CIAMS Alumni

CIAMS alumni follow a wide range of career paths. Over half of the students in our MA program go on to pursue a PhD in Anthropology, Classics, or Near Eastern Studies. The large majority who apply to PhD programs are successfully admitted. A number of our alumni choose to work in the heritage sector, from cultural and natural resource management, to laboratories and libraries. For others still, CIAMS is a stepping stone to careers in education, information technology, or other fields.

We support our students in achieving their career goals and are proud of their diverse achievements. If you are a member of our alumni community, please stay in touch. If you are a prospective student and would like to learn more about the professional trajectories of our alumni, please contact the Director of Graduate Studies.

Cornell University has offered M.A. degrees in Archaeology since 1987, and awarded Ph.D. degrees to affiliates in archaeologically-related fields since 1976. The list below shows recent graduates, from 2010 to the present.

List of CIAMS alumni
	NAME AND ACADEMIC DEGREE	THESIS OR DISSERTATION TITLE
	Alexandria Albano M.A. Archaeology, '20	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. Medieval Studies, '21	Dissertation: "The Fitting Face of Empire": Palaces and Power in the Early Middle Ages
	Elizabeth Bews M.A. Archaeology, '18	Thesis: After Accession: EU Funding and Archaeological Practice in Bulgaria
	Jenna Bittenbender M.A. Archaeology, '17	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. Archaeology, '20	Thesis: Building a Burial on a Budget: Mortuary Practice and Socio-Economic Boundary-Making in Classical Armenia
	William Breitweiser M.A. Archaeology, '15	Thesis: Plaster Cast Collections in the Colonial World: Connections Between Classics and Racial Ideology
	Liana Brent Ph.D. Classics, '19	Dissertation: Corporeal Connections: Tomb Disturbance, Reuse and Violation in Roman Italy
	Dusti Bridges M.A. Archaeology, '18	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. Archaeology, '10	Thesis: Mapping Muhheakunnuk: GIS and the Living Landscapes of the Mohican
	Polly Anna Burnette M.A. Archaeology '19	Thesis: Zooarchaeology and Spatial Analysis at Tepe Farukhabad: New Life for Legacy Data
	Asa Cameron M.A. Archaeology, '16	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. Classics, '18	Dissertation: Reconstructing Minoan Dining Practice and Sociopolitical Organization in Neopalatial Households and Palaces
	Taylor Carr-Howard M.A. Archaeology, '20	Thesis: Picturing Antiquity, Depicting Archaeology: Photography, Restoration, and the French Colonial Imagination
	Jennifer Carrington Ph.D. Classics, '19	Dissertation: Striking similarity: Pottery features and their relations in Ptolemaic Egypt
	Chelsea Cole M.A. Archaeology, '17	Thesis: Kommos and a Great Minoan Triangle: Rethinking the Early - Middle Minoan Political and Economic Landscape of South-Central Crete
	Alexandra Creola M.A. Archaeology, '14	Thesis: An Analysis of the Spatial Relationships of Domestic Nymphaea at Lararia in Pompeii
	Andrew Crocker M.A. Archaeology, '17	Thesis: Rural Landscape Practices and Authority: Iron Age Cyprus and Assyria
	Samuel Disotell M.A. Archaeology '21	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. Archaeology, '12	Thesis: A Question of Faith: Jesuit Missions to the Seneca Iroquois As Viewed Through Archaeological and Textual Records
	Bonnie Etter M.A. Archaeology, '16	Thesis: The Application of Geographic Information Systems to Large-Scale Intra-Site Analysis of Artifact Data at Gault, Texas
	Yuan Fang M.A. Archaeology, '17	Thesis: The Favorite Animal: The Horse as Mingqi in Han Tombs
	Ned Fischer M.A. Archaeology, '17	Thesis: Iron Men: Roman Masculinity and the Roman Military Dagger
	Carrie Fulton Ph.D. Classics, '16	Dissertation: Lost in Transportation: Trade Networks and the Materiality of Cargoes in the Ancient Mediterranean
	Peregrine Gerard-Little M.A. Archaeology, '11 Ph.D. Anthropology, '18	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. Archaeology, '11	Thesis: An Overview and Analysis of 'Proto-Susquehannock' Sites in the Upper Susquehanna River Valley
	John Gorczyk M.A. Archaeology, '12 Ph.D. Anthropology, '20	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. Archaeology, '19	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. History of Art, '20	Dissertation: The Age of the Polychrome Kaftan: a Sartorial System of Central Eurasia (400-900 CE)
	Jeanine Hoy M.A. Archaeology '19	Thesis: What About Her? Mortuary Practice and Gender Identities at Kanesh
