This page contains all publications submitted to SURFACE written by students, faculty, and staff in the department.

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2024

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Evolution on High: A comparison of the physiology and narrative representation of two native high altitude populations, Taylor Shay Harman

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Landscapes of Life and Death: Placing the Spring Street Presbyterian Church in Nineteenth Century New York, Katherine Elizabeth Hicks

2023

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British Anti-Slavery, Trade, and Nascent Colonialism on the Sierra Leone Peninsula, c. 1860 – 1960, OLUSEYI AGBELUSI

Decentralization, Development, and Conflict in Central Mali: Examining the Role of Local Governance, Andrew Korn

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The Geopolitics of Refuge and Reproduction: Maternal Health and Healthcare of Congolese Refugees in Flight, Displacement, and Resettlement, Julia McDaniel-Bouley

American Islam Emerging: Ethnographic Explorations of Bangladeshi Diasporic Communities and Their Identity Politics, Piety Movements, and Meaning-Making in New York City Post 9/11, Moushumi Shabnam

2022

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Startup Futures: Entrepreneurs, Investors and Imaginaries of Care in Global India, Ipshita Ghosh

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ASSEMBLING ENSLAVED LIVES: LABOR, CONSUMPTION, AND LANDSCAPES IN THE NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, Matthew Clark Greer

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Freyre’s Plantation Playground: The Changing Landscape of the Sugar Plantation Monjope, Catherine Elizabeth LaVoy

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Entangled Lives in a Southern Metropolis: An Archaeology of Legacies at 87 Church Street, Charleston, South Carolina (1734-1771), Sarah Platt

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Fragmented Landscapes: An Archaeology of Transformations in The Pra River Basin, Southern Ghana, Sean Hamilton Reid

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Weaving Subjects at the Obraje de Chincheros: Indigenous Contributions to the Colonial Aesthetic, Maria Smith

Working Hands, Indebted Bodies: Embodiment of Inequality and Labor in an Era of Progress, Alanna Louise Warner-Smith

2021

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Archaeology and Settlement Histories Along the Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500 B.C. – Ad 1970, Samuel Amartey

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Archaeology And Settlement Histories Along The Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500 B.C. – Ad 1970, Samuel Amartey

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Seeding Sovereignty: Sensory Politics and Biodiversity in the Karen Diaspora, Terese Virginia Gagnon

♀ Negro: Embodied Experiences of Inequality in Historic New York, Aja Lans

2020

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Crossroads of Conversion: Intersections of Bodies, Materials, and Histories in Early Medieval Bohemia, Lauren Hosek

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“Put a crapaud in a suit and people will vote for the PNM”: A critical examination of patronage, loyalty, and the structuring force of party partisanship in Trinidad, Taapsi Ramchandani

Alhamdulilah, We Live in a Muslim Country: Searching for Safety and Constructing Belonging, Shaundel Sanchez

2019

Southern landscapes: Coastal Arequipa and the Republic of Peru (1821-1879), Maria Fernanda Boza Cuadros

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Endometriosis: The Psychosocial and Emotional Lived Experience of College-Aged Women, Brianna Graffia

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Tailor Made in India: Jaipur's Masters of Cloth, Doctors of Clothing, Alisa Weinstein

2018

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INSIST, PERSIST, AND RESIST: FEMINIST ACTIVISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN ANTIOQUIA, COLOMBIA, Carolina Arango-Vargas

Refugee Crossings: Everyday Geographies of Nepali-Bhutani Encampment and Resettlement, Retika Desai

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“When are we going home?”: Home Attachment in the Bosnian Community of Central New York, Amela Hrustic

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Tribal Margins: Dalit Belonging and State Recognition in the Western Himalayas, Steven Christopher Johnson

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Village Doctors and Vulnerable Bodies: Gender, Medicine, and Risk in North India, Jocelyn Killmer

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Putting Forts in their Place: The Politics of Defense in Antigua, 1670-1785, Christopher Kurt Waters

2017

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All the King's Men: Slavery and Soldiering at the Cabrits Garrison (1763-1854), Zachary James McCray Beier

Working for Dignity: The Authorized Sightseeing Rickshaw Drivers of Keoladeo National Park, Emera Bridger Wilson

