Graduate Student Research
Current graduate students
Tom Allen
Current MA student
BS Anthropology (2011) University of Alaska Fairbanks
Thesis: Early Holocene Lithic Procurement, Technological Organization, and Mobility: Insights
from XBD-167 (Little Delta #3)
Research interests: I primarily work on questions of technological adaptations during the Early Holocene
especially on toolstone procurement behavior and the insight these behaviors have
on understanding mobility during this ecologically dynamic time period. As an extension,
my research includes the ways material quality and material availability affect technological
organization and degree of tool production and intensification at procurement sites.
Lia Amundsen
Current MA student
BA Anthropology (2013) University of Alaska Fairbanks
Research interests: Archaeology, cultural anthropology, and Alaska Native studies with a focus on the
important role of Alaskan Native women both in the past and present
Eleanor “Nell” Bishop
Current MA student
BA Anthropology (2016) University of Alaska Anchorage
Thesis Topic: The relationship between Inland Dena’ina place names and foodways
Research interests: Four field approach; Food anthropology; Arctic and subarctic archaeology; Traditional
place names studies; Political Ecology; Human Behavioral Ecology; Decolonizing anthropology
Logan Bullard
Current MA student
BA Anthropology/History 2018 University of South Dakota
Research Interests: Cultural Resource Management, Historical Archaeology, Indigenous Economics, Indigenous Politics, Inupiaq Culture, Canadian History, Military Arctic Presence and Exploration.
Ciji Clark
Current MA student
BA UAF Interdisciplinary Studies 2022 with a focus in Business and Anthropology. AA Business Colorado Technical University 2015
Research interests: My interest as a cultural anthropologist is in the social-cultural relationships surrounding food and artistic expression. As a graduate student, I am investigating the role of Alaska Craft breweries in creating spaces for a unique multi-sensory experience. This experience facilitates and aesthetic appreciation in culturally diversion and generationally inclusive environment.
Courtney Clough
Current PhD student
MA (2016) Religious Studies, Georgia State University (Thesis: Moral Injury and Moral
Trauma Among Combat Medics), BA (2014) Anthropology, University of Tennessee Knoxville.
Dissertation Topic: Assessing health status of a modern skeletal collection through proteomics and isotope
analysis
Research interests: Medical Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Bioarchaeology
Sam Coffman
Current PhD student
MA (2011) Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks (Thesis: Archaeology at Teklanika
West (HEA-0 01): A n Upland Archaeological Site, Central Alaska); BA (2007) Anthropology,
University of Nevada, Reno
Dissertation Topic: Exploring possible changes in lithic procurement strategy and use through time in
Eastern Interior Alaska.
Research interests: Lithic procurement and raw material sourcing, coastal adaptation and use during the
Holocene, hunter-gatherer landscape-use and change, and GIS modeling and analysis.
Sierra Cotrona
Current PhD student
BA (2016) Geological Sciences and Anthropology, University of Rochester; MS (2018)
Biomedical Anthropology, Binghamton University; M.Re (2019) Bioarchaeology, Wrexham
University. Master's Thesis: Skeletal Markers as Indicators of Labor in a Nineteenth
Century New York Cemetery
Dissertation Topic: Dental Patterns in Understanding Origins of South Asian Populations
Research Interests: Dental morphology, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, skeletal biology
Kathryn “Allie” Dewey
Current PhD student
Dissertation Topic: Tracing the residential mobility of the ancient Tochak McGrath individuals via via
strontium and oxygen isotope analyses of their tooth enamel
Research interests: Forces driving past human migration in Interior Alaska (subsistence, environment,
culture), isotope analysis (human and faunal remains)
Miranda Ehlers
Current PhD student
MA (2020) California State University, Chico (Thesis: An Evaluation of Dental Metrics:
Assessing the Impact of Preservation on Ancestral Estimation); BS (2017) Michigan
State University
Research interests: Dental anthropology, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology
Jason Elder
Current MA student
BA Anthropology (2019) Washington College
Research interests: Archaeology, human/environment interactions, hunter-gatherer landscape use,
human behavioral ecology, 3D modeling, public outreach
Korovin Ellis
Current MA student
BA Anthropology (2016) University of Alaska Fairbanks
Thesis Topic: Debitage Analysis of Northern Archaic Materials from the Hollenbeck Site
Research interests: Lithics, Zooarchaeology, Human Adaptation & Risk Management
Daniel Gonzalez
A.A. in Liberal Studies (2010), Montgomery County Community College; B.A. in anthropology
with minor in history (2012), Pennsylvania State University
Research interests: Mixed cash and subsistence economies, anthropology of food, political anthropology,
identity, and ethnographic field methods
Amelia Jansen
Current MA student
BA Anthropology (2016) University of Tennessee
Research interests: Zooarchaeology, Foodways, Circumpolar Archaeology, Public Outreach, Field Studies
Mike J. Jennings
Current M.A. Student
B.S. Biology--2020, Brigham Young University--Idaho
Research Interests: High-Latitude Anthropology, Adaptive Change in Resource Use, Peopling of the Americas
Zhao Jian
Current PhD student
MA Archaeology (2018) Zhengzhou University. Master's Thesis: Analysis of Starch Grains
on Stone Tools Excavated from GouWan Site.
Dissertation Topic: Ancient Starch Grains; C and N stable isotopes; Geographic Information Systems.
Research interests: Environmental Archaeology, Archaeological Sciences; Agriculture.
