Dissertation Collection
A record of dissertations submitted by Ph.D. students in the Department of Geography & Anthropology.
| Student | Year | Degree | Title |
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Furtner, Margaret |
2025 | PhD |
A machine learning approach to cave and sinkhole prediction in the Cradle of Humankind: Implications for fossil prospecting in paleoanthropology |
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Thompson, Derek |
2025 | PhD |
Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature Climatology and Reconstruction for the Southeastern United States with Implications for Human Health |
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Zeng, Yutian |
2025 | PhD |
Obesogenic Environment and Children’s Health in Louisiana: A Multilevel Modeling Approach |
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Yin, Lirong |
2025 | PhD |
Geo-AI for Wetland Classification and Evolutionary Analysis |
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Johnson, Miracle |
2025 | PhD |
Leading the Charge: Chief Diversity Officers Overcoming Barriers and Shaping Diversity Leadership in the U.S. |
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Hernandez, Amy |
2025 | PhD |
Osteon Analysis and Health Status at the Colonial Maya Site of Tipu, Belize |
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Bennett, Krista |
2025 | PhD |
Adult Skeletal Age Estimation of Pelvic Joints: Impact of Pelvic Anomalies and Quantitative Methods |
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Siddique, Sumaiya |
2024 | PhD |
Effects of Longitudinal Training Walls (LTWs) on Two-Dimensional Flow Structure, Sediment Transport, and Bed Aggradation Using Numerical Methods and Sediment Core Analyses in Grand River, Michigan |
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Luo, Cehong |
2024 | PhD |
Modeling Urban Population Density Functions and Excess Commuting: A Big Data Approach to the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem |
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Dohrenwend, Adam |
2024 | PhD |
Gerrymandering Louisiana's Electoral & Industrial Landscapes: A Political Ecology of Cancer Alley |
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Sutherland, Kenneth |
2024 | PhD |
What Macrofloral and Macrofaunal Ecofacts Are Cooking? A Synthesis of Data and Methods in the Nepeña Valley, Peru |
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Harrington, Kenetha |
2024 | PhD |
The Landscape is a Witness: An Archaeological Study of the 1811 German Coast Uprising |
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Omotere, Olumide |
2024 | PhD |
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Water Quality in Southeastern Louisiana Using Machine Learning and Google Earth Engine |
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Valenzuela-Hernandez, Latasha |
2024 | PhD |
SAY MY NAME: A SOCIO-ONOMASTIC AND ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF IDENTITY AND PERCEPTION IN MULTICULTURAL LOUISIANA |
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Foster, Cheryl |
2024 | PhD |
Human-Environment Interactions in Coastal Belize: Insights into Sea-Level Rise and Ancient Maya Activities at the Paynes Creek Salt Works |
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Fisher, Blaine |
2024 | PhD | LiDAR Illuminates Centralized Maya Leadership in the Architectural Investment of Devensive Earthworks at Dos Aguadas, Guatemala |
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Zheng, Zeliu |
2024 | PhD | Spatial Behavior Of Hospital Visits By Hand, Foot, And Mouth Disease Patients In Nanchang, China |
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Ingram-Basby, Antonia |
2023 | PhD | Unburdened by the Past: An Autoethnographic Investigation of Narratives of Generational Curses, Self-Identity, and Belonging by Black Christian Women |
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Bean, Tagimamao Melanie |
2023 | PhD | Home Beyond the Reef: Mapping Tokelau Imaginaries Through Aotearoa, New Zealand and Oahu, Hawai'i |
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Benedetto, Kathleen |
2023 | PhD | Rapid Intensification as a Crucial Hurricane Hazard: Educating and Empowering Young Stakeholders affected by Hurricanes on the Gulf Coast |
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Marti Gil, Irene |
2023 | PhD | Fighting the Illicit Antiquities "Artworld": A Critical Approach to the Heritage Laws of Guatemala |
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Tian, Dan |
2023 | PhD | Mapping, Modeling, and Predicting Extreme Flood Events with Cloud Computing |
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Lincoln, Hollie |
2023 | PhD | Analysis of Imported and Local Chert from the Paynes Creek Salt Works, Belize, Using 3D Technology and Traditional Methods |
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Shang, Nan |
2022 | PhD | Studies of Roseau Cane Dieback in the Lower Mississippi River Delta Based on Remote Sensing Data Including Landsat, Worldview, and Drone |
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Wang, Changzhen |
2022 | PhD | GIS Automated Delineation and Analysis of Cancer Service Areas in the United States |
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Williams, Shaun |
2022 | PhD | A STREET-BASED SIMULATION APPROACH TO EVALUATING CRIME THEORIES AND DETERRENCE EFFICACY IN BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA |
| Cruzado, Elizabeth | 2021 | PhD | The Ancient Occupation of Nivín, Casma, Peru: Co-Creating Heritage in Andean Archaeology |
| Han, Ya | 2021 | PhD | Predictive Crime Hotspot Analysis with the Spatiotemporal Kernel Density Estimation Method Accounting for a Cyclical Trend: A Case Study in Baton Rouge |
| Warner, Jacob | 2021 | PhD | Reconstructing the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in Northern Peru: Perspectives from Donax Obsulus Geochemistry and Archaeomalacology |
| Gonzalez, Melinda | 2021 | PhD | Rhyming Through Disaster: Community Organizing and Displacement in Puerto Rico and New York after Hurricane Maria |
