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Rachel Virginia Briggs
2011  Title: Negotiating the Area Between: Exploration of an Eighteenth Century Upper Creek Settlement in the Lower Black Warrior River Valley.   
    
Catherine Buzney
2011  Title: Pubertal Plasticity: Biological, Social, and Cultural Factors Driving Timing of Female Reproductive Maturation.   
    
Heather Long
2011  Title: Good Ol' Boys: Masculinity and Stress in Southern Males.   
    
Erik Porth
2011  Title: Raised Ground, Razed Structure: Ceramic Chronology, Occupation and Chiefly Authority on Mound P at Moundville.   
    
J Andrew Scruggs
2011  Title: Plan II.   
    
Carolyn Smith
2011  Title: Life Goals and Eating Disorders among Adolescent Girls in Birmingham, Alabama.   
    
Anthony Smith
2011  Title: Plan II.   
    
Kyle Stewart
2011  Title: Plan II.   
    
Paul Eubanks
2010  Title: Interaction, Sedentism, and Aggregation in Woodland-stage Central Alabama.   
    
Dan Mullins
2010  Title: Problems and Prospects for a Cognitive Science of Religion: Minimal Counter-intuitiveness, Epistemic Congruency, Sex, and Context in the Epidemiology of Cultural Representations in South India.   
    
Amanda Owens
2010  Title: A Reexamination of Cremated Remains from the Archaeological Record: An Evaluation of the Process and Application of Current Methods.   
    
Brian Robbins
2010  Title: Osteoarthritis Among the Mississippians: A Comparison of Health and Lifestyle Between the Inhabitants of Moundville and Seven Mile Island.   
    
Merritt Smith
2010  Title: Skeletal Evidence of the Treatment of the Elderly between the Archaic and Mississippian Periods in the Southeastern United States.   
    
Martina Thomas
2010  Title: Perceptions of Body Image Among Low Socioeconomic Status African American Mothers and their Daughters in Mobile, Alabama.   
    
Andrea Adams
2009  Title: Investigation of Late Woodland Social Interactions at the Bridgeport Site (!JA574), Alabama.   
    
Daniel LaDu
2009  Title: The Changing Landscape of Mazique (22Ad502), a late prehistoric mound center in Adams County, Mississippi.   
    
Michelle Satcher
2009  Title: Mental Health Treatment-Seeking Behaviors of African-American Women in the Southern United States.   
    
Phillip Thompson
2009  Title: Soka Gakkai Buddhists in Alabama: Reproduction of SGI's Cultural Model.   
    
Brandon Thompson
2009  Title: A comparative health analysis of the historic African American cemetery population from 1LA151, Foster Cemetery, to three contemporaneous historic southeastern African American cemetery populations. .   
    
Sonia Williford
2009  Title: Plan II.   
    
Casey R. Barrier
2007  Title: Surplus Storage at Early Moundville: The Distribution of Oversized Jars at Mound W and Other Off-Mound Locations.   
    
Benjamin Blakely Brooks
2007  Title: Using a Social Stress Gauge to Study Chocake and Social Stress Among Participants of the Callejon de Huaylas Valley, Peru: A Case-Control Study.   
    
Jayur Madhusudan Mehta
2007  Title: A Study of Sweat Lodges in the Southeasten United States.   
    
Steven M. Meredith
2007  Title: An Analysis of Alexander Culture Pottery in the Alabama Valley and Ridge Physiographic Province.   
    
Paul Daniel Noe
2007  Title: Indigenous Resistance and Revitalization in Sixteenth-Century Cuba, 1510-550.   
    
Melissa Danielle Chronister
2006  Title: Marginalized in Life, Forsaken in Death: Mortuary Practices for the Feeble and Undisireable in the Prehistoric Southeast.   
    
Brian David Padgett
2006  Title: Islands in the River of Time: The Bioarcheology of Two Village Sites (1MS32 and 1MS100) in Marshall County, Alabama, with New Interpretations of the Ethnohistoric and Archeological Records (Vols 1 and 2).   
    
Erin Elizabeth Phillips
2006  Title: Social Status as Seen Through the Distribution of Paint Palettes, Stone Pendants, and Copper Gorgets in Moundville Burials.   
    
Mary Spanos
2006  Title: Mississippian Textiles at Beckum Village (1CK24), Clarke County, Alabama.   
    
