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DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED

Applied Physics
Overvig, Adam. Multivariate optical wavefronts generated by dielectric metasurfaces. Sponsor: Nanfang Yu.

Art History and Archaeology
Cohen, Lucas. Port of Flanders: Jef Geys and Belgium in the 1970s. Sponsor: Rosalind Krauss.

Vazquez de Arthur, Andrea. Potraits, pots, or power objects? On the imagery and ontology of Wari Face Neck vessels. Sponsor: Esther Pasztory.

Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Studies
Sheth, Ravi. New tools for understanding and engineering microbiomes. Sponsor: Harris Wang.

Chemistry
Xu, Tianchuan. Loop prediction and homology modeling with ultra-high resolution. Sponsor: Richard Friesner.

East Asian Languages and Cultures
Zou, Dongxin. Socialist medicine and Maoist humanitarianism: Chinese missions to Algeria, 1963-1984. Sponsor: Eugenia Lean.

Economics
Puente, Manuel. Experiments on behavioral economics. Sponsor: Alessandra Casella.

Electrical Engineering
de Godoy Peixoto, Daniel. Ultra-low-power IoT solutions for sound source localization: Combining mixed-signal processing and machine learning. Sponsor: Peter Kinget.

Mangal, Vivek. Energy-detecting receivers for wake-up radio applications. Sponsor: Peter Kinget.

Yeh, Chung-Heng. Mechanistic models of neural computation in the fruit fly brain. Sponsor: Aurel Lazar.

Zhang, Aonan. Composing deep learning and Bayesian nonparametric methods. Sponsor: John Paisley.

Italian
DeWitt, Allison. Visualizing Dante's world: Geography, history and material culture. Sponsor: Teodolinda Barolini.

Kiviat, Nicole. Home cooking: Negotiating food and Heimat in postwar Italian aesthetics. Sponsor: Elizabeth Leake.

Materials Science and Engineering
Banerjee, Soham. Improved modeling of nanocrystals from atomic pair distribution function data. Sponsor: Simon Billinge.

Mechanical Engineering
Zhang, Haohan. A novel robotic platform to assist, train, and study head-neck movements. Sponsor: Sunil Agrawal.

Music
Cairns, Elliott. Listening to the world: The Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv and the emergence of comparative musicology. Sponsor: Ellie Hisama.

Neurobiology and Behavior
Donegan, Macayla. Coding of social novelty in the hippocampal CA2 region and its disruption and rescue in a mouse model of schizophrenia. Sponsor: Steven Siegelbaum.

Operations Research
Cooper, Hal. SmartGraph: An artificially intelligent graph database. Sponsor: Garud Iyengar.

Political Science
Khan, Sarah. Making democracy work for women: Essays on gender and political participation in Pakistan. Sponsor: Macartan Humphreys.

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.

Sociology
Leao, Luciana. Experimenting on the poor: The politics of social policy evaluation in Brazil and Mexico. Sponsor: Gil Eyal.

DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED

Biomedical Engineering
Lee, Haeun. Exhaustion in chronic lymphocytic leukemia T cells.

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

Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Alrassy, Patrick. Traffic injury prediction model and high resolution driver behavior safety metrics derived from large GPS vehicle fleet telematics data mapped using a novel non-casual OBD-data-assisted cost-based map-matching algorithm.

Douba, Ala Eddin. Multi-scale concrete 3D printing with emphasis on cement rheology.

Shou, Zhenyu. Harnessing big data for the sharing economy in smart cities.

Classics
Izzo, John. Tironian notes: Literary and historical studies of a Ciceronian freedman.

East Asian Languages and Cultures
Zhang, Yifan. Inscribing the "Airs" of Wu: Local knowledge, vernacular soundscape, and cultural hybridity in early modern China, c. 1450-1650.

Materials Science and Engineering
Michelson, Aaron. The design of complex material with DNA origami.

Mechanical Engineering
Mici, Joni. Layered assembly: Multi-material rapid digital fabrication.

Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Ben Hammed, Mohamed. Mystical temporality and its subject in modern Arabic thought and literature.

Religion
Esparza, Daniel. Absurd forgiveness: An existential approach.

Sociology
Grey, Eugene. Entangled to duel: Honor, status, and the costly norm of violence.

Hidalgo, Anna. Intimacy and globalization: An ethnography in Mancora, Peru.

Huang, Tiffany. Strategizing identity in the college application process.

What is your current role?
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo.

What are you working on now?
I'm tying up the loose ends on my first manuscript on the figure of the female student activist in the Japanese New Left. I’m also beginning research on the Japanese petrochemical industry and its impact on both local and overseas communities — a topic I know nothing about, so it's as exciting as my dissertation project had been.

How did you first become interested in issues of gender parity in Japan and in Japanese history at large?
When I was selected for the Rotary Youth Exchange Program as a sophomore in high school, I was actually reluctant to go to Japan. (The program decided the destination; I had wanted to go to Europe!) Part of my reluctance was my understanding of myself as a feminist and Japan as sexist. But I wanted to see the world, so I went. Over what has become a very long relationship with Japanese society and many different people within it, I have shifted my understanding of what I mean by identifying myself as a "feminist" through listening to a wide range of feminists in both the United States and Japan and beyond. I'm sensitive to imposing a US-centric vision of gender parity, but I'm emboldened because my critiques are forged in dialogue with feminist colleagues in Japan.

I became interested in history because almost everyone employs history to explain who they are, and who "we" are. I became interested in contemporary history because sometimes the history closest to us is actually the history that can most unsettle our fixed stories about who we are. And I became interested in contemporary Japanese history because it is often held apart in the Anglophone imagination as an exotic other — a "they" — in a way that deprives us of understanding our recent, shared history.

How has your dissertation informed your forthcoming book, Co-Ed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left?
My dissertation was the first draft of Co-Ed Revolution. I shudder to think about people reading the dissertation now, because it feels like a very "drafty draft" of the manuscript. But thinking of the dissertation as a draft also helped me to complete it!

What lessons from graduate school have you found useful in your professional life?
Organizing my time and juggling tasks with varied timelines and degrees of intensity. Also, taking care of myself and my relationships with other people to make the work sustainable.

Which opportunity in graduate school was integral in preparing you for a career in academia?
My graduate-school training at Columbia brought together an experienced and accomplished faculty, committed and knowledgeable staff, a brilliant and ambitious cohort, and involved students. I would not have gotten as much out of any of the opportunities made available without mentorship by all these people. I will say that Weatherhead East Asia Institute and its ongoing support in terms of fellowships and events and the Brebner Travel Award for supporting graduate student participation in academic conferences were critical for me.

What skill has unexpectedly helped you in your career?
I often think that my years of waitressing helped me with active listening and public speaking. You learn how to communicate with lots of different kinds of people, often hungry and irritable, in food service.

What is your favorite memory from your graduate years?
I grew up a lot in the seven years I spent in graduate school. My favorite memories are of the people I met along the way with whom I grew up.

What are your passions outside of your work?
I used to have hobbies. Now I have a toddler.

What is your advice for current GSAS students?
Learn about the structures of your workplace and how they fit in with the wider world, and create relationships with the people you meet in GSAS. Research does not exist in a vacuum, and I think we are just as responsible for thinking about how it relates to institutions and society as we are for thinking about methodologies and use of evidence.

What is next for you, professionally or otherwise?
A little over a year ago, I got a tenured position, and it gives me the security to continue researching, writing, and teaching. But I also feel keenly that academics with such security have an even greater responsibility to the field to address issues of precarious employment that I see as undermining the important role humanities ought to play in society. Academics are also a global workforce, so I've been working to strengthen networks across institutions, borders, and academic ranks through events, translations, and organizing.

Where did you grow up? 
Eureka, California.

