Yale University
Graduate School
of Arts and Sciences
One Hundred Fifty-Fourth
Commencement
Monday, May 18, 2015
Order of Exercises
commencement diploma ceremony
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Monday, May 18, 2015
Organ Prelude
Prelude and Fugue in G Minor, WoO 10
J. Brahms
English Department Dissertation Prize
samuel fallon
justin sider
Meditation
M. Duruflé
Estwing Hammer Prize
zhixue du
allison hsiang
victoria mccoy
Sonata VI
F. Mendelssohn
Jacob Street, Organist
Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Processional
Grand Choeur Triomphale, Op. 47 No. 2
Alexandre Guilmant
Please rise when the faculty and graduating
students enter the hall.
Recognition of Student Prize Recipients
Marsten Anderson Prize
jessica moyer
Francis J. Anscombe Award
chao gao
Henry Prentiss Becton Prize
ngai yin yip
Frederick W. Beinecke Prize
ryan hall
Frances Blanshard Fellowship Prize
meredith gamer
sylvia houghteling
Harding Bliss Prize
alyssa siefert
Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize
john cooper
Dirk Brouwer Memorial Prize
katherine tease
Anthony DiGuida Delta Mu Research Prize
lisa braun
George Washington Egleston Historical Prize
andrew horowitz
Excellence in Teaching Prize
david auerbach
james super
Miguel Ferreyros Memorial Award
christopher harnisch
Harry Burr Ferris Prize
nicole darricarrere
eric guo
brant webster
Theron Rockwell Field Prize
kyle andrew dugdale
carmel addie raz
William Ebenezer Ford Prize
taylor kilian
colton lynner
Hans Gatzke Prize
nathaniel kurz
rachel rothschild
James B. Grossman Dissertation Prize
su mei lee
William J. Horwitz Prize
marina brown
matteo di giovanni
Academic Excellence in International Relations
farsan ghassim
Mary Ellen Jones Prize
hoong chuin lim
Annie Le Fellowship
olga buzovetsky
joori park
Elias Loomis Prize
ivy tan
srikanth toppaladoddi
John Spangler Nicholas Prize
nicholas frankel
daniel goldhill
bradley parry
alexis rovner
Philip M. Orville Prize
erin wirth moriarty
yige zhang
Marguerite A. Peyre Prize
clementine fauré-bellaïche
benjamin hoffmann
John Addison Porter Prize
dana johanna graef
shawnakim blake lowey-ball
Leonard J. Savage Writing Prize
cynthia rush
George Gaylord Simpson Prize
alex dornburg
teresa feo
Carolyn Slayman Prize in Genetics
helen rankin
steven reilly
Edwin W. Small Prize
justin barr
david minto
Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize
michael yarbrough
Recognition of Public Service Award Recipient
community service award
jill kelly
Recognition of Graduating Prize Teaching
Fellows
alexander cerjan 2011-2012, 2013-2014
jean elyse graham 2010-2011
andrew horowitz 2011-2012, 2012-2013
susanna kimport 2013-2014
Recognition of Graduate Mentor Award
Recipients
in the humanities
verity harte
Professor of Philosophy and Classics
in the natural sciences
hal blumenfeld
Professor of Neurology, of Neurobiology, &
of Neurosurgery
in the social sciences
naomi lamoreaux
Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics
and History
Presentation of Diplomas
phd, mphil, ma, ms, and mas
Lynn Cooley, Dean of the Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences; C.N.H. Long Professor of
Genetics; and Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular,
Cellular & Developmental Biology
George Trimis Prize
james duffy
nicolas werquin
Thomas Pollard, Emeritus Dean of the
Graduate School
Karl K. Turekian Prize
david auerbach
Recessional
Richard Wolfgang Prize
joseph fournier
david romney
tina wang
Arthur and Mary Wright Prize
mary brazelton
shawnakim lowey-ball
Prelude and Fugue in B Major, Op. 7, No. 1
M. Dupré
Academic Procession Marshal
Lynn Cooley, Dean of the Graduate School
Graduate School Marshals
Pamela Schirmeister, Sr. Associate Dean
Richard Sleight, Associate Dean
Allegra Di Bonaventura, Associate Dean
Robert Harper-Mangels, Assistant Dean
Carl Hashimoto, Assistant Dean
Robin Ladouceur, Assistant Dean
Graduate School Banner Bearers
Steven Reilly, Genetics
Sara Ronis, Religious Studies
phd Student Marshals
Matthew Akamatsu, Molecular Biophysics &
Biochemistry
Alyssa Siefert, School of Engineering and Applied
Science, Biomedical Engineering
ma Student Marshal
Donna Hernandez, Global Affairs
ms Student Marshal
Michela Paganini, Physics
mphil Student Marshal
Quiao Lu, Immunobiology
Degree recipients and their families and friends
are cordially invited to a reception immediately
following Commencement Exercises in the Hall
of Graduate Studies courtyard, 320 York Street.