Patty Alleman-Velez
2005  Title: Cervical Cancer and Family Planning: Culture, Beliefs and Behaviors in Northeastern Jamaica.   
    
Toni J. Copeland
2005  Title: HIV-Positive Women in Nairobi, Kenya: Poverty, Urban Migratin and Cultural Models of Social Support.   
    
Matt Grunewald
2005  Title: Prehistoric Tallahatta Sandstone, Procurement, Reduction, and Utilization at the Joe Long Site, 1Ck305.   
    
Alice A. Ivas
2005  Title: Caught in the Middle: the Apalachees of Colonial Mobile.   
    
Pamela Anne Johnson
2005  Title: The Occupational History of Mound'W' at Moundville, Alabama.   
    
Brad R. Lieb
2005  Title: The Grand Village is Silent: An Archeological and Ethnohistorical Study of the Natchez Indian Refuge Among the Chickasaws in the Eighteenth century.   
    
Steven Edward Barry
2004  Title: Lithic Raw Materials and Chipped Stone Tools: A Comparison of Two Sites in the Moundville Cheifdom.   
    
Christine Newton Newkirk
2004  Title: Social Class and Food Knowledge in Ribeirao, Brazil.   
    
Robert Scott
2004  Title: Artifact Distributions, Activities and Material Culture at the Historic Lower Creek Town of Kasita.   
    
Laura Wood
2004  Title: The Middle Woodland Hyland Mound Site (22WR679) in Mississippi: The Utility of Systematic Surface Collections.   
    
Ryan Wesley Shaw
2003  Title: Prefernce, Function and the Law: Examining Changes in Tabasco Bottle Design.   
    
Ben Shields
2003  Title: Occupational/Welfare-Related Trauma in the Pickwick Basin/Middle Archaic.   
    
Kimberly Walters
2003  Title: Predicting the Holy Ghost: LDS Conversion in India.   
    
Matthew P. White
2003  Title: A Culture History Mystery Along the Banks of the Tennessee: Determining the Cultural Affiliation of the Red Fox Mound Site Through Its Ceramic Assemblage.   
    
Clifford Thomas Lewis, III
2002  Title: Yellowed Pages and Faded Print: Nineteenth-century Indians in Southwest Alabama Newspapers.   
    
Miranda Moore
2002  Title: From Plantaino to Industry in the Landscape of Homestead Hill (16Ib130), Avery Island, Louisiana.   
    
Jennifer L. Myer
2002  Title: Among the Fields: Mississippian Settlement Patterns in the Black Warrior Valley, Alabama.    University of Alabama and College of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Research by a Masters Student
    
Ashley A. Dumas
2001  Title: Archaeology at the Original Tabasco Factory, Avery Island, Louisiana.    University of Alabama and the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Research by a Masters Student
    
Christina Ann Hendrickson
2001  Title: The Use of Cranial and Postcranial Nonmetric Skeletal Traits to Determine Genetic Relationships at site 1Ja574, Bridgeport, AL.   
    
Kimberly Sue Neutzling
2001  Title: Trauma: Changes from the Middle to Late Archaic in the Pickwick Basin.   
    
Amanda Leigh Regnier
2001  Title: Stylistic Analysis of Burial Urns from the Protohistoric Period in Central Alabama.   
    
Tara Christine Robertson
2001  Title: Patterns of Help-Seeking Behavior of Residents in a Battered Women's Shelter: The Role of Social Support.   
    
Jessica Malini Edwards
2000  Title: Reproductive Perceptions and Family Planning Among the Iban.   
    
Matthew David Gage
2000  Title: Ground-Penetrating Radar and Core Sampling at the Moundville Site.    University of Alabama and the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Research by a Masters Student Award
    
Scott Hammerstedt
2000  Title: Characteristics of Mississippian Settlement in the Black Warrior Valley, Alabama.   
    
Keith J. Little
2000  Title: Late Holocene Climate Fluctuations and Culture Change in the Southeastern United States: Evidence from the Tennessee Valley.   
    
Jon Bernard Marcoux
2000  Title: Display goods Production and Circulation in the Moundville Chiefdom: A Mississippian Dilemma.   
    
