CIAMS Alumni

Alexandria Albano, M.A.

Thesis: 18th and 19th Century Turkish Prayer Rugs as Objects Possessing Agency: Portable Materials Linking the Material, Social, and Immaterial Worlds Through Motifs, Usages, and Mobility

Sam Barber, Ph.D.

Dissertation: "The Fitting Face of Empire": Palaces and Power in the Early Middle Ages

Elizabeth Bews, M.A. 

Thesis: After Accession: EU Funding and Archaeological Practice in Bulgaria

Jenna Bittenbender, M.A. 

Thesis: The Role of Off-Island Objects and Materials in Creating Hierarchy: Evidence for Social Ranking at Mochlos During the Early Minoan Period

Salpi Bocchieriyan, M.A. 

Thesis: Building a Burial on a Budget: Mortuary Practice and Socio-Economic Boundary-Making in Classical Armenia

William Breitweiser, M.A. 

Thesis: Plaster Cast Collections in the Colonial World: Connections Between Classics and Racial Ideology

Liana Brent, Ph.D. 

Dissertation: Corporeal Connections: Tomb Disturbance, Reuse and Violation in Roman Italy

Dusti Bridges, M.A.

Thesis: Translating Archaeology into Stories: Creating a Digital Resource for the Onöndowa’ga:’ (Seneca) Townley-Read and White Springs Sites, occupied circa 1688-1754

Charles Burgess, M.A. 

Thesis: Mapping Muhheakunnuk: GIS and the Living Landscapes of the Mohican

Polly Anna Burnette, M.A.

Thesis: Zooarchaeology and Spatial Analysis at Tepe Farukhabad: New Life for Legacy Data

Asa Cameron, M.A. 

Thesis: A Stable Isotopic (Carbon And Nitrogen) Evaluation Of Regional Differences In Herded Animal Diet And Pastoral Risk Management Practices During The Xiongnu Period Of Mongolia

Micaela Carignano, Ph.D. 

Dissertation: Reconstructing Minoan Dining Practice and Sociopolitical Organization in Neopalatial Households and Palaces

Taylor Carr-Howard, M.A. 

Thesis: Picturing Antiquity, Depicting Archaeology: Photography, Restoration, and the French Colonial Imagination

Jennifer Carrington, Ph.D.

Dissertation: Striking similarity: Pottery features and their relations in Ptolemaic Egypt

Chelsea Cole, M.A. 

Thesis: Kommos and a Great Minoan Triangle: Rethinking the Early - Middle Minoan Political and Economic Landscape of South-Central Crete​

Alexandra Creola, M.A.

Thesis: An Analysis of the Spatial Relationships of Domestic Nymphaea at Lararia in Pompeii

Andrew Crocker, M.A. 

Thesis: Rural Landscape Practices and Authority: Iron Age Cyprus and Assyria​

Samuel Disotell, M.A.

Thesis: An Analysis of Faunal Materials From the White Springs Site, a 17th-18th Century Seneca Town in Upstate New York

Sarah Eastly, M.A. 

Thesis: A Question of Faith: Jesuit Missions to the Seneca Iroquois As Viewed Through Archaeological and Textual Records

Bonnie Etter, M.A. 

Thesis: The Application of Geographic Information Systems to Large-Scale Intra-Site Analysis of Artifact Data at Gault, Texas​

Yuan Fang, M.A.

Thesis: The Favorite Animal: The Horse as Mingqi in Han Tombs​

Ned Fischer, M.A. 

Thesis: Iron Men: Roman Masculinity and the Roman Military Dagger​

Carrie Fulton, Ph.D.

Dissertation: Lost in Transportation: Trade Networks and the Materiality of Cargoes in the Ancient Mediterranean

Peregrine Gerard-Little, M.A., Ph.D. 

2011

2018

Archaeology

Anthropology

Thesis: Understanding the Built Environment at the Seneca Iroquiois White Springs Site (1688-1715): Incorporation of Large-Scale, Multi-Instrument Archaeogeophysical Survey

Dissertation: "A pleasure garden in the desert, to which I know no comparison in this country”: Seneca Iroquois Landscape Stewardship in the 17th and 18th Centuries​

Jasmine Gollup, M.A. 

