Theses/Dissertations from 2026
The Isotopic Profile of Plague Victims Buried on the Quarantine Islands of Venice, Italy, Katherine L. Dunning
Situating Stormwater Infrastructure through Collaborative Design: Insights from a University-Community Partnership, Serena A. Echols
Heritage Without Equity: Afro-Descendant Representation, State Governance, Museums and the Limits of Cultural Policy in Belize, Sherilyne L. Jones
Subsistence and Settlement in Northwest Florida During the Late Archaic-Early Woodland Transition (3500 BC through AD 300), Kerri A. Klein
Unquaint Pigs’ Stakeholder Perspectives on Wild Swine in Central Western Florida, Tyler Koerner
Aging in the Shadows: Szekler Cemeteries and the Case for Recognizing Elderly Populations in Bioarchaeology, Katie M. Mcgrath
Iron Deficiency and Depressive Symptoms: Effects of Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Two Reproductive-Aged US Women, Alexis Monkhouse
Navigating (M)otherhood: Perception, Practice, & Policy of Adolescent Pregnancy in the North Coast of Perú, Mahir Rahman
“He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands”: Seed Sovereignty and Agricultural Decision Making in Southeastern Kenya, Caroline Stahley
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Cultural Continuity and Identity Preservation in Diaspora: The Role of African Pentecostal Churches in Maintaining Traditions within African Communities in the United States, Olamide T. Awoyemi
The Paleoecology of the Lower Chincha Valley, Peru Using Pollen, Phytolith, and Geomorphological Analyses, Christine L. Bergmann
"You Need to Make the Decision You Can Live With": An Observational Study of Anti-Abortion Centers in Tampa Bay, Anna Broich
“We Will Tend To It”: The Reconstruction Of The Wimauma, Florida’s Bethune Area Through Archival Research And Oral Histories, Alanah Cooper
“For Haitian culture, being older [is] a blessing”: Perceptions of Aging, Elderhood, and Dementia in a Haitian Born Sample, Melissa K. Eustache
Fort Brooke After 200 Years: A Public Heritage Approach, Alex F. Fawbush
Archaeological, PXRF, and GIS Analyses at The Trestle Bridge Site (8JA186), Northwest Florida, Victoria Marie Freitas
Between the Land and the Sea: Belizean Voices in Environmental Governance, Kris-An K. Hinds
Growing the Future: Community Gardens in Hillsborough County, Florida, Nicole M. Kennady
Barriers to Engagement of Care for Patients Presenting with Comorbid Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Major Depression or Anxiety Disorder Diagnoses, Rachel C. V. Kingsley
Untangling the Threads of Hope: A Qualitative Media Analysis of Discourse Relating to Futures for Sickle Cell Disease, Amanda R. Malerba
A Bioarchaeological Study of the Individuals from the Városfalva Burial Mound in Transylvania, Romania (15th-19th Century), Vanessa C. Reeves
Imperial Crosshairs: Grand Marronage at Negro Fort Along the Apalachicola River, Colby J. Williams II
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Narratives of Resilience: The Power of Creative Expression and Community Support during Familial Incarceration, Alana Alexander
“You are not the Same Person You Were:” On Diagnosis Seeking During a Liminal Period and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Kaylee A. Appleton
Cues and Identity: Assessing Substance Use Cues, Life Experience, and Context, Katelynn Carlsen
“Siguiendo Adelante”/ "Moving Forward:" Gender-based Violence (GBV) Service-Seeking and Survivorship among Indigenous Guatemalan Women, Caitlynn C. Carr
Beyond the Mask: Veterans Challenging the Strong Black Woman Trope in Their Journey to Heal in the South, Meya J. Hemphill-Hodges
Good Times, Politics, and Collapse: The Archaeology of Old St. Joseph, Florida, Christopher N. Hunt
Seminoles, Soldiers, and Settlers: Identity and Power on the Florida Frontier, Jean Louise Lammie
Beyond Climate in Placencia, Belize: Navigating Environmental Change in the Anthropocene, Rory E. McKenna
The Application of Multi-Isotope Analysis to Assist in Geoprofiling Unidentified Decedents Within Florida, Liotta D. Noche-Dowdy
“It’s essential we learn how to grow for ourselves”: The legacies of Black gardening in racialized food systems., Funmi Odumosu
Mill Point (8HI16-20) and Mosaic Park (8HI6747) in the Pre-Columbian and Historic Periods, Dennis Pierson
Navigating Change: Youth Civic Engagement at Tampa Heights Junior Civic Association, Alex R. Whitacre
An Analysis of (hu)MANid Using the USF Donated Skeletal Collection: Estimating Sex and Ancestry for Edentulous Individuals, Natalie S. Wise
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Environmental Justice from the Ground(water) Up: Coping with Contamination in Tallevast, Florida, Grey W. Caballero
The Local Neurologies of Substance Use Triggers, Breanne I. Casper
Entanglements of Teenage Food Security Within High School Pantries in Pinellas County, Florida, Karen T. Díaz Serrano
The Applicability of the Postmortem Submersion Interval Estimation Formula for Human Remains Found in Subtropical Aquatic Environments, Kara L. DiComo
Early Agricultural Lives: Bioarchaeological Inferences from Neolithic and Early Copper Age Tombs in the Central Po Valley, Italy, Christopher J. Eck Jr.
