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Graduate Alumni

Graduates of the Anthropology Program have pursued their passions. Some have found jobs in industries directly pertaining to their training, while others have found positions in academic institutions.

Featured Alumni

Seo Yeon Park

Why did you decide to pursue and MA/PhD in Anthropology?

I was a sociology major in my undergraduate program, and I was lucky enough to meet some anthropologists back then. My interest slowly evolved into auditing some anthropology classes while working full-time after graduation. I always was curious about other worlds, and/or immigrants/refugees’ lives, and it looked natural for me to pursue anthropology for my advanced degree.

Tell us about your current position.

I am currently working as a Refugee Status Determination (RSD) officer at the Ministry of Justice of South Korean government. I work with about 10 other RSD officers, and we are dealing with appeal cases within refugee applications. The work has been challenging, as it involves writing legal statements and examining each applicant’s refugee claim closely, but it certainly is a great learning experience. I have learned some Arabic and in addition to being exposed to different regions (mainly in conflict) in the world. In the near future, I hope I can find a placement in social integration program for asylum seekers, utilizing more fully of my past experience in assisting refugees/immigrants in America and South Korea.

Why did you choose our program?

First, I was impressed by the wide range of topics/areas/subfields of faculty members. The main focus of the program back then was ‘diaspora,’ and it certainly stood out to me as I was looking for people and programs with a diaspora/migration focus. People in the UofSC program were doing refugee/migration studies, East Asian pop culture and Women's studies - which were all my favorite subjects - and that drew me to the program. Also, the size of the department seemed ideal - not too big or too small. Plus, the state was known for its nicest weather and the city being close to the ocean. I thought it’d be a great benefit to a graduate student who often can feel lonely and stressful ;)

Did you get what you wanted from the graduate program in the Department of Anthropology?

Yes!  Most importantly, I was very lucky to have the most thoughtful and insightful advisor and committee members. They seriously helped me develop and complete the PhD project. My project encompasses analyses of bureaucracy, inter-institutional relationships, refugee/migration movement, and affect/culture. It was far from a traditional anthropological project, but I was always feeling more excited and invigorated about my project after talking to supportive faculty on my committee. Other faculty members were all so great - some of them went out of their way to help support me in my career as well as in my personal life. Overall, it was very friendly and kind environment, one that I was able to work comfortably in. On top of that, I was able to earn a Women's and Gender Studies certificate, and gain expertise in visual anthropology which was always my side interest. After the completion of the program, I found being knowledgeable of and familiar with diverse fields greatly helps in seeking career.

What is your favorite thing about Columbia, SC?

The sun, food, parks and people! If I have to choose one, maybe I should give up tyring. Moving from a big city (Seoul), I appreciated all the natural environment that Columbia provided and the kindness of people I encountered there everyday.

 


Rebecca Shepherd

Why did you decide to do an MA in Anthropology?

I decided to apply to a graduate program in anthropology in 2011. I completed my undergraduate program in anthropology in 2007 and had been working consistently in the field of cultural resource management (CRM) archaeology for four years. At this point in my career I had been employed in both stewardship and research based archaeology, at a state park, and in contract archaeology, as a field technician for various CRM companies. With four years of experience under my belt, I knew that I loved working in archaeology and that this was the career path for me, but I also knew that to continue to advance in this career I would need a graduate degree.

Tell us about your current job:

Currently I am an Archaeologist for the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT). My primary responsibility in this role is to conduct cultural resource surveys in compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NRHP) for various transportation projects. I am responsible for all aspects of these surveys including, archival research, both archaeological and architectural history fieldwork, laboratory analysis, and primary authorship of cultural resource reports. Additionally, I manage consultants contracted by SCDOT to preform studies associated with the Section 106 process, review cultural resource reports submitted to SCDOT by consultants, and coordinate with the State Historic Preservation Office and Tribal Historic Preservation Officers.

Prior to accepting the position with the SCDOT, I worked as an Archaeological Field Director for the CRM firm New South Associates from 2015 to 2019. In this role I directed archaeological survey, testing, and data recovery projects and authored reports on behalf of various clients including several Departments of Transportation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, local governments, and private entities.

Why did you choose our program?

Initially the most appealing aspect of Anthropology program at USC was the amount of funding provided. Of all the graduate programs I was accepted into, USC’s was the only one offering guaranteed full funding. Knowing archaeology was not going to be a particularly lucrative career field, completing a graduate program with the least amount of debt possible made the most financial sense. Additionally, an offer of a research assistantship at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) was a great opportunity to continue to gain practical career experience while in the program. However, what really cemented my decision to attend USC was the sense of welcoming support I felt when I visited the department and spoke with current students and professors. Everyone I met with was incredibly helpful and encouraging and I got the sense that this was a department that everyone genuinely enjoyed being a part of.

Did you get what you wanted from the graduate program in the Department of Anthropology?

My time in the department was both academically challenging and rewarding. The program offered a good mix of both theoretical and practical classes that helped me hone my skills as a researcher. By the time I completed my degree I felt like I had grown as an archaeologist and a professional. After completing the program in 2014 I returned to working as a field technician in CRM, but was quickly promoted to a crew chief, and then a field director later that year. These promotions would not have happened had I not decided to obtain an MA.

Many aspects of the program’s curriculum have proved to be very useful professionally. The Public Archaeology seminar provided me with a thorough understanding of the federal laws that drive much of archaeology within the US, and in particular have helped me navigate the Section 106 process, which is essential for my job. Additionally, my training in anthropological and archaeological theory has helped with both writing evaluations of NRHP eligibility and with the formulation of research questions that are necessary for Phase II Testing and Phase III data recovery projects.

What is your favorite thing about Columbia, SC?

When I moved here for graduate school I never expected to like Columbia, but it’s been five years since I completed the program and I’m still here and proud to call Columbia home! Columbia has the perfect mix of small town charm and all the amenities of a capital city. Columbia is an up and coming city and there is always something to do or get involved with, from checking out the various cultural and food festivals, catching a movie at the local indie theater, grabbing drinks at one of the local breweries, or exploring the extensive river walk. But my absolute favorite thing is that the town is still small enough that you run into friends and familiar faces wherever you go. There is a strong sense of community here and it is easy to carve out your particular niche within it.