| Soleimani, Samira | 2020 | PhD | Using Spatial Analysis and Machine Learning Techniques to Develop a Comprehensive Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Consolidation Model |
| Bhowmick, Rupsa | 2020 | PhD | Southwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Frequency and Intensity Related to Observed and Modeled Geophysical and Aerosol Variables |
| Allen, Ashley | 2020 | PhD | Talking About the Weather: Impacts of Tornado Stories on Memory and Identity |
| Rowley, Taylor | 2020 | PhD | Field Investigation on Point Bar Dynamics and Planform Evolution in Meandering Rivers |
| Smith, Deirdre | 2020 | PhD | An Atmospheric and Spatiotemporal Examination of Lightning-Initiated Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes Detected by the Fermi Satellite and TETRA II |
| Tucker, Clay | 2020 | PhD | Analyzing Climate Risk to Maritime Cypress Swamps and Pine Savannas of the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain |
| Zhu, Haojie | 2020 | PhD | Building an agent-based crime simulation with environmental criminology and time geography – a case study of robberies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Brown, Vincent | 2019 | PhD | Hourly Precipitation Climatology of the Southeast United States |
| Kuai, Xuan | 2019 | PhD | Deciphering Public Transit Ridership in Baton Rouge: Spatial Disaggregation Approaches |
| Liu, Cuiling | 2019 | PhD | Analyzing the Population Density Pattern in China with a GIS-Automated Regionalization Method: Hu Line Revisited |
| Xu, Yaping | 2019 | PhD | Mapping Soil Moisture from Remotely Sensed and In-situ Data with Statistical Methods |
| Enwright, Nicholas Matthew | 2019 | PhD | The Importance of Landscape Position Information and Elevation Uncertainty for Barrier Island Habitat Mapping and Modeling |
| Harris, Joseph Blake | 2019 | PhD | Vulnerability of Industrial Facilities in the Lower Mississippi River Industrial Corridor to Relative Sea Level Rise and Tropical Cyclone Storm Surge |
| Kyle, Aubry | 2019 | PhD | Use of a Behavioral Health Framework to Assess Perceptions of Hurricane Evacuation Support Services in New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Zhang, Xukai | 2019 | PhD | Monitoring Sediment Dynamics and Vegetation Competition Based on Micro-Topography and Terrestrial LiDAR for Wetland Restoration |
| Fan, Shuzhan | 2018 | PhD | Using Deep Learning to Forecast Spatiotemporal Crime Patterns |
| Grismore, Audrey | 2018 | PhD | Natural Resources-Based Conflicts in Coastal Louisiana: A Multi-faceted Social and Ecological Setting |
| Munro, Kimberly | 2018 | PhD | Landscapes of Persistence and Ritual Architecture at the Cosma Complex, Upper Nepeña Valley, Peru |
| Richards, Derek Allen | 2018 | PhD | Three-Dimensional Flow, Morphologic Change, and Sediment Deposition and Distribution of Actively Evolving Neck Cutoffs Located on the White River, Arkansas |
| White, Andrea P. | 2018 | PhD | The Urban Archaeological Supersite Paradigm: Integrating Archaeology and HGIS into Heritage Management |
| Caparotta, Stephen | 2018 | PhD | Madden-Julian Oscillation Relationships with Cool Season Cyclogenesis, Daily Precipitation, and Cool Season Severe Weather Frequencies in the Gulf of Mexico Region |
| Bartels, Rudy | 2018 | PhD | A Climatology of Precipitation Days Throughout the Continguous United States |
| Sanchez, Gines | 2018 | PhD | Linguistic Political Ecology with the Ngabe Indigenous People of Panama |
| Richardson, Gabriele | 2018 | PhD | Ethnicity, Climate, and House Types as Mortality Factors in the New Orleans's 1878 Yellow Fever Outbreak |
| Greensword, Sylviane Ngandu-Kalenga | 2017 | PhD | Our Daily Braids: Commodification and Ethnicity in Hair Braiding Salons |
| Morris, Lauren L. | 2017 | PhD | Ports Resilience Index: Participatory Methods to Assess Resilience |
| Kamau, Peter Ngugi | 2017 | PhD | Elephants, Local Livelihoods, and Landscape Change in Tsavo, Kenya |
| Simms, Jessica Rose | 2017 | PhD | Grounds for Displacement: Issues of Migration on Louisiana's Disappearing Coast |
| Harrington, Victoria Nicole | 2017 | PhD | Digital Osteology: 3D Surface Scanning the Os Coxa |
| Xiang, Hanyu | 2017 | PhD | Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Louisiana Land Subsidence Using High-resolution Geo-Spatial Data |
| Patnukao, Areerut | 2017 | PhD | GIS Analysis of Dvaravati Dharmacakras and the Rise of Buddhism in Thailand |
| Ouellette, Gilman | 2017 | PhD | Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction Using Coral Microatolls (Sp. Siderastrea siderea) from the Gulf of Gonave, Haiti |
| Eachus, Joshua | 2017 | PhD | Weather Communication on Twitter: Identifying Popular Content and Optimal Warning Format Via Case Studies and a Survey Analysis |
| Feathers, Valerie | 2017 | PhD | Human-Environment Interactions: Sea-Level Rise and Marine Resource Use at Eleanor Betty, and Underwater Maya Salt Work, Belize |
| Gilliland, Joshua M. | 2017 | PhD | Brazilian Surface and Upper-Level Wind Characteristics Based on Ground and Model Observations from 1980 to 2014 |
| Wang, Bo | 2017 | PhD | Assessing Morphodynamics of the Lower Mississippi River from 1985 to 2015 with Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques |
| Galeucia, Annemarie Michele | 2017 | PhD | Mobile Homes: Class, Space and Race in Idealized Landscapes of Home |
| Hu, Yujie | 2016 | PhD | Temporal Trends of Intraurban Commuting in Baton Rouge 1990-2010 |
| Erdem, Mustafa | 2016 | PhD | A Spatial Analysis of Obesity and Its Associations with Built and Natural Environment, Physical Inactivity, and Socioeconomic and Demographic Conditions in the United States of America |
| Berchak-Irby, Katie | 2016 | PhD | The Body and The Bedroom: Life and Death at the Shrines of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini |
| Powell, Joseph Blanchard | 2016 | PhD | The Edible Landscape: Plant Breeding, Farming, and Sustainability in Northwest Portugal |
| Worms, Jamie Lauren | 2015 | PhD | Mental Mapping the Transformation of Social Space in Rio's Oldest Favela: Morro da Providência |
| Jia, Peng | 2015 | PhD | Delineating Hospital Service Areas in Florida Based on Patients' Travel Patterns |
