DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED
Anthropology
Molenda, John. A historical archaeology of oversees Chinese laborers on the first transcontinental railroad. Sponsor: Nan Rothschild.
Biological Sciences
Carr, Ambrose. A single-cell immune map of normal and cancerous breast reveals an expansion of phenotypic states driven by the tumor microenvironment. Sponsor: Dana Pe'er.
Kato, Niyo. Mechanisms of replication independent ICL repair. Sponsor: Jean Gautier.
Biomedical Engineering
Apostolakis, Iason Zacharias. 2-D and 3-D high frame-rate pulse wave imaging for the characterization of focal vascular disease. Sponsor: Elisa Konofagou.
Shaik, Mohammed. Evaluating endothelial function during neurovascular coupling in awake behaving mice using advanced imaging technologies. Sponsor: Elizabeth Hillman.
Computer Science
Miau, Daniel. Personalized navigation instruments for map user interfaces. Sponsor: Steven Feiner.
Varley, Jacob. Learning to grasp. Sponsor: Peter Allen.
Mechanical Engineering
Zhu, Jianzhong. Synthesis and analysis of design methods in linear repetitive, iterative learning and model predictive control. Sponsor: Richard Longman.
Neurobiology and Behavior
Tsai, Joseph. SRGAP2 in the adult barrel cortex. Sponsor: Attila Losonczy.
TC / Economics and Education
Ran, Xiaotao. Essays on instructor quality in higher education. Sponsor: Thomas Bailey.
DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED
Art History and Archaeology
Cavalcanti, Dave. Potraits, pots, or power objects? On the imagery and ontology of Wari Face neck jars.
Gassaway, William. On Deformation in Aztec Art (AD 1200-1521): Extraordinary bodies, extraordinary sacrifices.
Marzullo, Francesca. Overdoors of Renaissance Florence.
Scheier-Dolberg, Joseph. Yu Zhiding (1646-1716) and the envisioning of the early Qing world.
Vigotti, Lorenzo. A new type of home for a new ruling class: Private architecture in Tuscany (1350-1444).
Biomedical Engineering
Ji, Hayeun. In vitro microphysiological system for modeling vascular disease.
Park, Ji. Engineering the microenvironmental cues on enhancing the cell fate determination.
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Lu, Zheng. Assessment framework for financing public-private partnership infrastructure projects through securitization.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Pavia, Frank. Investigating biogeochemical processes in the South Pacific Ocean using thorium and proactinium isotopes.
English and Comparative Literature
Bloomfield, Gabriel. The poetry of interpretation: Exegetical verse in post-reformation Britain.
Bohannon, Catherine. Narrative and cognition in the novel.
Cunard, Candace. Managing narrative time in the eighteenth-century novel.
Mayer, Nicholas. Postures of resistance: Obeah, fetishism, and material culture in the English literature of the Americas and Africa, 1647-1899.
Petracca, Eugene. Dante in Medieval England.
Reid, Tiana. "Our World-Work": Questions of labor and gender in African diasporic literature and politics.
Schneider, Rosa. Tools of history: The American history play and techniques of historical creation, 1979-2014.
Svampa, Maria. Romantic movements: Body motions and resistance in romantic poetry.
Zhang, Rachel. The constant paradox: Constancy and literary form in the English Civil Wars.
French and Romance Philology
Alvarez, Kalinka. Jean Genet and Michel Foucault: Prison, power and subjectivity.
History
Reich, Robin. Copper-alloys and cures: A material history of spices and scientific translation in Norman Sicily.
Wanner, Buck. Downtown dance in the 1900s.
Political Science
Leavitt, Thomas. Racism and redistribution: The effect of political-economic and attitudinal factors on democratic transitions.
Rivera-Burgos, Viviana. Essays in minority politics and representation: A dissertation proposal.
Psychology
Conley, Mark. Field experiments in motivation science.
Sociology
Renault, Beatrice. Schizophrenia diagnosis: A trading zone between psychiatry and the jurisprudence a comparative study in France and the USA.
Theatre
McHugh, Meadhbh. Stages of shame.
Theatre
Simon, Jessica. Mimetic sensations: Sensation (melodrama, the sensational novel and Victorian realism).