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This list comprises graduate theses/projects from the initiation of the UAF Anthropology M.A. program in 1967 and Ph.D. program in 1988 to the present.
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Previous Graduate Student Research (1968-present)
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| Ph.D. | ||
| Year | Name |
Dissertation Title |
| 1989 | Andrews, Elizabeth Frances | The Akilmiut: Territorial Dimensions of a Yup'ik Eskimo Society |
| 1993 | Partnow, Patricia Hartley | Aluutiiq Ethnicity |
| 1993 | Goebel, Ted E. | The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Siberia |
| 1995 | Desson, Dominique | Masked Rituals of the Kodiak Archipelago |
| 1995 | Lewis, Michael A. | Technological Development and Culture Change on St. Lawrence Island: a Functional Typology of Toggle Harpoon Heads |
| 1996 | Arndt, Katherine Louise | Dynamics of the Fur Trade on the Middle Yukon River, Alaska, 1839 to 1868 |
| 1997 | Bigelow, Nancy Horner | Late Quaternary Vegetation and Lake Level Changes in Central Alaska |
| 1998 | Mills, Robin Owen | Historical Archaeology of Alaskan Placer Gold Mining Settlements: Evaluating Process-Pattern Relationships |
| 1998 | Simon, James J. K. | Twentieth Century Inupiaq Eskimo Reindeer Herding on Northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska |
| 1999 | Kingston, Deanna M | Returning: Twentieth Century Performances of the King Island Wolf Dance |
| 2001 | Martin, Cydny | Mediated Identity and Negotiated Tradition: The Inupiaq Atigi, 1850--2000 |
| 2002 | Legge, Scott Stephen | Vertebral Pathologies in Skeletons of Alaskan Eskimos from Golovin Bay and Nunivak Island |
| 2003 | Koskey, Michael Stephen | Cultural Activity and Market Enterprise? A Circumpolar Comparison of Reindeer Herding Communities at the End of the 20th century |
| 2004 | Cusack-McVeigh, Holly | Stories Find You: Narratives of Place in a Central Yup'ik Community |
| 2005 | Potter, Ben A. | Site Structure and Organization in Central Alaska: Archaeological Investigations at Gerstle River |
| 2006 | Greene, Tammy Renee | Diet and Dental Health in Predynastic Egypt: a Comparison of Hierakonpolis and Naqada |
| 2006 | Holzlehner, Tobias | Shadow Networks : Border Economies, Informal Markets, and Organized Crime in Vladivostok and the Russian Far East |
| 2007 | Yamin-Pasternak, Sveta | How the Devils Went Deaf : Ethnomycology, Cuisine, and Perception of Landscape in the Russian North |
| 2008 | Kaye, Michelle | Molecular Identification and Analysis of Treponematosis (syphilis, yaws, bejel or pinta) in Ancient Mummified Remains from Northern Chile and southern Peru |
| 2008 | Rasmus, Stacy M. | Indigenous emotional economies in Alaska: surviving youth in the village |
| 2009 | Halffman, Carrin M. | Bone as a Biomarker of Mercury Exposure in Prehistoric Arctic Human Populations: Initial Method Validation Using Animal Models |
| 2009 | Meadow, Alison M. | Evaluating and Designing Urban Food Systems: The Role of Local Initiatives |
| 2009 | Pratt, Kenneth L. | Nuniwarmiut Land Use, Settlement History and Socio-Territorial Organization, 1880-1960 |
| M.A. | ||
| Year | Name |
Thesis/Project Title |
| 1968 | Olson, Wallace M. | Minto, Alaska: Cultural and Historical Influences on Group Identity |
| 1970 | Billman, Esther Lisle | A Study of the Elements of the Supernatural Among the Tlingit of Sitka and Yakutat |
| 1970 | Jacobs, Neville Abbott | The Anthropologist and the Public; Some Problems of Public Communication in Anthropology |