| Renken, Katherine Anne | 2015 | PhD | Investigations into Ecogeomorphodynamics of Coastal Embryo Dunes at Padre Island National Seashore, Texas |
| Fu, Cong | 2015 | PhD | Planning Towards Equal Spatial Accessibility of NCI Cancer Centers Across Geographic Areas and Demographic Groups in the U.S. |
| Watkins, Case | 2015 | PhD | An Afro-Brazilian Landscape: African Oil Palms and Socioecological Change in Bahia, Brazil |
| Pharr, Lauren | 2015 | PhD | Using GPS Tracking and Long-Term Decomposition Studies to Investigate Vulture Scavenging and Flight Patterns in Relation to a Forensic Anthropology Facility in Texas |
| Watson, Rachel Mariah | 2015 | PhD | Excavations and Interpretation of Two Ancient Maya Salt-Work Mounds, Paynes Creek National Park, Toledo District, Belize |
| Hotard, Corey David | 2015 | PhD | Just Throw it in the Pot! The Cultural Geography of Hidden Landscapes and Masked Performances in South Louisiana Gumbo Cooking |
| Cheetham, Louise | 2015 | PhD | Curated Landscapes: The Evolution of the Postcard Shot |
| Mohammad, Bedoor Adel | 2014 | PhD | Object-Based Coastal Morphological Change Analysis Based on LiDAR and Hurricane Events |
| Moles, Aimee H. | 2014 | PhD | Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Selected Birth Defects and Risk Factors in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area |
| McEwen, John Winsor | 2014 | PhD | Sense of Place, Place Attachment, and Rootedness in Four West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Bars |
| Xu, Yanqing | 2014 | PhD | Built Environment and Risk of Obesity in the United States: A Multilevel Modeling Approach |
| Modlin Jr, Eddie Arnold | 2014 | PhD | Touching Plantation Memories: Tourists and Docents at the Museum |
| Karolczyk, Paul | 2014 | PhD | Subjugated Territory: The New Afrikan Independence Movement and the Space of Black Power |
| Garcia , Doris | 2014 | PhD | Place, Race, and the Politics of Identity in the Geography of Garinagu Baündada |
| Hay, Jennifer Ann | 2014 | PhD | Restoring Cultural Capital through Preservation in the Holy Cross Historic District |
| Schmutz, Phillip P | 2014 | PhD | Investigation of Factors Controlling the Dynamics of Beach Surface Moisture Content |
| Needham, Harold Francis | 2014 | PhD | A Data-Driven Storm Surge Analysis for the U.S. Gulf Coast |
| Powell, Emily J. | 2014 | PhD | Climate Extremes in the Southeast United States: Observed Variability, Spatial Classification, and Related Planning |
| Bitton, Michael | 2013 | PhD | Beach-Dune Interactions and a New Cycle of Foredune Evolution, Gulf County, Florida |
| Sills, Elizabeth Cory | 2013 | PhD | Underwater Excavations of Two Ancient Maya Salt Works, Paynes Creek National Park, Belize |
| Evans, Amanda | 2013 | PhD | Out of Site but Not Out of Mind: Submerged Prehistoric Archaeological Landscapes on the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf |
| Chen, Yi-Chia | 2013 | PhD | Shifting Place Identities in a Post-Conflict Society: Irony and Multiculturality in Quemoy, Taiwan |
| Edwards, Brandon L. | 2013 | PhD | Investigations of the Initiation of Motion in Aeolian Transport |
| Robinson, Mark | 2013 | PhD | Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Ancient Maya Wood Selection and Forest Exploitation at the Paynes Creek Slat Works, Belize |
| Brasdefer, Thomas Pierre-Yves | 2013 | PhD | Sites of Indigenous Language Practice: Geography of American Indian Language Policy |
| Joyner, Timothy Andrew | 2013 | PhD | Optimizing Peak Gust and Maximum Sustained Wind Speed Estimates from Mid-Latitude Wave Cyclones |
| Chaney, James Powell | 2013 | PhD | Uncovering Nodes in the Transnational Social Networks of Hispanic Workers |
| Green, Mandy Michelle | 2012 | PhD | Physical Processes and Drivers on Landscapes in Coastal Louisiana and Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| Trevino, Anna Marie | 2012 | PhD | Mechanisms of Urban Influence on Precipitation in the Southeastern United States: Precipitation Enhancement, Storm Bifurcation, and Synoptic characteristics |
| Joseph, Myrtho | 2012 | PhD | Urban Population Density and Environmental Quality in Port au Prince, Haiti: A Geo-Statistical Analysis |
| Shao, Wanyun | 2012 | PhD | Understanding Public Perceptions of Global Warming |
| Brecht, Henrike | 2012 | PhD | Natural Hazards, Risk Analysis and Emergency Preparedness: Applying Spatial Methods in Disaster Risk Management |
| Kulkarni, Amit | 2012 | PhD | An Object Based Image Analysis Approach for Detecting Urban Impervious Surfaces |
| Tang, Quan | 2012 | PhD | GIS Based Urban Land Use Characterization and Population Modeling with Subpixel Information Measured from Remote Sensing Data |
| Orgera, Ryan | 2012 | PhD | Constructing Wilderness: The Nexus of Preservation and Ocean space in the United States |
| Ward, Steven Matthew | 2012 | PhD | A Discourse on Geospatial Technology Applications in Predictive Analytics and Evidence Based Decision Support for Disaster Research and Management |
| Boyd, Ezra Clay-Kelly | 2011 | PhD | Fatalities due to Hurricane Katrina's impacts in Louisiana |
| Arenas, Helbert | 2011 | PhD | An Agent-Based Simulation Model for Business Reopenings in New Orleans Post Hurricane Katrina |
| Augustine, Andrew Douglas | 2011 | PhD | An Assessment of Atmospheric Factors Impacting Tropospheric Ozone in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Non-attainment Zone |
| Chen, Yuliang | 2011 | PhD | A Contour Tree Based Spatio-Temporal Data Model for Oceanographic Applications |
| Potter, Amy E. | 2011 | PhD | Transnational Spaces and Communal Land Tenure in a Caribbean Place: "Barbuda is for Barbudans" |
| Watts, Paul Ronald | 2011 | PhD | Landscape, Mobilities, and Performance: An Autoethnographic and Visual Engagement with Public Protests in Washington, DC |
| Yoo, Jinwoong | 2011 | PhD | Large-Scale Influences on Tropical Cyclogenesis for Selected Storms in the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season |
| Rogers, Bethany W. | 2010 | PhD | "It's Not Just About the Buildings, It's About the People": Architecture, Practice, and Preservation in Post-Katrina New Orleans |