Stacy McGrath
2000  Title: An Ethnohistorical, Archaeological, Osteological, and Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of a 19th Century African American Cemetery: A Methodological Case Study.    College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Thesis Award
    
Mikael Haller
1999  Title: Was Napoleon the Result of a Great Event of Being a Big Man or Was He Just a Pig? In Search of the Origin of Hereditary Inequality at Paso de la Amada, Chiapas, Mexico.   
    
Clete Rooney
1999  Title: Institutional Expression in Nineteenth Century Cemeteries: The Alabama Insane Hospital Cemetery.   
    
Karen Yvonne Smith
1999  Title: From Pots to Potters: Ceramic Manufacture at Fairchild's Landing, Seminole County, Georgia.   
    
Judith L. Gillies
1998  Title: A Preliminary Study of Moundville Hemphill Representational Engraved Ceramic Art Style.   
    
Kenton Paul Johnson
1998  Title: Middle Bronze II Age Fortifited Sites in Cisjordan:Functional or Symbolic?.   
    
Meghan LaGraff
1998  Title: Change in Material Culture of the Huron Indians as a Result of Contact.   
    
Michael Lucas Loughlin
1998  Title: Debating the Olmec: Cultura Madre vs. Cultura Hermana.   
    
Scott C. Meeks
1998  Title: The Use and Function of Late Middle Archaic Projectile Points in the Midsouth.   
    
Janelle Marie Meyer
1998  Title: Medical Treatment Choice in Martinique.   
    
Godfrey Fuji Noe
1998  Title: Love and Happiness: An Enthnographic Study of Young Black Men at a Black Baptist Church.   
    
Mary Shannon Weiss
1998  Title: Alabama Mound Exploration by the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology, 1882-1886.   
    
Karla Wesley
1998  Title: Ecotourism in the Peruvian Amazon: A Case Study from the Bora Village of San Andres.   
    
Kristen M. Zschomler
1998  Title: Impact of European Materials on the Traditional Tool Culture of the Copper Inuit.   
    
Virgil R. Beasley
1997  Title: Excavations at the Mound 4, Block 1 Locale of the Anna Site (22Ad1), Adams County, Mississippi.   
    
Robin A. Beck
1997  Title: Burke Phase Settlements in the Upper Catawba Valley.    College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Thesis Award
    
Edmond A. III Boudreaux
1997  Title: Chronology at the Cotton Mounds, Warren County, Mississippi.   
    
Ryan A. Crutchfield
1997  Title: A Comparative Analysis of Ceramic Manufacturing Techniques Between the Guana Caste-Nicoya, Central Highlands-Atlantic Watershed and Diquis Archaeological Zones, Costa Rica.   
    
Vanessa Louise Fuller
1997  Title: Physician Characteristics and Patient Patterns in Prenatal Care.   
    
Hunter B. Johnson
1997  Title: An Archaeological Survey of Lower Big Black River, Mississippi.   
    
Charlan D. Kroelinger
1997  Title: An Analysis of Unwanted Pregnancy in Lower Income Women.   
    
Jill Hancock Miller
1997  Title: The NLU-UAB Research Project at Poverty Point Excavation Ridge 2 N.W. Sector.   
    
Elizabeth Anne Ryba
1997  Title: Summit Architecture on Mound E at Moundville.   
    
Kevin E. Schatte
1997  Title: Stylistic Analysis of the Winged Serpent Theme at Moundville.   
    
Robyn L. Astin
1996  Title: Mound M: Chronology and Function at Moundville.   
    
Greg Hendryx
1996  Title: Settlement Preferences Among Prehistoric Peoples of Alabama.   
    
Paul D. Jackson
1996  Title: An Examination of Late Woodland Features in the Tombigbee Black Warrior, and Tennessee River Valleys.   
    
Lynette M. Nyman
1996  Title: Purity, Pollution, and Power Among Rom Women in a Southern Polish Town.    College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Thesis Award
    
Aleta B. Robertson
1996  Title: Cranial Discrete Trait Analysis of Four Mississippian Sites: An Investigation of Genetic Relationships Between Prehistoric Populations in Alabama.   
    
Kristi E. Taft
1996  Title: Functionally Relevant Classes of Pottery at Moundville.   
    
R. Colby Allsbrook
1995  Title: Limestone, Grog and Shell: An Intemperate View of Pottery Temper in the Tennessee Valley.   
    