The Process of Government in Clearwater, Florida, Picot deBoisfeuillet Floyd
“I Was Doing the Best with What I Had”: Exploring Student Veterans’ Experiences with Community Reintegration, Food Insecurity, and Health Challenges, Jacquelyn N. Heuer
Geoarchaeology of Estuarine Seascapes in Tampa Bay, Florida., Kendal R. Jackson
Transformative Psychedelic Experiences at Music Events: Using Subjective Experience to Explore Chemosocial Assemblages of Culture, Gabrielle R. Lehigh
“They’re Still Trying to Wrap Their Head Around Forever”: An Anatomy of Hope for Spinal Cord Injury Patients, William A. Lucas
Foodways of the Florida Frontier: Zooarchaeological Analysis of Gamble Plantation Historic State Park (8MA100), Mary S. Maisel
The Impacts of Disability Policy and its Implementation on Deaf University Students: An Applied Anthropological Approach, Tailyn Marie Osorio
“I’m Still Suffering”: Mental Health Care Among Central African Refugee Populations in the Tampa Bay Area, C. Danee Ruszczyk
Investigating Mobility in the Northern Balkans during the Fifth Millenium BC through Strontium Analysis of Human Tooth Enamel, Aurélien Tafani
Clinically Applied Anthropology: A Syndemic Intervention., Jason W. Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Ethnographic Insight on the Construct of Blackness: Heritage, ‘Home,’ Community, and Reality in Carver City-Lincoln Gardens, Tampa, Florida, 1928-2021, Lisa Katina Armstrong
An Assessment of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals Gender Affirming Health Care Practices in the Greater Tampa Bay, Sara J. Berumen
Mound-Summit Practices at Cockroach Key (8HI2) Through the Lens of Practice Theory, Chandler O. Burchfield
Crafting a Scene: The Nexus of Production and Consumption of Tampa Bay Craft Beer, Russell L. Edwards
Applied Anthropology of Addiction in Clinical Spaces: co-Developing and Assessing a Novel Opioid Treatment Pathway, Heather Diane Henderson
Japan’s COVID 19 Infection Rate: A Focus on Tokyo Neighborhoods, Lauren Koerner
Mental Health and the Effects of Stress and Violence on Migrant Farmworker Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Russell Rice Manzano
Farmers’ Organizations and Development Actors in a Pandemic: Responses to Covid-19 and the Food-Energy-Water Nexus, Atte Penttilä
An Ideology of Racism: Community Representation, Segregation, and the Historical Cemeteries of Panama City, Florida, Ethan David Mauldin Putman
Beyond Health and Animal Rights: A Study in Black Veganism, Wendy J. Rib
Afro-Latinx and Afro-Latin Americans in the United States: Examining Ethnic and Racial Experiences in Higher Education, Glenda Maria Vaillant Cruz
“That’s What We Call ‘Aesthetics’”: The Social Construction of Tap Water Mistrust in an Underbounded Community, Abby Vidmar
Black Cemeteries Matter: The Erasure of Historic Black Cemeteries in Polk County, Florida, Juliana C. Waters
An Anthropology with Human Waste Management: Non-Humans, The State, and Matters of Care on the Placencia Peninsula, Belize, William Alex Webb
An Edgefield Ceramic Assemblage from the Lost Town of St. Joseph, Northwest Florida, Crystal R. Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Aspiring to “Make it Work”: Defining Resilience and Agency Amongst Hispanic Youth Living in Low-Income Neighborhoods, Sara Arias-Steele
“I Wish Somebody Called Me, Told Me Not to Worry”: Evaluating a Non-Profit’s Use of Social Support to Address Refugee Women’s Resettlement Challenges, Brandylyn L. Arredondo
