Ph.D. Dissertations (1972-2007)
“If you look in anthropology, the diversity of kinds of texts that have been persuasive militates against any simple conclusion.”
- Clifford Geertz
| Year | Name | Dissertation Title | Chair |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Arnn, John W. | Transformation and persistence of indigenous cultural identity during the Early Colonial and Late Prehistoric periods in Texas | Dillehay & Pool |
| 2007 | Cairo, Aminata | Hebi Sani: Mental well being among the working class Afro-Surinamese in Paramaribo, Suriname | Crooks |
| 2007 | Owczarzak, Jill | Mapping HIV prevention in Poland: Contested citizenship and the struggles for health after socialism | Anglin |
| 2007 | Debsu, Dejene | Surviving the state: Resource tenure and conflict dynamics among the Guji-Oromo of southern Ethiopia | Little |
| 2006 | Randall, Theo | Maleria etiology, prevention, and treatment in the Gambia | Anglin |
| 2006 | Thompson, Victor | Questioning complexity: The prehistoric hunter-gatherers of Sapelo Island, Georgia | Jefferies |
| 2006 | White, James M. | Landuse patterning of early foragers in the northeastern desert of Mexico: Interpretation and archaeological visibility | Dillehay |
| 2006 | Wies, Jennifer | The changing relationships of women helping women: Patterns and trends in domestic violence advocacy | van Willigen |
| 2005 | Kenny, Erin | "A log in water never becomes a crocodile": Practices of return migration and intergenerational gifting in West Africa | Udvardy & Little |
| 2005 | Pavey, Stephen | Envisioning/embodying Christianity in Hong Kong: Theologies of power and crisis | van Willigen |
| 2005 | Peters, Jane | The political economy of epilepsy in rural Kentucky | van Willigen |
| 2005 | White, Jill | The figured worlds of Mexican teens in Kentucky: Identity and educational decision making | Crooks |
| 2004 | Drew, Elaine | "Just get rid of it." The cultural politics of hysterectomy in a rural Appalachian county | van Willigen |
| 2004 | Kannapel, Patricia | Parent involvement in school-based decision-making: The struggle for a voice | van Willigen |
| 2004 | Reeves, Cynthia | High standards for all students?: The Kentucky Education Reform Act and immigrant high school students | Goldstein & van Willigen |
| 2003 | Gonzalez-Clements, Emilia | "Puras promesas": Local perceptions of development in a northern Mexican mestizo ex-ejido | van Willigen |
| 2003 | Iriarte, José | Mid-Holocene emergent complexity and landscape transformation: The social construction of early formative communities in Uruguay, La Plata Basin | Dillehay |
| 2003 | Mahmoud, Hussein | The dynamics of cattle trading in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia: The role of trust and social relations in market networks | Little |
| 2003 | Smith, Clifford | The Manilla Wreck: Bermuda’s role in the Atlantic slave-smuggling trade | Jefferies |
| 2002 | Blakeney, Anne | Power, politics, and reproduction: "Teenage" motherhood in a rural Appalachian county | Anglin |
| 2002 | Williams, Elizabeth | "If I can help somebody, then my living will not be in vain": Spirituality, aid, and action in the African American breast cancer survivorship experience | van Willigen |
| 2001 | Beams, Daniel | Ideology, agency, and production in an Andean peasant community: The collective struggle for self-sufficiency | Little |
| 2000 | McDonald, Juliana | Getting older and farming: An ethnographic study of farmers in the southern coastal plain of North Carolina | van Willigen |
| 2000 | Miewald, Christiana | Women's work? Caring, kinship and community in Appalachian Kentucky | Anglin |
| 1999 | Cellarius, Barbara | Global priority, local reality: Rural communities and biodiversity conservation in Bulgaria | Little |
| 1999 | Hasemann, George | Regional settlement history on the lower Sulaco River, west central Honduras: Rural settlement theory and ancient settlement pattern in the Honduran highlands | Hirth |
| 1999 | Martin, Angela | Transnationalism and the embodiment of identity in late twentieth-century Ireland | Abbott-Jamieson & Udvardy |
| 1999 | Rao, Pamela | "Marriage happens, children are born": Maternal concepts of child rearing in south India | van Willigen |
| 1998 | Heath, Robin | Humor following cerebrovascular accident | Blonder & van Willigen |
| 1998 | Henderson, Gwynn | Middle Fort Ancient villages and organizational complexity in central Kentucky | Dillehay |
| 1998 | Pollack, David | Intraregional and intersocietal relationships of the late Mississippian Caborn-Welborn phase of the lower Ohio River Valley | Dillehay |
| 1997 | Kedia, Satish | Impacts of involuntary resettlement on ethnomedical systems: A case study from North India | van Willigen |
| 1997 | Lucas, Kimberley | Risky business: Agricultural diversification and social relations in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania | Little |
| 1997 | Suminguit, Vel | Indigenous knowledge systems of agroforestry and the restoration of a despoiled environment: A case study in northwestern Mindanao, Philippines | van Willigen |
| 1996 | Morin, Stephen | Common property and exchange in a natural resource management system: A case study from northern Sumatra | van Willigen |
| 1996 | Stansbury, James | Culture and caretaking: Maternal belief, child care practice and growth status in highland Ecuador | K. DeWalt |
| 1995 | Hamilton, Sarah | The two-headed household: Gender and agricultural development in an Andean setting (Cotopaxi Province, Ecuador) | B. DeWalt |
