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Please find below the titles of MA theses submitted in the Spring 2019 term.

African American and African Diaspora Studies

Andrea Mirzakhanian. #BlackLivesMatter: The Resurgence of the Black Radical.

Keyaria Rhodes. Black Futures in the Digital Age: Thinking With and Through Pictured Protest.

American Studies

Shabham Banerjee-McFarland. Branding the Intersectional Celebrity: The Branding of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Roxane Gay as Celebrity Activists in Mixed Media Publishing.

Neelan Bantu. The Case for Non-Whiteness: A Study of Racial Identity Formation in Redefining the American Identity.

Timothy Barnicle. Grand Old Party: How ConservativeMedia Used Deregulation & White Resentment to Create the Party of Trump.

Benjamin Koh. The Broken Oriental: An Intersectional Theory of Asian American Disability.

Jose Martinez. The All-Volunteer Force and the Warrior Caste.

Anna Opryszko. The Pioneer Complex: Progression and Transgression in Modernist Women Writers.

Emily Taing.The Continuum of Captivity: Judicial Genealogy of Cambodian Refugees in the United States.

Art History and Archaeology

Alexandra Adams. How She Played: The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe.

Ada Berktay.“Carthago delenda est”: A Sixteenth Century Parade Shield in the Light of Habsburg-Ottoman Rivalries in the Mediterranean.

Yixu Chen. Hu Boxiang (1896–1989) and Chinese Pictorialist Art Photography of the 1920s–30s in Shanghai.

Meghan Collins. (Dis)Order: Howardena Pindell’s Hybrid Paintings of the Seventies.

Ashleigh Deosaran. Griots of the Galaxy: Science/Fiction, Technology, and Futurity in the Work of Juan Downey, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and Simón Vega.

Ivana Dizdar. He Loves Me Not: Tanja Ostojić and Daniela Ortz, From EU Emigration to Anti-Celebration.

Virginia Girard. Sounds of Sin: The Cathedral of St. John in ’s-Hertogenbosch and the Origins of Bosch’s Grotesque.

Alessandra Gomez. Into Darkness: exploring me and finding you: Trajal Harrell, Dean Moss, Eiko Otake and DonChristian.

Sally Eaves Hughes. The Making of Memory: Mary Sibande and Her Majesty, Queen Sophie.

Pujan Karambeigi. Subjects and their Pedagogies: On Astrid Klein, Katharina Sieverding and Ulrike Rosenbach.

Margaret Kross. Ancestral Halls: The Cold of Anxiety is Very Real.

Wanshi Ma. Art and Family in the Works of Two Contemporary Artists and a Filmmaker.

Amanda Morrow. “Always Too Early to Quit”: The Life and Career of Photographer Samuel H. Gottscho.

Sehyun Oh. Chopping Up History: KURATA Seiji’s Flash Up.

Allyson Richardson. The Landscapes of Hercules Segers: Imagination & Experiment.

Jeeyoung Anes Sung. In the Shadow of Forward Motion: Death and the Compulsions of the Photographic Image in the Photography of David Wojnarowicz, 1987–1991.

Cydney Wilhemina Williams. Violence, Ornamentation, and the Female Body: Armor and the Woman ‘Type’ in Paintings in the 16th and 17th Centuries.

Mo Zhang. Visual and Poetic Imagination in The Four Seasons, a Ming Dynasty Handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

East Asia: Regional Studies

Samuel Chiou. The Search for Redress: Wartime Forced Labor Compensation and the Politics of Law in East Asia.

Ming Xuan Chua. Disputed Islands and the Waves of Nationalism: Understanding how Nationalism and Political Legitimacy Affects China’s Strategy in Dealing with its Island Disputes.  

Lynn Loy Lin Xuan. China’s Ball Game: A Discourse Analysis of Chinese Media Reports on Table Tennis.

Kelvin Ng. In Queer Straits: Sexuality, Medicine, and Orientalism in British Malaya, 1875-1947.  

Kan Ni. Discipline and Incite: Ideological and Political Education in Chinese Universities

Natasha Sim Li Hong. The Chinese in Indonesia: Political Pariahs No More?

Alexandra Jane Smith. The Aftermath: Transitional Justice in China’s Hunan Province Following the Cultural Revolution.  

Mung Lok (Lesley) Wong. Hong Kong and China: Express Railway to Integration.

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Qingyang Cai. Reinvention of Masculinity: Narrating Disorder in the Transformation of Western Chamber.

Alex Chin. Izumo Spaces in Japanese Mythology.

Thomas Flippin. “Japan’s Gem Safe”: Coal, Colony, and Conflict in Hokkaido, 1869-1925.

Yon Ji Lee. The Journey of The Handmaiden: Transgression and Transformation.

Guoyi (Melissa) Li. Continuities and Transformations in Edo Kabuki from Bunka-Bunsei to Post-Kaei: Narrative Worlds and Theatrical Devices in Mokuami’s Dramaturgy of Shiranamono.

Ling Li. Character-Based Theory and Its Feasibility in Teaching Modern Chinese.

Xiaoyi Li. A Taste Manufactured: Chinese MSG Before the Myth of the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, 1923-1968.

Boya Liu. Reimagining Democracy: The Language and Memory of the June Fourth Movement.

Yulei Lu. Error Analysis on Chinese as a Second Language Learners’ Acquisition of Chinese Existential Sentences.

Siyuan Luo. Becoming a Member of the Qin Empire: Life of Xi, A Person from Early Imperial China.

Tianqi Luo. The Marvelous of Tang Chuanqi and the Strange of Pu Songling’s Liaozhai Zhiyi.

Qi Qi. The Gap in Chinese: Non-Canonical Bei-Passives.

Kristin Schreiner. Panpan Girls: Transforming the Postwar Literary World.

Shujuan Tan. Qi: A Key Term in Jin Ping Mei Ci Hua.

Fuyi Wang. From the Capital to Localities: Huang Tao’s Reorientation of Interest at the End of the Tang Dynasty.

Echo Weng. Unraveling the Anxiety about Disability: Body, Medicine, and Technology in Medieval Chinese Buddhism.

Yanwen Xu. Dancing Diplomacy: The Takarazuka Revue’s First US Tour (1939).

Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology

Montana Airey. Long-term habitat specificity and juvenile settlement of invasive lionfish throughout Floridian coastal water.

Alexis Brown. Bat Flies of Brazil: Disentangling the Phylogenetic, Ecological, and Environmental Drivers of Ectoparasite Host Specificity.

Avriel Diaz. The association between household-level Aedes aegyptiabundance, socioeconomic factors and prevention methods in El Oro province, Ecuador.

Emily Jager. Linking phosphorus acquisition to nitrogen fixation in forests at different latitudes.

Nicolas Locatelli. Phylogeography and population structure of scleractinian corals (Montipora capitataand Porites compressa) in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu.

Sophia Raithel. Species distribution models of Bioko Island's primate community: Assessing conservation priorities within protected areas.

Jay Schoen. Distribution and Connectivity of Jaguars in Paraguay: Temporal modeling of a wide-ranging predator in a rapidly changing landscape.

Alice Wu. Assessing factors affecting the distribution and persistence of feral goldfish (Carassius auratus).

English and Comparative Literature

Patrick Anson. Between the Particular and the General: W.G. Sebald and Juliana Spahr.

Eman Elhadad. Genre and the Human: Alternative Humanisms in the Autobiographies of George Jackson and Leila Khaled.

Henry Gifford. Je, Temps: Contingent Perceptions of Time in Proust and Beckett’s Novels.

Alexandria Graziosi. “She Taught Me:” Exploring an Alternative, Feminist Model of Education in the Literary Works of Leslie Marmon Silko.

Jacob Grossfeld. Polychromatic Parerga: Blackness, the Frame, and Illegibility.

Emma Hitchcock. The Poetic Real: A Study of the “Frame” of Andrew Marvell’s “Upon Appleton House.”

Gregory Houser. The Demise of Hamlet’s Thought-Provoking Pursuit of Revenge due to His Lack of Imagination, Ultimately, as Renaissance Intellectual and Dramatist.

Benjamin Hulett. Outlandish Receptions: Ecological Thinking in Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamesium.

Matthew Johnston. Under Annotation: Decentered Subjects and Contemporary Experimental “Hybrid” Autobiographies: John Keene’s Annotations & Ron Silliman’s Under Albany.

