This collection includes theses and dissertations from the Department of Anthropology, in the College of Arts & Sciences. It is not exhaustive since most paper theses and dissertations have not been digitized. Generally, paper copies of theses and dissertations published prior to 2014 can be accessed in the University of Louisville Libraries. If you would like to add your thesis or dissertation to this collection, please fill out the Electronic Theses & Dissertations form.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Preserving archaeology in the digital age: Evaluating strategies for effective curation and database management., Cenetria Leshun Crockett
Examination of solutrean lithic technology at the Vale Boi site, Southwestern Portugal., Jordan Durham
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Agency in learning and e-learning through the lens of disability and inclusivity., Marta Martin
Critical regionality & alternative pedagogies in Eastern Kentucky., Zachary Shelton
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Combating frailty: application of a modified skeletal frailty index in modern military and civilian populations., Emily M. Frazier
La Casita center: an accompaniment based approach to social justice and social service., Ben Harlan
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Habitation and interaction in the lower Illinois river valley: a case study on household structure and ceramics at the German site (11C377)., Catherine Zoe Doubles
"When the voices of children are heard": evaluating the biological effects of socioeconomic status on children in postmedieval London., Ashley R. Ezzo
Typological and technological analyses of multi-component Lithic collection from Eastern Kentucky., Isaac C. Garvin
GIS predictive modelling in the Daniel Boone National Forest: settlement patterns during the intensification or horticulture., Jacob Max Ray
The economic rationality of consumption in the Mycenaean political economy and its role in the reproduction of social personae: modeling prestige networks., Devin Alexander Stephens
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Atomization as colonial strategy in Palestine., Christian Alexander Brawner
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Experimental immunology and the potential for osteopathological reconstructions : pursuing an experimental foundation for the skeletal inflammatory index., Megan Elizabeth Duncanson
Anthropogenic landscapes of Amazonia : a spatial analysis of landscape modification and settlement organization at Macurany, Brazil., M. Grace Ellis
Towards a theory of human mobility and wall-building: a comparative analysis of Hadrian's Wall and the Iron Curtain., Timothy Heine
Charting a course through confusion: mapping pathological cranial lesions in an Archaic population from Kentucky., Austin Warren
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Malaria in the prehistoric Caribbean : the hunt for hemozoin., Mallory D. Cox
Navigating mental health care access in Louisville : an ethnography of local resources and care assemblages., Laura Drabelle Valentine
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Late Magdalenian lithic technological organization at Lapa do Picareiro, central Portugal., Melissa Jean Holst
This is just a phase : the impact of population structure on haplotype phasing and linkage disequilibrium measures at functional genetic sites., Roxanne Kaaren Leiter
How Muslims help : an ethnography of Muslim voluntary assistance for Syrian refugees in Louisville, KY., Irene Levy Yates
Spatial patterning and human behavior in level "F" at Lapa do Picareiro., Brandon K Zinsious
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Effect of migration, carrying capacity, and fecundity on the formation of clinal patterns during range expansions., Neha J. Angal
La Minga as a model of food justice? : a thesis on the motivations and practices of immigrant and native-citizen growers at La Minga cooperative farm in Prospect, Ky., Tyler Austin Short
Detecting evidence of systemic inflammation from osteological markers in the Indian Knoll population of Ohio county, Kentucky., Krysta Wilham
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Conflicted tourism : heritage narratives, sectarian schism, and economic growth in Northern Ireland., Ashleigh Larissa Bixby
Provisions of labor : prehistoric evidence for economic behavior at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico., David Alan Hoefer 1959-
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Natures and wars : neoliberal discourse and the contested future of east Kentucky., Shelly Annette Biesel 1986-
Facing crisis : maintaining class status in Victorian Old Louisville., David Walter Schatz
Applications of GIS analyses and ecological approaches to paleolithic sites in Portugal., Christopher M. Sims
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Site 15SP202 and the Mississippian presence at the falls of the Ohio River., William Travis Fisher 1983-
The Nashville John School : risk deterrence and the reintegrative shaming approach., Robin Malony Valenzuela
