CIAMS alumni follow a wide range of career paths. Over half of the students in our MA program go on to pursue a PhD in Anthropology, Classics, or Near Eastern Studies. The large majority who apply to PhD programs are successfully admitted. A number of our alumni choose to work in the heritage sector, from cultural and natural resource management, to laboratories and libraries. For others still, CIAMS is a stepping stone to careers in education, information technology, or other fields.
We support our students in achieving their career goals and are proud of their diverse achievements. If you are a member of our alumni community, please stay in touch. If you are a prospective student and would like to learn more about the professional trajectories of our alumni, please contact the Director of Graduate Studies.
Cornell University has offered M.A. degrees in Archaeology since 1987, and awarded Ph.D. degrees to affiliates in archaeologically-related fields since 1976. The list below shows recent graduates, from 2010 to the present.
List of CIAMS alumni
NAME AND ACADEMIC DEGREE
THESIS OR DISSERTATION TITLE
Alexandria Albano
M.A. Archaeology, '20
Thesis: 18th and 19th Century Turkish Prayer Rugs as Objects Possessing Agency: Portable Materials Linking the Material, Social, and Immaterial Worlds Through Motifs, Usages, and Mobility
Sam Barber
Ph.D. Medieval Studies, '21
Dissertation: "The Fitting Face of Empire": Palaces and Power in the Early Middle Ages
Elizabeth Bews
M.A. Archaeology, '18
Thesis: After Accession: EU Funding and Archaeological Practice in Bulgaria
Jenna Bittenbender
M.A. Archaeology, '17
Thesis: The Role of Off-Island Objects and Materials in Creating Hierarchy: Evidence for Social Ranking at Mochlos During the Early Minoan Period
Salpi Bocchieriyan
M.A. Archaeology, '20
Thesis: Building a Burial on a Budget: Mortuary Practice and Socio-Economic Boundary-Making in Classical Armenia
William Breitweiser
M.A. Archaeology, '15
Thesis: Plaster Cast Collections in the Colonial World: Connections Between Classics and Racial Ideology
Liana Brent
Ph.D. Classics, '19
Dissertation: Corporeal Connections: Tomb Disturbance, Reuse and Violation in Roman Italy
Dusti Bridges
M.A. Archaeology, '18
Thesis: Translating Archaeology into Stories: Creating a Digital Resource for the Onöndowa’ga:’ (Seneca) Townley-Read and White Springs Sites, occupied circa 1688-1754
Charles Burgess
M.A. Archaeology, '10
Thesis: Mapping Muhheakunnuk: GIS and the Living Landscapes of the Mohican
Polly Anna Burnette
M.A. Archaeology '19
Thesis: Zooarchaeology and Spatial Analysis at Tepe Farukhabad: New Life for Legacy Data
Asa Cameron
M.A. Archaeology, '16
Thesis: A Stable Isotopic (Carbon And Nitrogen) Evaluation Of Regional Differences In Herded Animal Diet And Pastoral Risk Management Practices During The Xiongnu Period Of Mongolia
Micaela Carignano
Ph.D. Classics, '18
Dissertation: Reconstructing Minoan Dining Practice and Sociopolitical Organization in Neopalatial Households and Palaces
Taylor Carr-Howard
M.A. Archaeology, '20
Thesis: Picturing Antiquity, Depicting Archaeology: Photography, Restoration, and the French Colonial Imagination
Jennifer Carrington
Ph.D. Classics, '19
Dissertation: Striking similarity: Pottery features and their relations in Ptolemaic Egypt
Chelsea Cole
M.A. Archaeology, '17
Thesis: Kommos and a Great Minoan Triangle: Rethinking the Early - Middle Minoan Political and Economic Landscape of South-Central Crete
Alexandra Creola
M.A. Archaeology, '14
Thesis: An Analysis of the Spatial Relationships of Domestic Nymphaea at Lararia in Pompeii
Andrew Crocker
M.A. Archaeology, '17
Thesis: Rural Landscape Practices and Authority: Iron Age Cyprus and Assyria
Samuel Disotell
M.A. Archaeology '21
Thesis: An Analysis of Faunal Materials From the White Springs Site, a 17th-18th Century Seneca Town in Upstate New York
Sarah Eastly
M.A. Archaeology, '12
Thesis: A Question of Faith: Jesuit Missions to the Seneca Iroquois As Viewed Through Archaeological and Textual Records
Bonnie Etter
M.A. Archaeology, '16
Thesis: The Application of Geographic Information Systems to Large-Scale Intra-Site Analysis of Artifact Data at Gault, Texas
Yuan Fang
M.A. Archaeology, '17
Thesis: The Favorite Animal: The Horse as Mingqi in Han Tombs
Ned Fischer
M.A. Archaeology, '17
Thesis: Iron Men: Roman Masculinity and the Roman Military Dagger
Carrie Fulton
Ph.D. Classics, '16