Thesis: An Overview and Analysis of 'Proto-Susquehannock' Sites in the Upper Susquehanna River Valley​

John Gorczyk. M.A., Ph.D. 

2012

2020

Archaeology

Anthropology

Thesis: Communal Consumption at Late Neolithic Sarnevo: Faunal Evidence from a Pit Site in South Central Bulgaria​

Dissertation: Fields of Care: Placing Animal-Human Communities in the Early Neolithic of the Sofia Basin, Bulgaria

Katie Guttman, M.A.

Thesis: Residents: Invisible Residents: Archaeological Evidence and the Question of Indigenous Presence at House C of British Fort Michilimackinac, 1765-1781

Betty Hensellek, Ph.D. 

Dissertation: The Age of the Polychrome Kaftan: a Sartorial System of Central Eurasia (400-900 CE)

Jeanine Hoy, M.A. 

Thesis: What About Her?  Mortuary Practice and Gender Identities at Kanesh

Kathryn Hudson, M.A. 

Thesis: A Preliminary Lexicon of Ulua Medallion Motifs​

Katherine Jarriel, Ph.D.

Dissertation: Small Worlds After All? Landscape and Community Interaction in the Cycladic Bronze Age

Alaina Kaiser, M.A. 

Thesis: Copper Oxhide Ingot Marks: A Catalogue and Comparative Analysis

Katie Kearns, Ph.D.

Dissertation: Unruly landscapes: The making of 1st millennium BCE polities on Cyprus​

Cynthia Kocik, M.A. 

Thesis: The Edges of Wood: Dendrochronological Analysis of Three Seneca Iroquois Structures at Letchworth State Park, 1796-1831

Matthew Krohn, M.A. 

Thesis: Innovation and Identity in Seneca Iroquois Lithic Debitage: Analysis of Stone Tools from the White Springs and Townley-Read Sites, Circa 1688-1754​

Kaitlin LaGrasta, M.A. 

Thesis: "Binding the People Together:" Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca) Glass Beads, Aesthetics, and Economy, 1670-1754

Thesis: Resettlement of the Bdul and its effect on Preservation Initiatives at Petra, Jordan

Jeffrey Leon, Ph.D.

Dissertation: Beyond 'counting sheep': Isotopic approaches to Minoan and Late Cypriot shepherding

Fredrika Loew, M.A. 

Thesis: Gods and Scholars: Studying Religion at a Secular University​

Alex Marko, M.A. 

Thesis: Seeing Archaeology In 3D: Digital Spatial Vision

Isabelle Martínez-Muñiz, M.A. 

Thesis: Ceramic Innovation and Interregional Interaction: A Study from Formative Cahal Pech, Belize

William Mastandrea, M.A. 

Thesis: Cupellation at Kea: Investigating Potential Applications of the Minoan Conical Cup

Angela McArdle, M.A. 

Thesis: When Trash Becomes Treasure: A Postclassic Maya Obsidian Core Cache from Nojpeten

Sarah McCully, M.A. 

Thesis: Stop, Collaborate, and Listen: Creating Archaeological Education Resource with Local Teachers' Needs in Mind

Jane Millar, M.A. 

Thesis: Kepeia: The Market Gardens of Classical Attica

Eilis Monahan, M.A., Ph.D. 

2010

2019

Archaeology

Near Eastern Studies

Thesis: Dwelling with the Dead: Mortuary Landscapes and the Production of Community During the Prehistoric Bronze Age on Cyprus

Dissertation: Structural Violence: Warfare, Fortification, and the Disciplinary Landscape in Bronze Age Cyprus

Amanda Moutner, M.A. 

Thesis: Understanding landscape Modification at White Springs Manor, Geneva, New York  An Archaeological and Historical Study​

Louisa Nash, M.A. 

Thesis: The Cosmos in Clay: An Analysis of Avery Engraved Vessel Motifs​

Marianna Nichols, M.A. 

Thesis: Jewish Identities and Traditions within the Hellenistic Period: Funerary Unguentaria as Evidence of Inventive Tradition

Lindsay Petry, M.A. 

Thesis: Echoes in the Bones: An Osteological Analysis of the Biological Impact of Roman Rule at Corinth, Greece

Jessica Plant, M.A., Ph.D.