Samantha Yaussy, Ph.D.

Why did you decide to pursue and MA/PhD in Anthropology?

At my undergraduate institution, I got a taste of independent research as a part of my honor's thesis. For me, the research process--collecting and analyzing data, examining and interpreting my findings, and contributing to our collective understanding of life in the past--was an exciting and empowering opportunity. Particularly, I was interested in learning more about the ways in which cultural and biological factors intersected to influence the experiences and health outcomes of individuals in the past. Those sorts of questions--and the holistic approaches used to answer them--are not found in any other discipline.

Tell us about your current position.

I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. My primary role is to teach several of the biological anthropology classes currently offered at the university, including Introduction to Physical Anthropology, Fundamentals of Forensic Anthropology, Human Osteology, Forensic Anthropology, Health and Disease in the Past, and Human Variation.  

Why did you choose our program?

The faculty. The research and teaching interests of the faculty at UofSC coincided with my own research interests and goals. Even more importantly, I felt comfortable discussing my thoughts and ideas with various faculty members when I visited the campus. Those feelings of mutual respect and encouragement were not duplicated in every department I visited, and it became a huge factor in my decision.

Did you get what you wanted from the graduate program in the Department of Anthropology?

Absolutely. The faculty and other graduate students are very generous with their advice and materials, such that you have every opportunity to succeed if you put in the effort. My success is in no small part thanks to the support provided by the faculty of the department and my peers in the program: I was awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship on the first submission because other successful PhD students were willing to share their materials with me; I published multiple times before I completed my PhD because I had an advisor who provided outstanding mentorship over the course of my scholarly development; and I continue to produce innovative research thanks to the guidance and counsel of the members of the Department of Anthropology who were willing to take the time to provide feedback on my ideas.

What is your favorite thing about Columbia, SC?

The eats! There is something for everyone in Columbia, even though it's not a particularly large city. If you like Vietnamese, check out Decker Blvd. If you like proper southern barbecue, you will not go hungry. If you want to take a night on the town and visit a nicer dining establishment, there's no shortage of those venues either. As a graduate student, it was especially important for me to be able to get out of the house and take a mental health break every once in a while. Columbia had plenty of options for foodies and craft beverage connoisseurs alike. 

Samantha L. Yaussy, PhD

Department of Anthropology

University of Nevada, Reno

Alumni 

Name
Graduation Year
Dissertation Director(s)
 Dissertation Title
 Placement
Emily Brennen
2024
DeWitte & Stawkowski
Histories of Stress: A Life Course Approach to Population Health in Late Medieval and Early Modern Berlin  
Brian Mabelitini
2024
Smith
British Fortification Strategy in the South Carolina Backcountry During the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Infrastructure and Landscape Archaeologist for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Allison Ham
2023
DeWitte
Sex Differentials in Frailty in Medieval Ireland NSF Post Doctural Research Fellow at Penn State University
Madeline Atwell 
2022
De la Cova & DeWitte
That Was Denied Thee on Earth": An Intersectional Bioarchaeology of Institutionalized Euro-American Women throughout 19th and 20th-century America Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Clemson University
Andrew Agha
2020
Kelly 
Shaftesbury's Atlantis  CEO, Aghatech Industries LLC
Tiffany Jones
2020
Reynolds
Place-making Through Performance: Spoken Word Poetry and the Reclamation of “Chocolate City”
Assistant Professor, Harper College
Brandy Joy
2020
Kelly 
 
