DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED
Biomedical Informatics
Boland, Mary. A systems-level approach to understand the seasonal factors of early development with clinical and pharmacological applications. Advisor: Nicholas Tatonetti.
Biostatistics
Huang, Tzu Jung. Marginal screening on survival data. Advisor: Ian W. McKeague.
Business
Li, Xinlei. Relationship lending in syndicated loans: A participant's perspective. Advisor: Fabrizio Ferri.
Classical Studies
Allen, Molly. Portraits of grief: Death, mourning, and the expression of sorrow of white-ground Lekythoi. Advisor: Ioannis Mylonopoulos.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Goldsmith, Yonaton. Trans-Asian glacial-interglacial paleohydroclimate reconstructed using lake geomorphology and organic and inorganic stable isotopes. Advisor: Wallace S. Broecker.
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.
Prager, Case. Impacts of arctic warming on plact traits, multiple dimensions of biodiversity, and ecosystem function. Advisors: Kevin L. Griffin and Shahid Naeem.
Schwartz, Naomi. Landscape consequences of disturbance in tropical second-growth forest. Advisors: Ruth DeFries and Maria Uriarte.
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Weeks, Brian. Reconstructing community assembly: The impacts of alternate histories. Advisors: Joel L. Cracraft and Shahid Naeem.
Economics
Dupraz, Stéphane. Three essays on economic fluctuations. Advisor: Michael Woodford.
Tuzcuoglu, Kerem. Three essays in economics. Advisor: Serena Ng.
Germanic Languages
Bajohr, Hannes. History and metaphor: Hans Blumenberg's theory of language. Advisors: Harro Müller and Andreas Huyssen.
Germanic Languages
Walsh, Patrick. The figure of the prophet in German literature around 1800. Advisor: Dorothea von Mücke.
History
Dunitz, Sarah. Educational empires: The USA, Great Britain, and British Africa, circa 1902-1944. Advisor: Alice Kessler-Harris.
Italian
Fraga, Mariana. Reading Clarice Lispector in contemporary Italian feminist philosophy. Advisor: Elizabeth Leake.
Mathematics
Petkov, Vladislav. Distinguished representations of the metaplectic cover of GL (n). Advisor: Dorian Goldfeld.
Music
Hansberry, Benjamin. Phenomenon and abstraction: Coordinating concepts in music theory and analysis. Advisor: Joseph Dubiel.
Hilewicz, Orit. Listening to ekphrostic musical compositions. Advisor: Joseph Dubiel.
Political Science
Daniel, Anthony. From Wagner to Taft-Hartley, revisited. Advisor: Robert Y. Shapiro.
Sustainable Development
Oremus, Kimberly. Here's the catch: Fisheries and fishery management under climate variability. Advisors: Mark A. Cane and Wolfram Schlenker.
TC / Anthropology and Education
Christian, Elaine. Shepherds, servants, and strangers: Popular Christianity, theology, and. Advisor: Hervé H. Varenne.
TC / Applied Behavioral Analysis
Farrell, Cesira. An investigation into the speaker-as-own-listener repertoire and reverse intraverbal responding. Advisor: Jessica Dudek.
Mackey, Michelle. The effects of a reader immersion: Procedure on the technical reading comprehension responses of kindergarten and first grade students. Advisor: R. Douglas Greer.
Mercorella, Kelly. The effects of producing and sequencing narrative components of a story on reading comprehension. Advisor: R. Douglas Greer.
Moore, Colleen. The effects of the establishment of conditioned reinforment for reading on the acquisition of reading. Advisor: R. Douglas Greer.
TC / Cognitive Studies in Education
Awotwi, Ama. Computer-based number categorization as an intervention for computer-based number line estimation. Advisor: Herbert P. Ginsburg.
Fang, Fu-Fen. Teachers' beliefs about the nature and malleability of intelligence. Advisor: James E. Corter.
TC / English Education
Callahan, Nicole. Radical writing: Apprentices essaying ways into philosophical thinking: A multiple case study. Advisor: Sheridan Blau.
TC / Mathematics Education
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.
Pheatt, Lara. The pursuit of profit or prestige: What the diffusion of MOOCs can tell us about disruptive innovation in US higher education. 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 the 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.
TC / Science Education
Fleshman, Robin. Not driven by high-stakes tests: Exploring science assessment and college readiness of students from an urban portfolio community high school. Advisor: Felicia Moore Mensah.
Hoard, Althea. A black feminist book club as a multicultural professional development model for inservice science teachers. Advisor: Felicia Moore Mensah.
TC / Science Education
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
Biomedical Engineering
Fong, Christopher. Development of portable diffuse optical spectroscopic systems for treatment monitoring.
Business
Johannesson, Erik. Ex-insider trading - former insiders and formerly inside stock.
Chemical Engineering
Pandey, Shashank. Bioinspired collective synchronization within the arrays of electrostatic.
Song, Ruobing. Spot-beam crystallization of silicon films.
Winter, Lea. Comparison of plasm- with thermal-catalysis for exploration of unique chemistries and activation of stable molecules.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Cunnigham, Maxwell. Evidence of the glacial buzzsaw at low-latitudes: How glacial erosion limits tropical mountain height.
Pascolini-Campbell, Madeleine. Variability of hydroclimate in the North American Southwest: Implications for streamflow, the spring dry season and ecosystems.
Shoenfelt, Elizabeth. Reconstructing bioavailable fe fluxes to the Southern Ocean with particulate fe mineralogy and direct measurements of bioavailability.
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Healy, Gavin. Tourism to the People's Republic of China (1949-1985): Business, politics, and culture.
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Bytnerowicz, Thomas. Exploring mechanisms by which temperature may control the success of symiotic nitrogen fixers across latitude and elevation: Time-lags and notrigen fixation rates.
History
Azarbadegan, Zainab. Bloodless battles: Sovereignty and citizenship in nineteenth=century Ottoman Iraq.
Lawson, Owain. Power failures: Engineers and the Litani River, 1931-1965.
Italian
Arrigoni, Carlo. 'Il Meccanismo delle Passioni': Fantasy and ideology in the works of Giovanni Versa.
Visco, Julianna. Dante and Boccaccio: A poetics of textiles.
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Quintero, Alejandro. Red ink: Blood and nation-building in mid-nineteenth century Spanish America, 1840-1870.
Nutritional and Metabolic Biology
Skowronski, Alicja. The role of leptin in body weight regulation.
Philosophy
Heeney, Matthew. Mental agency and responsibility for mind.
Political Science
Milonopoulos, Theodoros. In the shadows of victory and defeat: Battlefield assessment, mid-war decision-making, and the expansion and termination of armed conflict.
Mueser, Benjamin. The concept of a territorial right.
Syunyaev, Goergiy. Strategic distribution of responsibilities in decentralized autocracies.
Thorley, Dane. Courts, experiments, and randomization: A three-paper diseertation proposal.
Wilke, Anna. Public goods provision in developing countries.
Zubia, Aaron. The neo-Epicurean legacy in early liberalism.