Student News
Student Awards
Conference Presentations
Masters and Ph.D. Theses
Student Awards
Graduate| Kira E. Kaufmann | Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, 2003-2004 |
| Kira E. Kaufmann | Student-Faculty Partnerships Organized for Learning, CIPD, 2003-2004 |
| Chris Hamlin | Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, 2002-2003 |
| Pete Fantle | Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies travel grant, 2002 |
| Chris Hamlin | Phi Kappa Phi National Academic Honor Society Inductee, 2002 |
| Dustin Oakley | Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Summer 2002 |
| Kira Kaufmann | Cultures and Communities Program Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2001-2002 |
| Kira Kaufmann | PFF Grant, Center of Instruction and Professional Development, 2001-2002 |
| Linda Naunapper | PFF Grant, Center of Instruction and Professional Development, 2001-2002 |
| Seth Schneider | Phi Kappa Phi National Academic Honor Society Inductee, 2001 |
| Jamie Kelly | Milwaukee Public Museum Betty L. and M. Kenneth Starr Summer Internship, 2000 |
Undergraduate
| Lisa Sowers | Young Women in Archaeology Internship, Center for American Archeology. Kampsville, Illinois. Summer 2002 |
| Jackie Orchall | Donald R. Shea Undergraduate Scholarship in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2002 |
| Jackie Orchall | Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, Summer 2001 |
Conference Presentations
2004
Brown, Melissa
Kaolin Pipe Fragments from an Historic Fur-Trade Post in Racine County, Wisconsin. Midwest/Southeastern Archaeological Conference in St. Louis, co-authored with Cheri Price of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
Foley Winkler, Kathleen M. and Robert J. Jeske
Oneota Mortuary Practices in Wisconsin: An Example from the Crescent Bay Hunt Club Site. Paper presented at the 69th Society for American Archaeology Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 31-April 4.
Fratello, Ed
Neolithic Agriculture on the Swiss Plateau: A Preliminary Report on Botanical Remains from Robenhausen at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Paper presented at the 69th Society for American Archaeology Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 31-April 4.
Heydt-nelson, Jessie
Sheela-na-gigs and the Expedient Transmutation of Female Imagery. Chacmool Archaeological Conference, the 15th Anniversary Gender Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Kubicek, Ricky
A New Look at the "Gemma Augustea". University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Art History Graduate Student Symposium.
Kubicek, Ricky
Engendering Barbarian Representations of Labor in Roman Sculpture. Chacmool Archaeological Conference, the 15th Anniversary Gender Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Johnson, James
All Broken Up Inside: Ceramics, Tumuli and Performance in Iron Age Germany. Paper presented at the 69th Society for American Archaeology Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 31-April 4.
Johnson, James
Beyond post ergo propter hoc: An Investigation into Prehistoric Tool Production and Engendered Social Practices. Chacmool Archaeological Conference, the 15th Anniversary Gender Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Kaufmann, Kira E.
Moving Beyond Shape: Using Theory and Multidisciplinary Methods to Reinterpret the Effigy Mound Phenomena. Paper presented at the 69th Society for American Archaeology Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 31-April 4.
Lillis, Jaclyn
Working within an Unworkable Collection: Textiles from the Swiss Neolithic at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM). Paper presented at the 69th Society for American Archaeology Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 31-April 4.
Lillis, Jaclyn
The Role of Women at Robenhausen: A Neolithic Textile Production Site. Chacmool Archaeological Conference, the 15th Anniversary Gender Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Lowry, Brett
Rinse, Reuse, Recycle: The Conflation of Material Culture in Prehistoric and Modern Religions. Paper presented at the 69th Society for American Archaeology Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 31-April 4.
Lowry, Brett and Murph Pizza
Goddess at the Crossroads: the politics of religious and archaeological validation. Chacmool Archaeological Conference, the 15th Anniversary Gender Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Mollerud, Katy
Up North: Analysis of Aztalan Ramey Incised Ceramics. Paper presented at the 69th Society for American Archaeology Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 31-April 4.
Mueller, Emily
Who Used the Ground Stone Here? An Engendered View of Prehistoric Modes of Production Within the Riddle Brothers Ranch Historic District, Steens Mountain, Oregon. Chacmool Archaeological Conference, the 15th Anniversary Gender Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Mueller, Emily J. and Scott P. Thomas
New Data from the Mortar Riddle Site (35HA2627), Steens Mountain, Northern Great Basin, Oregon. Paper presented at the 69th Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Montreal, Canada. March 31-April 4.
Schneider, Seth
Social Memory, Identity and Ritual in the Early Iron Age of Southwest Germany. Paper presented in symposium titled "Recent Research from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee," Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Winkler, Daniel and Dustin Blodgett
The Thermal Alteration of Silicified Sandstones from Western Wisconsin. Paper presented at the 69th Society for American Archaeology Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 31-April 4.
2003
Graduate Students
Foley-Winkler, Kathleen and Robert J. Jeske
Oneota Mortuary Practices in Wisconsin: An Example from the Crescent Bay Hunt Club Site. Paper presented at the 49th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, Milwaukee, October, 2003.
Johnson, James
The Price is Right: Costly Signaling Theory and Early Neolithic Monument Construction in the Boyne River Valley, CO. Meath, Ireland. 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, WI.
Johnson, James and Seth Schneider
Making their Mark: Mapping the Socio-Physical Landscape in Iron Age South-West Germany. Poster presented in invited session titled "Constructed Landscapes and Persistent Places: Studies from Prehistoric Europe" organized by Sarah B. McClure at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Kaufmann, Kira E.
Archaeological Geophysical Investigations at a Late Woodland Effigy Mound Site, Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Paper presented at the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Milwaukee, October, 2003.
Kaufmann, Kira E.
Inter and Intra-Site Spatial Analysis of mounds in the Lake Koshkonong Area. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 12.
Koziarski, Ralph
Preliminary Report on Mammal Exploitation at the Bell Site (47-Wn-9). Paper presented at the 49th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, Milwaukee, October, 2003.
Naunapper, Linda
"Bell Type 2" Ceramics Recovered from the Bell Site. Paper presented at the 49th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, Milwaukee, October, 2003.
Park, Sung Woo
Technological Changes and Prehistoric Subsistence Shifts: The Zimmerman Site in the Upper Illinois River Valley. Paper
presented at the 49th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, Milwaukee, October, 2003.
Sorensen, Nichole
Conservation of Historic Wrought Iron. Paper presented at the 49th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, Milwaukee, October, 2003.
Snell, Sam
GIS: Not just for Research Anymore. 49th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, Milwaukee, WI.
Winkler, Daniel and Robert Jeske
Paleoindian Occupation at the Carcajou Point Site. Presented in the Sponsored Symposium Recent Developments in the Archaeology of the Western Great Lakes, at the Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, April 9, 2003.
2002
Graduate Students
Kaufmann, Kira
Electrical modeling in archaeological contexts using GIS. Anthropological Applications of GIS Conference, April 12, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Naunapper, Linda
Archaeological GIS in Environmental Impact Assessment and Planning. Poster session, Anthropological Applications of GIS Conference, April 12, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Kaufmann, Kira
Analysis of Archaeological Electrical Remote Sensing At Aztalan State Park (47JE1). Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, March 20-24, Denver, CO. With William Kean.
Naunapper, Linda
Archaeological GIS in Environmental Impact Assessment and Planning. Poster session: Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, March 20-24, Denver, CO.
Schneider, Seth A.
The Old Man and the Mound: Ceramic Curation during the Early Iron Age in Southwest Germany. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, March 20-24, Denver, CO.
Undergraduate Students
Johnson, Jim
Rethinking Big: The metamorphosis of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age monumental structures in Southern England. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, March 20-24, Denver, CO.
Sowers, Lisa
The Undiscovered Koster: The South Field Excavation in 1969. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, March 20-24, Denver, CO.
Zovar, Joel
Lookin' For a Good Time: Transhumance and Festival Centers in Later Bronze Age England. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, March 20-24, Denver, Colorado.
2001
Kaufmann, Kira
Preliminary Results from Archaeological Electrical Remote Sensing at Aztalan State Park (47JE1). Midwest Archaeological Conference, October 13, LaCrosse, Wisconsin.
Kelly, Jamie
Delineating the Temporal and Spatial Boundaries of Late Woodland Collared Wares. Midwest Archaeological Conference, October 13, LaCrosse, Wisconsin.
Schneider, Seth A.
Continuity and Change in the Iron Age Landscape: The Heuneburg Hillfort in Region Focus. European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, September 19-23, Esslingen, Germany. With Bettina Arnold and Matthew Murray.
Fantle, Peter W.
K-4: First Environmentalist or Opportunist; a Faunal Analysis on Prehistoric Resource Conservation. Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, February 23-24, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Masters and Ph.D. Theses
2007
Cannizzo, Anna
Enlightened: An Analysis of a Collection of Ancient Mediterranean Oil Lamps from the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS 2007). Advisor: Arnold
Epstein, Ethan
Distant Cores: Lithic Technology Group Mobility and Late Archaic Economic Adaptations at the Mortar Riddle Site, Steens Mountain, Oregon (35HA2627)(MS 2007). Advisor: Jeske
Gredell, Erin
Research Potential of Poorly Provenienced Museum Collections: a Case Study of a Mexican Cave Assemblage at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS 2007). Advisor: J. Richards
Handwerk, Elizabeth
An Osteological and Mortuary Analysis of the McClaughry Effigy Mound Site, Marquette County, Wisconsin (MS 2007). Advisor: P. Richards
Mueller, Emily
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Naunapper, Linda
History, Archaeology and the Construction of Ethnicity: Bell Type II Ceramics and the Potawatomi (PhD 2007). Advisor: Jeske
Sabo, Bridget
Procuring Pipestone: an Examination of Pipe Material Selection in Wisconsin from the Late Archaic to the Historic Periods (MS 2007). Advisor: J. Richards
Stroik, John
An Analysis of Four Lohmann to Early Stirling Phase Structures in the Mound 72 Precinct at the Cahokia Site (MS 2007). Advisor: J. Richards
2006
Angela Brandon
Exploring Possible Associations between Effigy Mounds and Petroforms in Dodge and Fond Du Lac Counties (MS, 2006)
Johnson, James
Different Strokes for Different Folks: Contingency, Entanglement and Bone and Antler Tools in the Swiss Neolithic (MS 2006). Advisor: Arnold
Lange, Allison
A Regional Analysis of Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in Iowa and Juneau Counties, Wisconsin (MS 2006). Advisor: J. Richards
Petit, Melissa
Gender Shifts: Archaeological Correlates of Transgendered Ritual Practitioners (MS 2006). Advisor: Arnold
Van Beckum, Jonathan
The "Rediscovery" of the First Fort Crawford: a Study Using Archaeological and Archival Data to Interpret and Date an Early Nineteenth Century American Fortification (MS 2006). Advisor: P. Richards
Wellner, Kari
An Analysis of the Human Remains from the Richter Site (47DR80): Diet and Health at a North Bay Phase, Middle Woodland Site in Door County (MS 2006). Advisor: P. Richards
2005
Bohms, Jeralyn
A Preliminary Analysis of Maya Incensarios Deposited in Lake Amatitlán, Guatemala (MS 2005). Advisor: J. Richards
Bradley, Melissa
Paleopathology and Nutritional Health at the Nitschke Effigy Mound Site, Dodge County, WI (MS 2005). Advisor: Jeske
Brandon, Angela
Exploring Possible Associations between Effigy Mounds and Petroforms in Dodge and Fond du Lac Counties (MS 2005). Advisor: Jeske
de Bie, Melissa
Who's Who in Plateau Cornhusk Bags? An Analysis of Makers' Marks on Cornhusk Bags (MS 2005). Advisor: Arnold
Heydt-Nelson, Jessie
Sheela-na-gigs and the Expedient Transmutation of Female Imagery (MS 2005). Advisor: Arnold
Kaufmann, Kira E.
Effigy Mound Sites as Cultural Landscapes: A Geophysical Spatial Analysis of Two Late Woodland Sites in Southeastern Wisconsin (PhD 2005). Advisor: Jeske
Lillis, Jaclyn
Weaving Our Way Through the Past: An Examination of Textiles from the Swiss Lake-Dwelling Site of Robenhausen at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS 2005). Advisor: Arnold
Lowry, Brett
Animal Sacrifice and Feasting in Celtic Gaul: Regional Variation, Costly Signaling and Symbolism (MS 2005). Advisor: Arnold
Mollerud, Katy
Messages, Meanings and Motifs: an Analysis of Ramey Incised Ceramics at the Aztalan Site (MS 2005). Advisor: J. Richards
Moore, Gregory
Archaeological Correlates of Warfare in the Iron Age Mortuary Record: Patterns and Variations (MS 2005). Advisor: Arnold
Rosenow, Leah
Small Thinghs Remembered: the Tell Hadidi Beads at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS 2005). Advisor: Arnold
Snell, Samuel
Geographic Information Systems and Intrasite Analysis at the Bell Site (47WN9) (MS 2005). Advisor: J. Richards
Sorenson, Nicole
Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: a Historical Archaeological Investigation of the Peshtigo Fire's Impact at the Williamsonville Site, Door County, Wisconsin (MS 2005). Advisor: P. Richards
Stavish, Patricia
Women and Children First: the Distribution of Grave Goods at the La Tène Cemetery at Münsingen-Rain, Switzerland (MS 2005). Advisor: Arnold
Watson, Robert
The Creation of Space and Place at Cahokia: Mound 72, Mound 96, and the Mound 72 Precinct (PhD 2005). Co-Advisors: Arnold and Fowler
2004
Blodgett, Dustin
The Richter Site: A Lithic Analysis of a North Bay Site on Wisconsin's Door Peninsula (MS, 2004). Advisor: Jeske
Boczkeiwiez, Robert I.
What's Good for the Goose: The Use of Faunal Remains to Identify the Ethnicity and Economic Status of a Pomeranian Immigrant Farmstead (MS, 2004). Advisor: Hudson
Foley Winkler, Kathleen
Oneota Mortuary Practices in Southeast Wisconsin (MS, 2004). Advisor: Jeske
Halverson, Laura
Clam River Focus Ceramics Re-examined: Variation within the Type Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MS, 2004). Advisor: J. Richards
Koziarski, Ralph
Vertebrate Resource Utilization at the Late Prehistoric Component of the Bell Site (47WN9): an Application of Optimal Foraging Theory to Subsistence Analysis (MS 2004). Advisor: Hudson
Mollet, Janean
Identifying Children in the Archaeological Record at the Jeremiah Curtin House (MS, 2004). Advisor: P. Richards
Park, SunWoo
Lithic Technology and Subsistence Change in the Thirteenth through Seventeenth Centuries: An Example from the Zimmerman / Grand Village of the Kaskaskia Site in the Upper Illinois River Valley (PhD, 2004). Advisor: Jeske
Winkler, Daniel
Transitional Middle to Late Archaic Lithic Technology in Southeastern Wisconsin: The Kelly North Tract at Carcajou Point (MS, 2004). Advisor: Jeske
2003
Casey, Timothy
Effigy Mounds In Southeastern Wisconsin: An Analysis Of Site Location And Environmental Factors (MS, 2003). Advisor: Jeske
Clauter, Jody
Late Woodland Cultural Complexity In Southeastern Wisconsin: A Ceramic Analysis From The Klug (47OZ26) And Klug Island Sites (MS, 2003). Advisor: Jeske
Fantle, Peter
Archaic Period Marine Mammal Hunting Strategies on the South Coast of Peru (MS, 2003). Advisor: Hudson
Johnsen, Teresa
Description and Analysis of Preserved Fabrics from the Northwest Mound at Aztalan: A Late Prehistoric Site in Southeastern Wisconsin (MS, 2003). Advisor: J. Richards
Macenka-Brown, Tammy
Gender and Status Analysis of Four Arras Culture Cemeteries in Great Britain: Rudston, Burton Fleming, Garton Station and Kirkburn (MS, 2003). Advisor: Arnold
Olsen, M. Lee
Oneota Subsistence in Southern Wisconsin: Agriculture and Plant Domestication at the Crescent Bay Hunt Club Site (MS, 2003). Advisor: Jeske
Schneider, Seth
Ancestor Veneration And Ceramic Curation: An Analysis From Speckhau Tumulus 17, Southwest Germany (MS, 2003). Advisor: Arnold
2002
Dickson, Randy R.
Archaeology survey: probability, problems and plowed contexts. (MS, 2002). Advisor: J. Richards
Hunter, Chrisie L.
A comparative study of Oneota and Langford Traditions. (MS, 2002). Advisor: Jeske
Kelly, John
Delineating The Spatial And Temporal Boundaries Of Late Woodland Collated Wares From Illinois And Wisconsin (MS, 2002). Advisor: Jeske
Warwick, Matthew
A Diachronic Study Of Animal Exploitation At Aztalan, A Late Prehistoric Village In Southeast Wisconsin (MS, 2002). Advisor: Hudson
Zietz, Vanessa
Pass The Duiker, Please: Spatial Analysis Of Animal Bone To Identity Social Differences (MS, 2002). Advisor: Hudson
2001
Boor, Jocelyn
The ubiquitous ushabti: a study in regional variation. (MS, 2001). Advisor: Arnold
Grubisha, Diane
An analysis of the steatite artifacts from the archaeological site of Aila. (MS, 2001). Advisor: Arnold
Randolph, Joseph E.
The aboriginal rock art of the Lake Owyhee Reservoir, Oregon. (MS, 2001). Advisor: J. Richards
Watt, Richard
Settlement location shifts in northeastern Wisconsin during the Late Prehistoric and Historic periods. (MS, 2001). Advisor: J. Richards
2000
Demel, Scott J.
Understanding remnant archaic settlement along the western coast of Lake Michigan. (PhD, 2000). Advisor: J. Richards
Naunapper Linda
The value in the use of historical sources in archaeological research: a case study at the historic period Robinson's Reservation. (MS, 2000). Advisor: P. Richards