Freedom and Food:  Transformation and Continuities in Foodways among the People who Labored at Stono Plantation, James Island, South Carolina during the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries Project Archaeologist at Versar, Inc., Ft. Bliss, El Paso, Texas
Anais Parada
2020
Feliciano-Santos 
Puruhá Fashion as Aesthetic Sovereignty: Identity Making and Indigenous Dress in Ecuador Research Associate, Counter Framing Design at Loughborough University
Kristina Zarenko
2020
de la Cova
The Effects of Racialization on Skeletal Manifestations of Disease Among Migrants in Historic St. Louis, Missouri Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, UofSC Upstate
Meagan Conway
2019
Kelly & Cobb
A Choice to Engage: Selective Marginality and Dynamic Households on the 18th-19th Century Irish Coast Instructor, UofSC Sumter
Samantha Lee Yaussy
2019
DeWitte
The Intersections of Health and Wealth: Socioeconomic Status, Frailty, and Mortality in Industrial England Assistant Professorship in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at James Madison University
Brianna Farber
2018
Reynolds
Ground Truthing: The Politics and Culture of Soil and Water Conservation in Iowa Agriculture AAAS Fellowship DOE Biofuel Division
Katherine Goldberg
2018
Kelly
The Diabolical Traffic: Archaeological Explorations of the Nineteenth Century Slave Trade in Costal Guinea Professional Track Instructional Faculty at USC
Lisa Briggitte Randle
2018
Kelly
East Branch of the Cooper River, 1780-1820: Panopticism and Mobility Coastal Conservation League, Berkeley Co. Project Manager
Brittany S. Walter
2017
DeWitte
Paleodemographic and Biochemical Analysis of Urbanization, Famine, and Mortality Forensic Anthropologist (GS-13), Dept. of Defense POW/MIA (DPAA) in Omaha Nebraska 
Audrey Rachel Dawson
2016
Kelly & Cobb
Sifting Through the Sand: Adaptive Flexibility in The Middle Archaic Occupations of the Sandhills Province of South Carolina  
Seo Yeon Park
2016
Reynolds
The Cultural Politics of Affective Bureaucracy in Service Delivery to North Korean Refugees in South Korea Refugee Status Determination (RSD) Officer in the S. Korean Ministry of Justice
William D. Stevens
2016
Kelly & de la Cova
Enslaved Labor in the Gang and Task Systems: A Case Study in Comparative Bioarchaeology of Commingled Remains Richland County Coroner’s Office, SC
Kevin Fogle
2015
Kelly
Beyond Ideals: Proslavery Reforms on a Nineteenth-Century Cotton Plantation  Research Affiliate,  UofSC
Amy A. O'Brien
2015
K. Simmons
Negotiating the Intersections of Sociality, Identity, Fan Activism and Connectivity within the Twilight Community Director of Clinical Quality Analytics Kindred at Home
Jeremy T. VanderKnyff
2015
D. Simmons
Framing Death: Politics, Meaning, and Strategic Communication of Organ Donation Messages in South Carolina Associate VP, Program Value at Proactive MD in Greenville, SC
Diane Wallman
2014
Kelly
Negotiating the Plantation Structure: An Archaeological Investigation of Slavery, Subsistence and Daily Practice at Habitation Crève Coeur, Martinique, ca. 1760-1890 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology University of South Florida
Kimberly K. Cavanagh
2013
K. Simmons
Shifting Landscapes: The Social and Economic Development of Aqaba, Jordan Associate Professor Anthropology at University of South Carolina-Beaufort under the Department of Social Sciences
Sasikumar Balasundaram
2012
Kingsolver
“Freedom From Camps”: Housing and Power in the Experience of Sri Lankan Long-Term Refugees in India Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Christy Kollath-Cattano
2012
Gibson & Leatherman
Reinterpreting Reproduction: An Ethnography on Discourses, Ideologies and Practices among Midwifery Participants in South Carolina Associate Professor of Public Health College of Charleston
Jakob Crockett
2011
Kelly
“A Democracy of Goods”: An Archaeology of Commodity Landscapes in Columbia, South Carolina 1870-1930 Federal Emergency Management Agency - Environmental and Historic Preservation Archaeologist / Historic Preservation Specialist
Romel Saulog Lacson
2011
D. Simmons
Photovoice with Persons Affected by Tuberculosis Intervening in the Bio-Political Spheres of Communicability: A Study of the Circulation of Power Behavioral Scientist Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis, Center for Global Health, CDC
Kristen E. G. Hudgins
2010
Kingsolver &
D. Simmons
Candles, Co-Ops and Credit Funds: Exploring the Matrix of Grassroots Development Strategies in a Dominican Batey Social Science Analyst in the Office of Performance and Evaluation at the Administration for Community Living
Steven Donald Smith
2010
Kelly
Archaeological Perspectives on Partisan Communities: Francis Marion at Snow’s Island in History, Landscape, and Memory Research Professor, Director of SCIAA at UofSC
Name
Graduation Year
Thesis Director
Thesis Title
Placement
Angelina Towery-Tomasura
2024
King
Of Grave Importance: A Collaborative Approach to Archaeological Research on the Cooper River Cemetery, Daufuskie Island, South Carolina  
Noah Safari
2024
King
Using Landscape Archaeology to Gain Insight into the Human Experience During the Late Woodland and Mississippian Periods in South Carolina’s Pee Dee River Basin  
Sam McDorman
2023
Karen Y. Smith & King
A User Needs Assessment for Snowvision/World Engraved Archaeologist with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Heritage Trust
John Dodge
2023
 King
 "STRUCTURE V-1: A MISSISSIPPIAN MICA WORKSHOP IN KERSHAW COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA"  
Ashley McGraw 
2023
Reynolds
 “It Looks Like the Future But Feels Like the Past”: Oral (Hi)Stories of Appalachia as COVID-19 New Stories  PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst 
Richard Strater
2023
Doering-White
 Ciento Ochenta Grados: South Carolina Promotores de Salud and the COVID-19 Pandemic  Peace Corp Staff, Liberia
Jordan Davis
2022
Jones & Weik
African Seminole Settlement Ecologies Of Early Nineteenth Century Florida PhD student, University of Texas at Austin
David Hansen
2022
DeWitte
