PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2024, Arts and Sciences: Classics

Corinth's aptitude for ceramic production and export in the Archaic period is well known, but the factors which enabled its long-term success are not particularly well-understood. The standing stylistic narrative hails an artistic peak in the 7th century (Protocorinthian period), followed by a decline toward mass production in the 6th century. This framework overlooks the fact that the vast majority of what was produced and exported, throughout the Archaic period, was not standout pieces, but vessels carrying variations on common motifs and decorative schema. This dissertation undertakes a close study of Corinthian vessels in the western Mediterranean to assess the range of factors that guided Corinth's successful ceramic production and exchange. After establishing the range of ceramic shapes produced by Corinth over the course of the Archaic period, I apply comparative analysis of vessels in context at the colonies of Syracuse and Massalia to investigate how the broad range of multicultural consumers impacted the choices of the Corinthian potters: I consider factors such as the vessel types which are exported against the changes in forms produced, as well as trends in decorations which were not attributable to specific painters, but abundant and nevertheless valued by their international consumers. I argue that the success of the Corinthian ceramic industry was thanks to the internationalization of its product, i.e. the wide range of shapes, scales, and generic decoration it produced, which allowed it to be easily and selectively adapted into the cultural framework of any consumer. Corinth's ceramic products worked in concert with an array of Corinthianizing wares on the market from western Greek, Etruscan, and regionally specific, local producers in the western Mediterranean. The diluted market which this eventually created meant that they were not able to keep up with demand when Attic pottery innovation yielded a new fervor for highly-detailed and often (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Kathleen Lynch Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Eleni Hasaki Ph.D. M.A. B.A. (Committee Member); Eleni Hatzaki Ph.D. (Committee Member); Steven Ellis Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Archaeology

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2024, Earth Sciences

Atmospheric CO2 from global carbon emissions has increased at an unprecedented rate since the 1880s. Approximately 26% of atmospheric CO2 is absorbed into the surface ocean, resulting in a decrease in seawater pH referred to as ocean acidification. Additionally, increased atmospheric CO2causes the planet to warm, leading to ocean warming. Decreases in ocean pH and increases in ocean temperature negatively affect coral health, leading to decreased coral growth, cover, and biodiversity. Under future ocean acidification scenarios, the surface ocean is expected to decrease pH approximately 0.1 – 0.3 pH units, which leads to declining coral health. Calcification is energetically demanding, and when exposed to low pH corals need more fuel to maintain growth rates. Previous studies have shown a variety of responses to ocean acidification including decreased growth, decreased energy stores, or increased respiration. However, many of these effects are minimized when coral have access to food, which provides extra energy to the coral host. Most of these experiments are short or moderate-duration and do not study the long-term effects of ocean acidification to coral physiology and biogeochemistry. Therefore, volcanic CO2-vent ecosystems with naturally low pH can act as natural laboratories to study the effect of chronic ocean acidification on ecological time scales. The symbiotic coral Cladocora caespitosa and the asymbiotic coral Astroides calycularis grow at CO2-vents around the island of Ischia, Italy. To explore how these corals cope with low pH we 1) conducted a field survey of corals collected from ambient pH non-vent sites and low pH CO2-vent sites and 2) conducted a 6-month long experiment exposing corals collected from ambient and low pH sites to experimentally low pH. The field survey revealed that corals from CO2-vent sites have higher heterotrophic capacity than corals collected from ambient pH sites, allowing these corals to survive in a persistently low pH env (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Andréa Grottoli (Advisor); Jean-Pierre Gattuso (Committee Member); Elizabeth Griffith (Committee Member); William Lyons (Committee Member); Agustí Muñoz-Garcia (Committee Member) Subjects: Biogeochemistry; Biological Oceanography; Climate Change; Ecology; Environmental Science

Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 2022, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

The purpose of this study is to develop a better understanding of the Mediterranean ambiance and climate in Columbus, Ohio and in some sense the United States at large, through the ways Arab Americans market their cuisines and present themselves to the community. Little scholarship is available on Arab American cuisine in the States. The aim is to find out if Arab American owned restaurants and grocery stores are selling an experience for their clientele, if the Mediterranean label has become a reinvention of their homeland and/or a reconstructed experience of the Arab American, and if their various ways of self-portrayal has undergone a transformation within the larger context of Arab American identity. I use an ethnographic approach to interview Arab American food franchise owners to learn more about concepts such as identity, agency, homebuilding, and orientalism. Arab Americans are reframing the meaning of the Mediterranean through their franchise spaces in the context of their identity and agency as they engage their clientele.

