Recent Ph.D. Recipients
Archeology Program

2012-13

Michele Koons
"Moche Geopolitical Networks and the Dynamic Role of Licapa II, Chicama Valley, Peru"

2011-12

Molly Fierer-Donaldson
"To be Born an Ancestor: Death and the Afterlife among the Classic Period Royal Tombs of Copan, Honduras"

Emily Hammer
"Local Landscapes of Pastoral Nomads in Southeastern Turkey"

Parker VanValkenburg
"Building Subjects: Landscapes of Forced Resettlement in the Zaña and Chamán Valleys, Peru, 16th and 17th Centuries, C.E."

2010-11

Carrie Brezine
“Dress, Technology and Identity in Colonial Peru”

2009-10

Christina Warinner
"Life and Death at Teposcolula Yucundaa: Mortuary, Paleodemographic, Archaeogenetic, and Isotopic Investigations of the Early Colonial Period in Mexico" 

2008-09

Deena Duranleau
"Flexible Sedentism: The Subsistence and Settlement Strategies of the Pre-Contact Residents of Coastal New England and New York"

2007-08

Güner Coskunsu
"The End of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the Middle Euphrates Valley: The Lithic Assemblages of Mezraa Teleilat, Southeastern Turkey"

Gideon Hartman
"The Environmental Origins of Plants and Herbivores in the Southern Levant: an Isotopic Approach"

Cheryl Makarewicz
"Evolution of Foddering Practices in the Southern Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic"

Mary E. Prendergast
"Forager Variability and Transitions to Food Production in Secondary Settings: Kanysore and Pastoral Neolithic Economies in East Africa"

Stine Rossel
"The Development of Productive Subsistence Economies in the Nile Valley: Zooarchaeological Analysis at El-Mahasna and South Abydos, Upper Egypt"

Ann Seiferle-Valencia
"Before the Eagle's Nest: The Formative Period Archaeology of Cuauhtinchan Viejo, Puebla, Mexico"

Alexandre Tokovinine
"The power of place: political landscape and identity in Classic Maya inscriptions, imagery, and architecture"

2006-07

Levent A. Atici
"Before the Revolution: A Comprehensive Zooarchaeological Approach to Terminal Pleistocene Forager Adaptations in the Western Taurus Mountains, Turkey"

Rod Campbell
"Blood, Flesh and Bones: Kinship and Violence in the Social Economy of the Late Shang (ca. 1250-1050 B.C.)"

Sharri R. Clark
"The Social Lives of Figurines: Recontextualizing the Third Millennium BC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa (Pakistan)"

Thomas G. Garrison
"Ancient Maya Territories, Adaptive Regions, and Alliances: Contextualizing the San Bartolo-Xultun Intersite Survey"

Bryan K. Wells
"Epigraphic Approaches to the Indus Script"

2005-06

Benjamin Arbuckle
"The Evolution of Sheep and Goat Pastoralism and Social Complexity in Central Anatolia"

Joshua Wright
"The Adoption of Pastoralism in Northeast Asia, Monumental Transformation in the Egiin Gol Valley"

2004-05

Peter Eltsov
"From Harappa to Hastinapura: A Study of the Most Ancient South Asian City from the Point of View of the Ancient Indian Literature and the Archaeology of the Harappan and Gangetic Civilizations"

Sarah Elizabeth Jackson
"Deciphering Classic Maya Political Hierarchy: Epigraphic, Archaeological, and Ethnohistoric Perspectives on the Courtly Elite"

Barbara Li Smith
"Diet, Health, and Lifestyle in Neolithic North China"