degrees granted, december 2014 and may 2015
african american studies
Najwa Mayer
Doctor of Philosophy
Juliet Monique Nebolon
Lucia Esther Cantero
Master of Arts
Specters of the Market: Consumer-Citizenship and the
Visual Politics of Race and Inequality in Brazil
Anthropology
Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard
Adom Getachew
Joseph Plaster
The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination: Towards a
History of Anti-Colonial World Making
Political Science
Master of Philosophy
Heather Victoria Vermeulen
American Studies
Master of Arts
african studies
Master of Arts
African American Studies
Master of Arts
Master of Arts
Master of Arts
Melissa Ann Castillo-Garsow
African American Studies
Karla Marcela Cornejo Villavicencio
Scott Wasserman Stern
Janine Elyse Stockford
Master of Arts
anthropology
Joseph Charles Guido
Doctor of Philosophy
american studies
Doctor of Philosophy
Megan Jeannette Asaka
Annemari Raath Antonites
An Archaeological Investigation of Zhizo/Leokwe Foodways
at Schroda and Pont Drift, Limpopo Valley, South Africa
Ryan Patrick Clasby
The Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and the Making of
Seattle’s Urban Landscape
Exploring Long Term Cultural Developments and
Interregional Interaction in the Eastern Slopes of the Andes:
A Case Study from the Site of Huayurco, Jaen Region, Peru
Claudia Calhoun
Catherine Anne Claus
“The Story You Are About to Hear Is True”: Dragnet,
Transmedia Storytelling, and the Postwar Police
Procedural
Film Studies
Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy
Tao Leigh Goffe
Chiney Royal: Afro-Asian Intimacies in the Americas
Tisha Yvonne Hooks
Drawing Near: Conservation By Proximity In Okinawa’s
Coral Reefs
Forestry and Environmental Studies
Michael Jason Degani
The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in
Postsocialist Tanzania
Abigail Anne Dumes
Duct Tape and the U.S. Social Imagination
Divided Bodies: The Practice and Politics of Lyme Disease
in the United States
Carolee Klimchock
Dana Johanna Graef
Heiress Weds Coachman: Elopement Scandals and the
Performance of Coach Driving in the Gilded Age
Master of Philosophy
Fadila Habchi
African American Studies
Master of Arts
Isles of Green: Environmentalism and Agrarian Change in
Costa Rica and Cuba
Forestry and Environmental Studies
Sarah Ariadne LeBaron von Baeyer
National Worlds, Transnational Lives: Nikkei-Brazilian
Migrants in and of Japan and Brazil
Atreyee Majumder
Seng Fatt Liew
Being Human in Howrah: On Historical Sensation and
Public Gesture in an Industrial Hinterland
Light Transport and Lasing in Complex Photonic
Structures
Oscar Gabriel Prieto
Master of Philosophy
Gramalote: Domestic Life, Economy and Ritual Practices
of a Prehispanic Maritime Community
Master of Philosophy
Samar Mussa Al-Bulushi
Ryan Cecil Jobson
Christopher James Axline
Teresa Lynn Brecht
Kevin Shu-Wei Chou
Eric Nuokai Jin
African American Studies
Xin Liang
Kristen English McLean
Zlatko Kristev Minev
Elliott Edward Prasse-Freeman
Anirudh Narla
Amelia Elizabeth M Sancilio
Sonya Dawn Sawtelle
Michelle Elizabeth Young
Master of Science
Master of Science
applied mathematics
Eric Andrew Kittlaus
Doctor of Philosophy
Linshu Li
Chong Deng
Philip Charles Reinhold
Estimating Function Approaches for Spatial Point
Processes
Kyle Anthony Serniak
Zhu Wang Heitman
On the Improved Asymptotics for Oscillatory Solutions of
Second Order Ordinary Differential Equations
Erik Stassen
Laszlo Janos Szocs
Jae Oh Woo
archaeological studies
Information Theoretic Inequalities, Limit Theorems, and
Universal Compression over Unknown Alphabets
Master of Arts
Master of Philosophy
Huamin Li
Patricia S. Glass
Yahui He
applied physics
architecture
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy
Joel David Chudow
Terahertz Spectroscopy of Individual Single-Walled
Carbon Nanotubes as a Probe of Luttinger Liquid Physics
Benjamin Leung
Crystal Growth on a Designed Surface, Geometry, or
Construct: MOCVD of Semipolar and Polar GaN on
Sapphire and Amorphous Surfaces
Joseph Lawrence Clarke
The Architectural Discourse of Reverberation, 1750-1900
Kyle Andrew Dugdale
Architecture After the Death of God: Uriel Birnbaum’s Der
Kaiser und der Architekt
Master of Philosophy
Michael Surry Schlabs
astronomy
Ramiro Luis Nandez Acosta
Doctor of Philosophy
Elucidating the Role of OCRL at Sites of ClathrinMediated Endocytosis
Joel Daniel Tanner
Robert J. Ross
Simulating Convection in Stellar Envelopes
Luis Carlos Vargas
A Spectroscopic Survey of Chemical Evolution in Local
Group Dwarf Satellite Galaxies
Master of Philosophy
Jeremy David Bradford
The Role of Hsp90 in Spermatogenesis and the PiwipiRNA Pathway
Lena Kumba Schroeder
Super-Resolution Investigations of COPI-Coated Vesicles
in Thin Sections
Rebecca Kiino Swartz
Master of Science
Establishing a Role for Nuclear Envelope Bridging
Complexes in Homology-Directed Repair
Duncan Alan Campbell
Ruth Wangechi Wang’ondu
Master of Science
Matthew Jason Giguere
Allison Taylor Merritt
Master of Science
Joseph Randall Schmitt
Master of Science
Master of Science
Sarah Denise Benjamin
Induction of Markers of DNA Damage Signaling upon
Reactivation of Epstein-Barr Virus: A Novel Role for
ZEBRA and the Pre-replicative Phase of the Viral
Lytic Cycle
Brant Michael Webster
Quality Control of Nuclear Pore Complex Assembly
Molly Miranda Weiner
Novel Function of Piwi in Axis Determination during