Shanelle Kim. White Skin, White Masks: Whiteness as Stage Property in Massinger’s The Renegado and Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Part I.

Anna Krauthamer. Realer than Real: Empathetic Identification, Sexual Ambiguity, and Bodies of Text in Kristen Roupenian’s “Cat Person.”

Aya Labanieh. In Defense of the Gimmick: The Egyptian Intellectual's Relationship to Fanaticism, Native Identity, and Humor in Waguih Ghali’s Beer in the Snooker Club.

Conor MacVarish. Looming Youth: Nostalgia, Rebellion, and Queer Reticence in the Public School Novel.

Job Miller. Melville’s Wasteland: Alternative Epistemologies in “The Encantadas.”

Penny Pun. Disability, Prosthetics and Language: The Disabled of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape and Happy Days.

Joseph Romano. Grisdela “Inportable”: Mysticism and the Critique of Petrarch Allegory in the Clerk’s Tale.

Dasha Sadovnikova. ‘This Could Have Been Our / Interposition, As a Summer’s Cloud’: Real and Allegorical Time in Paradise Regained and “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.”

Nader Salass. Queer “Cords of Kinship”: Recuperating “Mother Strothers” from Ralph Ellison’s Archive.

Yucong Sun. Ark Shanghai: Diasporic Homemaking and Vernacular Photographs.

Faigie Tenembaum. To Fly By Those Nets: Reflections on Nationalism in the Works of James Joyce.

Lilith Todd. Working with Fluids in Mary Collier’s “The Woman’s Labour.”

Alex Valin. Rewriting Responsibility: The Alternative Ethics of Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

Talmage Wise. Ghost Light: Gothic Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel.

European History, Politics, and Society

Mitul Arora. Hungarian Economic Shift towards the Nazi Sphere of Influence during the Interwar Period.

Ryan Conley. Diffusing Global Medical Knowledge in Ukraine: A Study of the Changing Practices and Policies to Treat PTSD Among Soldiers and Veterans Post-2014.

Ahmet Goksun. Muslims and Christians in 18th Century Crete: Enigma of a Society Divided by Self-Interest.

Joseph Puchner. Amid the Stormy Scenes of Civil Commotion: Liberties and Liberalism in Post-Napoleonic Iberia, According to the Third Earl of Carnarvon.

Tristan Sechrest. The Romantic Manager: Alfred Hugenberg in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1924.

[Fall 2018]

Marisa Henderson. Black Politics and the Press: Paris-Dakar and Black Representation in 1930s Senegal.

Angela Kun-Gazda. Conflict and Popular Medicine Reflected in Witchcraft Trials in a Sixteenth-Century Transylvanian Town.

Kevin Lavery. Youth, Internationalism, and Ideological Accommodation in the Age of the Popular Front: The World Youth Congress Movement, 1936-1939.

Robin Stark. The Russian Speaking Nation: Indications of the Political Attitudes of Latvia’s Russian Speaking Ethnic Population.

Tiffany Thompson. International Socialist Playgirl of the Year: Bernadette Devlin Between Student Rebellion and Parliamentary Politics in Northern Ireland, 1968-1974.

Harry Whomersley. Going Forth and Multiplying: Empire, Citizenship and the Anglosphere in ‘The Penny Magazine,’ 1832-1845.

Global Thought

Elaf Al-Omair. The Failure of Freedom: Challenges for the Regulation and Governance of Online Speech.

Tiffany Batiste. Evolving Order, Enduring Strategies: Emphasizing Theoretical Principles to Contextualize Future Orders.

Melanie Berger. For a Political Democracy: Reclaiming Normative Orders against Economic Reason.

Soraya Binetti. Transnational Migration and the Mediterranean Space: Representations of the Migrant Figure in Contemporary Italian Society and Culture.

Helena BinnieAffirmative Action Racial Dilemma: Current Perspectives in the United States and Brazil.

Emilie Fidock. The Global Christian Right in the 21st Century: Undermining Gender Equality in the Name of the Family.

Beatriz Goh. ASEAN’s Challenges in the New Era of Great Power Competition.

Elena Golushko. Russia's Quest for Soft Power: Sports Mega Events and Their Relative Success.

Emma Hallqvist. How Popular is Populism? Analyzing the Supply and Demand of Populism in Sweden Between 2002-2018.

Bria Hardin Boyer. Tools of Localized Identity: Who Does Genetic Ancestry Testing Benefit in an Era that Celebrates Global and Territorial Fluidity?

Claudia Herbert Colfer. Reinventing Global Governance in the Present Global Era: An Exploration of the United Nations Security Council and How it Should be Reformed to More Effectively Overcome Security Challenges in the 21st Century.

Amber Heuvelmans. Dressing Up for the Crisis Carnival: Private Engagement in Education in Crisis-Affected Settings.

Rafael Karapetyan. Technological Progress in Armenia: IT Sector Development.

Michelle Lee. Beyond Big Brother: Implications of China’s Social Credit System for Global Governance.

Nyasha Mugavazi. Watching the Watchmen: The Ideological Underpinnings of Border Regimes and the Fallacy of State Rationality.

Joseph Murphy. What Does the Rise of China Mean for the International Human Rights Movement?

Helena Najm. Wherever the Cedars’ Shade Reaches: Examining Representations of Lebanese-American Identity and Diasporic Connections to the Homeland.

Gaius Ong. Debunking the Ice Cold War: Examining the U.S.-Russia Relationship in the Arctic.

Andrew Patel. Shareholder Triumph: Historical Analysis of US and UK Company Law to Explain Modern Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance Practices.

Malaika Robinson. Manufactured Crisis: The U.S.-China Trade War and the Dilemma of Coercive Diplomacy in an Interconnected World.

Abhinav Seetharaman. An Analysis of North Korean Defection Patterns to South Korea in the Kim Jong-Un Era.

 Sara Shah. Mindfulness and Loving Kindness Meditation for Women and Child Refugees: An Integral and Cost-Effective Mental Health Strategy to Aid in the Psychological Rehabilitation of Refugees.

Kunal Shankar. Jobless Growth and the General Lack of Unionising in the Digital Industries.

Ilyaas Sherally. Narratives of Being and Belonging in the Ummah: An Autoethnographic Study of Young Muslims in New York.

Khazar Shirmammadov. The Elephant that Never Leaves the Room: Credit Power and Upcoming Crisis.

Tymofii Sidak. Becoming a Global Leader: The Transforming and Transcending Power of ‘Self.’

Chloe Timsit. Creating Standards in an Emerging Field: The Case of Social Entrepreneurship.

Maria Vargas Llosa. An Analysis of the Collapse of Venezuela and the Failures of Chavismo.

Charlotte Wilhelm. EU Free-Trade and its Implications on Jordan's Economy and Syrian Refugees.

Human Rights Studies 

Sydney D. Amoakoh. Human Rights in Humanitarian Policy: Dissecting the Catalysts and Barriers to Employing a Human Rights-Based Approach in Drafting Menstrual Health into the Sphere 2018 Handbook.

Savannah Badalich. Online Radicalization of White Women to Organized White Supremacy.

Katie Beiter. The Press as a Pawn: An In-Depth Study of the Impact of the 2011 Arab Uprisings on Press Freedom Restrictions in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Madiha Zahrah Choksi. Our Vulnerable Privacy: The Effects of Ubiquitous Techno-Surveillance Programs on Sociological Expectations of Privacy.

Lucía Domínguez Cisneros. Unpaid Care Work and Women’s Economic Empowerment From a Rights-Based Approach: A Case Study of the Dominican Republic.

Morgan Cronin-Webb. Rhetoric to Reality: The Participation of Refugees in Gender-Based Violence Programs in Dadaab.

Elisabeth DiNizio. Hate Speech, Dignity, and the Westboro Baptist Church.

Claire Margaret Errington. How Have Recent Human Rights and Legal Innovations Regarding Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Been Interpreted by International Criminal Court Prosecutors?

Lillian Gill. Children Born of the ISIL Conflict in Iraq.

Laura Guerra. The Role of Human Rights in Reducing Maternal Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa Approaches of Development NGOs.

Michael Paul Heitz. Special Operations Forces: Guardians of Human Rights and Our Constitutional Legitimacy.

