Ph.D. Dissertations in Archaeology - Archaeological Institute of America

Ph.D. Dissertations in Archaeology

List of recently completed Ph.D. dissertations and dissertations in progress in archaeology.

Ethnicity, daily life, and trade: Domestic assemblages from fifth-century BCE Morgantina, Sicily
Author: Justin Walsh, University of Virginia
Advisor: Malcolm Bell
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
From palaces to Pompeii: The architectural and social context of Hellenistic floor mosaics in the House of the Faun
Author: Alexis Christensen, Florida State University
Advisor: Nancy de Grummond
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
Roman landscape painting and ancient cartography
Author: J. Keith Doherty, Department of Art History, Boston University
Advisor: Fred S. Kleiner
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2010
The Hellenistic and Roman pottery of Field I (The Village) at 'Iraq al-Amir, Jordan: A typological study
Author: Michael Zimmerman, Brown University
Advisor: Martha Joukowsky
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
The organization of Pompeii's system of traffic: An analysis of the evidence and its impact on the infrastructure, economy and urbanism of the ancient city
Author: Eric Poehler, University of Virginia
Advisor: John Dobbins
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2009
"Hellenization" and southern Phoenicia: Reconsidering the impact of Greece before Alexander
Author: Susan Martin, University of California - Berkeley
Advisor: Andrew Stewart
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
(Re)presenting empire: The Roman imperial cult in Asia Minor, 31 BC--AD 68
Author: Benjamin Rubin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Advisor: Elaine Gazda
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
A cultural studies approach to Roman public libraries: Social negotiation, changing spaces, and euergetism
Author: David Platt, Stanford University
Advisor: Jennifer Trimble
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
An eclectic locus artis: The Casa di Octavius Quartio at Pompeii
Author: Francesca Tronchin, Department of Art History, Boston University
Advisor: Fred S. Kleiner
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
Becoming a Roman province: An analysis of funerary practices in Roman Syria in the context of empire
Author: Lidewijde de Jong, Stanford University
Advisor: Jennifer Trimble
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2009
Beyond the Roman frontier: A case-study in Slovakia of the impact of Roman trade and culture on ancient German settlements
Author: Erik Vrba, Department of Archaeology, Boston University
Advisor: James R. Wiseman
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
Bones, smoke, and lies: Hellenizing burnt sacrifice
Author: Charles Stocking, University of California - Los Angeles
Advisor: Sarah Morris
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2009
Commercial navigation in the Greek and Roman world
Author: Danny Lee Davis, The University of Texas at Austin
Advisor: Joseph C. Carter
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2009
Configurations of the symbolism of the bull in early Late Bronze Age Crete. A case study in the interpretation of Minoan religion
Author: Evangelia Sikla, Bryn Mawr College
Advisor: James Wright
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
Controlling the sacred past: Rome, Pius IX, and Christian Archaeology
Author: Jamie Erenstoft, University at Buffalo SUNY
Advisor: Stephen L. Dyson
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
Corinth and the birth of figural representation in Greek monumental architecture
Author: Sarah Roland, Columbia University
Advisor: Natalie B. Kampen
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
Creation stories: The archaeological site of Ayia Irini, Kea, and the production of archaeological knowledge
Author: Eugenia Gorogianni, University of Cincinnati
Advisor: Jack Davis
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
Cult Fees and the Ritual of Money in Greek Sanctuaries of the Classical and Hellenistic Period
Author: Isabelle Pafford, University of California - Berkeley
Advisor: R. S. Stroud
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
Cultural Constructions: Architectural Depictions in Roman Art
Author: Elizabeth Wolfram Thill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Classics
Advisor: Monika Truemper
Status: In Progress
Cultural Processes in Larinum from the Fourth Century BCE to the First Century CE amid Roman Expansion and the Spread of Hellenistic Culture
Author: Elizabeth C. Robinson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Classics
Advisor: Nicola Terrenato
Status: In Progress
Falerii Novi and the romanisation of Italy during the mid-Republic
Author: Walter F. McCall, Department of Classics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Advisor: Nicola Terrenato
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
Feasting and ceramics: A view from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos
Author: Julie Hruby, University of Cincinnati
Advisor: Jack Davis
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
Food, Economy, and Identity in the Sangro River Valley, Abruzzo, Italy 650 B.C.-A.D. 150
Author: China Shelton, Department of Archaeology, Boston University
Advisor: James R. Wiseman
Status: Completed
Date: July, 2009
Foreigners and slaves: understanding the lives of immigrants to Rome (1st to 3rd c. A.D.)
