DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED
Anthropology
Blickstein, Tamar. The native stranger. Advisor: Nadia Abu El-Haj.
Nsabimana, Natacha. The day after tomorrow: Waiting for the future in contemporary Rwanda. Advisor: Mahmood Mamdani.
Yerby, Erin. Spectral bodies of evidence. Advisor: Michael Taussig.
APAM: Applied Physics
Li, Haixing. Electronic properties of molecular silicon. Advisor: Latha Venkataraman.
Rhodes, Dov. Shaping effects on resistive instabilities in a Tokamak plasma surrounded by a resistive wall. Advisor: Andrew J. Cole.
Art History and Archaeology
Polonyi, Eszter. Ghost writer: Bela Balazs' Hauntology of Film. Advisor: Noam M. Elcott.
Silveri, Rachel. The art of living in the historical avant-garde. Advisor: Branden W. Joseph.
Biomedical Engineering
Liu, Zen. The effect of matrix stiffness, composition and three-dimensionality on p53 expression in engineered human bone tumors. Advisor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic.
Business
Rouen, Ethan. Rethinking measurement of pay disparity and its relation to firm performance. Advisors: Fabrizio Ferri and Trevor S. Harris.
Slutzky, Pablo. Essays in empirical corporate finance. Advisor: Daniel Wolfenzon.
Chemical Engineering
Mathew, Shyno. Molecular dynamics simulations of microtubule-associated protein 1A/1B-light chain 3(LC3-I) and its membrane. Advisor: Sanat K. Kumar.
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Brugger, Adrian. On the boundary conditions and internal mechanics of parallel wire strands. Advisor: Raimondo Betti.
Computer Science
Jermyn, Jill. Discovering network control vulnerabilities and policies in evolving networks. Advisor: Salvatore J. Stolfo.
Sukan, Mengu. Augmented reality interfaces for enabling fast and accurate task. Advisor: Steven K. Feiner.
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Guindre-Parker, Sarah. The costs of reproduction and the evolution of cooperative breeding in African starlings. Advisor: Dustin R. Rubenstein.
Schwartz, Naomi. Landscape consequences of disturbance in tropical second-growth forest. Advisors: Ruth DeFries and Maria Uriarte.
Economics
Brown, Zachary. Essays on price transparency and health care. Advisor: Katherine Ho.
Desai, Kunjal Kamal. Essays on development economics. Advisor: Suresh Naidu.
Dupraz, Stéphane. Three essays on economic fluctuations. Advisor: Michael Woodford.
Hansman, Christopher. Essays in public and urban economics. Advisors: Pierre-André Chiappori and Bernard Salanié.
Sun, Meiping. Three essays on urban policies. Advisor: Brendan O’Flaherty.
Electrical Engineering
Prasitmeeboon, Pitcha. Robustification and optimization in repetitive control for minimum phase and non-minimum phase systems. Advisor: Richard W. Longman.
English and Comparative Literature
N'Diaye, Ngara. Marking blackness: Embodied techniques of racialization in seventeeth century European theatre. Advisors: Kim Hall and Jean E. Howard.
History
Juravich, Nicholas. A classroom revolution: Community educators and the transformation of school and work in American cities, 1953-1981. Advisor: Mae Ngai.
Keilson, Ana. Making dance modern: Knowledge, politics and German modern dance, 1890-1927. Advisor: Samuel Moyn.
Italian
Vanhove, Pieter. Faces of the Earth: Translating European Humanism in representations of modern and contemporary China. Advisors: Elizabeth Leake and Lydia Liu.
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Méndez-Oliver, Ana. Frontier identities and migrating souls: Re-conceptualizing new religious and cultural imaginaries in the Iberian worlds. Advisor: Patricia E. Grieve.
Mathematics
Choi, Kyeongsu. The Gauss curvature flow: Regularity and asymtotic. Advisor: Panagiota Daskalopoulos.
Deopurkar, Ashwin. Tropical geometry of curves with large theta characteristics. Advisor: Aise Johan de Jong.
Keller, Jordan. Linear stability of Schwarzschild spacetime. Advisor: Mu-Tao Wang.
Lewis, Paul. A large sieve zero density estimate for maass cusp forms. Advisor: Dorian Goldfeld.
Petkov, Vladislav. Distinguished representations of the metaplectic cover of GL (n). Advisor: Dorian Goldfeld.
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Kremnitzer, Yuval. How to believe in nothing: Moses Mendelsohn's subjectivity and the empty core of tradition. Advisor: Dan Miron.
Torshizi, Foad. "The clarity of meaning": Contemporary Iranian art and the cosmopolitan ethics of reading in art history. Advisor: Hamid Dabashi.
Physics
Vlasov, Andrey. Outflows from compact objects in supernovae and novae. Advisor: Brian Metzger.
Sustainable Development
D'Agostino, Anthony. Essays in climate and development economics. Advisors: Supreet Kaur Anand and Wolfram Schlenker.
Merte, Steffen. Essays on the economics of climate. Advisors: Scott Barrett and Douglas G. Martinson.