Drosophila Oogenesis
Albert Wong
cell biology
Molecular Characterization of Integrin-Induced mRNA
Stabilization in T Cells
Doctor of Philosophy
Master of Philosophy
Nicole Darricarrere
Patrick Donald Ellis
Mechanistic Studies of Small RNA Pathways Mediated by
Argonaute Proteins and Novel Insights from GenomeWide RNA Interference Screening Applications
Samir Gautam
Re-engineering the Cell Wall of Staphylococcus Aureus
with Small Molecules: Applications in Basic Bacteriology
and Vaccine Design
Allison Louise Gilder
Polycystin Trafficking to the Apical and Ciliary Membrane
Jacob Michael Gonzalez
Piwi, a Nuclear Argonaute/Piwi Protein, is a Key
Regulator of the Testicular Stem Cell Niche in Drosophila
Yang Guo
Regulation of T-Cell Function by Herpesvirus Noncoding
RNA’s
Sarah Elizabeth Hill
Xinyu Hong
SoRi Jang
Junyi Jiao
Omar Saul Julca Zevallos
Karlina June Kauffman
Nikit Kumar
Bryan Adam Leland
Christopher Kan May
Jin Meng
María Jesús Olarte Carhuaz
Sneha Ramesh Mani
Ah Rume Park
The Role of the PIWI/piRNA Pathway in Maintaining
Genomic Integrity during Drosophila Oogenesis and
Embryogenesis
Rachel Starr Plumb
Nur-Taz Rahman
Rachel Marie Stewart
Ke Zhang
Meng Zhang
Jonathan Graeupner
Iridium-Catalyzed Water Oxidation and Hydrogenation
Louise Melanie Guard
Master of Science
Synthesis and Reactivity of Organometallic and
Coordination Complexes of Mg and Ni
Laura Grossi
Gennady Khirich
cellular and molecular
physiology
Sandra Marie King
Doctor of Philosophy
Kseniya Eugene Gavrilov
Suppression of BCR-ABL by siRNA-loaded Nanoparticles
for the Treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Master of Philosophy
Patrick James Dunn
Max Christian Petersen
Lindsey Katharine Stavola
Kevin Nai-Hsiu Su
chemistry
Doctor of Philosophy
Seth Chase Alexander
Design and Investigations of Bisarsenical Cyanine Dyes
with Cysteine- Rich Peptides and 14-Helical Beta-Peptide
Mimics of Oriented Transmembrane Domains
Daniel Jacob Aschaffenburg
Temperature Dependence, pH Dependence, and the
Complexity of Energy Landscapes in Enzymes
Total Syntheses of Hasubanan and Acutumine Alkaloids
and Development of a Method for the Selective Reduction of
Alkenyl Halides
Phillip Lichtor
The Discovery and Study of Peptide-Based Catalysts for
Selective Epoxidation
Michael George Manas
The Development of Catalytic Processes for Alternative
Energy and Green Chemistry Applications
Gregory Alan Manley
Understanding the Role of Conformational Flexibility
in Allosteric Regulation: Allosteric Ligands Alter
Conformational Motions on the Millesecond Timescale in
Imidazole Glycerol Phosphate Synthase
Curren Tapfuma Mbofana
Lewis Base Mediated Reactions of Allenes and Alkynes
Jonathan Miller
Further Expansions of Functionality in Beta-Peptide
Bundles
Kanak Shail Raina
Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopic Polarimetry
Development of Novel Chemical Biological Tools to Study
the Unfolded Protein Response
Kimberly Terese Barrett
David Kingsland Romney
Peptide-Catalyzed, Enantioselective Synthesis of Axially
Chiral Benzamides
Elizabeth Anne Bielinski
Transition Metal Catalysts for Hydrogen Storage and
Carbon Dioxide Activation
Elizabeth V. Denton
Expanding the Scope of Peptide Mimetics that Target
Protein-Protein Interactions
Joseph Allen Fournier
Regio- and Enantioselective Reactions Mediated by
Peptide-Based Oxidation Catalysts
Hee Won Suh
Synthetic, Mechanistic, and Catalytic Studies of Nickeland Palladium-Catalyzed Carboxylation with Carbon
Dioxide
Maung Kyaw Moe Tun
Total Synthesis of (-)-Huperzine A and Studies Towards
the Synthesis of the Antimalarial Alkaloid Ocimicide A1
Studies of the Microscopic Structures Underlying the
Bulk Properties of the Hydrated Proton and Ionic Liquids
through Cryogenic Vibrational Spectroscopy
Jing Wang
Ricardo Gallardo-Macias
Tina Wang
Synthesis and Optimization of Novel Non-Nucleoside
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
DNA-Origami Templated Formation of Liposomes and
Related Structures
Chemical Perspectives on Protein Glycation
Michael Roy Casselman Williams
Intermolecular Vibrations of Hydrophobic Amino Acids
Jinsuop Youn
Methods and Strategies for Synthesis: (a) New Methods
for Highly Functionalized Quinolines, (b) Synthetic
Studies Toward Adriatoxin B, and (c) Total Synthesis and
Structure Assignment of Nosperin
Master of Science
Nicholas Adam Arnet
Mikhail Askerka
Bo Wang
Nan Ye
Peijia Yuan
Mingshuo Zeng
classics
Doctor of Philosophy
Joshua David Fincher
Anne Munroe Carroll
Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and the Redefinition of Epic Poetry
and the Heroic Code
Sean Michael Colvin
Master of Philosophy
Wei Dai
Meghan Christine Freeman
Kyle William East
Ben Adam Jerue
Nicola Feldman
Master of Arts
Saundra Denise Field
Master of Arts
Olga Gorlova
Sarah McKinnon Norvell
Daria Lei Huang
Luke D. Patient
Joshua Ryan Hummel
Haya Jamali
Kenneth Saihei Kan
Xiangmeng Kong
Xiaohan Li
Philosophy
comparative literature
Doctor of Philosophy
Ariel Sophia Bardi
Patrick Robert Melvin
Cleansing, Constructing, and Curating the State: India/
Pakistan ’47 and Israel/Palestine ’48
Kate DeVries Otley
Leif Erling Dahlberg
Corey Erik Perez
Megan Elizabeth Reesbeck
Michael Joseph Robertson
Alexandra Schatz
Spacing Law and Politics: The Constitution and
Representation of Judicial Places and Juridical Spaces in
Law, Literature and Political Philosophy in Works from