| Antipova, Anzhelika | 2010 | PhD | Land Use, Individual Attributes, and Travel Behavior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Mince, Sylvia | 2010 | PhD | The Power Struggle Between Americans and Creoles in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century and Its Influence on the Architecture of New Orleans |
| Fielding, Russell | 2010 | PhD | Artisanal Whaling in the Atlantic: A Comparative Study of Culture, Conflict, and Conservation in St. Vincent and the Faroe Islands |
| Seemann, Jorn | 2010 | PhD | Regional Narratives, Hidden Maps, and Storied Places: Cultural Cartographies of the Cariri Region, Northeast Brazil |
| Sullivan, Thomas James | 2010 | PhD | Designing Irishness: Ethnicity, Heritage, and Imagined Connection to Place Through Language |
| Feike, Meredith Morgan | 2010 | PhD | Revitalizing the Suburban Dream: Disaster, Displacement and Resilience in Eastern Orleans Parish |
| Huang, Yun | 2009 | PhD | Sediment Records of Modern and Prehistoric Hurricane Strikes in Weeks Bay, Alabama |
| Nogueira, Ricardo Chabarria | 2009 | PhD | Atlantic Tropical Cyclone: Climatology and the Contribution to Monthly and Seasonal Rainfall in the Eastern U.S, 1960-2007 |
| Hunter, Richard | 2009 | PhD | People, Sheep, and Landscape Change in Colonial Mexico: The Sixteenth-Century Transformation of the Valle del Mezquital |
| Kent, Joshua D. | 2009 | PhD | Essays on the Integration of Anisotropic Landscapes within Contemporary Geographic Profiling Models |
| Wade, Charles H. | 2009 | PhD | Why the Old Traditions Will Not Fail: Landscape, Legends, and the Construction of Place at Dartmouth College |
| Liang, Wei | 2009 | PhD | An Integrated Agent-Based Microsimulation Model for Hurricane Evacuation in New Orleans |
| Knowles, Jason | 2008 | PhD | Coastal Lake-Sediment Records of Prehistoric Hurricane Strike in Honduras and Turks and Caicos Islands of the Caribbean Basin |
| Sumpter, Amy Rhiannon | 2008 | PhD | Environment, Labor, and Race: An Historical Geography of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, 1878-1956 |
| Ju, Wenxue | 2008 | PhD | A Genetic Bayesian Approach for Texture-Aided Urban Land-Use/Land-Cover Classification |
| Arden, William Brennan | 2008 | PhD | Medical Geography in Public Health and Tropical Medicine: Case Studies from Brazil |
| Zhu, Yuanda | 2007 | PhD | Modeling Spatial and Temporal Variations of Surface Moisture Content and Groundwater Table Fluctuations on a Fine-Grained Beach, Padre Island, Texas |
| Wilson, Harry James | 2007 | PhD | The Urban Development of Spanish Colonial Pensacola, 1781-1821 |
| Dunn, Robert A. | 2007 | PhD | Fever, Firepower, and Flood: The Transformation of the Missouri River Bottomlands in the Dakotas 1804-2005 |
| Somers, Bretton Michael | 2007 | PhD | Spatial Analysis of the Preserved Wooden Architectural Remains of Eight Late Classic Maya Salt Works in Punta Ycacos Lagoon, Toledo District, Belize |
| Hinman, Sarah Elizabeth | 2007 | PhD | Spatial and Temporal Structure of Typhoid Fever in Washington, D.C., 1895-1909: A Geographic Information Systems Exploration of Urban Health Concerns |
| Hemmerling, Scott Allan | 2007 | PhD | Environmental ------ in Southeast Louisiana: Oil, People, Policy, and the Geography of Industrial Hazards |
| Dorrell, David | 2007 | PhD | Understanding the New York Rabies Epizootic 1985-2005 |
| Mujica, Frances Heyward Currin | 2007 | PhD | Chagas in Culture and Place: A Mixed Methods Approach to a New Medical Geography of Chagas Disease in Los Tuxtlas, Mexico |
| Wang, Fei | 2007 | PhD | Land-Cover and Land-Use Study Genetic Algorithms, Petri Nets, and Cellular Automata |
| Zhou, Guiyun | 2006 | PhD | Detecting the Socioeconomic Conditions of Urban Neighborhoods through Wavelet Analysis of Remotely Sensed Imagery |
| Sheehan, Rebecca A | 2006 | PhD | Between Representation and Practice: Contesting Public Space in New Orleans' Jackson Square |
| Blackburn, Jason Kenna | 2006 | PhD | Evaluating the Spatial Ecology of Anthrax in North America: Examining Epidemiological Components across Multiple Geographic Scales Using a GIS-Based Approach |
| Kiage, Lawrence | 2006 | PhD | Vegetational Change and Land Degradation in the Lake Baringo Area, Kenya, During the Late Holocene: Evidence from the Paleorecord and Remote Sensing |
| Duval-Diop, Dominique | 2006 | PhD | Rediscovering the Delta: A Reassessment of the Linkages between Poverty, Economic Growth and Public Policy Using Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis |
| Vinnakota, Srinivas Kumar | 2006 | PhD | Socioeconomic Characteristics of Cancer Mortality in the United States of America: A Spatial Data Mining Approach |
| Hardegree, Lynn Copeland | 2006 | PhD | Spatial Characteristics of the Remotely-Sensed Surface Urban Heat Island in Baton Rouge, LA: 1988-2003 |
| McGraw, Molly J. | 2005 | PhD | The Effect of Environmental Forcing on the Suspended Sediment within the Naomi Wetlands as Reflected in Turbidity Data |
| Flanagan, Charles Allen | 2005 | PhD | Mapping the Other Truth in the Shintech Case: Emancipatory Mapping for Environmental Justice in South Louisiana |
| Streiff, Meg | 2005 | PhD | Boston's Settlement Housing: Social Reform in an Industrial City |
| Bohr, Gregory Shannon | 2005 | PhD | Trends in Extreme Daily Temperature Events in the South-Central United States |
| Pemberton, Kevin Michael | 2005 | PhD | Models for Ancient Maya Coastal Site Development and Economy: Examination of Pork and Doughboy Point, Port Honduras, Belize |
| Mills, Jacqueline Warren | 2005 | PhD | Wealth and Deprivation in the Delta: A Landscape of Subsidization |
| Alexander, Toni Ann | 2004 | PhD | From Oklahomans to "Okies": Identity Formation in Rural California |
| Bohr, Gregory S. | 2004 | PhD | Trends in Extreme Daily Temperature Events in the South-Central United States |
| Ochoa-Winemiller, Virginia J. | 2004 | PhD | Places to Live: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Modern Maya Houses in Yucatan, Mexico |
| Speights-Binet, Jennifer | 2004 | PhD | The Road to Redevelopment: New Urbanism, Nostalgia, and the Process of Downtown Revitalization in Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Vaughan, Elizabeth | 2003 | PhD | Louisiana Sugar: A Geohistorical Perspective |
