Recent Ph.D. Graduates
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2023
Dissertation Title: “Local Environmental Responses to Global Climate Change During the Emergence of Paranthropus and Homo“
Dissertation Title: “Maxillary Postcanine Occlusal Morphology of Hybridizing Hamadryas and Anubis Baboons”
Dissertation Title: “Comparative Bioinformatic Analysis of Primate Interactions With Malaria and Related Parasites”
2022
Dissertation Title: “Histological and Elemental Markers of Physiological Stress in Hard Tissues
Dissertation Title: “Developmental Plasticity, Body Size and Proportions in the Genus Homo“
2021
Dissertation Title: “All that Glitters: Personal Ornamentation in the Middle and Late Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland”
Dissertation Title: “A phylogenetic and bioinformatics analysis of inter- and intra-specific primate brain variation”
Dissertation Title: “Male-male competition and sexual dimorphism in rhesus macaques”
Dissertation Title: “Variation and Stability in Primate Dentition: An Evaluation of Epigenetic Effects During Different Environments of Development on Dental Morphology”
Dissertation Title: “The genetic basis of pre- and postcopulatory female mate choice in the olive baboon”
Dissertation Title: “Sexual selection in the little-known Kinda baboon (Papio kindae)”
Dissertation Title: “Molecular Phylogeny and Variation of Family Tarsiidae”
2020
Dissertation Title: “The Role of Thermoregulation in the Obstetric Dilemma”
Dissertation Title: “State Formation and Early Medieval Agricultural Strategies: An Archaeobotanical Study of Anglo-Saxon Lincolnshire”
Dissertation Title: “Coloring Materials in the Vézère Valley: Insights into Early Aurignacian intra-regional variability”
2019
Dissertation Title: “Mapping Magan: The Ancient Social Landscape of North-Central Oman”
Dissertation Title: “Reproductive Trade-offs in the Free-ranging Rhesus Macaque Females on Cayo Santiago”
Dissertation Title: “The Origin and Evolution of Human Bipedalism as Revealed by Foot Morphology”
Dissertation Title: “Guenon Face Patterns and the Maintenance of Reproductive Isolation”
2018
Dissertation Title: “The Molecular Ecology of Muriquis: Phylogeography, Inbreeding Avoidance, and Sexual Selection”
Dissertation Title: “Rural Production, Peasant Participation, and the State Power:The Reshaping of Medieval Italy”
2017
Dissertation Title: “The Phylogenetic Position of Proconsul and Catarrhine Ancestral Morphotypes”
Dissertation Title: “Multispecies Cremations in a Transitional World: Evidence from Early Medieval England”
Dissertation Title: “Ingenuity in the Oasis: Archaeobotanical, Geospatial, and Ethnoarchaeological Investigations of Bronze Age Agrarian Community Choices in the Northern Oman Interior”
Dissertation Title: “The Social Geographies of Personal Ornamentation in Magdalenian Franco-Cantabria”
Dissertation Title: “Dynamics of Ceramic Technological Style and Boundaries of the Sorath Harappan”
Dissertation Title: “The Evolution of Cranial Diversity in Hominins: The Interactions Between Cranial and Postcranial Change”
2016
Dissertation Title: “Personality and Social Niche Specialization in Wild Vervet Monkeys”
Dissertation Title: “Dynamic Communities in Early Medieval Aquitaine France: A GIS Analysis of Roman and Medieval Landscapes in the Vézère Valley, France”
Dissertation Title: “Chewing Efficiency in Modern Humans: Adaptation and Variation of the Masticatory Complex”
Dissertation Title: “The Influence of Development and Homology on Hominin Molar Morphological Diversity”
2015
Dissertation title: “Population Genomics of a Baboon Hybrid Zone”
Dissertation title: “Stamp Seals in the Political Economy of South Asia’s Cities”
Dissertation title: “Production Organization in the Early Upper Paleolithic: Ivory tools and ornaments of the French Aurignacian”
Dissertation title: “Ecogeographic Influences on Trunk Modularity in Recent Humans”
Dissertation title: “Red-on-Black Style Ceramics: Production and Trade in Bronze Age Cyprus”
2013
Dissertation title: “Evolutionary History, Systematics, and Species Boundaries in Galagos (Primates: Galagidae)”
2012
Dissertation title: “Population history and natural selection in the Yemeni”
Dissertation title: “New Approaches to Late Miocene Hominoid Systematics: Ranking Morphological Characters by Phylogenetic Signal”
Dissertation title: “Factors influencing individual differences in steroid hormone cocetration among captive male baboons, Papio sp.”
Dissertation title: “Coastal subsistence and seasonality at Site 38BU1938, Beaufort County, South Carolina: a zooarchaeological study of a Woodland Period shell midden”
Dissertation title: “Phylogeny and Phylogeography of Mesoamerican Spider Monkeys”
2011
Dissertation title: “A behavioral and genetic study of the color vision polymorphism in wild squirrel monkeys”
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”
Dissertation title: “Human growth evolving: integrating dental and skeletal growth proxies to understand ontogeny in Pleistocene Homo“
2010
Dissertation title: “Ontogenetic scaling of anatomical mechanical advantage in the fore- and hind limb musculature of catarrhines: implications for the juvenile risk aversion hypothesis”
Dissertation title: “Locomotor function and phylogeny: implications for interpreting the hominoid fossil record”
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”
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”
Dissertation title: “Biases in study design affecting the inference of events and human population structure in closely-related populations”
Dissertation title: “Pastoralism in the early Transcaucasian culture: the faunal remains from Sos Hoyuk”
Dissertation title: “Primate innate immune defense and adaptation to SIV/HIV infection”
2008
Dissertation title: “Phylogenetics and population genetics of central African baboons”
Dissertation title: “The comparative socioecology of white-fronted capuchin monkeys (Cebus albifrons) and the ethology of social learning in Cebus“
2007
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”
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
Dissertation title: “The function of the long call in white-bellied spider monkeys (Ateles belzebuth) in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador”
Dissertation title: “Redefining technology in Bronze Age Transcaucasia: copper-alloy metallurgy in Armenia in the 3rd–mid-2nd millennium BC”
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”
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”
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”
Dissertation title: “Ape and Old World monkey molecular evolution: nucleotide substitution rate variation in the Catarrhini”
2003
Dissertation title: “Precious networks: the role of imported materials at Ostrow Lednicki in transformations of the Early Medieval Polish state”
Dissertation title: “Dental variation in extant African apes: implications for studying patterns of variations in fossil species”
Dissertation title: “Extant hominoid and australopith mandibular morphology: assessing alpha taxonomy and phylogeny using mandibular characters”
Dissertation title: “Baboon endogenous virus (BAEV) variation in natural populations of cercopithecine primates”
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”
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
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”
Dissertation title: “Human paleodiet in tropical Southeast Asia: isotopic evidence from Niah Cave and Gua Cha”
2000
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)”
Dissertation title: “Animal exploitation and the Middle to Late Woodland transition”
Dissertation title: “Town monkeys, country monkeys: a sociological comparison of a human commensal and wild group of bonnet macaques”
1999
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”