Greek Antiquity to the Present
Eugenia Kelbert
Dimitar Yavorov Shopov
Acquiring a Second Language Literature: Patterns in
Translingual Writing from Modernism to the Moderns
Shashi Bhushan Sinha
Annie Pfeifer
Angela Steinauer
Bennett Thompson
Eric Pierce Trautman
Vinay Chetan Trivedi-Parmar
Tyler Joseph Wadzinski
Allison Sara Walker
To the Collector Belong the Spoils: The Transformation of
Modernist Practices of Collecting
Master of Philosophy
Mark Adrian Rivera
Master of Arts
Alexandra Shraytekh
Master of Arts
Ksenia Sidorenko
Jiewen Huang
Master of Arts
Large-Scale Graph Data Processing
Ayten Tartici
Minh Tam Le
Master of Arts
Feature Selection for Diffusion Methods Within a
Supervised Context
David Aaron Carper
Daniel Noah Leyzberg
Craig Erik Eklund
Creating Personalized Robot Tutors That Adapt to The
Needs of Individual Students
computational biology and
bioinformatics
Hongqiang Liu
Doctor of Philosophy
Yao Fu
Computational Methods for Estimating Functional
Consequences of Genetic Variants and Application to
Cancer Genomics
Traffic Planning under Network Dynamics
Donya Victoria Quick
Kulitta: a Framework for Automated Music Composition
Master of Philosophy
Elena Corina Grigore
Master of Science
Cong Li
Rasmus Jacobsen Kyng
Some Statistical Methods for Joint Analysis of HighDimensional Genomics Data
Alexandru Octavian Litoiu
Zhixiang Lin
Some Statistical Methods for Spatial-Temporal Brain
Gene Expression Data
Kelly Patrick Stanton
Master of Science
Aditi Ramachandran
Master of Science
Aaron Segal
Harmonic Analysis of ChIP-seq
Ewa Syta
Master of Science
Minghui Tan
Stefan Philippe Avey
Paul Frederick Baranay
Master of Science
Weiyi Wu
Master of Science
Jason Robert Bedford
Ennan Zhai
Christopher Andrew Stec Fragoso
Master of Science
Shantao Li
Dongqu Chen
Cong Liang
Lu Chen
Robert Andrew McDougal
Jose Manuel Faleiro
Mate Levente Nagy
Luyi Guo
Ruijie Song
Michael Garrett Hopkins
Qian Wang
Yujia Hu
He Zhu
Shantao Li
computer science
Chao Teng
Chen Xu
Doctor of Philosophy
Luyang Zhang
Justin Wildrick Hart
Yuanyuan Zhang
Robot Self-Modeling
east asian languages and
literatures
ecology and evolutionary
biology
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy
Jessica Dvorak Moyer
April Joy Dinwiddie
Gender and Genre in the High Qing: Depictions of
Feminine Sociability and Household Dynamics across Late
Imperial Genres
Cellular Patterning of Butterfly Wing Scales in an
Evolutionary Context
Paul August Vierthaler
Biogeographic Influences on Grassland Community
Structure and Function
Quasi-History and Public Knowledge: A Social History
of Late Ming and Early Qing Unofficial Historical
Narratives
Elisabeth Jane Forrestel
Daniel Henry Goldhill
Master of Philosophy
Robustness, Structure and Thermotolerance: Experimental
Evolution of the RNA Phage Phi6
Fu-ming Lee
Andrew William Jones
Riley Parker Soles
Master of Arts
Justine Kirby Wiesinger
east asian studies
Characterizing the Extent and Drivers of Intraspecific
Variation in Alewives
Koryu Kin
Evolution of Pregnancy in Mammals - A Cell Type
Perspective
Master of Science
Master of Arts
Arun Rajendra Chavan
Lani Miranda Alden
Benjamin Robert Evans
Yuan Chen
Sarah Federman
Nicholas B. Frisch
Brian Park
Wee Shian Goh
Samuel Spencer Snow
Randall Tye Graham
Elizabeth Loren Gerlach Spriggs
Adam Dante Haliburton
Tiying Huang
economics
Alistair John Hughes
Doctor of Philosophy
Mikko H Salovaara
Sabrin Beg
Hanting Sha
Political Economy of Agricultural Contracts in a
Developing Country
Jiakai Sheng
Shuang Song
Claire Louise Brennecke
Essays on Information Acquisition
Hui Wen Tea
Marianne Caro Bruins
Linan Yao
The Effects of the Economic and Policy Environment on the
Resources Parents Allocate to Children
Alex Willey Cohen
Market Frictions in Developing Countries
Sabyasachi Das
An Enquiry into the Efficacy of “Town Hall” Meetings in
Local Democracies
Marina Delmondes de Carvalho Rossi
Tibor Alejandro Heumann Epstein
Essays in Welfare and Taxation in Economies with
Dispersed Information
Master of Arts
James Alexander Duffy
Three Essays on the Nonparametric Estimation of
Nonlinear Cointegrating Regressions
Gabriele Ariel Foà
Matthew Oliver Hom
Philip Kalikman
Master of Arts
Chiara Margaria
Essays on Household Finance
Rebecca Jay McKibbin
Amanda Grace Gregg
Monica Morlacco
Factory Productivity, Firm Organization, and Corporation
Reform in Late Imperial Russia
Master of Arts
Emily Elizabeth Nix
Richard Peter Langford
Craig Palsson
Estimating the Environmental Benefits of Gasoline Taxes
and the Market Benefits of Hybrid Vehicles
Yu Liu
Master of Arts
Tommaso Porzio
The Political Economy Determinants of the Firm Size
Distribution: Evidence from China
Gerardo Ruiz Sanchez
Sofia Moroni
Alexey Smolin
Essays on Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information
Adam Mohamed Osman
Essays on the Roles of Credit and Information in
Development Economics
Jakob Heinrich Florian Schneebacher
Meredith Lundberg Startz
Master of Arts
Yu Jung Whang
Zhentao Shi
Master of Arts
Three Essays on High-Dimensional Model Econometrics
Antoine Luc Pascal Arnoud
Noam Ben Tanner
Essays in Economic Decision Making
Cristina Jazmin Tello-Trillo
Maliheh Birjandi-Feriz
Taha Choukhmane
Essays on International Trade and Firm Performance
Fabian Paul Eckert
Nicolas David Werquin
Joachim Hubmer
Essays in the Theory of Taxation
Aigerim Kabdiyeva
Kai Yan
DongHyuk Kim