Dying of Pestilence: Gender, Stature, and Mortality From the Black Death in 14th Century Kyrgyzstan  
Blake Hite
2022
Lewis
“Whoz Ya People?”: Defining Lumbee Citizenship and Belonging in the 21st Century  PhD student, Department of Anthropology at USC
Gavin Fisher
2021
Moskowitz
Fictive Daughters and Sons, Celibate Priests and Nuns: How Religious Tongzhi and Clergy in Taiwan Navigate Familial Responsibilities  
Fallon Puckett
2021
Reynolds
The Inescapable Effects of Discourse as Knowledge and Power: Refugee Youth's Resistance to “The System” in Pursuit of Higher Education High School Teacher (of World History and ESL), Guildford County School District, North Carolina
Robert Lyerly
2020
Casey & White
Hunter-Gatherer Behavior at Dorn Levee #1 (38FA608): An Analysis of Lithic Assemblage Formation at a South Carolina Piedmont Site  
Amber Teresa Domingue
2019
Feliciano-Santos
¡Tú No Eres Fácil!: Styling Black Hair and Language in a Dominican Beauty Salon PhD student, Department of Anthropology at USC
Abigail Geedy
2019
King  & Wagner
Creating a Place: Mulberry Site (38KE12) Interpretation and Exhibition Museum Technical Assistant, Horry County Museum
Tiffany Nicole Peacock
2019
K. Simmons
African American Hair and Beauty: Examining Afrocentricity and Identity Through the Reemergence and Expression of Natural Hair in the 21st Century MA/PhD student at Florida International
Arya Novinbakht
2018
Barker & Lewis
The Walking Debt: Surviving an Outbreak of Predatory Lending  
Madeline M. Atwell
2017
de la Cova
Embodied Madness: Contextualizing Biological Stress Among 19th and 20th-Century Institutionalized Euro-American Women PhD student, Department of Anthropology at USC
Agatha Kenda Baluh
2017
Casey
The Middle Stone Age in West Africa: Lithics from the Birimi Site in Northern Ghana  
Juliane Bilotta
2017
Feliciano-Santos & Reynolds
A Critical Analysis of the Effects of Language Policy, Curriculum, and Assessment on Arabic L1 Student Performance in an ESL 1 Classroom PhD student, Education Rutgers University
Jessica Cooper
2017
Casey
A Functional Analysis of Yadkin Bifaces in the Middle Savannah River Valley PhD student, Department of Anthropology at USC
Joseph E. Wilkinson
2017
Casey
Modeling Early Archaic Mobility and Subsistence: Evaluating Resource Risk Across the South Carolina Landscape Senior Engineer Mapping Technician, City of Columbia
Sarah Haughenbury
2016
Weik
A Spectacle of the Odd: Construting Otherness in the Odditoriums of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! Academic Advisor, University of Arkansas at Monticello
Brandy Joy
2016
Kelly & Cobb
A Study of the Material Diversity in the Carolina Colony: Silver Bluff, Yaughan, Curriboo, and Middleburg Plantations Graduated with a PhD at USC
Samantha Lee Yaussy
2015
DeWitte
Frailty, Famine, and Plague: Crisis Mortality in Medieval London Graduated with a PhD at USC
Amy M. Goldstein
2014
Cobb & King
Embodying Ritual Performance: An Iconographic Analysis of Burial 38 at the Etowah Site  
Marybeth Harte
2014
Cobb
Anthropogenic Ecological Impacts of 17th and 18th Century Chickasaw Through a Study of Faunal Remains  
Shan Huang
2014
Moskowitz
Independence at Large: Contemporary China’s Alternative Music Scenes and the Cultural Practices of Post-Socialist Urban Youth PhD student, Department of Anthropology Stanford University
Rebecca E. Sheperd
2014
Cobb & Smith
Going up the Country: A Comparison of Elite Ceramic Consumption Patterns in Charleston and the Carolina Frontier Archaeologist for the South Carolina Department of Transportation
Brianna Dyan Farber
2013
Gibson & D. Simmons
Ruminating on Ruminants: Goats and the People Who Raise Them in South Carolina Graduated with a PhD at USC
James Andrew Stewart
2013
Cobb
Congeries in the Backcountry  
Stacey Renae Whitacre
2013
Cobb
An Analysis of Lead Shot from Fort Motte, 2004-2012: Assessing Combat Behavior in Terms of Agency Archaeologist, Brockington and Associates
Michael Frederic Young
2013
Reynolds & Gibson
‘Open’ for Collective Business: The Governance of Contemporary Economic Cooperatives in a Corporate Q’eqchi’ Maya Town Director of Capacity Building PASOs/Arnold School of Public Health USC
Walter Allen Clifford IV
2012
Wagner
Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 38Bk1633 Archaeologist, Survey Director, SCIAA, Savannah River Archaeological Research Program
Brooke Elizabeth Kenline
2012
Kelly
Capitalist Entrepreneurs and Industrial Slavery in the Rural Antebellum South  
Micah Kristin Sorum
2012
Kingsolver
Back from Costa Rica: A Perspective on Migration from Nicaraguan Sending Communities Abt Associates Service Delivery - Analyst International Development
Jessica Bichler
2011
Gibson
Using Media-Based Representations of Reproductive Health Choices to Discuss the Real and Ideal Experiences of Latina Women  
Martha Brooke Brilliant
2011
Kelly
Colonoware, Creolization, and Interactions Between African Americans and Native Americans During the Colonial Period in the South Carolina Lowcountry  
Helena Lopez Ferguson
2011
Kelly
Reconnecting the Physical and Cultural Landscapes at the Hampton-Preston Mansion in Columbia, South Carolina Anthropology Instructor Social & Behavioral Sciences Midlands Technical College
Maggie Marie Needham
2011
Cobb
Cultural Pluralism, Migration and Ceramics: Reconsidering an Eighteenth Century Yuchi Settlement on the Savannah River (9Ef169)  
James Allan Nyman
2011
Cobb
The Ashley Series as Native American Persistence: Lowcountry Indians in the Period of European Expansion  
Seo Yeon Park
2011
Reynolds
Cultural Politics of South Korean NGOs in Neoliberal Era Graduated with a PhD at USC
Emma Vail Waugh
2011
Moskowitz
Balancing Flavors, Constructing Identities, and Building a Community: Rethinking Diaspora and Migration Through the Foodways of a Thai Community in Washington, D. C.  
Erika Heimbrook Shofner
2010
Casey
That Belongs in a Museum: Archaeology and Audiences  
Craig Spurrier
2010
Kingsolver
Cassava, Coconut and Curry: Food and National Identity in Post-Colonial Fiji  
Sean Garett Taylor
2010
Casey
