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
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
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
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
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Social Exclusion of Older Mossi Women Accused of Witchcraft in Burkina Faso, West Africa, Clarisse Barbier
Fields Brook Superfund Site: Race, Class, and Environmental Justice in a Blasted Landscape, Richard C. Bargielski
The Effects of Feudalism on Medieval English Mobility: A Biological Distance Study Using Nonmetric Cranial Traits., Jonathan H. Barkmeier
Before the Storm: Water and Energy Utilities, Human Vulnerability and Disaster Risk, Cori D. Bender
Save Water Drink Wine: Challenges of Implementing the Ethnography of the Temecula Valley Wine Industry into Food-Energy-Water Nexus Decision-Making, Zaida E. Darley
İYo luché!: Uncovering and Interrupting Silencing in an Indigenous and Afro-descendant Community, Eileen Cecelia Deluca
Unwritten Records: Crime and Punishment in Early Virginia, Jessica L. Gantzert
‘It’s Been a Huge Stress’: An In-Depth, Exploratory Study of Vaccine Hesitant Parents in Southern California, Mika Kadono
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for Elemental Analysis in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology, Kelsi N. Kuehn
Middle Woodland Mounds of the Lower Chattahoochee, Lower Flint, and Apalachicola River Basin, Michael H. Lockman
Overturning the Turnbull Settlement: Artifact Analysis of the Old Stone Wharf in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, Tracy R. Lovingood
Nurses and Needlesticks: Perceptions of Stigma and HIV Risk, Bethany Sharon Moore
Circadian Rhythms and the Embodiment of Social Zeitgebers: Linking the Bio and Social, Tiffany R. Moore
Civic Engagement amid Civil Unrest: Haitian Social Scientists Working at Home, Nadège Nau
“Placing our breasts on a hot kerosene lantern”: A Critical Study of Microfinancialization in the Lives of Women Entrepreneurs in the Informal Economic Sector in Ibadan, Nigeria, Olubukola Olayiwola
Domestic Life during the Late Intermediate Period at El Campanario Site, Huarmey Valley, Peru, Jose Luis Peña
Archaeology and the Philosopher's Stance: An Advance in Ethics and Information Accessibility, Dina Rivera
A South Florida Ethnography of Mobile Home Park Residents Organizing Against Neoliberal Crony Capitalist Displacement, Juan Guillermo Ruiz
From Colonial Legacy to Difficult Heritage: Responding to and Remembering An Gorta Mór, Ireland’s Great Hunger, Katherine Elizabeth Shakour
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Trauma Analysis in Cases of Child Fatality, Jaime D. Sykes
Characterizing Childhood and Diet in Migration Period Hungary, Kirsten A. Verostick
An Ethnography of WaSH Infrastructures and Governance in Sulphur Springs, Florida, Mathews Jackon Wakhungu
A Plan for Progress, Preservation, and Presentation at the Safety Harbor Museum and Cultural Center, Amanda L. Ward
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Pathways to Parenthood: Attitudes and Preferences of Eight Self-Identified Queer Women Living in Tampa Bay, FL, Emily Noelle Baker
"It's Not Addiction Until You Graduate": Natural Recovery in the College Context, Breanne I. Casper
Tales of Trafficking: Performing Women's Narratives in a Sex Trafficking Rehabilitation Program in Florida, Jaine E. Danlag
Perceptions of Infrastructure, Flood Management, and Environmental Redevelopment in the University Area, Hillsborough County, Florida, Kris-An K. Hinds
Eating in America: Easing the Transition for Resettled Refugees through an Applied Anthropological Intervention, Emily A. Holbrook
Genetic Testing and the Power of the Provider: Women’s Experiences with Cancer Genetic Testing, Dana Erin Ketcher
An Archaeological Investigation of Enslavement at Gamble Plantation, S. Matthew Litteral
“Right in the Trenches with Them”: Caregiving, Advocacy, and the Political Economy of Community Health Workers, Ryan I. Logan
Exploring Variations in Diet and Migration from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period in the Veneto, Italy: A Biochemical Analysis, Ashley B. Maxwell
Least of My Worries: Food Security, Diet Quality, and Antiretroviral Adherence among People Living with HIV, Charlotte Ann Noble