| 1971 | Vitt, Ramon B. | Hunting Practices of the Upper Tanana Athapaskans |
| 1971 | Wallen, Lynn Ager | The Eskimo Storyknife Complex of Southwestern Alaska |
| 1972 | Bacon, Glenn H. | Archaeological Survey and Excavation Near Murphy Lake in the Arctic foothills, Northern Alaska |
| 1972 | Breiby, John C. | A Biographical Study of Acculturation on Nushagak Bay |
| 1972 | Derry, David E. | The Archaeology and Anthropology of a Recent Eskimo Habitation at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska |
| 1972 | Dixon, Edward James, Jr. | The Gallagher Flint Station: An Early Man Site on the North Slope, Arctic Alaska |
| 1972 | Heiner, Virginia E. | Subject: Aleutian Island sites |
| 1972 | Pitts, Roger Steven | The Changing Settlement Patterns and Housing Types of the Upper Tanana Indians |
| 1973 | Dykema, Gisela M. | Between Yesterday and Tomorrow: Allendorf, Germany |
| 1973 | Keim, Frank J. | Some Trends in Non-Native Adaptation in Villages Along the Kobuk and Koyukuk Rivers in Northwest Alaska |
| 1974 | Holmes, Charles Edgar | The Archaeology of Bonanza Creek Valley, North Central Alaska |
| 1974 | Stevens, Edward T | Alaskan Petroglyphs and Pictographs |
| 1974 | Utermohle, Charles J. | Analysis of Eskimo Dental Attrition by Progression of Dentine Exposure |
| 1975 | Andrews, Elizabeth Frances | Salcha: An Athapaskan Band of the Tanana River and its Culture |
| 1977 | Arndt, Katherine Louise | The Structure of Cache Pits at GUL-077, a Late Prehistoric Archaeoogical Site Near Gulkana, Alaska |
| 1977 | Fetter, Sharon | The Analysis and Description of an Archaeological Site (K-9) Near Cathedral Mountain, Alaska and the Site's Relationship to the Kayuk Complex |
| 1977 | Plaskett, David Charles | The Nenana River Gorge Site: A Late Prehistoric Athapaskan Camp Site in Central Alaska |
| 1977 | Smith, Timothy Alan | Obsidian Hydration as an Independent Dating Technique |
| 1977 | Stocklin, Brian Flynn | Demography of Prehistoric, Protohistoric, and Modern Alaskan Eskimos |
| 1978 | Davidson, Barry J. | |
| 1978 | deBurlo, Charles Russell | A Study of Performance in Kutchin Oral Narrative |
| 1978 | Hoffecker, John Frank | A Report to the National Geographic Society and the National Park Service on the Potential of the North Alaska Range for Archeological Sites of Pleistocene age : the North Alaska Range Early Man Project, Summary of Field Research, Summer 1978 |
| 1978 | Short, Kevin MacEwen | Subject: Archaeology of Japan |
| 1978 | Smith, George S. | Mammalian Zooarchaeology, Alaska: a Manual for Identifying and Analyzing Mammal Bones from Archaeological Sites in Alaska |
| 1978 | West, Charles Eugene | Archeology of the Birches Site, Lake Minchumina, Alaska |
| 1980 | Dale, Rachel Joan | Recency of Otitis Media Among Eskimo Populations |
| 1980 | Dale, Rebeca Jane | Analysis of the Pane Glass from the 1978 Excavation of the Baranov Museum, Kodiak, Alaska |
| 1981 | Braund, Stephen R. | The Skin Boats of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska |
| 1981 | Hanson, Diane K. | Analysis of Stone Tools from Western Chaluka, Umnak Island. |
| 1981 | Johnson, Roy Dean | Upper Tanana Athapaskan Fire Ecology |
| 1981 | Morehouse, Karen Bornfleth | Alaska Native Diet and Nutrition: an Ethnohistorical View |
| 1981 | Slaby, Daniel Louis | Demography of an Athabaskan Village: Minto, Alaska |
| 1981 | White, Gay Ann | Eskimo Village : an Ethnic Enclave in Fairbanks, Alaska |
| 1982 | Ketz, James Allen | Paxson Lake: Two Nineteenth Century Ahtna Sites in the Copper River Basin, Alaska |