Casey Jobe
Current MA student
BA Anthropology (2017) University of Alaska Fairbanks
Thesis Topic: Understanding technological organization of mid- to late-Holocene occupation of the
Mead site through lithic analysis.
Research interests: Lithic Analysis; GIS and Spatial Patterning; Technological Organization; Hunter-Gatherers;
Prehistoric Transitional Phases; Human Behavioral Ecology
Roman Kitaysky
Current MA student
BA Russian Studies, University of Alaska Fairbanks (2011)
Subfield: Cultural Anthropology
Research interests: southern Alaska and Kodiak; historical Euro-aboriginal interactions
Line Lea
Current MA student
BA Anthropology & International Studies (2022) at University of North Florida
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Human-Animal Relations, Community-Based Healthcare, Circumpolar North
Wei Liu
Current Ph.D. student
MA Archaeology (2019) Graduate School of Chinese; Academy of Social Sciences; BA Archaeology (2015) Jilin University
Research interests: Lithic analysis; paleoethnobotany; archaeological theory; formation process of archaeological site; East Asian archaeology; and quantitative archaeology.
MoHagani Magnetek
Current PhD student
BA Anthropology (2009), Graduate Certificate: Forensic Death Investigation (2011),
BA English (2016), MFA Creative Writing & Literary Arts (2020)
Research interests: cultural anthropology, historical archaeology, bioarchaeology, gender studies as well
as African American history and culture in Alaska. Frying fish is my favorite pastime.
Irene Maxwell
Current MA student
BA Anthropology 2012 Western Washington University
Research Interests: Geoarchaeology, Lithics/stone tools, SE Alaska, Tlingit/Haida culture, and paleoclimatology.
Haley McCaig
Current MA Student
BA Anthropology (2007) State University of New York at Geneseo
Research interests: Archaeology of the Arctic and Subarctic; Bone Tool Technology of the Aleutian Archipelago;
Ethnobotany; Decolonizing Academia
Lucy Miller
Current PhD student Linguistic Anthropology
MA Linguistics (2019) University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; BA Romance Languages, minors:
Korean Language, Urdu Language (2014) New York University.
Research Interests: ethnobiology; ethnotaxonomy; traditional ecological knowledge; language reclamation
and revitalization; morphology; Dene languages; Niger-Congo languages (Ngemba); community-based
practice; decolonizing research; indigenous knowledge and climate change.
Rachel Neubuhr Torres
Current PhD student
MA Religious Studies 2023 Arizona State University; BA Arts and Letters & University
Honors 2021 Portland State University.
Research Interests: My research spans diverse areas of interest, grounded in ontoepistemological insights
that explore the nature of objectivity and spiritual tacit knowledge. My primary focus
lies in anthrozoology within the Circumpolar North, delving into affective human-animal
kinships, moose farming, caribou/reindeer, muskoxen, and sled dogs. I am also interested
in environmental anthropology and the relationship between folklore and romanticism
to policy-making and identity, as well as the socioeconomics of subsistence hunting/trapping/gathering.
I am guided by a multidisciplinary approach including cultural anthropology, critical
geography, multispecies & visual ethnography, and ethnographic film.
Gabriela Olmos
Current, PhD student
Master in Critical Theory, 17 Instituto de Estudios Críticos
Thesis Topic: Mexicans in Anchorage and their corn culture
Research Interests: Hispanics in the United States, Diaspora, Food, Ritual, Immigration, Globalization,
Art
Tara Palmer
M.Ed. Adult Education, University of Alaska Anchorage; BA French Language & Certificate
in Teaching English as a Second Language, Portland State University
Dissertation Topic: Adult ESL Teachers' Language Ideologies, Policies, & Practices
Research interests: Language ideologies, language policies, language & identity
Fiona Papile
Current MA student
Archaeology; 2021, BS Anthropology and Geography, California Polytechnic State University SLO
Research Interests: Alaskan Archaeology, Southeast Alaska paleoshoreline predictive modeling, lithic analysis, human migration, Late Pleistocene circumpolar adaptation, and behavioral ecology.
Wyatt J. Rowe
Current PhD student
MA Archaeology 2018 Newcastle University; BA Anthropology 2016 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Research interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Stable Isotope Analysis, Proteomics, Geophysical Survey
Erica Selly
Current MA student, Bioarchaeology, forensic archaeology, Middle Age and Medieval History
Research interests: Bioarchaeology, forensic archaeology, Middle Age and Medieval History
Micki LeClair Sievers
Current MA student
BA Anthropology (2023) University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Peace Studies Certificate (2023) University of Hawaii at Mānoa.
Research interests: Cultural Anthropology, Foodways, Cultural Heritage Tourism, Folklore, Religion, Linguistics, Latin American Studies with a focus on Mayan/Aztec/Moche, and Tlingit and Haida Studies.
Kelsey Sisk
Current MA student; BA Linguistics and Classics, Minors: Anthropology and Greek Studies (2019) University of Florida
Research interests: Linguistic Anthropology; Discourse Analysis; Ethnomethodology; Sociolinguistics; Gender, Language, and Identity
Connor Staponski
Current MA student
BS in Social Studies Education (2018) University of Central Missouri
Research interests: Gender, family structures, political structures, and equity in education
Daniel Strong
Current MA student
BS in Marine Biology (2007) University of Alaska Southeast
Research interests: Southeast Alaska and Tlingit ethnohistory, relational well-being, Indigenous connections
with place.
