Theses from 2013
Backpacker selves in a hostel: discourse, identity, and existential authenticity, Emley Kerry
On human biological diversity : variation in sexual dimorphism of the skull between African-Americans and European-Americans, Amanda Grace Kittoe
Palate shape and depth : a shape matching and machine learning method for assessment of ancestry from skeletal remains, Christopher Allan Maier
Emergent irrigation agriculture and settlement patterns in the lower Nepeña Valley, north-central coast of Peru, Caitlyn Yoshiko McNabb
All-women's flat track roller derby : gender, psychoanalysis, and meaning, Matthew Newsom
Constructing geographic areas for homicide research : a case study of New Orleans, Lawrence Keenan Robert
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Ancient Maya Wood Selection and Forest Exploitation at the Paynes Creek Salt Works, Belize, Mark Edward Robinson
Invisible Architecture: Underwater Excavation of Site 77, Paynes Creek National Park, Belize, Tekla Chantae Rudie
Underwater Excavations of Two Ancient Maya Salt Works, Paynes Creek National Park, Belize, Elizabeth Cory Sills
Effect of atmospheric boundary layer conditions on agricultural spray drift, William Tollefson
A case history of use and management of the Baton Rouge fresh water aquifer system, A. Hays Town, Jr.
Theses from 2012
An analysis of tropical storm surge trends for the Atlantic coast of the United States, Stephen Beckage
Investigations at the Toncrey Site (16PL7): Analysis of a Late Prehistoric Site in Extreme Southern Louisiana, Rebecca Muriel Brown
Drought in Georgia: water scarcity issues and implications, Samantha Kay Chaisson
Late formative plant use and diet at Caylán (Peru) as seen through the analysis of macrobotanical remains and human feces, Beverly Marie Clement
Oysters and catfish: resource exploitation at Rollins Shell Ring, Ft. George Island, Florida, Julie Ann Doucet
The potential of the angle of the first rib, head to tubercle, in sexing adult individuals in forensic contexts, Paige Whitney Elrod
Out of Site but Not Out of Mind: Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes on the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf, Amanda M. Evans
Physical processes and drivers on landscapes in coastal Louisiana and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Mandy Michelle Green
Urban population density and environmental quality in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: a geo-statistical analysis, Myrtho Joseph
"Condoms and Candy": Pro-choice Students on Campus, Jordan Rebecca Kea
Effect of embalming on the decomposition of pigs, Michael Anne Keaton
An object-based image analysis approach for detecting urban impervious surfaces, Amit Kulkarni
Constructing wilderness: the nexus of preservation and ocean-space in the United States, Ryan Orgera
"Crappy New Year": evaluation, stance and drinking stories, Martin Edward Pfeiffer
Understanding public perceptions of global warming, Wanyun Shao
Salt of the Maya: Evidence of Prehispanic Salt Production and Architectural Function at the Eleanor Betty Site, Paynes Creek National Park, Belize, Tamara L. Spann
Mechanisms of urban influence on precipitation in the southeastern United States: precipitation enhancement, storm bifurcation, and synoptic characteristics, Anna Marie Trevino
Modeling population patterns in New Orleans 2000-2010: a density function approach, Weijie Wang
A discourse on geospatial technology applications in predictive analytics and evidence-based decision support for disaster research and management, Steven Matthew Ward
Identification of blood protein in Louisiana clay sediment: subtitle, Michelle D. Whipp
Accessibility to public high schools and school performance in metropolitan Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1990-2010, Shaun E. Williams
A city and its river: an urban political ecology of the Loop and Bridgeport in Chicago, Garrett Charles Wolf
Designing pots: determining Orange Incised design variation and distribution at the Rollins Shell Ring site and the Guana Shell Ring site in Florida, Margaret Kathryn Wrenn
GIS-based spatial analysis of place names in Yunnan, China, Ling Zhang
Dissertations from 2011
An agent-based simulation model for business reopenings in New Orleans post Hurricane Katrina, Helbert Arenas
An assessment of atmospheric factors impacting tropospheric ozone in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana non-attainment zone, Andrew Douglas Augustine
Fatalities due to Hurricane Katrina's impacts in Louisiana, Ezra Clay-Kelly Boyd
A contour tree based spatio-temporal data model for oceanographic applications, Yuliang Chen
The Lower Ninth Ward: resistance, recovery, and renewal, Alexandra Giancarlo
"We live in a used world": cultural geographies of American garage sales, Gentry Powell Hanks
Social Life and Ancient Andean Public Landscapes: Actions and Performances as Seen Through the Use of a 1st Millennium BCE Plaza at Caylán, Peru, Matthew Ryan Helmer
Animal scavengers as agents of decomposition: the postmortem succession of Louisiana wildlife, Audra Leigh Jones
Decomposition rates in tobacco and hay barns in Kentucky, Valerie Kauffeld
Impact of embalming and burial on decomposition rates and diffusion of volatile fatty acids in Kentucky, Bonnie Charlana McQuinn
Transnational spaces and communal land tenure in a Caribbean place: "Barbuda is for Barbudans", Amy E. Potter
Analysis of Marine Sediment of Prehispanic Maya Saltworks 24 and 35 in Paynes Creek National Park, Southern Belize, Roberto Rosado Ramirez
Landscape, mobilities, and performance: an autoethnographic and visual engagement with public protests in Washington, DC, Paul Ronald Watts
