DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED
Architecture
Wood, Alexander. Building the metropolis: Architecture, building, and labor in New York City, 1880-1935. Sponsor: Reinhold Martin.
Art History and Archaeology
von Preussen, Brigid. Manufactories of Virtù: Classicism, commerce, and authorship in Georgian Britain, c. 1759-1800. Sponsor: Anne Higonnet.
Biomedical Engineering
Tsitkov, Stanislav. Emergent properties of biomolecular organization. Sponsor: Henry Hess.
Chemical Engineering
Jhalaria, Mayank. Multiscale structure and dynamics in matrix-free grafted nanoparticles. Sponsor: Sanat Kumar.
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Wang, Siyan. Advancing understanding of green infrastructure performance through field measurements and modeling. Sponsor: Patricia Culligan.
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Cheng, Yi-Ru. Complex society in a colonial and cooperatively breeding bird. Sponsor: Dustin Rubenstein.
Electrical Engineering
Lee, Brian. Scaling high performance photonic platforms for emerging applications: From air-cladded resonators to graphene modulators. Sponsor: Michal Lipson.
Electrical Engineering
Shafieezade Abade, Mehrnoosh. Resource allocation in large-scale distributed systems. Sponsor: Javad Ghaderi Dehkordi.
Wang, Weizhong. Modeling and design of a cost-effective redistributive dual-cell link battery balancer for electrical vehicle applications. Sponsor: Matthias Preindl.
Epidemiology
Philip, Neena. Population-level HIV risk and combination implementation of HIV services. Sponsor: Barun Mathema.
History
Morris, John. The acculturation of transatlantic army officers through subterranean practices, rituals, and codes, 1815-1945. Sponsor: George Chauncey.
Mathematics
Wang, Shuai. Relative Gromov-Witten theory and vertex operators. Sponsor: Andrei Okounkov.
Mechanical Engineering
Piacenza, Pedro. Data-driven tactile sensing using spatially overlapping signals. Sponsor: Matei Ciocarlie.
Operations Research
Singal, Raghav. Data, models, and decisions in the new economy. Sponsors: Garud Iyengar and Vineet Goyal.
Psychology
Bucknoff, Zachary. Motivator and moralizer: How agency shapes choice and judgment. Sponsor: Janet Metcalfe.
Religion
Jungclaus, Andrew. True philanthropy: A religious history of the secular non-profit family foundation. Sponsor: Courtney Bender.
Social Work
Zhang, Yalu. The consequence and policy response of health-induced poverty. Sponsors: Heidi Allen and Qin Gao.
TC / Social-Organizational Psychology
Hacking, Antony. Well begun is half done: The impact of initial leader framing on cross-functional team member perceptions. Sponsor: Caryn Block.
Urban Planning
English, Jonathan. The better way: Transit service and demand in metropolitan Toronto, 1953-1990. Sponsor: Elliott Sclar.
DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED
Art History and Archaeology
Biascoechea, Laura. Imagining and representing the Chthonic in Greek art.
Art History and Archaeology
Fein, Katherine. The garb of nature: Art, nudity, and ecology in the nineteenth-century United States.
Biomedical Engineering
Jacobsen, Timothy. Investigating the relationship of inflammatory stimulation and cell biomechanics in the context of the intervertebral disc and disc degeneration.
Economics
Jiang, Yuchen. Essays in applied microeconomics.
French and Romance Philology
Lindberg, Molly. La mort dans l'âme: The ethics of writing violence, trauma, and recovery in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mo, Sophia. Women writing Algeria into the Third World, 1954-1965.