2026:
- The Consumption of British Colonialisms: Comparative Material Culture of St. Augustine, Florida and Charleston, South Carolina in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic.
By Myles W. Sullivan, University of Florida
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida.
2023:
- An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Social Landscape of a Jamaican Sugar Estate, 1754-1828.
By Sean Devlin, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota.
2022:
- Entangled Lives in a Southern Metropolis: An Archaeology of Legacies at 87 Church Street, Charleston, South Carolina 1734-1771.
By Sarah Platt, Syracuse University
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University.
2019:
- A Hard Kind of Freedom: Land, Labor, and Material Culture in Post-emancipation Dominica.
By Khadene Harris, Northwestern University
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern 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 (opens in a new tab)
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. (opens in a new tab)
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. - New Data, Old Methods: A Functional Analysis of Colonial Era Structures on the “Wooten Marnan Lot” at Brunswick Town, North Carolina.
By Jennifer L. Gabriel, East Carolina University
M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
2011:
- An Archaeological Study of Common Coarse Earthenware in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake (opens in a new tab).
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.” (opens in a new tab)
By Shannon Lee McVey, University of South Florida
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. (opens in a new tab) (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 (opens in a new tab). (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 pattern 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