Christina L. Shute (Communication); Defense date: 10/30/2002
Title: “Intercultural couples: examining the role of social support”
Chair: Brian Spitzberg (Communication)
Second: Peter Andersen (Communication)
Outside member: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)

Nicole J. Purvis (Public Administration...); Defense date 3/3/2003
Title: “Historic preservation: a proposed concentration for allied professions”
Chair: Roger Caves (Public Administration...)
Second: James Clapp (Public Administration...)
Outside member: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)

Hillary H. Kanazin (Anthropology); Defense date: 11/14/2003
Title: “Domestication and GMOS: an anthropological perspective on crop biotechnology and public education”
Chair: Lois Lippold (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside members: Barbara Fredrich (Geography)

Donna K. Beddow (Anthropology); Defense date: 12/17/2003
Title: “Criteria for determining the significance of cultural resources for San Diego County”
Chair: Larry Leach (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: Linda Parker (American Indian Studies)

Chris M. Moreno (Anthropology); Defense date: 4/17/2004
Title: “Tourism, identity, and the commodification of culture: Skagway, Alaska”
Chair: Ramona Perez (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: Stuart Aiken (Geography)

Sue Anne Wade (History); Defense date: 8/12/2004
Title: “Kumeyaay and Paipai pottery as evidence of cultural adaptation and persistence in Alta and Baja California”
Chair: Roger Cunniff (History)
Second: John Putman (History)
Outside member: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)

David Caterino (Anthropology); Defense date: 4/26/2005
Title: “The cemeteries and gravestones of San Diego County: an archaeological study”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Ed Henry (Anthropology)
Outside member: John Putman (History)

Carl Dennis Leadabrand (Anthropology); Defense date: 4/28/2005
Title: “Supernatural artists: the shamanic factor in rock art”
Chair: Joseph Ball (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: Alan Kilpatrick (American Indian Studies)

Sarah E. Stroud (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/11/2005
Title: “Scratching the surface: historical and archaeological investigations of Nate Harrison's homestead”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Joseph Ball (Anthropology)
Outside member: John Putman (History)

John D. Simmons (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/13/2005
Title: “An analysis of function at several late prehistoric sites in Lost Valley, California”
Chair: Phil Greenfeld (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: Barbara Fredrich (Geography)

Sara C. Clowery (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/16/2005
Title: “What's on the menu?: faunal resource exploitation and ulitilization in Late Classic royal feasting at the Buenavista del Cayo Palace, Belize”
Chair: Joseph Ball (Anthropology)
Second: Ramona Perez (Anthropology)
Additional member: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)

Shannon Joyce Chapman (Anthropology); Defense date: 8/25/2005
Title: “Sperm competition and mitochondrial loading: a comparative analysis of Pan troglodytes and Homo sapiens”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Arion Mayes (Anthropology)
Outside member: Marshal Hedin (Biology)

Maren Cruz Castañeda (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/17/2006
Title: “Enough clothing for the next fifty years: sustainability in the American apparel industry”
Chair: Ramona Perez (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: James Gerber (Latin American Studies)

Patricia J. McFarland (Anthropology); Defense date: 8/15/2006
Title: “Effects and consequences of the Cedar Fire to archaeological sites in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, San Diego County, California”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Ramona Perez (Anthropology)
Outside member: Alan Kilpatrick (American Indian Studies)

Keith Leonard Kleszynski (Anthropology); Defense date: 4/13/2006
Title: “Sport participation and community development: the Mexican migrant experience”
Chair: Ramona Perez (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: Fernando Bosco (Geography)

Scott A. Mattingly (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/4/2007
Title: “Archaeological and geospatial investigations of fire-altered rock features at Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California”
Chair: Lynn Gamble (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: Richard Wright (Geography)

Matthew Patrick Tennyson (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/11/2007
Title: “‘Straight out of Dixie’: an analysis of the architecture of the Nate Harrison cabin”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Lynn Gamble (Anthropology)
Outside member: Andrew Wiese (History)

Tracy Alan Stropes (Anthropology); Defense date: 11/9/2007
Title: “Nodule industries of north coastal San Diego: understanding change and statis in 10,000 years of lithic technology”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Ramona Perez (Anthropology)
Outside member: Alan Kilpatrick (American Indian Studies)

Maribel Elias (Geography); Defense date: 11/16/2007
Title: “Educational performance and spatial convergence in Peru”
Chair: Sergio Rey (Geography)
Second: Kathleen Farley (Geography)
Outside member: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)

