Recent M.A. Graduates in Anthropology
NAIL DISTRIBUTIONS AS STRUCTURAL INSIGHT AT THE BEAVER CREEK TRAIL CROSSING SITE (25SW49), SEWARD COUNTY, NEBRASKA
Donald Arp, Jr. (MA 2011; Supervisor: Stephen Glazier)
Thesis: The Aputu: An Examination and Analysis of a War Club-Form Distinctive to the Guianas
Current Situation: Nebraska State Historical Society
Benjamin Bilgri (MA 2012; Supervisor: Peter Bleed)
Thesis: Ambushed at Dawn: An Archeological Analysis of the Catastrophic Defeat of the 1720 Villasur Expedition
Brittany Brooks (MA 2012; Supervisor: LuAnn Wandsnider)
Thesis: Nebraska Phase Occupational History through the Study of Various Taphochronometric Indicators
Mayo Buenafe (MA 2012; Fulbright Scholar; Supervisor: Martha McCollough)
Thesis: RECLAIMING THE SACRED WITHIN THE LEGAL PLURALISM PHENOMENON: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ RIGHTS OVER CULTURAL PROPERTY
Current Situation: PhD program, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
Amanda Callahan-Mims (MA 2012; Supervisor: Douglas Scott)
Thesis: DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION OF PAWNEE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN THE PROTO-HISTORIC AND HISTORIC ERAS
Current Situation: National Park Service
Jennifer Hildebrand (MA 2012; Supervisor: Douglas Scott)
Thesis: The Social Bioarchaeology of Childhood as Applied to the Analysis of an Excavated Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century Mennonite Cemetery, Berne, Indiana
Andrew E. LaBounty (MA 2010; Supervisor: Peter Bleed)
Awaiting the Call: Historic Sites Monitoring and Preservation at Fort Charlotte (21CK7), Grand Portage National Monument, Minnesota
Albert M. LeBeau (MA 2010; Supervisor: Peter Bleed)
Thesis: A Ditch by Any Other Name is Still a Ditch: An Archaeological Assessment of Ditch Earthworks on the Middle Missouri in the Dakotas
Current Situation: National Park Service
Michelle Night Pipe (MA 2012; Supervisor: Raymond Hames)
Thesis: Displays of Personal Adornment and Body Decoration by Nineteenth Century Lakota (Sioux) Tribes: A Costly Signaling Model
Current Situation: PhD program, Anthropology, Rutgers University
Owen J. O'Reilly (MA 2011; Supervisor: Mark Awakuni-Swetland)
Thesis: Diet and Disease: Subsistence Change and Tuberculosis among the Pawnee, Omaha and Winnebago in the Nineteenth Century
Current Situation: PhD program, Anthropology, SUNY
Keely A. Rennie-Tucker (MA 2010; Supervisor: LuAnn Wandsnider)
Thesis: Spirit of the Law: A Case Study in the Application of NAGPRA to Collections from Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, a Unit of the National Park Service
Current Situation: National Park Service
Kristin E. Rodgers (MA 2011; Supervisor: Raymond Hames)
Thesis: Virtual Communities as Egalitarian Societies: Why Contributions Matter and What They Mean
Curtis H. Sedlacek (MA 2012; Supervisor: Douglas Scott)
Thesis: Alternative Individual Cartridge Case Identification Techniques
Jillian R. Smith (MA 2010; Supervisor: Peter Bleed)
Thesis:Hanseatic Cogs and Baltic Trade: Interrelations between Trade Technology and Ecology
(MA 2010; Supervisor: Raymond Hames)
Thesis: Exploration into Human Polyandry: An Evolutionary Examination of the Non-Classical Cases
Current Situation: PhD program, Anthropology, University of Missouri
Karen A. Steinauer (MA 2011; Supervisor: LuAnn Wandsnider)
Thesis: Nebraska's Traditional Cultural Properties in the Section 106 Process
Current Situation: Nebrasaka State Historical Society
Kristine Sudbeck (MA 2012; Supervisor: Mary Willis)
Thesis: pending
Current Situation: PhD program, Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Kendra Suesz (MA 2011; Supervisor: Martha McCollough)
Thesis: America Hates the Westboro Baptist Church: The Battle to Preserve the Funerals of Fallen Soldiers
Ryan Thomas (MA 2011; Supervisor: Martha McCollough)
Thesis: Precarious Collaborations: A Study of Interpersonal Conflict and Resolution Strategies in Local Rock Bands
Cynthia J. Wiley (MA 2010: Supervisor: LuAnn Wandsnider)
Thesis:Home on the Plains: An Examination of Place at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument through Chipped Stone Tool Analysis
Current Situation: National Park Service
Alums
Clea Koff, M.A., 2000
Clea recently published The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist' Search for Truth in the Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Her work was profiled 1 May in the New York Times and she is doing a book tour through her publisher Random House. Click here to visit Clea's homepage http://thebonewoman.com/ and here http://www.randomhouse.com/ for a synopsis of her work at the Random House web site.
Erin Kimmerle, M.A., 1999
Erin Kimmerele is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her department profile can be viewed online. Erin graduated from our program with her masters degree in 1999 and entered the internationally respected forensic anthropology program at the University of Tennessee to pursue her doctorate. Prior to entering our department and during her doctoral work at Tennessee Erin had extensive experience in Kosovo and elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia excavating mass graves for the United Nations. In 2003 she became a fellow for the Committee for Human Rights of the American Anthropological Association. As Chief Anthropologist for the forensic team of the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Kimmerle led the 2000 and 2001 field missions in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. Using this case, Kimmerle prepared a report for the CfHR website on the role of anthropology in analyzing physical evidence of war crimes and genocide entitled "Cause of Death: The Role of Anthropology in the Enforcement of Human Rights" published on the Association's web site: http://www.aaanet.org/committees/cfhr/rpt_kimmerle.htm.
Kirby Moss, M.A., 1997
Kirby received his doctorate at the University of Texas in 2001 as is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder. He just published The Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege through the University of Pennsylvania Press. His homepage is http://www.colorado.edu/journalism/faculty/bios/moss.html.