India and the United States, D. Claire Burns
Preserving the Past: A Comparison Between the United States and India, D. Claire Burns
Department: Archaeology
Sailing on the Edge: a World-Systems Analysis of Pirates and Privateers in the Atlantic and Caribbean in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Emily Butcher
Department: Archaeology
Mom, What Are We? Culture Contact Between Maya and Olmec in Pre-Columbian Honduras, Anarrubenia P. Capellin Ortega
Department: Archaeology
Journey to the New World: a World-Systems Approach to English Colonization at Jamestown, Catherine Gullett
Department: Archaeology
Journey to the New World: A World-Systems Approach to English Colonization at Jamestown, Catherine E. Gullett
Consumerism in the Caribbean: A Study of Consumer Trends within the British Colonial Caribbean, Christopher G. Haslam