Stefan Michael Krause (Anthropology); Defense date: 12/10/2007
Title: “Surf tourism in Costa Rica: anthropological perspectives”
Chair: Ramona Perez (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Additional member: Fred Conway (Anthropology)

Jaime L. Lennox (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/8/2008
Title: “Archaeological history: seriation of Nathan Harrison narratives”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Erin Riley (Anthropology)
Outside member: Glen McClish (Rhetoric and Writing Studies)

Cynthia Dillon Eischen (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/22/2008
Title: “Archaeological, ethnohistorical, and historical investigations of SDI-8241/W-479: re-representing the past and exploring historical identity at Guajome with stakeholders”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Lynn Gamble (Anthropology)
Outside member: Margaret Field (American Indian Studies)

Ryan Bruce Anderson (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/11/2009
Title: “Visualizing Atzompa: images, tourism, and identity in Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, Mexico”
Chair: Ramona Perez (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: William Acree (Spanish…)

Conor DeWitt Muirhead (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/11/2009
Title: “Re-imaginations of symbolic space: Old Town San Diego State Historic Park”
Chair: Ramona Perez (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: Fernando Bosco (Geography)

Kimberly Sue Scott (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/4/2009
Title: “Changing ideologies in U.S. burial practice: an environmental perspective”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Lynn Gamble (Anthropology)
Outside member: Rebecca Moore (Religious Studies)

James Patrick Rafael Diokno (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/19/2009
Title: “Constructions of ethnic identities among second-generation Filipina/o-Americans”
Chair: Ramona Perez (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: Ofelia Dirige (Asian Pacific Studies)

Margaret L. David (Anthropology); Defense date: 12/17/2009
Title: “Excavation, analysis and reburial of the historical Junkin-Yost Cemetery from the Village of Indian Hill, Ohio”
Chair: Arion Mayes (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: Andrew Wiese (History)

Joshua Robert Jackson (Art); Defense date: 4/22/2010
Title: “Sublimation”
Chair: Sondra Sherman (Art)
Second: Matt Herbert (Art)
Outside member: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)

Shelby M. Gunderman (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/5/2010
Title: “‘The first white man on the mountain’: archaeological, historical, and cultural examinations of Nate Harrison's identity”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Fred Conway (Anthropology)
Outside member: Andrew Wiese (History)

Kristin Norean Tennesen (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/11/2010
Title: “Survival, subsistence, and industry at the Nate Harrison historical archaeology site”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Arion Mayes (Anthropology)
Outside member: Andrew Wiese (History)

Angela Ngoctien Pham (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/5/2011
Thesis title: “Historical and archaeological patterns of water use in San Diego County: a case study of the Whaley House cistern/well”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Fred Conway (Anthropology)
Outside member: Kathy Thorbjarnarson (Geological Sciences)

Marisa Carrie Scheinfeld (Art); Defense date: 6/3/2011
Thesis title: “Leftover borscht”
Chair: Arthur Ollman (Art)
Second: David Hewett (Art)
Outside member: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)

Michael Keith Duval (History); Defense date: 6/20/2011
Thesis title: “Consumption on the frontier: an analysis of business ledgers and early San Diego's economy”
Chair: Stephen Colston (History)
Second: Sarah Elkind (History)
Outside member: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)

Adam R. Giacinto (Anthropology); Defense date: 11/29/2011
Thesis title: “Emergent trends of San Diego Cultural Resource Management: alternative conceptions of past, present, and place”
Chair: Ramona Perez (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: David Kamper (American Indian Studies)

Michael Alan Wilken (Anthropology); Defense date: 12/3/2011
Thesis title: “An ethnobotany of Baja California's Kumeyaay Indians”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Lynn Gamble (Anthropology)
Outside member: Margaret Field (American Indian Studies)

John Michael Spotts (Anthropology); Defense date: 3/13/2013
Title: “Local achievers or immigrant elites? Ancestral relics or warrior trophies?: some Classic Period cultural historical questions addressed through strontium isotope analysis of burials from western Belize”
Chair: Joseph Ball (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: Barry Hanan (Geological Sciences)

Katherine Lavis Collins (Anthropology); Defense date: 4/26/2013
Title: “An anthropological and archaeological analysis of American Victorian (1876-1915) and Progressive era (1900-1920) medicine in San Diego, California”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Todd Braje (Anthropology)
Outside member: Paula Peter (Marketing)

