All master’s theses completed through the Graduate College of Western Michigan University since 2012 have been entered into ScholarWorks. Some may be embargoed or restricted by the authors and may be only available from on-campus computers. Print copies from earlier years are available through interlibrary loan. We have a few digital copies of earlier years. If you have any questions, please contact wmu-scholarworks@wmich.edu.
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Negotiated Families: Lesbians and Institutions in Southwest Michigan, Cynthia E. Foor
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
An Analysis of the Lithic Assemblage from the Armintrout-Blackman Site (20AE812), Allegan County, Michigan, Arthur L. DesJardins
Exploring the Social Dimensions of Grog-Temper Use at the Ink Bayou Site (3PU252): A Plum Bayou Culture Site in Central Arkansas, Eric Chadwick Drake
The Accuracy of U.S. Age Estimation Standards When Used to Age U.S. and Bosnian Skeletal Samples, Megan Lagrou
The Wreck of the Rockaway: The Archaeology of a Great Lakes Scow Schooner, Kenneth R. Pott
A Histological Approach to Taphonomy: The Freeze-Thaw Cycle and Water Immersion, William A. Souchick
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Reading Between the Lines: The Business Discourse of Globalization, Using Amway as a Local Example, Darlene Bos
Ostensible Abductions, Real Anthropology, Timothy F. McCauley
Reconsidering the Auricular Surface as an Indicator of Age at Death, Daniel Osborne
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Ethics in Forensic Anthropology: The Evaluation of the Forensic Anthropologist as an Expert Witness, Brent D. Benzing
Saugatuck's Shining Shore: The Transition of a Michigan Community into a Resort Town, 1870-1930, Kyran V. Kelley
Dermatoglyphic Analysis of Male Criminals, Jeremy Matyas
Of Agrarian Landscapes and Capitalist Transitions: Historical Archaeology and the Political Economy of a Nineteenth-Century Farmstead, Daniel O. Sayers
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Community Empowerment and Social Policy Design: A Case Study of the Creation of a School-Based Health Center, R. Ian Costello
A Multiplicity of Goals in a Migrant Household, Patrick James Maher
Re-Cycling the Menstrual Cycle: A Multidisciplinary Reinterpretation of Menstruation, Heather H. Rea
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Definition and Evaluation of the Mississippian Lithic Assemblage from the Wymer-West Knoll (20 BE 132), Berrien County, Michigan, Sean R. Brown
Analysis of the Skeletal Remains from the Knobloch Site, 20AE633, Allegan County, Michigan, Alexandra D. Bybee
Age, Status and Gender: Mortality Patterns and Mortuary Practice at Umm El-Jimal, Jordan, Melissa Cheyney
Technological Analysis of Ceramic Surface Treatments at the Wymer-West Knoll (20BE132), A Mississippian Site in Southwestern Michigan, Suzannah Greve-Brown
History, Mission, and Visitors at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum in Kalamazoo, Michigan: A Study of the Museum as Cultural Practice, Lynnette Z. King
Childhood Health and Nutrition: An Exploration of Enamel Hypoplasia Studies Using the Milwaukee County Institutional Grounds Cemetery, 1882-1925, Maura K. Polli
Kanpo Consumption among Japanese Students at Western Michigan University: Case Studies in Medical Pluralism, Joseph Paul Siuda
A Statistical Analysis of the Ceramics from the Dieffenderfer Site (20SJ179), St. Joseph County, Michigan, Mark A. Steeby
Responsibility, Submission, and Power: Social Factors Which Influence Rural Out-Migration Among Women in Southern Vietnam, Jeffery D. Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Volunteer Fire Departments: A Neglected American Voluntary Association, Michelle C. Akers
Job Satisfaction of West Michigan Certified Nurse-Midwives: a Qualitative Study of Autonomy and Empowerment in the Provision of Health Care, Martha M. Shafer-Thyen
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Class and Gender in Southwestern Michigan: Interpreting Historical Landscapes, Deborah L. Rotman
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Wintertime Observations on Pig (Sus Scrofa) Decomposition, David Glynn McBride
