Thesis/Project Examples

CRM Master's Thesis Defenses

Fall 2024-2025

Patrick Lawler
Petroglyph Preservation through Public Interpretation in Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park
Sam Dunham
The Auburn Chinese Joss House: An Analysis of an Artifact Collection Through Descendent Community Collaboration
Juan Pablo Montes
Deliberate Population Implosion: Indigenous Resistance to Reproductive Exploitation in Alta California

Fall 2023-2024

Sandy Durden
A Burial Shrouded by the Remnants of Life: How Mortuary Treatment and Reconstruction of Life Course Can Reveal Personhood of an Infant from Victorian San Francisco
Elise Blindauer
Navigating the In-Between: Discussions on Collaborative Interpretation of Cultural Landscapes
Taylor Love
We Were Here: Structural Violence, Oral History, and the Preservation of African American Heritage in California

Spring 2023-2024

Nikoletta Karapanos
Stable Isotopes and Social Media: The Untold Life Histories of Individuals Buried in San Francisco’s City Cemetery during the Nineteenth Century
Christopher Peske:
The Human Landscape of California’s Central Diablo Uplands: An Agent-Based Approach
Lindsey Willoughby
The Effects of Historic and Modern Epidemics on Traditional Healing Practices among the Chumash in the Santa Barbara Channel Area