Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Butler, Ariel, SQUARING THE CIRCLE: TALKING ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY AT DISCOVERY WORLD
Christie, Shaheen M., Deconstructing Decapitation in Late Roman Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, UK
Cianciola, Katherine A., Imagery in Nasca Cross-Knit Looped Textiles from the Milwaukee Public Museum
DeMaio, Anastasia Tesfaye, “ARTIFACTS OF STONE AND POTTERY”: AN ANALYSIS OF THE LINN SITE (IAS U-28) COLLECTION AT THE MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM
Driscoll, Joshua, Strategic Drinking: the Archaeology of Alcohol in Early Iron Age West Central Europe
Forster, Abby, Let Go and Let God: an Ethnographic Study of Overeaters Anonymous, Subjectivity, and Extreme Eating Distress
Frank, Katrina J., Dancing Mi Cultura: The Production of Ethnic and National Identity in Midwestern Mexican-Americans Through the Performance of Ballet Méxicano Folklórico
Gansemer, Rebekah Joy, Visibility and Intervisibility: A Viewshed Analysis of the Oneota Component of the Lake Koshkonong Locality
Janik, Tarryl, Soul Quest Church of Mother Earth: Ayahuasca Decriminalization and the Struggle of an Institution to Become a Church
Lara, Joseph, Monitoring Welfare in Captive Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes) Using Individual Positional Behavior and Substrate Use Profiles
Manresa, Armando, The Role of Fake and Fraudulent Objects Within the Museum Context: A Case Study of Tiwanaku Ceramics in the Milwaukee Public Museum Collection
McConnel, Sean, Entangled Conquest: A Study of Cultural Hybridization and Change in Norman Ireland
Milosavljevic, Tania Lee, A Paleoethnobotanical Comparison of Mortuary and Village Langford Tradition Sites in Northern Illinois
Moriarity, Paul, The Dehumanizing Violence Index: an Old World/new World Comparison of Overkill in Archaeological Contexts
Ray, Alannah, Ghost Town Living: Presenting the Past on YouTube
Stanton, Emily Ryan, Life Styles, Death Styles, and Posthumous Portraiture: Elite Female Burials in Iron Age Europe
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Ahlrichs, Robert Einar, Social Networks and Archaic Foragers in the Western Great Lakes: A Case Study in the Old Copper Complex
Brennaman, Ashley, Tales from the Tooth Worm: Reconstruction of the Historic Oral Microbiome at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery
Densmore, Allison Lindsey, Virtual Excavations: Digital Repositories, Data Reuse, and Ethically Accessible Archaeology
Forbush, Morgan E., Practice, Community, and Algorithms: How YouTube Creators Learn Through Making
Fourshee, Jordan L., Differentiating Human from Nonhuman Bone: Insights from a Medical Examiner’s Collection, Kenosha, Wisconsin
Gansemer, Jo, Stress and Parity Among Female Vervet Monkeys (Chlorocebus Pygerythrus) at Two Sites in South Africa
Johnson, Sydne Morgan, Two Cemeteries in One: An Historic Archaeological Analysis of the Cemeteries That Comprise Today’s Liberty Cemetery in Trevor, Wisconsin
Jones, Catherine Rebecca, Evidence of Lives Not Seen: The Bioarchaeology of Material Personhood at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery
Konkol, Luke, Incipient Games: Restoring the Past Through Play in Historical Reenactment
Rivers, Joshua William, The Caretaking of EVE Online: Institutional Ethics and Enactments at CCP Games
Sanders, Aislinn, Function and Aesthetic Value: an Analysis of the Milwaukee Public Museum's Thai Royal Silver Collection
Schumacher, Cody Zachery, The Effects of Hybridization on Skeletal Morphology in Two Closely Related Populations of Rhesus Macaques (Macaca Mulatta): A Geometric Morphometric Approach
Strohl, Rachel C., Interpreting the Socio-symbolic Value of Jet and Amber Artifacts as Markers of Religious Transformation in Early Christian Britain
Voelz, Kendra, The Case of the Benin Bronzes: Exploring Repatriation in U.S. Museums
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Allen, Christopher Ray, Facing the Past: Engendering the Study of Iron Age Celtic Human Imagery in Continental Europe
Annis, Karissa A., Archaeological Representation in Speculative Fiction: The Image of the Archaeologist in Star Wars
Ebling, Todd Jonathan, Care in Crisis: The Ethical, Affective, and Subjective Worlds of Homeless Service Providers in a US City