Author: Kristina Killgrove, Department of Anthropology The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Advisor: Dale Hutchinson
Status: In Progress
Foundation Rituals and the Culture of Building in Ancient Greece
Author: Gloria Park, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Art
Advisor: D.C. Haggis
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
GIS Analysis of Menorca
Author: Kevin Mullen, Boston University
Advisor: Curtis Runnels
Status: In Progress
Human dietary response to resource abundance and climate change
Author: Catherine Foster West, University of Washington
Advisor: Donald K. Grayson
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2009
Hunters, heroes, kings: The frieze of Tomb II at Vergina
Author: Hallie Franks, Har
Advisor: Gloria Ferrari Pinney
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
Imago amoris: The poetics of desire in Roman painting
Author: Herica Nascimento Valladares, Columbia University
Advisor: Richard Brilliant
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
Kokkinovrysi: A Classical shrine to the Nymphs at Corinth
Author: Theodora Barbara Kopestonsky, University at Buffalo SUNY
Advisor: Bradley Ault
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2009
Landscape organization in Magna Graecia
Author: Alberto Prieto, The University of Texas at Austin
Advisor: Joseph C. Carter
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
Manipulation of memory: Public buildings and decorative programs in Roman cities of Asia Minor
Author: Diana Ng, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Advisor: Elaine Gazda
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
Many waters: Bathing ethe of Roman Palestine
Author: Danielle Fatkin, Stanford University
Advisor: Jennifer Trimble
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
Material Culture Approaches to the Study of Children and Childhood in the Roman World
Author: Katherine Huntley, University of Leicester
Advisor: Penelope Allison
Status: In Progress
Materializing childhood: An historical archaeology of children in Roman Egypt
Author: Karen Johnson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Advisor: Susan Alcock
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
Mixed signals: Androgyny, identity, and iconography on the Graeco-Phoenician sealings from Tel Kedesh, Israel
Author: Lisa Cakmak, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Advisor: Sharon Herbert
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2009
Monuments, materiality, and meaning in the classical archaeology of Anatolia
Author: Daniel Shoup, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Advisor: Elaine Gazda
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
Mortuary Variabililty in Early Iron Age Cretan Burials
Author: Melissa Eaby, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Classics
Advisor: D.C. Haggis
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
Mycenaean Ways of War: The Past, Politics and Personhood
Author: Katherine M. Harrell, University of Sheffield
Advisor: Roger Doonan, John Bennet
Status: Completed
Date: September, 2009
On stepping stones: The historical experience of Roman mosaics
Author: Rebecca Molholt, Columbia University
Advisor: Natalie B. Kampen
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
Pentrian Samnites: A history of social and political change in the Central Apennines
Author: Rachel van Dusen, University at Buffalo SUNY
Advisor: Stephen L. Dyson
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2009
Production and Consumption in North Etruria during the Archaic and Classical periods. The World of Lars Porsenna
Author: Hilary Smith Becker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Classics
Advisor: Nicola Terrenato
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
Provincial Reactions to Roman Imperialism: The Aftermath of the Jewish Revolt, A.D. 66-70
Author: Kenneth Jones, University of California - Berkeley
Advisor: Erich Gruen
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
Ritual activity and regional dynamics: Towards a reinterpretation of Minoan extra-urban ritual space
Author: Elissa Z. Faro, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Advisor: John Cherry
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
Roman provocations: Interactions with decorated spaces in early imperial Rome and Pompeii
Author: Sarah Levin-Richardson, Stanford University
Advisor: Jennifer Trimble
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2009
Rome restored: The themes of pax and restitutio under Vespasian and Titus
Author: Sarah E. Cox, Columbia University
Advisor: Richard Brilliant
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
Rural change and continuity in Etruria : a study... by Robert E Vander Poppen Rural change and continuity in Etruria : a study of village communities from the 7th century B.C. to the 1st century A.D.
