Graduate Theses

Graduate students in the UWF Anthropology department have researched a variety of topics both in Pensacola and around the world.

List of Graduate Student Theses
Name	Year	Thesis Title
Graumlich, Emma	2025	Potentially Polluting Wrecks as Underwater Cultural Heritage: Testing the Florida Master Site File to Identify Polluting Shipwreck Sites on the Gulf Coast
Milewski, Justin	2025	What…No Wood? An Analysis of the Cannon Cluster Site (9CH1552)
Reagan, Nicholas	2025	Metal to Machinations: Nail Production Refinement as an Analog to the Technological Means of Social Control in Pensacola, Florida, 1559–1821
Heffron, Casey	2025	Gun but Not Forgotten: Investigation of a Possible Confederate Gunboat in the Blackwater River
Kirk, Kirk	2024	Multidimensional Maintenance: An Ethnographic Study of the Sexual and Gender Minority Community in Pensacola, Florida
Richter, Kenneth	2024	We Come in Peace, Identifying Spanish Military Behaviors Within New World Settlements
DeRoche, Patrick	2024	In Pursuit of the Panzacola: A Historical Documentary and Archaeological Investigation
Gonzalez, Samantha	2024	Social Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Subadult Age Estimation in a Contemporary Forensic Sample From New Mexico, U.S.
Romdenne, Emily	2024	Injury Recidivism, Structural Vulnerability, and Embodied Violence: Analyzing Social Patterns of Fracture Occurrence and Surgical Intervention in a Modern Forensic CT Sample From New Mexico
Kaczor, Matthew	2024	The 90-Mile Manifest: An Archaeological Analysis of Material Culture Onboard Cuban Refugee Vessels
Brooks, Bria	2024	Echoes of Freedom and Resistance: A Mixed Methods Study of Intersectional Heritage and Florida Marronage at Prospect Bluff
Talbert, Emily	2024	Analyzing a Late Mississippian Pottery Assemblage from the Naval Live Oaks Cemetery Site (8SR36)
Santiago, Tiffany	2024	The Paleopathology of Migrants to the Ancient City of Copan During the Late Classic Period
Pennington, Meagan	2024	Age Estimation Using Dental Development and Long Bone Lengths for the Children in the Late Classic Maya Civilization
Brown, Taylor	2024	Identifying Archaeological Evidence of Resistance to Prohibition in Pensacola, Florida
Stone, Abigail	2023	Finding Women in Their Lost Possessions: Personal Artifacts at the Luna Settlement
Seymour, Spencer	2023	Power Through Compassion: An Ethnographic Study of Contemporary Western Christian Medical Missions
Ramey, Preya	2023	Faculty and Staff Perspectives and Awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder in the University Setting
Peacock, Caroline	2023	From Olive This: A Characterization of the Spanish Olive Jar in Mid-16th Century New Spain
Oeters, Rikki	2023	Sands of Time: Bathymetric History of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck Area
McMillon, Emily	2023	Of Rodents, Roots, and Men: Evaluating the Effects of Pedoturbation on Artifacts at the Tristán De Luna Settlement Site
Martinez, Ilaisah	2023	Analyzing the Language Used Within Forensic Anthropology Population Affinity Reporting
Kinison, George	2023	Coosa Women and Household Lithic Production: Analyzing Gendered Activity Areas at the King Site (9FL5)
Jolly, Hillary	2023	Mississippianization and Late Woodland Resistance: An Analysis of a Wakulla Shell Midden on Pensacola Bay
Howell Franklin, Lindsey	2023	A Stitch in Time: Unraveling Vasa’s Nålbundna Textiles
Gazaway, James	2023	Colonial Numismatic Archaeology of the Gulf Coast: With a Special Focus on the Sites Around Mobile and Pensacola
