Graduate Program>Recent MA Theses

2012

Giacinto, A. R. 2012. Emergent trends of San Diego Cultural Resource Management alternative conceptions of past, present, and place. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University, 262 p. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Herlihy, E. M. 2012. Negotiating childhood nutrition in the classroom preschool teachers' nutrition education strategies. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University, 146 p. (Thesis chair: Sobo)

Leicht, W. 2012. Spam and rice traditional foods, identity, and health in the San Diego Pacific Islander community. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University, 110 p. (Thesis chair: Sobo)

Merino-Chavez, N. 2012. Times are changing the role of biomedicine and childbirth practices in rural Oaxaca. Thesis (MA) San Diego State University, 122 p (Thesis chair: Perez)

Peterson, J. V. 2012. Perceptions of macaque sacredness among Balinese transmigrants in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Thesis (MA) San Diego State University. 91 p (Thesis chair: Riley)

Quimby, B. S. 2012. Artisanal fishing practices in Aceh, Indonesia: The embedded commons. Thesis (MA) San Diego State University. 72 p (Thesis chair: Lauer)

Wilken, M. A. 2012. An ethnobotany of Baja California's Kumeyaay Indians. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University, 177 p. (Thesis chair: Mallios)
           

2011

Blankenship-Sefczek, E. C. 2011. Status and the "Lower" class a bio-cultural examination of the non-elite classic Maya suburb community of Guerra, Buenavista del Cayo, in the western Belize Valley. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University, 147 p. (Thesis chair: Mayes)

La Rose, D. J. 2011. Buem agricultural strategies and crop choices as adaptability practices social responses to environmental change in a rural Ghanaian farming community. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University, 155 p. (Thesis chair: Lauer)

Pham, A. N. (2011). Historical and archaeological patterns of water use in San Diego County a case study of the Whaley House cistern/well. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University, 159 p. (Thesis chair: Mallios)

Smith, J. H. (2011). Reintroducing Javan gibbons (Hylobates moloch) an assessment of behavioral preparedness. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University, 77 p. (Thesis chair: Riley)

2010

Aguilar, J. 2010. Archaeology of Death in the Lower Rio Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico, During the Late and Terminal Formative Period (400BC-AD250). Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mayes)

Clark, R. A. 2010. Farmers in an urban desert San Diego County farmers' identity construction amidst a shifting regulatory environment and water scarcity. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University, 71 p. (Thesis chair: Conway)

David, M. L. 2010. Excavation, analysis and reburial of the historical Junkin-Yost Cemetery from the Village of Indian Hill, Ohio. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mayes)

Gunderman, S. M. 2010. "The first white man on the mountain": archaelogical, historical, and cultural examinations of Nate Harrison's identity. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mallios)

Michaels, J. E. 2010. Backcountry identity and the proposed Sunrise Powerlink Project. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Conway)

Saffon, M. T. 2010. Embracing diversity through language and cultural education creating community access to museums. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Sheres, A. L. 2010. Ecological and cultural interconnections between the Guizhou snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus brelichi) and local communities at Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve, China. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Riley)

Tennesen, K. N. 2010. Survival, subsistence, and industry at the Nate Harrison historical archaeology site. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mallios)

Wehr, J. J. 2010. The diet and activity budgets of the white sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) in the unprotected forests of Ifotaka, Madagascar. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Riley)

2009

Anderson, R. B. 2009. Visualizing Atzompa: images, tourism, and identity in Santa Maria Atzompa, Oaxaca, Mexico. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Butterfield, A. M. 2009. Gender in crisis: an anthropological perspective on internally displaced persons and humanitarian initiatives in Sri Lanka. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Diokno, J. P. R. 2009. Constructions of ethnic identities among second-generation Filipina/o-Americans. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Jow, S. M. 2009. Kumeyaay identity in the San Diego area. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Gamble)

Kline, V. L. 2009. Regional network analysis situating Lost Valley in the inter-site landscape. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Gamble)

Miranda, V. 2009. Biomedicine, midwifery, and childbirth among rural Yucatec Maya women. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Muirhead, C. D. 2009. Re-imaginations of symbolic space: Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Sefczek, T. M. 2009. Diurnal evidence of a nocturnal feeder: using feeding traces to understand aye-ayes' feeding strategy in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Riley)

2008

Cheng, S. 2008. Assessment of inter and intra dental variation from the Illinois Bluff collection. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mayes)

Eischen, C. D. 2008. Archaeological, ethnohistorical, and historical investigations of SDI-8241/W-479: re-representing the past and exploring historical identity at Guajome with stakeholders. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mallios)

Kline, G. E. 2008. Metates to merit badges: the contrasting occupational sequences of Lost Valley. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Gamble)