Yoona Hong. North Korean Women and Victimhood: Selling Legitimacy and Shaping Advocacy.

Jingru Huo. Constitutionalizing Access to Health Care and Its Impacts.

Amy Gina Kim. State-by-State Abolition of Juvenile Life without Parole Sentences in the United States since Miller v. Alabama (2012).

Sabrina Kozikis. “Water Is a Human Right” – Exploring the Paradox of Framing Water as a Human Right in a Hostile Political Climate.

Trisha Maharaj. “That’s blood, that’s life”: Menstrual Practices & Women’s Agency Within the Hindu Diaspora of Trinidad.

Siri Kim McFarland. Comparing and Contrasting Korean and Japanese Government Responses to Sex Trafficking.

Tori Miller. Moving Past the Stigma?: The Narrative of Menstruation in WASH and MHM Organizations.

Benjamin Mintzer. Clinical Trans/Aesthetics: The Knowledge Re/production of Transgender Womxn Who Exchange Sex.

Amal Abubakar Mohammed. The Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill: Nigeria’s Track Record of its Commitment to Women’s Rights.

Sandhya Nadadur. Constructing a Transnational Understanding of the New Sanctuary Movement.

Kenny Nguyen. Moving Towards a More Inclusive Reintegration: The Case of Demobilized Afro-Colombian Girl Child Soldiers.

Porter, Dakota Porter. Socially Engaged Art and Human Rights: a Critique of Legalism.

Obai A. Rambo. The San Francisco Housing Crisis (1985–2015): How Policies Have Ignored the Human Right to Housing with Suggestions for a Remedy.

Tanya Sattar. Women’s Empowerment Through the Lens of The Private Sector: Do Corporate Gender Initiatives Promote Human Rights?

Lucia Vidal de la Pena de Berrazueta. Despite Haiti Abolishing Slavery, Why is The Restavek System Still in Place?

International and World History

Colm Britchfield. Loyalists in India in the Age of Revolutions: Imperial Careering and the Governance of Empire.

Xinyi Chen. Unwelcome Friendship: Israel’s Failed Attempts to Establish Diplomatic Relations with China, 1949-1956.

Margaret Dickinson. Open-Minded “Neutrality”: The Impact of the Cold War on the Organizational Structure of the Pugwash Conferences, 1957-1963.

Rachel DiSalvo. Mediating sanctuary: Mayoral impact on sanctuary policy in San Francisco and Los Angeles, 1981-1993.

Alina Entelis. Ruins and Reconstruction at the Nexus of Soviet International and Domestic Policy: Reconstruction in Kyiv and Minsk, 1943-1948.

Patrick Flaherty. Unpopular Front Against the Moscow Trials: the Dewey Commission and the Coalescence of American Anti-Stalinism.

Victoria Gilligan. The Fascistization of Academic Exchange: Nichii Kyokai in Italo-Japanese relations 1936-1945.

Jordan Henry. “Se connaître”: The Quai d’Orsay, the Anciens Combattants, and French Cultural Diplomacy in Germany, 1930-1939.

Anthony Howell. Invisible Strings in a Forgotten War: How America’s Influence in the Russo-Japanese War Shaped the First Half of the 20th Century.

Zoë Hu. Afro-Asianism, Radical Literature, and Interpersonal Solidarity in Lotus Magazine, 1958-1984.

Samuel Jaffe. The Bangladesh Information Centre and the East Pakistan Crisis, 1971-72.

Ruoyu Ji. A Destined Failure: The Surprise Attack Conference, 1958.

Wanjiku Karanja. The Perfect Mecantile Journal: Political Economy Viewed Through A Media History of the Gazette for Zanzibar and East Africa, 1892-1899.

Conor Lane. Reimagining Brazil’s Place Within the Age of Revolutions: Imperial Patriotism, O Correio Braziliense and the Centrality of the Ibero-Atlantic World.

Alyxandra Marine. Interpreting "Those Friggin' Missiles:" The Jupiter Problem, the May 27th Coup, and the Role of Volatility Perception in Deploying the NATO Nuclear Arsenal in Turkey.

Erin Mysogland. “A Time for Resistance”: Activist Responses to the Policing of Mexicana/o Youth, 1975-1985.

Katherine Nickols. In the Shadow of the Vatican: Clarence Gamble and the DeMarchis’ Contraceptive Quest in Rome, 1955-1966.

Kevin Schilling. His First Act: Grover Cleveland, International Political Economy, and the Nicaragua Canal, 1885 to 1895.

Andrew Shi. Evolving Tastes: An examination of the American media’s partisan usage of the Vietnam analogy during the Iraq War and what this says about the media’s role in foreign policymaking 2003-2009.

Alex Smith. Framing Empire: American Propaganda and Coexistence in North Africa, 1940-1945.

Emilia Taranto. Outrage! Ida B. Wells, Lynching Rhetoric, and the Construction of White Supremacy, 1890-1900.

Edwina Wong. Evaluating the role of Hong Kong's colonial autonomy in the Sino-British Joint Negotiations: 1979-1984.

Latin America and the Caribbean: Regional Studies

Randall Blades. The Limitations of Leahy Vetting as An Instrument For Promoting Human Rights In Latin America

Haiping Chen. Globalization of Education and Power Struggle: The Teachers Policy in Peña Nieto’s Education Reform

Jeremy Currin. Cutting the Grass: The Adaptation of Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations in the Age of Marijuana Liberalization in the United States

Charles Espinosa. Fantasies of a Bureaucrat: Technology, Heroes and the Natural in Revolutionary Cuba

Marianna Garcia. Bridging the Gap: Venezuelan Perspectives on the Crisis

Aden Gilmour. Examining Efficiency Enhancing Corruption and Small Businesses in Brazil

Kamila Manzueta. Chinese and Russian Influence in Latin America: How Sharp Power Has Changed the Rules of the Game

Leo Sung Hee Yuh. Promoting an Entrepreneurial Innovation: Findings and Recommendations from Chile’s Entrepreneurial Innovation

Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies

Andrew Austin. The Mountain: Class, Cultural Hegemony, and Independent Film in Egypt.

Bandar Alsaeed. A Native Act:  Re-framing Popular Dissent in Eastern Africa.

Niyati Shenoy. A Violent Woman in Early Colonial India.

Sherif Farrag.  Zionist Land Policy, Apartheid, the South Africa Comparison. [February conferral]

Sourav Chatterjee. The Itineraries of a Medium: Bengali Comics from 1873 to the Present. [February conferral]

Oral History

Nairy AbdElShafy. Fuerza: On finding inner strength to build our new normal.

Bradford Bailey. Gwen Carr and the Mother's Project.

Valerie Fendt . Comparative Classrooms: Teaching to Transgress.

Tomoko Hiramoto. Restoring Testimonies: Rediscovering the Individual & Unfolding Memory in Hibakusha Narratives.

Eunice Kim. Healing: A Bridge with a View - Sexual Violence and Trauma Survivors' Stories from Oral History Interviews.

Heesup Kimm. Welcome to the Korean American church!

Edward Kliment. Lomaxland: Song Collecting and the Development of Oral American History.

Rebecca McGilveray . I Belong to Glasgow: An Exploration of the Intersectionalities Between The Loss of a Place and the Loss of a Person.

Kyna Patel. The New Normal: Generational Understandings of the Aftermath of September 11, 2001 and to Today.

Kim-Hee Wong. He Lei Wāhine: Oral History through a Hawaiian Lens.

Yameng Xia. Fate of women sent-down youths during the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement.

Yiyi Zhang. This I Wonder - Spiritual Journey of a Wondering Heart.

Dian Zi. Dear Baobao: An Oral History of Myself.

Carlin Zia. Uncertain Journeys.

Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Hayley Aronson. Mental health attitudes in the United States: Deconstructing the Stigma in Different Populations.

Hea Jun An. Is South Korea's Rapid Increase in Minimum Wage Beneficial for People with Low Economic Status?

Guohao Chen. Influence of Human Factors on Audience Emotion Arousal: In Immersive Virtual Reality 360-Degree Video Setting.

Kyle Davis. Risk Aversion Behavior in Higher Education: A Bayesian Approach to Linking Background Risk.

Xiyuan Dong. The Education Status of Left-behind Children in Rural China: A Quantitative Research.