Ganas, Katherine	2023	Let's Talk Form: Using Vessel Form Analysis to Identify Galley Provisioning Patterns on Spanish Ships in the 16th Century
Cabrera, Kevin	2023	Isotopic Evidence of Gender? Using Isotopic Data to Read Gendered Experiences of Diet at the Classic Maya Site of Copan, Honduras
Bolte, Christina	2023	“There They Went to Die, and Some Returned:” Mexica-Tenochca Indigenous Allies, Neutron Activation Analysis, and the 1559-1561 Luna Settlement Effort in Pensacola, Florida
Ashbrook, Megan	2023	"Our Little Society, Endeavored to Be as Social as Possible": Civilian Women and Ceramic Vessels in British Pensacola
Wallace, Kara	2022	The Butcherpen Mound Complex (8SR29): Tracking Local Cultural Transitions Through Spatial Distribution Patterning on a Dynamic Coastal Landscape in Northwest Florida
Walkup, Taylor	2022	Does Embodied Violence Impact Forensic Anthropological Age Estimation? Investigating Skeletal Indicators of Biological “Weathering” in Modern U.S. Individuals
Strasheim, Ariana	2022	Validating the Use of Osteoarthritis as an Indicator of Age in Human Skeletal Remains
Plasencia, Enrique	2022	Skeletal Markers of Stress: Investigating Possible Migrant Remains in a South Florida Cold-Case Sample
London, Brittaney	2022	Using a Collections Management Policy as a Method to Alleviate a Curation Crisis
Baggett, Jenni	2022	The Manly Mound Site: Analysis of a Middle Woodland Coastal Mound Site in Northwest Florida
Hutson, Allison	2021	Comparisons of mortuary data and demography for AME Zion cemetery and the Poor Farm in Pensacola, Florida
Elmore, John Robert III	2021	I Can Barrel-Ly Contain Myself: Identifying Types of Wooden Casks Within the Emanuel Point II Artifact Assemblage
Boren, Courtney	2021	An Examination of Pensacola Archaeological Culture and the Use of BOSL for Interpreting Pensacola Ceramic Chronologies in the Pensacola Bay Region of Northwest, Florida
Bleuel, Casey	2021	Ropa, Herramientas, y Armas: Comparison of the Material Assemblages of 16th-Century Spanish Probate Records to the Artifact Assemblages at the Luna Settlement Site and the Emanuel Point I Shipwreck
Roy, Michael	2020	Abandon All Ships!: Economic Changes and Their Relation to Intentional Vessel Abandonment at the Shields Point Cove
Patterson, Brianna	2020	Scorched Sawmills: Effects of a Confederate Raid on the Lumber Industry of West Florida
Hines, Rachel	2020	Cemeteries as Classrooms: Making Archaeology Education Relevant, Accessible, and Sustainable
Henderson, Kad	2020	Mahogany and Iron: The Construction of the Nuestra Señora del Rosario y Santiago Apóstol
Hartley, Stephanie	2020	A Hierarchy of Expert Performance as Applied to Forensic Anthropology
Foster, Elaine	2020	Gravestone Choices: An Examination and Analysis of the Gravestones of the Mare Island Naval Cemetery
DuBose, Michael	2020	St. Joseph’s Seamen’s Cemetery: An Investigation of a Cemetery Section for Red Snapper Fishermen
Dietrich, Emily	2020	Another Brick in the Wall: A Pedagogical Approach to Excavations at a 19th-Century Brickyard
Burkhard, Austin	2020	Shipwreck Tagging Archaeological Management Program (STAMP): A Model for Coastal Heritage Management Based on Community Engagement and Citizen Science
Whitehead, Hunter	2019	Lost at Sea: Utilizing Photogrammetry to Monitor Two Submerged F8F Bearcats
Van Slyke, Andrew	2019	From Who’s Afraid to Yo Solo: The Hunt for HMS Mentor
Mateja, Cyndal	2019	Patterns and Practice: Lead Glazed COarse Earthenwares of the Luna Settlement and Fleet
Mumford, Meghan	2019	A Tale of Two Early Jails: Using a Curational Research Approach to Study the Colonial and Antebellum Jails of Pensacola, Florida
