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Theses from 2011
Captain Pierce's Fight: An Investigation Into a King Philip's War Battle and its Remembrance and Memorialization, Lawrence K. LaCroix
Farmstead and Household Archaeology at the Barrett Farm, Concord, Massachusetts, Thomas P. Mailhot
The Marketplace of Boston: Macrobotanical Remains from Faneuil Hall, Ciana Faye Meyers
Urban Consumption in Late 19th-Century Dorchester, Jennifer Poulsen
Theses from 2010
Foodways, Commensality and Nipmuc Identity: An Analysis of Faunal Remains From Sarah Boston's Farmstead, Grafton, MA, 1790-1840, Amélie Allard
Denison House: Women's Use of Space in the Boston Settlement, Heather Marie Capitanio
"A Good Sized Pot": Early 19th Century Planting Pots from Gore Place, Waltham, Massachusetts, Rita A. DeForest
A Macrobotanical Analysis of Native American Maize Agriculture at the Smith's Point Site, Kelly A. Ferguson
Gentility and Gender Roles Within the 18th-Century Merchant Class of Newport, Rhode Island, Nicki Hise
'King Prime of Fredonia Lane': An Archaeology of Leadership in Hyde Park, New York's Early Nineteenth-Century African American Community, Trevor Arthur Johnson
Entertaining, Dining, and Novel Drinking: Rural Gentility and the Reverend John Hancock's Household, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1700-1750, Katie Lynn Kosack
Modest Ministers or Posh Preachers?: A Study of the Personal Adornment Collection of the Hancock-Clarke House, Lexington, Massachusetts, Sarah Ann Stephens
Beef, Mutton, Pork, and a Taste of Turtle: Zooarchaeology and Nineteenth-Century African American Foodways at the Boston-Higginbotham House, Nantucket, Massachusetts, Michael Andrew Way
Theses from 2009
"That Charm of Remoteness": A Study of Landscape Stability in Little Compton, Rhode Island, Katharine M. Johnson
Theses from 2005
Negotiating Boundaries of Colonialism: Nineteenth-Century Lifeways on the Eastern Pequot Reservation, North Stonington, Connecticut, Craig N. Cipolla
Theses from 2001
The Creation of a New England Gentry: The Winslows of Plymouth Colony, Karin J. Goldstein
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
The Culture of Flowerpots, Hazel H. Lathrop
Theses from 1990
Shoemakers and Stone Markers: Gravestones as Material Culture of the Quakers from Lynn, Massachusetts, Eileen A. O'Connor