Investigation of the Effects of Timber Harvest on Artifact Locations Manager of the Stationary Source Compliance Program, Georgia Environmental Protection Division
Jeremy Allen Vanier
2010
Wagner
A Ceramic Vessel Function Analysis and Foodways Approach to the Late Woodland/Mississippian Interface in Kershaw County, South Carolina  
Kristen Wolf
2010
D. Simmons
The Impetus for Transitions from Relief to Development in Post-Conflict Environments: Food Security, Land Access, and Livelihood Reconstruction Among the Acholi of Northern Uganda  
Sasikumar Balasundaram
2009
Kingsolver
The Structural Violence of Sterilization: Politics of Sterilization in the Plantation Tamil Communities of Sri Lanka Graduated with a PhD at USC
Elizabeth Bell
2009
Cahue
Maize Consumption in Pre-Tarascan Michoacán: Dental Caries in Two Classic Period Sites in Guayangreo Valley  
Benjamin P. Johnson
2009
Weik
Investigating the Histoic Settlement of Dorchester, South Caroling through Archaeological Survey  
Lisa Randle
2009
Kelly
Overlooking the African American Landscape Along the East Branch of the Cooper River, Berkeley County, South Carolina, 1783 - 1820  
David Rigtrup
2009
Casey
A Techno-Functional Analysis of Early Archaic Lithic Production Debris: Assessing Technological Practice and Settlement in the Middle Savannah River Valley of South Carolina  
David Edward Rigtrup
2009
Casey
A Techno-Functional Analysis of Early Archaic Lithic Production Debris: Assessing Technological Practice and Settlement in the Middle Savannah River Valley of South Carolina  
Christopher Louis Thornock
2009
Wagner
 An Analysis of Architecture and Power in the Ceremonial Centers of the South Appalachian Mississippian Built Environment Archaeologist, U.S. Forest Service
Jessic C. Boulware
2008
Cahue
Maize Consumption and Dental Caries in the Lake Patzcuaro Basin During the Formation of the Tarascan State  
Lois Ann Dowers
2008
Wagner & King
Marbles Lost and Found: Children and the Material Culture of Marbles  
Amanda Elias Vargas
2008
Kingsolver
"Neither Here nor There": Finding, Creating and Rembering Home and Self Between Morelia Michoacan and Columbia, South Carolina  
Kevin R. Fogle
2008
Kelly
Unlocking the Household: Ceramic and Statigraphic Analyses as Keys to Developing Discrete Chronological Occupation Sequences for an Eighteenth Century Plantation  
Christy L. Kollath
2008
Leatherman
Interrogating Adequate Prenatal Care: Multiple Meanings, Perceptions, and Barriers  
Colin Christian Townsend
2008
Simmons
Drumming For The Egungun: (Re) Inventing Yoruba Identity in Oyotunji Village  
Michal Frank Wigal
2008
Kingsolver
Voices From the Past: The Use of Narratives and Material Cultures in Constructing Taino Identity in Puerto Rico  
Aaron G. Brummitt
2007
Wagner & King
The Sleepy Hollow Phase: Mississippian Emergence in the Middle Savannah Valley  
Emily L. K. Dale
 2007 
Wagner
The Red Lake Site (9SN4): A Middle Mississippian Mound Town in the Central Savannah River Valley  
Kelsey Brie-Anne Hanrahan
2007
Casey
Becoming A Wife: An Ethnoarchaeological Look at Food Processing and Kitchenspace in Northern Ghana  
Heather S. Trubee
2007
Heider
Displaying Identities: A Comparative Analysis of Material Culture in Northern Thailand’s Schools and Museums  
Ebonee D'Jaras White
2007
Leatherman
Dietary, Nutritional, and Health Disparities Among Women in Beaufort County, South Carolina  
Racine Marcus Brown
2006
Leatherman
The Political Ecology of Economic and Nutritional Change in a Bay Island Community  
Kimberly K. Cavanagh
2006
Heider
Serving Up the Imagined: An Image-Based Examination of the Bedouinization of Jordon’s National Identity  
Nicole M. Isenbarger
2006
Weik
POTTERS, HUCKSTERS, AND CONSUMERS: Placing Colonoware within the Internal Slave Economy Framework  
Shannon P. Kicza
2006
Cahue
External Auditory Exostoses at El Pantano (MA-9)  
Bridget McDonnall
2006
Heider
Seeing Refugee: The Representation of Somali in South Carolina  
Geraldine Nicole Thompson 
2006                   
 Kingsolver
Reclaiming Our “failures”: A Reflexive and Evaluative Look at a Participatory-Collaborative Ethnographic Study  
Melinda Eyvonne Hewlett
2006                       
Kasakoff
Creating Red Space: The Emotional Agency of American Indian Women Leaders  
Rebecca Ann Barrera
2005
Kelly
The Impact of Site Formation Processes, Method and Theory: Inter-site Comparisons of 16th Century Spanish Santa Elena and St. Augustine  
Melissa Diana Boling 
2005
Kelly
A Contextual Study of Expedient Glass Tool Use by European and African Americans at Late 18th-Early 20th Century Historic Sites in the Southeastern United States and Caribbean  
Jamie A. Civitello
2005
Wagner
Anthropogenic Landscapes at Spratt’s Bottom (38YK3), South Carolina  
Jakob David Crockett
2005
Kelly
Consumption and Identity: The Archaeological of a Nineteenth-Twentieth Century Urban, African American Neighborhood (38RD1083) in Columbia, South Carolina  
Lauren Michele Davis
2005
Kelly
The Enslaved African Experience in Guadeloupe, French West Indies: Material Culture Analyses of Assemblages from La Mahaudiere and Grande Pointe Habitations  
Michael H. Finewood   
2005
Kingsolver
They’re Taking Our Jobs: Representation of Latino Immigrants in the Carolinas  
Kristen E. G. Hudgins 
2005
Kingsolver
Prisoners in Our Own Homes: Latina Immigrants and Public Transportation Access in Columbia, South Carolina  
Geoffrey Ryan Hughes Hughes
2005                         
Ferguson
Salem Asleep: A Discoursive Archaeological of God’s Acre, 1771-1815  
Michele Anne Hughes 
2005
Ferguson
The Formation and Development of an Ideology of Racism in Salem, North Carolina: 1816-1859  
Sarah Kautz 
2005
Casey and Clement
The Late Ceramic Age and Protohistory in Tobago, West Indies: A Study in Critical Method and Theory  
Michael V. Nelson   
2005
Wagner & King
Understanding Lawton (38AL11): The Social and Political Functions and Occupational History of a Middle Mississippian Chiefdom Capital  
Joseph Jeremy Samolis
2005
Weik
Public Engagement at the Seibel’s House: Applied Archaeological Methodologies and Techniques in Columba, South Carolina  
Andrew Agha
2004
Ferguson