	Kathryn Hudson M.A. Archaeology, '11	Thesis: A Preliminary Lexicon of Ulua Medallion Motifs
	Katherine Jarriel Ph.D. Classics, '18	Dissertation: Small Worlds After All? Landscape and Community Interaction in the Cycladic Bronze Age
	Alaina Kaiser M.A. Archaeology, '13	Thesis: Copper Oxhide Ingot Marks: A Catalogue and Comparative Analysis
	Katie Kearns Ph.D. Classics, '15	Dissertation: Unruly landscapes: The making of 1st millennium BCE polities on Cyprus
	Cynthia Kocik M.A. Archaeology, '14	Thesis: The Edges of Wood: Dendrochronological Analysis of Three Seneca Iroquois Structures at Letchworth State Park, 1796-1831
	Matthew Krohn M.A. Archaeology, '10	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. Archaeology, '21	Thesis: "Binding the People Together:" Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca) Glass Beads, Aesthetics, and Economy, 1670-1754
	Nicholas Lashway M.A. Archaeology, '15	Thesis: Resettlement of the Bdul and its effect on Preservation Initiatives at Petra, Jordan
	Jeffrey Leon Ph.D. Classics, '16	Dissertation: Beyond 'counting sheep': Isotopic approaches to Minoan and Late Cypriot shepherding
	Fredrika Loew M.A. Archaeology, '16	Thesis: Gods and Scholars: Studying Religion at a Secular University
	Alex Marko M.A. Archaeology, '14	Thesis: Seeing Archaeology In 3D: Digital Spatial Vision
	Isabelle Martínez-Muñiz M.A. Archaeology, '12	Thesis: Ceramic Innovation and Interregional Interaction: A Study from Formative Cahal Pech, Belize
	William Mastandrea M.A. Archaeology, '16	Thesis: Cupellation at Kea: Investigating Potential Applications of the Minoan Conical Cup
	Angela McArdle M.A. Archaeology, '14	Thesis: When Trash Becomes Treasure: A Postclassic Maya Obsidian Core Cache from Nojpeten
	Sarah McCully M.A. Archaeology, '20	Thesis: Stop, Collaborate, and Listen: Creating Archaeological Education Resource with Local Teachers' Needs in Mind
	Jane Millar M.A. Archaeology, '21	Thesis: Kepeia: The Market Gardens of Classical Attica
	Eilis Monahan M.A. Archaeology, '10 Ph.D. Near Eastern Studies, '19	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. Archaeology, '13	Thesis: Understanding landscape Modification at White Springs Manor, Geneva, New York An Archaeological and Historical Study
	Louisa Nash M.A. Archaeology, '17	Thesis: The Cosmos in Clay: An Analysis of Avery Engraved Vessel Motifs
	Marianna Nichols M.A. Archaeology, '18	Thesis: Jewish Identities and Traditions within the Hellenistic Period: Funerary Unguentaria as Evidence of Inventive Tradition
	Lindsay Petry M.A. Archaeology, '19	Thesis: Echoes in the Bones: An Osteological Analysis of the Biological Impact of Roman Rule at Corinth, Greece
	Jessica Plant M.A. Archaeology, '17	Thesis: Asia Minor Ampullae: A Class of Their Own?
	Elizabeth Proctor M.A. Archaeology, '19	Thesis: A Preliminary Geochemical Characterization of Relief Ceramics from the Nadin Necropolis
	Beth Ryan Ph.D. Anthropology, '17	Dissertation: Crowding the Banks: the Historical Archaeology of Ohagi and the Post-revolutionary Haudenosaunee Confederacy, ca. 1780-1826
	Samantha Sanft M.A. Archaeology, '13 Ph.D. Anthropology '21	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. Archaeology, '15	Thesis: Dendroarchaeology in Sisak, Croatia (Siscia): Roman Urbanism and Colonia Status
	Laryssa Shipley M.A. Archaeology, '18	Thesis: A Phenomenological Approach to the Kom el-Shuqafa Catacombs
	Emily Stanton M.A. Archaeology, '17	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. Archaeology, '19	Thesis: Pots, People, and Pilgrimage: Elemental Analysis of Surface Pigments on Nasca Polychrome Vessels from the Nasca Drainage
	Kaja Tally-Schumacher Ph.D. History of Art, '20	Dissertation: Cultivating Empire in Ancient Roman Gardens: Unearthing the Tangled Relationship between Plants and their Gardeners
	Danielle Vander Horst M.A. Archaeology '19	Thesis: Seeing Faces: Material Diversification and Identity Performance Through Romano-British Face Pots
	Juliana Van Roggen M.A. Archaeology, '17	Thesis: Urban Planning and Cultural Identity in Pompeii: from the Altstadt to Vitruvius
	Alexandra Walton M.A. Archaeology, '21	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. Archaeology, '17	Thesis: Wood and Stone: How the South Arabian Construction Texts Illuminate Building Accounts in the Hebrew Bible
	Jordana Wolf M.A. Archaeology, '12	Thesis: The Bronze Age Gardens of the Aegean in the Context of Contemporary Gardens in the Near East and Egypt
	Erin Wright M.A. Archaeology, '17	Thesis: Cultural Resiliency at Pompeii: The Spatial Relationship Between Painted Fountains and Private Water Access, 62-79 CE