Committee: Johanna Sellman (Advisor); Morgan Liu (Committee Member); Jeffrey Cohen (Committee Member) Subjects: Cultural Anthropology; Near Eastern Studies

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, 2021, American Culture Studies

The migration flows that peaked during the 2015-2016 “refugee crisis” have had long-lasting effects to the countries of the European South. The latter have been deemed as border wardens of the European Union, filtering the “undesirables” who pose a threat to the European North, and by extension a proclaimed “Western way of life.” This project examines the living conditions of displaced persons and the systems of support in place for them in the European borderlands of Greece, with a case study of Crete. Starting from an archival ethnography and textual analysis of the “crisis” in an institutional archive, the ethnographic research focuses on the experiences of humanitarian workers and displaced persons on the island of Crete, where reception programs for asylum seekers and refugees run since 2017. Through in-depth ethnographic interviews with six (6) displaced persons and (24) humanitarian workers, the project analyzes the views, experiences, and strategies employed by humanitarian workers in protection and assistance programs for asylum seekers and refugees that dominate the Greek borderlands. Moreover, the focus on the constant categorization of beneficiaries by Greek and European authorities affects State policies and fieldwork daily, shaping the views of the displaced persons about themselves, their relationship to authorities, and the local community. The present research finds that in Greece the nature of services offered is temporary, without any policies for the future, even though participants acknowledge that migration flows towards Europe through Greece will only increase in the future.The lack of integration policies results in further reinforcing the role of Greece as a country-intermediary stop for displaced persons coming to Europe, offering few incentives for displaced persons to stay; in successful cases of integration, neighborhood communities have been critical in covering systemic deficiencies.

Committee: Susana Peña Dr. (Advisor); Erin Felicia Labbie Dr. (Other); Yiorgos Anagnostou Dr. (Committee Member); Radhika Gajjala Dr. (Committee Member); Michaela Walsh Dr. (Committee Member) Subjects: American Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Ethnic Studies; European Studies; Social Research; Social Work

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2020, Greek and Latin

This dissertation explores myths from cultures of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean that depict gods performing sacrifice and gods as the victims of sacrifice. The author investigates how the motif of divine sacrifice or ritualized deities is connected to aitiologies of sacrifice and the typology of dying and rising gods. The author situates the myths within a historical framework of cultural exchange in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean to show how different cultures in contact adapted and creatively reworked myths about gods involved in sacrifice. The author begins with a new reading of the Mesopotamian story of Atrahasis and shows through an analysis of Mesopotamian ritual texts that the slaughter of the god Ilawela in Atrahasis should be interpreted as the first sacrifice, which results in the creation of humans who then provide offerings to the gods. The author then uses the Hebrew Bible as a case study to show how the theme of sacrifice and anthropogeny was adapted by a neighboring culture. Then, with a close reading of Hesiod's myth of Prometheus and Pandora and the Greek story of the flood preserved by Pseudo-Apollodoros, the author argues that Greek authors borrowed the Mesopotamian motif of sacrifice and anthropogeny and adapted it to fit Greek theology. Next, in an investigation of the fragmentary Phoenician myth of Melqart, the author offers a new reading of the myth about the attempted sacrifice of Herakles recorded by Herodotos and argues that the historian preserves a Greek adaptation of the myth of the sacrifice of Melqart, who was syncretized with Herakles by the fifth-century BCE. The author then reads the Phoenician myth of the sacrifice of the infant god Ieoud, preserved by the Roman period author Philo of Byblos, as an adaptation of the pattern of a dying and rising god known from the Ugaritic myth of Baal, the historical antecedent of Melqart. Accordingly, the author shows how Philo's myth of Ieoud provides crucial information for reconst (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Carolina López-Ruiz (Advisor); Fritz Graf (Committee Member); Sam Meier (Committee Member) Subjects: Biblical Studies; Classical Studies; Near Eastern Studies

