Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Intergenerational Transmissions of Body Image and Eating Issues: an Analysis of Maternal and Interpersonal Socialization from College-Age Women, Elena Kae Cotter
Building Community Support: a Multi-scalar Archaeological Analysis of Sewage Infrastructure in Central Illinois, Anastasia Leigh Ervin
Migration and the Life Course: a Case Study of African Female International Graduate Students at Illinois State University., Vivian Yawson
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Let’s Talk about Sex ( Work ), Baby: Women College Students and Their Experiences Producing Online Sex Work, Courtney Lynn Ebersole
You Ca N’t Police Your Way out of these Problems: Disregarding the Structural Components of Community Problems, Kian Spencer Gaines
High-Risk Fertility Behaviors: Impact on Child and Risks of Maternal Mortality in Kenya, Mercy Chepkosgei Kiprop
The Social Construction of Sex Trafficking among Three Agencies Seeking To Address the Problem, Alexis Lange
Burned Beauty: Stories of How Black Women Burn Survivors Manage Their Trauma & Recovery, Bree McCall
Omnipotence and the Psyche: on a New Psychoanalysis, Dani Park
Class, Politics and Family Life: a Study of Progressive Working-Class Parenting, Elise Danielle West
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Cultural Exchange: Defining the Native American and African Slave Interaction at Rich Neck Plantation, Theartis R. Butler
Ani-Kitu Hwagi Center Places: a Study of Survivance, Tyler Michael Mantia
Steps towards Liberation for Low-Income Black Residents through Anti-racist and Counter-Racial Capitalist Community Development Practices, Natasha Moodie
A Study of the Impact of Covid-19 on Latinx College Students in the Midwest, Molly Erin Ricci
A Qualitative Inquiry of the Body Project on College Campuses in Illinois, Maria Ross
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
“Never Again Is Now ” Use of Cultural Frames in a Social Movement Organization, Erik Paul Carlson
Corruption and Coordination in Russia’s Economy, Peter Kalev Elias
Non-Violent Resistance Movements and Substantive Democracy, Jalal Fetrati
A Comparison of Financial and Residential Quality of Life by Housing Provision in Taiwan, Chia-Hang Hsu
The Value of an Anthropology Degree: Why Undergraduates Major in Anthropology and How It Prepares Them for Life after College, Maria Kitchin
The Effects of U.s. Fiscal Policy on Income Inequality ( 1913 – 2013 ), J.D. Lewis
Perceptions of Masculinity and Femininity in Online Dating Profiles of Men: Intersections with Race, Luke Alexander Ploessl
Aid Worker Burnout as Injury: Policy Implications for the Aid Sector, Melissa Lynn Quimby
The Significance of Significance: Decolonizing Cultural Resource Management Practices in the Upper Midwest, JUSTIN Allen WOODS
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Experiences from City Year: a Glimpse into the Complex Roles of Racially Diverse Americorps Members and What That Means for the Nonprofit Field, Orsolya Ficsor
Perceptions of a Small Midwestern Food Cooperative: a Case Study, Rebecca Forsythe
As Good as Woke? : Mutuality and Third Spaces in a Guatemalan Volunteer Tourism Organization, Hannah Gdalman
Managing Citizen Engagement: Local Leader Perspectives from a Midwestern Small City, Isabella B. Green
Men, Women and Witchcraft: the Feminist Reclamation of the Witch in the Modern Horror Film, Brian Joseph Hadsell
International Marriages: Culture, Identity Formation, Social and Historical Context, Alec Bryan Schaer
Human Social Services in Central Illinois: Making Sense of State Divestment and the State Budget Impasse, Erik William Zdansky
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Understanding Community: Microwear Analysis of Blades at the Mound House Site, Silas Levi Chapman
Yerba Mate: National Project to Emerging Superfood, Ana Fochesatto
Need Fulfillment and Happiness in Botswana, Carolyn Moe
Using County-Level Data To Illuminate the Economic and Working Conditions of Women in Agriculture, Raelynn Parmely
Sex, Drugs, and Rock-Lined Privies: an Analysis of Embossed Glass Health Product Bottles from Victorian-Era Brothel and Non-brothel Archaeological Sites by Socioeconomic Status, Erin Lynn Randolph
Broadening Our Understanding of Noble-Wieting: a Langford Tradition Village in Central Illinois, Kristin R. Travis
Nature, Identity, and Pastoralism: Changing Landscapes and Shifting Paradigms in the Mongolian Taiga, Jessica Vinson
"Is this Animal Going To Help or Will It Hurt? ” College Administrators’ Response to Requests for Emotional Support Animals on Campus, Rachel Wimberly
Chilled to the Bone: an Analysis on the Effects of Cold Temperatures and Weather Conditions Altering the Decomposition Process in Pig ( Sus Scrofa ) Remains, Katharine C. Woollen
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Pit Features: a View from Grand Island, Michigan, Emily R. Bartz
More than Just a Job: a Social Enterprise's Response to Homelessness, Molly Cook
Working Women: Agricultural Intensification, Osteoarthritis in Females, and Subadult Health in Illinois Woodland and Mississippian Mortuary Contexts, Paige M. Dobbins
You Have Seventy-Two Hours: How the City Complaint System Enables Criminalization of the Unsheltered Population, Lindsey Grace Earl
Is the Montessori Method a Solution To Improve Public Education? Comparing Two Pedagogical Models in Urban Schools, Iwona Beata Franczak
Bladelet Polish: a Lithic Analysis of Spracklen ( 33 Gr 1585 ), an Upland Hopewell Campsite, Tyler R. E. Heneghan
The Role of Dogs in Prehistoric Illinois: a Study of Dog Paleopathology at the Range Site in the American Bottom, Allison L. Huber