| Miller, Deborah J. | 2003 | PhD | "Walking the Queen's Highway": Ideology and Cultural Landscape in Northern Ireland |
| Xiao, Ke | 2003 | PhD | Fractal Compression and Analysis on Remotely Sensed Imagery |
| Fagan, William Francis | 2003 | PhD | From Lime Kilns to Art Galleries: A Historical Anthropogeography of the Maine Coast City of Rockland |
| Fraser, Elizabeth Ann | 2003 | PhD | Conservation Versus Survival: A Cultural Ecological Study of Changing Settlement Patterns, Cultures, and Land Use in the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve of Northeast Honduras |
| Zhang, Xiongping | 2003 | PhD | Design and Implementation of an Ocean Observing System: WAVCIS (Wave-Current-Surge Information System) and Its Application to the Louisiana Coast |
| Shen, Caiming | 2003 | PhD | Millennial-Scale Variations and Centennial-Scale Events in the Southwest Asian Monsoon: Pollen Evidence from Tibet |
| Blackburn, Jason Kenna | 2003 | PhD | Characterizing Spatially Explicit Patterns of Antibiotic Resistance in the Marine Environment Using Top-Level Marine Predators |
| Winemiller, Terance Lynn | 2003 | PhD | Water Resource Management by the Ancient Maya of Yucatan, Mexico |
| Hotard, Corey David | 2003 | PhD | Bombarding the City of the Dead: Who Has a Right to the Past? |
| Reese, Carl A. | 2003 | PhD | Pollen Dispersal and Deposition in the High-Central Andes, South America |
| Weir, Daniel Raymond | 2002 | PhD | No Place to Die: The Poetics of Roadside Sacred Places in Mexico |
| Mince, Sylvia Starns | 2002 | PhD | New Orleans' Squares 39 and 40: Three Centuries of Change: An Anthropological Look at the Social, Economic and Political Effects on Architecture |
| Revels, Craig Stephen | 2002 | PhD | Timber, Trade, and Transformation: A Historical Geography of Mahogany in Honduras |
| Tewolde Kahsaye, Woldetensae | 2002 | PhD | The Cultural Ecology of Pastoralism in Eritrea: A Geographical Inquiry |
| Kahsaye, Woldetensae Tewolde | 2002 | PhD | The Cultural Ecology of Pastoralism in Eritrea: A Geographical Inquiry |
| Prout, Erik G, Jr. | 2001 | PhD | Cultural Preservation in the Romanish Landscape: A Geography of the Swiss-Romanish Movement |
| Wu, Tian | 2001 | PhD | Analyzing Crime Spatial Patterns Using Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System Technologies: Investigating the Urban Opportunity Structure Model of Jackson, Mississippi |
| Myint, Soe Win | 2001 | PhD | Wavelet Analysis and Classification of Urban Environment Using High-Resolution Multispectral Image Data |
| Bonta, Mark A. | 2001 | PhD | Mapping Enredos of Complex Spaces, A Regional Geography of Olancho |
| Alphin, George | 2001 | PhD | A New Testament Geography: Description, Perspectives, and Implications for the Field of Geography |
| Rainey, Steven J. | 2001 | PhD | Soil Management in Two Highland Guatemalan Municipios: Local Perspectives on the Management and Degradation of Soil Resources |
| Sundermann, Frederick W., III | 2001 | PhD | Neither Natchez nor Tara: An Environmental Historical Geography of the Upper Pearl River Basin of Mississippi, Protohistoric Period to 1940 |
| Sinclair, Dean T. | 2001 | PhD | A New Town Will Appear on Charleston Neck: North Carolina and the Creation of the New South Garden City |
| Crutcher, Michael, Jr. | 2001 | PhD | Protecting Place in African-American Neighborhoods: Urban Public Space, Privitization and Protest in Louis Armstrong Park and the Treme, New Orleans |
| Brown, Robert N. | 2001 | PhD | Coming Home: Black Return Migration to the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta |
| Igorievich Ignatov, Igor | 2001 | PhD | The Biogeography, Ecology, and Environmental History of the Loess Hills Forests, Lower Mississippi Embayment |
| Zhao, Wei | 2001 | PhD | Multiscale Analysis for Characterization of Remotely Sensed Images |
| Chung, Heesun | 2000 | PhD | Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Uneven Development: The Case of South Korea |
| Bark, Mi Hye | 2000 | PhD | Cancer Mortality and Environment in Louisiana: A Geographical Inquiry |
| Adam, Lisa K. | 2000 | PhD | Terrebone Farms Louisiana: An Anthropogeographic Study of a New Deal Resettlement |
| Deur, Douglas E. | 2000 | PhD | A Domesticated Landscape: Native American Plant Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America |
| Yao, Zuju | 2000 | PhD | Ice-Core Pollen Studies from the Dunde and Guliya Ice Caps, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China |
| Ozdenerol, Esra | 2000 | PhD | A Spatial Inquiry of Infant Low Birthweight and Cancer Mortality in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana |
| Hong, Keumsoo | 1999 | PhD | The Evolution of the Red River Valley Settlement System, 1714-1860 |
| Read, Jane | 1999 | PhD | Land-Cover Change Detection for the Tropics Using Remots Sensing and Geographic Information Systems |
| Smiley, Scott P. | 1999 | PhD | Musing the Garden: A Poetics of Place and Emplacement |
| Chaney, Philip | 1999 | PhD | Extratropical Storms of the Gulf of Mexico and their Effects Along the Northern Coast of a Barrier Island: West Ship Island, Mississippi |
| Hawkins, Michael J. | 1999 | PhD | Tourism and Place in Treasure Beach Jamaica: Imagining Paradise and the Alternative |
| Brucklacher, Ann D. | 1999 | PhD | Apples and Regional Change: Life and Economy in Tsugaru, Japan |
| Aguirre, Robert | 1999 | PhD | Territoriality and Commerce: Political Conflict over the Panama Canal in Geographic Perspective |
| Steinberg, Michael K. | 1999 | PhD | Biological --------- and Cultural Survival: Mopan Maya Traditional Culture and Environmental Change in Southern Belize |
| Maxwell, Andrew L. | 1999 | PhD | Holocene Environmental Change in Mainland Southeast Asia: Pollen and Charcoal Records from Cambodia |
| Tillman, Benjamin F. | 1999 | PhD | The Miskito Settlement Landscape of Eastern Honduras with Emphasis on the Moravian Contribution |
| Nance, Cindy A. | 1999 | PhD | Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A GIS Study of Changes in Cemetery Locations in Southeastern Louisiana from an Archaeological and Geographical Perspective, 1930-1997 |