What drew you to your field? 
My upbringing was a major reason that I came to study history with a particular interest in how Americans care for one another. I came from a working-class household, where my mom, a nurse, raised me alone, and I grew up in a rural town that still struggles with poverty and drug use. The precariousness of that upbringing made me aware of how inequitable much of American life is, and how much need goes unaddressed. By the high tide of the Occupy movement, I was committed to understanding the history of how Americans thought about wealth, social responsibility, and the poor. In the last few years, I've focused on philanthropy and how cities and regions shape the ways in which people think about generosity.

How would you explain your current research to someone outside of your field? 
I’m studying how entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley created a style of philanthropy that differed from the industrial tycoons of the past, such as Carnegie and Rockefeller, and the consequences of that type of giving for public institutions and civil society. Today there's a great deal of fascination with the mega-donors of Silicon Valley as a radical departure from philanthropy's past, as well as some unease about their influence over institutions like public schools and those engaged in medical research. Yet there is no history of how Silicon Valley — which is much older than Apple or Facebook — cultivated its "disruptive" ideas about giving or how our society changed in such a way to allow them their influence. I'm hoping to address that oversight.

What Columbia resources or opportunities have been most valuable to you?
The GSAS Fellowships in Academic Administration gave me the opportunity to intern with Columbia Community Services, which has been a great way to learn new skills and give back to our neighborhood. I’m humbled by the work that our local nonprofit organizations accomplish, and it gives me a lot of satisfaction to help them, even in my small way.

Who are your favorite writers?
Aldo Leopold is one of my favorite writers. I own a dog-eared copy of A Sand County Almanac, which I used to read out in the wetlands of Humboldt County, California. Leopold writes beautiful sketches of nature and of how human beings ought to understand their relationship to the natural world. I've also become an enthusiastic reader of Thorstein Veblen, who is best known for coining the term "conspicuous consumption" 120 years ago. He was a relentless and original critic, demonstrating that what others took for granted as natural, such as consumerism or the free market, were the products of an often-violent history of imposition and power. Alongside the work of Karl Polanyi, Veblen has been one of the major influences on how I write history. Benjamin Soskis is one of my favorite writers in my field; he makes thoughtful connections between philanthropy's past and present. He's made the history of philanthropy relevant to the public and a wide number of scholars.

Who is your hero of fiction?
I debated choosing between Creed Bratton and Spock, but I’ve got to give my vote to the Vulcan. He was the courageous outsider who embodied the humanism I loved about Star Trek. And he could explode android brains with logic.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Attending Columbia is one of my greatest accomplishments. When I graduated high school, I knew little about higher education — that just wasn't a part of my world. I was entirely unfamiliar with college applications, AP tests, SAT prep, and so on. I figured I would learn construction or become an electrician. But I learned quickly that I was terrible at that — it’s a blessing that people were spared from living in a house I might have built. I instead attended a community college where I essentially started at a middle-school level. I took semesters of remedial courses, which required swallowing a lot of my pride. I did fairly well, went on to transfer to UC Berkeley with a Pell Grant, and graduated with highest honors, dean’s honors, and highest distinction. I’m still astounded that I’m at Columbia today. Some might look at my story as an affirmation of meritocracy, but I don’t look at it that way. I was lucky to have resources and people to help me. I’m hoping to be that source of support for other students in the future. 

Who are your heroes in real life?
My mom. She is one of the toughest and hardest-working people I know. I wouldn’t be where I am today without her support.

Who in your field do you consider to be a role model?
Elizabeth Blackmar, the Mary and David Boies Professor of American History, is my model of an academic advisor. She is a thoughtful, kind mentor who continues to help me — and many other students — learn to love history even as we confront its challenges.

If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what would it be?
Probably a redwood tree. Sitting on the coast soaking up the fog seems like a good way to live out a few hundred years.

What music have you been listening to lately?
Just about anything that will keep me up as I write. Lately, that’s new stuff by Blood Orange, BROCKHAMPTON, Chromatics, and a bunch of old favorites, especially Hall and Oates and the Talking Heads. I’ve also been listening to a lot of Toro y Moi, which reminds me of being back in the Bay Area.