Lynn Walker
BA Anthropology (2013) Alma College; MRes Social Anthropology (2014) University of
Aberdeen; Museum Studies Certificate (2016) Tufts University; PhD student
Research Interests: museum anthropology; material culture; colonialism; Alutiiq/Sugpiaq weaving/basketry;
museum discourse and experience
Roslyn White
Current PhD Student Anthropology
MA Social Anthropology University of Manchester UK, BA Anthropology UAA, BA English
and Languages (double major) UAA
Research Interests: Information and misinformation in social media and traditional media, political anthropology,
confirmation bias in online spaces are some examples of what I'm interested in.
Jonah Yakunin
Current MA student
BA Fisheries (2018) University of Alaska Fairbanks
Thesis Topic: The changes in the culture of the Russian Old Believers in Alaska from involvement
with Alaska's commercial fisheries. How a culture whose primary purpose of escape
to Alaska was to avoid assimilation but became entrenched in the fishing industry
and thriving because of it. At the present, the Russian Old Believer community in
the Kenai Peninsula has become synonymous with fishing.
Research interests: Ethnohistory; fisheries; folklore; history; Russian culture; and theology
Graduate alumni
- 2021 Nick Schmuck Contextualizing the Development of Coastal Adaptations in Postglacial Southeast Alaska
- 2020 Gerad Smith Ethnoarchaeology of the Middle Tanana Valley, Alaska
- 2014 Qu Feng. The Legacy of Shamans? Structural and Cognitive Perspectives of Prehistoric Symbolism in the Bering Strait Region (cross-listed with Cultural Anthropology)
- 2013 Holly McKinney Stelton. Taphonomic Analysis of Mink Island (XMK-030) Archaeoichthyofauna: Implications for Zooarchaeological and Biogeochemical Research
- 2010. Jody Patterson. Landscape Structure and Terrain-based Hunting Range Models: Exploring Late Prehistoric Land Use in the Nutzotin Mountains , Southcentral Alaska
- 2005. Ben Austin Potter. Site Structure and Organization in Central Alaska: Archaeological Investigations at Gerstle River
- 1998. Robin Owen Mills. Historical archaeology of Alaskan placer gold mining settlements: evaluating process-pattern relationships
- 1997. Nancy Horner Bigelow. Late quaternary vegetation and lake level changes in central Alaska
- 1995. Michael A Lewis. Technological development and culture change on St. Lawrence Island: a functional typology of toggle harpoon heads
- 1993. Ted E. Goebel. The middle to upper paleolithic transition in Siberia
- 2021 Audra Darcy - Human Paleoecology from the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene, Tangle Lakes, Alaska
- 2020 Kevin Sippel Zooarchaeological Analysis at 49-RAT-32: Historical Ecology and Maritime Subsistence in the Late Aleutian Period
- 2020 Kaitlyn Fuqua A study of variation among side-notched bifaces from northern archaic sites in Alaska
- 2020 Holly Smith Human and ecological responses to the Northern White River Ash eruption
- 2019 Hilary Hilmer Faunal analysis of the historic component at Healy Lake Village site, Interior Alaska
- 2019 Brooks Lawler Prehistoric toolstone procurement and land use in the Tangle Lakes Region, central Alaska
- 2019 Dougless Skinner Indigenous archaeological approaches to artifact and household analysis at precolonial Yup'ik village Temyiq Tuyuryaq (Old Togiak)
- 2018 Joe Keeney Faunal and Lithic Analyses from the Matcharak Peninsula Site (AMR-00196) Northern Archaic Context: Lake Matcharak, Central Brooks Range, Alaska
- 2017 Gerad Smith. Exploring Mid to Late Holocene Economic Shifts and Cultural Change at Swan Point, Tanana Valley, Alaska
- 2017 Bowman Robert Sand dune paleoenvironment, paleoecology, and human environmental interaction in the Middle Tanana River Valley near the Gerstle River, Subarctic Alaska: The late glacial to the mid-Holocene
- 2016 Katherine Mulliken Holocene Volcanism and Human Occupation in the Middle Susitna River Valley, Alaska
- 2016 Caitlin Holloway Paleoethnobotany in Interior Alaska
- 2015 Glassburn, Crystal A reconstruction of steppe bison (Bison priscus) mobility in the Yukon-Tanana uplands and implications for prehistoric human behavior
- 2015 Luxton, Sharla. Exploring the relationship between diet and osteoporosis in medieval Portugal using stable isotope analysis
- 2015 Dineen, Erin. Parasites and Skeletal Indicators of Anemia in the Eastern United States
- 2015 Hall, Patrick Functional Comparisons Between Formal and Informal Tools Sampled from the Nenana and Denali Assemblages of the Dry Creek Site [no abstract provided]
- 2015 Reid, Devon. Toolstone Procurement in Middle-Late Holocene in the Kodiak Archipelago and the Alaska Peninsula
- 2013 Little, Allison.
- 2013 Wendt, Michael.
