GSAS PHD Convocation Program - 2013

program
academic procession Doctoral candidates Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Carlos J. Alonso
greetings and opening remarks
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Vice President for Graduate Education
deans award for distinguished achievement candidates remarks keynote
Jacqueline K. Barton Maya Rossin-Slater
Ph.D., 1979, Chemistry
Ph.D. candidate, Economics
Sebastian Thrun, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer of Udacity Google Fellow, Google Inc. Research Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
faculty mentoring awards
presented by Ahmet-Hamdi Cavusoglu Ph.D. student, Chemical Engineering 2013 President, Graduate Student Advisory Council
Carol Gluck
Department of History Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures School of Social Work
Rogrio Meireles Pinto presidential awards for outstanding teaching

presented by John H. Coatsworth, Provost
Christopher Crew, Ph.D. student, Psychology Simran Singh, Ph.D. student, Religion Neelanjan Sircar, Ph.D. student, Political Science
presentation of the doctoral candidates gsas alumni association remarks
Andrea J. Tucher Lester Wigler
Director, Ph.D. program in Communications
M.A., 1980, Music Vice President, GSAS Alumni Association
final remarks and recessional music
Dean Alonso Wholly Brass Quartet
The doctoral candidates listed in the first part of each section completed the final deposit of their dissertations by the printing deadline of April 26, 2013. Candidates who passed the defense by April 26 but have not yet deposited a final dissertation are listed separately; degrees for these students will be conferred following the final submission of their dissertations.
Ph.D. in Anthropology
DISSERTATIONS deposited
Sivakumar Vairavanather Arumugam. Governing social bodies: Affect and number in contemporary cricket. Sponsor: Nicholas B. Dirks. Jon Horne Carter. Splendor of ruins: Gangs, state, and crime in Honduras. Sponsor: Michael Taussig. Kaori Hatsumi. War and grief, faith and healing in a Tamil Catholic fishing village in northern Sri Lanka. Sponsor: E. Valentine Daniel. Mythri Jegathesan. Bargaining in a labor regime: Plantation life and the politics of development in Sri Lanka. Sponsor: E. Valentine Daniel. Nadia Loan. Critical readings: Devotional reflections in the pursuit of Quranic understanding in contemporary Pakistan. Sponsor: Brinkley M. Messick. zge Serin. Writing of death: Ethics and politics of the death fast in Turkey. Sponsor: Rosalind C. Morris.
DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED
Heather Noelle Atherton. Community identity in the Spanish colonial borderlands: The village of San Jose de las Huertas, New Mexico. Sponsor: Nan A. Rothschild.
Anuj Bhuwania. Competing populisms: Public interest litigation and political society in post-Emergency India. Sponsor: Brinkley M. Messick. Krista Marie Hegburg. Aftermath: Accounting for the Holocaust in the Czech Republic. Sponsor: Rosalind C. Morris. Thushara Naresh S. Hewage. Genealogies of the postcolonial state: Insurgency, emergency and democracy in Sri Lanka. Sponsor: David Scott. Etsuko Kasai. Everyday fascism of contemporary Japan. Sponsor: Marilyn J. Ivy. Munira Khayyat. Landscape of war: On the nature of violence in south Lebanon. Sponsor: Brinkley M. Messick. Jun Mizukawa. Embodied thresholds: Reading and writing practices of twenty-first-century Japan. Sponsor: Marilyn J. Ivy. Sarah Elizabeth Vaughn. Vulnerable publics: Climate, freedom, and citizenship in Guyana. Sponsor: David Scott. Darryl Alan Wilkinson. Politics, infrastructure, and non-human subjects: The Inka occupation of the Amaybamba cloud forests. Sponsor: Terence N. DAltroy.
Ph.D. in Applied physics and applied mathematics

APPLIED mathematics
DISSERTATIONS DEfended
Clara Orbe. Applications of steady and transient tracers to the studies of stratosphere-troposphere exchange and tropospheric air mass composition. Sponsor: Lorenzo M. Polvani.
Daisuke Shiraki. High-resolution MHD spectroscopy of external kinks in a tokamak plasma. Sponsor: Michael E. Mauel.
materials science and engineering

DISSERTATIONS DEPOSITED
APPLIED PHYSICS
Jeffrey Peter Levesque. Multimode structure of resistive wall modes near the ideal wall stability unit. Sponsor: Michael E. Mauel. Nikolaus Rath. GPU-based, microsecond latency, hectochannel MIMO feedback control of magnetically confined plasmas. Sponsor: Michael E. Mauel.
Monica Chahal. Mixed-phase solidification of thin silicon films on silicon dioxide. Sponsor: James S. Im. Min Hwan Choi. Pulsed-laser-induced melting and solidification of thin metallic films. Sponsor: James S. Im. Gabriel Seth Ganot. Laser crystallization of silicon thin films for three-dimensional integrated circuits. Sponsor: James S. Im.
Ph.D. in Architecture
DISSERTATIONS DEPOSITED DISSERTATIONS DEfended
Patricio del Real. Building a continent: The idea of Latin American architecture in the early postwar. Sponsor: Reinhold Martin. Helen Elizabeth Gyger. The informal as a project: Selfhelp housing in Peru, 1954-1986. Sponsor: Reinhold Martin.
Cesare Birignani. The police and the city: Paris, 16601750. Sponsor: Mary McLeod.
Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology

Katherine Morris Boivin. Holy blood, holy cross: Architecture and devotion in the parochial complex of Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Sponsor: Stephen Murray. Roberta Casagrande-Kim. The journey to the underworld: Topography, landscape, and divine inhabitants of the Roman Hades. Sponsor: Richard Brilliant. Marie-Stphanie Madeleine Delamaire. An art of translation: French prints and American art, 1848-1876. Sponsor: Elizabeth W. Hutchinson. Andrew Zachary Finegold. Dramatic renditions: Battle murals and the struggle for elite legitimacy in epiclassic Mesoamerica. Sponsor: Esther Pasztory. Meredith Fluke. Building across the sacred landscape: The Romanesque churches of Verona in their urban context. Sponsor: Stephen Murray. Susan Elizabeth Kart. From direct carving to rcupration: The art of Moustapha Dim in postindependence Senegal, 1974-1997. Sponsor: Zo Strother. Katherine Eaton Kasdorf. Forming Drasamudra: Temples of the Hoysala capital in context. Sponsor: Vidya Dehejia. Risha Kim Lee. Constructing community: Tamil merchant temples in India and China, 850-1281. Sponsor: Robert E. Harrist, Jr. Joseph Faii Loh. When worlds collide: Art, cartography, and Japanese nanban world map screens. Sponsor: Robert E. Harrist, Jr. Melissa Jordan Love. On Earth as it is in Heaven?: The creation of the bastide towns of southwest France. Sponsor: Stephen Murray.
Jeffrey A. K. Miller. The building program of Archbishop Walter de Gray: Architectural production and reform in the archdiocese of York, 1215-1255. Sponsor: Stephen Murray. Kim-Ly Thi Moynihan. Comedy, science, and the reform of description in Lombard painting of the late Renaissance: Arcimboldo, Vincenzo Campi, and Bartolomeo Passerotti. Sponsor: David Rosand. Olivia Shannon Powell. The choreographic imagination in Renaissance art. Sponsor: David Rosand.
Kim Benzel. Sites of enchantment: Early dynastic jewelry from the Royal Cemetery at Ur, Mesopotamia. Sponsor: Zainab Bahrani. Diana Marie Bush. The dialectical object: John Heartfield, 1915-1933. Sponsor: Alexander Alberro. Kathryn Josette Chiong. Language is redpaint: The work of Lawrence Weiner. Sponsor: Rosalind Krauss. Denise Michelle Murrell. Seeing Laure: The iconographic legacy of race as modernity in Manets Olympia. Sponsor: Anne Higonnet. Arianna Lysandra Packard. The catafalque of Paul V: Architecture, sculpture, and iconography. Sponsor: David Freedberg. Nassim Ellie Rossi. Italian Renaissance depictions of the Ottoman Sultan: Nuances in the function of earlymodern portraiture. Sponsor: David Rosand. Anna Lise Seastrand. Praise, politics, and language: South Indian paintings, 1500-1800. Sponsor: Vidya Dehejia.
Ph.D. in Astronomy
Jana Marie Grcevich. Neutral hydrogen in Local Group dwarf galaxies. Sponsor: Mary E. Putman. Cameron Bryce Hummels. Comparing simulations and observations of galaxy evolution: Methods for constraining the nature of stellar feedback. Sponsor: Greg Bryan.
Colin Powell McNally. A meshless method for magnetohydrodynamics and applications to protoplanetary disks. Sponsor: Mordecai-Mark Mac Low. Kyle Patrick Parfrey. Simulations of dynamic relativistic magnetospheres. Sponsor: Andrei Beloborodov. Andreas Sven-Olov Svedin. Nonlinear data assimilation: Towards a prediction of the solar cycle. Sponsor: Edward A. Spiegel.
Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Daphne Christina Anastasiades Avgousti. RNAi and Chromatin in Caenorhabditis elegans: A biochemical analysis of the essential chromatin factor zinc finger protein 1 (ZFP-1), and a study of the involvement of RNAi factors in histone processing. Sponsor: Alla Grishok.
Pallav Kosuri. Mechanochemical methods for single molecule biochemistry and studies of thiol-disulfide exchange in proteins. Sponsor: Julio M. Fernndez. Peng Liu. Structural determinants of DNA-binding specificity for Hox proteins. Sponsor: Barry Honig. Maira Moura Pires. Basal-like breast cancer: Modeling its initiation and characterizing novel EGFR variants. Sponsor: Ramon E. Parsons.
Ph.D. in Biological Sciences

Xiaoyin Chen. Modulation of touch sensitivity in Caenorhabditis elegans. Sponsor: Martin Chalfie. John Chester Dittmar. A novel platform to perform cancer-relevant synthetic dosage lethality screens in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Sponsor: Rodney Rothstein. Bure Ergel. The catalytic efficiency and conformational dynamics of Escherichia coli DNA repair enzyme AlkB. Sponsor: John F. Hunt. Christine Shaoyu Huang. Structural and functional studies of biotin-dependent carboxylases. Sponsor: Liang Tong. Smitha Jagadish. Activity-dependent trans-synaptic tracing of neural circuits in Drosophila. Sponsor: Richard Axel. Jinrang Kim. The molecular mechanism of the Escherichia coli vitamin B12 transporter BtuCD-F: Real-time observation of the transporter in motion. Sponsor: John F. Hunt. Eunjee Lee. Dissecting genetic determinants of transcription factor activity. Sponsor: Harmen Bussemaker. Zita Peterlin. Encoding of odorants by olfactory sensory neurons. Sponsor: Stuart Firestein.
Steven Eugene Pierce. Analyzing genomic studies and screening for genes that suppress information loss during DNA damage repair. Sponsor: Rodney Rothstein. David Alfonso Recinos. The roles and regulation of the redundant phenazine biosynthetic operons in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14. Sponsor: Lars Dietrich. Bharat Duttala Reddy. Elucidating the biological function of PWWP-domain containing protein complexes. Sponsor: Songtao Jia. Julian Scherer. Role of microtubule motor proteins in adenoviral infections. Sponsor: Richard Vallee. Heidi Kay Smith. Understanding chemotaxis in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans: From molecules to behavior. Sponsor: Oliver Hobert. Qinghui Yu. Developmental monoamine signaling impacts adult affective and aggressive behaviors. Sponsor: Jay Gingrich. Neela Zareen. Determining the role of Trib3 in neuronal apoptosis. Sponsor: Lloyd Greene.
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering

Iliyana P. Atanasova. Non-contrast magnetic resonance angiography for evaluation of peripheral arterial disease. Sponsor: Andrew F. Laine. Andrew D. Baik. Application of a novel quasi-3D microscopy technique to investigate early osteocyte mechanotransduction events. Sponsor: X. Edward Guo. Sarindr Bhumiratana. Controlling tissue matrix assembly of human mesenchymal stem cells toward engineering native-like bone, cartilage, and osteochondral grafts. Sponsor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic. Brenda R. Chen. Investigating mechanisms of hemodynamic control in the brain. Sponsor: Elizabeth M. C. Hillman. Ouri Cohen. In vivo three-dimensional proton Hadamard spectroscopic imaging in the human brain. Sponsor: Andrew F. Laine. George Eng. Microtechnologies for cardiovascular tissue engineering. Sponsor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic.
Nora Theresa Khanarian. Scaffold design and optimization for osteochondral interface tissue engineering. Sponsor: Helen H. Lu. Jean Provost. Electromechanical wave imaging. Sponsor: Elisa E. Konofagou. Bhranti Shah. Pyrintegrin-induced adipogenesis: Biology, bioengineering, and therapeutics. Sponsor: Helen H. Lu. Yao-Sheng Tung. The physical mechanism of bloodbrain barrier opening using focused ultrasound and microbubbles. Sponsor: Elisa E. Konofagou.
Keenan Tali Bashour. Spatial dynamics and the mechanoresponse in CD4 T cell activation. Sponsor: Lance C. Kam. Hesam Parsa. Integrating microtechnology and systems biology to study biological species/microenvironment interaction. Sponsor: Samuel K. Sia.
Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics

Jonathan William Keeling. Development of systematic knowledge management for public health: A public health law ontology. Sponsor: Jacqueline Merrill. Karthik Natarajan. Analysis of search on clinical narrative within the EHR. Sponsor: Nomie Elhadad.
Jiyang Yu. Integrating functional genomics with systems biology to discover drivers and therapeutic targets of human malignancies. Sponsor: Andrea Califano.
Bo-Juen Chen. Integrative modeling of drug sensitivity with genomic data. Sponsor: Dana Peer.
Ph.D. in Biostatistics
DISSERTATIONS DEPOSITED DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED
Bingzhi Zhang. On composition data modeling and its biomedical applications. Sponsor: Bin Cheng. Yulei Zhang. Sparse selection in Cox models with functional predictors. Sponsor: Ian W. McKeague.
Yi Wang. Sample size calculations for the semiparametric analysis of short-term and long-term hazard ratios. Sponsor: Zhezhen Jin.
Ph.D. in Business
Matulya Bansal. Modeling customer behavior for revenue management. Sponsor: Costis Maglaras. Aharon Yehuda Cohen Mohliver. Legitimized unethicality: The divergence of norms and laws in financial markets. Sponsor: Bruce Kogut.
Bar Ifrach. Market dynamics with many agents: Applications in social learning and competition. Sponsors: Gabriel Y. Weintraub and Costis Maglaras. Olga Kuzmina. Three essays on corporate policies. Sponsor: Maria Guadalupe.
Roger Douglas Lederman. Strategic models in supply network design. Sponsor: Nicols E. Stier Moses. Dongyoup Lee. Essays on empirical asset pricing. Sponsor: Jialin Yu. Jiao Luo. Firm participation in morally contested markets. Sponsor: Paul Ingram. Margaret Parker Pierson. Price competition and the impact of service attributes: Structural estimation and analytical characterizations of equilibrium behavior. Sponsor: Awi Federgruen. Alicja K. Reuben. Essays on the strategic discretion of prosecutors in the legal system. Sponsor: Bruce Kogut. Mehmet Saglam. Dynamic trading strategies in the presence of market frictions. Sponsor: Ciamac C. Moallemi. Ravindra Vadali Sastry. The cross-section of investing skill. Sponsor: Michael Johannes.
Bjarni Kristinn Torfason. The dynamics of currency crashes and fundamental reversions. Sponsor: Robert J. Hodrick. Liad Weiss. Egocentric categorization: Self as a reference category in product judgment and consumer choice. Sponsor: Gita V. Johar. Shu Zhang. Repeating the follies of the past: A regulatory focus perspective. Sponsor: E. Tory Higgins.
Stephen A. Atlas. Essays on decisions involving recurring financial events. Sponsor: Daniel M. Bartels. Shinjinee Chattopadhyay. Essays on entrepreneurship. Sponsor: Raymond J. Fisman. Shira Mor. Metacognitive habits promoting intercultural coordination and accuracy. Sponsor: Michael W. Morris. Andy Yap. How power and powerlessness corrupt. Sponsors: Dana Carney and E. Tory Higgins.
Ph.D. in Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Studies

