Dissertations from 2023
Fighting the Illicit Antiquities "Artworld": A Critical Approach to the Heritage Laws of Guatemala, Irene Marti Gil
Theses from 2022
Analysis of Briquetage (Brine-Boiling Pots) at Paynes Creek Salt Works: Implications for Classic Maya Salt Production, Rianna Bowen
Snapshots of Coastal Ecology During Glacial and Deglacial Intervals: A Multiproxy Assessment of Northern Gulf of Mexico Sediment Cores, Kendall Emilie Brome
SHOCKING: USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES TO NOWCAST LIGHTNING STRIKES FROM STATION LEVEL DATA, Michael D. Broussard
Creating a Public Space for Georeferencing Sanborn Maps: A Louisiana Case Study, Adam Cox
Musculoskeletal Markers: A Comparison Of The Influence Of Three Biological Factors On Robusticity, Megan Greene
The Effects of Burial Practices on the Preservation of Bioarchaeological Remains from Caddo Sites in Northwestern Louisiana, Riley Kloostra
Places to live: a multidisciplinary approach to Modern Maya Houses in Yucatan, Mexico, Virginia J. Ochoa-Winemiller
Analysis of Spindle Whorls and Fishing Weights from the Ancient Maya Trading Port of Moho Cay, Belize, Kaitlin Samples
Unmarked Human Burial Site Policy in Louisiana: Pre-Columbian Context and Community Perspectives, Sadie M. Schoeffler
GIS Automated Delineation and Analysis of Cancer Service Areas in the United States, Changzhen Wang
Assessing the Effect Time and Burial Environment have on the Use of the Lamendin Dental Age Estimation Method in Two Archaeological Samples from Jordan, Sabrina L. Williamson
Theses from 2021
Using the Seventh Rib Length and Depth Measurements as a Method to Estimate Ancestry and Sex in Adults, Alexandria M. Amaki
The Effects of Extreme Weather on Departure Delays at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport 2004–2019, Ashlee Autore
EXAMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF “TURN AROUND DON’T DROWN”, Chance D. Bryant
The Ancient Occupation of Nivin, Casma, Peru: Co-Creating Heritage in Andean Archaeology, Elizabeth Cruzado
Environmental Perception in Colombia's Páramo Protected Areas, Juliana Delgado
What the Shell? The Zooarchaeology of Cerro San Isidro, Peru, Monica Fenton
Sea-level Rise and Settlement at Ta’ab Nuk Na, Belize: Analyses of Marine Sediment From the I-line, 4m Transect, Conner B. Flynt
"Airbnb Go Home:" Tourism Frictions and Short-Term Rentals in New Orleans, Madeline R. Fussell
Assessing the Validity of the Estimation of Population Affinity From the Maxillary Hard Palate: An Empirical Approach Using a Modern Forensic Sample, Christopher M. Goden
"The Face of the Agency": Interviews with Death Investigators in South Louisiana, Natalie H. King
Ancient Pottery Making at Cerro San Isidro, Nepeña Valley, Peru, Kaitlyn M. Lowrance
A Geospatial and Statistical Analysis of Dropout in Louisiana Public High Schools, Michael D. Stein
The Bioarchaeology of the Lake St. Agnes Mound (16AV26) Site: Exploring Diet from Fragmentary Remains, Kenneth Tremblay
Non-destructive Trace Element Analysis of Burials from Moho Cay, Belize, April Alyce Walton
Reconstructing the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in Northern Peru: Perspectives from Donax Obsulus Geochemistry and Archaeomalacology, Jacob Pate Warner
Dissertations from 2020
Talking About the Weather: Impacts of Tornado Stories on Memory and Identity, Ashley L. Allen
Estimation of Age From the Auricular Surface of the Ilium Through the Utilization of 3D Scanning and GIS, Krista Bennett
Southwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Frequency and Intensity Related to Observed and Modeled Geophysical and Aerosol Variables, Rupsa Bhowmick