Dissertation: Lost in Transportation: Trade Networks and the Materiality of Cargoes in the Ancient Mediterranean
Peregrine Gerard-Little
M.A. Archaeology, '11
Ph.D. Anthropology, '18
Thesis: Understanding the Built Environment at the Seneca Iroquiois White Springs Site (1688-1715): Incorporation of Large-Scale, Multi-Instrument Archaeogeophysical Survey
Dissertation: "A pleasure garden in the desert, to which I know no comparison in this country”: Seneca Iroquois Landscape Stewardship in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Jasmine Gollup
M.A. Archaeology, '11
Thesis: An Overview and Analysis of 'Proto-Susquehannock' Sites in the Upper Susquehanna River Valley
John Gorczyk
M.A. Archaeology, '12
Ph.D. Anthropology, '20
Thesis: Communal Consumption at Late Neolithic Sarnevo: Faunal Evidence from a Pit Site in South Central Bulgaria
Dissertation: Fields of Care: Placing Animal-Human Communities in the Early Neolithic of the Sofia Basin, Bulgaria
Katie Guttman
M.A. Archaeology, '19
Thesis: Residents: Invisible Residents: Archaeological Evidence and the Question of Indigenous Presence at House C of British Fort Michilimackinac, 1765-1781
Betty Hensellek
Ph.D. History of Art, '20
Dissertation: The Age of the Polychrome Kaftan: a Sartorial System of Central Eurasia (400-900 CE)
Jeanine Hoy
M.A. Archaeology '19
Thesis: What About Her? Mortuary Practice and Gender Identities at Kanesh
Kathryn Hudson
M.A. Archaeology, '11
Thesis: A Preliminary Lexicon of Ulua Medallion Motifs
Katherine Jarriel
Ph.D. Classics, '18
Dissertation: Small Worlds After All? Landscape and Community Interaction in the Cycladic Bronze Age
Alaina Kaiser
M.A. Archaeology, '13
Thesis: Copper Oxhide Ingot Marks: A Catalogue and Comparative Analysis
Katie Kearns
Ph.D. Classics, '15
Dissertation: Unruly landscapes: The making of 1st millennium BCE polities on Cyprus
Cynthia Kocik
M.A. Archaeology, '14
Thesis: The Edges of Wood: Dendrochronological Analysis of Three Seneca Iroquois Structures at Letchworth State Park, 1796-1831
Matthew Krohn
M.A. Archaeology, '10
Thesis: Innovation and Identity in Seneca Iroquois Lithic Debitage: Analysis of Stone Tools from the White Springs and Townley-Read Sites, Circa 1688-1754
Kaitlin LaGrasta
M.A. Archaeology, '21
Thesis: "Binding the People Together:" Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca) Glass Beads, Aesthetics, and Economy, 1670-1754
Nicholas Lashway
M.A. Archaeology, '15
Thesis: Resettlement of the Bdul and its effect on Preservation Initiatives at Petra, Jordan
Jeffrey Leon
Ph.D. Classics, '16
Dissertation: Beyond 'counting sheep': Isotopic approaches to Minoan and Late Cypriot shepherding
Fredrika Loew
M.A. Archaeology, '16
Thesis: Gods and Scholars: Studying Religion at a Secular University
Alex Marko
M.A. Archaeology, '14
Thesis: Seeing Archaeology In 3D: Digital Spatial Vision
Isabelle Martínez-Muñiz
M.A. Archaeology, '12
Thesis: Ceramic Innovation and Interregional Interaction: A Study from Formative Cahal Pech, Belize
William Mastandrea
M.A. Archaeology, '16
Thesis: Cupellation at Kea: Investigating Potential Applications of the Minoan Conical Cup
Angela McArdle
M.A. Archaeology, '14
Thesis: When Trash Becomes Treasure: A Postclassic Maya Obsidian Core Cache from Nojpeten
Sarah McCully
M.A. Archaeology, '20
Thesis: Stop, Collaborate, and Listen: Creating Archaeological Education Resource with Local Teachers' Needs in Mind
Jane Millar
M.A. Archaeology, '21
Thesis: Kepeia: The Market Gardens of Classical Attica
Eilis Monahan
M.A. Archaeology, '10
Ph.D. Near Eastern Studies, '19
Thesis: Dwelling with the Dead: Mortuary Landscapes and the Production of Community During the Prehistoric Bronze Age on Cyprus
Dissertation: Structural Violence: Warfare, Fortification, and the Disciplinary Landscape in Bronze Age Cyprus
Amanda Moutner
M.A. Archaeology, '13
Thesis: Understanding landscape Modification at White Springs Manor, Geneva, New York An Archaeological and Historical Study
Louisa Nash
M.A. Archaeology, '17
Thesis: The Cosmos in Clay: An Analysis of Avery Engraved Vessel Motifs
Marianna Nichols
M.A. Archaeology, '18
Thesis: Jewish Identities and Traditions within the Hellenistic Period: Funerary Unguentaria as Evidence of Inventive Tradition
Lindsay Petry
M.A. Archaeology, '19
Thesis: Echoes in the Bones: An Osteological Analysis of the Biological Impact of Roman Rule at Corinth, Greece
Jessica Plant
M.A. Archaeology, '17
Thesis: Asia Minor Ampullae: A Class of Their Own?
