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

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.