Natalie Jane Brodie (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/10/2013
Title: “The San Diego River: an archaeological, historical, and applied anthropological perspective”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Fred Conway (Anthropology)
Outside member: Sarah Elkind (History)

Keshia Marie Montifolca (Anthropology); Defense date: 12/4/2013
Title: “Reconstruction of San Diego identities and attitudes through 19th and 20th century gravestone symbols”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Todd Braje (Anthropology)
Outside member: John Putman (History)

Cassandra E. Krum (Anthropology); Defense date: 3/17/2014
Title: “Early archaeology on the western edge of Alta California: Malcolm Rogers' San Nicolas Island collections”
Chair: Todd Braje (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: Stephen Colston (History)

Michelle Donna Graham (Anthropology); Defense date: 12/11/2014
Title: “A socioeconomic interpretation of 19th century archaeological ceramics found at contemporaneous, culturally diverse sites on Ballast Point in San Diego, California”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Joseph Ball (Anthropology)
Outside reader: Paul Ganster (History)

Michael Jeffrey Prouty (Anthropology); Defense date: 4/6/2015
Title: “Cultural network analysis of Spanish colonial settlement patterns in San Diego, California”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Todd Braje (Anthropology)
Outside member: John Putman (History)

Kent S. Manchen (Anthropology); Defense date: 4/9/2015
Title: “An investigation of Cuyamaca Oval bedrock milling basins”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Todd Braje (Anthropology)
Outside member: Rick Biggoco (Biology)

Douglas Wayne Mengers (Anthropology); Defense date: 11/4/2015
Title: “Tracks and tracts in America’s finest city: an historical archaeology of San Diego’s early trolley suburbs”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Todd Braje (Anthropology)
Outside member: Andrew Wiese (History)

Phil Rowland (Art); Defense date: 4/26/2016
Title: “Trials and Tribulations of Pluviculture”
Chair: Matt Hebert (Art)
Second: Carlos Castro (Art)
Outside member: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)

Linda M. Bentz (Anthropology); Defense date: 4/29/2016
Title: “Abalone harvesting on California’s Channel Islands: a study of Chinese identity and fortitude”
Chair: Todd Braje (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: Chiou-Ling Yeh (History)

Kassandra Nearn (Anthropology); Defense date: 4/24/17
Title: “Archaeological, Historical, and Anthropological Perspectives on Extant and Destroyed Federally Sponsored Public Artwork from New Deal-Era San Diego County”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Fred Conway (Anthropology)
Outside member: Andrew Wiese (History)

Rachel Droessler (Anthropology); Defense date: 5/15/17
Title: “Reconstruction of San Diegan Food Culture through Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Faunal Remains, San Diego, California”
Chair Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Todd Braje (Anthropology)
Outside member: Fernando Bosco (Geography)

Marcos Ramos (Anthropology); Defense date: 12/4/17
Title: “Eccentric Caches of Buenavista del Cayo: Contextual Analysis and Cosmological Significance”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Ramona Perez (Anthropology)
Outside member: Peter Nelson (American Indian Studies)

Karen Lacy (Anthropology); Defense date: 12/8/17
Title: “A Hundred Years of Collecting and Exhibiting: The San Diego Museum of Man”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Joseph Ball (Anthropology)
Outside member: Margaret Field (American Indian Studies)

James Turner (Anthropology); Defense date: 3/21/18
Title: “The Paradoxical Collection in the Cabinets: Establishing a Site Chronology of SDSU-0897, 5MN191, From Paradox Valley, Colorado”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Arion Mayes (Anthropology)
Outside member: Sarah Elkind (History)

Cecelia Holm (Anthropology); Defense date: 9/5/18
Title: “Please Read and Respond”: Strategies for Community Engagement in Museums in San Diego and Their Implications for the Nate Harrison Project”
Chair: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Second: Frederick Conway (Anthropology)
Outside member: Sarah Elkind (History)

Marc Jones (History); Date: 10/11/18
Title: “Placing the Working Class Mexican in Early U.S. San Diego History: Analysis of Cultural Identity Transformation in San Diego after the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo”
Chair: Paula DeVos (History)
Stephen Colston (History)
Outside member: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)

Sydney Garcia (Anthropology); Date: 12/17/19
Title: “A Comparative Analysis of Lower-limb Fractures and Enthesopathies due to Occupational and Daily Activity Patterns in the Terry and Huntington Collections between 1898 and 1925”
Chair: Arion Mayes (Anthropology)
Second: Seth Mallios (Anthropology)
Outside member: Mitchell Rauh (Physical Therapy)