| 1982 | Noss, John Frederick | A Demographic Profile of Rural Alaska, 1980 |
| 1982 | Pete, Mary R | Place Names of Taprarmiut |
| 1982 | Regan, Susan Lee | Interpretation Through Oral History in the Susitna River Basin |
| 1983 | Case, Martha Frances | Modern Foragers: Wild Resource Use in Nenana Village, Alaska |
| 1983 | Mason, Owen Kenneth | The Role of Lithology in Defining Use and Retouch at the Sandy Beach Bay site, Umnak Island |
| 1983 | Wyatt, Mary Pat | Problems in Conservation of Alaskan Ethnographic Material |
| 1984 | Walsh, Steven J. | Polity of St. Lawrence Island |
| 1986 | Wheeler, Polly Carvill | Kaltag, Alaska and Fairbanks: Changing Patterns of Subsistence Salmon Fishing on the Yukon River |
| 1987 | Betts, Robert C. | Archaeological Investigations at Butte Lake, Alaska: An Inquiry into Alaskan Notched Point-Microblade Assemblages |
| 1987 | Desson, Dominique J. | Analysis of Alaskan Prehistoric Ceramics |
| 1987 | Lively, Ralph A. | A Report on Archaeological Research Completed in 1986 at the Chugwater Site (FAI-035) and proposed research for the site in 1987 |
| 1987 | Maxwell, Howard Evan | Archeology of Panguingue Creek |
| 1987 | Orth, Geoffrey C. | Fishing Strategies Among Southeast Alaskan Salmon Seiners |
| 1988 | Dilley, Thomas Edward | Holocene Tephra Stratigraphy and Pedogenesis in the Middle Susitna River Valley, Alaska |
| 1988 | Dudley-Rowley, Marilyn R. | An Aerial Survey of Coastal Archaeological Sites From Cape Prince of Wales to Camden Bay |
| 1988 | McCollough, Martha | Yup'ik Responses to Russian Orthodox and Moravian Missionaries in the Lower Kuskokwim Region of Southwestern Alaska |
| 1988 | Phippen, Peter | Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary Archaeology in the North Alaska Range Foothills: A View from Owl Ridge |
| 1988 | Taber, Rachel Kathryn | Czech/Slovak Immigration into the Yukon Territory: 1914-1953 |
| 1989 | Hensel, Chase | |
| 1989 | Maschner, Herbert Donald Graham | Site Structure and Prehistoric Land Use: an Analysis of Excavations at VAL-216, a Late Prehistoric Site on Tazlina lake, Alaska |
| 1990 | Ganley, Matthew Lenox | Paradigms and Piilaaqtut: Applicability of Accepted Interpretations of Inupiat Ethnography and History |
| 1990 | Gillispie, Thomas E. | Middle Holocene Climate and Culture Change in the Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska. |
| 1990 | Goebel, Frank E. (Ted) | Early Paleoindian Technology in Beringia |
| 1990 | Halffman, Carrin M. | The Formation of Palatine and Mandibular Tori Among Prehistoric Eskimo and Aleut Populations |
| 1990 | Mathews, V. T. | A Case Study of a Homeland and a Wilderness: Gates of the Arctic National Park and the Nunamiut Eskimos |
| 1990 | Stevenson, Deborah A. | Social and Symbolic Implications of Punuk Harpoon Head Ornamentation from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska |
| 1990 | Street, Steven Richard | A Study of Historic Yup'ik Mortuary Variability |
| 1991 | Asbury, Margaret Ann Magee | Gender and Ethnic-Based Interactions in Math and Science Classes at the University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| 1991 | Bailey, Berkley B. | The Archaeology of Hagemeister Island, Southwestern Alaska with Special Emphasis on the Qikertarpak Site (XHI-016) |
| 1991 | Corbett, Debra Garland | Aleut Settlement Patterns in the Western Aleutian Islands, Alaska |
| 1991 | Petersen, Carole D. | Osteoporosis: Radiographic Examination of Femora from Protohistoric Native Skeletal Populations of Alaska |