| Thorstad, Linda M. | 1999 | PhD | The Historical and Cultural Geography of the Grange in Minnesota and Louisiana, 1870-1880 |
| Brown, Scott S. | 1999 | PhD | Folk Housing in Northeastern Mexico: A Key to Culturogeographic Regionalization |
| Henderson, Bonnie | 1998 | PhD | Access to Child Care in North Carolina: The Interaction of Class and Gender Relations Government Policy across Places and Scales |
| Coggins, Christopher Reed | 1998 | PhD | The Tiger and the Pangolin: Cultural Ecology, Landscape Ecology, and Nature Conservation in China's Southeast Uplands |
| Algeo, Catherine | 1998 | PhD | Tobacco Farming n the Age of the Surgeon Generals Warning: The Cultural Ecology and Structuration of Burley Tobacco Production in Madison County, North Carolina |
| Hudson, Paul Franklin | 1998 | PhD | Meandering Processes and Channel Morphology in the Lower Mississippi River Prior to Major Human Disturbance |
| Hardy, Jeffrey | 1998 | PhD | Winter Season Cold Front Variability in the Southern United States |
| Heppen, John Joseph | 1998 | PhD | The Rise of the Republican Party in the South: A geographical Interpretation, 1948-1996 |
| Choi, Youngeun | 1998 | PhD | Urban Effects on Precipitation in the Southern United States of America |
| Hamilton, Herman Roger | 1998 | PhD | Human Dimensions of Water Resources Policy: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Role in Natural Resources and Recreational Management |
| Chen, Yi-Fong | 1998 | PhD | Indigenous Rights Movements Land Conflicts and Cultural Politics in Taiwan-A Case Study of Li-shan |
| Anderson, Katherine | 1997 | PhD | Nature, Culture and Big Old Trees: Human Relationships with Ceiba (Ceiba pentandra) and Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) in the Landscapes of Guatemala and Louisiana |
| Allen, Daniel Stephen | 1997 | PhD | The Impact of Technological Change on the Economic Viability of Individual Production Centers: The Case of the 1840-1880 British Ocean-Going Iron and Steam Shipbuilding Industry |
| Cherukuri, Rajabhushanam | 1997 | PhD | Land/Water Interface Delineation Using Neural Networks |
| Samson, James Richard | 1997 | PhD | Indigenous Lands in a Developing Region: A Historical Ethnogeography of the Pech Indians of Eastern Honduras with Emphasis on Recent Settlement and Land Use Changes |
| Mesyanzhinov, Dmitry V. | 1997 | PhD | Suburbanization of Office Space: A Case Study of Houston, Texas |
| Mack, Taylor | 1997 | PhD | Ephemeral Hinterlands and Historical Geography of Trujillo, Honduras, 1525-1950 |
| Debusschere, Karolien | 1997 | PhD | Sediment Transport Processes in Coarse Gravel-Bed Rivers: An Example from Costa Rica |
| Mitchell, Terri | 1997 | PhD | Moved by the Spirit: Protestant Diffusion and Church Location in Central America with a Case Study from Southwestern Honduras |
| Otterstrom, Samuel Mark | 1997 | PhD | An Analysis of Population Dispersal and Concentration in the United States 1790-1990: The Frontier Long-Waves and the Manufacturing Connection |
| Brady, Scott Arlen | 1996 | PhD | Honduras’ Transithmian Corridor: An Historical Geography of Roadbuilding in Colonial Central America |
| Weigel, Stephanie | 1996 | PhD | Scale, Resolution and Resampling: Representation and Analysis of Remotely Sensed Landscapes Across Scale in Geographic Information Systems |
| Lee, Youngmin | 1995 | PhD | Ethnicity Toward Multiculturalism: Socio-Spatial Relations of the Korean Community in Honolulu, 1903-1940 |
| Su, Shew-Jiuan B. | 1995 | PhD | Rural Industry and Rural Development in China: The Role of Geography Transportation and Policy in Jiangsu Province |
| Yoder, Michael Stephen | 1995 | PhD | Critical Chorology and Peasant Production: Small Farm Forestry in Hojancha, Guanacaste, Costa Rica |
| Rohli, Robert | 1995 | PhD | The Association between Anticyclonic Weather Changes over the Central Gulf Coast and Large-Scale Circulation Changes |
| Fearn, Miriam Lee | 1995 | PhD | Louisiana's Cajun Prairie: Holocene History of a Southern Grassland |
| Vega, Anthony Jude | 1994 | PhD | The Influence of Regional-Scale Circulation on Precipitation Variability in the Southern United States |
| Li, Xu | 1994 | PhD | A 6200-Year Environmental History of the Pearl River Marsh, Louisiana |
| Hoff, Judy L. | 1994 | PhD | A Water Balance Evaluation of the Effects of Climate Variability and Human Modification on the Flow Regime of the Mississippi River: 1932-1988 |
| Kruger, Darrell Peter | 1994 | PhD | Colonial Natal 1838 to 1880: The Making of a South African Settlement System |
| Kuhlken, Robert Thomas | 1994 | PhD | Agricultural Terracing in the Fiji Islands |
| Keim, Barry David | 1994 | PhD | Temporal and Synoptic Analyses of Heavy Rainfall in the Southeastern United States |
| Yoder, Michael Stephen | 1994 | PhD | Critical Chorology and Peasant Production: Small Farm Forestry in Hojancha, Guanacaste, Costa Rica |
| Li, Chunxiao | 1994 | PhD | Surplus Labor and Mobility in Hebei, China: An Evaluation of the Litu Bu Lixiang Approach |
| Qiu, Hong L. | 1994 | PhD | Late-Holocene Vegetational History of Subtropical Mountains in Southeastern China |
| Labyak, Gregory John | 1994 | PhD | Geographical Factors Influencing the Rise and Growth of Cotton Textile Manufacturing in the South Carolina Piedmont, 1880-1940 |
| Castille III, George Joseph | 1993 | PhD | A Geoforensic Analysis of State-Owned Waterbottoms in South Louisiana: Gauging the Geographical Impacts of Louisiana Court Decisions |
| Britton, Edward | 1993 | PhD | Peasant Subsistence in Northwestern Haiti: Geography, Cultural Ecology, and Rural Development |
| Cao, Changyong | 1992 | PhD | Detecting the Scale and Resolution Effects in Remote Sensing and GIS |
| Hines, Mary Elizabeth | 1992 | PhD | Death at the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Geography of Lynching in the Deep South, 1882-1910 |
| Galvin, Peter | 1991 | PhD | The Pirates' Wake: A Geography of Piracy and Pirates as Geographers in Colonial Spanish America, 1536-1718 (2 volumes) |
| Mossa, Joann | 1990 | PhD | An Evaluation of Discharge-Sediment Interaction in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River System, Southern and Central Louisiana |