Of Body and Mind: Bioarchaeological Analysis of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Anatomization and Institutionalization in Siena, Italy, Jacqueline M. Berger
Cannabis Capitalism in Colorado: An Ethnography of Il/legal Production and Consumption, Lia Berman
Analyses Of Woodland Check-Stamped Ceramics In Northwest Florida, John D. Blackburn
Privies as Portals: A Ceramic and Glass Bottle Analysis of a Late 19th Century Household Privy in Ellenton, FL, Shana Boyer
Making Change in the Nickel City: Food Banking and Food Insecurity in Buffalo, NY During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Sarah E. Bradley
Ware and Tear in Ancient Tampa Bay: Ceramic Elemental Analyses from Pinellas County Sites, McKenna Loren Douglass
Rethinking Settlement Patterns at the Weeden Island Site (8PI1) on Florida’s Central Gulf Coast, Heather E. Draskovich
Listening to Women: Using a Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Women’s Desires and Experience During Childbirth, Nicole Loraine Falk Smith
Archaeology and Seasonality of Stock Island (8Mo2), a Glades-Tradition Village on Key West, Ryan M. Harke
Educational Experiences of Congolese Refugees in West-Central Florida High Schools, Michaela J. Inks
Constructing 'Child Safety': Policy, Practice, and Marginalized Families in Florida's Child Welfare System, Melissa Hope Johnson
"We're the Lucky Ones": A Social Network Analysis of Recovery After the Iowa Derecho, Kayla C. Jones
How Race is Made in Everyday Life: Food, Eating, and Dietary Acculturation among Black and White Migrants in Florida, U.S., Laura Kihlstrom
Tourism, Education, and Identity Making: Agency and Representation of Indigenous Communities in Public Sites within Florida., Timothy R. Lomberk II
Pregnancy and Fertility Amongst Women with the MTHFR C677T Polymorphism: An Anthropological Review, Caroline A. MacLean
A Biocultural Analysis of the Impacts of Interactions Between West Africans and Europeans During the Trans-Atlantic Trade at Elmina, Ghana, Heidi Ellen Miller
The Distribution in Native Populations from Mexico and Central America of the C677T Variant in the MTHFR Gene, Lucio A. Reyes
Politics vs. The Environment: The Spatial Distributions of Mississippian Mound Centers in Tampa Bay, Adam J. Sax
Seasonality, Labor Organization, and Monumental Constructions: An Otolith Study from Florida’s Crystal River Site (8CI1) and Roberts Island Shell Mound Complex (8CI40 and 41), Elizabeth Anne Southard
Eating and Body Image Disorders in the Time of COVID19: An Anthropological Inquiry into the Pandemic’s Effects on the Bodies, Theresa A. Stoddard
The Early Medieval Transition: Diet Reconstruction, Mobility, and Culture Contact in the Ravenna Countryside, Northern Italy, Anastasia Temkina
The Science of Guessing: Critiquing Ancestral Estimation Through Computer Generated Statistical Analysis Within Forensic Anthropology in a Real-World Setting, Christopher J. Turner
Listening to Queens: Ghana's Women Traditional Leaders as a Model for Gender Parity, Kristen M. Vogel
Site Suitability Modeling in the Sand Pine Scrub of the Ocala National Forest, Jelane M. Wallace
Our Story, Our Homeland, Our Legacy: Settlement Patterns of The Geechee at Sapelo Island Georgia, From 1860 To 1950, Colette D. Witcher
Identifying Skeletal Puberty Stages in a Modern Sample from the United States, Jordan T. Wright
Pollen-Vegetation Relationships in Upper Tampa Bay, Jaime E. Zolik