Searching for Cabins, Searching for Places: Locating the Living Areas at the James Stobo Plantation, Willtown Bluff, Charleston County, South Carolina  
Audrey R. Dawson 
2004
Kelly
Une Île du Sucre: Preliminary Investigations into the Economic Activities of the Inhabitants of Les Portlands, Anse-Bertrand, Guadeloupe, French West Indies  
Katrina Small Epps
2004   
Kelly
Intra-Regional Interaction in the Lowcountry of South Carolina  
Stephen Lenik
2004
Kelly
Historical Archaeological Approaches to Afro-Cruzan Identity at Estate Lower Bethlehem, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands  
Susan MacPeek
2004 
Cahue
Dental Crisis in the Tarascan Administrative Center of Urichu  
Grant Quertermous
2004
Weik
Trash Pit or Root Cellar: The Excavation and Analysis of a Feature in the Seibels House Detached Kitchen  
Margaret E. M. Tyler 
2004 
Kelly
The Schumann/Alexander House: Archaeological Investigations of 31FY1085  
Candace Vickery
2004                       
Kasakoff
Examining Levels of Activism Among Lesbians in Greenville, South Carolina  
Jennifer Wendeln
2004
Casey
Liquid Gold: Shea Butter, Globalization, and Rural Women’s Economy in Northern Ghana  
Christine Michelle Crabtree 
2003                       
Ferguson
Antebellum Slave Life on the Aiken Plateau  
Alison Mc Letchie
2003                        
Fenigsen &  Kingsolver 
Incidents of Douglarization: The Worship of La Divina Pastora in Trinidad  
Debra Miller Stayner
2003
Kasakoff
Redefining the ‘Middleman’: Local Production and Global Sales at a Balinese NGO  
Alexander Y. Sweeney
2003                         
Wagner
Investigating Yamasee Identity: Archaeological Research at Pocotaligo  
Bonnie Leigh Frick
2002                     
Ferguson 
The Distribution of Colonware in South Carolina  
Jennifer M. King
2002                   
Kingsolver
Agency, Ritual and Religious Experience: Temple Artwork and the Construction of Jewish Identity  
Mary Kosko 
2002                 
Leatherman & Kingsolver
Sustaining a Community Acequia Irrigation in Aldama, Chihuahua, Mexico  
Laura R. Liger
2002                   
Kingsolver
Set in Concrete: Placemaking and Identity Building for Latin American Immigrants in the Carolina Construction Industry  
David N. Lyon 
2002                 
Heider
Minangkabau Silek: habitus, Embodiment, and Cultural Reproduction Among Martial Artists in Buikttinggi, West Sumatra  
Jennifer Leigh Whetstone 
2002                 
Leatherman
Miso Soup and Support Groups: Macrobiotic Practice  
Linda Margaret Ziegenbein 
2002                       
Ferguson
Ties that Bind: Community Identity and Landscape in Moravian North Carolina  
Peggy Brunache 
2001 
Kelly
West African Landscapes and Material Culture: An Archaeological Investigation on Intrasite Variation at Savi, Benin  
Joshua Nicholas Fletcher
2001
Gero  
The Modification of Structure 11 at Yutopian  
Miriam Idell Goodrich
2001                     
Leatherman
Birth Practices Among South Carolina Mothers  
Susan Christine Taylor Langley   
2001                   
Leatherman & Kingsolver
Marginalization and Response: The Lingering Effects of the Kariba Dam Project in Zimbabwe  
Julie Michelle Schohn
2001                         
Wagner
A Lodge of Their Own: A Look at Vessel Function at a Possible Cofitachequi Women’s Lodge  
Catherine Leigh Shumpert 
2001                     
Ferguson
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Plantation Components on Parris Island, South Carolina  
Wesley Winston Joyner
2000 
Heider
Mending Fences and Setting Fires: Turkish Sufism in North Carolina  
Sara J. Morby   
2000 
Kelly
Pritchard’s Shipyard: A Landscape Analysis of South Carolina’s Largest Colonial and Antebellum Shipyard  
Neil Lindsey Norman
2000                          
Kelly 
Through the Medium of the Vessel: An Ethnoarchaeological Investigation of Ritual Earthenwares in Southern Benin, West Africa  
Erika Kristen Seeber
2000                 
Leatherman
Mama Worked Hard and I Don’t Even Grind Corn” Tourism and Change Among the Maya Women in the Yucatan  
Ashley E. Spaulding
2000                   
Kingsolver
Positioned Within “The Outside World”: The Cultural Construction of Gender in an Egalitarian Intentional Community  
William DuBose Stevens
2000                       
Rathbun
Analysis of the Skeletal Remains From 38CH1648: A Confederate Naval Cemetery  
Kerry Saige Barile
1999                       
Ferguson
Causes and Creations: Exploring the Relationship Between Nineteenth Century Slave Insurrections, Landscape and Architecture at Middleburg Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina  
Rachele D. Burruss   
1999
Casey
Searching for Children: An Ethnoarchaeological Study  
Amy Beth Borys Carrico
1999
Rathbun
Estimation of Sex and Ancestry in American Whites and Blacks using Permanent Tooth Crown Dimensions  
Ingrid Christensen 
1999                          
Adams
It’s So Much More Than Just A Slogan, or a Mark Drawn on my Hand”: An Ethnographic Analysis of Straight Edge  
Sara Elizabeth Palmer Gillies
1999                     
Ferguson
The South End of Church Street: Power and Landscape in an Antebellum African American Religious Community  
James Bourk Hoesterey
1999
Heider
Affective Allegiance: Emotions and Ethnicity Among Male Minanagkabau Out-Migrants in Indonesia  
Jennifer Lynn Trdan
1999                       
Rathbun
Estimation of Body Weight from Proximal Femur Measurement  
Suzanne Abel Coyle
1998                       
Rathbun
The Cranial Non-Metric Traits of Hierakonpolis, Egypt  
Sarah Evans Eargle
1998                         
Wagner
Mortuary Data as Indicators of Social Organization at the Incinerator Site (33My57)  
Jawaria Gilani
1998                 
Leatherman
Maternal Conceptions of Childhood Diarrhea: A Case Study in Faisalabad, Pakistan  
Chengdong Liu 
1998 
Heider
Only Children Go to School – An Ethnographic Study in a Chinese Primary School  
Andrea Karina Munzer
1998                   
Kingsolver
Heimat and Auslander: Selves and Others in the Construction of an Austrian Nationalist Identity Through the Communicate Practices of Jorg Haider and the Freedom Party Today  
