Housing Insecurity

• Columbia Residential Housing Accommodations and COVID-19 FAQ
• Columbia Residential Move-out Assistance Request Form

Food Insecurity

• Columbia Food Pantry
• NYC Department of Education (Grab & Go Meals)

Loss of Income

• Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act
• New York Times FAQ on Stimulus Checks, Unemployment and the Coronavirus Plan
• IRS Economic Impact Payments
• NYC Human Resources Administration (Programs that help families and individuals with economic and social service needs)
• Government (US and foreign) Stimulus Efforts

Childcare Resources

• Columbia Office of Work/Life (Child care information)
• Bright Horizons (Back-Up Care)
• Peace at Home Parenting (Free webinars and resources for parents)
• Educational resources (Offered by education companies for teachers and parents)

Miscellaneous

• Columbia Health testing and treatment
• Columbia Health medical services
• Aetna (waived copays and other changes due to COVID)
• Student health insurance plan
• CUIT technology and software access
• Department of State (Travel Guidance)
• Administration of Community Living (Website to help older adults and people with disabilities)
• Humane Society (COVID-19 FAQ for pet owners and animal lovers)

DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED

Art History and Archaeology
Carlson, Raymond. Michelangelo between Florence and Rome: Art and literary culture in sixteenth-century Italy. Sponsor: Michael Cole.

Foner, Daria. Collaborative endeavors in the career of Andrea del Sarto. Sponsor: Michael Cole.

Kremnitzer, Kathryn. Manet's watercolors: Transition and translation in the 1860s. Sponsor: Anne Higonnet.

Biological Sciences
Lovas, Jonathan. Hierarchical modularity in the reassembly of Hydra's nervous system. Sponsor: Rafael Yuste.

Biomedical Informatics
Feller, Daniel. Using computational methods to support the clinical management of chronic disease populations. Sponsors: Noemie Elhadad and Olena Mamykina.

Levy-Fix, Gal. Patient record summarization through join phenotype learning and interactive visualization. Sponsor: Noemie Elhadad.

Business
Liu, Shi. Harm in harmony: A socioecological perspective on east Asian collectivism. Sponsor: Michael Morris.

Oh, Tae Seokk. The psychology of fun: A liberating engagement theory of consumer fun. Sponsor: Michel Pham.

Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Studies
Levitin, Hanna. Biological inference from single cell transcriptomics. Sponsor: Peter Sims.

Chemical Engineering
Tsui, William. Simulating aqueous secondary organic aerosol formation and cloudwater chemistry in gas-aerosol model for mechanism analysis. Sponsor: Vivian McNeill.

Chemical Physics
Schlaus, Andrew. Dynamics of light-matter coupling in lead halide pervoskites. Sponsor: Xiaoyang Zhu.

Classics
Rudoni, Elia. Speech disorders. The speaking subject and language in Neronian court literature. Sponsor: Gareth Williams.

Communications
Nechushtai, Efrat. Building trust in the news: U.S. and German journalists respond to political polarization. Sponsor: Michael Schudson.

Computer Science
Hidey, Christopher. Content selection for effective counter-argument generation. Sponsor: Kathleen McKeown.

Xu, Ji. Global analysis for non-convex optimization problems: A geometric approach to dynamical systems. Sponsor: Daniel Hsu.

Earth and Environmental Engineering
Parlia, Sean. Ion pair conductivity theory and its application for predicting conductivity in non-polar systems. Sponsor: Ponisseril Somasundaran.

Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ridge, Sean. Effects of ocean circulation on ocean anthropogenic carbon uptake. Sponsor: Galen McKinley.

Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Heilpern, Sebastian. Integrating food webs and food security: Freshwater biodiversity loss and fisheries contribution to human nutrition. Sponsor: Shahid Naeem.

Economics
Alfaro Serrano, David. Essays on firms in developing countries. Sponsors: Jonas Hjort and Eric Verhoogen.

Cheng, Yi. Essays in applied microeconomics. Sponsor: Douglas Almond.

Chi, Chun-Che. Essays on macroeconomics. Sponsor: Andres Drenik.

Feng, Junlong. Essays in econometrics. Sponsors: Jushan Bai and Simon Lee.

Friedman, Evan. Stochasticity in games: Theory and experiment. Sponsor: Alessandra Casella.

Li, Mai. Essays in international finance. Sponsors: Jesse Schreger and Martin Uribe.

Moncasi-Gutierrez, Xavier. Essays on health economics. Sponsor: Douglas Almond.

Oh, Suanna. Essays in behavioral development economics. Sponsors: Jonas Hjort and Eric Verhoogen.

Shin, Wonmun. Essays on housing and macroeconomics. Sponsor: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé.

Electrical Engineering
Psychas, Konstantinos. Scalable scheduling policies with performance guarantees for cloud applications. Sponsor: Javad Ghaderi Dehkordi.

English and Comparative Literature
Pawel, Rebecca. "Native, Yet Foreign": Spain in the African American imagination. Sponsors: Brent Edwards and Farah Griffin.

Epidemiology
Teran, Richard. Examining HIV viral load and longitudinal assessments of viral suppression of individuals living with HIV in Washington, District of Columbia. Sponsor: Mary Chiasson.

Genetics and Development
Pantalia, Meghan. The role of circadian-regulated genes in Drosophila behavior. Sponsor: Michele Shirasu-Hiza.

History
Koeth, Stephen. The suburban church: Catholic parishes and politics in metropolitan New York, 1945-1985. Sponsor: Ira Katznelson.

Serby, Benjamin. Gay liberation and the politics of the self in postwar America. Sponsor: Casey Blake.

Mathematics
Danilenko, Ivan. Quantum cohomology of slices of the Affine Grassmannian. Sponsor: Andrei Okounkov.

Hayward, Laura. Polygenic adaptation after a sudden change in the environment. Sponsors: Ioannis Karatzas and Guy Sella.

Li, Zhi. Arbitrage theory under portfolio constraints. Sponsor: Ioannis Karatzas.

Mechanical Engineering
Zimmerman, Brandon. Experimental, theoretical, and computational models of mechanically-mediated fatigue failure in articular cartilage. Sponsor: Gerard Ateshian.

Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Ansari, Mohammad Sadegh. Pythagoras in Baghdad: Safi al-Din al-Urmawi and the science of music in the medieval Islamic world. Sponsor: George Saliba.