- 2012 Tozzi, Nicole. Commercial Influence on the outer coast Sugpiat
- 2012 Smith, Gerad. Highland Hunters: Prehistoric Land Use in the Yukon Tanana Uplands
- 2012 Crawford, Laura. Fuel and Plant Use In Thule Era Houses at Cape Espenberg, Northwest Alaska, AD 1200-1700
- 2011 Coffman, Sam. Archaeology at Teklanika West (HEA-001): An Upland Archaeological Site, Central Alaska
- 2011 Gilbert, Phoebe. Micromorphology, Site Spatial Variation and Patterning, and Climate Change at the Mead Site (XBD-071): A Multi-Component Archaeological Site in Interior Alaska
- 2009 Whitney, James W. Historical Archaeology of Marion Creek, Alaska : Placer Gold Mining and the Expansion of Capitalism
- 2009 Dewey, Allie. Mapping Moose: Moose as a proxy for humans in the mapping of stable isotope values in the Tanana valley, Alaska for forensic purposes
- 2008 Meitl, Sarah J. Timing and Resolution of Denbigh Occupations at Onion Portage , Alaska
- 2008 Skeete, Luanda. An Analysis of Faunal Remains from the Susitna Hydroelectric Project
- 2008 Strathe, Cody. Osteometric analysis of archaeologically deposited harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) remains as a method for inferring prehistoric seasonal use at Mink Island, Alaska
- 2007 Jew, Nicholas. Exchange and Interaction in Western Aleutian Prehistory: The Efficacy of Geochemical Analysis of Lithic Raw Material Procurement on Amchikta Island
- 2007 Scott Shirar. The Maiyumerak Creek Site (XBM-00131): Late Prehistoric Subsistence and Seasonality in Northwest Alaska
- 2006 Schulze, Luke E. Gold Rush to Ghost Town: Silver City , an Analysis and Documentation of the Built Landscape - Settlement to Abandonment
- 2003 Hilsinger, Erik Deforest. Rethinking the Redoubt: Kolmakovskiy Redoubt, a fur trading post on the middle Kuskokwim
- 2003 Kriz, Peter J., Jr. Viewshed Analysis of Selected Archaeological Sites Within the Philip Smith Quadrangle, Alaska: Implications for the Definition of Site Type and Site Selection.
- 2003 Reuther, Joshua D . An analysis of radiocarbon assays produced by three laboratories: a case study on the Croxton site, locality J, northern Alaska
- 2002 Flannigan, Thomas Howard. Use-wear analysis of experimental stone tools, and a sample of lithics from component I of the Walker Road site
- 2002 Gutoski, Martin. Yaachox' Bluff: an examination of a rock art site in Interior Alaska and local oral history
- 2002 Newton, Jennifer Isabel Mary. About Time: Chronological Variation as seen in Burial Features at Ipiutak, Point Hope.
- 2002 Robertson, Aaron C. The Tingmiukpuk Site (KIR-273) A Prehistoric Site along the Killik River, Alaska
- 2000 Gelvin-Reymiller, Carol. Freshwater mussels in Interior Alaska wetlands: archaeological, taphonomic, and linguistic perspectives
- 2000 Grover, Elizabeth D. Analysis of Faunal Remains from Amaknak Bridge , Aleutian Islands
- 1999 Carrigan, Kohji D. The Croxton site: analysis of lithic tools and debitage
- 1999 Thornton, Meg. Peregrine Falcons as Taphonomic Agents
- 1998 Groethe, Jeffrey Blake. Seals of Siraagruk
- 1997 Adkins, Charles E. Healy Lake Site: Cartridge Analysis
- 1997 Burdick, Carl Michael. Land Use History of Tanana Basin: A Reconstruction of Timber Use 1901-1923
- 1997 Ferguson, Daryl E. Gallagher Flint Station, Locality 1 : a reappraisal of proposed late Pleistocene site in the Sagavanirktok River valley, arctic Alaska
- 1997. Pontti, Elizabeth Brown. Defining the Denali complex: a comparative study of lithic assemblages from Panguingue Creek and Dry Creek, central Alaska
- 1997. Potter, Ben Austin. A First Approximation of Ahtna Archaeology
- 1996 Pearson, Georges A. When is a microblade not a microblade? Theoretical implications of a microdebitage analysis
- 1995 Gamza, Thomas A. Excavation and Evaluation of Sullivan's Roadhouse (XBD-061), Fort Greely, Alaska , 1994
- 1994 Dillingham, Frederic W. Pio Point: A Notched Point and Microblade Site Near Coldfoot, Alaska. Anthropology
- 1994 Dixon, Roland Gregory. Bibliography-Dena'ina: An Annotated Bibliography
- 1994 Sweeney, Mary Ann. Excavations and Analysis of a 1920s Historic Inupiat Reindeer Herder's Winter House.1994 Williams, Catherine Margaret. Site Formation in an Ethnohistoric Context
- 1993 Diab, Mark C. Economic Utility of the Ringed Seal (Phoca hispida): Implications for Arctic Archaeology
- 1993 Vinson, Dale Martin. Taphonomic analysis of faunal remains from Trail Creek Caves, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
- 1992 Bigelow, Nancy H. Analysis of Late Quaternary Soils and Sediments in the Nenana Valley, Central Alaska
- 1992 Higgs, Andrew S. Technological and Spatial Considerations of the Walker Road Site: Implications from a Lithic Refit Study
- 1992 Mills, Robin O. Radiocarbon Calibration of Archaeological Dates from the Central Gulf of Alaska
- 1991 Bailey, Berkley B. T he Archaeology of Hagemeister Island, Southwestern Alaska with special emphasis on the Qikertarpak Site (XHI-016)
- 1991 Simon, James Johnson Koffroth Mortuary Practices of the Late Kachemak Tradition in Southcentral Alaska: A Perspective from the Crag Point Site, Kodiak Island
- 1990 Gillispie, Thomas E. Middle Holocene Climate and Culture Change in the Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska.