Kwiatkowski, H. L. 2008. An ethnoarchaeological examination of Peidra Blanca: a Kumeyaay community in Baja California Norte. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Gamble)

Lennox, J. L. 2008. Archaeological history: seriation of Nathan Harrison narratives. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mallios)

Rios, B. R. 2008. Torneo transnacional: shooting hoops in Oaxacalifornia. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Sandoval, S. J. 2008. A functional analysis of plazuela Group, RP-2, Buenavista del Cayo, Belize. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Ball)

Stoneman, J. L. 2008. Sociosexual behaviors in a monogamous golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) breeding pair at the Santa Ana Zoo. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Riley)

2007

Berg, K. E. 2007. Patterns of dental pathologies among the Chumash and Southern Valley Yokuts of California. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mayes)

Black, S. B. 2007. Health and biological affinity of two Classic Southern Lowland Maya plazuelas in the western Belize Valley. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Ball)

DeYoung, A. C. 2007. Building bodies and community at small community fitness facilities. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Johnson, K. A. 2007. From the bottom up: creating a collaborative community museum in Tecate, Baja California. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Gamble)

Keppinger, R. O. 2007. Food, medicine, or both?: Native American ethnobotany in San Diego County. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Sobo)

Killen, J. S. 2007. The theater and its vicissitudes: the masses as metonym within contemporary western cinema. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Kleszynski, K. L. 2007. Sport participation and community development: the Mexican migrant experience. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Krause, S. M. 2007. Surf tourism in Costa Rica: anthropological perspectives. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Mattingly, S. A. 2007. Archaeological and geospatial investigations of fire-altered rock features at Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Gamble)

Nalven, M. A. 2007. The bone box: the development of a skeletal biology teaching resource. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mayes)

Stropes, T. A. 2007. Nodule industries of north coastal San Diego: understanding change and statis in 10,000 years of lithic technology. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mallios)

Tennyson, M. P. 2007. "Straight out of Dixie": an analysis of the architecture of the Nate Harrison cabin. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mallios)

2006

Castañeda, M. C. 2006. Enough clothing for the next fifty years: sustainability in the American apparel industry. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

de Iberri, L. L. 2006. A content analysis of gender bias in HIV prevention. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Sobo)

Jerry, A. R. 2006. Explorations of blackness: voices from within the diaspora. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Jordan, A. J. 2006. A preliminary spatial analysis of CA-SDI-4638, the Bancroft Ranch House Site, Spring Valley, California. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Ball)

Longstreth, G. F. 2006. Baja California Indian women's concepts of illness and healing. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Gamble)

McFarland, P. J. 2006. Effects and consequences of the Cedar Fire to archaeological sites in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, San Diego County, California. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mallios)

Melmed, A. 2006. Health, diet, and behavior in prehistoric Oaxaca. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mayes)

Mitchell, P. T. 2006. The royal burials of Buenavista del Cayo and Cahal Pech: same lineage, different places? Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Ball)

Sirota, M. R. 2006. Mothers in corporate America and how they balance work and family life. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Tsunoda, K. 2006. GIS-based archaeological settlement pattern analysis at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, San Diego County, California. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Gamble)

2005

Buell, J. A. 2005. Corporate culture at a southern California financial institution. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Caterino, D. M. 2005. The cemeteries and gravestones of San Diego County: an archaeological study. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mallios)

Chapman, S. J. 2005. Sperm competition and mitochondrial loading: a comparative analysis of Pan troglodytes and Homo sapiens. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mallios)

Chrostowsky, M. L. 2005. Refugee resettlement: understanding the challenges of Sudanese refugee women. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

Clowery, S. C. 2005. What's on the menu?: faunal resource exploitation and ulitilization in Late Classic royal feasting at the Buenavista del Cayo Palace, Belize. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Ball)

Hoffman, G. M. 2005. The integration of Kumeyaay history and culture in the San Diego social studies curriculum. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Gamble)

Leadabrand, C. D. 2005. Supernatural artists: the shamanic factor in rock art. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Ball)

Schoenberg, A. D. 2005. Music and leadership among adolescents in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Greenfeld)

Shalom, D. L. 2005. Climate change and cultural response: a study of fish remains from Pitas Point (CA-VEN-27). Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Gamble)

Simmons, J. D. 2005. An analysis of function at several late prehistoric sites in Lost Valley, California. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Leach)

Stevenson, M. L. 2005. Under the silk: humor as verbal performance at the Basic Airborne Course, Fort Benning, Georgia. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Henry)

Stroud, S. E. 2005. Scratching the surface: historical and archaeological investigations of Nate Harrison's homestead. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Mallios)

Yamauchi, Y. 2005. Coming of age in Okinawa: seeking an autonomous identity. Thesis (MA), San Diego State University. (Thesis chair: Perez)

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