Music
Glasenapp, Brian. To pray without ceasing: A diachronic history of Cistercian chant in the Beaupré antiphoner (Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W. 759-762). Sponsor: Susan Boynton.

Political Science
Bhandari, Abhit. Political property rights: Essays on economic opportunity under selective rule of law. Sponsor: Macartan Humphreys.

Rivera-Burgos, Viviana. Essays in minority politics and representation in the U.S. Sponsor: Robert Shapiro.

York, Erin. Democratic institutions under autocracy. Sponsor: Daniel Corstange.

Social Work
Doran, Elizabeth. Childcare (in)stability and household (in)stability among low-income families. Sponsor: Jane Waldfogel.

Kimberly, Laura. Older adult kidney transplant recipients: The lived experience of adaptation and integration. Sponsor: Ellen Lukens.

Statistics
Dieng, Adji Bousso. Deep probabilistic graphical modeling. Sponsor: David Blei.

Huang, Sihan. Two contributions to community detection in social network. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying.

TC / Applied Behavior Analysis
Abdool-Ghany, Faheema. Degrees of bidirectional naming are related to derived listener and speaker responses. Sponsor: Daniel Fienup.

TC / Behavioral Disorders
Leaman, Marion. Test-retest reliability of micro and macro linguistic measures in people with Aphasia and healthy adults during conversation and narrative discourse. Sponsor: Lisa Edmonds.

TC / Cognitive Science in Education
Al Alamy, Lujain. The effect of cognitive and personality traits on decision behavior in the sampling paradigm. Sponsor: James Corter.

TC / Comparative and International Education
Baek, Chanwoong. Knowledge utilization in education policy making in the United States, South Korea, and Norway: A bibliometric network analysis of actors, contents, and processes. Sponsor: Gita Steiner-Khamsi.

Caumont Stipanicic, Lucia. The myriad meanings of inclusion: Teachers' path to inclusive education for migrant students in Uruguay's early childhood and primary education public. Sponsor: Regina Cortina.

TC / Counseling Psychology
Cox, Robert. Unique and collective impact of interpersonal and structural stigma: Minority stress mediation framework with Latinxs. Sponsor: Brandon Velez.

TC / Economics and Education
Bennett Colomer, Magdalena. Three essays on causal inference for observational studies. Sponsor: Peter Bergman.

TC / English Education
Nagrotsky, Kathryn. Exploring teacher resistance to scripted writing curricula in a new graduate school of education. Sponsor: Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz.

Paolucci, Lisa. From narrated "pathways" to pastiche: Complexities in interpreting and representing conversations with Italian American teachers. Sponsor: Janet Miller.

Rejan, Andrew. Re-opening close reading: Literature education and literary experience. Sponsor: Sheridan Blau.

TC / Physical Disabilities
Nicolarakis, Onudeah. An examination of the writing strategies used by deaf and hearing adults: Similarities and differences in cognitive, linguistic and conventional components. Sponsor: Ye Wang.

Rosenzweig, Elizabeth. Adverse childhood experiences, parental self-efficacy, and language outcomes for children with hearing loss. Sponsor: Ye Wang.

TC / Politics and Education
Lyon, Melissa. Bounded unions: How restrictive labor policies affect teachers, students, and progressive politics. Sponsor: Jeffrey Henig.

TC / Science Education
Heydari, Roya. The impact of informal science education on students' science identity and understanding of science inquiry. Sponsor: Felicia Moore Mensah.

Lee, Min Jung. Chemistry teachers' pedagogical content: Knowledge and belief on integrating proportional reasoning in teaching stoichiometry. Sponsor: O. Roger Anderson.

TC / Sociology and Education
Daruwala, Iris. Cross-sector collaboration in education: Comparative case studies of organizational death and persistence. Sponsor: Carolyn Riehl.

DISSERATION PROPOSALS FILED

Classics
Van Geel, Lien. Augustus' sister: Octavia Minor's lives and afterlives.

Earth and Environmental Sciences
Martinez, Carlos. Seasonal climatology, variability, and predictability of rainfall in the Caribbean.

Towbin, William. Volcanic transport of Peridotite Xenoliths to the surface: A story of hydration, dehydration and melting.

Economics
Aridor, Guy. Essays on the digital economy.

Husted, Lucas. Essays in public finance and labor.

Iyer, Vinayak. Essays in IO and urban economics.

Liu, Ou. Three essays on inequality and the financial market.

Mai, Tam. Essays in labor economics and education economics.

Shi, Mengdi. Essays in public and health economics.

Zhu, Yining. Essays on environmental pollution.

Political Science
Jaiteh, Salif. Memo: The puzzle of collective remittances.

Dear PhD Students on 9-Month Appointments,

From the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, we have been aware that our students on nine-month appointments may face unusual challenges in obtaining employment and other support in the coming summer months. To address the needs of that PhD student population, the University has made the following announcement today:

Along with generous donor support, we are directing University resources to support a fund for PhD summer 2020 stipend enhancements of up to $3,000 per student depending on certain factors, such as whether students have opportunities at the University for summer employment. This will be made available to over 1,000 doctoral students whose schools typically appoint them on a nine-month basis. These funds are available to assist with a range of challenges and contingencies that our students are facing during the COVID-19 emergency.

$1,500 will be distributed to all eligible students before June 1st; no application is required. Students may apply for a second disbursement of $1,500 if they do not have summer employment at the University. Application instructions will be forthcoming from the schools. The second disbursement will be paid by the end of July.

Dear GSAS Students:

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and the Arts and Science Graduate Council (ASGC) have partnered to create the GSAS Community COVID-19 Emergency Fund for registered master’s and doctoral students in Arts and Sciences programs who have urgent and time-sensitive COVID-19-related financial emergencies that cannot be addressed by any other source.

We are grateful for the generous contributions received from GSAS alumni and from academic programs and departments in the Arts and Sciences. This collective effort to support students who are experiencing substantial and unanticipated challenges is a testament to our capacity for compassion and solidarity. We are proud of our ability to rise together as a community in these difficult times.

As of today, April 16, the fund has raised more than $80K. Although we are proud of what we have been able to contribute and raise thus far, we know that this amount is not sufficient for our many students in need. We continue to explore ways in which to address the more systemic needs of larger numbers of the Arts and Sciences graduate population.