Essays on the Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations
Master of Philosophy
Noriko Georgina Amano Patino
Yaniv Ben Ami
Jin-Wook Chang
Master of Arts
Jialu Chen
Giovanni Compiani
Master of Arts
Matthew William Grant
Master of Arts
Louise Laage
Yuchen Liu
Achill Prabhat Rudolph
Fabian Lorenz Schrey
Ling Zhong
engineering and applied
science
Candice Inez Pelligra
Doctor of Philosophy
Orientational and Spatial Control of ZnO Nanorods in
Functional Composite Thin Films by Self- and DirectedAssembly
Laura H. Arias Chavez
Fang Ren
Re-Designing Membranes: Electrospun Nanofibers for
Control of Structure and Material Properties
Property Control of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
through Synthesis
Seyla Azoz
Mark Joseph Schwab
Utilization of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes in
Electronic Applications and Solar Cell Devices
Vertical Nanochannels in Gallium Nitride for Hybrid
Organic/Inorganic Photovoltaics
Elizabeth Ann Calle
Kamran Shamaei Ghahfarokhi
Alveolar Barrier Formation in Engineered Lung Tissue
Karen Carla Dannemiller
Integrating Measurements of Environmental Fungal
Communities with Human Health Outcomes
Juan Fernandez Garcia
Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry Measurements and
Modeling of the Electrical Mobilities of Charged
Nanodrops in Gases: Relation between Electrical Mobility,
Size, and Charge, and Effect of Ion-Induced Dipole
Interactions
Compliant Knee Exoskeletons and Their Effects on Gait
Biomechanics
Alyssa Siefert
Biomimetic Nanosystems Targeting Antigen-Presenting
Cells for Improved Immunotherapeutics
David Dale Simon
Biomechanics and Remodeling of Free-Floating Tissue
Equivalents
Peter Haugen Tobin
Forrest Stephen Gittleson
Engineering Pseudomonas aeruginosa Azurin for Energy
and Electron Transfer
Nanomaterials and Design in Lithium Battery Interfaces
Hari Vasudevan
Enping Hong
The Biophysical Context of Interleukin-15 Presentation:
Strategies for Biomimetic Cytokine Delivery
Development of Clusterwheel Balancing Robots and
Methods for Improving Performance of Wheeled Inverted
Pendulum Machines
Hanqiong Hu
Hongda Xiao
Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer Thin Films by
Electrospray Deposition
Accountability in Cloud Computing and Distributed
Computer Systems
Jingjing Kanik
Wenqing Xu
Image Analysis and Biomechanics for PatientSpecific Mitral Valve Modeling from Transesophageal
Echocardiography
Black Carbon: a Reactive Sorbent for the Destruction of
Hazardous Organic Contaminants by Hydrogen Sulfide
Jie Yang
Michael Kanik
Bulk Metallic Glass Resonators
Gallium Nitride-Based Transistors and Associated Gate
Stacks
Yang Liao
Christopher Daniel Yerino
Dynamics and Coherent Structures in Two-Dimensional
Turbulence
Tensile Quantum Dots and Lattice-Matched Epitaxy on
(111) and (110) Surfaces
Andrew Harrison Mack
Ngai Yin Yip
Single Molecule Optical Trapping Measurements on
Nucleosomes: Kinetics, Feedback, and High Bandwidth
Michael Douglas McHugh
Induction of Immunological Tolerance with Biodegradable
Immune Modulating Nanosystems
Shaoshuai Mou
Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems
Sustainable Production of Water and Energy with
Osmotically-Driven Membrane Processes and IonExchange Membrane Processes
Zhiteng Zhang
Characterizing Functionalized Multi-Walled Carbon
Nanotubes (MWCNT) and Application of MWCNT as
Support for Platinum Catalyst
Katherine Rey Zodrow
Ahsan Imon Nawroj
Biofilm Characterization and Prevention in Engineered
Systems
Master of Science
Master of Philosophy
Joseph Ryan Petrulli
Chanhee Boo
Yekaterina Rokhlenko
Master of Science
Nripesh Parajuli
Master of Science
Punnathat Bordeenithikasem
Julia Catherine Salevan
Jonathan Chen
Master of Science
Youngwoo Choo
Jonas Schwan
Master of Science
Anthony Philip Straub
Jiajia Cui
Namratha Reddy Vedire
Dhrubajyoti Devbrat Das
Mary Grace Mamaril Velasco
Zachary S. Fishman
Alejandro Virrueta
Linda Ellen Fong
Master of Science
Mary Katherine Germino
Nayi Wang
Xiang Guo
Yu Wang
Master of Science
James Winters
Patrick Han
Iva Xhangolli
Master of Science
Xu Han
Master of Science
Prashanth Harshangi
Master of Science
Xiaodong Zhu
Master of Science
Master of Science
Francisco Mariano Quintos Antonio
Sandy Hernandez
Zachary Augenfeld
Master of Science
Brendan Huang
Master of Science
Nathan John Kempema
Anthony H. Bianchi
Subhajyoti Chaudhuri
Jinryang Chung
Master of Science
Maxwell Alexander Emerson
Emily Rae Kinser
Ashley Lauren Gard
Master of Science
Arina Korneva
Emil Boye Kromann
Bezawit Asheber Getachew
Priyanka Manoj Hardikar
Master of Science
Bridget Emily Hegarty
Minsuk Kwak
Qiyang Huang
Thomas Alan Kwan
Humberto Jaramillo
Kyle Moor
Yichen Jiang
Aaron Harvey Morris
Na Young Jun
Andres Rene Munoz Rojas
Jittisa Ketkaew
Master of Science
Zachary Alexander Kobos
Rebecca Marie LaCroix
Robert Bradley Holden
Jingbei Liu
Renaissance Studies
Master of Arts
Haiying Lu
Samuel Kipyego Maritim
Lyndsey Brye McMillon
Amanda Scott Pellowe
Ashley Nicole James
African American Studies
Master of Arts
Edward Hazell Chester King
Master of Arts
Silin Ren
Angus Roderick Ledingham
Young-Eun Seo
Master of Arts
Michelle Ashley Vaisman
Palmer Rampell
Tony Wu
Sirjan Xhurxhi
english language and
literature
Doctor of Philosophy
Merve Gul Emre
Paraliterary Institutions
Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy
Samuel Meade Fallon
Master of Arts
Rebecca Merrick Rush