| 1991 | Simon, James J. K. | Mortuary Practices of the Late Kachemak Tradition in Southcentral Alaska: A Perspective from the Crag Point Site, Kodiak Island |
| 1991 | Sturnick, Karen Griffin | Yupik Women in Transition: A Study in Change and Continuity in the Roles of Yupik Women |
| 1992 | Bigelow, Nancy H. | Analysis of Late Quaternary Soils and Sediments in the Nenana Valley, Central Alaska |
| 1992 | Engelhard, Michael | Koyukon Athabaskan Occupancy and Land Use on the Upper Kobuk and Koyukuk Rivers |
| 1992 | Higgs, Andrew S. | Technological and Spatial Considerations of the Walker Road Site: Implications from a Lithic Refit Study |
| 1992 | Kerttula, Anna Marie | The Chukchi Reindeer Herders of Sireniki |
| 1992 | Kreher, Ronald E. | The Composition of Subsistence Herring Fishing Crews: Toksook Bay, Alaska, 1987 |
| 1992 | Mills, Robin O. | Radiocarbon Calibration of Archaeological Dates from the Central Gulf of Alaska |
| 1993 | Daniello, Denise Lynn | Villagers to Townsmen : a Comparative Study of Eskimo Migrant Adjustment Patterns in Fairbanks, Alaska |
| 1993 | Deng, Meini | Naming Practices of Northwest Alaska Inupiat |
| 1993 | Diab, Mark C. | Economic Utility of the Ringed Seal (Phoca hispida): Implications for Arctic Archaeology |
| 1993 | Scott, Carol Patricia | Continuity and Change in the Wiseman Area of Alaska: a Look at Land and Renewable Resource Use over Time |
| 1993 | Vinson, Dale Martin | Taphonomic Analysis of Faunal Remains from Trail Creek Caves, Seward Peninsula, Alaska |
| 1993 | Williams, Ann Elizabeth | Father Herman : Syncretic Symbol of Divine Legitimation |
| 1994 | Cook, Elizabeth Ann | The Photographer's Lens and the Elders' Recollections: Reconstructing Women's Lives in Barrow, 1921-1936, through Photographs and Interviews |
| 1994 | Dillingham, Frederic W. | Pio Point: A Notched Point and Microblade Site Near Coldfoot, Alaska. Anthropology |
| 1994 | Dixon, Roland Gregory | Dena'ina: An Annotated Bibliography |
| 1994 | Jacka, Jerry | Ethnohistory of the Commercial Fishing Industry in the Eastern Aleutians |
| 1994 | Kaburagi, Yoko | Avrilingyuamiut Women's Commercial Carving: Continuity of Inuit Gender Roles in Pelly Bay, NWT, Canada |
| 1994 | Kirsis, Lise Klein | Katherine Peter is interviewed by Lise Klein Kirsis on October 3, 1994 [sound recording] |
| 1994 | McGowan, Sarah J. | Commercial Whaling in Akutan, Alaska |
| 1994 | Petrivelli, Patricia J. | Aleut Kinship and Social Organization in the 19th Century |
| 1994 | Speranza, Rose | Folk Classification of Mammals Among the Koyukon on the Yukon River |
| 1994 | Sweeney, Mary Ann | Excavations and Analysis of a 1920s Historic Inupiat Reindeer Herder's Winter House. |
| 1994 | Taksami, Natalia | Ethnohistory of Aleut Settlement of Western Alaska Peninsula: Belkofski 1832 to Present |
| 1994 | Williams, Catherine Margaret | Site Formation in an Ethnohistoric Context |
| 1995 | Gamza, Thomas A. | Excavation and Evaluation of Sullivan's Roadhouse (XBD-061), Fort Greely, Alaska, 1994 |
| 1995 | Jurgensen, Laura K. | Mandibular Torus Variation in the Norse Vikings |
| 1995 | Peirce, John Carl, Jr. | Reconstruction of Neets'aii Gwich'in land use: a Methodological Study |
| 1995 | Rahm, Jacqueline Marie | Indigenous Psychologies of Nepal and the Use of Traditional Healing Systems |
| 1995 | Wright, Miranda Hildebrand | The Last Great Indian War (Nulato 1851) |
| 1996 | Carr, Teresa K. | The Integration of Governmental and Industrial Policy for the Environment on Alaska's North Slope |
| 1996 | Faulkner, Susan Hartwell | Noatak: Seasonality of Birth in an Inupiaq Village in Northwest Alaska |