For detailed information about the fund, including eligibility and instructions to apply, please visit the GSAS Community COVID-19 Emergency Fund website. The page includes a variety of other financial resources for which students might qualify. We urge you to consider all such possibilities at this time.

Sincerely,

ASGC Executive Board

Carlos J. Alonso, Dean
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

The OADI Student Delegation comprises GSAS students who are interested in supporting efforts to enhance academic diversity, inclusion, and equity within the Graduate School and across its many departments. Below are the delegates for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman

Anayvelyse received her BA in Comparative Literature at Barnard College, and is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Her dissertation explores late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century cultural production in Argentina and in the Southern Cone more broadly. She examines photographic records and textual accounts of state building, with a focus on labor and race in the context of industrialization. She has won numerous grants and fellowships for her academic work, including a Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Fellowship and an Institute for Latin American Studies Pre-Dissertation Research Grant. Anayvelyse was born and raised in New York. In addition to her research and teaching work, she is a freelance writer and translator.

Darold Cuba

Oral History master’s candidate Darold is the University Senator for the Social Sciences and leads the taskforce to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the University Senate, which resulted from the 1968 protests. He also serves on the Arts and Sciences Graduate Council, and as the Ivy League’s first Wikimedian-In-Residence, Wikipedia Fellow, and Visiting Scholar. His research, #MappingFreedom, centers on the "international phenomenon of freedom colonies": the palenques, macombos, quilombos, maroons, and other "freedmen settlements" founded by those resisting colonialism.

He co-founded Disrupt Wikipedia with the Columbia and Barnard libraries to “disrupt, dismantle and eliminate the settler colonial bias causing the digital and tech colonialism on the world's largest site for knowledge” and is incubating the WikiHBCU/DIO initiative to establish a “wiki presence” at every “historically ‘black’ college, university, department, institution and organization on the planet” at the Washington National Cathedral, where he also serves as the inaugural Oral History Fellow. Additionally, Darold is an entrepreneur and journalist, incubating the social initiative #HackingRacism through the Columbia Business School’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship program and founding the International Association of Freedom Colonies (iAFC). He is an alumnus of The New York Times, Vice Media, TriBeCa Enterprises, and Fox Home Entertainment.

Next year, Darold will study public administration at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was recently named a Center for Public Leadership Fellow.

Es-pranza Humphrey

Es-pranza is a master’s student in the American Studies program in the Center for Ethnicity and Race. Her research focuses on the history of fashion/costume of Black female performers as a form of activism during the interwar period.

When she began her studies at Columbia in 2017, she knew that the graduate student experience would differ from her undergraduate experience in terms of representation. Therefore, after a meeting about the campus climate in regards to race, class, and gender, she was inspired to join the OADI Student Delegation in order to assist with the representation of Black women on campus. She also appreciates this opportunity to guide prospective students to the most appropriate resources to make their experience in GSAS welcoming and inclusive.

Dyala Kasim

Dyala is a master’s student in the American Studies program at Columbia University's Center for Ethnicity and Race (CSER). She received her bachelor’s degree in English, Communication, and Writing and Rhetoric from Villanova University. At Columbia, Dyala is studying the intersection of ethnicity, race, and gender in multicultural American literature. She is focusing specifically on space and social theory within contemporary Middle Eastern-American literature, examining how individuals utilize literature as a way to transgress boundaries.

At Columbia, Dyala is a part of the Office of Academic Diversity and Inclusion's Diversity Research Collective. Here, she is examining the phenomenon of white passing among Middle Eastern immigrants within the Arab-American community. She is also a Saturday Academy Educator at the Museum of the City of New York. There, Dyala teaches a course entitled “Checking the Box: Immigration, Identity, and the Census in New York,” which examines the United States Census, personal identity, and multiple racial/ethnic patterns of immigration to the city.

Dyala is grateful to OADI's Student Delegation for providing her with this opportunity because multiculturalism and education have always been extremely important in her own life. She is excited to continue to participate in OADI’s events and information sessions for current and prospective Columbia students, as well as the community of greater New York City.

Samuel Kim

Samuel is an MA candidate in Regional Studies–East Asia at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, focusing on US grand strategy, the US-ROK military alliance, and inter-Korean relations.

Outside the classroom, Samuel is a cadet in the US Air Force ROTC program at Manhattan College-Detachment 560 and will serve as an intelligence officer upon graduation.

Spencer Moy

Spencer is a double-degree master's student in International and World History, hailing from Chicago. Her research explores the historical trade of embroidered textiles between Austria and Nigeria beginning in 1960. She traces the form of decolonization as articulated through the political languages of fashion and dress, contributing to larger historiographical debates in the global history of capitalism, the global history of commodity culture, material culture, and African-European trade history. She is interested in decolonization in global fashion systems, and understanding how increased historical context could improve diversity and inclusion efforts in the fashion and beauty industries, both socially and economically.

Spencer graduated with general and departmental honors from the University of Chicago in 2017. She spent two years working in Austria as a Fulbright Austria Fellow.

Lucas Ramos

Lucas is a Modern Europe PhD student in the History Department, with research interests in Italian fascism, racial codes, neo-fascism, LGBTQIA+ social movements, and “gender ideology.” Originally from South Florida, Lucas received his AB in History from Princeton University, where he studied Creole separatist literature in Puerto Rico, urban city planning in Rome, and fascist propaganda in Milan. He works for the Sexual Violence Response Center as a graduate assistant, the Research Collective for Public Scholarship as a member, and the Columbia Research Initiative on Global Sexualities as a graduate affiliate. He is a Mellon Mays Fellowship Program alumnus, Provost's Diversity Fellow, and a Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellow who wants to make intellectual and social history accessible and meaningful to the public, to intersectionalize and decenter European studies, and to create a meaningful and empathetic community of diverse individuals in and out of the academy.

Brendane Arrica Tynes

Brendane is a first-generation college graduate from Columbia, South Carolina. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Duke University, where her honors thesis focused on the intersections of political activism and gender-based violence in the Black student community. After graduating, she taught high school science in Charlotte, North Carolina, while working as a Student Engagement Organizer at Know Your IX, a nonprofit dedicated to ending sexual violence.