Not All Fun And Gaymes: Technology, Transgression, and Representation Among Gaymers, Kyle Bikowski
Moche Juvenile Burial Patterns, Audrey J. DeLuca
Reconsidering the Obstetrical Dilemma: Correlations Between Head and Pelvic Size, Kelsey Catrice Fox
Typing Tornadoes by Storm Mode in the Southeast United States, Marisa R. Karpinski
Automatic Features Extraction From Time Series Of Passive Microwave Images For Snowmelt Detection Using Deep-Learning – A Bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory Autoencoder (Bi-Lstm-Ae) Approach., Bienvenu Sedin Massamba
Changing Geographies of Flood Mitigation Policies: A Case Study of Central, Louisiana, Ria Mukerji
Accessibility of HIV Testing in Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area, Alina Prigozhina
Parque Céspedes in Post-revolutionary Santiago de Cuba: The Construction of Tourist and Local Intersections, Xiaolei Qiu
Field Investigation on Point Bar Dynamics and Planform Evolution in Meandering Rivers, Taylor Rowley
An Atmospheric and Spatiotemporal Examination of Lightning-Initiated Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes Detected by the Fermi Satellite and TETRA II, Deirdre Colleen Smith
Using Spatial Analysis and Machine Learning Techniques to Develop a Comprehensive Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Consolidation Model, Samira Soleimani
Analyzing Climate Risk to Maritime Cypress Swamps and Pine Savannas of the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain, Clay Stephens Tucker
Theses from 2019
Sacroiliac Joint Fusion in Nulliparous and Parous Females and Males, Meredith Aulds
Estimating Sex Using the Human Mandibular Canine, Brittney Blevins
Hourly Precipitation Climatology of the Southeast United States, Vincent Brown
Monumental Discourse: Elite and Grassroots Disputes Over White Supremacist Monuments in New Orleans, Jude Bumgardner
The Importance of Landscape Position Information and Elevation Uncertainty for Barrier Island Habitat Mapping and Modeling, Nicholas Matthew Enwright
Climatology, Variability, and Return Periods of Tropical Cyclone Strikes in the Northeastern and Central Pacific Basins, Nicholas S. Grondin
The Garbage That We Eat: Metabolizing Food-Waste in New Orleans, Louisiana, Kelly L. Haggerty
Deciphering Public Transit Ridership in Baton Rouge: Spatial Disaggregation Approaches, Xuan Kuai
"Sir, I Cannot Entertain You": Tour Guides as Agents of Truth and Transformation at the Whitney Plantation, Sarah Latham
Analyzing the Population Density Pattern in China with a GIS-Automated Regionalization Method: Hu Line Revisited, Cuiling Liu
Using Entheseal Length to Infer Locomotor Type, Antonio R. Otero
The Effects of Forced Migration on the Houma of Louisiana, Jessica R. Parfait
A Retrospective Analysis and Method Validation of Postmortem Interval Estimation in Louisiana, Sophia Reck
Downscaling SMAP Soil Moisture Data Using MODIS Data, Le Tu
Mapping Soil Moisture from Remotely Sensed and In-situ Data with Statistical Methods, Yaping Xu
Theses from 2018
Evolution of the Maximum Upper Level Divergence Field in Gulf-Atlantic Tropical Cyclogenesis, Sara A. Ates
Providing Information and Public Outreach Across Three U.S. State Archaeology Offices During the Age of Open Access, Samuel Thomas Ayers
A Climatology of Precipitation Days Throughout the Continguous United States, Rudy J. Bartels
Madden-Julian Oscillation Relationships with Cool Season Cyclogenesis, Daily Precipitation, and Cool Season Severe Weather Frequencies in the Gulf of Mexico Region, Stephen Paul Caparotta