| 1996 | Mason, Arthur Lawrence | In a Strange Turn of Events: How Alutiiq Cultural Pride Became a Commodity |
| 1996 | Pearson, Georges A. | When is a Microblade Not a Microblade?: Theoretical Implications of a Microdebitage Analysis |
| 1996 | Steen, Susan | Interpretation of Musculoskeletal Stress Markers among the Peoples of Golovin Bay |
| 1997 | Adkins, Charles E. | Healy Lake Site: Cartridge Analysis |
| 1997 | Burdick, Carl Michael | Land Use History of Tanana Basin: A Reconstruction of Timber Use 1901-1923 |
| 1997 | Chancey, Ann M. | Lebidev-Lastochkin Co. Activity in Alaska |
| 1997 | Ferguson, Daryl E. | Gallagher Flint Station, Locality 1 : a Reappraisal of Proposed Late Pleistocene Site in the Sagavanirktok River Valley, Arctic Alaska |
| 1997 | Lane, Robert W. | The Biomechanics of Eskimo Cranio-facial Morphology |
| 1997 | Martin, Cydny Brynn | Mediated Identity and Negotiated Tradition: Inupiaq Atigiit, 1850-2000 |
| 1997 | O'Brien, Thomas A. | Athabaskan Implements from the Skin House Days as Related by Reverend David Salmon |
| 1997 | Pontti, Elizabeth Brown | Defining the Denali Complex: a Comparative Study of Lithic Assemblages from Panguingue Creek and Dry Creek, Central Alaska |
| 1997 | Potter, Ben A. | A First Approximation of Ahtna Archaeology |
| 1998 | Brewster, Karen N | An Umialik's life : Conversations with Harry Brower Sr |
| 1998 | Dubinina, Irina Y | Forms, Functions, Meanings and Uses of Code-switching Among Bilingual Russian Students in Anchorage, Alaska |
| 1998 | Groethe, Jeffrey Blake | Seals of Siraagruk |
| 1998 | Krutak, Lars | One Stitch at a Time: Ivalu and Sivuqaq Tattoo |
| 1999 | Austin, Kenneth Frank | The Changing Vista of the Northern Northwest Coast Indian Deer Ritual |
| 1999 | Brakel, Judith T. | A Maritime Sense of Place: Southeast Alaska Fishermen and Mainstream Nature Ideologies |
| 1999 | Carrigan, Kohji D. | The Croxton Site: Analysis of Lithic Tools and Debitage |
| 1999 | Cobb, Janice Cori | Ancient DNA Recovered by a Non-Destructive Method |
| 1999 | Linn, Angela | Not Just a Pretty Face: Dolls and Human Figurines in Alaska Native Cultures |
| 1999 | McIntosh, Stacie J | Nausiaq = Plant?: Ethnobotanical Classification in Shismaref, Alaska |
| 1999 | Thornton, Meg | Peregrine Falcons as Taphonomic Agents |
| 1999 | Tozzi, Louis M | Semester in the Arctic: in Search of Organizational Identity |
| 2000 | Busch, John M. | Subject: Directionals in Gwich'in |
| 2000 | Davis, Brian Leroy | Prehistoric Sea Mammal Hunting in the Eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska: An Archaeofaunal Study of Subsistence System Resilience |
| 2000 | Gelvin-Reymiller, Carol | Freshwater Mussels in Interior Alaska Wetlands: Archaeological, Taphonomic, and Linguistic Perspectives |
| 2000 | Grover, Elizabeth D | Analysis of Faunal Remains from Amaknak Bridge, Aleutian Islands |
| 2000 | Raymond-Yakoubian, Brenden | Lived Ethnicity: Identity, Consciousness, and Discursive Practice in Grayling, Alaska |
| 2001 | Longan, Tiffany J. | Eating Yup'ik: Food Trends in Southwestern Alaska |
| 2001 | Raymond-Yakoubien, Julie Margaret | They Left Their Teacups Full and Their Zeniths in the House: Innoko River Population Movements and Migrations |
| 2002 | Biddison, Dawn Drake | Representation and Marginalization: a Case Study from Contemporary Alaska Native art |
| 2002 | Flannigan, Thomas Howard | Use-wear Analysis of Experimental Stone Tools and a Sample of Lithics from Component I of the Walker Road Site |