Now Brendane, a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, studies the affective responses of Black women and girls to multiple forms of violence within the Movement for Black Lives. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Black feminist cultural studies, trauma and affect studies, and anthropology. In her spare time, she dances and writes poetry. After completing her PhD, Brendane plans to become a professor and to lead community-based programs for low-income girls and non-binary youth of color who are survivors of gender-based violence.

Dear GSAS PhD Students,

You should have received already notice of the initiative to augment support for summer 2020 (below). I write with additional information to clarify what this means for Arts and Sciences PhD students.

1. The potential $3,000 supplement encompasses all PhD students in years 1-7 who are normally appointed on a 9-month basis (as compared to a 12-month basis, common in certain lab sciences). Such students will receive the supplement, regardless of whether they are currently on appointment, on an external fellowship, on a GSAS fellowship, or on no fellowship at all (self-funded or department-funded).

   
   In the Arts and Sciences, the following departments appoint students on a 9-month basis:

   HUMANITIES
   Art History and Archaeology
   Classical Studies
   Classics
   East Asian Languages and Cultures
   English and Comparative Literature
   French and Romance Philology
   Germanic Languages
   Italian
   Latin American and Iberian Cultures
   Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
   Music
   Music DMA
   Philosophy
   Religion
   Theatre
   Slavic Languages

   SOCIAL SCIENCES
   Anthropology
   African-American and African Diaspora Studies
   Economics
   History
   Political Science
   Sociology

   NATURAL SCIENCES
   Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
   Mathematics
   Statistics
    

2. The first $1,500 will be disbursed to all such students in years 1-7 without the need for an application; the funds will be distributed before June 1, 2020. You must have direct deposit to receive these funds.  
    
3. The second $1,500 will be disbursed to all such students in years 1-7 if they have not been able to secure work within the university for the summer of 2020 (in the SPS summer sessions, other campus employment, or a fellowship requiring service). This additional $1500 will pertain to the majority of our 9-month students, considering that summer teaching and other employment opportunities —however welcome and numerous— are limited.  

These additional summer funds are given in addition to whatever GSAS summer stipend you normally receive. GSAS summer stipends were disbursed last week, a month earlier than in normal years.
 
We hope that this infusion of summer funding will go a long way toward addressing your most pressing needs during the summer months. GSAS will continue meanwhile to partner with students, faculty, and administrators to address the consequences of the global public health crisis in which we are immersed at present.

Be well; stay well.

Carlos J Alonso, Dean
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED

Art History and Archaeology
Kang, Changduk. Before the reality effect: Wax representations in eighteenth-century France. Sponsor: Anne Higonnet.

Niedbala, Steven. Techniques of carceral reproduction: Architecture and the prison system in the United States, 1799-1978. Sponsor: Barry Bergdoll.

Biological Sciences
Chan, Jessica. The role of Epsin-mediated Endocytosis in Caenorhabditis elegans Notch ligand function. Sponsor: Iva Greenwald.

Xu, Lu. Volumetric calcium imaging reveals extensive modulation in peripheral olfaction coding. Sponsor: Stuart Firestein.

Communications
O'Neill, Therese. If time permits: The politics and aesthetics of the popular creative writing manual. Sponsor: Todd Gitlin.

East Asian Languages and Cultures
Peacock, Christopher. Intersecting nations, diverging discourses: The fraught encounter of Chinese and Tibetan literatures in the modern era. Sponsor: Lydia Liu.

Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Bytnerowicz, Thomas. Exploring the mechanisms that control the success of symbiotic nitrogen fixers across latitude: Temperature, time lags, and founder effects. Sponsor: Duncan Menge.

Economics
Yu, Yue. Essays in urban economics. Sponsors: Donald Davis and David Weinstein.

Electrical Engineering
Jiang, Zhewei. Algorithm and hardware co-design for local/edge computing. Sponsor: Mingoo Seok.

Kurt, Mehmet Necip. Data-driven quickest change detection. Sponsor: Xiaodong Wang.

French and Romance Philology
Abele, Celia. Collecting knowledge, writing the world: An enlightenment project. Sponsor: Joanna Stalnaker.

Germanic Languages
Holt, Alexander. Cold War crossings: Border poetics in postwar German and Polish literature. Sponsor: Oliver Simons.

History
Nofil, Brianna. Detention power: Jails, camps, and the origins of immigrant incarceration. Sponsor: Mae Ngai.

Italian
Cooper-Ramsey, Savannah. Dante Tenzonante. Sponsor: Teodolinda Barolini.

Mathematics
Kim, Donghan. Topics in stochastic portfolio theory: Pathwise generation of trading strategies, and portfolio theory in open markets. Sponsor: Ioannis Karatzas.

Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Sariahmed, Nadia. The battles of Algiers: Popular politics of the anticolonial struggle. Sponsor: Mahmood Mamdani.

Music
Forner, Jane. Distant pasts reimagined: Encountering the political present in 21st-century opera. Sponsor: George Lewis.

Philosophy
Brown, Simon. Animal minds in time. Sponsor: Christopher Peacocke.

Sociology
Sall, Dialika. (Re) Defining Blackness: Race, ethnicity and the children of African immigrants. Sponsors: Shamus Khan and Van Tran.

TC / Applied Behavior Analysis
Verdun, Victoria. Applied behavior analysis in HBSE. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer.

TC / Cognitive Science in Education
Wu, Renqiuwen. The efficacy of a math application mathemAntics on preschoolers' math performance. Sponsor: Herbert Ginsburg.

TC / English Education
Conway, Jessica. Reading and literacy in the Chthulucene. Sponsor: Ruth Vinz.

TC / Philosophy and Education
De Rez Rocha, Tomas. Egalitarian reverence: Towards a cosmopolitan contemplative education. Sponsor: David Hansen.

TC / School Psychology
Dewey, Angela. An evaluation of interspersing the testing effect during lecture on test performance and notes in high schoolers. Sponsor: Stephen Peverly.

TC / Science Education
Biswas, Samir. Exploration of differences in the beliefs and attitudes of biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics teachers on multiculturalism in secondary science classrooms. Sponsor: Felicia Moore Mensah.

TC / Social-Organizational Psychology
Elmore, Joshua. Impact of gendered topics in letters of recommendation on perceived importance for making a hiring decision in the geosciences. Sponsor: Caryn Block.

DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED

Applied Physics
Karp, Jonathan. Theoretical studies of unconventional superconductivity in materials with strong electronic correlations.

Biomedical Engineering
Huang, Dantong. Engineering patient-specific liver microtissues with prolonged phenotypic maintenance and disease modeling potential.

Computer Science
Arroyo, Miguel. Bespoke cyber-physical system security.

Tran, Dustin. Probabilistic programming for deep learning.

Earth and Environmental Sciences
Miller, Una. Investigation of high salinity shelf water in the Terra Nova Bay Polynya, Ross Sea, Antarctica.

East Asian Languages and Cultures
Kim, Christopher. Integrating the State in early China: Institutional change and the political economy of Qi, 1040-221 BCE.

Economics
Acosta, Jose. Topics in macroeconomics and communication.

Avilova, Tatyana. Essays in economics of health and education.

Guillouet, Louise. The welfare effects of new goods and new firms.

Mateen, Haaris. Ambiguity and model misspecification in incomplete contracts.

Saia, Joseph. Evaluating monetary shocks and their effects through corporate stock reactions.

Shahanaghi, Sara. Strategic behavior among news media: Dynamics.

Xu, Xiao. Essays on household finance and asset pricing.

Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Garzón Mantilla, Juan Carlos. Historical cosmography in Spanish Peru (1550-1650): Entangled chronotectures and connected worldscapes from the New World.

Political Science
Barham, Elena. Local governance organizations and state capacity.

Choi, Yujin. Liberalism from the margins: The authenticity problem of non-western liberal practices.

Dorjee, Tenzin. Buddhism, nationalism, and violence: How religion shapes ethnic conflict in Myanmar, Tibet, and Bhutan.

Panter, Jonathan. Independent steaming: Naval organizational cultures and sea control.

Wood, Colleen. The causes and consequences of internationalizing education in central Asia.

Yao, Linan. Digital authoritarianism: How does China use information technology to respond to citizens and foster legitimacy.

Where did you grow up? 
Philadelphia, PA.

What drew you to your field? 
In 2013-2014, I had an undergraduate internship at the Council of Economic Advisers, and was assigned to work with the health economist monitoring the first year of the Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges. After that, I knew I wanted to do a PhD in economics, and I've been working on health care ever since.

How would you explain your current research to someone outside of your field? 
I am interested in physician decision-making. It's easy to forget that medical doctors are also people, and that means they respond to incentives—just not always in the ways we think they will. My current research tries to highlight how physicians deviate in clinically meaningful ways from what we might expect, and asks what the consequences of those deviations are for patients.

Is there a common misconception about a topic in your field that you wish you could correct?
There are far too many in health economics, but a topical one that I hear frequently in political discussions about public health insurance expansions is that they pay for themselves. The argument goes that the cost-savings from reducing emergency care due to more preventive care offset the insurance costs. This is untrue; people who have insurance tend to seek more care, not less, so overall spending is likelier to rise—which is still a good thing for their health.

Who are your favorite writers?
This changes a lot over time, but in recent years, my favorite novelist has been Donna Tartt.

Who in your field do you consider to be a role model?
Jon Gruber (of MIT) is both a pioneer of academic health economics and an active participant in the policy world. I've always thought he struck a great balance between the two.

What music have you been listening to lately?
I've been listening to a lot of indie rock. Queen of Jeans (from Philly) are a recent favorite.

What is your favorite blog or website?
I spend a lot of time on Kaiser Health News. Stories of patient experiences are usually a great source of research ideas.

Where is your favorite place to eat on/around campus?
By far, Xi'an Famous Foods (at Broadway and 102nd Street). I love their noodle soups.

Finding a career path requires time and effort. GSAS Compass is here to assist you with that process. Below, find a collection of resources to help you self-assess, research, and explore possible career paths; develop your job search materials; network and connect to the GSAS community, alumni, and potential employers; and gain experience.

Also, see here for resources and tips on searching for a job during the COVID-19 pandemic.

GSAS Compass understands that many students feel uncertain about their job search during this period of economic uncertainty. Below are tips to help you in your job search:

1. Continue to search for and apply to jobs. It is tempting to wait to start your job search until the pandemic is over, but some employers are still hiring, especially in industries such as health care and technology. In addition, submitting a job application is one form of networking. Applying for a job now, even if hiring has stalled, puts you on an organization’s radar for potential opportunities in the future. Do keep in mind that the typical hiring process has slowed and lengthened, meaning it may take five months or more to find a position. Try not to be discouraged, and continue applying.

2. Searching for a job during economic uncertainty is difficult. Be prepared to send out many applications. Also, it is more important than ever to be flexible and start thinking about what you will do if “Plan A” (e.g., getting a job in NYC) does not work out. Consider “Plan B” and “Plan C” (e.g., relocating for a job).

3. When sending applications or requests for informational interviews, make sure the tone of your email is appropriate to the time. For example:

Dear XX,

I hope that this email finds you and your team safe during this challenging time. I understand that hiring at the company may be on hold, but I wanted to express my interest in working with [name of company] as a summer intern. I am a master’s student in statistics at Columbia University…

Also refer to Vault’s Handy Guide to Email Etiquette.

4. Networking is always important, but marshaling your network during this time is crucial. Since each company has its own approach to hiring, try to find contacts at companies that interest you and request an informational interview. LinkedIn or the Online Alumni Community can aid you in your search. Also, networking is all about the long game. Connections you make and deepen now have the potential to lead to opportunities in the months and years ahead.

5. Focus on areas of career development you can accomplish now. This is a great opportunity to reflect and open your mind to a diverse range of career paths, research and explore industries and organizations, improve your LinkedIn profile, update your résumé/CV, expand your network and conduct informational interviews, and find ways to volunteer your time. Continuing to keep your career exploration active will pay off in the long-term and give you a sense of accomplishment.

6. Recognize that you are not alone, and consult these helpful COVID-19-specific resources:

• Career Planning in a Pandemic
• For Would-Be Academics, Now Is the Time to Get Serious About Plan B
• COVID-19: The Industry Impact of Coronavirus: industry impact reports
• Finding a Job During Challenging Economic Times: Learn strategies for finding a job during challenging economic times from LinkedIn Learning. Discover how to cultivate resilience, explore career options, update your résumé, network virtually, and improve your job search and interview skills.