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Akron, 2020, History

This dissertation aims to fill a historiographical gap in Renaissance Anglophone historiography. There is very little documentation in the historical record thus far on Sicily during the Renaissance. Most Renaissance historiography is centered on northern Italy and northern Europe. By studying the works of five Sicilian humanists: Tommaso Fazello (1498-1570), Tommaso Schifaldo (1430-1500?), Lucio Marineo Siculo (1444-1533), Claudio Mario D'Arezzo (?-1575), and Antonio Veneziano (1543-1593) we can trace Sicilian humanist thought and understand the form the Renaissance took in Sicily. I argue that through the works of these humanists not only can we trace how Sicilian humanism differed from the humanism of northern Italy, but we can also begin to understand how Sicilians saw themselves and conceptualized their identities. Sicilianita, my term for the identity construction of Sicilian humanists, was an indicator of the intellectual movements of the Sicilian Renaissance and also provides a new lens through which to study identity formation in the Renaissance in a way which complicates accepted uses of the “nation-state paradigm” by contesting its Eurocentric foundations.

Committee: Michael Levin (Advisor) Subjects: History; World History

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2020, Comparative Studies

As the number of forcibly displaced people increases globally, border crossing into Global North countries is often discussed as a crisis or emergency. Europe's recent "refugee crisis" illustrates the range of circumstances to which these discourses refer: humanitarian issues requiring urgent response; institutional crises, given the insufficiency of extant systems and structures to accommodate arriving migrants; or dangers for local and national communities who perceive the arrival of outsiders as a threat to their security and cultural identity. In Witnessing Emergency: Testimonial Narratives of Precarious Migration to Italy, I argue that in Italy, a key port of entry for migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, the "emergency imaginary" that has shaped public and political responses to migrant arrivals perpetuates the idea that Africa-Europe migration via the Mediterranean Sea is sudden, unforeseen, and detached from historical mobilities. In fact, the recent crisis bears echoes of longer histories of transit, in particular between former African colonies and former European colonizing powers. To map the stakes and contours of "emergency," and to understand its limits and omissions, this dissertation examines how media and political framings of irregular Mediterranean migration as a crisis or emergency enable the racialization of migrants and obscure the colonial relations that continue to shape notions of identity and otherness in Italy and across Europe. I interrogate these framings through testimonial transactions that contextualize and challenge emergency discourses. The testimonies I put in conversation include published life writing (memoir and documentary film) that centers migrant experiences; oral history interviews I conducted with migrants, staff, and volunteers at multiple reception sites in Italy in 2017, 2018, and 2019; and a set of encounters in urban spaces and art installations. The transactions reflected in or mobilized through thes (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Dana Renga (Advisor); Amy Shuman (Advisor); Ashley Pérez (Committee Member); Julia Watson (Committee Member) Subjects: Comparative Literature; Cultural Anthropology; Ethnic Studies; European Studies; Film Studies

MA, University of Cincinnati, 2019, Arts and Sciences: Classics

For Crete, the Early Iron Age (12th–7th centuries B.C.) was an era of great prosperity and intense contacts with the Aegean and the Near East. However, in the periods that follow, the 6th–5th centuries B.C., signs of overseas activity and even human occupation diminish sharply on the island. The abrupt change from the rich material culture of the Early Iron Age to the material indigence of the Archaic and Classical periods has attracted wide-ranging attention in the scholarship. According to the scholarly consensus, Crete fell into material and cultural decline after the collapse of Phoenician trade networks around 600–575 B.C., which cut her off from her contacts with the outside world. Most discussions of this decline have focused on the major site of Knossos, which is taken to present an extreme manifestation of the phenomenon. Indeed, many scholars assume a complete absence of archaeological finds at the site between 600/ 590 B.C. and 525 B.C. and some argue for a decline of overseas connections at the city around 475–425 B.C., which they explain with a hypothesized Athenian interference in the trade networks of the Aegean. My thesis revisits these ideas in the light of previously unpublished imported pottery from the area of the Unexplored Mansion, a settlement site located northwest of the Minoan Palace of Knossos. I identify a number of imported fragments of sympotic, perfume, and cosmetic vessels from the Aegean (Attica, Corinth, Laconia) and the Eastern Mediterranean (Cyprus) which date from the purported chronological “lacunae” and indicate that these may be more apparent than real. This thesis further discusses isolated finds from other sites within the Knossos valley which date to the periods in question. I suggest that important fragments have often remained unpublished and occasionally they have been assigned an incorrect date, which has helped establish and maintain the traditional “gaps.” This situation has had a negative impact on our understandi (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Kathleen Lynch Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Antonios Kotsonas Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Archaeology

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2019, History

When France began colonizing the North African country of Algeria in 1830, it claimed the Mediterranean as its internal sea and Algeria as a natural extension of France. French propagandists revived Napoleon's ambition, dating back to his invasion of Egypt in 1798, to transform this notoriously hostile sea into a domesticated “French Lake.” Steamships made this ambition possible; whereas sailing ships had taken three weeks to cross, steamships could make the trip in twenty-four hours. State officials, elite settlers, and businessmen who claimed Algeria as an extension of France literally had to reconfigure the Mediterranean as a French space, bordered by French territory on its northern and southern shores. Steamships played a critical role in shaping modern French imperialism and the Mediterranean. Elites such as state officials, European settlers of Algeria, and steamship companies used steamships as tangible evidence of French mastery of both sea and colony. Algeria's most prominent shipping company, the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line), operated an extensive Algerian network from Marseille. The French Line's ships became “mobile colonies” while evocative advertising shaped perceptions of a French Lake in the Mediterranean. However, the French Line's commercial preeminence led Algeria's European settlers to protest virulently against the company, ultimately winning important concessions from the French Line by the 1930s.

Committee: Alice Conklin (Advisor); Christopher Otter (Committee Member); Thomas McDow (Committee Member); Jennifer Sessions (Committee Member) Subjects: History; Technology

Master of Science, The Ohio State University, 2019, Allied Medicine

Background: Individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) require medical nutrition therapy (MNT) to manage gastrointestinal symptoms and mitigate inflammation to reduce risk of malnutrition associated with inadequate nutrient intake. Revealing current dietary patterns is essential to identify behavior modifications needed to improve MNT and promote nutritional adequacy. Objective: To expand the understanding of dietary patterns, diet quality and nutrient intake of a sample of individuals with IBD to identify behavior modifications needed to improve adherence to MNT delivered by a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN). Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in patients with IBD (N=47). Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) diagnoses were confirmed in the electronic medical record. A validated web-based, graphical food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was used to assess nutrient intakes. The Healthy Eating Index (HEI-2015) and alternate Mediterranean diet score (aMED) were compared between diagnoses using a Mann Whitney U test using median values. Average intakes of specific nutrients were compared to dietary reference standards. Results: Comparing UC and CD, there were no significant differences in HEI-2015 scores (62.9 vs 54.9, respectively; p=0.473) or aMED scores, however a trend was observed for greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) in the UC group (5 vs 3, respectively; p=0.164). UC and CD failed to meet recommended fiber intake (16.2 g vs 16.1 g, respectively). Dietary patterns in UC and CD reflected an imbalance in dietary fat intake with less than 35% of patients meeting recommendations for saturated fat (35% vs 20%, respectively). Majority of UC and CD participants met recommendations for added sugar intake (37 g vs 43.1g, respectively). Conclusions: Similar dietary patterns are observed between diagnoses indicating poor adherence to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Mediterranean Diet. Poor diet qua (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Kristen Roberts (Advisor); Marcia Nahikian-Nelms (Committee Member); Chris Taylor (Committee Member) Subjects: Nutrition

MCP, University of Cincinnati, 2018, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Community Planning

