DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED
Art History and Archaeology
Helprin, Alexandra. The Sheremeteus and the Argunous: Art, serfdom, and enlightenment in eighteenth-century Russia. Advisor: Anne Higonnet.
Biomedical Engineering
Bunting, Ethan. Performance analysis and optimization of 2D cardiac strain imaging for clinical applications. Advisor: Elisa E. Konofagou.
Business
Semenov, Aleksey. Higher volatility with lower credit spreads: The puzzle and its solution. Advisor: M. Suresh Sundaresan.
Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Studies
Abrams, Jeffrey. Nav1.5: Effect of auxiliary proteins on function and role in atrial fibrillation. Advisor: Steven O. Marx.
Bohnen, Michael. Potassium channelopathies in pulmonary arterial hypertension. Advisor: Robert S. Kass.
Peng, Gary. Gating mechanisms underlying deactivation slowing by atrial fibrillation mutations and small-molecule activators of KCNQ1. Advisor: Robert S. Kass.
Chemical Engineering
Garcia, Kristen. Artifical metabolons: Design of self-assembled bio-complexes. Advisor: Scott A. Banta.
Stonor, Maxim. Conversion of biomass to hydrogen via the catalytically enhanced alkaline thermal treatment reaction. Advisor: Jingguang Chen and Ah-Hyung Alissa Park.
Vi, Thu. Factors that affect polymer brush formation. Advisor: Jeffrey T. Koberstein.
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Londono Lozano, Juan. A coupled viscoelastic and damage mechanics approach for solids with applications to ice and asphalt. Advisor: Haim Waisman.
Wang, Yongxiang. Developments in the extended finite element method and cohesive zone models for failure analysis of quasi-brittle materials. Advisor: Haim Waisman.
Computer Science
Berg, Thomas. High-level, part-based features for fine-grained visual categorization. Advisor: Peter N. Belhumeur.
Dall, Christoffer. The design, implementation, and evaluation of software and architectural support for ARM virtualization. Advisor: Jason Nieh.
Liu, Jiongxin. Object part localization using exemplar-based models. Advisor: Peter N. Belhumeur.
Yoon, Young Jin. Design and optimization of networks-on-chip for heterogeneous systems-on-chip. Advisor: Luca Carloni.
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Wang, Zi. Dilemmas of empire: Movement, communication, and information management in Ming China, 1368-1644. Advisor: Robert Paul Hymes.
Electrical Engineering
Zhu, Jianxun. Architectures and circuit techniques for high-performance field-programmable CMOS software defined radios. Advisor: Peter Kinget.
French and Romance Philology
King, Diana. Translating revolution in twentieth-century China and France: Theories, practices, texts. Advisor: Souleymane Bachir Diagne.
Genetics and Development
Yarychkivska, Olga. Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance: Novel regulation of DNMT1. Advisor: Timothy H. Bestor.
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Stein, Rachel. Re-composing the global Iberian monarchy through the Lisbon press of Pedro Craesbeeck (1597-1632). Advisors: Alessandra Russo and Jesús R. Velasco.
Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection
Chen, Yen-Hua. Asymmetric metabolism by sibling lymphocytes coupling differentiation and self-renewal. Advisor: Steve Reiner.
Nursing
Boyd, Donald. Investigating and measuring certified registered nurse anesthetist organizational climate. Advisor: Lusine Poghosyan.
Physics
Smith, Russell. A search for squarks and gluinos with recursive jigsaw reconstruction. Advisor: Emlyn Hughes.
Political Science
Gomes, Bjorn. The drive and struggle for recognition. Advisors: David Chambliss Johnston and Melissa Schwartzberg.
TC / Applied Anthropology
Le Fevre, Lisa. Strategies and ties of resilience: Bulgarian elderly in an aging and depopulation landscape. Advisor: Charles C. Harrington.
TC / Economics and Education
Hanisch Cerda, Barbara. Does school accountability pressure improve school quality? Advisor: Henry M. Levin.
TC / Science Education
Zubiaurre, Laureen. The development of reflective thinking and its influence on patient care skills in third year dental students. Advisor: O. Roger Anderson.
TC / Social-Organizational Psychology
Ferraris, Dyan. Does gender matter in the evaluation of successful physicians? Examining how evaluators use stereotype-based attributions in determining outcomes at work. Advisor: Caryn J. Block.
DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED
Art History and Archaeology
Johal, Rattanamol. Dissolving margins: Indian art in the globalized nineties.
Morgan, Nicholas. Displaying queerness: Art and identity in the 1990s.
Woldman, Joseph. Look at me: The disembodied gaze in sixth-fifth century Etruria.
Biomedical Engineering
Spasic, Milos. Targeting primary cilia-mediated mechanotransduction to enhance whole bone formation.
Business
Choi, Yoonjin. Cultural brokerage – A new perspective on organizational culture and individual performance.
Kiguel, Andrea. Essays in emerging markets finance and integration.
Meng, Ruoqu. Motivating choices, effort, and performance: Beyond monetary incentives.
Piazza, Alessandro. From founders to funders: Generalized exchange, social capital, and homophily in ahgel investing.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coffel, Ethan. Extreme heat under climate change: Projections and impacts.
Gao, Yuchao. The impact of organic aerosol volatility on aerosol microphysics for global climate modeling applications.
Li, Xiaoqiong. Asian summer monsoon changes in response to greenhouse gases and anthropogenic aerosols.
Oliver, Ruth. Spatiotemporal dynamics of songbird breeding in arctic-boreal North America.
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Bernard, Allison. The literary politics of meaning-making: Writing and identity in seventeenth-century Chinese drama.
English and Comparative Literature
Cox, Therese. Subtopia: Architecture, literature, and the poetics of place in postwar British writing.
French and Romance Philology
Abele, Celia. Fictions of knowledge collection: From Diderot to Sebald.
History
Ng Tam, Yung Hua. The Chinese restaurant diaspora: Chinese restaurant networks and their role in supporting migration throughout the Western hemisphere.
Nofil, Brianna. Gender, community policing and crime control in the late twentieth ceuntury U.S.
Italian
Fleck, Samuel. The double in late 19th century Italian literature: Readings in Fogazzaro and his contemporaries.
Mechanical Engineering
Zhu, Yibo. Graphene based nanosensors for detection of low-molecular-weight biomarkers.
Music
Glasenapp, Brian. The Beaupré Antiphoner: Liturgy, community, and continuity (1290-1796).
Psychology
Kallman, Seth. Don’t save the worst for last: Experienced and predicted affective impacts of task ordering.
Majd, Christine. Tools to assist restrained eaters: A query theory and regulatory focus approach.
Martin, Rebecca. Influencing emotions: How brain development and social forces shape we think and feel.
Theatre
Sirmons, Julia. Intermediality in the wings: Theatricality in European art cinema.
Urban Planning
Stiglich, Matteo. The techno-political economy of privately-financed highways in Lima, Peru.