Brazelton, Elizabeth	2019	The Resilient Warrior: A Lakota Ethnography in Hemp Economics
Atwell, Ashley	2019	Infant Mortality and Structural Determinants of Health in Northwest Florida
Voas, Maddeline	2018	An examination of weaning and childhood paleodiet in Bögöz, Transylvania, using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis
Sappington, Ericha	2018	Facilitating Trade on the Florida Frontier: An Historical and Archaeological Analysis of Fort San Marcos de Apalache, 1639-1821
Simpsiridis, Stella	2018	Death in the Port City: A Look at Gravestones, Religion, and Status in Mobile, Alabama's Church Street Graveyard
Sims, Katherine	2018	Home is Where the Artifacts Are: an Analysis of a 19th Century Cabin at Arcadia Mill in Milton, Florida
Sappington, Ericha	2018	Facilitating Trade on the Florida Frontier: An Historical and Archaeological Analysis of Fort San Marcos de Apalache, 1639-1821
Preston, JodiLyn	2018	Looking Through the Glass: Booker Fish Camp, an Archaeological Investigation
Okray, Jillian	2018	Sister Sawmills: an Historical and Archaeological Analysis of Households and Socioeconomic Status at Two Second Spanish Period Sawmills
Newton, Matthew	2018	Using Geomorphic Data to Model Prehistoric Archaeological Site Occurrences along Blackwater River, Santa Rosa County, Florida
Mauro, Nicole	2018	Final Flight: On-site Survey of an F6F Hellcat and a Commemoration of WWII Aircraft
Marionneaux, Arlice	2018	Assessment of an Edgetech 6205 Multi Phase Echo Sounder on Submerged Archaeological Sites in Northwest Florida
James, Cody	2018	Mapping Colonial Strategies: A Comparison of British and Spanish Pensacola
Holmstrom, Jane	2018	Moving to Medieval Berlin: Understanding Migration Using Skeletons and Historical Records
McMahon, Patricia	2017	A Study of the First Spanish Occupation of the Old Christ Church Site (8ES49b) in Downtown Pensacola, Florida
Harding, Gregg	2017	Fort Walton Culture and Cultural Change in the Upper Chipola River Basin
Derlikowski, Andrew	2017	The Life and Death of a Nineteenth-Century Single-Screw Steamer, City of Tampa
Bibby, Gloria	2017	La Quinceanera: Making Ethnic and Gender Identity in Northwest Florida
Wilson, William	2015	Formation Processes of Ship Sites in the Blackwater River, Santa Rosa County, Florida
Wells, Benjamin	2015	A Light in the Dark: Illuminating the Maritime Past of the Blackwater River
Taylor, Robert	2015	Persistence of Memory: Reoccupation of a Late Archaic Logistics Camp in Pensacola, Florida
Rutledge, Robert	2015	The McDavid Boat
Pigott, Michelle	2015	The Apalachee After San Luis: Discussing Cultural Hybridization Through Ceramic Practice
Keohane, Colin	2015	Of Schipes, al the World at Ones: The Significance of John Cower's Use of Maritime Vocabulary in Confessio Amantis
Hawley, Allison	2015	Where the Children Lie: A Demographic and Spatial Analysis of Two Santa Rosa County Cemeteries
Harrenstein, Tristan	2015	Overwhelmed with Possibilities: Interpreting Archaeological and Other Heritage Resources in Urban Areas
Walls, Lauren	2014	You Know the Place: Identifying a Special Use Site in a Region of Enduring Biotic Richness
Thomas, Rylan	2014	Industrial Slavery at Arcadia Mill: An Historical and Archaeological Investigation
Swanson, Eric	2014	A World War II Merchant Marine Battlefield in the Gulf of Mexico: Analysis of the S.S. R.W. Gallagher and the S.S. Cities Service Toledo Using 3D Modeling, Physics and Battlefield Archaeology
Rodgers, Jacqueline	2014	Virtue Lost: Utilizing Previously Excavated Collections to Study the Red Light District of Pensacola, Florida.