Master of Arts
Elizabeth Colette Wiet
Master of Arts
Master of Arts
Seo Hee Im
Adam Christopher Keller
european and russian studies
Personal Effects: Persona and Literary Culture in
Elizabethan England
Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy
Master of Arts
Edgar Eduardo Garcia
Lauren Sarah Young
Deep Land: Hemispheric Modernisms and Indigenous
Media
experimental pathology
Jean Elyse Graham
The Book Unbound: Print Logic between Old Books and
New Media
Wendi Ardath Bootes
Doctor of Philosophy
Tara Anne Bancroft
Dandiacal Forms
Investigating the Role of the AKT1/eNOS/TSP2 Signaling
Axis in Angiogenesis and Tissue Repair
Justin Andrew Sider
Jonathan William Haskins
Len Joshua Gutkin
Parting Words: Address and Exemplarity in Victorian
Poetry
ERBB4 Couples the ERBB Signaling Network to the
Hippo Pathway and Cholesterol Homeostasis
William Weatherford Weber
Casey Gerald Langdon
Shakespearean Metamorphoses
Master of Philosophy
Shannon Fogarty Beddingfield
Master of Arts
Margaret Jeanne Deli
Master of Arts
Combination High Throughput Compound Screening for
Melanoma and Lung Adenocarcinoma
Alexandra Mary Teixeira
Epithelial (E)-cadherin is a Novel Regulator of Platelet
Function
Master of Philosophy
Sarah Rae Osterhoudt
Nicole Elizabeth Calabro
The Forest in the Field:The Cultural Dimensions of
Agroforestry Landscapes in Madagascar
Anthropology
forestry and environmental
studies
BinBin Jiang Pearce
Doctor of Philosophy
Agha Ali Akram
Phosphorus Cycles in Urban Systems and Implications for
Sustainable Urban Resource Management
Stefan Renckens
The Economics of Water Resources: Essays in Drinking
Water Quality and Irrigation Water Use
Regulating Transnational Private Governance: Domestic
Interests, Market Fragmentation, and Institutional Fit in
the European Union
Noel Ramesh Aloysius
Kathryn L. Richards-Hrdlicka
Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources in
Tropical River Basins: The Case of Congo
Mercedes Aurelia Bravo
Health Impacts of Air Pollution: Investigating Methods of
Exposure Assessment and Factors Affecting Vulnerability
Master of Philosophy
Nathan Wankit Chan
Three Essays on the Economics of Environmental Public
Goods and Externalities
Peter Anton Christensen
Essays on Urban and Growth and Public Goods in the
Setting of Rapid Urbanization
Jennifer Elaine Gaddis
Fit to Feed: Labor, Ecology, and the Remaking of the
National School Lunch Program
Elaine Rosamond Hooper
The Effect of Forest Fragmentation on the Biodiversity,
Phylogenetic Diversity and Phylogenetic Community
Structure of Seedling Regeneration in the Central
Amazon: Area Effects and Temporal Dynamics
Ashley Dawn Keiser
Merging Above- and Belowground Processes: Identifying
How Decomposer Community Composition Shapes Litter
Decomposition Dynamics
David Michael Kneas
Substance and Sedimentation: A Historical Ethnography
of Landscape in the Ecuadorian Andes
Anthropology
Jennifer Rose Bunnell Miller
Examining Predation Risk as a Guide for Mitigating
Large Carnivore Attacks on Livestock
Nedal Talal Nassar
Global Stocks and Flows, Losses and Recoveries of
Platinum-Group Elements
A Genomic Approach to Finding and Understanding How
the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus is Genetically Structured in
Northeastern America
Alark Saxena
Evaluating the Resilience of Rural Livelihoods to Change
in a Complex Social-Ecological System: A Case of Village
Panchayat in Central India
Lei Zhao
Natural and Anthropogenic Contributions to Urban Heat
Islands
Master of Philosophy
Guilherme Medeiros DePaula
Kandice Lyn Harper
Jennifer Burlingame Hoyle
Meghna Krishnadas
Daniel Maynard
Sarah Priscilla Randle
Anthropology
Natalie Marie Schultz
Noah Sokol
Nikki Johnson Springer
Eleanor Catherine Stokes
Ranran Wang
Byungman Yoon
Lily Zeng
Yong W. Zhao
french
Kathleen Lenna McCann
Doctor of Philosophy
William Henry Olds III
Clementine Chantal Faure-Bellaiche
Regulation of Food Intake by Mechanosensory Ion
Channels in Enteric Neurons
“L’air protestant” - Andre Gide and the Religion of
Literary Modernism
Benjamin Hoffmann
Posthumous America: Literary Recreations of America at
the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
Discovering the LSU Processome Interactome
Yukun Pan
Efficient piggyBac F1 Dominant Screen in Mice for Growth
Retardation
Helen Bonevie Rankin
Dustin Alan Hooten
Localized JNK Signaling Functions as a Size Organizer
Animals and French Realism
Steven Kenneth Reilly
Master of Philosophy
Evolutionary Changes in Promoter and Enhancer Activity
During Human Corticogenesis
Catherine Laure Caroline Chiabaut
Master of Arts
Jennifer Alice Carr
Jessica Valerie Kasje
Usha Rungoo
Ashley Brooke Sjolund
Characterization of TDG and MBD4 Variants and Their
Link to Cancer
Akemi Joy Tanaka
Genetic Analysis of Epithelial Sheath Muscle in Drosophila
Melanogaster
African American Studies
Tiffany Werlyne Todd
genetics
Nemo-Like Kinase Modulates the Pathogenesis of the
Polyglutamine Disease Spinal and Bulbar Muscular
Atrophy
Doctor of Philosophy
Matthew Joseph Davis
Characterizing Putative Driver Events in Cancer: FastCycling with RAC1 and Oncogenic Stabilization of a
Dominant-Negative CBL Mutation
Xiaobin Gao
Structural and Functional Gene Alterations in Cancer and
Diabetes
Jennifer Ruth Czochor Guarino
Characterization of microRNA Regulation and Function
in Hypoxia Biology
Samir Zaidi
Genes and Mechanisms of Congenital Heart Disease:
Converging Developmental Pathways
Master of Philosophy
Siming Zhao
Revealing the Genetic Landscapes of Gynecological Cancers
by Whole Exome Sequencing
Master of Philosophy
Hanwen Bai
Ashley Rebecca Bonneau
Yanwen Guo
Brandon Scott Dunn
Characterization of the Mammalian Small RNA
Turnover Landscape
Samuel Joseph Endicott
Eriona Hysolli
Insights into Novel Regulators of Human Somatic Cell
Reprogramming
Sara Guckian Kosmaczewski
RNA Ligation by RtcB Regulates tRNA Splicing, the
UPR, and Axon Regeneration
Stephen John Mastriano
High-Throughput Determination of miRNA-Mediated
3’UTR Regulation and Expanding the Rules for miRNA
Targeting
Kyle Andrew Gettler
John Kenneth Gockley
Kylia Michelle Goodner
Christian Charles Dutton Harman
Erin Nicole Heim
Charles Jonathan Hernandez
Timothy George Johnstone
Ronit Sharon Kaufman
Georgy Eduardovich Manucharyan
Katelynn Margaret Mannix
The Role of Upper-Ocean Mixing in Large-Scale Ocean
and Climate Dynamics
Kailin Riley Mesa
Christine Anne Roden
Richard Sarro
Natalia Aliakseeuna Shylo
Samuel Brady Sondalle
Gregory Conrad Stachelek
Carol Yoon Joo Suh
Audrey Lauren Turchick
Erin Wirth Moriarty
Interrogating Seismic Anisotropy in Subduction Zones and
Continental Interiors
Alison Diane Nugent
Orographic Convection and Precipitation in the Tropics
Tolulope Morayo Olugboji Jr.
Revealing the Fine Structures of the Lithosphere
Asthenosphere Boundary
Kazuhiko Otsuka
Daixi Xin
Point Defects and Transport Properties of Ferropericlase in
the Lower Mantle
Valeria Yartseva
Joseph Edward Panzik
Luyi Zeng
Assessing Earth’s Proterozoic Geomagnetic Field Geometry
and Paleogeography Using Theoretical and Analytical
Techniques
Bixiao Zhao
geology and geophysics
Doctor of Philosophy
Zhengyu Cai
Yige Zhang
Deciphering the “Doubthouse” Climate Change of the
Cenozoic Era
Master of Philosophy
Fluid Flow and Damage in Two-Phase Media: Theory
and Applications to Magma and Environmental Dynamics
Ross Peter Anderson
Simon Alastair Darroch
Robin Canavan
Diversity Gradients in the Fossil Record - Developing
Predictive Models for Biodiversity Loss
David Auerbach
Shineng Hu
Caroline Mary Eakin
Zhen Liu
Dynamics of Flat Slab Subduction beneath Peru
Anwar Mohiuddin
Allison Yi Hsiang
Varun Srinivasa Murthy
Evolutionary Origins of Major Reptile Lineages: Case
Studies on Phylogenetic Incongruence and the Importance
of Fossils
Taylor Michael Kilian
Precambrian Paleomagnetism of Mafic Dike Swarms
and the Wyoming Craton: Implications for an Archean
Supercontinent
Srinath Krishnan
Changes in the Hydrological Cycle During Early Eocene
Hyperthermals
Chao Liu
Sr and Mg Isotope Geochemistry of Marinoan Cap
Carbonates
Holger Petermann
Azusa Takeishi
Mengnan Zhao
Yiqi Zheng
germanic languages and
literatures
Doctor of Philosophy
Anna Elizabeth Henke
Taking the World by Storm: Forgiveness in Walter
Benjamin’s Early Works
Hans Jochen Lind
Donatienne Ruy
Regime der Aisthesis. Zur Medialitaet der “Zauberfloete.”
Schikaneder. Goethe. Walser. Bergman.
Sergey Sirotenko
Master of Philosophy
Janett Daisy Buell
Brett Allen Tolman
Ariel Addison Travis
Film Studies
Master of Arts
Theresa Marie Wilson
Florian Fuchs
Satomi Yanagidani
Master of Arts
Jason Max Kavett
Tavi Najung Meraud
Duo Xu
history
Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy
William Bradford Stovall
Justin Nathaniel Baros Barr
Master of Arts
Master of Arts
Tobias Kuehne
Surgical Repair of the Arteries in War and Peace,
1880-1960
Oriana DeDomenico Bleecher Snyder
Love, Legacy and Salvation: The Wills of Tunja,
1539-1579
global affairs
Mary Augusta Brazelton
Master of Advanced Study
Vaccinating the Nation: Public Health and Mass
Immunization in Modern China, 1900-60
Azamat Viacheslavovich Kumykov
Ingrid Yulisa Castaneda
Stephen Mark Peel
Dismantling the Enclave; Land, Labor, and National
Belonging on Guatemala’s Caribbean Coast, 1904-1954
Jason Joseph Schneider
Master of Arts
Lukas Benjamin Berg
Louisa Felicity Brown
Wonhee Cho
Beyond Tolerance: The Mongol’s Religious Policies in
Yuan-dynasty China and Il-khanate Iran, 1200-1368
Brian Joseph Distelberg
Andrew Zhiren Cheong
Visibility Matters: The Pursuit of American Belonging in
an Age of Moving Images
Michael Eastman
Mattie Amanda Fitch
Dov Friedman
The People, the Workers, and the Nation: Contested
Cultural Politics in the French Popular Front
Farsan Ghassim
Donna Melyza Hernandez
Daniel K. Khalessi
Pauline Marcou
Brian Tangang Fobi
The Engineers of History: Hendrik Verwoerd, George
Wallace, and the Power of Historical Memory
Tyler James Griffith
Mohammad Hamid Mohammed Zarghoon
Seeing Race: Techniques of Vision and Human Difference
in the Eighteenth Century
Milda Morkyte
Ryan Curtis Hall
Elizabeth Neyens
Blackfoot Country: The Indigenous Borderlands of the
North American Fur Trade, 1782-1870
Marikaa Naomi Nixon
Daniel Jose da Silva Oliveira
James David Herbst
Injustice: Political Trials in Vichy France, 1940-1942
Andrew Deutsch Horowitz
Caitlin Elizabeth Verboon
The End of Empire, Louisiana: Disaster and Recovery on
the Gulf Coast, 1915-2012
Urban Encounters: Race, Space, and Citizenship Struggles
in Southern Cities, 1865-1877
Emily Suzanne Johnson
Master of Philosophy
Authors, Activists, Apostles: Women’s Leadership in the
New Christian Right
William Christopher Johnson
Sex and the Subversive Alien: The Interwoven Itineraries
of Migrant Revolutionaries in the Twentieth-Century
Atlantic World.