| Dunlap, Clarke | 1990 | PhD | Comparing and Contrasting North American and Siberian Arctic River Deltas as to Hydrological and Oceanographic Controlling Variables and their Relationships in Continental Shelf and Shelfedge Environmental |
| Yodis, Elaine | 1990 | PhD | Historic Changes in Channel Morphology of Mississippi River Tributaries: Southwestern, Mississippi |
| Husband, Elizabeth | 1990 | PhD | A Geographical Perspective on US Capital Punishment, 1801-1960 |
| Penland, Patrick Shea | 1990 | PhD | Holocene Delta Plain Development and Barrier Island Evolution in Louisiana |
| Whelan, James F. | 1989 | PhD | From Forest, Stream, & Sea: Aspects of Self-Sufficiency in the Nineteenth Century Louisiana Diet |
| Henderson, Martha | 1988 | PhD | Landscape Changes on the Mescalero Apache Reservation: Eastern Apache Adaptation to Federal Indian Land Policy |
| Mires, Peter Bingham | 1988 | PhD | Predicting the Past: The Geography of Settlement in Louisiana, 1699-1890, and its Application to Historic Preservation |
| Prorok, Carolyn Victoria | 1988 | PhD | Hindu Temples in Trinidad: A Cultural Geography of Religious Structures and Ethnic Identity |
| Lee, Jeon | 1988 | PhD | The Historical Geography of Rice Culture in the American South |
| Terry, Ronald Norman | 1988 | PhD | The Legacy of the Hawaiian Cultivator in Windward Valleys of Hawaii |
| Tucker Baker, Nancy | 1987 | PhD | Use of a Rainfall Runoff Model to Simulate the Effects of Urbanization on the Hydrologic Regimen of Ward Creek Drainage Basin, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana |
| Hopkins, Daniel Price | 1987 | PhD | The Danish Cadastral Survey of St. Croix, 1733-1754 |
| Meyer-Arendt, Klaus | 1987 | PhD | Resort Evolution along the Gulf of Mexico Littoral: Historical Morphological and Environmental Aspects |
| Nakagawa, Tadashi | 1987 | PhD | The Cemetery as a Cultural Manifestation: Louisiana Necrogeography |
| McCabe, Gregory J. | 1986 | PhD | Application of Synoptic Weather Types in the Analysis of Evaporation in Southern |
| Sechrist, Robert P. | 1986 | PhD | A Comparative Analysis of Multi-Dimensional Diffusion Models: The Diffusion of the Prohibition Movement in the United States of America 1876-1919 |
| Herlihy, Peter H. | 1986 | PhD | A Cultural Geography of the Embera and Wounan (Choco) Indians of Darien Panama with Emphasis on Recent Village Formation and Economic Diversification |
| Sechrist, Gail S. | 1986 | PhD | Church Buildings Enter the Urban Age: A Louisiana Example of the Church in Settlement Geography |
| Pett-Conklin, Linda | 1986 | PhD | Cadastral Surveying in Colonial Carolina: A Historical Geography |
| Faiers, Gregory E. | 1986 | PhD | The Formation and Geographic Relocation of January Diurnal Precipitation Patterns in Louisiana and Southeastern Texas |
| Wu, Chao-Yu | 1986 | PhD | A Dynamics and Sedimentology Study of Eastern Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana |
| Melland, John Francis | 1985 | PhD | Hutterite House Types: Variations in the Material Expression of Social Reality in: Part-Society with Part-Culture |
| Works, Martha | 1984 | PhD | Agricultural Change Among the Alto Mayo Aguaruna, Eastern Peru: The Effects on Culture and Environment |
| Chhokar, Kiran | 1984 | PhD | Manipur in Transition: Differentials of Development in a Polyethnic Area of India |
| Barbosa Seguinot, Jose | 1983 | PhD | Coastal Modification and Land Transformation in the San Juan Bay Area Puerto Rico |
| Choi, Young-Joon | 1982 | PhD | The Yongnam-Ro: An Historical Geography of a Korean Royal Road |
| Dilsaver, Lary | 1982 | PhD | From Boom to Bust: Post Gold-Rush Patterns of Adjustment in a California Mining Region |
| Hughes, Robert H. | 1982 | PhD | Use of Landsat Multispectral Scanner Digital Data for Mapping Suspended Solids and Salinity in the Atchafalaya Bay and Adjacent Waters, Louisiana |
| Kim, Soon Tae | 1980 | PhD | Quantitative Evaluation of Landsat for Monitoring Suspending Sediment in a Fluvial Channel |
| Easterly, Ernest St. Clair, III | 1980 | PhD | Geojurisprudence: Studies in Law, Liberty, and Landscapes |
| Wicker, Karen Miriam | 1979 | PhD | The Development of the Louisiana Oyster Industry in the 19th Century |
| Harris, Michael K. | 1979 | PhD | Form Process Relationships at Laguna Percebu, Baja California, Mexico |
| Sheldon, Samuel Richard | 1978 | PhD | The Ixtleros of North-Central Mexico: A Geographical Study of Man-Plant Relationships |
| Gritzner, Janet Hazen | 1978 | PhD | Tabby in the Coastal Southeast: The Culture History of an American Building Material |
| French, Carolyn Olilver | 1978 | PhD | Cadastral Patterns in Louisiana: A Colonial Legacy |
| Monte, Judith Ann | 1978 | PhD | The Impact of Petroleum Dredging on Louisiana's Coastal Landscape: A Plant Biogeographical Analysis and Resource Assessment of Spoil Bank Habitats in the Bayou Lafourche Delta |
| Wax, Charles Larry | 1977 | PhD | An Analysis of the Relationships Between Water Level Fluctuations and Climate, Coastal Louisiana |
| Shanafelt, Raymond Edgar | 1977 | PhD | The Baton Rouge-New Orleans Petrochemical Industrial Region: A Functional Region Study |
| Peake, Jeffrey S. | 1977 | PhD | Seasonal Change in Microclimates of the Colville Delta, Alaska |
| Zimrick, Steven John | 1976 | PhD | The Changing Organization of Agriculture in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California |
| Hanson, Gerald Thomas | 1975 | PhD | Shantytown Stage Development: The Case of Kingston, Jamaica |
| Stopp, George Harry | 1975 | PhD | An Analysis of the Relationship Between Soybean Agriculture and Land-Use Transformation in the South |
| Jeane, Donald Gregory | 1974 | PhD | The Culture History of Grist Milling in Northwest Georgia |
| Kalkstein, Laurence Saul | 1974 | PhD | A Method to Determine Relationships between Climate and Outbreaks of the Southern Pine Beetle (Dendrochtonus frontalis Zimm.) |
| Lewis, John Clarence | 1973 | PhD | The Settlement Succession of the Boeuf River Basin, Louisiana |
| Abington, Oscar D. | 1973 | PhD | Changing Meander Morphology and Hydraulics, Red River, Arkansas and Louisiana |
| Davis, Donald Wayne | 1973 | PhD | Louisiana Canals and their Influence on Wetlands Development |