McGuire, Kelsey	2014	They Are Rich Only by the Sea: Testing a Model for Calusa Salvage of 16th and Early 17th Century Spanish Shipwrecks
McNiven, Jennifer	2014	The Question of Anomalies in Slave Archaeology: Evidence from an Antebellum Industrial Site
Haddock, Daniel	2014	Where Fire Meets Water: Archaeological Investigations of the Centerboard Schooner
Gifford, Matthew	2014	Everything is Ballast: An Examination of Ballast Related Practices and Ballast Stones from the Emanuel Point Shipwrecks
Gifford, Erica	2014	Organic and Inorganic Chemical Characteristics of Artifacts from the Emanuel Point Shipwrecks
Ebenal, Christina Estep	2014	Applying Anthropology to Fantasy: A Structural Analysis of The Lord of the Rings
Dadiego, Danielle	2014	Spanish Frontiers: A Study of Social and Economic Exchange Networks Present in 18th Century Spanish Missions
Cullen, Amanda Lawson	2014	Positive Spaces: An Ethnographic Assessment of the Influence of the Internet on LGBT Identity
Chandler, Tonya	2014	An Archaeological and Historical Study of Fort Hampton, Limestone County, Alabama
Bucchino, Nicole	2014	Talking Smack: The Archaeology and History of Pensacola's Red Snapper Fishing Industry
Brewer, Katherine	2014	Engendered Death: A Comprehensive Analysis of Identity in the Mission System of 17th Century Spanish Florida
Bennett, Sarah	2014	Cultural Crossroads and Other Complexities: Examining Creolization at Nuestra Senora de Rosario de la Punta, St. Augustine, Florida
Timo, Melissa	2013	"Back home to econfina": Maintenance of African American memory and landscape at the Gainer Historical Cemetery
Sorset, Scott Ryan	2013	A Comparison of Ceramics from the Padre Island and Emanuel Point Shipwrecks, 2013
Sorset, Irina Tidmarsh	2013	Maritime Heritage Trails as Public Outreach Tools: An Ethnographic Model for the Apalachicola River, Florida
Sams, Adrianne	2013	Arcadia Mill Village: Spatial Analysis of a Nineteenth Century Industrial Community
Rosenberg Marshall, Nicole Marie	2013	An Examination of Possible Mass Burials in Pensacola, Florida's Historic St. Michael's Cemetery
Poole, Stephanie Laura	2013	The Lady of the Lake and Historic Tourism in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire
Patterson, Sarah Elizabeth	2013	Using Cemetery Data to Reconstruct Immigration and Migration Patterns: St. Michael's Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida
Linden, Sarah	2013	Materials of conquest a study using portable x-ray fluorescence spectrometry in the metallurgical analysis of two sixteenth-century Spanish expeditions
Grinnan, Joseph	2013	Molino Mills Maritime Cultural Landscape of a Reconstruction Era Steam Powered Sawmill in Molino, Florida
Foster, Marisa	2013	Paradox on the blackwater river the history of an unknown shipwreck
Dewey, Christopher	2013	A Tale of Two Shipwrecks: the Confederate Schooner William H. Judah and the U.S. Steamer Convoy
Cochran, Lindsey	2013	Game Theory Methods in Archaeological Research: A Case Study at the Simpson Lot of Arcadia Mills Florida
Wampler, Morgan	2012	The Social Identity of the Crew of the Nuestra Senora del Rosario y Santiago Apostal
Perrine, Wesley	2012	The B Street Schooner: Archaeological Investigation into Ship Construction and Design of a Nineteenth-Century Shipwreck in Pensacola Bay, Florida
Perrine, Rachel Laura DeVan	2012	Bourbon Field: Preliminary Investigations of a Barrier Island Plantation Site, Sapelo Island, Georgia.