- 1990 Goebel, Frank E. (Ted) Early paleoindian technology in Beringia
- 1990 Stevenson, Deborah A. Social and Symbolic Implications of Punuk Harpoon Head Ornamentation from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
- 1989 Maschner, Herbert Donald Graham. Site structure and prehistoric land use: an analysis of excavations at VAL-216, a late prehistoric site on Tazlina Lake, Alaska
- 1988 Dilley, Thomas Edward. H olocene tephra stratigraphy and pedogenesis in the middle Susitna river valley, Alaska
- 1988 Phippen, Peter. Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary Archaeology in the North Alaska Range Foothills: A View from Owl Ridge
- 1987 Betts, Robert C. Archaeological Investigations at Butte Lake, Alaska: An Inquiry into Alaskan Notched Point-Microblade Assemblages
- 1987 Desson, Dominique J. Analysis of Alaskan Prehistoric Ceramics
- 1987 Lively, Ralph A. A Report on Archaeological Research Completed in 1986 at the Chugwater Site (FAI-035) and proposed research for the site in 1987. Report submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Anchorage.
- 1987 Maxwell, Howard Evan. Archeology of Panguingue Creek
- 1983 Mason, Owen Kenneth. The role of lithology in defining use and retouch at the Sandy Beach Bay site, Umnak Island
- 1982 Ketz, James Allen. Paxson Lake: two nineteenth century Ahtna sites in the Copper River Basin, Alaska
- 1981 Braund, Stephen R. T he skin boats of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
- 1981 Hanson, Diane K. Analysis of stone tools from western Chaluka, Umnak Island.
- 1981 Johnson, Roy Dean. Upper Tanana Athapaskan Fire Ecology
- 1980 Dale, Rebeca Jane. Analysis of the pane glass from the 1978 excavation of the Baranov Museum, Kodiak , Alaska
- 1978 Hoffecker, John Frank. A report to the National Geographic Society and the National Park Service on the potential of the North Alaska Range for archeological sites of Pleistocene age: The North Alaska Range Early Man Project, summary of field research, summer 1978
- 1978 Smith, George S. Mammalian zooarchaeology, Alaska: a manual for identifying and analyzing mammal bones from archaeological sites in Alaska
- 1978 West, Charles Eugene. Archeology of the Birches Site, Lake Minchumina , Alaska
- 1978 Short, Kevin MacEwen. Archaeology of Japan
- 1977 Arndt, Katherine Louise. The structure of cache pits at GUL-077, a late prehistoric archaeological site near Gulkana, Alaska
- 1977 Fetter, Sharon. The analysis and description of an archaeological site (K-9) near Cathedral Mountain, Alaska and the site's relationship to the Kayuk Complex
- 1977 Plaskett, David Charles. The Nenana River Gorge Site: A Late Prehistoric Athapaskan Camp Site in Central Alaska
- 1977 Smith, Timothy Alan. Obsidian Hydration as an Independent Dating Technique
- 1974 Holmes, Charles Edgar. The archaeology of Bonanza Creek valley, north central Alaska
- 1974 Stevens, Edward T. Alaskan petroglyphs and pictographs
- 1972 Bacon, Glenn H. Archaeological survey and excavation near Murphy Lake in the Arctic foothills, northern Alaska
- 1972 Derry, David E. The archaeology and anthropology of a recent Eskimo habitation at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
- 1972 Dixon, Edward James, Jr. The Gallagher Glint Station: an early man site on the North Slope, arctic Alaska
- 1972 Heiner, Virginia E. Aleutian Island sites
- 2017 David Lukaszek A Metric Investigation of the Cranial Base and Vertebrae among Extant African Homininae: Discrimination across Posturo‐locomotory Complexes
- 2014 Michael Kenyhercz Molar Size and Shape in the Estimation of Modern U.S. Biological Affinity: A Comparison of Relative Cusp Location Using Geometric Morphometrics and Interlandmark Distances
- 2009 Carrin Halffman Reconstructing mercury exposure in prehistoric humans and fauna through bone chemical analysis: method validation using arctic samples
- 2008 Michelle Kaye Molecular Identification and Analysis of Treponematosis (syphilis, yaws, bejel or pinta) in Ancient Mummified Remains from Northern Chile and southern Peru
- 2006 Tammy R. Greene Diet and Dental Health in Predynastic Egypt : A Comparison of Dental Pathology, Macrowear, and Microwear at Hierakonpolis and Naqada
- 2002 Scott Legge Vertebral Pathologies in Skeletons of Alaskan Eskimos from Golovin Bay and Nunivak Island
- 2023 Mary Ashley Stough A Dental Metric Biodistance Analysis of the Rong and the A’chik.
- 2016 Call, Sandra Sex estimation in forensic anthropology: a test of the Klales et al. (2012) method with implications of asymmetry
- 2015 Sharla Luxton. Exploring the relationship between diet and osteoporosis in medieval Portugal using stable isotope analysis
- 2014 Konstantine Triambelas. Caries prevalence in North Africans
- 2014 Fawn Carter. Caries difference among sub-Saharan Africans
- 2012 Roger Arenas. Regional variation in mandibular morphology in the prehistoric Japanese populations of the Jōmon and Okhotsk.