| Pitman, Leon S. | 1973 | PhD | A Survey of 19th-Century Folk Housing in the Mormon Culture Region |
| da Silva, Jorge Xavier | 1973 | PhD | Processes and Landforms in the South American Coast |
| Clendenen, Harbert Leslie | 1973 | PhD | Settlement Morphology of the Southern Courtois Hills, Missouri, 1820-1860 |
| van Beek, Johannes Laurens | 1973 | PhD | Rhythmic Patterns of Beach Topography |
| Mancil, Ervin | 1972 | PhD | An Historical Geography of Industrial Cypress Lumbering in Louisiana |
| Weisblatt, Edward Alan | 1972 | PhD | Multispectral Discrimination of Deltaic Environments |
| Winberry, John Joseph | 1971 | PhD | The Log House in Mexico: Distribution, Origin, and Dispersal |
| Jaworski, Eugene | 1971 | PhD | Biogeography of the Blue Crab Fishery, Barataria Estuary, Louisiana |
| Arndorfer, David James | 1971 | PhD | Process and Parameter Interaction in Rattlesnake Crevasse, Mississippi River Delta |
| Rehder, John Burkhardt | 1971 | PhD | Sugar Plantation Settlements of Southern Louisiana: A Cultural Geography |
| Icenogle, David | 1970 | PhD | Rural Nonfarm Population and Settlement in Upper East Tennessee |
| Hall, John Whitling | 1970 | PhD | Louisiana Survey Systems: Their Antecedents, Distribution, and Characteristics |
| Kuntz, Leonard | 1970 | PhD | Localization of Jewish Population in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Peterson, Albert J. | 1970 | PhD | German-Russian Catholic Colonization in Western Kansas: A Settlement Geography |
| Wright, Lynn Donelson | 1970 | PhD | Circulation, Effluent Diffusion, and Sediment Transport: Mouth of South Pass, Mississippi River Delta |
| Detro, Randall A. | 1970 | PhD | Generic Terms in Louisiana Place Names: An Index to the Cultural Landscape |
| Kwon, Hyuck Jae | 1969 | PhD | Development of Recent Barrier Islands Along the Coast of the United States |
| McCloy, James Murl | 1969 | PhD | Morphologic Characteristics of the Blow River Delta, Yukon Territory, Canada |
| Gritzner, Charles F. | 1969 | PhD | Spanish Log Housing in New Mexico |
| Comeaux, Malcol Louis | 1969 | PhD | Settlement and Folk Occupations of the Atchafalaya Basin |
| McArthur, David Samuel | 1969 | PhD | Sand Movement in Relation to Beach Topography |
| Wilson, Eugene Murphey | 1969 | PhD | Folk Houses of Northern Alabama |
| Noble, William Allister | 1968 | PhD | Cultural Contrasts and Similarities Among Five Ethnic Groups in the Nilgiri District, Madras State, Indian 1800-1963 |
| Wilhelm, Hubert G. H. | 1968 | PhD | Organized German Settlement and Its Effects on the Frontier of South-Central Texas |
| Raphael, Constantine Nicholas | 1968 | PhD | Geomorphology and Archeology, Northwest Peloponnesos, Greece |
| Kury, Theodore William | 1968 | PhD | Historical Geography of the Iron Industry in the N.Y.-N.J. Highlands: 1700-1900 |
| Saucier, Roger Thomas | 1968 | PhD | Recent Geomorphic History of the Pontchartrain Basin Louisiana |
| Thom, Bruce G. | 1967 | PhD | Coastal and Fluvial Landforms, Horrey and Marion Counties, South Carolina |
| Newton, Milton B. | 1967 | PhD | The Peasant Farm of St. Helena Parish, Louisiana: A Cultural Geography |
| Gagliano, Sherwood | 1967 | PhD | Occupation Sequence at Avery Island |
| Craig, Alan K. | 1966 | PhD | The Geography of Fishing in British Honduras and Adjacent Coastal Areas |
| Psuty, Norbert P. | 1966 | PhD | Geomorphology of the Tabasco Coast, Mexico |
| Trindell, Roger T. | 1966 | PhD | Historical Geography of the Colonial Ports of New Jersey |
| Wacker, Peter O. | 1966 | PhD | The Historical Geography of the Musconetcong Valley |
| Dolan, Robert | 1965 | PhD | The Relationship between Beach Changes and Near-Shore Processes along the Outer Banks of North Carolina |
| Andrle, Robert | 1964 | PhD | A Biogeographical Investigation of the Sierra de Tuxtla in Veracruz, Mexico |
| Hadleigh?West, Fred | 1963 | PhD | The Netsi Kutchin: An Essay in Human Ecology |
| Johnson, John | 1963 | PhD | Pre-Steamboat Navigation on the Louisiana Mississippi River |
| Snead, Rodman | 1963 | PhD | Physical Geography of the Las Bela Coastal Plain, West Pakistan |
| Lee, Chan | 1960 | PhD | A Culture History of Rice with Special Reference to Louisiana |
| Rahman, Mushtaqur | 1960 | PhD | Irrigation and Field Patterns in the Indus Delta |
| Mukerji, Anath B. | 1960 | PhD | Cultural Geography of the Jats of the Upper Doab, India |
| Walker, H. J. | 1960 | PhD | The Changing Nature of Man's Quest for Food and Water as Related to Snow, Ice and Permafrost in the American Arctic |
| Padgett, Herbert | 1960 | PhD | The Marine Shellfisheries of Louisiana |
| Blaut, James | 1958 | PhD | Chinese Market Gardening in Singapore: A Study in Functional Microgeography |
| Khan, Fazle Karim | 1958 | PhD | Comparative Agricultural Geography of East Pakistan and Louisiana |
| Fuson, Robert | 1958 | PhD | The Savanna of Central Panama: A Study in Cultural Geography |
| Dunbar, Gary | 1956 | PhD | Historical Geography of the North Carolina Outer Banks |
| Wright, Martin | 1956 | PhD | The Agricultural Settlement Succession in the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana |
| Knipmeyer, William | 1956 | PhD | Settlement Succession in Eastern French Louisiana |
| Sternberg, Hilgard | 1956 | PhD | A Contribution to the Geomorphology of the False River Area, Louisiana |
| Taylor, James | 1956 | PhD | The Agricultural Settlement Succession in the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana |
| Aldrich, Courtney C. | 1955 | PhD | Johnson County: A Geographic Study Representative of the Western Plains Region of Mo |
| Rizvi, Ali | 1955 | PhD | Comparative Physiography of the Lower Ganges & Lower Mississippi Valley |
| Stokes , Gregory A. | 1954 | PhD | Lumbering in Southwest Louisiana: A Study of the Lumbering Industry as a Culture-Geographic Factor |
| Jacobson, Daniel | 1954 | PhD | Koasati Culture Change |
| McIntire, William G. | 1954 | PhD | Prehistoric Settlements in Coastal Louisiana |
| Phillips, Yvonne | 1953 | PhD | Cultural Succession in the Tensas Basin |
| Kyser, John S. | 1938 | PhD | The Evolution of Louisiana Parishes in Relation to Population Growth and Movements |