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Limits of Liberation: Youth and Politics in Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement, Melinda Gurr

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Collaboration and Conflict in Transnationally-Dispersed Zimbabwean Families, William John Suk

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Please Forget to Floss: Developing an Assay for Identifying Tuberculosis in Dental Calculus from the Smithsonian’s Huntington Collection (1893-1921), Soleil Young

2016

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The Poppy: Contextualising a Seemingly Timeless Symbol in History, Materials and Practice, Emily Barrett

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Collective and Individual Identities of Soldiers at the Florence American Cemetery and Memorial, Christiana Chmielewski

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Que Salgamos más Adelante: Identity, Community, and the Desire for Development in Oaxaca, Mexico, Lori Klivak

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CONSUMERISM, SOCIAL PRACTICE, AND SLAVERY: CONSUMER PRACTICES AMONG ENSLAVED LABORERS AT POPLAR FOREST PLANTATION (1828-1861), Lori Ann Lee

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Making Men in the City: Articulating Masculinity and Space in Urban India, Madhura Lohokare

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Sourcing the Sherds: An Analysis of the Coarse Earthenware Ceramics from Trents Plantation in Barbados, Sara McNamara

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Women as Fish: Physical Movement and Social Mobility in Contemporary Vietnam, Linh Khanh Nguyen

Amphibious Subjects: Sassoi and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana, Edwin Kwame Otu

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In Pursuit of My Eye: A Book of Photographs, Amanda Piela

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Roman Britain in the Northeast: The Excavation and Interpretation of Arbeia, South Shields, Eleanor Shotton

2015

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I Want to Be in That Number: A Song Profile of "When the Saints Go Marching In", Gregory H. Jacks

Flexible Labor in a Spiritual Economy: Peace, Work, and Inequality in Globalized Yoga, Laurah E. Klepinger

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Postemancipation Landscapes and Material Culture: The Bethel Community and the Benjamin W. Jackson Plantation, Sarah Elizabeth Loftus

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Reconfiguring French Secularism: The Mosque as the New Multicultural Space of Young Muslims, Ayse Ozcan

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The Political Economy of Ceramic Production in Barbados: From plantation industry to craft production, Dwayne Scheid

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The Country's House: Examining Public Space and Community in St. Mary's City's Seventeenth-Century Town Center, Wesley R. Willoughby

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Middle-Class Identity and Hindu Women's Ritual Practice in South India, Nicole Allyse Wilson

2014

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From Sydney to Syracuse a Transcontinental Exploration of Women’s Health in Karen Refugee Communities, Darcy Cherlin

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Historical Archaeology: Methods, Meanings and Ambiguities, Christopher R. DeCorse

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The Children of Spring Street: The Remains of Childhood in a Nineteenth Century Abolitionist Congregation, Meredith Alyson Berman Ellis

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Pedicures in Combat Boots: Navigating Gender in the Syracuse Police Department, An Ethnographic Analysis, Rebecca Ierardo

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ACCOMMODATING CONSERVATION: REGULATING ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE IN A HIMALAYAN TOURIST TOWN, Jamie Kathleen Johnson

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Ways to Refuge: Bosnians in Central New York in Ethnographic Perspective, Fethi Keles

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Khwaja Sira: Culture, Identity Politics, and "Transgender" Activism in Pakistan, Faris Ahmed Khan

Valuing Health: Herbal Traditions, Pharmaceuticals, and Healing in Bangladesh, Karen McNamara

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Identifying Desaparecidos: The Development of Forensic Anthropology in Chile, Amanda M. Quinn

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At the Margins of the Plantation: Alternative Modernities and an Archaeology of the "Poor Whites" of Barbados, Matthew Connor Reilly

A Variously Understood Past: Negotiating History and Identity in Eastern Rajasthan, Ian Richard Wilson

2013

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In Search of a Single Voice: The Politics of Form, Use and Belief in the Kernewek Language, Jesse Owen Harasta

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Estate by Estate: The Landscape of the 1733 St. Jan Slave Rebellion, Holly Kathryn Norton

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Technological Adaptation on the Frontier: An Examination of Blacksmithing at Fort Michilimackinac, 1715-1781, Amy S. Roache-Fedchenko