Jennifer Y. Fillion
1995  Title: Diaphyseal Remodeling in the Femur and the Prediction of Body Weight in Adult Humans.   
    
Hyla L. Lacefield
1995  Title: A Preliminary Study of Moundville Engraved Pottery.   
    
Patrick M. McElroy
1995  Title: The Confederate Battle Flag: Social History and Cultural Contestation.   
    
Allan D. Meyers
1995  Title: Characteristics of Historic Creek Household Organization: Evidence from Plow-Disturbed Contexts.   
    
Terry L. Lolley
1994  Title: Ethnohistory and Archaeology: A Map Method for Locating Historic Upper Creek Indian Towns and Villages.   
    
David W. Morgan
1994  Title: An Analysis of Historic Period Chickasaw Settlement Patterns.    University of Alabama Outstanding Thesis Award
    
Shannon Rogers
1994  Title: A Brief History of the Problem of Etruscan Origins and Language.   
    
Orval E. Shinn
1994  Title: Red Fox Mound: An Analysis of the Pottery and Stone.   
    
Amy L. Knight
1993  Title: The Effects of Modernization on Blood Pressure in Samoan Men and Women.    College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Thesis Award
    
Billy J. Grantham
1992  Title: Modern Bugata and Ancient Gasrin: The Ethnoarchaeology of Cuisine in the Golan Heights.    College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Thesis Award
    
Chris S. McLaughlin
1991  Title: Early Historic Exploitation of the Lower Mississippi Valley: Exploring the Non Caloric Values of Hard Tissue.   
    
Caryn R. Hollingsworth
1990  Title: The Archaeology of Sheeps Bluff Shelter (1Fr324), Franklin County, AL..   
    
Agneta Johannsen
1990  Title: Applied Anthropology and Post-Modernist Ethnography.    University of Alabama Outstanding Thesis Award
    
Paula D. Gwin
1989  Title: Attitudes and Knowledge About Breast-Feeding Among Medical Residents in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.   
    
William S. McGraw
1989  Title: An Analysis of Various Demographic Parameters for Eighteen Primate Species at the Birmingham Zoo.   
    
Abebe Kifleyesus
1988  Title: Strategies in a Native North American Primary: The Politics of Tribal Election Among the Dine.   
    
Chen-Hsin Lo
1988  Title: Ritual and Community in a Southern Town.    University of Alabama Outstanding Thesis Award
    
Judy A. Sproles
1988  Title: Ritual and Consciousness: An Evaluation of Approaches.   
    
James M. Callaghan
1987  Title: The Morphology of the Snodgrass Small Mound (1JA99), Jackson County, Alabama..   
    
Beverly S. Curry
1987  Title: Bahamian FoodWays: A Study of Two Islands in the Bahamas.   
    
Wonhee Lee
1985  Title: An Ethnographic Study of a Methodist Church in West Alabama.   
    
Mary C. Argo
1984  Title: Patterns of Childhood Illness and Malnutrition in Komchen, Yucatan.   
    
Claudina E. Cabrera
1984  Title: Variation in Samoan Blood Pressure.   
    
Lawrence S. Alexander
1983  Title: A Tradition of White Oak Basketry in Tennessee.   
    
Sadakah A. Barashi
1982  Title: Transformation in Islamic Religious Architecture: An Anthropological Perspective.   
    
Michael P. Donisi
1982  Title: The Incidences and Patterns of Long Bone Fractures in Selected Prehistoric Human Skeletal Series from the Central Tennessee River Valley of Alabama.   
    
Ibrahim M. Reseeni
1982  Title: The Traditional and the Modern in Domestic Architecture: A Saudi Arabian Example.   
    
Glenda J. Driskell
1981  Title: An Ethnomusicological Account of the Yucatan Fiesta.   
    
Hal B. Ensor
1981  Title: Lithic Morphology, Technology, and Use in the Central Tombigbee Drainage: The Miller II and Miller III Phases.   
    
Faiz Ali Hussein Saleem
1981  Title: An Anthropological Survey of the Al-Jharadiyah Tribes.   
    
Gloria M. Caddell
1979  Title: Plant Resources, Archaeological Plant Remains, and Prehistoric Plant Tombigbee River Use Patterns in the Central Valley.   
    