What is your favorite blog or website?
HistPhil is a great blog for work on the history of philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.

Where is your favorite place to eat on or around campus?
I spend my evenings in Brownie's Cafe each week, both to meet my students and grab a sandwich. When I'm feeling like lightening my wallet, I go to Jin Ramen.

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 as he works on “Gender Bound: Regulating Femininity in Prisons for Men,” an examination of prison regulation of gender deviance between 1940 and 2018. Over the course of this year, Greene reveals the ups and downs of his dissertation-writing process. In his first diary entry, he described his topic and methodology and his secret trick for maintaining work/life balance: his dog, Milo. In this entry, Greene reflects on the transition from research to writing and working on his book proposal — and shares Milo’s latest milestone. 

Moving on from the research phase
Conducting dissertation research was one of the most powerful experiences of my life. Whether conducting oral history interviews with formerly incarcerated people and activists, or looking through archival materials, the research process meant continually being in suspense. What new thing am I going to learn today? How will this conversation or document complicate what I thought I knew? My fourth oral history interview was with a trans woman who was incarcerated in California men’s prisons from the early 1970’s through the 1980’s. Because she and other trans women organized, the California Department of Corrections began providing transgender prisoners with bras and hormones in 1976. She told me this story casually over tea as we sat in a San Francisco café, but it’s an incredible historic moment that has previously never been documented. It was an honor to listen to her story, and others’ stories, and a big responsibility to be entrusted with them. 

Now I’m in the writing stage, which can feel less concrete. With research, it was clear when I’d had a productive day’s work because I added something new to my collection of information. Because writing is so iterative, I might add something today, just to delete much of it tomorrow.  I’ve been taking comfort in the routine of writing (every morning, first thing), trusting that my ideas are developing and will continue to take form if I just work away at them.  

The relationship between research and writing
One surprising similarity between research and writing is in the depth of connection I feel with the people who shared stories with me. Materially, writing is a solitary venture. I need time by myself, or at least without interruption, in order to write. But I’m spending so much time really thinking about people’s words or experiences that I feel quite close with them. Last summer, I spoke with someone whom I’d interviewed in 2015, and I referenced something she’d said in her interview. She was touched and surprised that I remembered it, because in what other context would someone reference, verbatim, something you’d said three years prior? Of course, the context was different. I had recorded the conversation and spent hours and hours thinking about it. Our relationship was deepened because of all the time I’d spent thinking about her, in her absence. It really is a funny and particular kind of relationship to have! There is a field of queer historiography that thinks about the affective relationships that queer people have to figures of the past; the literature points out that researchers of queer history oftentimes desire connection to, or reflection in, our “subjects.” As I continue to write, I’m interested in thinking more about these relational dimensions of interview-based research.

The book proposal 
I am still writing my book proposal. It’s hard to write at this stage, because I have to think two steps ahead. I met with an editor who explained that a book proposal needs to explain how your book will differ from your dissertation. Sound advice, but, of course, I haven’t written the dissertation yet!  At this point, I’m thinking that I’ll save all my ethnographic research in trans prisoner advocacy organizations for the book. I have more than enough archival and interview data to write a dissertation, and this will free me up to develop those sections more fully without rushing through them to touch on all my data. I’m also imagining that the book will involve a pretty significant shift in style and tone, as I pivot from presenting my material to a specifically sociological audience towards the broader public I hope will read the book. This prefigurative type of writing is sort of like a grant application, in that you need to anticipate what you will produce and argue for its significance (while knowing that you won’t ultimately be held to every point). 

What Milo is up to 
This past week, Milo was spayed. Her veterinarian explained earnestly that for 14 days post-surgery she is not supposed to run or jump, because this can lead to complications. I’ve spent a lot of time sitting on the floor, dragging her chew toy in little circles around myself to entertain and exercise her in what I hope is a vet-approved manner. If anything, this time (in which neither she nor I are getting our three daily jaunts in the sun) have made me appreciate more than ever how important breaks and fresh air are for productivity and mental health.

DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED

Architecture
Merrett, Andrea. The professional is political: The women's movement in American architecture, 1971-1985. Sponsor: Mary McLeod.

Tsuneishi, Norihiko. Rice and coal: Worship of Inari shrines in Japan's commercial and industrial landscape, 1673-1864. Sponsor: Felicity Scott.

Biological Sciences
Bayer, Emily. Sexually dimorphic development of the c. elegans nervous system. Sponsor: Oliver Hobert.

Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Studies
Baker, Zachary. Understanding the evolution of recombination rate variation and PRDM9. Sponsor: Molly Przeworski.

Chemical Physics
Dunn, Ian. Quantum dynamics of interacting electrons and phonons: Applications and theoretical developments. Sponsor: David Reichman.

Chemistry
Hsu, Andrew. The critical assessment of protein dynamics using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Sponsors: Richard Friesner and Arthur Palmer.

Earth and Environmental Sciences
Eddy, Celia. Constraining the Earth's elastic structure with surface waves: Seismic anisotropy in the Pacific upper mantle and local amplification across the contiguous United States. Sponsor: Goran Ekstrom.

Pavia, Frank. Biogeochemical studies of the South Pacific Ocean using Thorium and Protactinium isotopes. Sponsor: Robert Anderson.

Epidemiology
Palma, Anton. Cardiovascular disease risk behaviors in human immunodeficiency virus-positive populations: Exploring a stress-coping hypothesis. Sponsor: Matthew Lamb.

Platt, Jonathan. Changes in gendered social position and the depression gap over time in the United States. Sponsor: Katherine Keyes.

Italian
Kiviat, Nicole. Home cooking: Negotiating food and Heimat in postwar Italian aesthetics. Sponsor: Elizabeth Leake.

Neurobiology and Behavior
Iascone, Daniel. Function of the human-specific gene paralog SRGAP2C in the evolution of human cortical connectivity and whole-cell synaptic organization. Sponsor: Franck Polleux.

Nutritional and Metabolic Biology
Garcia, Christian. Regulation of mitochondria complex I biogenesis in Drosophila flight muscles. Sponsor: Edward Owusu-Ansah.

TC / Measurement and Evaluation
Bai, Yu. Cognitive diagnostic models-based automatic item generation: Item feature exploration and calibration model selection. Sponsor: Young-Sun Lee.

DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED

Biomedical Engineering
Fallah, Elika. Nonlinearity and amplification in the cochlea.

Gong, Jing. Engineering a versatile lipoMSN delivery system for the development of gene and drug therapies.

Hu, Yizhong. Microstructure and biomechanics of the subchondral bone in the development of knee osteoarthritis.

Yu, Hang. Combining near-infrared excitation strategies with SCAPE (Swept, confocally-aligned planar excitation) microscopy for high-speed, volumetric imaging in biological tissues.

Economics
Gonçalves Dias da Silva, Duarte. Essays on belief formation and strategic uncertainty in games.

GSAS students regularly earn awards and fellowships, publish, and receive recognition for outstanding work. GSAS is proud to share their accomplishments. 

Emily Bayer, PhD Candidate in Biological Sciences, received the inaugural International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Studies in Molecular Life Sciences. Investigating neurons that occur in both the male and female nematode worm C. elegans, she showed that sex-specific differences in structure and function emerge through the pruning of synaptic connections, which can be disrupted by starvation and a resulting chain of molecular signals. Emily’s findings were reported in several distinguished journals – including Nature– and covered by The Washington Post. 

Adji Bousso Dieng, PhD Candidate in Statistics, has been awarded the Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning, and also has been named a Rising Star in Machine Learning by the University of Maryland Center for Machine Learning. Her doctoral work is about unsupervised learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence. Specifically, she designs algorithms for fitting deep generative models and combines probabilistic modeling and deep learning to embed structure into deep generative models. These types of models have many real-world applications with regard to natural language processing, vision, and in a range of sciences. 

