Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Recent Senior Honors Theses

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Undergraduate students concentrating in Archaeology and the Ancient World with Honors are required to produce a senior thesis.

Here is a list of theses that have been submitted in recent years:

Adam Savat
Non-Elite Mastery of Etruscan Sacred Space: A Phenomenological Approach

Sara Al-Rabiah
Saudi Arabia’s ‘New’ Ancient Past
Zhiping Ding
PESTILENTIAE EVRASIAE ANNIS ANTONINI JIANANIQVE: Eurasian-Scale Pestilences in the Antonine and Jianan Periods: The Antonine Plague, the Han Chinese outbreaks, the inter-continental trade routes, and the Sino-Romano Climate Optimum
Sam Kimball
Breaking Laws and Burning Bridges: A DIY Contemporary Archaeology of the East Side Railroad Tunnel and Crook Point Bascule Bridge

Ingrid Mader
Identity and Indigeneity in Latin America: Considerations for Ethical Ancient DNA Research
Kelley Tackett
Constructed Pasts and the Contested Present in Petra Archaeological Park

Michael Garth
An Archaeological Experiment on the Effects of Excavation Techniques on DNA Contamination
Emily McCarthy
Social Organization in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Nuragic Communities: An Examination of Elite Activity at Class III Sites

Rhea Stark
Persia and the Parlour: Intercultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Tehran and London

Maria Averkiou
Bones, Stones & Stories: (Re)discovering Heritage and Habitus on Cyprus?
Axel Getz
An Archaeological Catch-22 The Dilemma of Heritage Advisory within the Military
Ciara Hayden
Ancient Sites in a Modern World: Challenges UNESCO Faces in an Increasingly Complex Web of World Heritage Stakeholders
Luiza Silva
The Myth of the Mundane: Situating Mudbrick Royal Palaces in Ancient Egyptian Cosmology
Rhea Stark
Persia and the Parlour: Intercultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Tehran and London

David Elitzer
Cultural Property, Civilians, and Violence: Attacks by Non-State Actors on Shia and Sunni Arab Mosques and Shrines in Iraq, 2003-2011
Angela Marie Teng
Colonialism and Contact: Continuity and Change in Philippine Ceramic Trade from the 14th through 18th Centuries
Charlotte Francis Tisch
Egyptian Mummies in American Museums: The Ethics of Housing and Displaying Human Remains

Nathan C. Lovejoy
Monumental Memories and Engagements with the Past: The Reception of Anatolian Tumuli from the Archaic Period to the Present
Monica J. Roth
Anabaptists in America: A Multidisciplinary Approach to 18th Century Palatine Mennonite Migration to Pennsylvania
Robert S. Weiner
A Sensory Approach to Exotica, Ritual Practice, and Cosmology at Chaco Canyon

Walker Mills
Monuments, Memory, Myths: A Comparative Study of Coventry Cathedral, Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and the A-Bomb Dome
Kellie Roddy
Tumbas de Tiro: West Mexican Shaft Tomb Sculptures from the Brown Haffenreffer Collection
Chase Shaffar-Roggeveen
The Skjoldehamn Burial: An 11th Century, North Norwegian Costume, in Its European Context
Jacob Weber
The Decision to Strike: Quantifying Roman Mint Output and the Case for Roman Monetary Policy

Caitlin Deal
A Work in Progress: Decolonizing Archaeology in the United States of America
Christina DiFabio
Public Fountains and Social Memory in Hellenistic Anatolia
Catherine Teitz
Seen from the Watchtower: Visibility and Viewshed Analysis on the Borders of Attica
Andrew Waters
Rome beyond the Frontier: The Expeditions of Aelius Gallus, Gaius Petronius, and Cornelius Balbus
Marco Ziff
The Mausoleum of Halikarnassos: Origins and Legacy

Laura Leddy
Drawing Archaeology at Labraunda

Allison Barker
Keeper of the Keys: Examining the Stereotypes of Viking Age Women and Burial Keys
Nicholas S. Bartos
The Decline of Maritime Activity at India Point (Providence, Rhode Island): A Study of the India Point Ship and Its Port Context
Valerie E. Bondura
Moments in the Life of the Athenian Tetraconch: A Site Biography AD 2012-267
Ian D. Brownstein
Archaeo-gaming: Making and Keeping It Real through Three-Dimensional Visualization: A Case Study from the Brown University Abydos Project
Hannah E. Sisk
Art Collections vs. Archaeology: The Origin and Consequences of Differences in Ethical Standards Regarding the Acquisition of Looted Antiquities

Danielle Candelora
The Cultural Significance of Color in Ancient Glass
Asia del Bonis-O’Donnell
Landscape, Water, and the Etruscan City: Contextualizing the Cuniculi around Veii
Samuel Holzman
Reappraising Sphinxes
Elise Nuding
Experience Insites: Fragmentation and Place Making in the Providence Urban Landscape
Harrison Stark
The Past Is a Foreign Country -- and It’s Occupied: Reflecting on the ‘Military-Archaeology-Complex’

Caitlin Howitt
Recent Reinstallations of Classical Art in American Museums
Maia Peck
A Comparative Analysis of the Funerary Complexes of Augustus and Qin Shi Huangdi
Whittaker Schroder
Transforming Rhode Island Hall
Cynthia Swain
Dreaming of Eros: A Translation and Commentary of Eustathios Makrembolites' "Hysmine & Hysminias"
Reem Yusuf
Visual Heritage in Palestine: Documentation and Representation of Archaeological Practice

Christopher Jameson Kendall
Transfer of Material Culture and Meaning Between Prepalatial Crete and Egypt from EM IIA - MM IB

Eleanor Alice Power
The Roman-Byzantine Bath Complex at the Petra Great Temple in Jordan