2017

2023

Archaeology

Art and Archaeology

Thesis: Asia Minor Ampullae: A Class of Their Own?​

Dissertation: Stucco as a Transformative Medium in Roman Antiquity (ca. 200 BCE - 700 CE)

Elizabeth Proctor, M.A. 

Thesis: A Preliminary Geochemical Characterization of Relief Ceramics from the Nadin Necropolis

Beth Ryan, Ph.D. 

Dissertation: Crowding the Banks: the Historical Archaeology of Ohagi and the Post-revolutionary Haudenosaunee Confederacy, ca. 1780-1826

Samantha Sanft, M.A., Ph.D. 

2013

2021

Archaeology

Anthropology

Thesis: Beads and Pendants from Indian Fort Road: A Sixteenth Century Cayuga Site in Tompkins County, New York​

Dissertation: The Circulation of Shell and Copper Objects in the Circa 1450- 1600 Haudenosaunee Homeland

Katherine Seufer, M.A. 

Thesis: Dendroarchaeology in Sisak, Croatia (Siscia): Roman Urbanism and Colonia Status

Laryssa Shipley, M.A. 

Thesis: A Phenomenological Approach to the Kom el-Shuqafa Catacombs

Emily Stanton, M.A. 

Thesis: In the Footsteps of Saints and Sheep: Archaeological, Anthropological, and Phenomenological Explorations of Bardsey Island and the North Wales Pilgrim's Way​

Cristina Stockton Juarez, M.A. 

Thesis: Pots, People, and Pilgrimage: Elemental Analysis of Surface Pigments on Nasca Polychrome Vessels from the Nasca Drainage

Kaja Tally-Schumacher, Ph.D. 

Dissertation: Cultivating Empire in Ancient Roman Gardens: Unearthing the Tangled Relationship between Plants and their Gardeners

Danielle Vander Horst, M.A. 

Thesis: Seeing Faces: Material Diversification and Identity Performance Through Romano-British Face Pots

Juliana Van Roggen, M.A. 

Thesis: Urban Planning and Cultural Identity in Pompeii: from the Altstadt to Vitruvius​

Alexandra Walton, M.A. 

Thesis: “Reconciling Tradition and Innovation: An Analysis of Indigenous Iron and Lead Use, Modification, and Remanufacture at the Onöndowa'ga (Seneca) White Springs Site, circa 1688-1715.”

Jason Weimar, M.A.

Thesis: Wood and Stone: How the South Arabian Construction Texts Illuminate Building Accounts in the Hebrew Bible​

Jordana Wolf, M.A. 

Thesis: The Bronze Age Gardens of the Aegean in the Context of Contemporary Gardens in the Near East and Egypt

Erin Wright, M.A. 

Thesis: Cultural Resiliency at Pompeii: The Spatial Relationship Between Painted Fountains and Private Water Access, 62-79 CE

Jenna Martin, M.A. 

Thesis: The Efficacy of Roman Silver in Iron Age Scotland: An Object Trajectory for Spiral Rings

Max Meyer, M.A. 

Thesis: Look and (Don’t) Touch: Non-Normative Spatial Experiences at Villa A, Oplontis

Christine Muron, M.A. 

Thesis: An Invested Frontier: Reconsidering the Roles of Nicaean and Seljuk Building Programs in the Thirteenth Century

Nicholas Perez, M.A. 

Thesis: As Far as the Grass Still Grows”: A Least Cost Analysis of Overland Routes and Canoe Travel in Hodinǫ̱hsǫ́:nih Territory, 1650-1789
 

Emily Sharp, M.A. 

Thesis: Rethinking the “Mummies with Individually Wrapped Limbs”: Gender-Expansive Identities in the Roman Period of Egypt

Michael Stewart-Bernard, M.A. 

Thesis: Heterarchy and Emergent Complexity in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant: A Mortuary Perspective

Quinn Stickley, M.A. 

Thesis: Gendered Representation and Reception at Deir el-Bahri

Henry Ziegler, M.A. 

Thesis: Echoes of Insidious Geographies: The Life History and Object Biography of a Caved Elephant Tusk from the Medieval Mediterranean to the Metropolitan Museum, ca. 750 CE to Present