Samyak Ghosh, PhD Candidate in Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, is the recipient of the American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship and the Kumkum Chatterjee Memorial Fellowship in Indian History, 2019-2020. Ghosh works on the practice of political culture in early modern northeast India. For his dissertation, he is studying a set of bureaucratic, literary, and legal texts written in Assamese, Sanskrit, and Bengali.  

Naeem Mohaiemen, who defended his dissertation in Anthropology last month, completed two films during his doctoral fieldwork on world socialism and postwar ennui. Tripoli Cancelled was recently reviewed in Humanities, and Two Meetings and a Funeral was reviewed in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. Mohaiemen's dissertation looked at the remnants of the Bangladesh communist party and how they navigated a lost moment of transnational solidarity across the Nonaligned Movement, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the Sino-Soviet axis. Mohaiemen worked as a visual artist for a decade before entering graduate school. His films earned him a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2018 Turner Prize nomination.

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Where did you grow up? 
Gulf Breeze, Florida, a small beach town along the Gulf Coast.

What drew you to your field? 
I was drawn to human rights studies after working with Tibetan refugees in Nepal and India, and with undocumented migrants in Central Florida and Barcelona, Spain. As an undergraduate student, I studied anthropology [and learned to apply the tools of the discipline to] advocacy and activism. I chose to study human rights at Columbia [through this framework because I want] to address systematic violations of immigrant and refugee rights in the United States.

How would you explain your current research to someone outside of your field? 
I am working with refugees and caseworkers at resettlement agencies in New York City to examine the impact of current American refugee resettlement policies. My goal is to assess points of weakness in American legislation in which refugee rights in resettlement are not protected.

What is your favorite thing about being a student at Columbia GSAS?
I met recently with my thesis advisor, Cristina-Ioana Dragomir, on the steps of Low Library. The sun was in its golden hour, and the steps glowed in the afternoon light. As we discussed my research project, she stopped to point out the wonder of existing in a space of so much intellectual thought and learning. That moment represents what I love about being a student in GSAS: It is a vibrant world of different minds and unique ideas, and I'm privileged to be a part of it. 

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
My greatest achievement has been placing myself in spaces with people I respect and admire. This is, I have learned, what most causes me to grow and have faith in life.

Who are your favorite writers?
I first picked up a Lois Lowry book when I was around 12, and I became completely absorbed in her created world, which caused me to think about my own reality. I was also recently in a phase of reading all of Paulo Coelho, whose writing both entrances and disturbs me. Finally, I adore Daniel Quinn and Robert Pirsig for their work challenging the status quo.

Who in your field do you consider to be a role model?
Jason de León ingeniously combines archaeology, anthropology, and activism. Truly, though, I have had the privilege of working with people who are my North Star in terms of who I want to become. These include [my professors at Rollins College] Rachel Newcomb and Nolan Kline, and Cristina-Ioana Dragomir. 

If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
I would love to be a tree. I am certainly romanticizing what it must be like, but I think that trees witness life in a slow, peaceful wayI imagine trees as wise. I'd just like to ensure that I am planted someplace mildly entertaining, but also safe from development and the paper industry. 

What music have you been listening to lately?
Jazz has been my go-to Spotify search, and cello music. I find that these are a good soundtrack for life regardless of where I am. I most recently have begun listening to Irish music as well, which makes me feel like dancing, and that’s perfect for the colder weather!

What is your favorite blog or website?
I have been spending an inordinate amount of time on the website for the Human Rights Graduate Group here at Columbia. We are working to build a space for discussing human rights issues and connecting as human rights researchers and thinkers, and we would love to include all interested GSAS students. 

Where is your favorite place to eat on or around campus?
The Hungarian Pastry Shop has my vote! You just can't beat the vibes, coffee, and pastries.