Grant Recipients

Year Granted Recipient Topic Purpose
 2018  Brandy Joy   PhD dissertation proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2016  Joe Wilkinson   Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2016  Andrew Agha   PhD thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2015  Brandy Joy   Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
2013 Rebecca Shepherd Comparison of artifact assemblages from both late 18th century rural and urban home Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2013  Eva Falls Locating the slave cabins associated with a 19th century plantation Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, ECU
 2013  Christopher Young Petrographic analysis of Morrow Mountain Rhyolite Master’s thesis ENMU
 2013  Cameron Howell Residue Analysis to Determine Earth Oven Function, a Pilot Study

 
 Ph.D. dissertation , Department of Anthropology, USC
 2012  Kevin Fogle
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 Ph.D. dissertation , Department of Anthropology, USC
 2012  Kelly Goldberg Uncovering Identity: Conducting a Gullah Archaeology Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2012  Kimberly Wescott  —————- Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2012  Patrick Morgan  Landscape of Aikens Row  University of Leicester Master’s thesis University of Leicester
 2012  Walter Clifford  —————- Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2011  James Stewart Analysis of Eighteenth Century Indigenous Ceramic Assemblage at Fort Congaree Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2011  Brooke Kenline Impacts of Racism and African Cultural Influences on the Development of Alkaline Glazed Stoneware in Edgefield, South Carolina Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2011  Lisa Randle  The African American Landscape along the East Branch of the Cooper River, Berkeley, South Carolina 1780-1820 
Ph.D. dissertation proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2011  Kimberly Pyska
Role of the Anglican Church in Colonising the Eighteenth Century Frontier in the Lowcountry
 Ph.D. dissertation proposal, Department of Anthropology, UT 
 2009  Brooke Brilliant Colonoware, Creolization, and Interactions between African Americans and Native Americans during the Colonial Period in the South Carolina Lowcountry
Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2009  James Nyman  The Ashley Series as Native American Persistence: Lowcountry Indians in the Period of European Expansion
Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2008  Chris Thornock Geomorphologic and Underwater Investigations at the Mason’s Plantation
Mound Site on the Middle Savannah River 		 Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2008  Helena Ferguson Reconnecting the Physical and Cultural Landscapes of the Hampton-Preston Mansion in Columbia, South Carolina 
Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2007  Jared M. Wood Mississippi Chiefdom Organization: A Case Study from the Savannah River Site PhD Dissertation proposal, Department of Anthropology, UGA
 2006  Aaron Brummitt The Sleepy Hollow Phase: Mississippian Emergence in the Middle Savannah Valley
 Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2005  Emily Dale  The Red Lake Site (9SN4): A Middle Mississippian Mound Town in the Central Savannah River Valley
  Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2005  Joseph Samolis Public Engagement at the Seibels House: Applied Archaeological Methodologies and Techniques in Columbia, South Carolina
 Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, USC
 2005  Heather Bartley Geomorphology and Site Formation Processes of the Belmont Neck Site (38KE06) in the Wateree Valley, SC Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Geography, University of Georgia.
 2004 Kara Bridgman-Sweeney Variation in Early Archaic Material Culture across the Lower Southeast Ph.D. dissertation proposal, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida.
 2003  Nicole Isenbarger Phytolith Analysis of Coloware from Charleston, South Carolina Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.
 2003  Michael Nelson Seasonality and Residential Population at the 14th-Century Lawton Mound Site Master’s thesis proposal, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 2002  Andrew Agha Searching for Cabins, Searching for Places: Locating the Living Areas at the James Stobo Plantation, Willtown Bluff, Charleston County, South Carolina Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 2002  Katrina S. Epps Intra-Regional Interaction in the Lowcountry of South Carolina Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 2002 Alexander Y. Sweeney Investigating Yamasee Identity: Archaeological Research at Pocotaligo Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 2001  Rebecca Barrera The Impact of Archaeological Method and Theory: Intra-site Comparisons of Sixteenth-Century Spanish Santa Elena and St Augustine Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 2001  Jamie Civitello Anthropogenic Landscapes at Spratt?s Bottom (38YK3), South Carolina Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 2000  Thomas I. McIntosh Diachronic Variation in Late Archaic Lithic Technology at the Big Pine Tree Site, Allendale County, South Carolina Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 1999  Kerri S. Barile Causes and Creations: Exploring the Relationship between Nineteenth-Century Slave Insurrections, Landscape and Architecture at Middleburg Plantation, BerkeleyA Lodge of Their Own: A Look at Vessel Function at a Possible Cofitachequi Women?s Lodge County, South Carolina Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 1999  J. Michelle Schohn A Lodge of Their Own: A Look at Vessel Function at a Possible Cofitachequi Women?s Lodge Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 1999 Christopher R. Moore A Technological Analysis of the Early Archaic Debitage from G.S. Lewis-East (38AK228), South Carolina Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, Eastern Carolina University, North Carolina.
 1997  Kristin J. Wilson Biocultural Investigation of Late Archaic Stallings Culture. Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 1996  Susan D. Ball Phase One Colonization: The Process of Reduction Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 1996  A. Eric Howard An Intrasite Spatial Analysis of Surface Collections at Chattooga (38OC18): A Lower Town Cherokee Village Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
 1996  J. Christopher Reed The Holladay Site: Bioarchaeological Analysis of an Ossuary in Horry County, South Carolina Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 1996  M. Beth Sain    
 1995  Myles Bland Late Archaic Plant Use at the Big Pine Tree Site (38AL143), Allendale County, South Carolina Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 1995  Kerry L. Ogata African-American Women and Medicine: Expanding Interpretations of Colono Ware Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 1995  Scott G. Sutton Symbolism and Archaeological Interpretation: A Case Study of Late Woodland Ceramics from the South Carolina Coast Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 1994  Monica L. Beck Servant to Chattel: African-American Slaves and Their Masters on an Upcountry Plantation  
 1994  Phillip J. Carr Hunter-Gatherers, Mobility, and Technological Organization: The Early Archaic of East Tennessee Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
 1994  Amy L. Young Risk and Material Conditions of African-American Slaves at Locust Grove: An Archaeological Perspective Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
 1993  Elizabeth L. Collins Elements of Childbirth and Infant Care among Native Americans of the Southeast Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
 1993  Ellen Shlasko Carolina Gold: Economic and Social Change on a South Carolina Rice Plantation, 1760-1820 Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven
 1992  Patti L. Byra The Contextual Meaning of the 1830s Landscape at Middleburg Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.