- 2012 Clarissa Dicke. Dental Morpholoy of Copper Age Europe
- 2012 Brianna Horwath Diet and Affinity From The Middle Neolithic To Early Bronze Age, Estremadura, Portugal: A Comparison Of Human Dental Remains From Feteira II And Bolores
- 2012 Maegen Ellicot. Urban and Rural Health in the Medieval Moravian State
- 2007 Nick Corduan. Whence these Farmers? Bioarchaeology and the Advent of Agriculture in West Mexico
- 2006 Denton, Nora. Osteological Stress Markers and Habitual Behaviors: Analyzing the Connection at Hierakonpolis , Egypt
- 2002 Goodman, Edward Augustus. Using histomorphometric traits of bone microarchitecture in the determination of biological affinity
- 2002 Matovich, Jeanette L. Health in Predynastic Egypt: Assessing the Overall Health of a Working Class Population, Based on Skeletal Indicators, at Hierakonpolis
- 1999 Cobb, Janice Cori. Ancient DNA Recovered by a Non-Destructive Method
- 1997 Lane, Robert W. The Biomechanics of Eskimo Cranio-facial Morphology
- 1996 Steen, Susan. Interpretation of Musculoskeletal Stress Markers among the Peoples of Golovin Bay
- 1995 Jurgensen, Laura K. Mandibular Torus Variation in the Norse Vikings
- 1991 Petersen, Carole D. Osteoporosis: Radiographic Examination of Femora from Protohistoric Native Skeletal Populations of Alaska
- 1990 Halffman, Carrin M. The formation of palatine and mandibular tori among prehistoric Eskimo and Aleut populations
- 1990 Street, Steven Richard. A study of historic Yup'ik mortuary variability
- 1987 Orth, Geoffrey C. Fishing strategies among southeast Alaskan salmon seiners
- 1982 Noss, John Frederick A. demographic profile of rural Alaska, 1980
- 1981 Morehouse, Karen Bornfleth. Alaska Native diet and nutrition: an ethnohistorical view
- 1980 Dale, Rachel Joan. Recency of Otitis Media Among Eskimo Populations
- 1978 Davidson, Barry J. Title N/A
- 1977 Stocklin, Brian Flynn. Demography of Prehistoric, Protohistoric, and Modern Alaskan Eskimos
- 1974 Utermohle, Charles J. Analysis of Eskimo dental attrition by progression of dentine exposure
- 2024 Varpu Lotvonen - Ballad of the Laavlaaqs: The Relational Worlds of Sámi Reindeer Herders in Alaska.
- 2023 Eduard Zdor Chukchi communities of the Bering Strait region, a hundred years after Bogoras
- 2021 Chris Cannon Northern Dene Astronomical and Sky-Related Knowledge: A Comparative Anthropological Study
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2019 Julie Raymond-Yakubian Salmon, Cosmology, and Identity in Elim, Alaska
- 2019 Emilie Springer Sea change, know fish: catching the tales of fish and men in Cordova, Alaska
- 2020 Ellen Carrlee The Yup'ik Relationships of Qiluliuryaraq (Processing Intestine)
- 2017 Davin Holen Voices from the coast: Salmon fishery dependent communities in Alaska
- 2015 Stefan Krist Wrestling, Archery, and Horse Racing in Buryatia: Traditional Sport Competitions as a Mirror of Social Change
- 2014 Qu Feng The Legacy of Shamans? Structural and Cognitive Perspectives of Prehistoric Symbolism in the Bering Strait Region (cross-listed with Archaeology)
- 2012 Elizabeth Marino. Losing Ground: The Relocation of Shishmaref, Alaska, a Socio-cultural Study
- 2012 Andreas Droulias Social Benefits and Cultural Consequences of Basketball in Alaska
- 2011 Stacey Fritz DEW Line Passage: Tracing the Legacies of Arctic Militarization
- 2010 Medeia Csoba-DeHass Russian Orthodoxy, Religious Syncretism, and Ethnic Identity among the Alutiiq of the Kenai Peninsula
- 2010 Wisniewski, Josh. Come on Ugzruk, Have Mercy: Experience, Relationality, and Knowing in Kigiqtaamiut Hunting and Ethnography
- 2009 Meadow, Alison M. Community Gardens in Urban Alaska : Urban Planning and Community Sustainability from the Roots Up
- 2009 Pratt, Kenneth L. Nuniwarmiut Land Use, Settlement History and Socio-Territorial Organization, 1880-1960
- 2008 Rasmus, Stacy M. Indigenous Emotional Economies in Alaska, Surviving Youth in the Village
- 2007 Yamin-Pasternak, Sveta. Beringia through the Myco-Scope: History, Mushrooms, and Cross-Cultural Encounters. Now at Research Faculty at UAF.
- 2006 Holzlehner, Tobias. City of Shadows : Border economies, informal markets and organized crime in Vladivostok and the Russian Far East. Starting at Western Ontario in Fall 2012.