Children's Tool Making Capabilities: Implications for Hominid Intelligence Models and Skill Acquisition Theory, Jill S. McCleary
Ella Sharp's Hillside Farm: Expressions of Class and Gender in Nineteenth Century Rural Michigan, Carol A. Nickolai
Evidence for the Endoparasite Giardia Lamblia in Human Paleofeces from Salts Cave. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, Lisa Karen Ruppert
Zambian Nurses and the Aids Crisis: Towards a Socio-Cultural Analysis of HIV/AIDS, Alicia Worley
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Lithic Raw Material Utilization and Social Interaction in the Late Prehistory of the Lower Kalamazoo River Valley, Daniel Barton Goatley
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
The Suburban Rice Farmers: Economic and Cultural Change in Japan, Makoto Chiwaki
An Analysis of the Artifacts from the Historic Components of the Elam Site (20AE195), Allegan County, Michigan, Mary Lynn Jeakle
Environmental Factors Influencing Prehistoric Site Selection along the Portage River, a Tributary of the St. Joseph River, Southwest Michigan, Timothy D. Knapp
A Survey of a Number of Megalithic Grave Complexes in Tamil Nadu, South India, David K. McConkey
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Flotation Data Sampling Strategies in Archaeological Research: An Experiment at the Elam Site (20AE195), Allegan County, Michigan, Brian David DeRoo
The Siriono People of Eastern Bolivia: Cultural Survival Amidst Directed Social Change, Ronald S. Scholte
The Paleoethnobotany of Schwerdt (20AE127): An Early Fifteenth Century Encampment in the Lower Kalamazoo River Valley, Gregory R. Walz
A Study of the Correlation between Alcoholism and Fingerprint Patterns, Miyo Yokota
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Ethnography of a Lesbian Community in Michigan, Carol W. Burton
Of Berry Pickers, Shanty Boys, and the Jack Pine Bird: Patterns of Settlement and Subsistence in Nineteenth Century Oscoda County, Rose Lockwood Moore
Analysis of Guatemalan Textiles, Cristina Keiko Tomita
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
An Analysis of Early Woodland Pottery from Southwest Michigan, James W. Cogswell
A Preliminary Report of Investigations at the Kline 1 Site (20SJ29), St. Joseph County, Michigan, Dale W. Quattrin
Archaeology and the Public: A Survey of People's Knowledge of the Archaeology Profession, Heidi Stoneman
Patterns of Refuse Disposal in New Orleans During the Middle to Late 19th Century, James M. Wojtala
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Lead Seals from Fort Michilimackinac, Mackinaw City, Michigan, Diane L. Adams
The Mexican American Elderly and Barriers to the Utilization of Health Care Services, Kathleen Anne Hoekstra
Modernization in West Africa: How Women's Lives Have Been Marginalized, Patricia S. Peterman
A Cultural Study of the Hispanic Population in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Diane M. Rodriguez
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Peyote and Peyotism, Brian P. Akers
An Analysis of the Lithic Raw Materials and Diagnostic Projectile Points from the Settlement Pattern Survey Project in the Lower Kalamazoo River Valley, Amy L. Campbell
Prehistoric Firewood Exploitation: A Case Study from the Carolinian Biotic Province, David Gordon De Fant
New Directions within Applied Anthropology, Eleanor Mary Dominek
A Statistical Analysis of the Lithic Material from the Zemaitis Site (200T68), Ottawa County, Michigan, Michael L. Murphy
An Ethnographic Study of Punk Rock in Western Michigan: Identity in a Youth Subculture, Robert P. Pomeroy
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
The Prehistory of the Birch Run Road Site, Saginaw County, Michigan, Caven P. Clark
Cholesteatoma in a Pre-Columbian American Aborigine from the Gyftakis Site, St. Ignace, Michigan, Robert William Hull
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
A Formal Analysis of Ceramic Vessels from the Schlemmer Site (11-S-382): A Late Woodland/ Mississippian Occupation in St. Clair County, Illinois, Thomas Edward Berres
A Skeletal Comparison of Bluewing Teals Versus Greenwing Teals and Mallard Ducks Versus Black Ducks from a Zooarchaeological Perspective, Michael Gordon Cohen
Archaeological Perspectives of the Lumber Industry in Northern Lower Michigan, 1865-1920, Rebecca Ellen Dinsmore
