The following is a list of dissertations that have been submitted since 2007. Electronic versions of many recent dissertations can be found in Brown University's Digital Repository.
2024:
Emily Booker
Contextual Clay Bodies: Figurine Use and Meaning in Late Bronze Age Cyprus
Rachel Kalisher
A Bioarchaeological Study of House Kinship at Bronze Age Megiddo
Anna Soifer
Landscapes of Practice and Community in 7th-4th c. BCE Etruria: Lived Experiences of Ceramic and Metal Production
2022:
Daniel Plekhov
Terraced Landscapes: The Historical Ecology of Agricultural Infrastructure
2021:
Alex Marko
The Archaeology of Roman Hourly Timekeeping
Miriam Rothenberg
Community and Corrosion: A Contemporary Archaeology of Montserrat’s Volcanic Crisis in Long-Term Comparative Perspective
2020:
Laurel Darcy Hackley
Social Landscapes of the Egyptian Deserts, 3000-1100 BCE
2019:
Jennifer Thum
Words in the Landscape: The Mechanics of Egyptian Royal Living-Rock Stelae
2018:
Ian Randall
Setting an Insular Table: Pottery, Identity, and Connectivity on Crete and Cyprus at the End of Antiquity
Catherine Steidl
Community Formation in Iron Age Ionia: Experience and Practice in Comparative Perspective
2017:
J. Andrew Dufton
Works in Progress: Regional Trends and Grassroots Developments in the Cities of Roman North Africa
Pinar Durgun
Mortuary Places, Rituals, and Memories: Anatolian Cemeteries in Context
Kathryn McBride
The Social Life of Coins: Local Reactions to Roman Imperialism beyond the Frontier
2016:
Emanuela Bocancea
Ad Fines Imperii: The Roman Army in Dacia and Arabia (2nd-3rd centuries CE)
Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver
Experiencing the Hittite Empire in Its Borderlands
Linda Gosner
Mining Matters: Rural Communities and Industrial Landscapes in Roman Iberia (3rd century BCE-2nd century CE)
Katherine Harrington
Home Economics: Domestic Production and Household Industry in Classical and Hellenistic Greece
Jessica Nowlin
Reorienting Orientalization: Intrasite Networks of Value and Consumption in Central Italy
Clive Vella
The Diminishing Collective: Inequality and Social Complexity in Later Central Mediterranean Prehistory
2015:
Sarah Craft
Pilgrimage Pragmatics: Travel Infrastructure, Movement, and Connectivity in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Cilicia
Alexander Smith
Indigeneity and Colonial Response: The Metamorphoses of Balearic Culture in the Late Iron Age
2014:
Claudia Moser
Material Witnesses: The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium and the Memory of Sacrifice
Elizabeth Murphy
Roman Workplaces, Work Practice, and Working Lives: A Multi-Scalar Socio-Economic Study of Ceramic Production in the Eastern Mediterranean
2013:
Alex Knodell
Small World Networks and Mediterranean Dynamics in the Euboean Gulf: An Archaeology of Complexity in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece
Thomas P. Leppard
The Logics of Island Life: The Archaeology of Movement, Distance, and Settlement in the Neolithic Aegean and Ceramic Age Lesser Antilles
Jason Urbanus
Settlement and Space in a Provincial Landscape: The Roman Conquest of Northwest Iberia and Its Effects on the Castros Culture
2012:
Lyra Monteiro
Racializing the Ancient World: Ancestry and Identity in the Early United States
Bradley Sekedat
Large Polities and Small Quarries: Local Resources and Imperial Governance in Roman Asia Minor
Carolyn Swan
In Flux: Glass, Technology, and the Glassmaking Industry of the Middle Byzantine and Early Islamic Eastern Mediterranean -- The Archaeology and Archaeometry of a High-Temperature Craft
2011:
Cecilia Feldman Weiss
Living Fluidly: The Uses and Meanings of Water in Asia Minor (2nd century BCE- 2nd century CE)
2010:
Sarah Dawson
Social Memory and Fifth Century Coinage
Kate Marino
Setting the Womb in Its Place: Toward a Contextual Archaeology of Graeco-Egyptian Uterine Amulets
2009:
Lisa Anderson
The Roman Military Community as Expressed in Its Burial Customs During the 1st-3rd Centuries CE
Christopher Tuttle
The Nabataean Coroplastic Arts: A New Approach for Studying Figurines, Plaques, Vessels, and Other Clay Objects
2007:
Crispin Corrado Goulet
A Study of Deity Assimilation in Sculptural Representations of Male Children from the Roman Imperial Era
Michael Zimmerman
The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery from the Village (Field I) at ‘Iraq al-Amir: A Typological Study