Recent Graduates
2012
- Jason Hodgson
Dissertation title: "Population history and natural selection in the Yemeni"
- Steven Worthington
Dissertation title: "New approaches to Late Miocene hominoid systematics: ranking morphological characters by phylogenetic signal"
- Joseph Califf
Dissertation title: "Factors influencing individual differences in steroid hormone concentration among captive male baboons, Papio sp."
- Julie Anidjar
Dissertation title: "Coastal subsistence and seasonality at Site 38BU1938, Beaufort County, South Carolina: a zooarchaeological study of a Woodland Period shell midden"
- Alba Lucia Morales Jimenez
Dissertation title: "Phylogeny and phylogeography of Mesoamerican spider monkeys"
2011
- Michael Montague
Dissertation title: "A behavioral and genetic study of the color vision polymorphism in wild squirrel monkeys"
- Andres Link
Dissertation title: "Social and ecological determinants of 'fission-fusion' sociality and grouping strategies in the white bellied spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth belzebuth) in a lowland rainforest in Western Amazonia"
- Maja Šešelj
Dissertation title: "Human growth evolving: integrating dental and skeletal growth proxies to understand ontogeny in Pleistocene Homo"
2010
- Connie Fellmann
Dissertation title: "Ontogenetic scaling of anatomical mechanical advantage in the fore- and hind limb musculature of catarrhines: implications for the juvenile risk aversion hypothesis"
- Thomas Rein
Dissertation title: "Locomotor function and phylogeny: implications for interpreting the hominoid fossil record"
- Chris Schmitt
Dissertation title: "Comparative juvenile behavioral ecology, development, and life history in wild lowland woolly monkeys (Lagothrix poeppigii) and white-bellied spider monkeys (Ateles belzebuth) in Amazonian Ecuador"
- Kate Detwiler
Dissertation title: "Natural hybridization between Cercopithecus mitis x C. ascanius in Gombe National Park, Tanzania"
2009
- James Boyle
Dissertation title: "The production and use of bone and antler dress pins in early medieval Ireland, c. AD 400–800"
- Holly Hemmalin
Dissertation title: "Reproductive success of migrant hamadryas baboons in anubis baboon groups"
- Jenny Listman
Dissertation title: "Biases in study design affecting the inference of events and human population structure in closely-related populations"
- Jennifer Piro
Dissertation title: "Pastoralism in the early Transcaucasian culture: the faunal remains from Sos Hoyuk"
- Kirstin Sterner
Dissertation title: "Primate innate immune defense and adaptation to SIV/HIV infection"
2008
- Andy Burrell
Dissertation title: "Phylogenetics and population genetics of central African baboons"
- Luke Matthews
Dissertation title: "The comparative socioecology of white-fronted capuchin monkeys (Cebus albifrons) and the ethology of social learning in Cebus"
2007
- Rachel Dvoskin
Dissertation title: "Variation at the corticotropin-releasing hormone gene (CRH) locus and individual differences in stress physiology and behavior in captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)"
- Suanna Selby
Dissertation title: "The geoarchaeology of the Upper Susquehanna River: anthropological approaches to Archaic and Woodland period landscapes and settlement systems in New York state"
- Mark Smith
Dissertation title: "Settlement geography of the Punjab during the early historic and medieval periods: a GIS approach"
- Sandra Suarez
Dissertation title: "Paternity, relatedness, and socio-reproductive behavior in a population of wild red-bellied tamarins (Saguinus labiatus)"
- Wesley Sutton
Dissertation title: "Heritage genetics of Spanish-Americans in the Southwest United States"
2006
- Stephanie Spehar
Dissertation title: "The function of the long call in white-bellied spider monkeys (Ateles belzebuth) in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador"
- Laurie Tedesco
Dissertation title: "Redefining technology in Bronze Age Transcaucasia: copper-alloy metallurgy in Armenia in the 3rd--mid-2nd millennium BC"
- Susan Malin-Boyce
Dissertation title: "The Frauenberg at Weltenburg: early La Tène settlement along the Bavarian Danube"
- Chris Kimbrough
Dissertation title: "From flock to frock: textile production in third millennium BCE northern Mesopotamia"
2005
- Barbara Mehrhof
Dissertation title: "Maternal investment in rhesus macaques: secondary sex ratios and maternal care"
- Susan Lappan
Dissertation title: "Biparental care and male reproductive strategies in siamangs (Symphalangus syndactylus) in southern Sumatra"
- Jessica Manser
Dissertation title: "Morphological analysis of the human burial series at Niah Cave: implications for Late Pleistocene-Holocene Southeast Asian human evolution"
- Denise Su
Dissertation title: "The paleoecology of Laetoli, Tanzania: evidence from the mammalian fauna of the Upper Laetoli Beds"
- Paul Telfer
Dissertation title: "Phylogeography and evolution of mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx)"
2004
- Laura J. Miller
Dissertation title: "Urban economies in early states: the secondary products revolution in the Indus civilization"
- Ryan Raaum
Dissertation title: "Ape and Old World monkey molecular evolution: nucleotide substitution rate variation in the Catarrhini"
2003
- Thalia Gray
Dissertation title: "Precious networks: the role of imported materials at Ostrow Lednicki in transformations of the Early Medieval Polish state"
- Varsha C. Pilbrow
Dissertation title: "Dental variation in extant African apes: implications for studying patterns of variations in fossil species"
- Chris A. Robinson
Dissertation title: "Extant hominoid and australopith mandibular morphology: assessing alpha taxonomy and phylogeny using mandibular characters"
- Eva Monica Uddin
Dissertation title: "Baboon endogenous virus (BAEV) variation in natural populations of cercopithecine primates"
- Kimberly Williams-Guillen
Dissertation title: "The behavioral ecology of mantled howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata) living in a Nicaraguan shade coffee plantation"
2002
- Kathleen Ehrhardt
Dissertation title: "European metals in Native American contexts: rethinking technological change"
- Rae Ellen Ostman
Dissertation title: "The city and complexity: pottery production in Volterra, Italy, from the Hellenistic Etruscan period to the Late Roman and Late Antique period"
2001
- Wendy Dirks
Dissertation title: "Dental development and life history in catarrhine primates"
- Rebecca Dudzik
Dissertation title: "Mass estimation for anthropoid primates: examining the principles and the protocol"
- John Krigbaum
Dissertation title: "Human paleodiet in tropical Southeast Asia: isotopic evidence from Niah Cave and Gua Cha"
2000
- Derek Wildman
Dissertation title: "Mammalian zoogeography of the Arabian Peninsula and Horn of Africa with a focus on the cladistic phylogeography of hamadryas baboons (Primates: Papio hamadryas)"
- Julie Zimmerman-Holt
Dissertation title: "Animal exploitation and the Middle to Late Woodland transition"
- Lisa Schlotterhausen
Dissertation title: "Town monkeys, country monkeys: a sociological comparison of a human commensal and wild group of bonnet macaques"
1999
- Joan Garey
Dissertation title: "Mechanisms by which dietary acacia may act as a proximate regulator of breeding seasonality in the vervet monkey"
- Tamsin Woolley-Barker
Dissertation title: "Inbreeding, outbreeding, and hybridization among baboon of the Awash National Park, Ethiopia"
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