An Index for Measuring Community Resilience to Flooding in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Yi Ling Chan
Using Deep Learning to Forecast Spatiotemporal Crime Patterns, Shuzhan Fan
Dew Point Variability in the Southeast United States with an Emphasis on Extremes from 1956-2016, Robert Clifton Gauthreaux III
Natural Resources-Based Conflicts in Coastal Louisiana: A Multi-faceted Social and Ecological Setting, Audrey Grismore
"If You Stand On This Corner, People Know What You're About": Powerful Geographies Of Airline & Goodwood in #JusticeForAlton, Shannon Kathleen Groll
Metacarpal Ratio and Its Relation to Sexual Dimorphism in Primates with Different Mating Strategies, Emilee Hart
An Evaluation of the Utility of a Mass-Weighted Frequency Distribution of Sediment for Modeling Aeolian Transport Rates, Raihan Jamil
Landscapes of Persistence and Ritual Architecture at the Cosma Complex, Upper Nepeña Valley, Peru., Kimberly Elizabeth Munro
Understanding “Southern” Identities and Confederate Iconography: Internal Orientalism, (mis)Representation, and Social Media, Robert W. Perham
Three-Dimensional Flow, Morphologic Change, and Sediment Deposition and Distribution of Actively Evolving Neck Cutoffs Located on the White River, Arkansas, Derek Allen Richards
Linguistic Political Ecology with the Ngäbe Indigenous People of Panama, Ginés A. Sánchez Arias
Construction of a Tropical Cyclone Size Dataset using Retroactive Analysis Data with a Damage Application, Derek Trent Thompson
A Novel Multiproxy Approach to Reconstructing Sea Surface Temperature in the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico, Marissa Anne Vara
The Urban Archaeological Supersite Paradigm: Integrating Archaeology and HGIS into Heritage Management, Andrea P. White
Theses from 2017
Examining Limestone Use at Byrd Hammock South (8WA30), Wakulla County, FL, Lucie R. Berryhill
Non-Metric Cranial Differentiation Between Asian and Native American Populations for Ancestry Assessment, Dominique Marie Bodoh
Reading Between the Vines: Analyzing Climate Change Adaptive Capacity in the Tulbagh Valley Wine Industry, South Africa, Jana Catherine Brady
Impacts of Particulate Matter on Gulf of Mexico Tropical Cyclones, wenjia cao
Impacts of ENSO on Tornado Frequency, Intensity, and Geography Across the Eastern United States, Coryn Ann Collins
Evidence of Sea-level Rise Shown From Analysis of Marine Sediment at Five Underwater Sites at The Paynes Creek Salt Works, Belize, Kurt Daniel Dilores
Human-Environment Interactions: Sea-Level Rise and Marine Resource Use at Eleanor Betty, an Underwater Maya Salt Work, Belize, Valerie Renae Feathers
Brazilian Surface and Upper-level Wind Characteristics Based on Ground and Model Observations from 1980–2014, Joshua M. Gilliland
Producing "Fabulous": Commodification and Ethnicity in Hair Braiding Salons, Sylviane Ngandu-Kalenga Greensword
Digital Osteology: 3D Surface Scanning the Os Coxa, Victoria Harrington
Composting the Garden: Hybrid Geographies of Baton Rouge Urban Gardens, Lauren Hull
Crime analysis in the city of baton rouge and BREC park based on crime location quotient and hotspot method, Anliu Jiang
Ancient Maya Obsidian Trade: Arvin's Landing and Foster Farm, Belize, Kelsey Paige Johnson
Elephants, Local Livelihoods, and Landscape Change in Tsavo, Kenya., Peter Ngugi Kamau
Ports Resilience Index: Participatory Methods to Assess Resilience, Lauren L. Morris
A comparative study of the effects of river flow rates on decomposition, Maddisen Paige Neuman
Feasting in Florida: Evidence of Swift Creek Ceremonial Feasting and Multi-Group Interactions at Byrd Hammock South (8WA30), Wakulla County, FL, Joseph Michael O'Keefe