Sean Patrick Norris
1998                       
Rathbun
Mandibular Ramus Height as an Indicator of Human Infant Age  
Kersten Bayt Priest
1998
Heider
Disharmony in the 11:00 a.m. worship hour: A Case Study of an Abandoned Interethnic Church Merger  
James Christopher Reed
1998                       
Rathbun
The Holladay Site: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of an Ossuary in Horry County, South Carolina  
Roland Meyer Sawatsky
1998
Casey
Kintampo Architecture  
John Bilema Beya
1997
Adams
African Spirituality in African American Religion: A Study of the Holy Temple of The Lord Jesus of the Apostolic Faith  
Wolf D. Bueschgen
1997                       
Rathbun
The Dental Anthropology of Hierakonpolis  
Bradd Wesley Bunce
1997                         
Rathbun
Relationship of the External Nasal Septum to the Underlying Bone Structure of the Face  
Rachel Anne Campo
1997
Gero
What’s in a Kitchen? The Early Formative Kitchen Food Production, and Women in Yutopian  
Susannah Crowell Stidhan 
1997
Leatherman
Adolescent Speech Phenomena and Identity Building in a Children’s Home Subculture  
Kristen Jean Wilson
1997                       
Rathbun
Biocultural Investigation of Late Archaic Stallings Culture  
Madeline C. Avedon
1996                       
Goodwin
It’s More Than Plane Talk: An Analysis of Service Encounters in an Island Airport  
Susan Denise Ball 
1996                       
Ferguson
Phone One Colonization: The Process of Reduction  
Monica Leigh Beck
1996                       
Ferguson
Servant to Chattel: African American Slaves and Their Masters on an Upcountry Plantation  
Patti L. Byra
1996                         
Wagner
The Contextual Meaning of the 1830s Landscape at Middleburg Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina  
Roberta Chase
1996                       
Goodwin
The Discourse of Singing: How Talk, Gesture, and Kinesthetics are Linked in the Learning of a Profession  
Dianne Lynn Chidester
1996 
Heider
Shouts of Joy: Egyptian-American Weddings in the Carolinas  
Mark D. Dawson
1996                       
Goodwin
The Development of Social Ties Among State Prison Inmates  
Natalie A. Greulich
1996                   
Maclachlan
Are There Gender Differences within the University of South Carolina’s Waste Management Culture?  
Monika T. Heise
1996                       
Goodwin
Middle Class “High Fashion”: Cognition and Gender in a Glamour Portrait Boutique  
Jason Kosove
1996                       
Rathbun
Classifying the Difference Perimortem and Postmortem Rib Fractures  
Theresa E. Leslie
1996
Rathbun
Problematics in Approach: An Analysis of Historic Health Patterns  
Jennifer Nelson-Weaver
1996                 
Leatherman
A Mommy Had Twelve Children… I’d be a Mad Woman!” Fertility Transition on Grand Turk Island, British West Indies  
Wendi Gayle O’Connor
1996                       
Rathbun
The Dimorphic Sesamoid: Differentiating the Patella of Females and Males by Height, Width, and Thickness Measurements  
Scott G. Sutton
1996                     
Ferguson
Symbolism and Archaeological Interpretations: A Case Study of Late Woodland Ceramics from the South Carolina Coast  
William B. Barr 
1995                       
Ferguson
Strawberry Ferry and Childsbury Towne: A Socio-Economic Enterprise on the Western Branch of the Cooper River, Saint John’s Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina  
Myles Curtis Perrin Bland
1995                         
Wagner
Late Archaic Plant Use at the Big Pine Tree Site (38AL143), Allendale County, South Carolina  
Jennifer R. Haas
1995                       
Rathbun
Mortuary Practices as Evidence for Inter-Regional Interaction and Culture on the Northeastern Plains During the Middle Woodland Period  
Jonathan K. Kalmey
1995                       
Rathbun
Skeletal Determination of Sex for Forensic Analysis by Discriminant Function Analysis of the Petrous Portion of the Temporal Bone  
Melissa Ann Lefko
1995                       
Goodwin
Learning to Say No: Conflict Negotiation Among Preschool Children at a Japanese Saturday School  
Kerry Lynn Ogata
1995                       
Ferguson
African American Women and Medicine: Expanding Interpretations of Colono Ware  
Darwin-Tamar Ramsey-Styer 
1995                         
Wagner
Seasonal Behavior at the Incinerator Site (33MY57), An A.D. 1250 Fort Ancient Site in Southwestern Ohio  
Cherry Johnson Sassaman 
1995                     
Ferguson
The Pious and the Prudent: An Analysis of Gender Variation in the Eighteenth-Century Tombstones of the South Carolina Low Country  
Rachel Boyd Saunders
1995                 
Leatherman
Lifestyles of the Poor and Homeless: Diet, Activity, and Attitudes of an Urban Homeless Community  
Virginia Morgan Steinhauer 
1995                       
Kasakoff
Mexican Migrant Workers in South Carolina and Georgia: Men, Women, and the Resiliency of Machismo  
Amy Patricia Dowe
1994                     
Ferguson
Finding the Children: An Archaeological Case Study from St. Phillips Morvarian Church and Parish Graveyard  
Patricia Harris
1994                     
Goodwin
If I Had a Ham::mer: Constructing A Vocal Illustrator for Aggressive Tasks  
Jordan Thomas Herron
1994                       
Ferguson
The Black Seminole Settlement Pattern, 1813-1842  
Cathryn M. Houghton
1994                       
Goodwin
The Politics of Representational Practice: Public Discourses of Private Enterprises  
Cynthia Joyce Miller
1994
Heider
The Social Impacts of Televised Media Among the Yucatec Maya  
Curtis E. Renoe
1994                     
Goodwin
Facts in Action: The expert Witness in Contemporary United States Legal Discourse  
Jeffrey Glenn Royal
1994
Green
A Regional Analysis of Sabellian Cultural Development: 800 – 44 BC  
Alessia Anne Sartorio
1994                       
Ferguson
The Path Least Traveled: Religion and Ritual as Interpretive Frameworks in African-American Archaeology  
Jennifer R. Schlegel 
1994                       
Goodwin
Kids at Work: Building Social Worlds on Playground Environments  