Esche-Eiff, Karen Margaret, "Making God's Love Manifest": American Expressions and Productions of Charisma in Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi's Global Following
Greenlee, Dominic, Geostatistical Perspectives on Recuay Mortuary Landscapes in Highland Peru
Harding, Megan Catherine, Oneota Lithic Economy and Tool Function at the Schmeling Site (47JE833) in Southeastern Wisconsin
Skinner, Jessica L., Bodily Memory in Digital Space: Personalized Bioarchaeological Research and Musculoskeletal Modeling at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery
Vang-Roberts, Andrew N., Impacts of Politicization and Conflict on Archaeological Resources: An Analysis of Trends in Iraq
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Barca, Maria A., The Impact of Gender and Class on Disease and Trauma in 18th Century London: A Case Study of Three Cemetery Populations
Bodenstein, Nicole, Documenting Cordage Impressions on Archaeological Ceramics: A Methodological Comparison of Casting and Digital Representation
Bomkamp, Samantha, Typological and Iconographic Analyses of Casas Grandes Pottery at the Milwaukee Public Museum
Brinkman, Heather Rebecca, Videogame Tourism: Spawning the Digital into the Physical Realm in the British Isles
Burant, Eric Eugene, “Penniless and Unknown”: Temporality of the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery - A GIS Analysis
Ernat, Rebekah Ann, Prehistoric Humans and Elk (cervus Canadensis) in the Western Great Lakes: A Zooarchaeological Perspective
Gallagher, Tara Ann, Practical Problems and Moral Discourses: an Ethnography of Breastfeeding
Santell, Katherine J., German-american Wpa Murals at the Milwaukee Public Museum and National Socialist Schultafeln: A Comparative Analysis
Schmitz, Katrina N., A Collection Divided: an Analysis of Accession 16082, the Ohio Hopewell Site Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum
Thornton, Megan Elizabeth, Compositional Analysis of Pottery from Middle Woodland Waukesha Phase Sites in Southeastern Wisconsin and Havana Hopewell Related Sites in Northeastern and Northwestern Illinois
Timler, Kiley, Learning and Expertise of Equestrians: a Qualitative Assessment of Combining Humans and Equines in a Sport
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Akemann, Kevin, Collecting Aztalan: an Analysis of the Chipped Stone Projectile Points from the Milwaukee Public Museum’s Aztalan (JE-0001) Legacy Collections
Anthony, Alexander, Less Than Human: a Study of the Institutional Origins of the Medical Waste Recovered at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery
Anthony, Alexander, Less Than Human: A Study of the Institutional Origins of the Medical Waste Recovered at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery
Cooley, Christopher J., Looking for Group: Sociality, Embodiment, and Institutions in World of Warcraft
Eberwein, Ann S., Food for Thought: An Analysis of the Robenhausen Botanicals at the Milwaukee Public Museum
Eiseman, Emily, Sexual Dimorphism and the Shape of the Proximal Tibia in a Radiographic Sample
Haas, Jennifer R., Community Identity, Culinary Traditions and Foodways in the Western Great Lakes
Halaska, Rachelle, Heirloom and Hybrid Corn in the American Corn Belt: an Ethnography of Seed Saving Practices
Hassman, Monique, Everyday Perseverance & Meaningful Toil: Mapping the (In)distinguishable Process of Recovery Post-hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana
Hill, Susan, The Waiting Room: Re-Making Adulthood Among America’s Underemployed
McTavish, Rachel, Foodways and a Violent Landscape: A Comparative Study of Oneota and Langford Human-Animal-Environmental Relationships
Saleh, Andrew Michael, Using Historic GLO Data and GIS to Assess the Potential for Local Bison Bison Near Two Wisconsin Late Prehistoric Oneota Localities
Saleh, Andrew Michael, Using Historic GLO Data and GIS to Assess the Potential for Local Bison Bison Near Two Wisconsin Late Prehistoric Oneota Localities
Thomas Flores, Heather Gabrielle, Pena, Pinahua, and Prestige: Shame and Linguistic Insecurity in Upper Balsas Classrooms
Vander Heiden, Robert William, Lithic Technological Organization at the Aztalan Site (47-je-0001)
Vander Heiden, Robert William, Lithic Technological Organization at the Aztalan Site (47-je-0001)
Werner, Helen Marie, That Other Form of Madness: A Multidisciplinary Study of Infectious Disease Within the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery
Werner, Nikita K., Minors in the Mines: Archaeological Indicators of Child Labor in Prehistoric Mining Contexts in Europe
Werner, Nikita K., Minors in the Mines: Archaeological Indicators of Child Labor in Prehistoric Mining Contexts in Europe
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Auten, Madison, Ancient Andean Tattooing Practices
Carlson, Sarah E., An Evolving Experiment in Community Engagement: the Philippine Co-Curation Partnership at the Field Museum
Carpiaux, Natalie, The Koshkonong Creek Village Site (47je0379): Ceramic Production, Function, and Deposition at an Oneota Occupation in Southeastern Wisconsin
Coffey, Cassandra, Creating Inclusive Experiences in Children's Museums for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Drew, Brooke L., Death in Anonymity: Population Dynamics and the Individual Within the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery, 1882–1925
Janik, Tarryl, A Return to Dark Shamans: Kanaima & the Cosmology of Threat
Klemmer, Amy Milson, A Zooarchaeological Study of Fishing Strategies Over Time at the Rio Chico Site on the Central Coast of Ecuador
LaBerge, Michelle, The Heart of the Madder: An Important Prehistoric Pigment and Its Botanical and Cultural Roots
Pagel, Victoria Catherine, Fluid Functionality: an Examination of Shifting Identities Using North American Indian German Silver Brooches at the Milwaukee Public Museum as a Case Study
Spott, Elizabeth, Identity in the Archaeological Record: Richardville, Natoequah and the Fur Trade in Northeastern Indiana.
Sterner, Katherine, Stone Tools and Agricultural Communities: Economic, Microwear, and Residue Analyses of Wisconsin Oneota Lithic Assemblages
Thorson, Lindsey Jo Helms, Population Change in Times of War: Biodistance Analysis of Medieval and Early Modern Skeletal Populations from Adriatic Croatia
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Albert, Elizabeth, Unveiling Recovery: A Discourse Analysis of Mental Illness Recovery Narratives
Birnbaum, Michelle M., The Richter Site (47DR80): a Millennium of Prehistoric Technological and Cultural Change on Washington Island, Door County, Wisconsin
Draxler, Sean Ryan, The Influence of Hierarchy Steepness on Cooperation: A Comparison Between Captive Japanese Macaques and Black-handed Spider Monkeys
Edwards, Richard Wynn, The Canine Surrogacy Approach and Paleobotany: An Analysis of Wisconsin Oneota Agricultural Production and Risk Management Strategies
Epstein, Emily Jane, Nobi Ni-tse’tse’ede (house on the Cold One): Northern Great Basin Archaic Hunter-gatherer Household Archaeology, Harney County, Oregon
Frankel, Alexandra Catrina Vieux, 'Mother Bring the Henna': Kına Gecesi and Fragmented Imaginations of the Nation-state
Freire, Shannon Kate, A Public Humanity: the Application of Isotopic Analysis to the Intersection Between Body and Law at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery
Frie, Adrienne C., Cultural Constructions of Nature: Animal Representation and Use in Early Iron Age Southeastern Slovenia
Garstki, Kevin, Production and Technological Change: Ironworking in Prehistoric Ireland
Ghisleni, Lara, Shifting Ground: Rethinking Concepts of Continuity and Change in Late Iron Age and Early Roman Landscapes of Southern England
Gilliland-Lloyd, Auriana Iris, Variation in Stress Among Vervet Monkeys (Chlorocebus Pygerythrus) at Different Stages of Rehabilitation in South Africa
Hassam, Stephan Noureddine, Melita in Milwaukee: the Milwaukee Public Museum’s Leopardi Collection
Liebeseller, Laya, Rules of the House: Strategy, Tactic, and Violence in One World By Night, World of Darkness, Live-Action Role-Play Games
Rodenbeck, Erica, An Intersectional Examination of the Portrayal of Native American Women in Wisconsin Museum Exhibits
Strange, David Michael, The Saints Peter and Paul Parish and the Milwaukee County Poor Farm: A Comparative Osteological Analysis Between Two Historic Cemeteries in Wisconsin
Trotter, Katherine, A Matter of Suspension: an Experimental Approach to Hammerstone Hafting in Prehistoric Keweenaw Copper Mining
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Beer, Kaitlin, "It's My Job to Keep Punk Rock Elite": Information and Secrecy in the Chicago DIY Punk Music Scene
Billings, Traci N., Gender Reflections: a Reconsideration of Pictish Mirror and Comb Symbols