Time Does Not Heal all Wounds: Temporal Differences in Spinal Pathology among Pre-columbian Sites in West-Central Illinois, Abigail Peeples
Media Messages and Same-Sex Sexual Consent, Ryann Rooney
Mortuary Patterns in West-Central Tennessee: Contextualizing Historic Field Data from Nine Mississippian Period Sites, Brooke Adele Wamsley
Towards Queer Space: Bisexual Experiences and Imaginative Geographies, Jacklyn Weier
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Over the Ropes: Boundary Play in Professional Wrestling, Ethan Ingram
Activity Patterns and Division of Labor at a Southeastern Tennessee Late Mississippian Site: Toqua, Dustin Lloyd
Children in Trouble with the Law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Jennifer L. Swick
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Woodland Period Rockshelter Use in the Upper Great Lakes: a Multiscalar Perspective from Grand Island, Michigan, Kelsey Hanson
Spatial Organization of Lithic Technology at the Mather-Klauer Lodge Site: a Terminal Woodland Occupation on Grand Island, Michigan, Andrew L. Mallo
Unpacking Empowerment Discourse within a Women's Reentry Organization, Amanda Nicole Miller
Disparities in Moldovan Place-Identity a Product of Systemic Stratification, Robyn Savacool
“Sparks Fly ”: Connecting Midwestern Historic Forts through a Comparative Study of Gunflints, Jeffrey A. Spanbauer
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Empowerment through Transformations in Agency-Influence of Self Help Groups on Women's Empowerment in Rural Nepal, Shikshya Adhikari
Subsistence Strategies in the Upper Illinois River Valley: the Kuhne Site Case Study, Autumn Beyer
Expect the Unexpected: an Autoethnography of Typhoon"Yolanda"( Haiyan ), Ashley Conrad
Cherokee Community Coalescence in East Tennessee, Melissa Frederick
Resistance, the Church, and a Comparison of Ceramics from Sixteenth-Century Caluco, El Salvador, Alison Denise Hodges
Reconceptualizing Markets: Hip- Hop Artists, Marketing, Distribution, and Consumers, Ronald Pikes
Life Is Calling ... How Far Will You Go ... Back in the Closet? Identity Negotiation and Management among Queer, Peace Corps Volunteers, Kate Elizabeth Slisz
The Entry into Adulthood for Young Adult Cancer Survivors, Katie Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Implications of Vertebral Degenative Disease and Vertebral Ligamentous Ossification in Native Populations of the Lower Tennessee River Valley, Sarah Ann Boncal
A Call to Action: Examining the Experiences of American Red Cross Disaster Services Volunteers, Nichole M. Brants
In Search of Ubuntu: an Examination of Enslaved African Domestic and Labor Environments on St. Eustatius, Deanna Lynn Byrd
The Effects of Cold Adaptation on the Growth and Development of the Neandertal Cranial Base, Sarah Caldwell
Social Forms and Culture within Miller Park, Andrew R. Griffin
Working Class Women, Body Image Resiliency, and Media Depictions of the Female Body, Emily K. Healy
The Etiology of the Horizontal-Oval Mandibular Foramen and a Reassessment of Its Usefulness for Paleoanthropological Studies, Katherine Marie Lacy
Coming Home Hybrid: Returned Sojourner Identity in Everyday Life, Jon Benjamin McNair
Citizens Without a Nation: The Construction of Haitian Illegality and Deportability in The Dominican Republic, Saha Miranda
A Comparative Study of Upper Limb Mechanical Stress in the Pre-colombian Tennessee River Valley, Deborah Lyn Neidich
Identifying the Visible: a Look at How Economic Class and Ethnicity Influence Women's Visibility within a Household, Cori Elise Rich
Social Capital and Relational Work: Uncertainty, Distrust, and Support in Azerbaijan, Dustin S. Stoltz
A Sequence of French Vernacular Architectural Design and Construction Methods in Colonial North America, 1690 -- 1850, Wade Terrell Tharp
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Bundle Burials in the Middle and Late Woodland Periods: Mortuary Practice as a Reflection of Settlement Organiztion and Social Identity, Jessica Leigh Albrecht
Gender Transformation at the Grassroots: A Gender and Development Program from the Practitioners' Perspective, Tyler Curtis
An Archaeological and Historical Search for German Ethnicity at the Janis-Ziegler Site ( 23 Sg 272 ), Lisa Marie Dretske
Agency at Hacienda Pancota: Early Colonial Daily Consumption of a Contested Age and Material Culture, Collin Roderick Gillenwater
The Function of a Middle Woodland Site in the Central Illinois Valley: a Ceramic Study of Ogden-Fettie, Montana L. Martin
Citizens without a Nation: the Construction of Haitian Illegality and Deportability in the Dominican Republic, Sasha Miranda
Good Hair, Bad Hair, Dominican Hair, Haitian Hair, Katie E. Saunders
Social Capital And Relational Work: Uncertainty, Distrust And Social Support In Azerbaijan, Dustin Samuel Stoltz
An Examination of Dietary Differences between French and British Households of Post-conquest Canada, Kristen Walczesky
Identifying with the Help: an Examination of Class, Ethnicity and Gender on a Post-colonial French Houselot, Erin Nicole Whitson
Submissions from 2012
Uplift and Blame: Minority Parents in the Discourse of Professional Educators, Katie Mitchell
Closures and Consolidation: Schools, Farms, and Population Decline in Rural Illinois, Eric Porter
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Health and Disease on Hiwassee Island: A Study of Late-Mississippian Human Remains, Cassandra Pardo
Married and Cohabiting Men's Extra-Dyadic Relationships in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing Two Health Behavior Models, Jared L. Ulschmid
Strong Ties and Strong Influences: Social Networks and HIV Prevention, Nicole M. Wengerd