Jessica Eisemann. Altruism in the Digital Age? Sentiment Analysis of Corporate Twitter Hashtags.

Yasmin Gao. Examining Education and Income: Inequality’s Effects on Life Expectancy A Cross Comparison of Males and Females in Developed and Developing Countries.

Derek Jian Yuan Goh. Is Change Always For The Better? The Effects of Alternative Fare Structures on Subway Systems in the United States.

Aixin Allison Jiang. Exploring the Effects Educational Attainment on Support Towards Increasing Educational Spending in the U.S.

Shaun Khoo. Intermodality in the City: Investigating the Impact of Bicycle-Sharing on Subway Ridership in New York City.

Eun Young Lee. Determinants and Barriers of Financial Inclusion in BRICS Countries.

Ken Chun Lee. Feeling (Weighed) Down?

Yeasle Lee. The Spread of Civic Engagement: A Social Network Analysis of Muslim American Adolescents.

Mattathias Lerner. The Impacts of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend on High School Status Completion Rates.

Chien Cheng (Sean) Liew. How are Town-Level Characteristics Related to HDB Flat Prices in Singapore?

Ashley Litwin. What Your Employer Doesn’t Know Won’t Hurt You?: Salary History Bans, Asymmetric Information, and the Gender Wage Gap.

Na Liu. The Distribution of Global City Sizes: An Application of Satellite Imagery.

Andrew Ying Han Loh. Immigration Opinion and Topic Exposure in the Mass Media in the 2016 Election.

Kendall Loh. Predicting Client Length of Stay at Columbus House Shelter in New Haven, CT. 

Darrel Long. Stop and Search: An Analysis of its Effectiveness in Producing Safer London Boroughs.

Zu Cheng Mark Ong. Predicting Takeover Targets from Management Discussion and Analysis Section of Form 10-K Filings.

Shayleen Reynolds. How Do Increases in Student Debt Affect Aggregate Consumption Growth in the U.S?

Adam Schless-Meier. Trust in the Military and Democratic Constraint on the Use of Force.

Xuyang (Jessica) Shen. Does U.S. Trade War News Affect the U.S. Stock Market? A Sentiment Analysis on WSJ News Articles and the Sentiment Impact on the Stock Returns.

Geok Shan Sing. Single in Singapore How attitudes of Single Singaporeans Predict Proclivity Towards Marriage.

Evan Smith. Variations Over Time in Political and Regional Opinions on the United States Armed Forces.

Eun Ji Son. Education Level and Personal Income in South Korea: Why are Young People Calling Themselves the “Giveup” Generation?

Kalyani Subbiah. Predicting the Popularity of News Articles on Facebook with Neural Network Modelling.

Brendan Sullivan. Regional Climate Change Opinion Differences in the US and Consumer Flood Risk Tolerance.

Marita Wright. Coping With the Growing Cost of College: What Debt and Repayment Rates Tell Us About the Financial Health of Recent Graduates.

Qinyao Xia. Chinese Urban and Rural Household Finance Using Machine Learning.

Qinyue (Cherie) Yu. Factors Shaping One’s Opinion towards Maternal Employment.

Zitong Zeng. Government Ownership and Firm Performance: Analysis of an Institutional Setting from China.

Angie Zhang. Does Beauty Really “Pay”? A Comparative Analysis of the Relationships among Physical attractiveness, Confidence, Social Interaction and Income in U.S.’ vs. China’s Labor Market.

Catrina Zhang. Who We Are and How We Write: A Predictive Analysis of Personality and Written Text.

Dolly Setton. The Art of Discretion: Regional Disparities in Federal Sentencing and Charging Decisions.

Joo Kim. Does Gentrification Improve Academic Outcomes and Experiences of Low-income Public School Students?

Sociology

Andria Avila. Performing Legitimacy: The Regulation of Cross-National Marriages.

Courtney LaVonne Castleman. Invisible Disability: Negotiating Disclosure at an Elite University.

Monica Clodius. The Role of Online/Mobile Banking Platforms in Increasing Financial Inclusion Amongst Hispanic Immigrant Households.

Tessa Constantine. Perceptions of Identity in an Indigenous Language Revitalization Program.

Kaitlyn Cunningham. The Art of Dissent: A Look at Small-Group Dynamics and Decision-Making in the US Supreme Court Between 1994 and 2005.

Anna Dowling. From Manhattan to Monterey: Female-Led Television Reception: Gendered Critiques & Selective Silences.

Ana Jimena Gonzalez. Perceptions of Merit in New York City’s Specialized High Schools.

Alice Gu. Emotional Struggle in the Making of Human Rights Activists for China.

Claudia Hernandez. “A Great Day for Lash Equality:” Ambiguous Appeal in Male-Centered Cosmetics Campaigns.

Eva Jahan. Spit Your Truth! How Slam Poetry Venues Combat Intergenerational Trauma.

Jaewon Kim. Diversity Among Asian Americans: Experiences of Microaggressions and Perceived Race Among East and South Asians.

Alibek Kissybay. The Social Structure of the Artificial Intelligence Field: The Network of Scientists and Laboratories.

Louison La Marle. The Power of Privilege in Students’ Hands: Elite Education and School Culture - The case of BENY’s Hidden Curriculum.

Priscillia Lau. The Use and Governance of Privately Owned Public Spaces in New York City.

Pengfei Liu. Diaspora and State: Chinese Activists and Political Space Abroad.

Hanna Love. Constructing Lives in the Courtroom: How “Court Talk” Produces and Punishes Disadvantage in Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings.

Addison E. Malone. Troubling Access: Technologies for Public Use at the New York Public Library (NYPL), 1997-2017.

Sadia Reza. American Identity as Cognitive Dissonance: Inclusivity, Exclusivity, & Modernity.

Isik Sarikamis. Neighborhood Mobilization and Community Pulse: Urban Renewal in Istanbul.

Christine Sim. Faking the Flex: Counterfeit Apparel and the Construction of Authenticity in the Hypebeast Community.

Rachel Tjahjadi. Serving the People at Their Palaces: Librarians’ Cultural Mediation Role in an Unequal City.

Qingshi Wang. Lonely Generation: An Interview Study on Loneliness of the Urban Chinese 1990s-Born Singletons.

Theatre

Adrian Guo-Silver. Graffiti and Law: The Performative Force of Aerosol Art.

Andy Jo. Fertility Sans Paternity: Queer Indulgence in The Handmaiden.

Eduardo Pavez. To Meditate with Anger: The (Almost) Forgotten Theatre Plays of Juan Rivano.

Student writing thesis.
MA Students

"The Course was the Superstar on my CV:" Teaching Scholars Share Their Experiences

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"The Course was the Superstar on my CV:" Teaching Scholars Share Their Experienceslt2645Fri, 07/12/2019 - 20:26

The GSAS Teaching Scholars Program, begun in 2012, is a professional and academic development initiative that allows advanced PhD students the opportunity to design and teach an undergraduate course in their area of expertise. In doing so, they sharpen their teaching skills, enhance the curriculum, and prepare for the job market. To date, more than 200 GSAS Teaching Scholars from 22 departments have participated in this program.

In this three-part series, Teaching Scholars in the Department of Music share their experiences.

Marc Hannaford ’19PhD, Music Theory

Marc Hannaford is Lecturer in Discipline (Music Theory) at Columbia University.

I taught “Beyond Boundaries: Radical Black Experimental Music” in Spring 2019, and it was one of the most enjoyable teaching experiences I’ve ever had. I had eight students, all undergraduates. They all had some interest in music, though they were not all music majors.

I had come into the PhD program with a great deal of teaching experience in my home country of Australia. As a musician, teaching was always something that I have done alongside my creative practice. So I’ve had a number of hours standing in front of the classroom, and I feel comfortable there. But conceiving a syllabus and designing it from scratch was something that I had not done before. With all of my previous teaching, even at the university level, I had been given a template or guidelines. I had mostly taught Core courses. This was the first time in which I designed the curriculum all the way through, and it was an invaluable process. I had to think about the structure of the course from the ground up and create a schedule that scaffolded skills and knowledge. I did not want each class to be a snapshot; rather, I wanted the students in each class to build on what we had learned previously to hone our understanding of music.