Jayson I. L. Bastien. Endosomal membrane dynamics underlying cell spreading: A role for the small GTPase Arf6. Sponsor: Gilbert Di Paolo. Punita Bhansali. The albino mouse visual system: How perturbed retinal development leads to altered binocular projections. Sponsor: Carol A. Mason. Jonathan R. Brent. The ALS genes TDP-43 and FUS/ TLS regulate a common pathway in the nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster. Sponsor: Brian McCabe. Eileen M. Guilfoyle. Stressed astrocytes: Insights on the pathology of Alexander disease. Sponsor: James E. Goldman. Amitabha Gupta. From the end to the middle: Regulation of telomere length and kinetochore assembly by the RNR inhibitor Sml1. Sponsor: Rodney Rothstein. Cindy Marie Hodakoski. P-REX2 PH domain inhibition of PTEN regulates transformation, insulin signaling, and glucose homeostasis. Sponsor: Ramon E. Parsons. Pei-Ken Hsu. MicroRNA dysregulation in neuropsychiatric disorders and cognitive dysfunction. Sponsor: Joseph A. Gogos.
Joshua Adam Levine. Regulating distinct cell lineages in the pancreatic islet. Sponsor: Lori Sussel. Jos Ricardo McFaline Figueroa. Mitochondrial inheritance and function in the lifespan control of budding yeast. Sponsor: Liza A. Pon. Daniel Matthew Scanfeld. Exploring the Plasmodium falciparum transcriptome using hypergeometric analysis of time series (HATS). Sponsor: David A. Fidock. Sara Siddiqi. The role of Hiwi in stem cell maintenance and sarcomagenesis. Sponsor: Igor Matushansky. Glenn Christopher Tan. The dual role of notch signaling during motor neuron differentiation. Sponsor: Hynek Wichterle.
Shahrnaz Kemal. The roles of dynein regulatory proteins NudE and NudEL in brain development. Sponsor: Richard Vallee. Darrick Kong Li. Novel targets of SMN function in RNP biology. Sponsor: Livio Pellizzoni. Avraham Joshua Ziskind. Neurons in Cat V1 cluster by degree of tuning but not by absolute spatial phase or temporal response phase. Sponsor: Kenneth D. Miller.
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering

Jonathan Joseph Cacciatore. The engineering of Chinese hamster ovary cells to achieve more efficient gene amplification for improving biopharmaceutical development. Sponsor: Edward F. Leonard. Michael D. Clark. Quantitative theories of nanocrystal growth processes. Sponsor: Sanat K. Kumar. Flra Felsvlyi. Mechanistic study of the adsorption and desorption of proteins on silica. Sponsor: Scott A. Banta. Jameel Adebayo Feshitan. Engineering lipid-stabilized microbubbles for magnetic resonance imaging-guided focused ultrasound surgery. Sponsor: Mark A. Borden.
Asli Sahin. Development of electrochemical methods for detection of pesticides and biofuel production. Sponsor: Alan C. West. Allison Nicole Schwier. Surfactant behavior in atmospheric aerosols. Sponsor: V. Faye McNeill. Oren Shur. Engineering the repeats-in-toxin domain for biotechnology applications. Sponsor: Scott A. Banta. Igor Volov. Copper and copper alloys: Studies of additives. Sponsor: Alan C. West. Shuo Zhang. Kinetics of polymer interfacial reactions. Sponsor: Jeffrey T. Koberstein.
Luis Andrs Escobar-Ferrand. Thin film composite (TFC) membranes from layer-by-layer (LbL) surface modification. Sponsor: Christopher James Durning.
Ph.D. in Chemical Physics

Richard Kenneth Darst. Lattice models of glasses and Potts models for community detection. Sponsor: David Reichman. Wenbo Li. Investigation of slow dynamics in proteins: NMR pulse sequence development and application in triosephosphate isomerase. Sponsor: Ann E. McDermott.
William Leneal Miller III. Self-organization in systems of anisotropic particles. Sponsor: Angelo Cacciuto. Elizabeth Simmons Thrall. Spectroscopic studies of abiotic and biological nanomaterials: Silver nanoparticles, rhodamine 6G adsorbed on graphene, and c-type cytochromes and type IV pili in Geobacter sulfurreducens. Sponsor: Louis E. Brus.
Ph.D. in Chemistry
Manasi Prakash Bhate. Mechanistic studies of ionbinding and inactivation in the potassium channel KcsA by solid state NMR. Sponsor: Ann E. McDermott. Benjamin Isaac Dach. Designer polymer superstructures from solid phase click chemistry. Sponsor: Nicholas J. Turro. Adel Mahmoud ElSohly. Strategies and tactics for the synthesis of polycyclic alkaloids. Sponsor: Scott A. Snyder. John Hartung, Jr. Radical cyclizations mediated by transition metal hydrides; Study toward the total synthesis of pluraflavin A; Cytoprotective polyacetylenes inspired by the ginseng-derived natural product, panaxytriol. Sponsors: Samuel J. Danishefsky and Jack R. Norton. Teresa Lynn Jacques. I: Catalytic direct C-H arylation of pyrazoles. II: Toward modulation of neuroplasticity with small molecules. Sponsor: Dalibor Sames.
Sharon Kim Lee. Enantioselective (formal) aza-DielsAlder reactions with Danishefskys diene and nonDanishefsky-type dienes. Sponsor: James L. Leighton. Jeffrey Steven Meisner. Linear conjugated molecular wires: Organic materials and single-molecule electronics. Sponsor: Colin P. Nuckolls. Joseph Francis Moll. Polymer-particle nanocomposites: Size and dispersion effects. Sponsor: Nicholas J. Turro. Nili Ostrov. Expanding biological engineering from single enzymes to cellular pathways. Sponsor: Virginia Cornish. Feng Peng. Total synthesis of ()maoecrystal V. Sponsor: Samuel J. Danishefsky. Caitlin Marie Quinn. Solid state NMR relaxation studies of triosephosphate isomerase. Sponsor: Ann E. McDermott.
Samuel Kaye Reznik. Methodological innovations in polyketide synthesis and their application toward the scalable synthesis of anti-tumor agent spongistatin 1. Sponsor: James L. Leighton. Audrey Ross. The development of cyclobutenone, and other work. Sponsor: Samuel J. Danishefsky. Aaron Sattler. Chemistry of highly reactive group 5 and 6 transition metal compounds: Modeling aspects of the industrial hydrotreating process and synthesis of the first transition metal complexes that feature a [CCC] X3donor pincer ligand. Sponsor: Gerard Parkin. Wesley Sattler. Zinc complexes as synthetic analogues for carbonic anhydrase and as catalysts for H2 production and CO2 functionalization; Application of lithium silylamides in the synthesis of transition metal isocyanide compounds from their carbonyl derivatives; Structural and spectroscopic studies of thimerosal and its derivatives. Sponsor: Gerard Parkin.
Daniel Scott Treitler. Reagents and strategies for the total synthesis of halogenated natural products. Sponsor: Scott A. Snyder. Christine Marie Vanos. Development of aromatic ions as organocatalysts; development of organocatalytic carbonyl olefin metathesis. Sponsor: Tristan H. Lambert.
Dissertations defended
Matthew Douglas Merguerian. Affinity maturation of monobodies using the cellular machinery of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Sponsor: Virginia Cornish.
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Emmanouil Chatzis. The dynamics of rigid bodies on moving deformable support media. Sponsor: Andrew W. Smyth. Jiayu Chen. Simulating network structure, layering multi-layer network systems, and developing network block configuration models to understand and improve energy conservation in residential buildings. Sponsor: Patricia J. Culligan. Ching Hung. Enhanced anisotropic bounding surface model: Implementation and simulation of excavation in soft cohesive soils. Sponsor: Hoe I. Ling. Duk Jin Joo. Damage detection and system identification using a wavelet energy based approach. Sponsor: Raimondo Betti. Sergey Kuznetsov. Homogenization methods for problems with multiphysics, temporal, and spatial coupling. Sponsor: Jacob Fish. Xia Liu. A novel discrete damage zone model and enhancement of the extended finite element method for fracture mechanics problems. Sponsor: Haim Waisman.
Arturo Humberto Montoya. A validated methodology to estimate the reliability and safety of suspension bridge cables. Sponsor: Haim Waisman. Xinyi Song. The application of insurance as a risk management tool for alternative dispute resolution (ADR) implementation in construction disputes. Sponsor: Feniosky Pea-Mora.
Mahesh Raju Bailakanavar. A reduced order multiscale-multiphysics model for heterogeneous materials. Sponsor: Jacob Fish. Brett Alexander Benowitz. Simulation and modeling of random processes and fields in civil engineering and engineering mechanics. Sponsors: Haim Waisman and George Deodatis. YunJi Hwang. Stochastic analysis of infrastructure losses in New York City. Sponsor: George Deodatis. Mengyu Lan. Computational nanomechanics and highorder extended finite element methods. Sponsor: Haim Waisman.
Ph.D. in Classical Studies

Dissertations deposited
Todd Alexander Davis. Archery in Archaic Greece. Sponsor: Richard A. Billows.
Ph.D. in Classics
Howard Shau-hao Chen. Breakthrough and concealment: The formulaic dynamics of character behavior in Lucan. Sponsor: Gareth Williams.
Susana Isabel Martinez. Socratic ethics in the Protagoras, Gorgias, and Republic. Sponsor: Wolfgang R. Mann.
Ph.D. in Communications
Karina Vladimirovna Alexanyan. The map and the territory: Russian social media networks and society. Sponsor: Todd Gitlin. Katherine Ann Brown. Patterns in the chaos: News and nationalism in Afghanistan, America, and Pakistan during wartime, 2010-2012. Sponsor: Todd Gitlin. Daniel Lucas Graves. Deciding whats true: Factchecking journalism and the new ecology of news. Sponsor: Michael Schudson.
Hawley M. Johnson. Model interventions: The evolution of media development strategies in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Macedonia from 2000 to 2007. Sponsor: Michael Schudson. Ruth Ann Palmer. In the funhouse mirror: How news subjects respond to their media reflections. Sponsor: Todd Gitlin.
Julia Sonnevend. Global iconic events: How news stories travel through time, space, and media. Sponsor: Michael Schudson.
Ph.D. in Computer Science

Hao Dang. Stable and semantic robotic grasping using tactile feedback. Sponsor: Peter K. Allen. David Kliger Elson. Modeling narrative discourse. Sponsor: Kathleen R. McKeown. Alexander Gusev. Quantifying recent variation and relatedness in human populations. Sponsor: Itsik Peer. Maritza Lupe Johnson. Toward usable access control for end-users: A case study of Facebook privacy settings. Sponsor: Steven M. Bellovin. Jae Woo Lee. Towards a common system architecture for dynamically deploying network services in routers and end hosts. Sponsor: Henning Schulzrinne. Kumiko Ono. Scaling up VoIP: Transport protocols and controlling unwanted communication requests. Sponsor: Henning Schulzrinne. Kristen Patricia Parton. Lost and found in translation: Cross-lingual question answering with result translation. Sponsor: Kathleen R. McKeown.
Snehit Prabhu. Computational contributions toward scalable and efficient genome-wide association methodology. Sponsor: Itsik Peer. Mariana Petrova Raykova. Secure computation for heterogeneous environments: How to bring multiparty computation closer to practice? Sponsor: Tal G. Malkin. Austin David Reiter. Assistive visual tools for surgery. Sponsor: Peter K. Allen. Hang Zhao. Security policy definition and enforcement in distributed systems. Sponsor: Steven M. Bellovin. Changyin Zhou. Point spread function engineering for scene recovery. Sponsor: Shree K. Nayar.
Iasonas Petras. Contributions to information-based complexity and to quantum computing. Sponsor: Joseph F. Traub.
Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Engineering

McKenzie Primerano Kohn. Catalytic reforming of biogas for syngas production. Sponsor: Marco J. Castaldi. Sathish Ponnurangam. Tailoring the (bio)activity of polymeric and metal oxide nano- and microparticles in biotic and abiotic environments. Sponsor: Ponisseril Somasundaran. Amanda Elizabeth Simson. Developing an energyefficient steam reforming process to produce hydrogen from sulfur-containing fuels. Sponsor: Marco J. Castaldi.
Baoxing Xu. Science of nanofluids and energy conversion. Sponsor: Xi Chen.