The Upper Mississippi Component at The Fort Meigs Site, Northwest Ohio, with Special Emphasis on the Analysis of the Ceramic Assemblage, William Evan Rutter
The Patterns of Cultural Behavior Which Promote and Disrupt the Transmission of Malaria in Haiti, Janet Jenks Sloan
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Using Anthropological Approaches in a Human Service Setting, Steven Alan Erickson
An Analysis of Plant Remains from Draper Park, a Late Woodland Site in Southeastern Michigan, Jean F. Marek
The Socio-Cultural Transformation of Japanese Medical Systems, Takako Matsunaga
Distribution Analysis of the Cultural Materials from the Mushroom Site (20 AE 88), Allegan County, Michigan, Charles B. Stout
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Significance Evaluation and Research Potential of Prehistoric Sites in Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming, Christopher A. Cojeen
Jesuit Rings from Fort Michilimackinac and Other European Contact Sues, Judith Ann Hauser
The LaSalle Ossuary: An Osteological Analysis, Cheryl Lee Puskarich
Analysis of the Prehistoric Settlement Pattern Survey Project in the Lower Kalamazoo River Valley: The 1978 and 1979 Field Seasons, Deborah K. Rhead
Pastoral Production Systems in Eastern Africa: A Comparative Analysis, Stephen Speranza
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Middle Woodland Ceramics of Northwestern Indiana and Western Michigan, William L. Mangold
The Paleoethnobotany of the Upper Mississippi Component at the Elam Site, a Seasonal Encampment on the Lower Kalamazoo River, Kathryn E. Parachini
A Social Impact Assessment Study of the Barrier Sand Dune Controversy in Bridgman, Michigan, Linda Lee Sweigart
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
An Analysis of the Faunal Remains from the Schwerdt Site, a Late Prehistoric Encampment in Allegan County, Michigan, Michael J. Higgins
A Formal Analysis of the Prehistoric Ceramics from Draper Park (20-SC-40): A Wayne Tradition Occupation on the St. Clair River in Southeastern Michigan, Robert David Hoxie
Acculturation and Ethnic Identity of the Chinese Population in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Tsi-Yin Lee
The Schwerdt Site (20 AE 127) Ceramics: A Berrien Phase Ceramic Assemblage in Allegan County, Michigan, Paul W. McAllister
A Description and Quantitative Analysis of Artifacts Recovered from Fort Meigs (1813-1815) Wood County, Ohio, John P. Nass
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
An Analysis of the Faunal Assemblage from the Elam Site: An Upper Mississippian Seasonal Encampment on the Kalamazoo River in Allegan County, Michigan, Kenneth A. Barr
The Origins and Functional Significance of Incest Avoidance, R. Daniel Murray
A Study of the Changes in the Intellectual Environment from the Middle Ages to the Late Nineteenth Century Culminating in the Professionalization of Anthropology, Linda Marie Place
Breastfeeding and Changing American Child-Rearing Practices, Jeanne Reed
The Allegan Dam Site: An Upper Mississippi Occupation in the Lower Kalamazoo River Basin, George B. Spero
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Nepali Shamanism, Christopher J. Busick
The Ceramics of the Sand Point Site (20BG14) Baraga County, Michigan: A Preliminary Description, Lawrence G. Dorothy
Archeological Site Survey of the Lower Kalamazoo River Basin: Results of the 1976 Field Season, Phillip D. Neusius
Climatic Change Considered as the Major Factor in the Abandonment of the Grand Canyon Region, Paulette Fern Rayel
The Lithic Assemblage of the Hacklander Site, Allegan County, Michigan, Jerrel H. Sorensen
Ethnography for Archaeology: A Functional Interpretation of an Upper Great Lakes Prehistoric Fishing Artifact, Donald E. Weston
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
The Schmidt Site: A Pre-Nipissing Village in the Saginaw Valley, Michigan, Jerry D. Fairchild
A Reinterpretation of Plains Indian Adaptation: The Case of the Comanche, Lynn R. Johnson
A Statistical Analysis of the Prehistoric Ceramics from the Hacklander Site, Allegan County, Michigan, Robert G. Kingsley
The Physical Anthropology of Chiggerville: Demography and Pathology, Norman C. Sullivan