Teaching this course was very helpful when I was on the job market. I interviewed for multiple positions, and I felt confident when the inevitable question was asked about teaching experience. A lot of graduate students have taught Core courses, but being able to say, “I taught a course that I designed from scratch, and I did everything – I designed the assessments, there was no TA, nobody was directing me” was so helpful.

I first became aware of the Teaching Scholars program through another student around four years ago. He generously invited me to come sit in on his class, and I remember thinking, “I would like to do something like this.” And then I saw that other senior graduate students in the Music Department were also teaching courses on their dissertation topics, so that encouraged me. When I talked with students at other schools, I saw that they did not have such a program. That was a big thing – to hear them say, “Wow, you get to do that? What an opportunity! I wish I could do that.” That also made me realize how important the program is.

Doing the program was a great opportunity to work closely with my dissertation adviser, Ellie Hisama. I also participated in Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) workshops, and I am grateful for the help and guidance that I received there in developing my skills as a pedagogue.

The two times a week that I taught the course were the parts of the week I looked forward to the most. After each class, I felt ready to go and do more dissertation work. Teaching can get the reputation of being an interruption of scholarly work, but I found it to be an energizing experience.

Stay tuned for the next installment of this three-part series.

Marc Hannaford '19PhD, Music Theory
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Joss Greene's Dissertation Diary

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Joss Greene's Dissertation Diarylt2645Fri, 07/19/2019 - 17:15

Joss Greene, PhD Candidate in Sociology, recipient of the inaugural Devon T. Wade Mentorship and Service Award and a Center for Engaged Scholarship dissertation fellowship, shares his dissertation journey. Over the course of this year, Greene will reveal the ups and downs of his dissertation-writing process. In this introductory segment, he describes his dissertation topic and methodology, how the process has been going so far, and his secret trick for maintaining work/life balance.

My research
My dissertation, “Gender Bound: Regulating Femininity in Prisons for Men,” examines prison regulation of gender deviance between 1940 and 2018. At present, legislators across the country are remaking prison policy to house transgender people based on identity. Judges have passed landmark rulings that trans prisoners are entitled to gender-affirming surgery. We are witnessing a change in the ways gender is interpreted and managed by prison administrators and staff. This moment of change begs the question: How are prison gender rules codified, implemented, and transformed? How have prisoners at the gender margins experienced and contested imprisonment, individually and collectively? How has racialized state punishment structured life for gender non-conforming people for generations, and how are trans social movements fighting for a world without state punishment?

My methodology
My project focuses on California as a case study and draws on multiple methods: archival research; oral history interviews with formerly incarcerated trans people, prisoner advocates, policy makers, and former prison staff; and ethnographic observation in transgender prisoner advocacy organizations. The bulk of my archival research took place at the California State Archives and California State Library, with supplementary trips to law libraries across the state. I read thousands of pages of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) materials, including: classification manuals, training manuals, internal memos, census reports, and audits. I also examined materials on prisoner advocacy within two social movement archives: the Freedom Archives and the GLBT Historical Society. To understand daily practices of prison gender regulation I interviewed formerly incarcerated transgender people, current and former advocates, and former prison staff. I gathered accounts of transgender prison experiences from 1975-2018, interviewing people incarcerated decades earlier and people released mere days before our interview. In addition to using the aforementioned archival and interview data, I examined collective resistance through 13 months of ethnographic observation of contemporary trans prisoner activism in the San Francisco Bay Area.

What I’ve been doing this summer 
I’ve been finishing edits to my first dissertation chapter (a historical chapter) that I hope to submit to a journal as a stand-alone article. I've also been drafting a dissertation chapter that discusses incarcerated trans people's relationships and the ways they thought about violence. I haven't quite figured out the frame for this chapter, but after working on the historical piece of my dissertation for so long it's exciting to return to my interview data and listen deeply to the accounts of women I interviewed. The last piece of dissertation work I'm tackling this summer is working on a draft book proposal.

Obstacles I’ve encountered so far
The book proposal (though shortest) is the most intellectually challenging piece of writing for me at this point. There are so many stories that I want to share from my research. A book proposal insists that I put a frame around a certain subset of information, foregrounding some information and omitting the rest. I find this work of analytically focusing very difficult and have been re-reading favorite books in an entirely different way! I'm now looking at how scholars organize chapters and tie them together. I've had a skeleton structure envisioned for my dissertation, but as I was writing it up for the book proposal I wasn't feeling psyched about it. The organization was logical, but it wasn't theoretically inspiring. But I was saved by Emily Thuma's All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence! This book is phenomenal. It has four substantive chapters (fewer than most social science books) and they are all tightly connected to her overarching argument about feminist activism against interpersonal and state violence. Her book illustrated the skill in being strategic in what you foreground in order to make a larger theoretical argument. I now have a vision of a more compact, theoretically motivated outline of my chapters and feel eager to go back to revise my book proposal with this framework!

After I have a new draft of this proposal, I'm planning to meet with a consultant at the GSAS Writing Studio to think about how to move forward with actually writing the chapters. This has been really helpful for me in the past when I have a high-level vision of my writing project but need support mapping out the practical next steps to execute it.

Milo and me
Dissertation-writing definitely feels like a marathon. In moments when I'm feeling overwhelmed or losing perspective, I've been helped by my puppy! Her name is Milo and she's almost five months old. Puppy parenting demands that I take regular breaks. I've tended to be the kind of person who gets stuck on an idea and sits at his desk for hours on end while he figures it out. Since I'm caring for a puppy, I've got two hours (tops!) before she needs some kind of attention, stimulation, or time outside. Adjusting my work habits to meet her needs has shown me how inefficient some of my prior habits were! I'm working slightly fewer hours, but getting more done and feeling better overall. 
 

Joss Greene and his puppy, Milo.

 

Joss Greene, PhD Candidate in Sociology, with his puppy, Milo.
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GSAS New Doctoral Student Orientation

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GSAS New Doctoral Student Orientation
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
adminTue, 07/23/2019 - 22:31

GSAS Orientation Schedule

10:00 – 12:00 p.m. Resource Fair
Revson Plaza

2:00 p.m. PhD Welcome Session
Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall (2920 Broadway)
(1:40 p.m. Doors Open)

5:45 p.m. New Student Barbecue with Live Music
Kent and Revson Plaza

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Join us on Orientation day for presentations and events designed exclusively for incoming GSAS doctoral students.

Start your day at the Resource Fair, where university offices and student groups will be on hand to provide information about their services and programs and to answer your questions.

The Orientation program will include an address from Carlos J. Alonso, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and essential advice from faculty, staff, and current students.

Finish the day meeting fellow new students, enjoying food and drink, and listening to live jazz at the New Student Barbecue.

Graduate Students
10:00 AM
8:00 PM

Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Roone Arledge Auditorium, https://goo.gl/maps/rVCS2

GSAS Office of Student Affairs, gsas-studentaffairs [at] columbia.edu

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GSAS New Master's Student Orientation

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GSAS New Master's Student Orientation
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
adminTue, 07/23/2019 - 22:31

GSAS Orientation Schedule

10:00 – 12:00 p.m. Resource Fair
Revson Plaza

4:30 p.m. MA Welcome Session
Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall (2920 Broadway)
(4:10 p.m. Doors Open)

5:45 p.m. New Student Barbecue with Live Music
Kent and Revson Plaza

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Join us on Orientation day for presentations and events designed exclusively for incoming GSAS master's students.

Start your day at the Resource Fair, where university offices and student groups will be on hand to provide information about their services and programs and to answer your questions.

The Orientation program will include an address from Carlos J. Alonso, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and essential advice from faculty, staff, and current students.

Finish the day meeting fellow new students, enjoying food and drink, and listening to live jazz at the New Student Barbecue.

Graduate Students
10:00 AM
8:00 PM

Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Roone Arledge Auditorium, https://goo.gl/maps/rVCS2

GSAS Office of Student Affairs, gsas-studentaffairs [at] columbia.edu

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"This was Huge": Teaching Scholars Share Their Experiences

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"This was Huge": Teaching Scholars Share Their Experienceslt2645Wed, 07/31/2019 - 15:44

The GSAS Teaching Scholars Program, begun in 2012, is a professional and academic development initiative that allows advanced PhD students the opportunity to design and teach an undergraduate course in their area of expertise. In doing so, they sharpen their teaching skills, enhance the curriculum, and prepare for the job market. To date, more than 200 GSAS Teaching Scholars from 22 departments have participated in this program.