| 2002 | Goodman, Edward Augustus | Using Histomorphometric Traits of Bone Microarchitecture in the Determination of Biological Affinity |
| 2002 | Gutoski, Martin | Yaachox' Bluff: an Examination of a Rock Art Site in Interior Alaska and Local Oral History |
| 2002 | Matovich, Jeanette L. | Health in Predynastic Egypt: Assessing the Overall Health of a Working Class Population, Based on Skeletal Indicators, at Hierakonpolis |
| 2002 | Newton, Jennifer Isabel Mary | About Time: Chronological Variation as Seen in Burial Features at Ipiutak, Point Hope |
| 2002 | Robertson, Aaron C. | The Tingmiukpuk Site (KIR-273) A Prehistoric Site along the Killik River, Alaska |
| 2003 | Hilsinger, Erik Deforest | Rethinking the Redoubt: Kolmakovskiy Redoubt, a Fur Trading Post on the Middle Kuskokwim |
| 2003 | Kriz, Peter J., Jr. | Viewshed Analysis of Selected Archaeological Sites Within the Philip Smith Quadrangle, Alaska: Implications for the Definition of Site Type and Site Selection. |
| 2003 | Reuther, Joshua D. | An Analysis of Radiocarbon Assays Produced by Three Laboratories: a Case Study on the Croxton site, Locality J, Northern Alaska |
| 2004 | Hutchison, Scarlett Hopkins | Women, Health, and Aging in Yup'ik/Cup'ik Culture |
| 2004 | Ikuta, Hiroko | We Dance Because We are Iñupiaq, Iñupiaq Dance in Barrow: Performance and Identity |
| 2004 | Richards, Qwynten Daelgar | The Use of Aspect in a Gwich'in Narrative |
| 2004 | Sakurai, Takashi | Film: Kuuvaum Kaŋiani: Where the River Begins |
| 2005 | Antohin, Esther Sellassie | Imagining Ityoppia: Ethiopians in the Diaspora and Rastafarianism |
| 2005 | Marino, Elizabeth | Landscape in Translation: Place Names and Language Shift in White Mountain, Alaska |
| 2006 | Denton, Nora | Osteological Stress Markers and Habitual Behaviors: Anyalyzing the Connection at Hierakonpolis, Egypt |
| 2006 | Schulze, Luke E. | Gold rush to Ghost town: Silver City, an Analysis and Documentation of the Built Landscape - Settlement to Abandonment |
| 2007 | Corduan, Nicholas | Whence these Farmers? Bioarchaeology and the Advent of Agriculture in West Mexico |
| 2007 | Jew, Nicholas | Exchange and Interaction in Western Aleutian Prehistory: The Efficacy of Geochemical Analysis of Lithic Raw Material Procurement on Amchikta Island |
| 2007 | Klistoff, Alysa | Weapon, Tool, or Art? The Eskimo Yo-Yo as a Commodified Arctic Bola and Marker of Cultural Identity |
| 2007 | Loring, Philip | Managers are from Mars, Activists are from Venus: Examining the Gap between Institutional and Grass Roots Sustainability Initiatives |
| 2007 | Salganek, Maya | Honoring the Gift: Celebration, Ceremony, and Community in Tikigaq, Alaska |
| 2008 | Meitl, Sarah J. | Timing and Resolution of Denbigh Occupations at Onion Portage, Alaska |
| 2008 | Antohin, Alexandra S. | Challenges of being Orthodox in Russia: Education as Missionization in Magadan |
| 2008 | Skeete, Luanda | An Analysis of Faunal Remains from the Susitna Hydroelectric Project |
| 2008 | Strathe, Cody | Osteometric analysis of archaeologically deposited harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) remains as a method for inferring prehistoric seasonal use at Mink Island, Alaska |
| 2008 | Neighbors, Andrea K. | Rethinking Oliver Twist – Imagination and Contemporary Russian and American Adoption Practices |
| 2008 | Gill-Horton, Amy E. | An Examination of the Chinese Community and Changing Social Spaces in South Belfast, North Ireland |
| 2009 | Vanek, Susan B. | The Government of Hunting: the Language of Regulation and its Effect on Hunters |
| 2009 | Whitney, James W. | |
List compiled by Ben Potter.