Author: Robert E. Vander Poppen, Department of Classics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Advisor: Nicola Terrenato
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
Shape of the beast: The theriomorphic and therianthropic deities and demons of ancient Italy
Author: Wayne L. Rupp, Jr., Florida State University
Advisor: Nancy de Grummond
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
Social logics under empire: The Armenian 'highland satrapy' and Achaemenid rule, ca. 600--300 BC
Author: Lori Khatchadourian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Advisor: Susan Alcock
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
Speaking through spolia: The language of architectural reuse in the fortifications of late Roman Greece
Author: Jon Frey, University of California - Berkeley
Advisor: Christopher Hallett
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
Terracotta-tiled Roofs in Orientalizing Etruria
Author: Daniel Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Classics
Advisor: G. Kenneth Sams
Status: In Progress
Textual and visual commemoration in columbarium tombs of early Imperial Rome
Author: Dorian Borbonus, University of Pennsylvania
Advisor: Lothar Haselberger
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
The Hellenistic Kantharos. Contribution on Hellenistic Pottery
Author: Chrysanthi Kallini, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Advisor: prof. Stella Drougou
Status: Completed
Date: July, 2007
The allure of monuments in the Roman Empire: Provincial perspectives on the triumphal arch
Author: Kimberly Cassibry, University of California - Berkeley
Advisor: Christopher Hallett
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2009
The Archaeology of Rural Production in Roman Central Tyrrhenian Italy
Author: Abigail Crawford, Department of Archaeology, Boston University
Advisor: Christopher H. Roosevelt
Status: In Progress
The Building Blocks of Empire: Civic Architecture, Central Italy, and the Roman Middle Republic
Author: Jeffrey A. Becker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Classics
Advisor: Nicola Terrenato
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
The Category of 'Pseudo-Cypriot' Amphorae. A Contribution on Early Hellenistic Pottery.
Author: Lydia-Antonia Trakatelli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Advisor: prof. Stella Drougou
Status: Completed
Date: July, 2009
The City of Corinth and Urbanism in Late Antique Greece
Author: Amelia Brown, University of California - Berkeley
Advisor: Susanna Elm
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
The city wall of Aphrodisias and civic identity in Late Antique Asia Minor
Author: Peter de Staebler, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Advisor: Christopher Ratte
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
The Codrus Painter: An iconographical study
Author: Amalia Avramidou, Johns Hopkins University
Advisor: H. A. Shapiro
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
The fourth century city of Palike in Sicily
Author: Spencer Pope, Brown University
Advisor: R. Ross Holloway
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
The Hero Shrine of Opheltes/Archemoros at Nemea: A Case Study of Ancient Greek Hero Cult
Author: Jorge Bravo, University of California - Berkeley
Advisor: S. G. Miller
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2006
The interplay of economic, climatic and cultural change investigated through isotopic analyses of bone tissue: The case of Sardinia 4000--1900 BC
Author: Luca Lai, University of South Florida
Advisor: Robert Tykot
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
The judgment of animals in classical Greece: Animal sculpture and the concept of lifelikeness
Author: Evrydiki Tasopoulou, Bryn Mawr College
Advisor: A.A. Donohue
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
The Nabataean coroplastic arts: A synthetic approach for studying terracotta figurines, plaques, vessels, and other clay objects
Author: Christopher Tuttle, Brown University
Advisor: Martha Joukowsky
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2009
The Presence and Role of Women and Children in Roman Military Communities
Author: Elizabeth M. Greene, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Classics
Advisor: Werner Riess
Status: In Progress
The social dynamic in the countryside of the southwest Iberia from the first century BCE to the fifth century CE: The torre de palma, Sao Cucufate, Pisoes, and Milreu villas
Author: Lucia Maria Pinheiro Afonso, University at Buffalo SUNY
Advisor: Stephen L. Dyson
Status: Completed
Date: August, 2010
The symposium and its past in Athenian vase painting, ca. 530-450 B.C
Author: Kathryn Rose Topper, Harvard University
Advisor: Gloria Ferrari Pinney
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
The Topographical Transformation of Archaic Rome: A New Interpretation of Architecture and Geography in the Early City
Author: John N. N. Hopkins, The University of Texas at Austin
Advisor: John R. Clarke
Status: In Progress
Tombs for the Living: Ascetic Communities in Late Antique Egypt
Author: Elisabeth O'Connell, University of California - Berkeley
Advisor: Susanna Elm
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008
Traditions in profile: A chronological sequence of western Sicilian ceramics (7th--6th c. BC)
Author: Jeanette Cooper, University at Buffalo SUNY
Advisor: Bradley Ault
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2007
Where did all the women go: The archaeology of the soldier empresses
Author: Ryan Ricciardi, University of Cincinnati
Advisor: Brian Rose
Status: Completed
Date: May, 2008