The Mediterranean region has a rich history of ancient civilizations and traditions, which makes the entire area a tourist hotspot, attracting one-third of the world's tourists yearly. A traditional staple is the olive oil industry, with 95 percent of the world's olive trees located in the region. As a result, many municipalities suffer from excess waste produced by the tourist industry, while also struggling to find a solution to the wastewater produced by olive oil production. The Marrakech-Safi region has additional environmental challenges within the artisanal sector, particularly in Tameslouht, located in the El Haouz province. A small town located 10 miles southwest of Marrakech, Tameslouht's artisan sector is the main economic driver, aside from olive oil, with a reputation for their pottery. However, the production of the pottery presents its own environmental issues. Due to its arid climate, wood is scarce, which forces potters to burn tires to power their kilns. Tameslouht's predicament has made it difficult to find a feasible alternative energy source to best serve the potters' needs. When considering alternative designs for Tameslouht's pottery sector it is important to consciously merge traditional with modern practice and design. Technology, cost, and environmental and social sustainability are central to identifying a viable solution. Appropriate technology comes down to simplicity in terms of design, practical use, and efficient production, with consistent returns and compatibility with existing infrastructure in relation to environmental and cultural conditions to achieve the intended purpose. In terms of sustainable development, King Mohammad VI's ascent to the throne in 1999 set off a now-impressive list of environmental reforms, programs, and projects. These accomplishments were showcased in 2016, when Morocco hosted 196 countries for the 22nd Conference of Parties, a follow-up to the Paris Agreement of 2015, which drafted a collection (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Johanna Looye Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Margaret Kupferle Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Urban Planning

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2018, French and Italian

Can the presence the sea in French cinema have a function other than that of a backdrop and if it is the case, what does its presence imply? My dissertation examines this question by focusing on the representation of the Mediterranean Sea through a psychoanalytical lens, mainly dialoguing with Bachelard and Jung. Seen as a symbol for the unconscious, motherhood, and femininity, the study of the function of the sea in films allows for questioning about identity, gender stereotypes, and sexuality. Because of its mythological tendencies through painting and arts, the Mediterranean Sea has often been perceived as an object of fascination. Additionally, unlike films set by the Atlantic which are generally characterized by a more hostile and uninviting climate, the south of France has been a suitable place for the expression of sexual freedom and female emancipation. My dissertation starts tackling the invention and mythicization of the Mediterranean seascape in French film, notably thanks to the presence of the French icon Brigitte Bardot. Indeed, what the first films which use the allegorical function of the sea have in common is the presence of the famous actress. In Rozier's Manina la fille sans voile (1952), Vadim's Et Dieu crea la femme (1956) and Godard's Le mepris (1963), the obvious parallel between Bardot and mythical creatures contributed to the idealization and promotion of the Mediterranean Sea as a sensual place at a time when France was in search of a national symbol. At the same time as women's rights were increasing, masculinity crisis grew stronger and contributed to shaping the Mediterranean Sea as an allegory of inner struggles and fear of castration. Both Jacques and Brice, the respective protagonists of Besson's Le grand bleu (1988) and Huth's Brice de Nice (2005) are anything but the embodiment of the traditional male hero. Both male protagonists have recurrent dreams about mermaids and prefer the sea as a way to reject any form of sexuality and rec (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Margaret Flinn (Advisor); Patrick Bray (Committee Member); Benjamin Hoffmann (Committee Member) Subjects: Film Studies

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2017, Spanish and Portuguese

This dissertation studies black confraternities and their festive practices in the early modern Iberian Atlantic, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, through the analysis of lesser-known texts from Spain, Portugal, Mexico, and Brazil. I argue that early modern black subjects availed themselves of confraternities in order not only to ameliorate their enslaved and marginalized condition and build community, but, more importantly, to preserve and adapt their African celebratory and life rituals. Focusing primarily on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico and eighteenth-century Brazil, I trace continuity and change as I compare festive practices throughout the common cultural space of the Iberian Atlantic. This study shows how blacks used confraternities and festive practices to exert agency in the early modern Iberian Atlantic. While agency has been traditionally associated with resistance, this dissertation shows that it took other, more subtle forms. Thus, what may be seen as conforming to domination—forming confraternities and participating in public festivals, which often celebrated Iberian hegemony—this dissertation reads as means of exerting agency.

