Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations:

In Preparation:

• • • Title Forthcoming.
      By Khadene Harris, Northwestern University
      Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University.
    • Title Forthcoming.
      By Brandy Joy, University of South Carolina
      Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.
    • A City of Many Tongues; Cosmopolitanism and Unstable Boundaries in Charleston, South Carolina 1730-1830.
      By Sarah Platt, Syracuse University
      Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University.
    • Title Forthcoming.
      By Sarah Stroud-Clarke, Syracuse University
      Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University.

2017:

• • • The Archaeology of Enslavement in Plantation Jamaica: A Study of Community Dynamics among the Enslaved People of Good Hope Estate, 1775-1838.
      By Hayden Bassett, Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation
      Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, May 2017.
    • All the King’s Men: Slavery and Soldiering at the Cabrits Garrison, Dominica (1763-1854).
      By Zachary Beier, University of West Indies, Mona
      Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University, May 2017.
    • They Gave the Children China Dolls: Toys and Enslaved Childhoods on American Plantations.
      By Colleen Betti, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, May 2017.
    • Adorned Identities: An Archaeological Perspective on Race and Self-Presentation in 18th-Century Virginia.
      By Hope Smith, University of Tennessee
      Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 2017.

2016:

• • • A Study of Material Diversity in the Carolina Colony: Silver Bluff, Yaughan, Curriboo, and Middleburg Plantations
      By Brandy Joy, University of South Carolina
      M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, May 2016.
    • Slave Subsistence Strategies at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Plantation: Paleoethnobotanical Analysis and Interpretation of the Site 8 (44AB442) Macrobotanical Assemblage.
      By Stephanie Hacker, University of South Carolina
      M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 2016.

2015:

• • • Surplus and Access: Provisioning and Market Participation by enslaved laborers on Jamaican sugar estates
      By Lynsey A. Bates, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
      Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, May 2015.
    • Made in America? Ceramics, Credit, and Exchange on Chesapeake Plantations.
      By Lindsay Bloch, Florida Museum of Natural History
      Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, May 2015.
    • “Not For Casual Readers”: An Evaluation of Digital Data from Virginia Archaeological Websites
      By Mark Freeman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
      M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 2015.

2014:

• • • An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation at the End of the Seventeenth Century
      By David A. Brown, The Fairfield Foundation
      Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, May 2014.

2013:

• • • The revolution before the Revolution? A Material Culture Approach to Consumerism at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, VA.
      By Eleanor E. Breen, Alexandra Archaeology
      Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, December 2013.

2012:

• • • The Best Kind of Long Ones”: Tobacco Smoking at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.
      By Kathryn Barca, Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Natural History
      M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, George Washington University.

2011:

• • • An Archaeological Study of Common Coarse Earthenware in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake.
      By Lindsay Bloch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, May 2011.
    • Archaeological Research and Public Knowledge: New Media Methods for Public Archaeology in Rosewood, Florida.
      By Edward Gonzalez-Tennant
      Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, MI.
    • A House But Not A Home? Measuring “Householdness” in the Daily Lives of Monticello’s “Nail Boys.”
      By Shannon Lee McKey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2011.
      M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa, May 2011.

2007:

• • • Surveillance and Production on Stewart Castle Estate: A GIS-base Analysis of Models of Plantation Spatial Organization. (PDF: 5.3M)
      By Lynsey Bates, The University of Pennsylvania and The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
      B.A. Honors Thesis with Highest Distinction, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, May 2007.

2006:

• • • Strategic consumption: Archaeological evidence for costly signaling among enslaved men and women in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake. (PDF: 22M)
      By Jillian E. Galle, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
      Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, May 2006.

2005:

• • • Recognizing variability in eighteenth-century plantation diet through patter analysis.
      By Maria T. Fashing, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg.
      B.A. Honors Thesis, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary