Student Research Projects

Upcoming M.A. Thesis Defences

​Some of our current M.A. candidates:

Olivia Molica Lazzaro
"An Investigation of Residential Mortuary Trends Among the Classic and Postclassic Lowland Maya: A Case Study at Ka’kabish, Belize"

Adam Gobran
"From Court to Court: The Ka'kabish Ballcourt in Relation to the Political Landscape of Classic North-Central Belize."

Timothy Koch
"The Prevalence of Low-Density Urbanism in Classic Maya Settlement Layouts"

Emily Jurasek
"The Depth of Death: Investigating the Mortuary Pattern of an Ancient Maya Chultun"

Marissa Scott
"An Archaeozoological Analysis of Abric del Pastor."

Mariah Miller
"Changes in Ringed Seal Ecology Associated with Shifts in Inuit Settlement Patterns: A Stable Isotope Analysis of Seal Remains from Northern Labrador"

Brooke Driscoll
"Working like a dog: δ13C and δ15N analysis of canids from the Canadian Arctic"

Nicole Hultquist
"Strontium Isotopes and the Geographic Origins of Camelids in the Virú Valley"

Anahi Maturana-Fernandez
"Farmers in the Desert: a study on Agricultural practices through stable isotope analysis of plant remains from the Atacama Desert."

Cory Tucker
"Ethnoarchaeological Insights on Human-Animal Interactions: Observations from Traditional House Compounds in Bagan, Myanmar"

Daniel Jankulovski
"Minoan Violent Athletics"

Justin Tighe
"Archaeological Potential of the Bruce Manitoulin Corridor"

Veronica Toms
"Religious and Cultural Change in Roman Isauria"

Melissa Seebeck
"Architectural Variations in Prepalatial Minoan Crete"

Tessa Grogan
"The Geographic Provenience of Camelid Fibre through Stable Isotope Analysis of Pre-Hispanic Textiles from the Atacama Desert, Chile"

Di Hansen
“Evaluating changes in lithic technological systems between the Late Archaic and Late Woodland in the Kawartha Lakes Region, Ontario”