• Immature pelvic growth and obesity: A biocultural analysis of risks associated with adolescent pregnancy in the U.S. 

  Ronayne, Emma (2020-10-30)

  Adolescent pregnancy in women aged 10-19 years is associated with higher rates of adverse outcomes for both the mother and infant than adult pregnancy. Health conditions and immaturities such as obesity and immature pelvic ...
• Social Debitage: An archaeological and social exploration of the patterns of improper cigarette butt disposal on a university campus 

  Tottman, Walker (2020-08-28)

  Around the globe, trillions of cigarettes are improperly discarded into the environment every year. As the world’s most frequently littered item, and made with non-biodegradable materials and toxic chemicals, cigarette ...
• Natural Disasters, Intimate Partner Violence, and Reproductive Harm: A Biocultural Analysis of Hurricane Katrina 

  Serviss, Carden (2020-08-28)

  Natural disasters can have serious impacts on people’s reproductive lives, which with climate change have become more evident. To date, research has focused on the impacts of natural disasters on fertility rates, access ...
• The Houses of Gournia: An Analysis of the Late Minoan IB Period Residences 

  Lehmann, Kaylyn (2020-08-28)

  The way people build and structure the spaces around them are connected to their ways of knowing the world. While the so-called palaces of the Minoans have been studied at great length, their houses have not had the same ...
• Sexual division of labour in early agricultural Central Europe: an argument against androcentric bias in bioarchaeology 

  Craig, Caitlin (2020-08-28)

  A common assumption in anthropology is that agricultural intensification involves increasing male labour contributions. This assumption is affected by substantial androcentric bias, and bioarchaeological investigations ...
• Osteobiography of an Ancient Nuu-chah-nulth Wool Dog: Investigating the Life and Death of a Domestic Dog from Tseshaht Territory in Barkley Sound 

  Dierks, Katie (2020-08-28)

  The domestication of dogs is a global phenomenon that holds specific cultural importance to Indigenous peoples along the Northwest Coast. The woolly dog, a precontact breed of Indigenous dog that was valued for its fur to ...
• Small Bones and Short Lives: Evidence of Environmental Stress from Juvenile Skeletal Remains in Roman Barcino 

  Michaluk, Kailer Stephen (2019-07-24)

  Children have received far less attention than adults in bioarchaeology as it has been believed that little relevant information can be obtained through their study. This is problematic due to the fact that not only are ...
• Commodity or Token?: A Para-anthropological Analysis of Money in Islamic Finance 

  Sayeed, Rehan (2019-05-03)

  Money, in conventional scholarship, is represented as a commodity or a token. In a conventional economy, most money is created through bank loans based on interest-bearing debt. However, Islam prohibits the payment of ...
• “I. Am. Crying. Of. The. Level. Of. Cuteness”: Representations and Reactions to the Illegal Slow Loris Pet Trade on Social Media 

  Parent, Gabrielle (2019-05-03)

  Over the past several years, slow lorises, a group of endangered primate species found in Southeast Asia, have fallen victims to the illegal primate pet trade. Slow lorises do not fare well in captivity, as they are nocturnal ...
• “These Paintings Have a Spirit”: Voices Found in Childhood Artwork from Indian Residential Schools 

  Bibault, Adele (2019-05-03)

  The residential school system has had profound negative and lasting impacts on the Indigenous peoples in the land now known as North America. Children as young as the age of four were forcibly removed from their families ...
• The Effects of Ageism and HIV-Related Stigma on Older Adults’ Social Networks 

  Hogan, Mikaila (2019-05-03)

  HIV/AIDS has been the subject of culturally produced stigma since its emergence in the 1980s when a positive diagnosis meant certain death. HIV was transformed to a chronic condition with the introduction of antiretroviral ...
• Sea Urchin and Indigenous Marine Resource Management in the Archaeological Record: Implications for Sea Otter Conservation in Coastal British Columbia 

  Nagle, Arianna (2018-09-14)

  Ancient remains of sea urchins are frequently encountered in archaeological contexts along the Northwest Coast of North America, yet they have not been the focus of synergetic archaeological study. However, these important ...
• Development 2.0: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Aid 

  Duke, Haley (2018-09-10)

  Foreign aid and development projects, in their initial conception, were generally executed through large-scale state and NGO interventions aimed at eradicating poverty in the developing world. More recently however, ...
• “Nitawâhtâw” Searching for a Métis Approach to Audio-Visual Anthropology: Cultural, Linguistic, Methodological, and Ethical Considerations 

  Toorenburgh, Lydia A. I. (2018-06-08)

  Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Academy has long been an important focus in Indigenous scholarship, particularly in the social sciences. From this project has come a push for each researcher to design a unique approach ...
• Policy in the Pants: Peeling Back the Layers in Political Discourse on Male Circumcision and its Creation of the Masculine Body 

  Rintoul, Zachary (2018-06-08)

  Male circumcision is surgical procedure that amputates the male foreskin from the penis, and its merits have been debated for millennia. The surgery is highly contested as it represents a collision of ideas surrounding ...
• Exploring Development in Relation to Terrain: 3D Skeletal Analysis of the Femoral Neck-Shaft Angle 

  Mason, Celia (2018-06-08)

  Bioarchaeologists have expressed interest in the study of past populations and their mobility, with studies focusing on behavioural adaptations and subsistence strategies. While the effect of the topographical terrain on ...
• Hailing a Neoliberal Citizen: Language from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada 

  Becherer, Ariel (2018-06-08)

  Canada describes itself as “a nation of immigrants” that has embraced a policy of multiculturalism. The majority of individuals granted citizenship in Canada do so under programs labelled “economic”. In this paper a critical ...
• The Migrant Other: A Visual and Textual Analysis of Migration in UK Media 

  McIver, John (2017-05-04)

  The lead up to the Brexit vote, which occurred in the UK on June 23rd, 2016, marked a politically tumultuous time for the UK. One issue at the forefront of this vote was migration, and the control (or perceived lack of ...
• Perceptions of Repatriation in Anthropological Literature 

  Kroeger, Suzanne (2017-05-04)

  Over the last three decades the topic of repatriation has become widely, and at times intensely, debated. Anthropologists, members of Indigenous communities, and governments have varying opinions and agendas regarding this ...
• “The INS Cannot Simply Send Them Off into the Night:” The Language of Detention in US Court Cases on Migrant Child Detention 

  Lorraine Thompson, Anna (2017-05-01)

  In this paper, I argue that the language used by American court cases allows for the differential application of rights and treatment of children in detention. In wake of what the media dubbed the “Central American Refugee ...

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