Eric Dahlgren. Rescaling capital: The potential of smallscale mass-produced physical capital in the energy and materials processing industries. Sponsor: Klaus S. Lackner. Naomi Beth Klinghoffer. Utilization of char from biomass gasification in catalytic applications. Sponsor: Marco J. Castaldi.
Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences

Katherine Ann Allen. Boron in foraminiferal calcite as an indicator of seawater carbonate chemistry. Sponsor: Brbel Hnisch. Stephen Louis Brusatte. The phylogeny of basal coelurosaurian theropods (Archosauria: Dinosauria) and patterns of morphological evolution during the dinosaurbird transition. Sponsor: Mark A. Norell. M. Elias Dueker. Connecting water quality with air quality through microbial aerosols. Sponsor: Maria Uriarte. Janelle Marie Homburg. Field and theoretical investigations of strain localization: Effects of mineralogy, shear heating, and grain-size evolution on deformation in the Earth. Sponsor: Peter B. Kelemen. Xinfeng Liang. Influence of mesoscale eddies on the deep ocean dynamics over the East Pacific Rise near 10N. Sponsor: Andreas M. Thurnherr. Milena Marjanovi. Signatures of present and past melt distribution at fast and intermediate spreading centers. Sponsor: Suzanne M. Carbotte.
Elizabeth Lane Pierce. Antarcticas geologic ice sheet history from isotopic sedimentary provenance studies. Sponsor: Sidney R. Hemming. Kandaga Pujiana. Makassar Strait intraseasonal variability. Sponsor: Arnold L. Gordon. Ashley Elizabeth Shuler. Investigations of anomalous earthquakes at active volcanoes. Sponsor: Gran Ekstrm. Sanpisa Sritrairat. Multiproxy analyses of past vegetation, climate, and sediment dynamics in Hudson River wetlands. Sponsor: Dorothy M. Peteet. Emmi Yonekura. Tropical cyclone risk assessment using statistical models. Sponsor: Timothy M. Hall.
Carlos Daniel Ruiz Carrascal. Adaptation strategies to climate change in the tropics: Analysis of two multifactorial systems. Sponsor: Mark A. Cane.
Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures

Ramona Handel Bajema. Art across borders: Japanese artists in the United States, 1895-1955. Sponsor: Carol Gluck. Adam Paul Bronson. Science of Thought and the culture of democracy in postwar Japan, 1946-1962. Sponsor: Carol Gluck. Sarah Elizabeth Kile. Toward an extraordinary everyday: Li Yus (1611-1680) vision, writing, and practice. Sponsor: Wei Shang.
Saeko Shibayama. e no Masafusa and the convergence of the Ways: The twilight of early Chinese literary studies and the rise of waka studies in the long twelfth century in Japan. Sponsor: Haruo Shirane. Nathan Powell Shockey. Literary writing, print media, and urban space in modern Japan, 1895-1933. Sponsors: Paul J. Anderer and Tomi Suzuki. Dominique Townsend. Materials of Buddhist culture: Aesthetics and cosmopolitanism at Mindroling monastery. Sponsor: Gray Tuttle.
Brian Kai Hin Tsui. Chinas forgotten revolution: Radical conservatism in action, 1927-1949. Sponsor: Eugenia Y. Lean. Robert James Tuck. The poetry of dialogue: Kanshi, haiku, and media in Meiji Japan, 1870-1900. Sponsor: Haruo Shirane. Paul Nicholas Vogt. Between kin and king: Social aspects of Western Zhou ritual. Sponsor: Feng Li.
Hitomi Yoshio. Imagining women writers: Gender, writing, and media in early twentieth-century Japan. Sponsor: Tomi Suzuki.
Gian-Piero Persiani. Mid-Heian waka: Anatomy of a cultural phenomenon. Sponsor: Haruo Shirane.
Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology

Marina Corra Crtes. Influence of gene dispersal and environmental heterogeneity on spatial and genetic patterns of the understory herb Heliconia acuminata across a fragmented landscape in central Amazon, Brazil. Sponsor: Maria Uriarte. James Lewis Fuller. Diversity of form, content, and function in the vocal signals of adult male blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis struhlmanni): An evolutionary approach to understanding a signal repertoire. Sponsor: Marina Cords. Victor Hugo Gutierrez-Velez. Oil palm expansion and land cover changes in the Peruvian Amazon: Implications for forest conservation and fire mitigation. Sponsor: Ruth DeFries.
Georgina Davie Cullman. Land use, diverse values, and conservation practice in the periphery of Makira protected area, northeastern Madagascar. Sponsors: Paige West and Eleanor J. Sterling. Mary Allison Heskel. Environmental controls of foliar respiration in Arctic plants. Sponsor: Kevin L. Griffin. Kari Lynn Schmidt. Spatial and temporal evaluation of molecular genetic variation in scarlet macaws (Ara macao): Implications for population management in La Selva Maya, Central America. Sponsor: George Amato.
Ph.D. in Economics
Elizabeth Jean Akers. Three essays in applied microeconomics. Sponsor: Till M. von Wachter. Ozge Akinci. Real business cycles in emerging countries. Sponsor: Martn Uribe. Anukriti. Essays on fertility and sex ratios in India. Sponsor: Cristian Pop-Eleches. Patrick Opoku Asuming. Three essays on the economics of health in developing countries. Sponsor: Cristian Pop-Eleches. Jisun Baek. Industrial organization effects of high-speed rail service introduction in Korea. Sponsor: Michael H. Riordan. David Robert De Remer. Essays on international trade agreements under monopolistic competition. Sponsor: Donald R. Davis. Sarena Faith Goodman. Essays on human capital investment. Sponsor: Brendan OFlaherty. Joshua Eliot Greenfield. Quality, variety, and parity: Prices in international trade. Sponsor: David E. Weinstein.
Jessie Helen Handbury. Essays on prices and product variety across cities. Sponsor: David E. Weinstein. William Walker Hanlon. Innovation and industry development: Lessons from the British cotton textile industry during the U.S. Civil War. Sponsor: Donald R. Davis. Takakazu Honryo. Essays on communication in game theory. Sponsor: Navin Kartik. Hyuncheol Kim. Three essays on health economics. Sponsor: Cristian Pop-Eleches. Madhura Maitra. Essays on firms behavior in international trade with vertical specialization. Sponsor: Donald R. Davis. Alexander Fraser McQuoid. Three essays in international integration. Sponsor: Donald R. Davis. Marcos Yamada Nakaguma. Essays on political institutions and institutional design. Sponsor: Massimo Morelli. Yaw Asamoah Owusu-Ansah. Essays on structured finance and housing markets. Sponsor: Bernard Salani.
Sebastian Rondeau. Sources of fluctuations in emerging markets: DSGE estimation with mixed frequency data. Sponsor: Martn Uribe. Maya Rossin-Slater. Social policy and family well-being: Essays in applied microeconomics. Sponsor: Wojciech Kopczuk. Dmitriy Sergeyev. Essays on macroeconomics and international finance. Sponsor: Michael Woodford. L. Luminita Stevens. Essays on price adjustment and imperfect information. Sponsor: Michael Woodford. Heriberto Tapia Villegas. Economic policies, volatility, and development. Sponsor: Pierre-Andr Chiappori.
Izzet Yildiz. Essays on financial sector inefficiencies. Sponsor: Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Alejo Eduardo Czerwonko Pupi. Essays on alternative financial services. Sponsor: Katherine Ho. Yun Kyung Kim. Essays on cash holdings and business groups. Sponsor: Brendan OFlaherty. Benjamin Michael Marx. Essays in charitable organizations and public policy. Sponsor: Wojciech Kopczuk. Petra Maria Charlotte Persson. Relationships and communication. Sponsor: Navin Kartik.
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

Amin Al Torfi. Fabrication and characterization of optoelectronics devices based on III-V materials for infrared applications by molecular beam epitaxy. Sponsor: Wen Wang. Mandis Sadr Mohammad Beigi. On optimal quantization and its effect on anomaly detection and image classification. Sponsor: Shih-Fu Chang. Thierry Bertin-Mahieux. Large-scale pattern discovery in music. Sponsor: Daniel P. W. Ellis. Daniel Brunina. Optically-connected memory: Architectures and experimental characterizations. Sponsor: Keren Bergman. Courtenay Valentine Cotton. Characterizing audio events for video soundtrack analysis. Sponsor: Daniel P. W. Ellis. Marshall Paige Cox. Processes and materials for organic photovoltaics. Sponsor: Ioannis Kymissis. Byung Suk Lee. Noise robust pitch tracking by subband autocorrelation classification. Sponsor: Daniel P. W. Ellis.
Vincent Wing-Ho Lee. Advanced integration of devices enabled by laser crystallization of silicon. Sponsor: Ioannis Kymissis. Wei Liu. Large-scale machine learning for classification and search. Sponsor: Shih-Fu Chang. Jacob Karl Rosenstein. Noise optimization for highbandwidth ion channel recordings. Sponsor: Kenneth L. Shepard. Noah Andrew Sturcken. Integrated voltage regulators with thin-film magnetic power inductors. Sponsor: Kenneth L. Shepard. Kshitij Yadav. Ultrasound data communications for ultra-low-power wake-up in sensor modes. Sponsor: Peter Kinget.
Maria A. Gorlatova. Energy-harvesting networked modes: Measurements, algorithms, and prototyping. Sponsor: Gil Zussman. John Christopher Sarik. Systems for pervasive electronics and interfaces. Sponsor: Ioannis Kymissis.
Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature

Jessica R. Fenn. Aural literacy: Rhetorical community and shared sayings in late medieval England. Sponsor: Susan Crane. Avishek Ganguly. The poetics and politics of translation in contemporary drama, 1960s to the 1990s. Sponsor: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Mary Katherine Hurley. Communities in translation: History and identity in medieval England. Sponsor: Patricia A. Dailey.
Jennifer Marie James. The terms of our connection: Affiliation and difference in the post-1960 North American novel. Sponsor: Marianne Hirsch. Zarina W. Maiwandi. We are the thing itself: Embodiment in the Knstlerromane of Bennett, Joyce, and Woolf. Sponsor: Edward Mendelson. Joan Virginia Melville. The theatre of anon: Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia Woolf, and the performance of Alfred Tennysons Idylls of the King. Sponsor: Martin Meisel.
Lytton Jackson Smith. Projective citizenship: The reimagining of the citizen in postwar American poetry. Sponsor: Michael Golston. Kate Joanna Stanley. Surprise encounters: Readings in transatlantic modernism. Sponsor: Marianne Hirsch. Sonali Thakkar. Continental drifters: Holocaust memory, decolonization, and postwar migration to Europe. Sponsor: Marianne Hirsch.
Victoria Collis. Anxious records: Race, imperial belonging, and the black literary imagination, 1900-1946. Sponsor: Brent Hayes Edwards.
Alicia Margaret DeSantis. The literal imagination: The minds eye in nineteenth-century American literature. Sponsor: Nicholas Dames. Nathaniel Calise Farrell. The modernist defense of poetry in prose and verse. Sponsor: Michael Golston. John Andrew Hay. The post-apocalyptic American frontier: Uncanny historicism in the nineteenth century. Sponsor: Ross Posnock. Kathleen Mary Smith. The literary lives of intention in late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century England. Sponsor: Susan Crane.
Ph.D. in Epidemiology
Meredith Becker Buxton. Blood-borne infections and duration of injection drug use among young, newly initiated injection drug users. Sponsor: David Vlahov. Ettie M. Lipner. Genetic contribution to type 1 diabetes microvascular complications. Sponsor: Nicole Schupf. Bianca L. Malcolm. The spatial and temporal anatomy of seasonal influenza in the United States, 1968-2008. Sponsor: Stephen S. Morse. Russell Bailey McBride. Obesity and aggressive prostate cancer: Bias and biomarkers. Sponsor: Andrew G. Rundle.
Magdalena M. Paczkowski. Potentially traumatic event experiences and health care service use in Liberia. Sponsor: Sandro Galea. Lynn Meredith Petukhova. The genetic architecture of alopecia areata. Sponsor: Ruth Ottman.
Christian Ricardo Salazar. Allostatic load in relation to periodontal disease, tooth loss, and mortality: Findings from the 1914 Glostrup aging study. Sponsor: Pam R. Factor-Litvak.
Ph.D. in French and Romance Philology

Jason Willis Earle. Conspiracies and secret societies in interwar French literature. Sponsor: Elisabeth Ladenson. Kirsten Britt Ellicson. Collecting as self-exploration in late nineteenth-century French literature. Sponsor: Antoine Compagnon. Cathy Kit-Ting Leung. George Sand and rewriting: The poetics of intertextuality in George Sands Jacques cycle. Sponsor: Joanna Stalnaker.
Mehammed Amadeus Mack. Immigration and sexual citizenship: Gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in contemporary France. Sponsor: Madeleine Dobie. Erica Wan Ru Weems. Charity and interpretation in the Heptamron and the Tiers Livre. Sponsor: Pierre Force. Benjamin C. Young. Eloquence and music: The Querelle des Bouffons in rhetorical context. Sponsor: Pierre Force.
Ph.D. in Genetics and Development

Katherine Marie Lelli. Structure-function analysis of Hox-cofactor interactions during Drosophila melanogaster embryonic development. Sponsor: Richard S. Mann.
Roy Louis Maute. A functional role for transfer RNAderived microRNAs in human B cells. Sponsor: Riccardo Dalla-Favera. Vikram Ranade. The role of Ultrabithorax negative autoregulation in Drosophila melanogaster. Sponsor: Richard S. Mann.
Paul Nicholas Riccio. The fate and behavior of Retexpressing tip cells in kidney development. Sponsor: Frank Costantini. Marcus Lee Vargas. Studies of a site-specific recombination system and analysis of new modulators of Notch signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans. Sponsor: Iva Greenwald.
Tiffany Zee. Non-autonomous regulation of bone-mass accrual and the role of T-cell protein tyrosine phosphatase in the bone regulation of insulin sensitivity. Sponsor: Gerard Karsenty.
James Chi-ping Chen. The development of geneticgenomic approaches to identify driver mutations inducing mesenchymal transformation in glioblastoma. Sponsor: Andrea Califano.
Ph.D. in Germanic Languages

Jennifer Susan Cameron. In the shadow of the family tree: Narrating family history in Vterliteratur and the Generationenromane. Sponsor: Mark Anderson. Annie Elizabeth Falk. The imagination of the Jewish table in German and German-Jewish literature, 15301914. Sponsors: Mark Anderson and Dorothea von Mcke. Samuel Jacob Spinner. Jews behind glass: The ethnographic impulse in German-Jewish and Yiddish literature, 1900-1948. Sponsor: Mark Anderson.
Ulrike Wagner. The transatlantic renewal of textual practices: Philology, religion, and classicism in Madame de Stal, Herder, and Emerson. Sponsor: Dorothea von Mcke.
Tyler Robert Whitney. Spaces of the ear: Literature, media, and the science of sound, 1870-1930. Sponsor: Stefan Andriopoulos.
Ph.D. in History
Jessica Lee Adler. Paying the price of war: United States soldiers, veterans, and health policy, 1917-1924. Sponsor: Alice Kessler-Harris. Jenna Feltey Alden. Bottom-up management: Participative philosophy and humanistic psychology in American organizational culture, 1930-1970. Sponsor: Elizabeth Blackmar. Ana Antic. Psychiatry at war: Psychiatric culture and political ideology in Yugoslavia under the Nazi occupation. Sponsor: Mark A. Mazower. Daniel Asen. Dead bodies and forensic science: Cultures of expertise in China, 1800-1949. Sponsor: Madeleine Zelin. James Gregory Chappel. Slaying the Leviathan: Catholicism and the rebirth of European conservatism, 1920-1950. Sponsor: Susan Pedersen. Michal Rose Friedman. Recovering Jewish Spain: Politics, historiography, and institutionalization of the Jewish past in Spain, 1845-1935. Sponsor: Elisheva Carlebach. Elizabeth Kai Hinton. From social welfare to social control: Federal war in American cities, 1968-1988. Sponsor: Eric Foner.
Thai Stein Jones. More powerful than dynamite: Radicals, plutocrats, progressives, and New Yorks year of anarchy. Sponsor: Alice Kessler-Harris. Alexander Lewis Kaye. The legal philosophies of religious Zionism, 1937-1967. Sponsor: Michael Stanislawski. Lawrence William Koblenz. From sin to science: The cancer revolution of the nineteenth century. Sponsor: Kenneth T. Jackson. Samir Adam Meghelli. Between New York and Paris: Hip hop and the transnational politics of race, culture, and citizenship. Sponsor: Eric Foner. Kevin Charles Murphy. Uphill all the way: The fortunes of progressivism, 1919-1929. Sponsor: Alan Brinkley. Amy C. Offner. Anti-poverty programs, social conflict, and economic thought in Colombia and the United States, 1948-1980. Sponsor: Eric Foner. Nathan Laughlin Pilkington. An archaeological history of Carthaginian imperialism. Sponsor: William V. Harris. Eileen Ryan. Italy and the Sanusiyya: Negotiating authority in colonial Libya, 1911-1931. Sponsor: Victoria de Grazia.
Stephen Jude Sullivan. A social history of the Brooklyn Irish, 1850-1900. Sponsor: Kenneth T. Jackson. Jennifer Elise Tammi. Minding our own business: Community, consumers, and cooperation. Sponsor: Alice Kessler-Harris. Benno Ryan Weiner. The Chinese revolution on the Tibetan frontier: State building, national integration, and socialist transformation, Zeku (Tskhok) county, 19531958. Sponsor: Madeleine Zelin. Mason Brendan Williams. City of ambition: Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, and the making of New Deal New York. Sponsor: Alan Brinkley. Michael Woodsworth. The forgotten fight: Waging war on poverty in New York City, 1945-1980. Sponsor: Kenneth T. Jackson.
Giuliana Chamedes. Acting like a state: The Vatican and the origins of Cold War Europe, 1870-1958. Sponsor: Victoria de Grazia. Michael W. Heil. Clerics, courts and legal culture in early medieval Italy, c. 650-900. Sponsor: Adam J. Kosto. Laura Jeanne Hornbake. Case del popolo, cultural associations, and the Italian Recreational and Cultural Association, 1945-1968. Sponsor: Victoria de Grazia. Susan Kay Mays. Rapid advance: High technology in China in the global electronic age. Sponsor: Madeleine Zelin. Linda Ann Tvrdy. Constitutional rights in a common law world: The reconstruction of North Carolinas legal order, 1863-1880. Sponsor: Eric Foner. Toru Umezaki. The Free University of New York: The American sixties in the age of three worlds. Sponsor: Eric Foner.
Ph.D. in industrial engineering and Operations Research