Dear PhD Students in the Arts and Sciences,

These are times of real sacrifice and suffering. Many among us—in our own families, our community, our city—have lost jobs and livelihoods, have become sick, have died. There is no way to make up for this unimaginable personal and communal loss. And the global economic recession ensured by COVID-19 will continue to affect all we know and do. 

Columbia, too, will weather significant logistical and economic challenges in the coming months. Hiring and salary freezes now affect several thousand members of Columbia's faculty and staff; the vulnerable among us wonder, when the city and campus open up, whether they will be able to rejoin the community safely.

GSAS, the departments, and the University have been working tirelessly to find ways to support students with immediate financial need. We now take up the task of identifying sources for funds for the medium term, to ensure that students whose research was interrupted can retake the thread of their work. That effort is in progress; the scale of the need requires creative thinking from all parts of Arts and Sciences—including departments, GSAS, and the EVP’s office—and conversations with the central university about how we might manage the challenges entailed. As you can imagine, coordinating meaningful and far-reaching initiatives such as these takes time and careful planning.

We are happy to list here the results of our most recent efforts and collaborations:

1. Reaffirmed Commitment to Stipend Increase: Even as salaries are frozen for all faculty and staff, PhD students will receive the 3% increase to their 2020-21 stipend that was announced in January. 

2. Over 200 Columbia Summer Session Employment Opportunities: In addition to the summer classes normally taught by graduate students, GSAS has collaborated with the School of Professional Studies and Arts and Sciences faculty to increase the number of TA opportunities in faculty-taught courses. We are grateful to SPS that through these initiatives they have added nearly 100 new tutoring positions for our doctoral students. The total number of opportunities will now exceed 200, with stipends ranging from $3000 (to be a TA or tutor) to $6000-$8000 (to be an instructor of record). 

Job descriptions and applications can be found through the links below:

Summer Teaching Assistants 
Summer Tutors 

3. Enhanced Departmental Summer Research Employment: Through a joint effort by individual faculty and departments, a range of new research assistantships will be made available to allow graduate students to earn meaningful levels of additional income this summer while also providing substantive opportunities for professional development.

4. No Rent Increase in Columbia Residential Housing: Rent for graduate students continuing in Columbia Housing will remain at current levels for the next academic year.

5. Housing Extensions for Graduating Students and Rising 8th-Year PhD Students: As of May 5, Columbia Residential is now permitting graduating students and rising 8th-year PhD students to extend their Columbia Residential leases until August 15, 2020.

6. Ongoing GSAS/ASGC Community COVID-19 Emergency Fund: A group effort among student leadership, alumni, academic departments, and GSAS that has raised over $100,000 so far to support students with urgent and time-sensitive COVID-19-related financial emergencies that cannot be addressed by any other source. The application for round 2 of the Emergency Fund is now live. Deadline: May 11, 2020. 

7. Enhanced Summer Funding for PhD Students on 9-month appointments: The $3000 grant augments the $3884 stipends of those in years 1-5, and gives stipends to those in years 6 and 7 who normally do not receive additional summer funding. The first $1500 will be disbursed by June 1 (via direct deposit); the next $1500 will be disbursed by the end of July 1 to those who have not secured campus employment that exceeds $1500 for the summer. Students who defend before May 31 (the official end of the spring semester) will be eligible for the first disbursement of $1500. Only continuing students will be eligible for the second disbursement.

8. Early Disbursement of Summer Stipends: GSAS issued all summer stipends a month earlier than usual.

We continue to look for options to provide support to doctoral students who saw their research interrupted or derailed. We ask for your patience, and will communicate with you about any developments along those lines.

Be well; stay well.

Carlos J. Alonso, Dean
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Dear Master’s Students in the Arts and Sciences,

I hope this finds you well and safe during these difficult times. We all are suffering in our own ways during these months of social isolation in our beloved, besieged city. But I trust that with the advances of science, wise public health policy, and time, we as individuals and as a school will weather successfully these significant challenges.

While I look forward to brighter days, I did want to note that we have heard from our Master’s community — students and MA Program Directors — about a variety of concerns with Columbia housing, the need for emergency funds, consequences of interrupted thesis research, the need for career and professional services. We have taken up the task of creating resources and opportunities for both our continuing and graduating Master’s students, and to that end, make the following announcements and updates.
 
ACADEMIC RESOURCES FOR CONTINUING MA STUDENTS

Summer Language Coursework: GSAS will offer continuing Master’s students who are working on their theses the opportunity to take language courses relevant to their research in the SPS 2020 summer session. Like PhD students, MA students would be limited to 8 credits total, and their approval would depend upon their MA Program Director confirming the relevance of the language to advancing the thesis research.

Library Support for Access to Materials: If there are library materials you can’t access remotely, and you would like a librarian to help, write to lio [at] columbia.edu, and Columbia Libraries will get in touch with you about your research needs.

CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI EVENTS

2020 Graduates Virtual Alumni Networking: The GSAS Alumni Association is planning events for 2020 graduates. The first in the series will be held the evening of Thursday, May 28. Register here for more information. New virtual networking events will appear on the 2020 Graduates page as soon as available.

Job-Search Strategies During COVID-19: Take steps to jumpstart your job search. Join GSAS Compass – the new Graduate School career development unit – for a weekly workshop series in June for MA students and 2020 graduates that will help you move your job search forward during the pandemic, with a focus on what you can do this summer. Topics: improving job application materials, boosting your online presence, virtual networking and informational interviewing, negotiating job offers, and finding ways to continue to build your résumé during lockdown. June dates and times will be announced soon.

EMERGENCY FUNDS

GSAS/ASGC Community COVID-19 Emergency Fund: This group effort has raised over $100,000 so far to support students with urgent and time-sensitive COVID-19-related financial emergencies. More than 130 MA students will have received emergency funding by the conclusion of Round 2, now under consideration. We persevere with raising funds for this initiative so that we may continue to help our students.

HOUSING UPDATES

No Rent Increase in Columbia Residential Housing: Rent for Master’s students continuing in Columbia Housing will remain at current levels for the next academic year.
 
Housing Extensions for Graduating Students: As of May 5, Columbia Residential is now permitting graduating students to extend their Columbia Residential leases until August 15, 2020.

We will identify resources and create opportunities for our continuing and graduating MA students. We ask for your patience, and will communicate with you as we make advances on your behalf.