Elizabeth Proctor
M.A. Archaeology, '19
Thesis: A Preliminary Geochemical Characterization of Relief Ceramics from the Nadin Necropolis
Beth Ryan
Ph.D. Anthropology, '17
Dissertation: Crowding the Banks: the Historical Archaeology of Ohagi and the Post-revolutionary Haudenosaunee Confederacy, ca. 1780-1826
Samantha Sanft
M.A. Archaeology, '13
Ph.D. Anthropology '21
Thesis: Beads and Pendants from Indian Fort Road: A Sixteenth Century Cayuga Site in Tompkins County, New York
Dissertation: The Circulation of Shell and Copper Objects in the Circa 1450- 1600 Haudenosaunee Homeland
Katherine Seufer
M.A. Archaeology, '15
Thesis: Dendroarchaeology in Sisak, Croatia (Siscia): Roman Urbanism and Colonia Status
Laryssa Shipley
M.A. Archaeology, '18
Thesis: A Phenomenological Approach to the Kom el-Shuqafa Catacombs
Emily Stanton
M.A. Archaeology, '17
Thesis: In the Footsteps of Saints and Sheep: Archaeological, Anthropological, and Phenomenological Explorations of Bardsey Island and the North Wales Pilgrim's Way
Cristina Stockton Juarez
M.A. Archaeology, '19
Thesis: Pots, People, and Pilgrimage: Elemental Analysis of Surface Pigments on Nasca Polychrome Vessels from the Nasca Drainage
Kaja Tally-Schumacher
Ph.D. History of Art, '20
Dissertation: Cultivating Empire in Ancient Roman Gardens: Unearthing the Tangled Relationship between Plants and their Gardeners
Danielle Vander Horst
M.A. Archaeology '19
Thesis: Seeing Faces: Material Diversification and Identity Performance Through Romano-British Face Pots
Juliana Van Roggen
M.A. Archaeology, '17
Thesis: Urban Planning and Cultural Identity in Pompeii: from the Altstadt to Vitruvius
Alexandra Walton
M.A. Archaeology, '21
Thesis: “Reconciling Tradition and Innovation: An Analysis of Indigenous Iron and Lead Use, Modification, and Remanufacture at the Onöndowa'ga (Seneca) White Springs Site, circa 1688-1715.”
Jason Weimar
M.A. Archaeology, '17
Thesis: Wood and Stone: How the South Arabian Construction Texts Illuminate Building Accounts in the Hebrew Bible
Jordana Wolf
M.A. Archaeology, '12
Thesis: The Bronze Age Gardens of the Aegean in the Context of Contemporary Gardens in the Near East and Egypt
Erin Wright
M.A. Archaeology, '17
Thesis: Cultural Resiliency at Pompeii: The Spatial Relationship Between Painted Fountains and Private Water Access, 62-79 CE
Alma Cortez Alvarez
M.A. Archaeology, '23
Thesis: Cross-Cultural Engagement and the Biblical Representation of Israel at Abel and Dan
Robyn Epstein
M.A. Archaeology, '23
Thesis: Church as Museum, Spolia as Artifact: Reuse in Roman Churches, ca. 300-1200
Grace Hermes
M.A. Archaeology, '23
Polychromy in Corinthian Anatomical Votives
Jenna Martin
M.A. Archaeology, '23
The Efficacy of Roman Silver in Iron Age Scotland: An Object Trajectory for Spiral Rings
Max Meyer
M.A. Archaeology, '23
Look and (Don’t) Touch: Non-Normative Spatial Experiences at Villa A, Oplontis
Christine Muron
M.A. Archaeology, '23
An Invested Frontier: Reconsidering the Roles of Nicaean and Seljuk Building Programs in the Thirteenth Century
Nicholas Perez
M.A. Archaeology, '23
As Far as the Grass Still Grows”: A Least Cost Analysis of Overland Routes and Canoe Travel in Hodinǫ̱hsǫ́:nih Territory, 1650-1789
Emily Sharp
M.A. Archaeology, '23
Rethinking the “Mummies with Individually Wrapped Limbs”: Gender-Expansive Identities in the Roman Period of Egypt
Michael Stewart-Bernard
M.A. Archaeology, '23
Heterarchy and Emergent Complexity in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant: A Mortuary Perspective
Douglas Braun
M.A. Archaeology, '22
Bad Horses: Herakles and the Mares of Diomedes in Greek Art of the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE
Ethan Dickerman
M.A. Archaeology, '22
Fashionable Tea Bowls at a Humble Palatine Dwelling: Ceramics as Expressions of Identity & Tools for Community Cohesion at the Maple Avenue Parsonage in Germantown, NY
Ece Erlat
M.A. Archaeology, '22
Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology In Turkey?: The Sardis Case.
Quinn Stickley
M.A. Archaeology, '22
Gendered Representation and Reception at Deir el-Bahri
Henry Ziegler
M.A. Archaeology, '22
Echoes of Insidious Geographies: The Life History and Object Biography of a Caved Elephant Tusk from the Medieval Mediterranean to the Metropolitan Museum, ca. 750 CE to Present
Kelli Breeden
M.A. Archaeology, '20
Occurrences of false rings and IADFs in pine in Northwest Mexico.