operations research
Nur avdarolu. Three essays on dynamic pricing and resource allocation. Sponsor: Soulaymane Kachani. Krzysztof Marcin Choromaski. Tournaments with forbidden substructures and the Erds-Hajnal conjecture. Sponsor: Maria Chudnovsky. Behzad Nouri. Contingent capital: Valuation and risk implications under alternative conversion mechanisms. Sponsor: Paul Glasserman. Zhiwei Qin. Optimization algorithms for structured machine learning and image processing problems. Sponsor: Donald Goldfarb.
Yixi Shi. Rare events in stochastic systems: Modeling, simulation design, and algorithm analysis. Sponsor: Jose H. Blanchet. Ana Cecilia Zenteno Langle. Models for managing surge capacity in the face of an influenza epidemic. Sponsor: Daniel Bienstock.
Xingbo Xu. Financial portfolio risk management: Model risk, robustness, and rebalancing error. Sponsor: Paul Glasserman.
Ph.D. in Italian
Davide Bolognesi. Dante and the Friars Minor: Aesthetics of the apocalypse. Sponsor: Teodolinda Barolini. Valentina Nocentini. Il palcoscenico della guerra di Libia: Protagonisti, retorica, nazione, 1911-1912. Sponsor: Elizabeth Leake.
Julie Georges Marie Christine Van Peteghem. Italian readers of Ovid: From the origins to Dante. Sponsor: Teodolinda Barolini.
Lynn Erin MacKenzie. Dantes manhoods: Authorial masculinities before the Commedia. Sponsor: Teodolinda Barolini.
Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures

DISSERTATIONs DEpositED
Mnica de la Torre. Nobody there: Acousmatics and an alternative economy of meaning in Latin American poetry of the 1970s. Sponsor: Carlos J. Alonso.
Ph.D. in Mathematics
Daniel Disegni. p-adic heights of Heegner points on Shimura curves. Sponsor: Shou-Wu Zhang. Alexander Palen Ellis. Odd symmetric functions and categorification. Sponsor: Mikhail Khovanov. Kristen Elyse Hendricks. Localization and Heegaard Floer homology. Sponsor: Robert Lipshitz. You Qi. Hopfological algebra. Sponsor: Mikhail Khovanov. Yu Wang. Local regularity of the complex Monge-Ampre equation. Sponsor: Duong H. Phong. Yanhong Yang. Purity of the stratification by Newton polygons and Frobenius-periodic vector bundles. Sponsor: Aise Johan de Jong. Fan Zhou. Sato-Tate problem for GL(3). Sponsor: Dorian Goldfeld.
Andre Rubens Franca Carneiro. A geometric construction of a Calabi quasimorphism on complex projective space. Sponsor: Dusa McDuff. Andrew Lawrence Fanoe. Properties of Hamiltonian torus actions. Sponsor: Dusa McDuff. Luis Emilio Garcia Martinez. Singular theta lifts and special values of Rankin-Selberg L-functions. Sponsor: Shou-Wu Zhang. Zachary Alexander Maddock. Regular del Pezzo surfaces with irregularity and intersection numbers on quotients in geometric invariant theory. Sponsor: Aise Johan de Jong.
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Changyao Chen. Graphene nanoelectromechanical resonators and oscillators. Sponsor: James C. Hone. Michael Brandon Grad. The integration of active silicon components in polymer microfluidic devices. Sponsor: Qiao Lin. John Paul Hilton. Microfluidic selection and applications of aptamers. Sponsor: Qiao Lin. Shan-Ting Hsu. Effect of laser-induced crystallinity modification on degradation and drug release of biodegradable polymer. Sponsor: Y. Lawrence Yao. Bhavik Bharat Nathwani. Structural characterization of primary cilia using accelerated piezoelectrically driven STED nanoscopy. Sponsor: Jung-Chi Liao. Oya Okman. Nanoporous gold: Mechanics of fabrication and actuation. Sponsor: Jeffrey W. Kysar. Yuyao Shan. Synthesis of single-wall carbon nanotube arrays and their application in single molecular electronics. Sponsor: James C. Hone.
Yunde Shi. Robustification in repetitive and iterative learning control. Sponsor: Richard W. Longman. Bin Wang. MEMS-based temperature-dependent characterization of biomolecular interactions. Sponsor: Qiao Lin. Mehmet Yilmaz. Batch-compatible integration of nanowires with uniaxial micro tensile testing platforms. Sponsor: Jeffrey W. Kysar. Yao Zhou. Microfluidic concentration gradient generation and integrated magnetic sorting of microparticles. Sponsor: Qiao Lin.
Edwin S. Ahn. Addressing stability robustness, period uncertainties, and startup of multiple-period repetitive control for jitter mitigation in spacecraft. Sponsor: Richard W. Longman.
Ph.D. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection

Brie Whitney Falkard. Investigations into the metabolic requirements for lipoic acid and lipid species during the life cycle of the malarial parasite Plasmodium berghei. Sponsor: David A. Fidock. Esther Francisco. Sensing of picornavirus infections. Sponsor: Vincent Racaniello.
Mowgli Clearwater Holmes. The intracellular kinetics of HIV-1 replication. Sponsor: Saul J. Silverstein. Christal Lourdes Vitiello. Mechanism of transcription arrest by the Nun protein of bacteriophage HK022. Sponsor: Maxwell E. Gottesman.
Ph.D. in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies

Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi. Revolutions and Rough Cuts: Bodily technologies for regulating sexuality in contemporary Iran. Sponsor: Hamid Dabashi. Rebecca Gould. The political aesthetic of the medieval Persian prison poem, 1100-1200. Sponsor: Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi. Shira Hadad. A thousand names they called Him: Naming and proper names in the work of S. Y. Agnon. Sponsor: Dan Miron. Elizabeth Eva Johnston. Reading science in the early writings of Leopold Zunz and Rifaa Rafi al-Tahtawi: On beginnings of the Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Nahda. Sponsor: Gil Anidjar. Omar Khalid Khalifah. Nasser in the Egyptian imaginary. Sponsor: Noha Radwan. Mohamad Khan. The broken spell: The romance genre in late Mughal India. Sponsor: Frances W. Pritchett.
Dina A. Ramadan. The aesthetics of the modern: Art, education, and taste in Egypt, 1903-1952. Sponsor: Timonthy Mitchell. Yasmine Aly Ramadan. Shifting ground: Spatial representations in the literature of the sixties generation in Egypt. Sponsor: Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi. Linda Sayed. Sectarian homes: The making of Shii families and citizens under the French mandate, 1918-1943. Sponsors: Rashid Khalidi and Hamid Dabashi.
Leyla Amzi-Erdodular. Afterlife of empire: MuslimOttoman relations in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina, 1878-1914. Sponsor: Mark A. Mazower. Yasmine Mohammed Adnan Khayyat. Memory in ruins: The poetics of All in Lebanese wartime and postwar cultural production. Sponsor: Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi.
D.M.A. in Music
Oscar Bianchi. Generative processes in Stockhausens Lichter-Wasser. Sponsor: Alfred W. Lerdahl. Sampo Elias Haapamki. Order in Dsordre: Rhythmic and melodic structure in Gyrgy Ligetis Piano Etude no. 1; Velinikka: Concerto for quarter-tone accordion and chamber orchestra. Sponsor: Alfred W. Lerdahl.
Stephen Hart Lehman. Liminality as a framework for composition: Rhythmic thresholds, spectral harmonies, and Afrological improvisation. Sponsor: George E. Lewis. Samuel Francis Pluta. Laptop improvisation in a multidimensional space. Sponsor: Bradford Garton.
Joshua Frederick Cody. Nono and Marxist aesthetics. Sponsor: Alfred W. Lerdahl.
Ph.D. in Music
Corbett Dixon Bazler. The comedies of opera seria: Handels post-Academy operas, 1738-1741. Sponsor: Karen Henson. Beau Denny Bothwell. Song, state, Sawa: Music and political radio between the United States and Syria. Sponsor: Ellie M. Hisama. Daniel Maurice Callahan. The dancer from the music: Choreomusicalities in twentieth-century American modern dance. Sponsor: Karen Henson. Simn Calle. Reinterpreting the global, rearticulating the local: Nueva msica colombiana, networks, circulation, and affect. Sponsor: Ana Mara Ochoa. Louise Elizabeth Chernosky. Voices of new music on National Public Radio: Radio Net, RadioVisions, and Maritime Rites. Sponsor: Ellie M. Hisama. Sean Russell Hallowell. The dploration as musical idea. Sponsor: Giuseppe Gerbino. Timothy Roark Mangin. Mbalax: Cosmopolitanism in Senegalese urban popular music. Sponsor: George E. Lewis.
Kristy Kaye Riggs. On colonial textuality and difference: Musical encounters with French colonialism in nineteenth-century Algeria. Sponsors: Walter M. Frisch and Karen Henson. Mark Seto. Symphonic culture in Paris, 1880-1900: The bande Franck and beyond. Sponsor: Walter M. Frisch. Victoria Dobrinova Tzotzkova. Theorizing pianistic experience: Tradition, instrument, performer. Sponsor: George E. Lewis. Amber Lynne Youell. The contest of virtue and pleasure: Opera and reform in Glucks Vienna. Sponsor: Elaine Sisman.
Nicholas Andreas Higgins. Confusion in the Karnatic capital: Fusion in Chennai, India. Sponsor: Christopher Washburne.
Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior

Lily Chau. Modeling Alzheimers disease using cellular reprogramming technologies. Sponsor: Asa Abeliovich. Christine Marie Constantinople. Subcortical inputs governing cortical network activity. Sponsor: Randy M. Bruno. Neil Allen Gray. The role of the serotonergic neurotransmitter system in the development and treatment of affective disorders. Sponsor: Jay Gingrich. William H. Hinkle. Neural mechanisms mediating the effects of food cues and acute exercise: A functional magnetic resonance imaging and functional connectivity investigation. Sponsor: Joy Hirsch. Burcin Ikiz. Unraveling the molecular mechanism underlying ALS-linked astrocyte toxicity for motor neurons. Sponsor: Serge Przedborski. Bethany L. Johnson-Kerner. The role of gigaxonin in the regulation of intermediate filaments: A study using giant axonal neuropathy patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cell-motor neurons. Sponsor: Hynek Wichterle. Linda Hua Lee. Amyloid-beta signaling in physiology and pathology: From astrocytes to SUMO. Sponsor: Ottavio Arancio.
Rebecca Jeannette Levy. Exploring the role of Rapgef6 in neuropsychiatric disorders. Sponsor: Joseph A. Gogos. Derek Hayden Oakley. Human stem cells for modeling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease mechanisms and modifiers. Sponsor: Christopher E. Henderson. Catherine Jensen Pea. Variation in postpartum maternal care programs the development of neuroendocrine and mesolimbic dopamine pathways in female offspring. Sponsor: Frances A. Champagne. Alexandro D. Ramirez. Methods for solving the neural code in high dimensions. Sponsor: Liam Paninski. Rebecca Allyson Saez. Representations of relative value coding in the orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala. Sponsor: C. Daniel Salzman. David Michael Schneider. Neural mechanisms for sparse, informative, and background-invariant coding of vocalizations. Sponsor: Sarah M. N. Woolley. Michelle Udarbe Umali. Neural correlates of emotional and cognitive influences on visual search. Sponsor: Joy Hirsch. Florence Prabha Varodayan. Alcohol alters the expression of soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs) and spontaneous -aminobutyric acid (GABA) release via activation of the transcription factor heat shock factor 1 (HSF1). Sponsor: Neil L. Harrison.
Elizabeth Erin Crouch. Adult neural stem cells and their perivascular niche. Sponsor: Fiona Doetsch. Saul Sen Kato. Signal processing function and mechanism in sensory neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans. Sponsor: Laurence F. Abbott.
Maxim Valerievich Nikitchenko. Inference of neural connectivity and convergence acceleration methods. Sponsor: Liam Paninski. Carl Edward Schoonover. Efficacy and dendritic organization of thalamocortical synapses onto excitatory layer 4 neurons. Sponsor: Randy M. Bruno. Qing Wang. Molecular identity and specification of crossed and uncrossed retinal ganglion cells. Sponsor: Carol A. Mason.
Ph.D. in Nursing
Shanelle Nelson. Organizational climate and hospital infection preventionists. Sponsor: Patricia W. Stone. Andrew Bartlett Phillips. An intergrative review of the literature on technology transformation in healthcare. Sponsor: Jacqueline Merrill.
Annie Jill Rohan. Pain-associated stressor exposure and cortisol values at 37 postmenstrual weeks for premature infants in neonatal intensive care. Sponsor: Mary Woods Byrne.
Ph.D. in Nutritional and Metabolic Biology

Devangini Vinod Gandhi. Distinct roles of retinoid signaling in the lower urinary tract. Sponsor: Cathy Mendelsohn.
James Papizan. Structure-function analysis of the essential islet regulatory factor Nkx2.2. Sponsor: Lori Sussel. Kelly Valentine Ruggles. Cellular fatty acid toxicity: Extrapolating yeast screens into mammalian models. Sponsor: Stephen L. Sturley.
Ph.D. in Pathobiology and Molecular Medicine

Nsikan Enekan Akpan. The intrinsic caspase death pathway in stroke neurodegeneration. Sponsor: Carol Troy. Angela Yuanyuan Jia. The role of microRNAs in bladder urothelium development and tumorigenesis. Sponsor: Carlo Cordon-Cardo.
Kimberly Shauntae Point du Jour. The role of phospholipase D1 in trafficking and processing of amyloid precursor protein. Sponsor: Gilbert Di Paolo.
Rosa Leonora Andrea de Vries. Mitophagy in neurodegeneration. Sponsor: Serge Przedborski.
Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Molecular Signaling