Caroline Charlotte Vinel
1994
Heider
The Creation of Social Space and Meaning in the Toraja Built Environment  
Jennifer Bleiholder
1993                         
Wagner
GIS and Archaeology: A Case Study in Southeastern Ireland  
Elizabeth L. Collins
1993                         
Wagner
Elements of Childbirth and Infant Care Among Native Americans of the Southeast  
Melissa Davis 
1993                       
Goodwin
Accounting for Newswork: Toward the Location of Culture in Professional Activity  
James R. Errante
1993                       
Ferguson
Waterscape Archaeology: A Survey for 18th Century Boat Landings at Middleburg Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina  
Valerie G. Marcil
1993                     
Ferguson
Continuity and Change: Colono Ware as a Coping Tool for African Americans  
Jill Quattlebaum
1993 
Green
The Role of High Cross in Early Christian Ireland: 8th to 11th Centuries  
Joerg T. Schmitz
1993               
Leatherman 
Health, Health Care Utilization, and Economic Transformation in a Yucatec Maya Community  
John Nichols Leith Smith
1993                       
Ferguson
The Identification and Evaluation of Use-Wear Signatures on Pottery Vessels: An Ethnoarchaeological Case Study from Eastern Zaire, Africa  
Kristopher R. Carambelas
1992
Gero
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Toolstone Extraction from Bedrock at Tosawihi Quarries, North Central, Nevada  
Marcus Fellbaum
1992
Green
The Development of Illustrations in North American Archaeology  
Robert Niels Taylor
1992
Ferguson
The Landscape of Alienation in Nineteenth Century Salem, North Carolina  
Matthew Williamson
1992
Rathbun
Mid-Facial Tissue Depths of African-American Children in Columbia, South Carolina and Augusta, Georgia  
Melanie Ann Cabak
1991
Ferguson
Inuit Women as Catalysts of Change: An Archaeological Study of 19th Century Northern Labor  
Peter J. Ferbel
1991
Gero
Reading Objects, Positioning Selves: Narratives of Material Culture and Social Identity as the Museum of Native American Resource Center, Pembroke, North Carolina  
William G. Green
1991
Ferguson
The Search for Altahmaha: The Archaeology of an Early 18th Century Yamasee Indian Town  
Mark D. Groover
1991
Ferguson
Of Minded and Material Culture: An Archaeological View of Continuity and Change in the 18th Century South Carolina Backcountry  
David A. McKivergan, Jr.
1991
Ferguson
Migration and Settlement Among the Yamasee in South Carolina  
Anna Mulcahey
1991                     
Goodyear
The Possible Archaeological Significance of Carolina Bays  
Natalie Paige Adams
1990                     
Ferguson 
Early African-American Domestic Architecture from Berkeley County, South Carolina  
Richard M. Affleck
1990
Ferguson
Power and Space: Settlement Pattern Change at Middleburg Plantation, Berkeley county, South Carolina  
Robin L. Burke
1990
Gero
The Llama Figurine in Andean Prehistory: Analysis of Llama Figurines from the Callejon de Huaylas, Peru  
Thomas A. J. Crist
1990
Rathbun
The Bone chemical Analysis and Bioarchaeology of an Historic South Carolina African-American Cemetery  
Mike W. Lindeman
1990
Goodyear
Late Paleo-Indian and Early Archaic Utilization of Two Quarry Sites in Allendale, South Carolina  
Ronald W. Anthony
1989
Ferguson
Cultural Diversity at Mid to Late 18th Century Lowcountry Plantation Slave Settlements  
Donnie B. Barker
1989
Goodyear
Investigation into the Thermal Alteration of Allendale Chert  
Kathleen M. Bolen
1989
Gero
Women, Gender and Prehistory: A Feminist Approach to the Linear Pottery Culture  
Bradford Botwick
1989
Gero
Underwater Historic Archaeological Sites in South Carolina: A Research Plan  
Cynthia Connor
1989
Ferguson
’Sleep On and Take Your Rest’: Black Mortuary Behavior on the East Branch of the Cooper River, South Carolina  
Rita B. Kenion
1989
Goodyear
A Functional Analysis of the Middle to Late Woodland Ceramic Assemblage of the G S Lewis-West Site  
Stephan H. Savage
1989
Green
A Geographic Information Systems Approach to the Late Archaic Landscape of the Savannah River Valley, Georgia and South Carolina  
Elaine Nichols
1988
Ferguson
No Easy Run to Freedom: Maroons in the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina and Virginia  
Charles J. Rinehart
1988
South
Cruxifiction and Medallions: Their Role at Fort Michilimackinac  
Alexander S. West
1988
Ferguson
Archaeology and Film: The Unequal Partnership  
David W. Babson
1987
Ferguson
The Tanner Road Settlement: The Archaeology of Racism on Limerick Plantation  
Gary R. Brewer
1987
Gero
Prehistoric Freshwater Sites in South Carolina: Anthropological Research Potential and Management  
Christopher Judge
1987
Green
Aboriginal Pottery Vessel Function in South Appalachian Mississippian Society: A Case Study from the Mulberry site (38KE12)  
Kimberly McCabe Grimes
1986
Gero
Dietary Choices at the Mulberry Mound Site, 1986  
Michael A. Harmon
1986
Ferguson
Cherokee Acculturation in Northwestern South Carolina  
Ruth Y. Wetmore
1986
Goodyear
The Snipper Creek Site (38RD18): A Study in Archaic Stage Change  
Benjamin Resnick
1984
Ferguson
The Archaeology, Architecture and History of the Williams Place: A Scotch-Irish Farmstead in the South Carolina Piedmont  
Paula A. Sutton
1984
Green
Soil Coring at the Luberry Mound Site, South Carolina: Determining Internal Site Structure and Content as a Basis for Cultural Interpretation  
Kenneth E. Sassaman
1983
Green
Middle and Late Archaic Statements in the South Carolina Piedmont  
Shelly Height
1982
Green
A Study of Contract Archaeology Problems: Difficulties in Producing Complete Research Results  
Carl Arthur Merry
1982
Ferguson
An Archaeological Boundary Model for the Mulberry Site  
Sharon Pekrul 
1982
Green
Striking the Balance Between Archaeological Research Goals and Public Education: A Case Study  
Harriet J (Hart) Smith
1982
Ferguson
Paleoethnobotany in the Wateree River Valley  
Kristen Lynn (Peters) Stevens
1982
Lewarch 
Remote Sensing for Historic Archaeological Applications  

 


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