Large-scale influences on tropical cyclogenesis for selected storms in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Jinwoong Yoo
Dissertations from 2010
Land use, individual attributes, and travel behavior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Anzhelika Antipova
Further investigations into the King George Island Mounds site (16LV22), Harry Gene Brignac Jr
Waging word wars: a discourse analysis of the patterns of Norse masculinity presented through mannjafnaor in the Icelandic sagas, Jonathan Mark Broussard
Ancestral determination from foramen magnum, Stephanie Marie Crider
Mapping the digital divide in neighborhoods: Wi-Fi access in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Luke Driskell
Revitalizing the suburban dream: disaster, displacement and resilience in Eastern Orleans Parish, Meredith Morgan Feike
Artisanal whaling in the Atlantic: a comparative study of culture, conflict, and conservation in St. Vincent and the Faroe Islands, Russell Fielding
Head shaping of the ancient Maya at Wild Cane Cay and Moho Cay, Belize, Kellye Alyse French
Changing perceptions of archaeology in post-Katrina New Orleans: a geographic information perspective, David Patrick Harlan
Synoptic circulation of the North American Monsoon System and precipitation within the Lower Colorado River Basin, Jessie Frances McCann
In sickness and in health: experiencing medical spaces in Mbarara (Uganda), Kara E. Miller
The power struggle between Americans and Creoles in the first half of the nineteenth century and its influence on the architecture of New Orleans, Sylvia Starns Mince
Identifying historic storm surges and calculating storm surge return periods for the Gulf of Mexico coast, Hal Needham
Using Algae to Estimate Postmortem Submersion Interval in a Louisiana Bayou, Sophia Renke
Dry event trends and frequencies in the south central United States, Michael Roberts
Mixed-race ancestry and its impact on the facial reconstruction process, Jermaine Carl Robinson
"It's not just about the buildings, it's about the people": architecture practice, and preservation in post-Katrina New Orleans, Bethany W. Rogers
Regional narratives, hidden maps, and storied places: cultural cartographies of the Cariri region, Northeast Brazil, Jorn Seemann
Demography, health status, and mortuary rituals of the late Woodland Poole-Rose ossuary, Ontario, Canada: a study of the clavicles, Nicole Elizabeth Smith
Designing Irishness: ethnicity, heritage, and imagined connection to place through language, Thomas James Sullivan
Theses from 2009
Putting a face on prehistory: reconstructing Late-Mississippian faces, Alicia Canfield
A sense of community and community change: an ethnographic study of a contemporary Louisiana juke joint as it compares to historical literature on the subject, Kristopher Ian Debnam
Crop coefficients for cotton in northeastern Louisiana, Sean Allen Hribal
Sediment records of modern and prehistoric hurricane strikes in Weeks Bay, Alabama, Yun Huang
People, sheep, and landscape change in colonial Mexico: the sixteenth-century transformation of the Valle del Mezquital, Richard Hunter
Essays on the integration of anisotropic landscapes within contemporary geographic profiling models, Joshua D. Kent
An Integrated Agent-Based Microsimulation Model for Hurricane Evacuation in New Orleans, Wei Liang
Moving over mountains: a woman on the Appalachian Trail, Jessica Susan Matthews
Atlantic tropical cyclone: climatology and the contribution to monthly and seasonal rainfall in the eastern U.S. 1960-2007, Ricardo Chabarria Nogueira
A taphonomic model of concealment: decomposition and the postmortem interval (PMI) in a 55-gallon barrel, Lauren Rebecca Pharr
Why the old traditions will not fail: landscape, legends, and the construction of place at Dartmouth College, Charles H. Wade
Estimating age at death by examining the crystallite size of hydroxylapatite in human teeth, Teresa Veronica Wilson
Dissertations from 2008
Medical geography in public health and tropical medicine: case studies from Brazil, William Brennan Arden
Evidence of pulmonary disease in the Poole-Rose Ossuary population: an analysis of the ribs, Lisa Elaine Baumer
An analysis of marine protected areas legislation in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles, Barry James Bleichner
Can we estimate stature from the scapula? A test considering sex and ancestry, Rachel Marie Burke
The Madden-Julian Oscillation and tropical cyclone frequency variability, Stephen Caparotta
Africanisms and cultural modifications: a study at Southall Quarter, Williamsburg, Virginia, Jessie Chaiya Cohen
Survey of forensically-important Calliphoridae in Kingston and St. Andrew, Jamaica, West Indies, Wayne Anthony Cranston
A trinity of beliefs and a unity of the sacred: modern Vodou practices in New Orleans, Elizabeth Thomas Crocker
Creating a blues playground: a comparison of Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, and Farish Street in Jackson, Mississippi, Sandor Gulyas
Paleoecology and paleotempestology of the Pascagoula Marsh, Mississippi, Jennifer Hellean Hathorn
A Genetic Bayesian Approach for Texture-Aided Urban Land-Use/Land-Cover Classification, Wenxue Ju
A 5000-year history of Caribbean environmental change and hurricane activity reconstructed from coastal lake sediments of the West Indies, Jason Thomas Knowles
Databasing the disappeared and deceased: a review of the resources available in missing and unidentified persons cases, Erin McMenamin
Effects of handedness on the skull and shoulder bones, Michelle Lynn Osborn