Tahilia Jay Rebello. Serotonin modulates the maturation of the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus: Relevance to the etiology of emotional and cognitive behaviors. Sponsor: Jay Gingrich. Minerva Yue Wong. Dopamine modulates corticostriatal inputs during motor command signaling. Sponsor: David Sulzer.
Hideaki Yano. Deconstructing G protein-coupled receptor dimer pharmacology: Case studies in dopamine D1 and D2 receptors. Sponsor: Jonathan A. Javitch.
Matthew Le-Khac. Structure-based design of small molecule inhibitors of HIV-1 entry. Sponsor: Wayne A. Hendrickson.
Ph.D. in Philosophy
Michael Brent. The power of agency. Sponsor: Akeel Bilgrami. Dehlia Hannah. Performative experiments: Case studies in the philosophy of art, science, and technology. Sponsor: Lydia Goehr. Brian Hyun Kim. The context-sensitivity of rationality and knowledge. Sponsor: John D. Collins. Felix Koch. Voluntarism and reflection. Sponsor: Frederick Neuhouser. Alexander Maron Madva. The hidden mechanisms of prejudice: Implicit bias and interpersonal fluency. Sponsor: Christia Mercer. Marco Jacob Nathan. Causation and explanation in molecular developmental biology. Sponsor: Philip Kitcher.
Andreja Novakovic. Second nature and ethical life: Habit, culture, and critique in Hegels science of right. Sponsor: Frederick Neuhouser. Katherine Rickus. Anatomies of affect: An examination of emotions as processes. Sponsor: Lydia Goehr. Beau Carmel Shaw. Authenticity and death in Being and Time. Sponsor: Taylor Carman. L. Nandi Theunissen. The value of humanity. Sponsor: Katja Vogt. Anubav Vasudevan. Symmetry and probability. Sponsor: Haim Gaifman.
Ariadna Pop. Making sense of faultless disagreement. Sponsor: Katja Vogt.
Ph.D. in Physics
Stein Pontus Ahlqvist. Exploring the string landscape: The dynamics, statistics, and cosmology of parallel worlds. Sponsor: Brian Greene. Aaron Richard Angerami. Jet quenching in relativistic heavy ion collisions at the LHC. Sponsor: Brian A. Cole. Tsuguo Aramaki. An accelerator measurement of atomic X-ray yields in exotic atoms and implications for an antideuteron-based dark matter search. Sponsor: Charles J. Hailey. Imre Bartos. Gravitation and multimessenger astrophysics. Sponsor: Szabolcs Mrka. Alessandro Buzzatti. Jet quenching in quark gluon plasma: Flavor tomography at RHIC and LHC by the CUJET model. Sponsor: Miklos Gyulassy. Yujiao Chen. Charged particle multiplicity and open heavy flavor physics in relativistic heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Sponsor: Brian A. Cole. Bin Choi. The light response of the XENON100 time projection chamber and the measurements of the optical parameters with the xenon scintillation light. Sponsor: Elena Aprile. Mina Fazlollahi. Inferring transcriptional and posttranscriptional network structure by exploiting natural sequence variation. Sponsor: Szabolcs Mrka.
Arthur James Franke. Searching for reactor antineutrino flavor oscillations with the Double Chooz far detector. Sponsor: Michael H. Shaevitz. Kyungeun Lim. XENON100 dark matter search: Scintillation response of liquid xenon to electronic recoils. Sponsor: Elena Aprile. Nan Lin. Cluster dynamical mean-field theory: Applications to high-Tc cuprates and to quantum chemistry. Sponsor: Andrew J. Millis. Oleksandra Victorovna Lyulko. Simultaneous immersion Mirau interferometry. Sponsor: Robert D. Mawhinney. Matthew Henry Toups. A search for electron antineutrino disappearance with the Double Chooz far detector. Sponsor: Michael H. Shaevitz. Eric Lloyd Williams. Search for excited RandallSundrum gravitons with semi-leptonic diboson final states in 4.7 fb-1 of pp collisions using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Sponsor: Michael Tuts. Hantao Yin. Precision lattice calculation of kaon decays with Mbius domain wall fermions. Sponsor: Robert D. Mawhinney.
Solomon George Endlich. The effective field theory approach to fluid dynamics. Sponsor: Alberto Nicolis.
Ph.D. in Political Science

Gordon N. Bardos. Ethnoconfessional nationalism in the Balkans: Analysis, manifestations, and management. Sponsor: Timothy M. Frye. Simon Collard-Wexler. Understanding resistance to foreign occupation. Sponsor: Virginia Page Fortna. Axel Domeyer. Toward a European Bund: The constitutionalism deficit of integration and how to fix it. Sponsor: Jean L. Cohen. Sinem Grbey. Rethinking popular sovereignty and secularism in Turkey and beyond. Sponsor: Jean L. Cohen. Patrice Zakia Howard. Economic empowerment and political participation: The political impact of microfinance in Senegal. Sponsor: Macartan Humphreys. Carlo Emanuele Invernizzi Accetti. Relativism in democracy: Response to a new form of political theology. Sponsor: Nadia Urbinati. Katherine Lyn Krimmel. Special interest partisanship: The transformation of American political parties. Sponsor: Ira Katznelson. Jeffrey Adam Lenowitz. Why ratification? Questioning the unexamined constitution-making procedure. Sponsors: Melissa Schwartzberg and Jon Elster. David Joseph OConnell. God wills it: Presidents and the political use of religion. Sponsor: Ira Katznelson. Thomas Kenneth Ogorzalek. The cities on the hill: Urban politics in national institutions. Sponsor: Ira Katznelson.
Robert Martin Scott. Prospective balance: Loss aversion and consistency in international relations. Sponsor: Robert Jervis. Dessislava Pencheva Zagorcheva. Statesmen, soldiers, and strategy: The influence of civil-military relations on United States national security decision-making. Sponsor: Robert Jervis.
Candace Hortensia Blake. Choosing an international legal regime: How much justice would you trade for peace? Sponsor: Andrew J. Nathan. Sayres Steven Rudy. Citizen-subjectivity, experiential evaluation, and activist strategies: Explaining Algerian violence and Polish peace under authoritarian rule. Sponsor: Mark Kesselman. Shiau-Chi Shen. State and national identity formation: Explaining the dynamics of national identity change in Taiwan, 1991-2011. Sponsor: Andrew J. Nathan. Kaori Shoji. Party leaders and institutional reform: Manipulation and unintended consequences. Sponsor: Robert Y. Shapiro. Oscar Torres-Reyna. Origins and use of presidential polling in Mexico; Presidential approval in Mexico; Government spending and public opinion in Mexico. Sponsor: Robert Y. Shapiro. Andrej Tusicisny. Reciprocity and prejudice: An experiment of Hindu-Muslim cooperation in the slums of Mumbai. Sponsor: Jack L. Snyder.
Ph.D. in Psychology
Changbum Jason Park. Assessing rod, cone, and melanopsin contributions to the human pupil response in healthy controls and in patients with disease of the photoreceptors. Sponsor: Donald Hood. Dobromir Asenov Rahnev. On the conservative influence of attention on subjective perceptual decision making. Sponsor: Hak-wan Lau.
Jennifer Ashley Silvers. Behavioral and neural bases of emotion regulation in childhood and adolescence. Sponsor: Kevin Ochsner. George Elliott Wimmer. Learning and memory systems supporting decision making in the human brain. Sponsor: Daphna Shohamy.
Karen Jeanne Kelly. Metacognition of emotion recognition. Sponsor: Janet Metcalfe.
Ph.D. in Religion
DISSERTATIONS DEPOSITED Dissertations defended
Patton Burchett. Bhakti religion and tantric magic in Mughal India: Kacchvhs, Rmmands, and Nths, circa 1500-1750. Sponsor: Rachel McDermott. Joshua Even Eisen. Stammaitic activity versus Stammaitic chronology: Anonymitys impact on the legal narrative of the Babylonian Talmud. Sponsor: David Weiss Halivni. Ehud Halperin. Hadimb becoming herself: A Himalayan goddess in change. Sponsor: John Stratton Hawley. Frank Griffin Shepard. The sickness unto life: Nietzsches diagnosis of the Christian condition. Sponsor: Wayne Proudfoot. Daniel Vaca III. Book people: Evangelical books and the making of contemporary evangelicalism. Sponsor: Randall Balmer. Gheorghita Zugravu. Kassia the Melodist and the making of a Byzantine hymnographer. Sponsor: John Anthony McGuckin.
Susan Patricia Andrews. Representing Mount Wutais past. Sponsor: Chun-fang Yu. Joseph Mark McClellan. Poisoned ground: The roots of Eurocentrism: Teleology, hierarchy, and anthropocentrism. Sponsor: Robert Thurman. Asha Kalyani Moorthy. A seal of faith: Rereading Paul on circumcision, Torah, and the Gentiles. Sponsor: John Anthony McGuckin. Heather Christine Ohaneson. Free to play: An analysis in aesthetic, ethical, and religious movements. Sponsor: Wayne Proudfoot. Gregory Adam Scott. Conversion by the book: Buddhist Culture in Republican China. Sponsor: Chun-fang Yu. Michelle Janet Sorensen. Making the old new again and again: Legitimation and innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chd tradition. Sponsor: Robert Thurman. Hamsa Michael Stainton. Poetry, praise, and prayer: Stotras in the religious and literary history of Kashmir. Sponsor: John Stratton Hawley.
Ph.D. in Slavic Languages

Anna Dvigubski. The figured author: Authorial cameos in post-Romantic Russian literature. Sponsor: Irina Reyfman. Maria Magdalena Dzieduszycka. The Romantic other: Adam Mickiewicz in Russia, 1824-1829. Sponsor: Boris Gasparov. Elizabeth Irene Kosakowska. On the crossroads of science, philosophy, and literature: Andrey Belys Petersburg. Sponsor: Boris Gasparov.
Jack Faust Matlock, Jr. Leskov into English: On translating Church Folks. Sponsor: Catharine Thiemer Nepomnyashchy.
Andrew Benjamin Hicks. Negotiating the form of postwar Stalinist novels. Sponsor: Catharine Thiemer Nepomnyashchy. Steven Brett Shaklan. Doomed to irony, condemned to laughter: The structure and function of irony in the prose fiction of Nikolai Gogol. Sponsor: Cathy L. Popkin.
Ph.D. in Social Work

Liana Elizabeth Fox. Three papers on the black-white mobility gap in the United States. Sponsor: Jane Waldfogel. David Brooks Harris. The child tax credit: How the United States underinvests in its youngest children in cash assistance and how changes to the child tax credit could help. Sponsor: Irwin Garfinkel. Leona Elizabeth Hess. Intersectionality: A systematic review and application to explore the complexity of teen pregnancy involvement. Sponsor: Elwin Wu.
Nathan David Hutto. The relationship between proximity to homicide and birth outcomes. Sponsor: Julien O. Teitler. Michael Navejas. Sexual risk among men who have sex with men with online sex partners in New York City: Insight using the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Web-based HIV behavioral surveillance and national HIV behavioral surveillance. Sponsor: Julien O. Teitler.
Lydia Peckham Ogden. My life as it is has value: A narrative approach to understanding life course experiences of older adults with schizophrenia. Sponsor: Denise Burnette. Frederica P. Perera. The health and well-being of children from the perspective of social and environmental health policy. Sponsor: Julien O. Teitler. Natasha Vanessa Pilkauskas. Three-generation family households and child wellbeing. Sponsor: Jane Waldfogel. Bright Eli Sarfo. Relationship dependencies and autonomy as mediation pathways of incarceration and HIV risk outcomes among low-income drug-involved adults. Sponsor: Nabila El-Bassel. Alex Smolak. Multilevel factors associated with uptake of biomedical HIV prevention strategies in the Muslim world: A study of Central Asia, India, and Mali. Sponsor: Nabila El-Bassel. Afshin Zilanawala. Womens time poverty: Differences by family structure, employment, and gender ideology. Sponsor: Julien O. Teitler.
Astraea Augsberger. Youth participation in child welfare decision-making: A focused ethnography. Sponsor: Vicki Lens. Catherine Elizabeth Carlson. Three essays analyzing the impact of community and neighborhood factors on intimate partner violence against women in Uganda. Sponsor: Denise Burnette. Amy Sheila Kapadia. Race-ethnic discrimination, major depression, and alcohol use disorder among U.S.born and immigrant minorities: Using a nationally representative sample to test the moderating relationships of cultural and social factors. Sponsor: Ellen P. Lukens. Ofira Schwartz-Soicher. The role of the neighborhood fast-food environment in weight status of inner-city children. Sponsor: Julien O. Teitler. Gretchen Thomas Sofocleous. Sexual and non-sexual juvenile offenders: Developmental antecedents and behavioral outcomes. Sponsor: Julien O. Teitler.
Ph.D. in Sociology
Larissa Buchholz. The global rules of art. Sponsor: Gil Eyal. Ho-Dae Chong. Controlling and organizing the network structure of Korean business groups, 1997-2003. Sponsor: Peter S. Bearman. Aurora Fredriksen. Making humanitarian spaces global: Coordinating crisis response through the Cluster Approach. Sponsor: Saskia Sassen. Jennifer Mari Kondo. The spatial and temporal diffusion of museums in New York City, 1910-2010. Sponsor: Peter S. Bearman.
Natacha Stevanovic. Remittances and moral economies of Bangladeshi New York immigrants in light of the economic crisis. Sponsor: Karen Barkey. Matthias Thiemann. Out of the shadow? Accounting for special purpose entities in European banking systems. Sponsor: Thomas A. DiPrete.
Joscha Phillipp H. Legewie. School context: Peers and the educational achievement of girls and boys. Sponsor: Thomas A. DiPrete. Emine ncler. Globalization and the networks of expertise in Turkey: The politics of autism. Sponsor: Gil Eyal.
Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences

Le Minh Giang. Governing masculinity: How structures shape the lives and health of dislocated men in post-Doi Moi Vietnam. Sponsor: Richard Parker. Maria Dulce Ferrer Natividad. Reproductive politics, religion, and state governance in the Philippines. Sponsor: Carole S. Vance. Destiny Quiana Simone Ramjohn. A qualitative examination of HIV-positive identity and vocational identity development among female adolescents and young adults living with HIV in New York City. Sponsor: Helen-Maria Lekas.
Abigail Alice Edgecliffe-Johnson. Caught pregnant: Wresting and relinquishing control over motherhood in Manchester, U.K. Sponsor: Carole S. Vance. Nora Jane Kenworthy. What only heaven hears: Citizens and the state in the wake of HIV scale-up. Sponsor: Richard Parker.
Ph.D. in Statistics
Ivor John Cribben. Detecting dependence change points in multivariate time series with applications in neuroscience and finance. Sponsor: Martin A. Lindquist. Heng Liu. Some models for time series of counts. Sponsor: Richard A. Davis. Subhankar Sadhukhan. On optimal arbitrage under constraints. Sponsor: Ioannis Karatzas. Emilio Francisco Seijo Solis. Statistical inference in two nonstandard regression problems. Sponsor: Bodhisattva Sen.
Tony Sit. Contributions to semiparametric inference to biased-sampled and financial data. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying. Gongjun Xu. Statistical inference for diagnostic classification models. Sponsors: Jingchen Liu and Zhiliang Ying. Pengfei Zang. Modeling strategies for large dimensional vector autoregressions. Sponsors: Richard A. Davis and Tian Zheng.
Junyi Zhang. Estimation and testing methods for monotone transformation models. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying.
Ph.D. in Sustainable Development