- 2004 Cusack-McVeigh, Holly. Stories Find You: Narratives of Place in a Central Yup'ik Community
- 2003 Koskey, Michael Stephen. Cultural Activity and Market Enterprise : A Circumpolar Comparison of Reindeer Herding Communities at the End of the 20th Century
- 2001 Martin, Cydny. Mediated identity and negotiated tradition: The Inupiaq atigi, 1850--2000
- 1999 Kingston, Deanna M. Returning: twentieth century performances of the King Island Wolf Dance
- 1998 Simon, James Johnson Koffroth. Twentieth century Inupiaq Eskimo reindeer herding on northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska
- 1996 Arndt, Katherine Louise. Dynamics of the fur trade on the middle Yukon River , Alaska , 1839 to 1868, now at UAF Rasmuson Library
- 1995 Desson, Dominique. Masked rituals of the Kodiak Archipelago
- 1993 Partnow, Patricia Hartley. Aluutiiq ethnicity
- 1989 Andrews, Elizabeth Frances. The Akilmiut: Territorial dimensions of a Yup'ik Eskimo
society
- 2022 Allison Cruz - Sled dogs as gifts: An Ethnography of Dog Exchanges among Kennels in Alaska
- 2021 Bethan Carter – The Visual Language of Turkish Romani Dance
- 2015 Monika Frey Once upon a time: an anthropological exploration of two Gwich'in stories (Man in the Moon; The Old Woman and the Brushman)
- 2014 Cecilie Ebsen Maintaining balance through dancing: perceptions and practices of health among young adult Yup’ik women
- 2013 Oxana Yashchenko. Why are Lorino and Sireniki so different? Exploring communities through festivals, language use and subsistence practices in contemporary Chukotka.
- 2012 Cori Bender. Contemporary Inuit Political Identity and Transnational Processes
- 2010 Beth Mikow. Negotiating Change: An Overview of Relocations in Alaska with Detailed Consideration of Kaktovik
- 2009 Vanek, Susan. The Government of Hunting: the Language of Regulation and its Effect on Hunters
- 2009 Degai, Tatiana. Places of Significance in Itelmen Country
- 2009 Geml, Johanna. "Krigsbarn" of Norway: A Transnational Ethnography of Human Rights Implications of Children as Product of War Sex
- 2008 Antohin, Alexandra S. Challenges of being Orthodox in Russia: Education as Missionization in Magaden
- 2008 Neighbors, Andrea K. Rethinking Oliver Twist – Imagination and Contemporary Russian and American Adoption Practices
- 2008 Gill-Horton, Amy E. An Examination of the Chinese Community and Changing Social Spaces in South Belfast, Northern Ireland
- 2007 Klistoff, Alysa. Weapon, Tool, or Art? The Eskimo Yo-Yo as a Commodified Arctic Bola and Marker of Cultural Identity
- 2007 Loring, Philip. Managers are from Mars, activists are from Venus: examining the gap between institutional and grass roots sustainability initiatives
- 2007 Salganek, Maya. Honoring the Gift: Celebration, Ceremony, and Community in Tikigaq , Alaska
- 2005 Antohin, Esther. Sellassie Imagining Ityoppia: Ethiopians in the diaspora and Rastafarianism
- 2004 Ikuta, Hiroko. "We Dance Because We are Iñupiat" -- Iñupiaq Dance in Barrow: Performance and Identity
- 2004 Sakurai, Takashi. Kuuvaum Kaŋiani: Where the River Begins (film)
- 2002 Biddison, Dawn Drake. Representation and marginalization: a case study from contemporary Alaska Native art
- 2001 Longan, Tiffany J. Eating Yup'ik: food trends in Southwestern Alaska
- 2001 Raymond-Yakoubien, Julie Margaret. They left their teacups full and their zeniths in the house: Innoko River population movements and migrations
- 2000 Raymond-Yakoubian, Brenden. Lived ethnicity: identity, consciousness, and discursive practice in Grayling, Alaska
- 2000 Davis, Brian Leroy. Geographic patterns of seal hunting in southeast Alaska , 1992-94
- 1999 Austin, Kenneth Frank. The changing vista of the northern Northwest Coast Indian Deer Ritual
- 1999 Brakel, Judith T. A maritime sense of place: southeast Alaska fishermen and mainstream nature ideologies
- 1999 Linn, Angela. Not Just a Pretty Face: Dolls and Human Figurines in Alaska Native Cultures
- 1999 McIntosh, Stacie J. Nausiaq = plant?: Ethnobotanical classification in Shismaref , Alaska
- 1999 Tozzi, Louis M. Semester in the Arctic: in search of organizational identity
- 1998 Brewster, Karen N. An Umialik's life: conversations with Harry Brower Sr
- 1998 Dubinina, Irina Y. Forms, functions, meanings and uses of code-switching among bilingual Russian students in Anchorage, Alaska
- 1998 Krutak, Lars. One Stitch at a Time: Ivalu and Sivuqaq Tattoo
- 1997 Chancey, Ann M. Lebidev-Lastochkin Co. Activity in Alaska
- 1997 Martin, Cydny Brynn. Mediated Identity and Negotiated Tradition: Inupiaq Atigiit, 1850-2000
- 1997 O'Brien, Thomas A. Athabaskan implements from the skin house days as related by Reverend David Salmon
- 1996 Carr, Teresa K. The Integration of Governmental and Industrial Policy for the Environment on Alaska's North Slope
- 1996 Faulkner, Susan Hartwell. Noatak: Seasonality of Birth in an Inupiaq Village in Northwest Alaska
- 1996 Mason, Arthur Lawrence. In a strange turn of events: how Alutiiq cultural pride became a commodity