In this second installment of our three-part series, Teaching Scholars in the Department of Music share their experiences.

Paula Harper,’19PhD, Historical Musicology  

Paula Harper is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. She will teach a version of her Teaching Scholars class, on women in music video, at Washington University.

I designed and taught my class “Divas, Monsters, Material Girls: Women in Music Video” in Fall 2017. I thought I was going to have a class composed of music majors, but actually the majority of my students were not. There were 15 students and two auditors. It was a diverse group of students in terms of which disciplines they were coming from. It was a total delight to have students with very different perspectives. 

I had been teaching Music Humanities in the Core Curriculum, and there is a decent amount of syllabus design with that class. But starting from scratch and having to make decisions about syllabus design, course objectives, and so on was new for me. Since it was a small class, I could think about course objectives not only for the entire class but even for each individual student. 

Because the course was related to material I was working on for my dissertation, teaching it gave me the opportunity to read things that I had not yet had the chance to, and I also got to reread key texts and refamiliarize myself with them. So it was an opportunity to reengage with material, which was useful for my scholarship.

The course was the superstar on my CV. It definitely set me apart in the job market. Even though I had a lot of pedagogical experience from teaching Music Hum, it was useful to be able to say, “I designed and taught my own course.” That was huge, especially because when you’re on the job market as an ABD or as a recent PhD, you are being looked at by committees as someone who would need to be ready to teach a bunch of courses that you’ve never taught before. So being able to show that you have put together a semester-long class was very valuable. I assume that it set me apart from other candidates. 

It was also useful that my advisor, Ellie Hisama, had to observe me because she was my recommender, and since she was in the classroom and had concrete examples of my best teaching work, she could fold that into the material she wrote about me. 

Stay tuned for the final installment of this three-part series.

Paula Harper '19PhD, Historical Musicology
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OADI Pre-Orientation: Mid-Day Soiree

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OADI Pre-Orientation: Mid-Day Soiree
Monday, August 26, 2019
adminThu, 08/01/2019 - 22:34

OADI welcomes all incoming GSAS students at this event, intended to highlight the experiences of students from historically underrepresented and marginalized groups and introduce them to resources for establishing and building their networks of support.

If you have a disability and require accommodation in order to attend this event, please contact Afiya Wilson at afiya.wilson [at] columbia.edu or (212) 854-2866.

Graduate Students
Student
1:00 PM
5:00 PM

Low Library, 535 W. 116 St., New York, NY 10027 Trustees Room, https://goo.gl/maps/SWLWc

Leora Tanenbaum, lt2645 [at] columbia.edu

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Foundations for Research Computing Bootcamp

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Foundations for Research Computing Bootcamp
Monday, August 26, 2019
adminMon, 08/05/2019 - 22:36

Columbia University Libraries, CU Information Technology, and the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research invite Columbia graduate students to participate in a training opportunity in general computational problem-solving skills, designed to support the novice student or those seeking to refresh their skills in particular tools or methodologies prior to the beginning of the semester. These trainings are part of Foundations for Research Computing, a new program dedicated to augmenting graduate student and postdoctorate engagement with computational research methods.

Boot Camp Invitation

Computational tools and methods such as Unix shell, Git, R, and Python are increasingly crucial to many academic disciplines. These not-for-credit Boot Camps covering these tools are intended for graduate students in research programs and will be held on Monday, August 26th and Tuesday, August 27th.

Faculty
Graduate Students
Postdocs
9:00 AM
4:00 PM

Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 , https://goo.gl/maps/oYLXkTQqJKS2

Foundations Administrator, 212-853-0246, rcfoundations [at] columbia.edu

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Teaching Orientation for Grad Students

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Teaching Orientation for Grad Students
Thursday, August 29, 2019
adminMon, 08/05/2019 - 22:36

The Center for Teaching and Learning offers graduate student instructors orientation sessions to learn about practical, evidence-based strategies that they can implement with their students. These orientations help supplement departmental orientations and trainings.

In a supportive and collaborative setting, facilitated by CTL staff and experienced graduate student instructors, participants will develop strategies for engaging with students during the first week of classes. This will include the development of policy statements that communicate course expectations and help establish an inclusive and dynamic learning environment. Participants will also discuss difficult situations that Teaching Assistants and Teaching Fellows may find themselves in, and learn about resources and offices on campus that can help.

CTL orientations are open to all new teaching assistants, teaching fellows, and graduate students in an instructor role, on a space-available basis. TAs in all disciplines are welcome to attend this orientation. Registrants will be asked in late August to confirm their attendance, as space is limited. For more information, visit bit.ly/ctlgrads-orientation.

Graduate Students
10:00 AM
3:00 PM

Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 203, https://goo.gl/maps/oYLXkTQqJKS2

Mark Phillipson, 212 854 0210, mlp55 [at] columbia.edu

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Teaching Orientation for Grad Students

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Teaching Orientation for Grad Students
Friday, August 30, 2019
adminMon, 08/05/2019 - 22:36

The Center for Teaching and Learning offers graduate student instructors orientation sessions to learn about practical, evidence-based strategies that they can implement with their students. These orientations help supplement departmental orientations and trainings.

In a supportive and collaborative setting, facilitated by CTL staff and experienced graduate student instructors, participants will develop strategies for engaging with students during the first week of classes. This will include the development of policy statements that communicate course expectations and help establish an inclusive and dynamic learning environment. Participants will also discuss difficult situations that Teaching Assistants and Teaching Fellows may find themselves in, and learn about resources and offices on campus that can help.

CTL orientations are open to all new teaching assistants, teaching fellows, and graduate students in an instructor role, on a space-available basis. TAs in all disciplines are welcome to attend this orientation. Registrants will be asked in late August to confirm their attendance, as space is limited. For more information, visit bit.ly/ctlgrads-orientation.

Graduate Students
10:00 AM
3:00 PM

Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 203, https://goo.gl/maps/oYLXkTQqJKS2

Mark Phillipson, 212 854 0210, mlp55 [at] columbia.edu

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Library Spaces for Graduate Students Walking Tour

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Library Spaces for Graduate Students Walking Tour
Thursday, September 12, 2019
adminMon, 08/05/2019 - 22:36

Join the Burke Library’s Public Services Librarian, Carolyn Bratnober, on an accessible tour of some of the top library spaces on campus. Open to all CU and UTS graduate students, this tour will explore libraries and highlight those with features such as group work areas, silent study, coffee shops, natural light, couches, maker-spaces, and others. Stroll with fellow students from the Burke to Butler and back, including stops at Starr East Asian Library, Avery Fine Arts Library, the Science & Engineering Library and more, and discover your new favorite study spot! Meet at the Rotunda entrance to the Burke Library building at 120th Street and Broadway, the tour departs at 12:30, begins with the Burke, and ends at the Science & Engineering Library at 2:00pm.

Graduate Students
12:30 PM
2:00 PM

The Burke Library, 3041 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Rotunda Entrance, https://goo.gl/maps/twZsy

Carolyn Bratnober, 212-851-5609, cb3161 [at] columbia.edu

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"Joy to Teach": Teaching Scholars Share Their Experiences

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"Joy to Teach": Teaching Scholars Share Their Experienceslt2645Tue, 08/13/2019 - 21:44

The GSAS Teaching Scholars Program, begun in 2012, is a professional and academic development initiative that allows advanced PhD students the opportunity to design and teach an undergraduate course in their area of expertise. In doing so, they sharpen their teaching skills, enhance the curriculum, and prepare for the job market. To date, more than 200 GSAS Teaching Scholars from 22 departments have participated in this program.

In this final installment of our three-part series, Teaching Scholars in the Department of Music share their experiences.

Orit Hilewicz ’17 PhD, Music Theory

Orit Hilewicz is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.

I taught two courses as part of the Teaching Scholars program. The first course, in Summer 2015, was an undergraduate seminar on avant-garde and experimental music in New York City. We took advantage of our campus location and supplemented class meetings with outings to concerts, in which students experienced the styles of music learned in class and performed in the city’s iconic venues. Except for a music major from Indiana University, all the students in the course were advanced Columbia undergraduates from the music and other departments. 

The second course, which I taught in Fall 2016, was an undergraduate seminar on music in multimedia works. We learned analytical and critical tools for a broad array of genres such as film, sound installation, and dance. The students were advanced music majors. 

