Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Doctoral Dissertations

View doctoral dissertations in Archaeology and the Ancient World submitted since 2007.

2024

  • Emily BookerContextual Clay Bodies: Figurine Use and Meaning in Late Bronze Age Cyprus
  • Rachel KalisherA Bioarchaeological Study of House Kinship at Bronze Age Megiddo
  • Anna SoiferLandscapes 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