- 1995 Peirce, John Carl, Jr. Reconstruction of Neets'aii Gwich'in land use: a methodological study
- 1995 Rahm, Jacqueline Marie. Indigenous psychologies of Nepal and the use of traditional healing systems
- 1995 Wright, Miranda Hildebrand. The last great Indian war (Nulato 1851)
- 1994 Cook, Elizabeth Ann. The Photographer's Lens and the Elders' Recollections: Reconstructing Women's Lives in Barrow, 1921-1936, through Photographs and Interviews
- 1994 Jacka, Jerry. Ethnohistory of the Commercial Fishing Industry in the Eastern Aleutians
- 1994 Kaburagi, Yoko . Avrilingyuamiut women's commercial carving: continuity of Inuit gender roles in Pelly Bay, NWT, Canada
- 1994 Kirsis, Lise Klein. Katherine Peter is interviewed by Lise Klein Kirsis on October 3, 1994 [sound recording]
- 1994 Speranza, Rose. Folk Classification of Mammals Among the Koyukon on the Yukon River
- 1994 Taksami, Natalia. Ethnohistory of Aleut Settlement of Western Alaska Peninsula: Belkofski 1832 to Present
- 1994 McGowan, Sarah J. Commercial Whaling in Akutan , Alaska
- 1994 Petrivelli, Patricia J. Aleut Kinship and Social Organization in the 19th Century
- 1993 Daniello, Denise Lynn. Villagers to townsmen: a comparative study of Eskimo migrant adjustment patterns in Fairbanks, Alaska
- 1993 Deng, Meini. Naming Practices of Northwest Alaska Inupiat
- 1993 Scott, Carol Patricia. Continuity and change in the Wiseman area of Alaska: a look at land and renewable resource use over time
- 1993 Williams, Ann Elizabeth. Father Herman : syncretic symbol of divine legitimation
- 1992 Engelhard, Michael. Koyukon Athabaskan Occupancy and Land Use on the Upper Kobuk and Koyukuk Rivers
- 1992 Kreher, Ronald E. The Composition of Subsistence Herring Fishing Crews: Toksook Bay, Alaska , 1987
- 1992 Kerttula, Anna Marie. The Chukchi Reindeer Herders of Sireniki
- 1991 Asbury, Margaret Ann Magee. Gender and Ethnic-Based Interactions in Math and Science Classes at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
- 1991 Corbett, Debra Garland. Aleut settlement patterns in the western Aleutian Islands, Alaska
- 1991 Sturnick, Karen Griffin. Yupik Women in Transition: A Study in Change and Continuity in the Roles of Yupik Women
- 1990 Ganley, Matthew Lenox. Paradigms and Piilaaqtut: Applicability of Accepted Interpretations of Inupiat Ethnography and History
- 1990 Mathews, V.T. A Case Study of a Homeland and a Wilderness: Gates of the Arctic National Park and the Nunamiut Eskimos
- 1989 Hensel, Chase Title N/A
- 1988 Dudley-Rowley, Marilyn R. Debunking Alaska: the metamorphosis of the Alaska literary myth through its relationship with Alaska's socioeconomic image
- 1988 McCollough, Martha. Yup'ik responses to Russian Orthodox and Moravian missionaries in the lower Kuskokwim region of southwestern Alaska
- 1988 Taber, Rachel Kathryn. Czech/Slovak Immigration into the Yukon Territory: 1914-1953
- 1986 Wheeler, Polly Carvill. Kaltag, Alaska and Fairbanks: Changing Patterns of Subsistence Salmon Fishing on the Yukon River
- 1984 Walsh, Steven J . Polity of St. Lawrence Island
- 1983 Wyatt, Mary Pat. Problems in conservation of Alaskan ethnographic material
- 1983 Case, Martha Frances. Modern Foragers: Wild Resource Use in Nenana Village , Alaska
- 1982 Regan, Susan Lee. Interpretation through oral history in the Susitna River Basin
- 1981 Slaby, Daniel Louis. Demography of an Athabaskan Village: Minto , Alaska
- 1981 White, Gay Ann. Eskimo village: an ethnic enclave in Fairbanks, Alaska
- 1978 deBurlo, Charles Russell. A Study of performance in Kutchin oral narrative
- 1975 Andrews, Elizabeth Frances. Salcha: an Athapaskan band of the Tanana River and its culture
- 1973 Dykema, Gisela M. Between yesterday and tomorrow: Allendorf Germany
- 1973 Keim, Frank J. Some trends in non-native adaptation in villages along the Kobuk and Koyukuk Rivers in northwest Alaska
- 1972 Breiby, John C . A biographical study of acculturation on Nushagak Bay
- 1972 Pitts, Roger Steven. The changing settlement patterns and housing types of the Upper Tanana Indians
- 1971 Vitt, Ramon B. Hunting practices of the Upper Tanana Athapaskans
- 1971 Wallen, Lynn Ager. The Eskimo storyknife complex of Southwestern Alaska
- 1970 Billman, Esther Lisle. A study of the elements of the supernatural among the Tlingit of Sitka and Yakutat.
- 1970 Jacobs, Neville Abbott. The anthropologist and the public; some problems of public communication in anthropology
- 1968 Olson, Wallace M. Minto, Alaska: cultural and historical influences on group identity
- 2015 Caroline Crecelius. [MA] Natural Histories of Yup'ik Memoirs
- 2011 Ashley Meredith. [MA] Visual Ideologies & Imagining a Hawaiian Nation
- 2005 Elizabeth Marino. [MA] Landscape in Translation: Place names and language shift in White Mountain, Alaska
- 2004 Scarlett Hopkins Hutchison. Women, Health, and Aging in Yup'ik/Cup'ik Culture
- 2004 Qwynten Daelgar Richards. [MA] The Use of Aspect in a Gwich'in Narrative
- 2000 John M. Busch. [MA] Directionals in Gwich'in
- 1982 Mary R. Pete. [MA] Place names of Taprarmiut