Jesse Keith Anttila-Hughes. Essays on sustainable development and human capital. Sponsor: Douglas Almond. Geoffrey Louis Chi-Johnston. Mathematical modeling of malaria: Theories of malaria elimination. Sponsor: David A. Fidock. Kyle Chuan Meng. Essays in the economics and political economy of climate change. Sponsor: Bernard Salani.
Aly D. W. Sanoh. Essays on infrastructure development and public finance. Sponsor: Vijay Modi.
Xiaojia Bao. Three papers on environment-related decision-making and development in China. Sponsor: Upmanu Lall.
Ph.D. programs at TEACHERS COLLEGE

anthropology and education
Rehenuma Asmi. Language in the mirror: Language ideologies, schooling, and Islam in Qatar. Sponsor: Herv H. Varenne. Juliette Lynn de Wolfe. Parents speak: An ethnographic study of autism parents. Sponsor: Herv H. Varenne.
Kirsten Erin Hunt. The social economy of buying, selling, trading, and consuming drugs: A comparison of individual and subcultural strategies among methamphetamine users and dealers in two cities. Sponsor: Lambros Comitas. Sayaka Uchikawa. Less is not enough: The dilemma of alternative primary schooling opportunities in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sponsor: Lambros Comitas.
Kamil Yilmaz. Individual disengagement of Turkish penitents from political violence as rite of passage: Voices from the cracks of the social structure. Sponsor: Charles C. Harrington.
Kelly Michelle Nims. The Goffal speaks: Coloured ideology and the perpetuation of a category in postcolonial Zimbabwe. Sponsor: George C. Bond.
applied anthropology
APPLIED behavioral analysis

Grace L. Chao. Elite status in the Peoples Republic of China: Its formation and maintenance. Sponsor: Charles C. Harrington.
Victoria Lynn Sterkin. The effects of the social listener reinforcement protocol on the audience control of stereotypy and social operants for students with developmental delays. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer.
Claire S. Cahill. Actions and objects: Observing responses and the role of multiple stimulus control in incidental language acquisition. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer. Jessica Adele Neu. The effects of observation of learn units under reinforcement and correction conditions on the rate of learning math algorithms by fifth-grade students. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer. Lisa Dawn Tullo. The joining of speaker and listener vocabularies as a result of the induction of naming. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer.
behavioral nutrition
Sherrie M. Kim. Affective cultural countertransference reactions to Asian American clients: A mixed-methods exploratory study. Sponsor: Barry A. Farber. Joseph Connor McGowan. Religious affiliation and gender: Differences in the association between religiousness and psychological distress. Sponsor: Elizabeth Midlarsky. George Coolidge Nitzburg. Effects of exposure to parental divorce on the sibling relationship in emerging adults. Sponsor: Barry A. Farber. Erica Roizen. Neuropsychological test performance and other predictors of adult outcome in a prospective followup study of children with ADHD. Sponsor: Helen Verdeli.
Mary F. Di Giorgi. Factors associated with long-term weight regain after bariatric surgery. Sponsor: Isobel R. Contento. Elena J. Ladas. Dietary intake among children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Sponsor: Randi L. Wolf. Dalia Majumdar. Evaluation of Creature101: Can a curriculum-based serious health game promote healthy eating and physical activity among middle school children? Sponsor: Isobel R. Contento.
Steven Pirutinsky. Interpersonal religious struggles within Orthodox Jewish families with adolescent children in Israel. Sponsor: Elizabeth Midlarsky. Dmitri Aaron Young. Predictors of obesity in adults: The roles of demographic factors, body dissatisfaction, depression, and life stress. Sponsor: Elizabeth Midlarsky.
cognitive studies in education

Lorraine Mull. Associations among measures of weight status, energy-balance-related behaviors, and psychosocial mediators in urban upper elementary children. Sponsor: Isobel R. Contento. Kathleen Joyce Porter. Bringing nutrition education programs from outside sources into the classroom: The experience of New York City public elementary schools. Sponsor: Isobel R. Contento. Marguerite Marie Zaharek. Beliefs about diet and colorectal cancer prevention in an urban population. Sponsor: Randi L. Wolf.
clinical psychology
Ashley Brown Bullock. The expression and regulation of sadness in complicated grief. Sponsor: George A. Bonanno. Sarah Evans Feldman. The impact of outness and lesbian, gay, and bisexual identity formation on mental health. Sponsor: Barry A. Farber. Mia Ann Ihm. A pilot fidelity study of Listen-EmpathizeAgree-Partner (LEAP) with Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) mental health clinicians. Sponsor: Barry A. Farber.
Eliza Jane Bobek. Visualizing the invisible: Generating explanations of scientific phenomena. Sponsor: Barbara Tversky. Kara Kilmartin Carpenter. Strategy instruction in early-childhood math software: Detecting and teaching single-digit addition strategies. Sponsor: Herbert P. Ginsburg. Seokmin Kang. As I sow, so shall you reap: The different roles of different gestures in knowledge construction. Sponsor: John B. Black. Chaille Maddox. An electroencephalogram investigation of two modes of reasoning. Sponsor: Karen Froud. David Lee Mason. Use of external representations in reasoning about causality. Sponsor: James E. Corter. Wendy Nicole Moore. The use of evidence in young adolescents argumentation. Sponsor: Deanna Kuhn. Danielle Lisa Sussan. The effects of a behavioral metacognitive task in high school biology students. Sponsor: John B. Black.
James G. Atkins. The effect of explicit teaching of comprehension strategies on reading comprehension in elementary school. Sponsor: Joanna P. Williams. Na Li. Designing better scaffolding in teaching complex systems with graphical simulations. Sponsor: John B. Black.
Dana Lenore Pagar. The effects of a grouping-bytens manipulative on childrens strategy use, base-ten understanding, and mathematical knowledge. Sponsor: Herbert P. Ginsburg.
comparative and international education

Elizabeth Beaubrun. Distance-learner ecologies of the University of the West Indies Open Campus program. Sponsor: Hope Jensen Leichter. Tricia A. Callender. Thank you for not coming? Polity, politics, and policy: How education stakeholders interpret post-apartheid education policies for immigrants in South Africathe case of Cape Town. Sponsor: Hope Jensen Leichter. Adrian Franco Espinosa de los Monteros. Who needs and who wants financial education? A study of the characteristics of Mexican immigrants participating in a financial-education program in New York City. Sponsor: Francisco Rivera-Batiz. Susana Martnez Restrepo. The economics of adolescents time allocation: Evidence from the Young Agent project in Brazil. Sponsor: Francisco RiveraBatiz. Maham Abbas Mela. How public-private partnerships and Islam are related to student achievement: A case study of Pakistan. Sponsor: Henry M. Levin. Pamela Therese Newkirk. Tuskegee, Achimota, and the construction of black transcultural identity. Sponsor: George C. Bond. Rattana Sae-Lao. The logic of the Thai higher education sector on quality assessment policy. Sponsor: Gita Steiner-Khamsi. Satoko Yano. Overeducated? The impact of higher education expansion in post-transition Mongolia. Sponsor: Mun C. Tsang.
Lauren Dyan Fisher. Antecedents and outcomes of sexual orientation disclosure in the workplace among lesbians. Sponsor: George V. Gushue. Schekeva Pamela Hall. The role of racial socialization and ethnocentrism in the racial identity development of second-generation black West Indian Americans. Sponsor: Robert T. Carter. Yi-Jung Lee. Exploring the impact of Asian stereotype endorsement, multicultural counseling competence, and motivation to respond without prejudice on white therapists clinical judgment. Sponsor: George V. Gushue. David Paul Rivera. Microaggressions and health outcomes for Latina/o Americans: Understanding the influences of external characteristics and psychological resources. Sponsor: Derald Wing Sue. Sidney Smith III. The influence of spiritual coping and racial identity on psychological well-being in black Americans. Sponsor: Robert T. Carter. Roshnee Vzquez. Examining the relationship between gender roles and attitudes toward rape victims among Latino/as in the United States. Sponsor: Robert T. Carter. Nicole L. Watkins. Disarming microaggressions: How black college students self-regulate racial stressors within predominantly white institutions. Sponsor: Derald Wing Sue.
developmental psychology
Erin Kathleen Bumgarner. Latino American children and school readiness: The role of early care arrangements and caregiver language. Sponsor: Jeanne BrooksGunn. Jondou Chase Chen. No crime left behind: Exposure to neighborhood violence and school performance in New York City. Sponsor: Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.
economics and education

Karen Bryner. Piety projects: Islamic schools for Indonesias urban middle class. Sponsor: Lesley Bartlett.
counseling psychology
Lucinda Bratini. It depends on where you go! The transnational racial consciousness of Dominican immigrants. Sponsor: Marie L. Miville. Melissa J. Halasan Corpus. Out of sight, out of mind: Exploring the mental health of Asian American lesbians. Sponsor: Marie L. Miville.
Ximena Duenas. Internal displacement and the education of school-aged children in Colombia. Sponsor: Francisco Rivera-Batiz. Douglas E. Lynch. Does diversity matter? Evidence from the relationship between an institutions diversity and the salaries of its graduates. Sponsor: Thomas R. Bailey. Izumi Yamasaki. The effect of education on earnings and employment in the informal sector in South Africa. Sponsor: Francisco Rivera-Batiz. You You. Evaluating the effect of new-teacher induction programs on teacher turnover. Sponsor: Mun C. Tsang.
Mehmet Alper Dincer. Education policy issues in Turkey. Sponsor: Francisco Rivera-Batiz. Maria Emma Garcia Garcia. What we learn in the school: Cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the educational production function. Sponsor: Henry M. Levin. Ji Yun Lee. Private tutoring and its impact on students academic achievement, mainstream schooling, and educational inequality in Korea. Sponsor: Henry M. Levin. Steven Troy Simpson. Essays on the economics of education. Sponsor: Judith Scott-Clayton. Di Xu. Improved cost-efficiency or compromised quality? The impact of cost-saving strategies on student outcomes. Sponsor: Thomas R. Bailey.
intellectual disabilities and autism

Abrar M. Al-Jazzaf. Expectations and aspirations of Kuwaiti fathers and mothers towards transition outcomes of their child with a disability in Kuwait. Sponsor: Linda Hickson.
Young Seh Bae. Word-problem solving of students with autistic spectrum disorders and students with typical development. Sponsor: Linda Hickson.
kinesiology
educational leadership
Aimee Marie Layton. Ventilatory mechanics in endurance athletes. Sponsor: Carol Ewing Garber.
Nancy J. Koh. Validation of a theoretical model of diagnostic classroom assessment: A mixed methods study. Sponsor: Madhabi Chatterji. Mei Luo. Reforming curriculum in a centralized system: An examination of the relationships between teacher implementation of student-centered pedagogy and highstakes teacher evaluation policies in China. Sponsor: Madhabi Chatterji. Rachel Beth Rosen. Shortage field incentives: Impacts on teacher retention and recruitment. Sponsor: Douglas David Ready. Megan Reilly Silander. School closure in New York City. Sponsor: Douglas David Ready. Katharine Bartlett Stevens. Opening the black box: Government teacher workforce policy in New York City. Sponsor: Jeffrey Henig. Jeffrey C. Sun. Intellectual freedom of academic scientists: Cases of political challenges involving federally sponsored research on national environmental policies. Sponsor: Jay P. Heubert.
mathematics education
english education
DISSERTATIONS defended
Alison Villanueva. Towards a more global approach to teaching literature. Sponsor: Ruth Vinz.
Inbar Aricha-Metzer. The history of Hebrew secondary mathematics education in Palestine during the first half of the twentieth century. Sponsor: Alexander P. Karp. Mark Gabriel A. Causapin. Mathematics self-efficacy and its relation to proficiency-promoting behavior and performance. Sponsor: Erica N. Walker. Hoyun Cho. The use of cartoons as a teaching tool in middle school mathematics. Sponsor: Bruce R. Vogeli. Philip Charles Dituri. Proof and reasoning in secondary school algebra textbooks. Sponsor: Erica N. Walker. Derege Haileselassie Mussa. Tetrahedra and their nets: Mathematical and pedagogical implications. Sponsor: Bruce R. Vogeli. Audrey Augusta Nasar. A pre-programming approach to algorithmic thinking in high school mathematics. Sponsor: Bruce R. Vogeli. Hasan Shafiq. Examining the effects of gender, poverty, attendance, and ethnicity on algebra, geometry, and trigonometry performance in a public high school. Sponsor: Alexander P. Karp. Jennifer Rebecca Shloming. Analysis of mathematical fiction with geometric themes. Sponsor: Alexander P. Karp.
history and education

James Edward Alford. For alma mater: Fighting for change at historically black colleges and universities. Sponsor: Cally Lyn Waite.
Heather Tiana Gould. Teachers conceptions of mathematical modeling. Sponsor: Bruce R. Vogeli.
measurement and evaluation

Jie Gao. Factors affecting probability matching behavior. Sponsor: James E. Corter. Brian Francis Patterson. Examining the impact of examinee-selected constructed response items in the context of a hierarchical rater signal detection model. Sponsor: Lawrence T. DeCarlo. Kyoko Judy Tanaka. A Bayesian multidimensional scaling model for partial rank preference data. Sponsor: Matthew S. Johnson. Rui Xiang. Nonlinear penalized estimation of true Q-matrix in cognitive diagnostic models. Sponsor: Matthew S. Johnson.
Michelle A. Veyvoda. An investigation into the skill set of speech-language pathologists working with profoundly deaf children. Sponsor: Robert E. Kretschmer.
politics and education

Chad dEntremont. Circles of influence: Rational decision-making, strategic positioning, and the formation of charter school clusters in New Jersey. Sponsor: Jeffrey Henig.
David Lee Wright. The 26th Amendment as a teachable moment: Young adult voter turnout in United States elections, 1972-2006. Sponsor: Jeffrey Henig.
Chen-Miao Chen. Examining uncertainty and misspecifications of attributes with a cognitive diagnostic model. Sponsor: Lawrence T. DeCarlo. Jessica Patricia Marini. An item response theory approach to causal inference. Sponsor: Matthew S. Johnson. Kerry McCloskey Matlosz. Bayesian multidimensional scaling for Likert-scored preference data. Sponsor: Matthew S. Johnson.
school psychology
philosophy and education

Cristina Cammarano. The philosophically educated teacher as traveler. Sponsor: David Hansen. Givanni Marie Ildefonso. Recovering leisure: Otium as the basis of education. Sponsor: David Hansen. Guillermo Jorge Marini. Illuminating art: A philosophical perspective on students and teachers work in art education. Sponsor: Megan Laverty. Christopher Moffett. On the shores of education: Urban bodies, architectural repetitions, and the mythic space of end times. Sponsor: Megan Laverty.
Anna Ward Goodearl. The association between violence exposure and aggression and anxiety: The role of peer relationships in adaptation for middle school students. Sponsor: Marla R. Brassard. Kamauru Rasheed Johnson. The effects of goal orientation and feedback on the notetaking habits and performance of college students. Sponsor: Stephen T. Peverly. Jessica Leah Linick. Emotion recognition, emotion regulation, and callous-unemotional traits in incarcerated male youth. Sponsor: Marla R. Brassard. Lisa Reingold Melmed. Cognitive style as a mediator between parental psychological maltreatment and depression in adolescent boys. Sponsor: Marla R. Brassard. Kelly Lynn Sichel. Aggressive mating strategies in young adolescent girls. Sponsor: Marla R. Brassard.
physical disabilities
Amanda Howerton-Fox. Teacher language awareness in a Swedish bilingual school for the deaf: Two portraits of grammar knowledge in practice. Sponsor: Robert E. Kretschmer.
Leah Anne McGuire. A comparative analysis of revised Childrens Manifest Anxiety Scale scores of traumatized youth with and without PTSD relative to nontraumatized controls. Sponsor: Philip A. Saigh. Erica Michelle Miller. Peer sexual harassment in middle school: Classroom and individual factors. Sponsor: Marla R. Brassard.
science education
DISSERTATIONS DEpositED
Jennifer Lynn Montgomery. A case study of the Preventing Academic Failure Orton-Gillingham approach with five students who are deaf or hard of hearing, using the mediating tool of cued speech. Sponsor: Robert E. Kretschmer.
Alissa Bethany Berg. De-marginalizing science in the early elementary classroom: Fostering reform-based teacher change through professional development, accountability, and addressing teachers dilemmas. Sponsor: Felicia Moore Mensah.
Gita C. P. Bhairam-Raza. Using forensic science as a context to enhance scientific literacy. Sponsor: Felicia Moore Mensah. David Edward Randle. An analysis of interactions and outcomes associated with an online professional development course for science teachers. Sponsor: O. Roger Anderson. Katemari Diogo da Rosa. Gender, ethnicity, and physics education: Understanding how black women build their identities as scientists. Sponsor: Felicia Moore Mensah. Phillip Michael Stewart, Jr. Learning the rules of the game: The nature of game and classroom supports when using a concept-integrated digital physics game in the middle school science classroom. Sponsor: Ann E. Rivet.
sociology and education

