Dissertations & Theses

2025

  • Braun, Emily
    Finding a Few Trees: An Osteology Out Approach to Provisional Identification of Single Osteological Late Children from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery 2 (1882-1925) (MS, 2025). Advisor: S. Freire.
  • DeMedicci, Jaclyn
    Form Versus Function: Experimental Archaeology and Identity in the Study of Iron Age Mediterranean Loom Weights (PhD, 2025). Advisor: B. Arnold.
  • Herdt, Reagan
    An Analysis of Marine Mollusk Exploitation at Rio Chico, Ecuador (MS, 2025). Advisor: J. Hudson.
  • Kriefall, Megan
    Whose Story Is Told? Interpretation, Indigenous Representation, and Public Archaeology at Aztalan State Park, Wisconsin (MS, 2025). Advisor: J. Sherman.
  • Morgan, Crystal
    All Is Not Lost: Comparing Remote Sensing Methodologies and Embracing Community Engaged Research Practices to Search for Unmarked Graves at Maple Grove Cemetery (47BAS0012) in Marengo, WI (MS, 2025). Advisor: J. Haas.
  • Parker, Bailey
    Immigration of Images: Headstone Iconography in Ireland and Milwaukee (1840 to 1970) (MS, 2025). Advisor: J. Haas.
  • Pelisek, Grace
    The Frederick Stanton Perkins Collection: Determining Provenience for Wisconsin Archaeological Items in a Foundational Legacy Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2025). Advisor: J. Haas.
  • Phillips, Erica
    The Right Thing to Do If It Were Possible: The Tira de Santa Catarina Ixtepeji of Oaxaca, Mexico and Valuations of the Authentic and Real in the Age of Digital Repatriation (MS, 2025). Advisor: W. Wood.
  • Rieger, Alyssa
    Provenience, Provenance, and Place-Based Education: An Examination of the Milwaukee County Archaeology Surface Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2025). Advisor: J. Hudson.

2024

  • Boncal, Sarah
    An Analysis of Spinal Pathology and Trauma of the Individuals Interred at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery, 1882-1925 (PhD, 2024). Advisor: P. Richards.
  • Fehring, Mikayla 
    Unlocking the Past: The Raetian Culture and the Frankfurth Legacy at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2024). Advisor: B. Arnold.
  • Jacksack, Andy 
    Care Among Strangers: Empathy and Care at a Midwest Crisis Hotline (MS, 2024). Advisor: P. Brodwin.
  • Lorenzen, Hailey
    “This Knowledge Bears with It Certain Responsibilities to God and Our Fellow Men”: Missionary Motivations, Collecting Behavior, and the Wenberg Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2024). Advisor: J. Sherman.
  • Piatek, Timothy 
    The Old Copper Complex in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin: Giving New Life to Legacy Collections at the Milwaukee Public Museum Through Typology and Provenience (MS, 2024). Advisor: J. Haas.
  • Rowe, Christopher 
    Organic Residue Analysis and Archaeology: A Critical Evaluation of ORA Methods (MS, 2024). Advisor: B. Arnold. 
  • Schulenburg, Marcus 
    Early Village Communities: Fort Ancient Village Formation in the Middle Ohio Valley (PhD, 2024). Advisor: A. Lemke. 
  • Schutte, Bryan 
    A Non-Invasive Approach to Historic Cemetery Studies in Milwaukee and Germany: Was the American Dream Worth It? (MS, 2024). Advisor: J. Sherman. 
  • Smith, Ashley
    Covariation and Modularity in Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) Thoracolumbar Vertebrae (MS, 2024). Advisor: E. Middleton.

2023