Bruce D. Bizzoco
1977  Title: Archaeological Salvage Investigations at 1Ba196: Baldwin County, Alabama.   
    
Susan D. Gillespie
1977  Title: The Use of Procedural Modes to Classify Chipped Stone Tools.   
    
William H. Pelham
1977  Title: Polyandry: A Cross-Cultural Study.   
    
Shelby K. Zeanah
1977  Title: Ideal Patterns, Approved Variations, Patterned Scandals and Beyond in a Small Southern Community.   
    
Victor K. Fleming
1976  Title: Historic Aboriginal Occupation of the Guntersville Basin, Alabama.   
    
Bascom M. Brooms
1975  Title: The Collier-Boone House: A Study in Historical Archaeology.   
    
John W. O'Hear
1975  Title: Site 1Je32: Community Organization in the West Jefferson Phase.   
    
Julia R. Hixon
1974  Title: Adaptability of the Indian Caste System.   
    
Nancy J. Brock
1973  Title: Egyptian Copts in National and World Context: A Coptic View.   
    
Cailup B. Curren
1973  Title: An Ethnozoological Analysis of the Vertebrate Remains, Little Bear Creek Site (Ct8).   
    
Eugene M. Futato
1973  Title: I-65 Highway Salvage: The Position of Twelve Archaeological Sites in Central Alabama Prehistory.   
    
Ralph H. Bunn
1972  Title: An Analysis of the Dental Material from Pinson Cave.   
    
Regina J. Kinsaul
1972  Title: Microscopic Analysis of Certain Stone Tools from 1Mg74.   
    
Richard T. Roberts
1972  Title: Tahiti: Focal Point of Diffusion in Polynesia.   
    
Lois A. Bartelme
1971  Title: A Comparative Study of Two Rural Markets: Ticul, Yucatan and Northport, Alabama.   
    
Carey B. Oakley
1971  Title: An Archaeological Investigation of Pinson Cave (1Je20).   
    
George H. Stopp
1971  Title: The Impact of the 1964 Civil Rights Act on an Isolated Tri-Racial Group.   
    
John W. Cottier
1970  Title: Preliminary Archaeological Investigations at X-Kukican, Yucatan, Mexico.   
    
Jerry J. Nielsen
1970  Title: Archaeological Investigations at Site 1Au28 in the Jones Bluff Reservoir on the Alabama River.   
    
Noel R. Stowe
1970  Title: Prehistoric Cultural Ecology in Northwest Alabama.   
    
Charles H. Ainsworth
1969  Title: A Study of Cultural Change Among the Ute Indians.   
    
Oscar W. Brock
1969  Title: The Transition from the Paleo-Indian to the Archaic in the Tennessee Valley.   
    
Robert I. Gilbert
1969  Title: Papua: Its Transformation by Culture Contact.   
    
Jane Inez Lumpkin
1969  Title: The Archaeology of Tell es-Sultan (Palestine) and Windmill Hill (England) and Their Chronological Positions in the Old Word Neolithic.   
    
Leon Gillaspie
1968  Title: Applied Anthropology in Christian Missions: Problems, Practices, and Potentialities.   
    
Vincent J. Fasano
1967  Title: The Australian Aborigines, 1788-1967: Socio-Cultural Transformations and Present Conditions.   
    
Guy H. Wolf
1967  Title: Shilluk Social Structure, Political Process, and Divine Kingship.   
    
Joseph Langford Benthall
1966  Title: A Study of Flint and Ceramic Relationships at Four Selected Alabama Aboriginal Sites.   
    
J. Bennett Graham
1966  Title: An Archaeological Local Sequence Chronology in the Lock 3 Reservoir.   
    
Carole E. Hill
1966  Title: Acculturation in the Sahara: Its Impact on Nomadism.   
    
Edward Barna Kurjack
1964  Title: Domestic Architecture and Social Stratification at Dzibilchaltum, Yucatan.   
    
Lynn Ross Morrell
1963  Title: The Woods Island Site in Southeastern Acculturation 1625-1800.   
    
David L. DeJarnette
1958  Title: An Archeological Study of a Site Suggested as the Location of the Upper Creek Indian Community of Coosa Visited by Hernando de Soto in 1540.   
    
Margaret Z. Searcy
1954  Title: Tuscaloosa County Hunting.