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French in Madagascar: A Colonial Language After Independence, Christopher Roehrer-MacGregor

Making a Living at Making a Difference: A Study of Employees in Nonprofit Social Service Organizations in Memphis, Tennessee, Rachel Wright

2012

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The Liminality of Zimmedari and its Consequences on the Water Quality and Health of Meena Communities in Rajasthan, Firdaus Arastu

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The Maritime Archaeology of West Africa in the Atlantic World: Investigations at Elmina, Ghana, Gregory David Cook

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"Women With No One": Community and Christianity in a Secular South Indian Homeless Shelter, Connie Etter

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Double Engagements: the Transnational Experiences of Ethiopian Immigrants in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area, Kassahun Haile Kebede

Aghoreshwar Bhagawan Ram and the Aghor Tradition, Jishnu Shankar

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Socio-Politics of Smuttynose Island: A Look into the Glass Importation Industry of Early New England Fishing Sites, Lauren Silverstein

Moral Economy Meets Global Economy: Negotiating Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Livelihood among Shrimp Farming Households in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, Hong Anh Thi Vu

2011

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Meeting of the Minds: Perceptions of and Experiences with School-Based Mental Health Services, Jill Priest Amati

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Bricks and Brick Making at the Harriet Tubman Home: Archaeology, History and Neutron Activation Analysis, Alan D. Armstrong

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Sweet Spring: The Development and Meaning of Maple Syrup Production at Fort Drum, New York, David W. Babson

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Between Structural Violence and Resistance: The Everyday Resistance Of Karen Migrants in Thailand, John Giammatteo

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Of His Bones are Coral Made: Submerged Cultural Resources, Site Formation Processes, and Multiple Scales of Interpretation in Coastal Ghana, Rachel Lynelle Horlings

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A Review of "Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty", Fethi Keles

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From Displacement to Emplacement: Bosnian Muslims in Urban U.S., Fethi Keles

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Debates on Gender and Technology: Cesarean Births in Taiwan, Chen-I Kuan

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Artifacts of Exchange: A Multiscalar Approach to Maritime Archaeology at Elmina, Ghana, Andrew T. Pietruszka

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Landscape, Labor, and Practice: Slavery and Freedom at Green Castle Estate, Antigua, Samantha Anne Rebovich

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Liminality as a Space of Self Reflection on El Camino de Santiago del Norte, Amanda Redpath

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Archaeology of Isolation: The 19th Century Lazareto de Isla de Cabras, Puerto Rico, Paola A. Schiappacasse

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Transforming the City. An Ethnography of Contested Public Space in Venezuela, Ana Servigna

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Aghoreshwar Bhagawan Ram and the Aghor Tradition, Jishnu Shankar

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The Medicalization of “Homosexuality”, Kristin (Lula) Townsend

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Breast or bottle? HIV-positive women's responses to global health policy on infant feeding in India, Cecilia Van Hollen

2010

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Marking life and death on St. John, Virgin Islands, 1718-1950: An historical archaeology of commemoration through objects, space, and transformation, Helen Blouet

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Change and the Era of the Atlantic Trade: Commerce and Interaction in the Niumi Commercial Center (The Gambia), Liza A. Gijanto

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Frontier Landscapes, Missions, and Power: A French Jesuit Plantation and Church at Grand Bay, Dominica (1747--1763), Stephan Timothy Lenik

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For want of provisions: An archaeological and historical investigation of the British soldier at Fort Haldimand (1778--1784), Douglas James Pippin

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HIV-AIDS and the gendering of stigma in Tamil Nadu South India, Cecilia Van Hollen

2009

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South Korean transnational mothers: Familism, cultural criticism and education project, Kyung Ju Ahn

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Forests of power and memory: An archaeology of sacred groves in the Eguafo polity, Southern Ghana (c. 500-1900 A.D.), Gerard Chouin

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Institutional practices, natural resource management and livelihood strategies in Muhur, southwest Ethiopia, Mengistu Dessalegn Debela

2008

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"Little more than a winter home": An historical archaeology of Irish seasonal migration at Slievemore, Achill Island, Shannon Monique Dunn

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Bridging the Macro with the Micro in Conflict Analysis: Structural Simplification as a Heuristic Device, Fethi Keles