Committee: Lisa Voigt (Advisor); Ignacio Corona (Advisor); Lucia Costigan (Committee Member) Subjects: Ethnic Studies; Latin American Literature; Latin American Studies; Literature; Modern Literature

PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2016, Arts and Sciences: Classics

“The Landscape of the Lion: Economies of Religion and Politics in the Nemean Countryside (800 B.C. to A.D. 700),” synthesizes archaeological evidence and ancient historical sources to construct a history for the Nemea Valley, Greece from the Geometric through Late Roman periods, a span of roughly 1,500 years. In the first part of the dissertation, I examine in detail a wide range of functional types of sites discovered by the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project (NVAP) between 1984 and 1989. I consider their economic relationships to local population and religious centers, such as the city-state of Phlius and the Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea – the former was a minor polis, while the latter was famous in antiquity for hosting the biennial Nemean Games. With an attention to the constantly evolving political agendas and alignments of neighboring city states (chiefly Argos and Corinth), I demonstrate that, in the absence of a polis center within the contested Nemea Valley, local pagan and Christian institutions were the most significant of those agents that determined patterns of settlement and rural economy. In the background, smaller, more isolated cult places situated on polis borders, together with a network of fortified positions, demarcated territory and asserted the dominion of the major actors within the region. In the second part of my dissertation, I show in outline how a loose network of numerous small Classical farms was, by the Late Roman period (A.D. 400-700), gradually transformed into an array of fewer and larger landholdings and villa estates that were engaged in intensive cultivation. Key to recognizing this subtle and gradual change is a novel approach making use of all artifact data produced by the survey, which show how landscape exploitation over time became more extensive and simultaneously entailed the adoption of new agricultural methods intended to produce greater yields from available land. As a tool for studying the larger regional – and (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Jack Davis Ph.D. (Committee Chair); John Cherry Ph.D. (Committee Member); Steven Ellis Ph.D. (Committee Member); Kathleen Lynch Ph.D. (Committee Member); Alan Sullivan Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Archaeology

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2015, Environment and Natural Resources

Although fire severity has been shown to be a key disturbance to stream-riparian ecosystems in temperate zones, the effects of fire-severity on stream-riparian structure and function in Mediterranean-type systems remains less well resolved. Mediterranean ecosystems of California are characterized by high interannual variability in precipitation and susceptibility to frequent high-intensity wildfires. From 2011 to 2014, I utilized a variety of experimental designs to investigate the influence of wildfire across 70 study reaches on stream-riparian ecosystems in Yosemite National Park (YNP), located in the central Sierra Nevada, California, USA. At 12 stream reaches paired by fire-severity, I measured riparian community composition and structure, stream geomorphology, density and community composition of benthic macroinvertebrates, and density, trophic position, mercury (Hg) body loading, and reliance on aquatically-derived energy of/by spiders of the family Tetragnathidae, a common riparian spider that relies heavily on emergent aquatic insect prey. In addition, along a gradient of drainage area in two rivers, I measured the relative effects of ecosystem size, flood magnitude, productivity, and wildfire on trophic position and reliance on aquatically-derived energy of/by benthic insect predators and tetragnathid spiders. Aquatic birds like the American dipper (Cinclus mexicanus) are considered landscape integrators and are constrained by different ecological processes than aquatic organisms, therefore assessment of the trophic dynamics of aquatic-obigate birds may illuminate divergent patterns related to both fire and food-web dynamics. I estimated reliance on aquatically-derived energy and trophic position of dippers in 27 mountain streams and estimated the relative explanatory power of ecosystem size, precipitation, and wildfire as predictors of dipper trophic dynamics. Taken together, the results of my study, combined with the long period of time since fire at some (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Mazeika Sullivan (Advisor); Amanda Rodewald (Committee Member); Desheng Liu (Committee Member) Subjects: Ecology; Environmental Science; Freshwater Ecology; Water Resource Management

MA, University of Cincinnati, 2008, Arts and Sciences : Classics

The Maltese archipelago, made up of five small islands, is located almost exactly in the middle of the Mediterranean. From the Phoenician period to the modern day, Malta, because of its central location and excellent harbors, has been integral to pan-Mediterranean exchange, communication, and military endeavors. However, the earliest long-distance Mediterranean trade networks between east and west barely reached these islands. This thesis investigates long-term trends in prehistoric Maltese exchange networks in order to illuminate how and why the Maltese did not participate more actively in early exchange networks. It also explores the nature of Bronze Age exchange networks between the eastern and central Mediterranean from the often overlooked perspective of the periphery.

Committee: Dr. Jack Davis (Advisor) Subjects: Anthropology, Archaeology