Each course was a joy to teach. Students gravitated to these electives based on their interest in the topic, which meant that each course involved working with highly invested and motivated students. I couldn’t have asked for a better environment to develop as a teacher. 

The program helped me improve my teaching, explore the pedagogical implications of my research, and prepare for the job market. In addition, the success of the program relied on the invaluable support I was offered from the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) and the Music Department’s faculty and staff at every stage of preparing and teaching the course. 

I believe that my experience in the Teaching Scholars program crucially contributed to my ability to present myself as an experienced teacher when I was a job candidate. Moreover, the program allowed me to show in my portfolio how my research interests lent themselves to teaching. I was fortunate to be offered a tenure-track position in a highly regarded department immediately following the completion of my PhD. In my campus interview for the position, my two Teaching Scholars courses were an area of special interest. I did not realize it fully before the interview, but the experience of designing a syllabus from scratch and running a course based on one’s research is quite rare and sets an ABD job candidate apart from other doctoral candidates or recent graduates. In addition, I am now turning one of my teaching-scholars syllabi to a PhD seminar in the coming fall semester.

Part 1 of this series featured Marc Hannaford'19 PhD, Music Theory. Part 2 featured Paula Harper '19 PhD, Historical Musicology. More information about this program is found on the GSAS Teaching Scholars Program page
 

Orit Hilewicz '17PhD, Music Theory
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Dissertations: August 12, 2019

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Dissertations: August 12, 2019ja3093Wed, 08/14/2019 - 17:59

DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED

Applied Mathematics
Bieli, Melanie. The extratropical transition of tropical cyclones: Present-day. Sponsors: Suzana De Camargo and Adam Sobel.

Astronomy
Wolcott-Green, Jemma. Chemistry and radiative feedback of early galaxies: Seeding the first supermassive black holes. Sponsor: Zoltan Haiman.

Biological Sciences
Aghayeva, Ulkar. Transcriptional regulation of tissue remodeling in C. elegans dauer larvae. Sponsor: Oliver Hobert.

Biomedical Engineering
Parker, David. Interaction of the slice acquisition timing and motion artifacts in fMRI. Sponsor: Qolamreza Razlighi.

Wang, Yi. The sensitivity of the cochlear amplifier to changes in operating conditions. Sponsor: Elizabeth Olson.

Business
Liu, Zhe. Matching spatially diversified suppliers with random demands. Sponsor: Constantinos Maglaras.

Moulton, Elizabeth. The disclosure of sensitive information. Sponsor: Malia Mason.

Cellular Physiology and Biophysics
Kim, Jonathan. Structural investigation of plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter in the context of anti-malarial drug resistance. Sponsor: Filippo Mancia.

Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Studies
Georgieva, Daniela. Brcal and 53BP1 affect reprogramming by altering DNA repair pathway choice. Sponsor: Dietrich Egli.

McCurdy, Ethan. Promotion of axon growth and fasciculation through an atonally derived protein. Sponsor: Ulrich Hengst.

Chemical Physics
Joshi, Prakriti. Contributions of lattice anharmonicities to optoelectronic properties of lead halide perovskites. Sponsor: Xiaoyang Zhu.

Chemistry
Lee, Kihong. Optical spectroscopy of two-dimensional superatomic semiconductors and magnetic materials. Sponsors: Xavier Roy and Xiaoyang Zhu.

Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Wang, Kun. From multiscale modeling to metamodeling of geomechanics problems. Sponsor: WaiChing Sun.

Computer Science
Fei, Yun. Multi-scale models for interactions between liquid and thin structures. Sponsor: Changxi Zheng.

Lecuyer, Mathias. Security, privacy, and transparency guarantees for machine learning systems. Sponsor: Roxana Geambasu.

Ulinski, Morgan. Leveraging text-to-scene generation for language elicitation and documentation. Sponsor: Julia Hirschberg.

Earth and Environmental Sciences
Landes, Franziska. Engaging communities to reduce toxic exposures with a field kit for mapping soil lead in Peru and New York. Sponsor: Lex van Geen.

Economics
Dorn, Agnieszka. Essays on macro-labor. Sponsor: Andres Drenik.

Electrical Engineering
da Silva Cerqueira, Joao Pedro. Ultra-low leakage, energy efficient digital integrated circuit design. Sponsor: Mingoo Seok.

Haque, Tanbir. A flexible RFIC architecture for high-sensitivity reception and compressed-sampling wideband detection. Sponsors: Peter Kinget and John Wright..

English and Comparative Literature
Fabrizio, Alexis. In between places: Fictions of British decolonization. Sponsor: Matthew Hart.

Mechanical Engineering
Ardelean, Jenny. Optical characterization of charge transfer excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide heterosctructures. Sponsor: James Hone.

Khan, Moiz. Functional posture rehabilitation using a cable-driven robot. Sponsor: Sunil Agrawal.

Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection
Nauman, Grace. Humanized mouse models for xenotolerance and autoimmunity. Sponsor: Megan Sykes.

Nursing
Beauchemin, Melissa. Supporting clinician decision making in cancer care delivery. Sponsor: Rebecca Schnall.

Voigt, Natalie. Physical activity among adults living with HIV/AIDS: Interventions, predictors, and measurement. Sponsor: Lusine Poghosyan.

Nutritional and Metabolic Biology
So, Jeewon. Fusobacterium nucleatum-induced placental inflammation and potential therapy. Sponsor: Yiping Han.

Stivison, Elizabeth. Interstitial telomere sequences disrupt break-induced replication. Sponsor: Lorraine Symington.

Operations Research
Sakr, Nourhan. Driving social impact through combinatorial optimization and data science. Sponsor: Clifford Stein.

Physics
Li, Xinyu. Electrodynamics inside and outside magnetars. Sponsor: Andrei Beloborodov.

Political Science
Jackson, Katharine. Corporate autonomy: Law, constitutional democracy, and big business. Sponsor: Jean Cohen.

Thorley, Dane. Essays on courts, randomization, and experiments. Sponsor: Jeffrey Lax.

Social Work
Bhattacharya, Anindita. Women's narratives of illness and institutionalization: A feminist inquiry. Sponsor: Ellen Lukens.

Camacho, David. Loneliness and pain in community-dwelling older adults: A national perspective on ethnic differences. Sponsor: Ellen Lukens.

Sociology
Fink, Pierre. The rise of the money market: The U.S. State, New York City banks and the commodification of money, 1945-1980. Sponsor: Joshua Whitford.

Hoffman, Mark. Cultural consumption and political thought after the American Revolution. Sponsor: Peter Bearman.

Sociomedical Sciences
Kola, Ijeoma. "I can't breathe": The rise of asthma in Black urban America. Sponsor: Merlin Chowkwanyun.

Perez-Brumer, Amaya. HIV biomedical prevention science and the business of gender and sexual diversity. Sponsor: Richard Parker.

Statistics
Loaiza Ganem, Gabriel. Advances in deep generative modeling with applications to image generation and neuroscience. Sponsor: John Cunningham.

DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED

Chemical Engineering
Alkhodairi, Husam. Compatibilization of immiscible polymer blends using polymer-grafted nanoparticles.

Altorbaq, Abdullah. Enhancement of barrier properties of semi-crystalline polymer using grafted nanoparticles.

Beatty, Marissa. Developing design rules by altering the structure and composition of membrane coated electrocatalysts.

Chen, Sophia. Thickness effects on C02 permeability and bulk/surface morphologies of Polystyrene-grafted-silica in a Polystyrene matrix for gas barriers.

Denny, Steven. Electrochemical stability and activity of bare and PGM-modified tungsten, niobium, and molybdenum nitrides.

Dhatt-Gauthier, Kiran. Automating Bayesian inference and design for acoustic levitation and propulsion.

Feric, Tony. Novel nanoscale hybrid materials for combined C02 capture and conversion.

Gusley, Ryan. Interconnects beyond copper.

Huynh, Han. Heterogeneous chemistry of calcium carbonate and stratospheric ozone.

Kovar, Thomas. Structure and unstructures motion in multiphase granular flow system.

Krauskopf, Alejandro. Effect of zone annealing on anisotropic nanoparticle reordering in polymer nanocomposites.

Rampal, Nikhil. Computational insights into ion pairing, solvation and dynamics in concentrated aqueous solutions.