The Tampa Gym Study: An Ethnographic Exploration of Gyms, Female Gym-Goers and The Quest for Fitness in Tampa, FL, Danielle Reneé Rosen
Environmental Legacies of Pre-Contact and Historic Land Use in Antigua, West Indies, Anthony Richard Tricarico
“What I Hadn’t Realized is How Difficult it is, You Know?”: Examining the Protective Factors and Barriers to Breastfeeding in the UK, Cheyenne R. Wagi
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
“I Want Ketchup on my Rice”: The Role of Child Agency on Arab Migrant Families Food and Foodways, Faisal Kh. Alkhuzaim
Exploring Explicit Fanfiction as a Vehicle for Sex Education among Adolescents and Young Adults, Donna Jeanne Barth
Elemental Analyses of Archaeological Bone Using PXRF, ICP-MS, and a Newly Developed Calibration to Assess Andean Paleodiets, Christine L. Bergmann
Cancer Patient Experience Using Integrative Health Techniques, Spencer R. Bockover
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: A Tool For Veteran Reassimilation, Gino L. Collura
High-Precision Lead Isotope Analysis on Modern Populations to Determine Geolocation Reliability, Gennifer M. Goad
Producing the Past: Contested Heritage and Tourism in Glastonbury and Tintagel, Vivian Beatrice Gornik
“I am More Than my Addiction”: Perceptions of Stigma and Access to Care in Acute Opioid Crisis, Heather D. Henderson
Positive Deviance as a Framework for Understanding Motivations and Barriers to Exercise for University Students at Campus Recreation, René Dario Herrera
Raptors and Humans: Exploring Alternative Therapies in Non-Clinical Environments using Birds of Prey, Kaleigh Hoyt
Porter’s Bar: A Coastal Middle Woodland Burial Mound and Shell Midden in Northwest Florida, Kerri Knigge
Collecting the Past: Using a Private Collection of Artifacts to Assess Prehistoric Occupation of the Chipola River Valley in Northwest Florida, Kelsey Kreiser
Capacity Building, Environmental Justice, and Brownfield Redevelopment: A Case Study of Harvest Hope Park, Tampa Bay, FL, Gabrielle R. Lehigh
Ripple Effects of the Belo Monte Dam: A Syndemic Approach to Addressing Health Impacts for the Downstream Community of Gurupá, Cynthia A. Pace
Do All “Good Mothers” Breastfeed? How African American Mothers’ Values and Experiences of Early Motherhood Influence Their Infant Feeding Choices, Airia S. Papadopoulos
The Performance of Memorialization: Politics of Memory and Memory-Making at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, Kaniqua Robinson
TGF-β2 in human milk research: Exploration of a new field methodology and new findings of biosimilar TGF-β2 in non-human milk, Chlöe A. Sweetman
Looking Beyond Patient Satisfaction: Experiences of Spanish-Speaking Patients Seeking Non-Urgent Care in an Emergency Department, Seiichi Villalona
A Culture of Resistance: An Ethnography of Tampa Bay’s Racial Justice Activist Community, Emily Janna Weisenberger
The Association of Size Variation in the Dental Arch to Third Molar Agenesis for a Modern Population, Devin N. Williams
Vulnerability and Power: Exploring the Confluence of Politics and Climate Change in Cortez, Florida, Justin P. Winn
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Time to Love: Ideologies of "Good" Parenting at a Family Service Organization in the Southeastern United States, Anna Davidson Abella
The Time to Love: Ideologies of "Good" Parenting at a Family Service Organization in the Southeastern United States, Anna Davidson Abella
More Than Just Empty Space: Integrated Geoarchaeological Investigations of the Crystal River Site (8CI1) Plaza, Alexander C. Delgado
"Beautifully Awful": A Feminist Ethnography of Women Veterans' Experiences with Transition From Military Service, Kiersten H. Downs
Adverse Childhood Experiences and its Association with Cognitive Impairment in Non- Patient Older Population, Mohini D. Dutt
Problematic Participation and Educational Dilemmas: Ethnography of the Educational Experiences of Black Male Youth in Hillsborough County, Florida, Deneia Y. Fairweather
Water, Sanitation, and Citizenship: Perceptions of Water Scarcity, Reuse, and Sustainability in Valparaiso de Goias, Brazil, Paola Andrea Gonzalez
The Lives of Suburban Peasants: Agricultural Change and Mobility in Haiti, Rachel M. Grabner
Diagnostic Divisions of Eating Disorders: A Critical Analysis, Channah A. Leff