Bianca Jontae Baldridge. (Re)imagining black youth: Negotiating the social, political, and institutional dimensions of urban community-based educational spaces. Sponsor: Amy Stuart Wells.
speech and language pathology

social-organizational psychology
Etoile M. LeBlanc. Needs analysis of genetics and genomics in communication sciences and disorders: Evidence for change. Sponsor: John H. Saxman. Dorothy Leone. Childrens perception of conversational and clear American-English vowels in noise. Sponsor: Erika S. Levy.
teaching of social studies

Francis David Golom. Whistling in the wind: Examining the effects of sexual orientation relational demography on individual perceptions of workgroup process and withdrawal. Sponsor: Elissa L. Perry. Yunzi Tan. Variant conflict management: Conceptualizing and investigating team conflict management as a configural construct. Sponsor: Peter T. Coleman.
David Russell Goldberg. Museum-based teacher education: Teacher meaning-making at a Jewish heritage museum. Sponsor: William Gaudelli.
Mekayla Kolean Castro. From the mouths of men: A model of mens perception of social identity threat toward women in the workplace and endorsement of identity safety behaviors. Sponsor: Caryn J. Block.
Aviv Abraham Cohen. Conceptions of citizenship and civic education: Lessons from three Israeli civics classrooms. Sponsor: William Gaudelli. Dennis Joseph Urban, Jr. Toward a framework of inclusive social studies: Obstacles and opportunities in a preservice teacher education program. Sponsor: William Gaudelli.
Ph.D. in Theatre
DISSERTATIONS DEPOSITED Dissertations defended
Nathaniel Graham Nesmith. Freedom and equality now! Contextualizing the nexus between the civil rights movement and drama. Sponsor: Arnold Aronson.
Minou Clare Arjomand. Theatre on trial: Staging postwar justice in the United States and Germany. Sponsor: W. B. Worthen. Shilarna Stokes. Playing the crowd: Mass pageants in Europe and the United States, 1905-1935. Sponsor: Arnold Aronson.
Ph.D. in Urban Planning

James John Timothy Connolly. Institutional change in urban environmentalism: A case study analysis of statelevel land-use legislation in California and New York. Sponsor: Robert A. Beauregard.
Shagun Mehrotra. Reinventing infrastructure economics: Theory and empirics. Sponsors: Hans Smit and Elliott Sclar. John Clancy Powers, Jr. Un-traded interdependencies as a useful theory of regional economic development: A comparative study of innovation in Dublin and Beijing. Sponsor: Susan Fainstein.
addendum
The doctoral candidates listed in the first part of each section completed the final deposit of their dissertations by the printing deadline. Candidates who passed the defense by the printing deadline but have not yet deposited a final dissertation are listed separately; degrees for these students will be conferred following the final submission of their dissertations.
Ph.D. in Anthropology
Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology

Sarah Elizabeth Vaughn. Between a promise and a trench: Citizenship, vulnerability, and climate change in Guyana. Sponsor: David Scott.
Ph.D. in Applied physics & applied mathematics

APPLIED mathematics
David Goluskin. Shear flow driven by convection, and convection driven by internal heating. Sponsors: Edward A. Spiegel and David E. Keyes. Clara Orbe. Applications of steady and transient tracers to the studies of stratosphere-troposphere exchange and tropospheric air mass composition. Sponsor: Lorenzo M. Polvani. Neil Francis Tandon. What is driving changes in the tropospheric circulation? New insights from simplified models. Sponsor: Lorenzo M. Polvani.
Kim Benzel. Pu-abis adornment for the afterlife: Materials and technologies of jewelry at Ur in Mesopotamia. Sponsor: Zainab Bahrani. Susanna Dora Lewis Cole. Space into time: English canals and English landscape painting, 1760-1835. Sponsor: Jonathan Crary. Anna Ratner Hetherington. Melancholy figures: From Bosch to Titian. Sponsor: David Rosand. Arianna Lysandra Packard. The catafalque of Paul V: Architecture, sculpture, and iconography. Sponsor: David Freedberg. Nassim Ellie Rossi. Italian Renaissance depictions of the Ottoman Sultan: Nuances in the function of earlymodern portraiture. Sponsor: David Rosand. Anna Lise Seastrand. Praise, politics, and language: South Indian murals, 1500-1800. Sponsor: Vidya Dehejia.
APPLIED PHYSICS
Matthew Stiles Davis. Measurements of the electron pressure in the levitated dipole experiment (LDX). Sponsor: Michael E. Mauel. Jonathan R. Widawsky. Probing electronic and thermoelectric properties of single-molecule junctions. Sponsor: Latha Venkataraman. Matthew Wales Worstell. Symmetry breaking and the inverse energy cascade in a plasma. Sponsor: Michael E. Mauel.
Dipti Khera. Picturing Indias Land of Princes between the Mughal and British empires: Topographical imaginings of Udaipur and its environs. Sponsor: Vidya Dehejia. Yuthika Sharma. Art in between empires: Visual culture and artistic knowledge in Delhi, 1748-1857. Sponsor: Vidya Dehejia.
Ph.D. in astronomy
Destry Rose Saul. Compact galactic neutral hydrogen clouds in the GALFA-HI survey. Sponsor: Mary E. Putman.
Ph.D. in Biological Sciences Ph.D. in cellular, molecular, and DISSERTATIONS deposited biomedical studies Andrew J. Washkowitz. The role of Mga in the
survival of pluripotent cells during peri-implantation development. Sponsor: J. Chlo Bulinski.
Eric Patrick Henckels. Regulation of interstitial collagenase (MMP-1) in breast cancer metastasis. Sponsor: Ron Prywes. Justine Virginia Kupferman. Targeting channels to distal dendrites. Sponsor: Steven A. Siegelbaum.
Natalie Maria Kofler. Notch deficiency causes arteriovenous malformations and altered pericyte function. Sponsor: Jan Kitajewski.
Ya-Ting Lei. TRPM5 channels contribute to persistent neural activity and working memory. Sponsor: Steven A. Siegelbaum.
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering

Keenan Tali Bashour. Spatial dynamics and the mechanoresponse in CD4+ T cell activation. Sponsor: Lance C. Kam. Hesam Parsa. Integrating microtechnology and systems biology to study biological species/microenvironment interaction. Sponsor: Samuel K. Sia.
Luis Andrs Escobar-Ferrand. Thin film composite (TFC) membranes from layer-by-layer (LbL) surface modification. Sponsor: Christopher James Durning.
Ph.D. in Chemistry
Hamed Mojahed. Sequence development and expansion of echo-planar chemical shift imaging in three dimensions. Sponsor: Andrew F. Laine.
Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics

Jason Gary Polisar. I: The reaction of carboxylic/ thiocarboxylic acids with isonitriles. II: Ruthenium hydride ring opening of an azetidinium cation. Sponsor: Jack R. Norton.
Bo-Juen Chen. Personalized medicine: Studies of pharmacogenomics in yeast and cancer. Sponsor: Dana Peer.
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Ph.D. in Business
Stephen A. Atlas. Essays on decisions involving recurring financial events. Sponsors: Eric Johnson and Daniel M. Bartels. Shinjinee Chattopadhyay. Essays on entrepreneurship. Sponsor: Raymond J. Fisman. Juanita Gonzalez Uribe. Venture capital and innovation. Sponsor: Morten Sorensen. Andy J. Yap. How power and powerlessness corrupt. Sponsors: E. Tory Higgins and Dana Carney.
Assaf Aharon Shtauber. Essays in financial economics. Sponsor: Gur Huberman.
Mahesh Raju Bailakanavar. A reduced order multiscale-multiphysics model for heterogeneous materials. Sponsor: Jacob Fish. Brett Alexander Benowitz. Modeling and simulation of random processes and fields in civil engineering and engineering mechanics. Sponsors: George Deodatis and Haim Waisman. Daniel Peter Hochstein. Thermal conductivity of fiberreinforced lightweight cement composites. Sponsor: Christian Meyer. YunJi Hwang. Stochastic analysis of infrastructure losses in New York City. Sponsor: George Deodatis. Po-Hua Lee. Fabrication, characterization, and modeling of functionally graded materials. Sponsor: Huiming Yin.
Ph.D. in COMMUNICATIONS
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

Julia Sonnevend. Global iconic events: How news stories travel through time, space, and media. Sponsor: Michael Schudson.
Ph.D. in Computer Science

Iasonas Petras. Contributions to information-based complexity and to quantum computing. Sponsor: Joseph F. Traub.
Maria A. Gorlatova. Energy-harvesting networked modes: Measurements, algorithms, and prototyping. Sponsor: Gil Zussman. Noam Ophir. Silicon photonics for all-optical processing and high-bandwidth-density interconnects. Sponsor: Keren Bergman.
Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Engineering

Alexandros Iliadis. Haplotype inference through sequential Monte Carlo. Sponsor: Dimitris Anastassiou. Christos Vezyrtzis. Adaptive hardware and design methodologies for continuous-time and companding digital signal processors. Sponsors: Yannis P. Tsividis and Steven M. Nowick.
John Edward Feighery. A combined field and laboratory investigation into the transport of fecal indicator microorganisms through a shallow drinking-water aquifer in Bangladesh. Sponsor: Kartik Chandran.
Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences

Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature

Carlos Daniel Ruiz Carrascal. Adaptation strategies to climate change in the tropics: Analysis of two multifactorial systems. Sponsor: Mark A. Cane.
Ph.D. in Economics
Ama Baafra Abeberese. Essays on firm behavior in developing economies. Sponsor: Eric Verhoogen. Anukriti. Essays on fertility and sex ratios in India. Sponsor: Cristian Pop-Eleches. Neil Mehrotra. Essays on macroeconomics and labor markets. Sponsor: Ricardo Reis. WooRam Park. Essays on the returns to higher education. Sponsor: Miguel S. Urquiola. Petra Persson. Relationships and communication. Sponsor: Navin Kartik.
John Andrew Hay. The post-apocalyptic American frontier: Uncanny historicism in the nineteenth century. Sponsor: Ross Posnock. Kairos Garcia Llobrera. The predicament of illegality: Undocumented aliens in contemporary American immigration fiction. Sponsor: Frances NegrnMuntaner. Kathleen Mary Smith. The literary lives of intention in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. Sponsor: Susan Crane. Eugene Vydrin. Site specifics: Modernist mediums in the modern landscape. Sponsor: Michael Golston.
Jeffrey Michael Brown. To stage a reading: The actor in British modernism. Sponsor: W. B. Worthen.
Ph.D. in Epidemiology
Youngwoo Koh. Essays on microeconomics. Sponsor: Yeon-Koo Che. Minkee Song. Essays in large panel data analysis. Sponsor: Jushan Bai.
Christian Ricardo Salazar. Allostatic load in relation to periodontal disease, tooth loss, and mortality: Findings from the 1914 Glostrup aging study. Sponsor: Pam R. Factor-Litvak.
Ph.D. in French and Romance Philology

Casiana Elena Ionita. The educated spectator: Cinema and pedagogy in France, 1909-1930. Sponsor: Elisabeth Ladenson.
Nina Ansary. Roots of feminist invocations in postrevolutionary Iran. Sponsor: Richard W. Bulliet. Adina Lucia Popescu. Casting bread upon the waters: American farmers and the international wheat market, 1880-1920. Sponsor: Elizabeth Blackmar.
Sverine Camille Martin. The status of the object in Stphane Mallarms Vers de circonstance. Sponsor: Elisabeth Ladenson. Eric Todd Matheis. Capital, value, and exchange in the Old Occitan and Old French tension. Sponsor: Sylvie Lefvre.
Ph.D. in INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH

OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Ph.D. in Genetics and Development

Arseniy Kukanov. Stochastic models of limit order markets. Sponsor: Rama Cont. Xingbo Xu. Financial portfolio risk management: Model risk, robustness, and rebalancing error. Sponsor: Paul Glasserman.
Daniel Concepcion. The roles of T and Tbx6 during gastrulation and determination of left/right asymmetry. Sponsor: Virginia E. Papaioannou.
Ph.D. in ITALIAN
Ph.D. in Germanic Languages

Tyler Robert Whitney. Spaces of the ear: Literature, media, and the science of sound, 1870-1930. Sponsor: Stefan Andriopoulos.
Ph.D. in History
Nicola Di Nino. Spiritual voices: Antonia Pozzi, Cristina Campo, and Margherita Guidacci. Sponsor: Paolo Valesio. Akash Kumar. S come dice lo Filosofo: Translating philosophy in the early Italian lyric. Sponsor: Teodolinda Barolini. Zane D. R. Mackin. Dante Praedicator: Sermons and preaching culture in the Commedia. Sponsor: Teodolinda Barolini.
Giuliana Chamedes. Acting like a state: The Vatican and the origins of Cold War Europe, 1870-1958. Sponsor: Victoria de Grazia. Michael W. Heil. Clerics, courts and legal culture in early medieval Italy, c. 650-900. Sponsor: Adam J. Kosto. Susan Kay Mays. Rapid advance: High technology in China in the global electronic age. Sponsor: Madeleine Zelin. Lucy Victoria Phillips. The strange commodity of cultural exchange: Martha Graham and the State Department on tour, 1955-1987. Sponsor: Eric Foner. Linda Ann Tvrdy. Constitutional rights in a commonlaw world: The reconstruction of North Carolina legal culture, 1865-1874. Sponsor: Eric Foner. Toru Umezaki. The Free University of New York: The American sixties in the age of three worlds. Sponsor: Eric Foner.
Steven James Baker. Political Petrarchism: The rhetorical fashioning of community in early modern Italy. Sponsor: Jo Ann Cavallo. Ileana Moreno-Viqueira. (In)visible mathematics in Italo Calvinos Le citt invisibili. Sponsor: Paolo Valesio.
Ph.D. in Mathematics
Andre Rubens Franca Carneiro. A geometric construction of a Calabi quasimorphism on complex projective space. Sponsor: Dusa McDuff. Andrew Lawrence Fanoe. Properties of Hamiltonian torus actions. Sponsor: Dusa McDuff. Luis E. Garcia Martinez. Singular theta lifts and special values of Rankin-Selberg L-functions. Sponsor: ShouWu Zhang.
Zachary Alexander Maddock. Regular del Pezzo surfaces with irregularity and intersection numbers on quotients in geometric invariant theory. Sponsor: Aise Johan de Jong.
Ph.D. in Philosophy
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Ariadna Pop. Making sense of faultless disagreement. Sponsor: Katja Vogt.
Ph.D. in Physics
Gen Satoh. Modification and integration of shape memory alloys through thermal treatments and dissimilar metal joining. Sponsor: Y. Lawrence Yao.
Ph.D. in Music
Solomon George Shamsuddin Osman Endlich. The effective field theory approach to fluid dynamics. Sponsor: Alberto Nicolis. Eric Vazquez. Control study of two-particle correlations in heavy ion collisions at RHIC-PHENIX. Sponsor: William A. Zajc.
Nicholas Andreas Higgins. Confusion in the Karnatic capital: Fusion in Chennai, India. Sponsor: Christopher Washburne.
Ph.D. in NEUROBIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR

Gary Chia Li Cheng. Precision search for muon antineutrino disappearance oscillations using a dual baseline technique. Sponsor: Michael H. Shaevitz. Xiuyuan Yang. Cosmology with weak lensing peaks. Sponsor: Lam Hui.
Ph.D. in Political Science

Brikha Raj Shrestha. Role of the Ig superfamily member basigin in neuronal dendrite morphogenesis. Sponsor: Wesley B. Grueber. Gregory Duncan Wayne. A design procedure for hierarchical neural control. Sponsor: Laurence F. Abbott.
Ph.D. in NURSING
Njoki Nganga. Positive practice environments as a context for strengthening associate clinicians, nurses, and midwives who deliver emergency obstetric care in Tanzania. Sponsor: Mary Woods Byrne.
Candace Hortensia Blake. Choosing an international legal regime: How much justice would you trade for peace? Sponsor: Andrew J. Nathan. Virginia Oliveros. A working machine: Patronage jobs and political services in Argentina. Sponsor: Maria Victoria Murillo. Kaori Shoji. When do party leaders democratize? Analyzing three reforms of voter registration and candidate selection. Sponsor: Robert Y. Shapiro. Andrej Tusicisny. Reciprocity and prejudice: An experiment of Hindu-Muslim cooperation in the slums of Mumbai. Sponsor: Jack L. Snyder.
Ph.D. in Pathobiology and Molecular Medicine

John Joseph Sivolella. Do politics matter to this watchdog? The effects of ideology on civil enforcement at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Sponsor: Robert Y. Shapiro.
Rosa Leonora Andrea de Vries. Be eaten to stay healthy: Elucidating the mechanisms of mitochondrial quality control by mitophagy. Sponsor: Serge Przedborski. Matthew L-Khc. Structure-based design of small molecule inhibitors of HIV-1 entry. Sponsor: Wayne A. Hendrickson.
Ph.D. in Psychology
Eleni Kanellopoulou. Strategic thinking for successful self-regulation in the pursuit of goals. Sponsor: Kevin Ochsner. Maria Konnikova. The limits of self-control: Selfcontrol, illusory control, and risky financial decisionmaking. Sponsor: Walter Mischel.
Ph.D. in religion
Ph.D. in sociology
Susan Patricia Andrews. Representing Mount Wutais past. Sponsor: Chun-fang Yu. Todd Stephen Berzon. Classifying Christians: Ethnography, discovery, and the limits of knowledge in late antiquity. Sponsor: Elizabeth Castelli. Benjamin Yen Yi Fong. The death drive revisited: A reexamination of psychoanalytic drive theory and its implications for critical theory. Sponsor: Mark Taylor. Heather Christine Ohaneson. Free to play: An analysis in aesthetic, ethical, and religious movements. Sponsor: Wayne Proudfoot. Gregory Adam Scott. Conversion by the book: Buddhist Culture in Republican China. Sponsor: Chun-fang Yu. Michelle Janet Sorensen. Making the old new again and again: Legitimation and innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chd tradition. Sponsor: Robert Thurman. Hamsa Michael Stainton. Poetry, praise, and prayer: Stotras in the religious and literary history of Kashmir. Sponsor: John Stratton Hawley.
Joscha Phillipp H. Legewie. School context, peers, and the educational achievement of girls and boys. Sponsor: Thomas A. DiPrete. Emine Onculer. Globalization and the networks of expertise in Turkey: The politics of autism. Sponsor: Gil Eyal.
Anna Elisabet Zamora. A structural explanation for anti-immigrant sentiment: Evidence from Belgium and Spain. Sponsor: Saskia Sassen.
Ph.D. in sociomedical sciences

Ph.D. in Social Work

Abigail Alice Edgecliffe-Johnson. Caught pregnant: Wresting and relinquishing control over motherhood in Manchester, U.K. Sponsor: Carole S. Vance. Nora J. Kenworthy. What only heaven hears: Citizens and the state in the wake of HIV scale-up. Sponsor: Richard Parker.
Astraea Augsberger. Youth participation in child welfare decision-making: A focused ethnography. Sponsor: Vicki Lens. Catherine Elizabeth Carlson. Three essays analyzing the impact of community and neighborhood factors on intimate partner violence against women in Uganda. Sponsor: Denise Burnette. Kim Lisa Glickman. Complicated grief treatment: What makes it work? Sponsor: M. Katherine Shear. Amy Sheila Kapadia. Race-ethnic discrimination, major depression, and alcohol use disorder among U.S.born and immigrant minorities: Using a nationally representative sample to test the moderating relationships of cultural and social factors. Sponsor: Ellen P. Lukens. Daniel Barnett Kaplan. Home health care for persons with cognitive impairment: The influence of home healthcare agency characteristics on the relationship between consumer cognitive impairment status and service volume and cost. Sponsor: Denise Burnette. Ofira Schwartz-Soicher. The role of the neighborhood fast-food environment in weight status of inner-city children. Sponsor: Julien O. Teitler. Gretchen Thomas Sofocleous. Sexual and non-sexual juvenile offenders: Developmental antecedents and behavioral outcomes. Sponsor: Julien O. Teitler.
Claire Ellen Edington. Beyond the asylum: Colonial psychiatry in French Indochina, 1880-1940. Sponsor: Ronald Bayer. Sahar Sadjadi. Diagnosing the self: An ethnography of clinical management of gender in children. Sponsor: Carole S. Vance.
Ph.D. in statistics
Bo Qian. Credit risk modeling and analysis using copula method and changepoint approach to survival data. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying. Junyi Zhang. Estimation and testing methods for monotone transformation models. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying.
Ph.D. in sustainable development

Xiaojia Bao. Three papers on environment-related decision-making and development in China. Sponsor: Upmanu Lall. Nicole Su-lin Ngo. Three essays on the environment and health in cities. Sponsor: Douglas Almond.
Ph.D. programs at TEACHERS COLLEGE

anthropology and education
Amina UmAmir Tawasil. The houzevi (seminarian) women in Iran: Constituting and reconstituting paths. Sponsor: Herv H. Varenne.
Na Li. Designing better scaffolding in teaching complex systems with graphical simulations. Sponsor: John B. Black. Dana Lenore Pagar. The effects of a grouping by tens manipulative on childrens strategy use, base ten understanding, and mathematical knowledge. Sponsor: Herbert P. Ginsburg.
counseling psychology
applied anthropology
Kelly M. Nims. The Goffal speaks: Coloured ideology and the perpetuation of a category in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Sponsor: George C. Bond. Ariela Tanya Zycherman. The changing value of food: Localizing modernity among the Tsiman Indians of lowland Bolivia. Sponsor: Lambros Comitas.
Rachel Haeyoung Kim. Differential impact of racial microaggressions on Asian Americans: Relationship to perpetrator and power status. Sponsor: Derald Wing Sue.
economics and education

APPLIED behavioral analysis

Claire S. Cahill. Actions and objects: Observing responses and the role of multiple stimulus control in incidental language acquisition. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer. Jessica Adele Neu. The effects of observation of learn units under reinforcement and correction conditions on the rate of learning math algorithms by fifth-grade students. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer. Derek Jacob Shanman. The relation between components of naming and conditioned seeing. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer. Lisa Dawn Tullo. The functional relation between the onset of naming and the joining of listener to untaught speaker responses. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer.
Mehmet Alper Dincer. Education policy issues in Turkey. Sponsor: Francisco Rivera-Batiz. Maria Emma Garcia Garcia. What we learn in the school: Cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the educational production function. Sponsor: Henry M. Levin. Dong Guo. The labor market returns to school quality in China. Sponsor: Francisco Rivera-Batiz. Ji Yun Lee. Private tutoring and its impact on students academic achievement, formal schooling, and educational inequality in Korea. Sponsor: Henry M. Levin.
Olga Rodrguez. Examining the effects of academic English as a second language pathways at the community college: A mixed methods study. Sponsor: Thomas R. Bailey.
behavioral nutrition
educational leadership
Christie Lauren Custodio-Lumsden. The Diet and Early Childhood Caries (DECC) study: Validation of a novel ECC risk-assessment tool and investigation of dietrelated ECC risk factors. Sponsor: Randi L. Wolf. Marguerite Marie Zaharek. Beliefs about diet and colorectal cancer prevention in an urban population. Sponsor: Randi L. Wolf.
Thomas Eric Haferd. Do I want to work with you in the future? Does status moderate the process by outcome interaction in ongoing workplace relationships? Sponsor: Craig Richards.
intellectual disabilities and autism

cognitive studies in education

James Grant Atkins. The effect of explicit teaching of comprehension strategies on reading comprehension in elementary school. Sponsor: Joanna P. Williams. Shih-Chieh Douglas Huang. Grounded learning experience: Helping students learn physics through visuohaptic priming and instruction. Sponsor: John B. Black.
Young Seh Bae. Word-problem solving of students with autistic spectrum disorders and students with typical development. Sponsor: Linda Hickson. Fanglin Jasmine Lai. The relationships between parenting stress, child characteristics, parenting selfefficacy, and social support in parents of children with autism in Taiwan. Sponsor: Linda Hickson.
mathematics and education

social-organizational psychology
Berglind Gsladttir. Social capital and adolescents mathematics achievement: A comparative analysis of eight European cities. Sponsor: Bruce R. Vogeli. Heather Tiana Gould. Teachers conceptions of mathematical modeling. Sponsor: Bruce R. Vogeli. Bjrg Jhannsdttir. The mathematical content knowledge of prospective teachers in Iceland. Sponsor: Erica N. Walker.
Mekayla Kolean Castro. From the mouths of men: A model of mens perception of social identity threat toward women in the workplace and endorsement of identity safety behaviors. Sponsor: Caryn J. Block.
Megan Elizabeth Gibson. Motivation and study habits of college calculus students: Does studying calculus in high school make a difference? Sponsor: Bruce R. Vogeli.
Avina Gupta. Employee perceptions of managers who express anger: Could a high-quality relationship buffer women from backlash? Sponsor: Caryn J. Block.
sociology and education

measurement and evaluation

Chen-Miao Carol Chen. Examining uncertainty and misspecifications of attributes with a cognitive diagnostic model. Sponsor: Lawrence T. DeCarlo. Sunhee Kim. Single-rater scoring of constructed responses with or without backreading: Approaches via latent class signal detection theory. Sponsor: Lawrence T. DeCarlo. Jessica Patricia Marini. An item response theory approach to causal inference. Sponsor: Matthew S. Johnson. Kerry McCloskey Matlosz. Bayesian multidimensional scaling for Likert-scored preference data. Sponsor: Matthew S. Johnson.
Allison Kaye Roda. Where their children belong: Parents perceptions of the boundaries separating gifted and non-gifted educational programs. Sponsor: Amy Stuart Wells. Miya Tamiko Warner. New York City small high school reform and student course-taking. Sponsor: Amy Stuart Wells.
teaching of social studies

Jon-Paul Noel Paolino. Penalized joint maximumlikelihood estimation applied to two-parameter logistic item-response models. Sponsor: Matthew S. Johnson.
physical disabilities
Michelle A. Veyvoda. An investigation into the skill set of speech-language pathologists working with profoundly deaf children. Sponsor: Robert E. Kretschmer.
Timothy James Patterson. Stories of self and other: Four in-service social studies teachers reflect on their international professional development. Sponsor: William Gaudelli. Ashley Michelle Taylor. Pedagogy for Latino/a newcomer students: A study of four secondary social studies teachers in New York City urban newcomer schools. Sponsor: Anand Reddy Marri. Dennis Joseph Urban, Jr. Toward a framework of inclusive social studies: Obstacles and opportunities in a pre-service teacher education program. Sponsor: William Gaudelli.
politics and education

Ph.D. in Theatre
David Lee Wright. The 26th Amendment as a teachable moment: Young adult voter turnout in United States elections, 1972-2006. Sponsor: Jeffrey Henig.
school psychology
Elizabeth Andrea Belanfante. The cognitive processes that underlie note-taking and review in mathematics: Does quality of notes predict test performance in mathematics? Sponsor: Stephen T. Peverly.
Minou Clare Arjomand. Theatre on trial: Staging postwar justice in the United States and Germany. Sponsor: W. B. Worthen. Shilarna Stokes. Playing the crowd: Mass pageants in Europe and the United States, 1905-1935. Sponsor: Arnold Aronson.

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program

greetings and opening remarks

deans award for distinguished achievement candidates remarks keynote

Jacqueline K. Barton Maya Rossin-Slater

Ph.D., 1979, Chemistry

Ph.D. candidate, Economics

Sebastian Thrun, Ph.D.

faculty mentoring awards

Rogrio Meireles Pinto presidential awards for outstanding teaching

presentation of the doctoral candidates gsas alumni association remarks

Andrea J. Tucher Lester Wigler

Director, Ph.D. program in Communications

M.A., 1980, Music Vice President, GSAS Alumni Association

final remarks and recessional music

Dean Alonso Wholly Brass Quartet

Ph.D. in Applied physics and applied mathematics

materials science and engineering

Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology

Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Ph.D. in Biological Sciences

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering

Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics

Ph.D. in Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Studies

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering

Ph.D. in Chemical Physics

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Ph.D. in Classical Studies

Todd Alexander Davis. Archery in Archaic Greece. Sponsor: Richard A. Billows.

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Engineering

Baoxing Xu. Science of nanofluids and energy conversion. Sponsor: Xi Chen.

Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences

Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures

Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology

Izzet Yildiz. Essays on financial sector inefficiencies. Sponsor: Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature

Ph.D. in French and Romance Philology

Ph.D. in Genetics and Development

Ph.D. in Germanic Languages

Ph.D. in industrial engineering and Operations Research

Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Ph.D. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection

Ph.D. in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies

Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior

Ph.D. in Nutritional and Metabolic Biology

Ph.D. in Pathobiology and Molecular Medicine

Rosa Leonora Andrea de Vries. Mitophagy in neurodegeneration. Sponsor: Serge Przedborski.

Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Molecular Signaling

Ariadna Pop. Making sense of faultless disagreement. Sponsor: Katja Vogt.

Ph.D. in Political Science

Karen Jeanne Kelly. Metacognition of emotion recognition. Sponsor: Janet Metcalfe.

Ph.D. in Slavic Languages

Ph.D. in Social Work

Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences

Ph.D. in Sustainable Development

Ph.D. programs at TEACHERS COLLEGE

APPLIED behavioral analysis

cognitive studies in education

comparative and international education

economics and education

intellectual disabilities and autism