Be well; stay well.

Carlos J. Alonso, Dean
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Graduates of 2020, this is your page. Please bookmark it and check it periodically.

The ceremony will open on Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. EST.

The ceremony will open on Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. EST.

PhD candidate Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman (‘18MPhil, Latin American and Iberian Cultures)

The Dr. Devon T. Wade Mentorship, Service, and Advocacy Award recognizes a master’s or doctoral student whose work reflects the late Dr. Wade’s exceptional commitment to scholarship, teaching and mentorship, and service.

The committee selected Anayvelese Allen-Mossman as this year’s recipient because of her demonstrated and consistent accomplishments in all the areas recognized by this award: research and scholarship, teaching and mentoring, professional and community service, and community-building.

According to the mentees, peers, and faculty who endorsed her nomination for this award, Ms. Allen-Mossman has been “a transformative influence on the lives of those around her” because of her “unerring sense of justice and unflagging commitment to enriching the intellectual lives and improving the material conditions of [her] community.” Through her multi-year commitments to the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship and The Leadership Alliance/GSAS Summer Research Program, and her active and persistent service through organizations such as the GSAS Students of Color Alliance and the Graduate Workers of Columbia University, Allen-Mossman has endeavored “to create a better world, inside and outside of academia, for marginalized people.” She has pushed her “students and colleagues to think beyond the rarefied academic world and reflect critically on our position and role within the larger community,” both within her home department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and outside of it, across disciplinary boundaries. And of Allen-Mossman’s scholarship, a faculty member notes that she is one among an “exceptional few in whom [they] have witnessed a firm balance between an energetic and disciplined intellectual drive, a genuine literary and critical sensibility, and remarkable dedication.” All of these instances embody the spirit in which this award was established.

The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences is proud to honor Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman (‘18MPhil, Latin American and Iberian Cultures) with the 2020 Dr. Devon T. Wade Mentorship, Service, and Advocacy Award.

What is your current role/job title?
I’m an award-winning nurse historian with multiple publications in scholarly journals and chapters in nurse history books. I authored Beyond Nightingale: Nursing on the Crimean War Battlefields (2019), and co-authored (with Judith Godden) Nursing Before Nightingale 1815-1899 (2011). I formerly served as a neurosurgical nurse, as a government relations officer for the Ontario Nurses Association, and as an adjunct assistant professor in the Graduate Department of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto.

What are you working on now?
In the past month, I submitted articles to be published in three different scholarly journals. My current project is a biography of a Canadian Nightingale-trained nurse Maria Machin, who was director of nursing at the Montreal General Hospital, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, a missionary nurse in South Africa, and then a military nurse in the Boer War. Her experiences give an interesting slant on British imperialism and illustrate the conflicts that pioneer nurses faced.

What drew you to your field?
I graduated from Wellesley College, where I majored in history because I was always interested in how and why events happened. I then received a nursing degree from Columbia. Nursing history combines my Columbia work in history with my experience as a nurse in a perfect way. Also, my experience lobbying for better working conditions for modern-day nurses was really exciting; I found I was asking the same questions of government and hospital administrators as I did in my historical research.

What lessons from graduate school have you found useful in your professional life?
The research methods I learned at Columbia served me well as I dug deep into hospital and government archives in the UK and studied British and French nineteenth-century records. Also, Columbia’s training in historiographic research methods taught me how to present evidence effectively as I dealt with civil servants and elected government officers while serving as a government relations officer.

What skill has unexpectedly helped you in your career?
The historian’s skill of looking at the big picture and all points of view has been extremely helpful in my career, both as a nurse and in my lobbying activities.

What is your favorite memory from your graduate years?
At the suggestion of one of our professors, I organized a mock orals group where six or seven of us graduate students got together once a week and asked each other questions that we thought were likely to be asked at the oral field exam. I made some wonderful life-long friends in this very productive and fun group of students. My other fond memory of GSAS was how helpful our professors were and how much effort they put into assisting us.

What are your passions outside of your work?
I, my husband, and our three daughters all enjoyed horseback riding together for many years. Although I retired from riding when I turned 80, I still enjoy spending time with the horses at my family’s farm and watching my five grandchildren compete in horse shows. I’m an avid gardener and love working on the landscaping and flower beds at the farm. I also appreciate murder and spy mysteries.

What is your advice for current GSAS students?
My best advice is to take advantage of all the opportunities—including the wonderful faculty—that Columbia offers, and also to enjoy life in New York. As a graduate student, I was able to get my German up to speed in Columbia’s German Department, and I attended history lectures at Barnard.

DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED

Applied Mathematics
Martin, Zane. The interaction of the Madden-Julian oscillation and the quasi-biennial oscillation in a hierarchy of models. Sponsor: Adam Sobel.

Applied Physics
Chen, Shaowen. Transport measurements of correlated states in Graphene flat band. Sponsor: Cory Dean.

Biomedical Engineering
Mosher, Christopher. Interface scaffold design principles for integrative cartilage regeneration. Sponsor: Helen Lu.

Tu, Tao. Machine learning methods for fusion and inference of simultaneous EEG and fMRI. Sponsor: Paul Sajda.

Biomedical Informatics
Averitt, Amelia. Machine learning methods for casual inference with observational data. Sponsor: Adler Perotte.

Chemical Engineering
Dou, Yong. Colloidal robotics: Autonomous propulsion and navigation of active particles. Sponsor: Sanat Kumar.

Chemistry
Ravetz, Benjamin. Harnessing photophysical processes to improve photoredox catalysis. Sponsor: Tomislav Rovis.

Xiong, Hanqing. Stimulated Raman excited fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy. Sponsor: Wei Min.

Yablon, Lauren. Controlling singlet fission in pendent acene polymers. Sponsor: Luis Campos.

Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Alrassy, Patrick. Map data integration technique with large-scale fleet telematics data as road-safety surrogate measures in the New York metropolitan area. Sponsor: Andrew Smyth.

Classics
Combatti, Maria. Somatic landscapes: Affects, percepts, and materialities in Euripides' select tragedies. Sponsor: Nancy Worman.

Electrical Engineering
Arnold, Todd. Understanding cloud network performance. Sponsor: Ethan Katz-Bassett.

Gutterman, Craig. Learning for wireless and optical network control. Sponsor: Gil Zussman.