| 1995 | Kryst, Sandra | Engendering pain: Discourse on the experience of chronic headache in the United States | Abbott-Jamieson |
| 1995 | Roos, Gun | Cultural Analysis of Children, Food and Gender in the United States | Quandt |
| 1994 | Bidegaray, Pedro | The reproduction of the peasant household unit: A study on the persistence of traditional forms of exchange in a rural community of the Ecuadorian highlands | B. DeWalt |
| 1994 | Rhoads, Russell | Farm, family, and the new rurality among vegetable farmers of the Venezuelan Andes | B. DeWalt |
| 1994 | Rosenbaum, Marcy | Cultural analysis of women, breast cancer surgery and the meaning of breasts | Abbott-Jamieson & Wilson |
| 1994 | Russell, Michael | Cultural reproduction in Egypt's private university | Abbott-Jamieson |
| 1993 | Allen, Andrea | Dos gatazos: Indigenous organization and political strategy in two Andean communities | B. DeWalt |
| 1993 | Parrish, Anne | The changing food and agricultural systems of an Egyptian oasis village | B. DeWalt |
| 1992 | Van Schaik, Eileen | Work, gender, and culture in the Jamaican community health aide programme | Abbott-Jamieson & K. DeWalt |
| 1991 | Cunningham, Kiran | Residence and gender relations in a Mende village | Abbott |
| 1991 | Rossen, Jack | Ecotones and low-risk intensification: The Middle Preceramic habitation of Nanchoc, northern Peru | Dillehay |
| 1990 | Horwitz, Victoria | Maritime settlement patterns in southeastern Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) | Dillehay |
| 1990 | Zilverberg, Grace | The socio-economics of trust: The moral dimension of marketing fruits and vegetables | B. DeWalt |
| 1989 | Morris, Beverly | Leaving the goods life: Elderly women and their cherished personal possessions | K. DeWalt & Bacdayan |
| 1988 | Smith, Virginia | The iconography of power at Xochicalco, Morelos | Hirth |
| 1988 | Turner, Candice | A cultural model of chronic pain adaptation | Abbott & van Willigen |
| 1987 | Adelski, Elizabeth | Ejidal agriculture in northern Sinaloa, Mexico: Agricultural resources, production and household well-being | B. DeWalt |
| 1987 | Nazarea-Sandoval, Virginia | Philippine rural cultivators in transition: Operational reality and cognized models in agricultural decision-making | Abbott |
| 1986 | Boisvert, Richard | Late Archaic settlement models in the Middle Ohio Valley: A perspective from Big Bone Lick, Kentucky | Dillehay |
| 1986 | Brooks, Robert | Catchment analysis revisited: A critique and application of a test case | Dillehay |
| 1986 | Stonich, Susan | Development and destruction: Interrelated ecological, socioeconomic, and nutritional change in Southern Honduras | B. DeWalt & Dillehay |
| 1985 | Rylko-Bauer, Barbara | The role of freestanding emergency centers in the delivery of health care: Perspectives on change in American medicine | J. Van Willigan & B. R. DeWalt |
| 1984 | Driskell, Boyce | An integrated method for functional analysis of chipped stone assemblages and its application in plowzone archaeology | Adams |
| 1984 | Luckenbach, Alvin | Evaluating archaeological models of spatial regression and exchange systems: A distributional analysis of coinage (ca. 600-300 B.C.) | Adams |
| 1983 | Arcury, Thomas | Household structure and economic change in a rural community: 1900 to 1980 (Kentucky) | van Willigen |
| 1982 | Marshall, Patricia | Rural and urban factors in alcohol use in Appalachian setting | Pearsall |
| 1982 | Sovine, Melanie | The mysterious Melungeons: A critique of the mythical image | Abbott |
| 1981 | Reeves, Edward | The Wali Complex at Tanta, Egypt: An ethnographic approach to popular Islam | Adams |
| 1980 | Rosenstiel, C. Ronald | That fast life: An emic ethnography of the black heroin addict hustler | Pearsall |
| 1980 | Turner, Allen | Housing, water, and health care: The anthropology of planning in a Southern Paiute community | Bacdayan & van Willigen |
| 1979 | Choi, Hyup | An evaluation of the introduction of an agricultural innovation in Kentucky: A case study of no-tillage farming in Christian County | van Willigen |
| 1978 | Bryant, Carol | The impact of kin, friend and neighbor networks on infantile obesity | Gallaher |
| 1978 | Howell, Benita | Native American trickster mythology from the Northwest Coast: A computer-aided comparison of content | Drucker |
| 1978 | Kuehne, Herbert | An ethnological study of metaphorical differences in the ideologies of charismatic and non-charismatic Roman Catholics | van Willigen |
| 1978 | Rymph, David | Achievement motivation, innovation, and entrepreneurship in an isthmus Zapotec village, Oaxaca, Mexico | Drucker |
| 1978 | Taib, Abdullah Bin | Malay students on an American campus: A study of social interaction, ethnicity and Islamic ideology | Bacdayan & van Willigen |
| 1977 | Oke, Ezekiel | Sociomedical investigation of sickle cell anemia: Screening and coping | Gallaher |
| 1975 | Borsay, Maria | Subcultural conflicts in the Cincinnati Free Clinic: An analysis of the sources of role strain and mechanisms used by physician volunteers to reduce it | Pearsall |
| 1974 | Clark, Jerry | Shawnee Indian migration: A system analysis | Duffield |
| 1974 | Lowenberg, Carla | Identification and fulfillment of needs of the elderly on Skye, Scotland: A social network analysis | Colson & Pearsall |
| 1972 | Stoffle, Richard | Industrial employment and inter-spouse conflict: Barbados, West Indies | Gallaher |