Napolitano, Matthew	2012	The Role of Back-Barrier Islands in the Native American Economies of St. Catherines Island, Georgia
Marr, Andrew	2012	An Investigation of Lead Sheathing Recovered from Two 16th Century Iberian Shipwrecks Located in Pensacola Bay
Mabelitini, Charles	2012	The Hammock Landing Battery and the Confederate Defenses of the Apalachicola River, Florida
Johnson, Patrick	2012	Apalachee Agency on the Gulf Coast Frontier
Holmes, April	2012	Demographic Patterns at Presidios Santa Maria de Galve and Isla de Santa Rosa (1698-1752): An Analysis of Historical Documents and Personal Adornment Artifacts
Griffin, Lea Michelle	2012	Voodoo in New Orleans: The Identity of a City and the Reality of Her Religion
Goldhamer, Tiffany L.	2012	A River in Name Only: Assessing Submerged Historic Resources in Kentucky Lake
Bonomo Lipson, Nicole Marie	2012	An Investigation into the Identity and Location of the 1882 Yellow Fever Epidemic Victims in Pensacola, Florida
Tumbleson Morris, Nicole	2011	USS Narcissus: The Role of the Tugboat in the American Civil War
Shidner, Jacob	2011	A Macro- and Microscopic Zooarchaeological Examination of Living Conditions Aboard the Emanuel Point Wrecks
Melcher, Jennifer	2011	More than just copies : colono ware as a reflection of multi-ethnic interaction on the 18th century Spanish frontier of West Florida
James, Larry Bernie, Jr.	2011	Hidden Vestiges: An Approach to Recognizing an 18th Century Historic Landscape within an Urban Environment
Borgen, Linda Suzanne Cecelia	2011	Prelude to Rebellion: Diego de Rebolledo vs. Lucas Menendez in Mid-17th Century Florida
Abrahamson, Wayne	2011	Whiskey and Window Panes: The Archaeological Investigation of a Side-wheel Steamboat at Seminole, Alabama
Williams, Siska	2010	Tracing the Trade: A Proposed Archaeological Model for Panton, Leslie, and Company Trade Site Types in Second Spanish Florida
Shidner, Ashley	2010	An Evaluation of Techniques to Determine Handedness Derived from a Documented Skeletal Collection
Mickwee, Christopher	2010	Wakulla in the Sandhills: Analysis of Late Weeden Island Site in the Northwest Florida Interior Uplands
Mavrick, Christine	2010	An Assessment of Waterlogged Wood Conservation Techniques for Little Salt Spring (8SO18): An Archaic Mortuary Pond
Lopez, Tomas	2010	Themes Influencing the Future of Booth Rental in Hair Salons
Lawrence, Colleen	2010	An Analysis of Plant Remains from the Emanuel Point Shipwrecks
Kennedy, Kendra	2010	Between the Bayous: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Downtown Pensacola Waterfront
Rooney, Sean	2009	Thin Description: Seeking Diversity in Middle East Studies
Roberts, Amanda	2009	Secret Exchange: Alternative Economies of Presidios Santa Maria de Galve and Isla de Santa Rosa
Jex, Chie	2009	Social conformity and nationalism in Japan
Hopwood, Lisa	2009	Glass Trade Beads from an Elmina Shipwreck: More than Pretty Trinkets
Greene, James	2009	Architectural Variations in Pensacola's Three Presidios
Sommerkamp, Cindy	2008	Along the Pathway of Souls: An Iconographic Analysis of the Hickory Ridge Cemetery Site (8ES1280) in Pensacola, Florida
Pickett, Shane	2008	Harbor kings : analysis of Shields Point wreck #5 using a world systems perspective
Laracuente, Nicolas	2008	An Analysis of Spanish Pensacola as a Behavioral Landscape
Furlong, Mary	2008	Expressions of Religion and Ideology in the Material Culture of Pensacola's Presidios Santa Maria de Galve and Isla de Santa Rosa
Collis, James	2008	Empire's Reach: A Structural and Historical Analysis of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck
Chapman, Christine Kimberly	2008	Silencing the Radical: Rape Prevention and the Rape Crisis Movement
Battaglia, Sarah Ann	2008	A Precolumbian Cultural History of the Interior of Northwest Florida
Sjordal, Paul	2007	The History and Archaeology of Ship Abandonment at Shields Point
Jordan-Greene, Krista	2007	A Maritime Landscape of Deadman's Island and Old Navy Cove
Hamann, Nicole	2007	Forging an Atlantic World: an Historical Archaeological Investigation of African-European Trade in Metalwares