Genetics and Development
van Soldt, Benjamin. Proximal-distal patterning of the lung: Molecular determinants in lung development and evolution. Sponsor: Wellington Cardoso.

History
Sarwate, Rahul. Reimagining the modern Hindu self: Caste, untouchability and Hindu theology in colonial South Asia, 1899-1948. Sponsor: Manan Ahmed.

Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Quintero Mächler, Alejandro. Bleeding nations: Blood discourses and the interpretation of violence in mid-nineteenth century Spanish America (1838-1870). Sponsor: Graciela Montaldo.

Mathematics
Kravets, Oleksandr. Homotopy coherent actions on A-infinity categories. Sponsor: Mohammed Abouzaid.

Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection
Berger, Julian. Bone and the physiology of danger. Sponsor: Gerard Karsenty.

Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Shmookler, Max. The maqama before the Levantine Nahda and beyond the novel, 1770's-1850's. Sponsor: Gil Anidjar.

Music
García Molina, Andrés. Aural economies and precarious labor: Street-vendor songs in Cuba. Sponsor: Aaron Fox.

Neurobiology and Behavior
Birdsall, Veronica. Neuronal activity enhances the axonal motility of ESCRT-0 endosomes to facilitate synaptic vesicle protein turnover. Sponsor: Clarissa Waites.

Physics
Tu, Xiao. Measurement of long-range correlations in small systems with ATLAS detector. Sponsor: Brian Cole.

Political Science
Soboleva, Irina. Efficacy, openness, ingenuousness: Micro-foundations of democratic engagement. Sponsor: Donald Green.

Social Work
Kim, Soohyun. The effects of paid leave policies on work and elder care. Sponsor: Jane Waldfogel.

Sociology
Brown, Bailey. Kinder panic: Parent decision-making, school choice, and neighborhood life. Sponsor: Thomas DiPrete.

Statistics
Fang, Guanhua. Latent variable models in educational assessment: Theory and application. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying.

Ling, Hok Kan. Statistical analysis of complex data in survival and event history analysis. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying.

TC / Anthropology and Education
Burnside, Bruce. Inclusive national belonging - Intercultural performances in the "World-Open" Germany. Sponsor: Katherine Ewing.

TC / Cognitive Science in Education
Mao, Yaoli. Making the implicit explicit: The effects of summarizing knowledge on behavior in repeated decisions from experience. Sponsor: James Corter.

TC / Economics and Education
Allende Santa Cruz, Claudia. Essays in the industrial organization of education markets. Sponsor: Peter Bergman.

Wen, Qiao. Three essays on the college expansion in China. Sponsor: Judith Scott-Clayton.

TC / English Education
Aboali, Nora. A banned identity: Interviews with Muslim urban high school students. Sponsor: Janet Miller.

TC / School Psychology
Kangas Dick, Kayleigh. Elevated attention problems and observed parenting in a sample of preschoolers with ASD. Sponsor: Marla Brassard.

TC / Science Education
Parker, Jamie. The use of battle rap as a way to engage students in STEM. Sponsor: Christopher Emdin.

TC / Teaching of Social Studies
Kim, Yeji. Troubling and re-imagining citizenship: Narrative inquiries into immigrant teachers’ positionalities and citizenship education. Sponsor: Sandra Schmidt.

DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED

Anthropology
Liberatore, Benjamin. 'World without end': Imagining national continuity, loss, and break in the voices of England's choristers.

Tynes, Brendane. "I can't die. I won't.": Fear and the reimagination of the (after) lives of Black women and girls.

Applied Mathematics
Huang, Kuang. Traffic flow modeling in a nonlocal world.

Applied Physics
Tao, Songsheng. Solving nano-structures on the surface using x-ray pair distribution function.

Business
Phan, Minh. Consumer response to reduced processing costs: Evidence from truth in lending laws.

Chemical Engineering
Maeng, Do Young. Hydrolysis reactions of man-made esters on indoor surfaces.

Vainstein, Salomon. Engineering protein activity with non-canonical cofactors.

Willett, Emma. Membrane-less ATP regeneration enzyme cascade using a reversible NAD kinase and NADH oxidation.

Earth and Environmental Sciences
Oryan, Bar. Deviation from the standard subduction earthquake cycle model and its effect on upper plate deformation.

Zhou, Yuxin. Episodic deposition and glacial instability during the last glacial cycle in the North Atlantic.

Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Bruner, Sarah. Biodiversity and stability of ecosystem functioning: The portfolio effect in forests.

Economics
Koh, Paul. Essays on game theory and econometrics.

Romero Fonseca, Dario Alberto. Trade & innovation: The effect of TNO trade shocks on early textile innovation in Spain.

Rosenkranz, David. Essays on the economics of health care markets.

Sung, Yeji. Macroeconomic applications of a limited human memory.

History
Hawk, Emily. American concert dance at midcentury: Processes and products of embodied thought, 1964-1976.

Jakubczak-Gabay, Aleksandra. "Protecting the Jewish daughters:" Sex work, mobility, and belonging between the 1870s and 1939.

Shah, Rohan. A world to win: Contested visions of globalization during the 1970s US economic crisis.

Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Blanco, Elvira. Imaginaries of the common in contemporary Venezuela.

Mechanical Engineering
Chang, Biing-Chwen. Study of stairmill ascent with tethered pelvis assist device.

Conlon, Terence. The effects of latent demand on electricity system planning.

Fobi Nsutezo, Sally Simone. The impact of residential electricity demand prediction & uncertainty in demand prediction models on electricity access planning.

Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Radwan, Basma. The politics of eating well.

Political Science
Feldman, Nathan. A liberal science: The Chicago style and the formation of contemporary American political science.

Paci, Simone. Civilization at a discount tax compliance, state capacity, and the political economy of redistribution.

Slavic Languages
Wilson, Elaine. Communist exodus: A Jewish reading of time in the shape and substance of early Soviet Russian and Yiddish narratives.

GSAS holds in highest regard intellectual inquiry that exerts a profound impact not only in academia, but in the larger world as well. The Dean’s Award for Distinguished Achievement and the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award celebrate GSAS graduates who have contributed significantly to the academic community and to society while upholding the highest intellectual values in everything they do throughout their careers. They are exemplars who inspire all who aspire to have a lasting impact on the world.