Sivaram, Abhishek. Feature space of deep neural networks for system identification and fault diagnosis.

Su, Rui. Pathways and dynamics of exocytotic release.

Yeong, Vivian. Engineering synthetic oganelles in E. coli through complex coacervation.

Zervoudis, Nicholas. The effects of protein charge patterning on complex coacervation and enzyme activity.

Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Sacks, Jared. Engaging South Africa's far-left: Ideology and practice from a subaltern perspective.

Nursing
Abraham, Cilgy. Predictors and outcomes of nurse practitioner burnout in primary care practices.

Pho, Anthony. Human papillomavirus vaccination in transgender and gender nonconforming individuals.

Song, Jiyoun. Analyzing risk factors for healthcare-associated infections using multidimensional methodological approaches.

Zheng, Katherine. Developmental assets in adolescents with chronic illness and co-morbid depression.

Religion
Golan, Erez. Joy Vey: Emotions and affects in classical Rabbinic literature.

Dissertations
Dissertations

Teaching Materials Peer Review Session (for Graduate Students)

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Teaching Materials Peer Review Session (for Graduate Students)
Friday, September 27, 2019
adminThu, 08/22/2019 - 22:37

Looking for a supportive, informal environment to refine course materials (syllabi, lesson plans) or job market materials (teaching statements, diversity statements, teaching portfolio)? Drop by with a draft, and work with other graduate students to give and receive feedback using a lightly structured peer-review process developed by CTL. CTL staff will be on hand to offer advice and pertinent resources to all participants -- as well as coffee and light snacks. Participants are asked to bring draft material (however preliminary) to be able to exchange and discuss.

Graduate Students
Postdocs
12:00 PM
2:00 PM

Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 Room 212, https://goo.gl/maps/oYLXkTQqJKS2

Mark Phillipson, 212 854 0210, mlp55 [at] columbia.edu

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Essentials of Teaching and Learning: Grading & Feedback (For Graduate Students)

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Essentials of Teaching and Learning: Grading & Feedback (For Graduate Students)
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
adminThu, 08/22/2019 - 22:37

Learn how to engage students in their learning beyond the classroom by giving more effective feedback. Join the CTL for a workshop for graduate students focused on giving you tools to grade accurately, efficiently, and encouragingly. In this workshop, you will learn approaches to grading that encourage students to focus more on their improvement and less on bottom line scores. We will introduce tools to help streamline and standardize grading, while helping students better understand what is valuable in the topic and discipline. Breakout groups during this session will allow you to focus your discussion on written assignments or problem sets.

By the end of this session, participants should be able to:

-Describe the difference between formative and summative assessments.
-Develop the values and concepts that underlay meaningful, relevant, and accessible feedback.
-Plan activities you can use with your students to measure students' learning and get feedback on your teaching.

The Essentials of Teaching and Learning workshop series for graduate students is focused on giving you tools as a new or developing instructor to better facilitate student learning and improve your teaching practice. These workshops are best experienced sequentially.

Attending this workshop and posting reflections satisfies a Foundational Track requirement for participants in the Teaching Development Program (TDP). See bit.ly/ctl-tdp for details.

Graduate Students
10:10 AM
11:40 AM

Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 203, https://goo.gl/maps/oYLXkTQqJKS2

Center for Teaching and Learning, 212 854-1692, ColumbiaCTL [at] columbia.edu

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Learning by Observing: The Art of an Effective Teaching Observation (for Graduate Students)

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Learning by Observing: The Art of an Effective Teaching Observation (for Graduate Students)
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
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Observing faculty or peers teaching can be a powerful way to expand your awareness of teaching techniques, train your attention on student learning, and generate reflection about your own instructional approaches. But how can you ensure that an observation leads to all these benefits? This workshop will provide participants with a model for conducting observations of teaching that focuses on instructional intention, student engagement, and insights about the observer’s own teaching development. While the session will be immediately useful to participants completing the Advanced Track of CTL’s Teaching Development Program (see bit.ly/ctl-tdp), it is open to all interested graduate students and postdocs. This session will be facilitated by Zachary Domach, lead Teaching Consultant and 2018-19 Senior Fellow at the CTL. Lunch will be available to all registered participants.

Graduate Students
12:00 PM
1:30 PM

Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 Room 212, https://goo.gl/maps/oYLXkTQqJKS2

Center for Teaching and Learning, 212 854-1692, ColumbiaCTL [at] columbia.edu

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Syllabus from Scratch (for Graduate Students)

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Syllabus from Scratch (for Graduate Students)
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
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Are you drafting a syllabus? Whether the syllabus is for the Teaching Scholars program, the academic job market, or a dream course in the future, join us to begin designing an effective syllabus from scratch. During the Syllabus from Scratch workshop, participants will learn about the elements of an effective syllabus, define course learning goals, and discuss assessments and grading that will promote student learning in their course. On October 25, we will offer a peer review session where participants will have an opportunity to share full drafts of their syllabi with peers and CTL staff for feedback and suggestions. Facilitated by Chris Chen, Center for Teaching and Learning.

By the end of the session, participants should be able to:
-Define and create course-level learning goals and measurable outcomes for each
-Design assignments/assessments to evaluate student learning
-Create intentional assessments that align with course learning goals

Graduate Students
Postdocs
4:10 PM
6:00 PM

Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 203, https://goo.gl/maps/oYLXkTQqJKS2

Center for Teaching and Learning, 212 854-1692, ColumbiaCTL [at] columbia.edu

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Writing a Diversity Statement (for Graduate Students)

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Writing a Diversity Statement (for Graduate Students)
Thursday, October 3, 2019
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Diversity statements are becoming increasingly common in the academic job application process, but what are they and how do you write one? Participants will learn about the components of a reflective and thoughtful diversity statement, see sample statements, and brainstorm their first draft. Participants who have already started writing a diversity statement and would like some feedback should bring copies for individual or peer feedback. Facilitated by Ian Althouse, Center for Teaching and Learning.

By the end of the session, participants should be able to:
- Define the diversity statement and its purpose
- Detail a general structure for a diversity statement
- Analyze and identify the characteristics of an effective diversity statement in order to draft a diversity statement of their own

Graduate Students
4:10 PM
6:00 PM

Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 Room 203, https://goo.gl/maps/oYLXkTQqJKS2

Center for Teaching and Learning, 212 854-1692, ColumbiaCTL [at] columbia.edu

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Teachers' Lounge: Learning Preferences & Universal Design for Learning (For Graduate Students)

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Teachers' Lounge: Learning Preferences & Universal Design for Learning (For Graduate Students)
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
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Teachers’ Lounges are a series of informal discussions for graduate students about teaching practices and the culture of learning at Columbia. This year we are focusing on making teaching and learning more accessible within a class. Providing multiple ways for students to engage with course materials and register their learning is an important inclusive teaching practice.

This session will focus on Universal Design for Learning, a movement helping educators to offer students multiple pathways for pursuing learning objectives, based on research into individual learning differences. After an introductory overview of UDL, we will open into a discussion about “learning preferences” and consider what instructional flexibility that is keyed to them might entail in practice. Lunch will be available to registered participants.

Graduate Students
Postdocs
12:10 PM
1:25 PM

Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 Room 212, https://goo.gl/maps/oYLXkTQqJKS2

Center for Teaching and Learning, 212 854-1692, ColumbiaCTL [at] columbia.edu

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Building Your Teaching E-Portfolio (for Graduate Students)

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Building Your Teaching E-Portfolio (for Graduate Students)
Friday, October 18, 2019
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Are you building a teaching e-portfolio for the academic job market and the CTL's Teaching Development Program? Wondering what materials to gather or how to get started? In this session, participants will examine sample teaching e-portfolios and determine what effective communication, design, and layout look like in the digital environment. During the session CTL staff will provide guidance on how to build out your e-portfolio and leverage it to your advantage on the academic job market.

By the end of the session, participants should be able to:
- Define the content and purpose of the teaching e-portfolio
- Identify the characteristics of an effective e-portfolio

Facilitated by Ian Althouse, Center for Teaching and Learning.

Graduate Students
10:10 AM
11:40 AM

Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 Room 212, https://goo.gl/maps/oYLXkTQqJKS2

Center for Teaching and Learning, 212 854-1692, ColumbiaCTL [at] columbia.edu

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