Eschbach, Krista	2007	An Examination of Eighteenth Century Spanish Colonial Socio-Economics as Seen at Presidio Isla de Santa Rosa
White, Sarah	2006	Lithic Production Trajectories and Pre-Columbian Settlement Patterns in the Northwest Florida Interior
Martinkovic, Mark	2006	Patterns in the Piney Woods: Naval Stores Site Catchment Analysis and Predictive Model, Washington County, Florida
Holland, Lora	2006	Maritime Technology in Transition: Historical and Archaeological Investigations of the Schooner Barge Geo. T. Lock (8SR1491)
Gordon, Marissa	2006	Spatial Organization of Presidio Isla de Santa Rosa (1722-1752)
Whitaker, April	2005	History and Archaeology at Plaza Ferdinand an Analysis of Spanish and British Colonial Lifeways
Provenzali, Jorge	2005	Senas: New Spain's Mayolica Maker's Marks
Moates, Jeffrey	2005	East Bound and Down: History and Archaeology of the S.S. Florida, a Mid-Nineteenth-Century Sidewheel Steamboat
Williams, Carrie	2004	Land Use at the Site of Old Christ Church, Pensacola, Florida
Thole, David	2004	Creation Versus Evolution: An Ethnographic Perspective
Rosborough, Leigh	2004	Settlers and Slaves: A Spatial Analysis of a Colonial and Antebellum Mill Community in Escambia County, Florida
Rawls, John	2004	Time and Tide Wait for No One: The History and Archaeology of the British Bark, Rhoda
Raupp, Jason	2004	Hook, Line and Sinker: Historical and Archaeological Investigations of the Snapper Wreck (8SR1001)
Flynt, Elizabeth	2004	A study of households occupied in British and Second Spanish Pensacola, 1763-1821
Amnott, Joel	2004	Anthropology 'Through the Guinness Glass': The Multiple Reflection of Irish Ethnography
Rodgers, Ree	2003	Stale Bread and Moldy Cheese: A Historical and Archaeological Study of Sixteenth-Century Foodways at Sea Using Evidence Collected from the Emanuel Point Shipwreck
Moore, Robin	2002	Hamilton's Wreck: an Archaeological and Historical Inquiry into the Regional Maritime Culture of Pensacola, Florida 1900-1920
Hill, Rebecca	2002	An Antebellum Frontier Settlement Pattern Study: Conecuh River Valley, Alabama
Sims, Cynthia	2001	Searching for women at the Presidio Santa María de Galve : a new approach to examining women through material culture and history
Renacker, George	2001	A Study of Military Architecture for Fort San Carlos de Austria at Santa Maria de Galve
Pugh, David	2001	A study of iron fasteners from the Emanuel Point Ship
Pokrant, Marie	2001	The Santa Maria Village: Archaeology and History at First Pensacola, 1698-1719
Parker, Catherine	2001	Foodways and Faunal Remains at Presidio Santa Maria de Galve, 1698-1719: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Mullins, Deborah	2001	Cultural Continuity and Change: A Spanish Creole Family in Antebellum Pensacola, Florida
Moon, Robert	2001	Life in the Company Town: Bay Point Mill Company and Pinewood, Florida
Hunter III, James	2001	A Broken Lifeline of Commerce, Trade and Defense on the Colonial Frontier: Historical Archaeology of the Santa Rosa Island Wreck, and Early Eighteenth-Century Spanish Shipwreck in Pensacola Bay, Florida
Wilson, Harry	2000	Archaeological Site Transformation Processes and the Spanish Presidio Santa Maria de Galve (1698-1998)
Swann, Brenda	2000	Supplies at Presidio Santa Maria de Galve (1698-1713): A Study of the Historical and Archaeological Records
Burns, Jason	2000	The Life and Times of a Merchant Sailor: History and Archaeology of the Norwegian Ship Catharine
Johnson, Sandra	1999	Pensacola and Franco-Spanish Trade and Interaction on the Northern Gulf
Harris, Norma	1999	Native Americans of Santa Maria de Galve (1698-1722)
Stringfield, Margo	1996	Wells in Colonial Pensacola, Florida
Beetzke, David	1996	Spatial Analysis of Cultural Components on the Barrancas Site, 8ES1354
Scott-Ireton, Della	1998	An Analysis of Spanish Colonization Fleets in the Age of Exploration Based on the Historical and Archaeological Investigation of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck in Pensacola Bay, Florida
Chapman II, Ashley	1998	Predictive Model of the Archaeological Remains of the Presidio de Santa Maria de Galve (1689-1722): Results of the First Year of Field Research (1995)