TC / Applied Behavioral Analysis
Frias, Frank. How stimulus relations accrue for the names of things in preschoolers. Advisor: R. Douglas Greer.
TC / Behavioral Nutrition
Lee, Jong Min. East Asian students' perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors in relation to U.S. food and the food environment. Advisor: Isobel R. Contento.
TC / Cognitive Studies in Education
Fang, Fu-Fen. Teachers' beliefs about the nature and malleability of intelligence. Advisor: James E. Corter.
Marks, Jenna. The impact of a brief design thinking intervention on students' design knowledge, iterative dispositions, and reactions to failure. Advisor: Catherine Chase.
TC / Comparative and International Education
Llanque Zonta, Victor. Does mass transit counter school segregation in Bolivia? Advisor: Regina Cortina.
TC / Economics and Education
Kopko, Elizabeth. Essays on the economics of education: Community college pathways and student success. Advisor: Thomas R. Bailey.
Liu, Yuen Ting. Three essays on the economics of higher education: The academic and labor market returns to four to two-year transfer, summer enrollment, and the year-round Pell grant. Advisor: Thomas R. Bailey.
Wang, Anyi. Technical and vocational education in China: The characteristics of participants and their labor market returns. Advisor: Mun C. Tsang.
TC / English Education
Van Orman, Karin. (Re)contextualizing street fiction. Advisor: Ernest Morrell.
TC / Mathematics Education
Golnabi, Laura. Mathematics self-efficacy and flow in developmental mathematics students. Advisor: Erica N. Walker.
Tam, Kai. Testing the ability to apply mathematical knowledge. Advisor: Alexander P. Karp.
TC / Politics and Education
Al-Thani, Hessa. Modernity aspirations: The struggle of Qatari male students to be. Advisor: Jeffrey Henig.
TC / School Psychology
Bancroft, Alexis. Basic relational concept and verbal behavior development in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Advisor: Marla R. Brassard.
TC / Science Education
Bernardo, Cyntra. Integration of culturally relevant pedagogy into science learning. Advisor: Christopher Emdin.
Boda, Phillip. Disability studies, multiculturalism and urban science education: A mixed-methods phenomenography of graduate student learning. Advisor: O. Roger Anderson.
Wu, Jason. English language learners' native language use in secondary science. Advisor: O. Roger Anderson.
TC / Social-Organizational Psychology
Kodaira, Yoko. An investigation of cognitive processes associated with notetaking and notes-review. Advisor: Stephen T. Peverly.
Stutzman, Naomi. Examining the relationship between personality and performance: Does personality predict performance for female leaders? Advisor: Debra A. Noumair.
TC / Speech and Language Pathology
Garcia, Felicidad. Brain responses to contrastive and noncontrastive morphosyntactic structures in African American English and mainstream American English: ERP evidence for the neural indices of dialect. Advisor: Karen Froud.
Hsu, Sih-Chiao. Effects of an intensive voice treatment on speech production of Mandarin speakers with Parkinson's disease: Acoustic and perceptual findings. Advisor: Erika S. Levy.
Obermeyer, Jessica. Efficacy of attentive reading with constrained summarization-written in people with mild aphasia. Advisor: Lisa Edmonds.
DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED
APAM: Applied Mathematics
Li, Jiao. Embedding seawall model in coastal flooding simulations.
APAM: Applied Physics
Fung, E-Dean. Photoinduced transport in single-molecule junctions.
Mandal, Jyotimrmoy. Surfaces and devices with tailored optical properties for radiative thermal management.
Architecture
Godel, Addison. Architecture as infrastructure interface in urban America, 1954-1996.
Biomedical Engineering
Karamolegkos, Nikolaos. Modeling and estimation of cardiorespiratory function, with application to ventilation therapy.
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Fafalis, Dimitrios. Computational continua modeling of heterogeneous solid materials.
Computer Science
Riederer, Christopher. Big location data: Balancing profits, promise, and perils.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Leland, Caroline. Evaluating climatic and ecological signals in tree-ring data from Central Mongolia: A multiparameter approach.
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Quebbeman, Andrew. Linking biogeochemistry to topography and spatial distributions of tree species and soil microbial communities.
History
McFarlane, Wallace. Thinking like a river rat: Trinity River history.
Mulder, Nicholas. The rise of the economic weapon: Sanctions in Britain, France, and Germany, 1914-1939.
Woker, Madeline. Paying for subjection: A history of fiscal power in the French colonial empire, 1870-1939.
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Acosta, Santiago. The condition of oil: An ecology of the Venezuelan culture boom (1973-1983).
Mechanical Engineering
Bian, Dikai. Interlaminar toughening of glass fiber reinforced polymers.
Kang, Jiyeon. Robotic functional gait rehabilitation with tethered pelvic assist device (TPAD).
Music
Jiang, Qingfan. Toward a global enlightenment: Missionaries, musical knowledge, and the making of encyclopedias in eighteenth-century China and France.
Philosophy
Brown, Simon. Animal minds and evolutionary dependence.