African American Studies
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey
African American Studies
Master of Arts
Catherine Stilwell Arnold
Master of Arts
Mark David Baker
Heidi Katherine Knoblauch
Master of Arts
Patient’s Posture: Medical Photography, Collecting, and
Privacy, 1862-1962
Master of Philosophy
Kathryn Leigh Brackney
Nathaniel Aaron Kurz
Master of Arts
“A Sphere Above the Nations?”: The Rise and Fall of
International Jewish Human Rights Politics, 1945-1975
Diana Lucy Lemberg
“The Free Flow of Information”: Media, Human Rights,
and U.S. Global Power, 1945-1984
ShawnaKim Blake Lowey-Ball
Liquid Market, Solid State: The Rise and Demise of the
Great Global Emporium at Malacca, 1400-1641
Christopher Richard Miller
Collapse: The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy
David Minto
Master of Arts
Andra Brosy Chastain
Sarah Ruth Decker
Master of Arts
Cindy Danita Ewing
Master of Arts
Max Fraser
Master of Arts
François Gerardin
Master of Arts
Kevin Charles Gledhill
Master of Arts
Special Relationships: Transnational Homophile Activism
and Anglo-American Sexual Politics
Michelle Claire Grise
Joy Marie Lisi Rankin
Daniel Derek Jones
Personal Computing before Personal Computers: The
Origins of America’s Digital Culture
Rachel Emma Rothschild
A Poisonous Sky: Scientific Research and International
Diplomacy on Acid Rain
Michael David Hattem
Tanya Elal Lawrence
Master of Arts
Yiwen Li
Jermaine Demetrius Lloyd
Vreni Clara Rosa Schoenenberger
African American Studies
Sour Milk: the World Health Organization, Policy
Production, and the Nestle Infant Formula Controversy
Timothy Wayne Lorek
Ying Jia Tan
Santiago Muñoz Arbelaez
Revolutionary Current: Electricity and the Formation of
the Party-State in China and Taiwan, 1937-1957
Marco Antonio Ramos Jr.
Courtney Elizabeth Thompson
Criminal Minds: Medicine, Law, and the Phrenological
Impulse in America, 1830-1890
Master of Arts
Master of Arts
Michael Rom
Bo Tao
Andrina Tran
Henrike Christiane Lange
Master of Arts
Relief Effects: Giotto’s Triumph
Faizah Binte Zakaria
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis
Master of Arts
Black Circassia: Photography, Rumination, and the Racial
“Thought Pictures” of the Caucasus
Katherrine Heather Rae Healey
Stephanie Lynn Luther
Marta Maria Kalabinski
Gifts and Giving in Architectural Sculpture of the Holy
Roman Empire, ca. 1150 - 1235
Orli Penny Kleiner
Jason Paul LeVay
Max David Rosenberg
George Gregory MacDonnell
Transforming Documenta: Art, Legitimacy and Modernity
in Postwar West Germany
Samuel Evan Milner
Heeryoon Shin
Melissa Paa Redwood
Juan Ruiz
Alexander Joseph Saeedy
Andrew Tam
Building a “Modern” Temple Town: Architecture and
Patronage in Banaras, 1750-1900
Richard Hugh Teverson
Augustan Kings: The Art and Architecture of Herod the
Great of Judaea and Juba II of Mauretania
Sze Ying Teo
Master of Philosophy
Adam Tianyi Wang
Nicole Jeri Bass
Stephen Edward Williams
history of art
Doctor of Philosophy
Master of Arts
Maibritt Borgen
Alexander McMahon Coyle
Rebecca Ruth Dibble
Master of Arts
Elizabeth Athens
Rachel Tess Korobkin
Figuring a World: William Bartram’s Natural History
Master of Arts
John Michael Cooper
Key Jo Lee
Imperial Balls: the Arts of Sex, War, and Dancing in
India, England, and the Caribbean, 1770-1870
African American Studies
Master of Arts
Mary Dailey Desmarais
Michelle Katherine Oing
Claude Monet: Behind the Light
Master of Arts
Meredith Jane Gamer
Laura Rose Phillips
“The Sheriff ’s Picture Frame”: Art and Execution in
Eighteenth-Century Britain
Lindsay Renee Riordan
Daniel Mark Greenberg
Samuel Sackeroff
A New Imperial Landscape: Ritual, Representation, and
Foreign Relations at the Qianlong Court
Sylvia Waisbren Houghteling
Politics, Poetry and the Figural Language of South Asian
Cloth, 1600-1730
Jeehye Kim
New Documents to Pictures: Lee Friedlander and the ReMaking of the Photographic Image, 1962-1989
Master of Arts
Master of Arts
Master of Arts
Sophie Rose Lynford
immunobiology
Master of Science
Doctor of Philosophy
Ross Steven Federman
Nancy Christine Allen
Ryan Daniel Molony
Role of Molecular Clock Genes in Macrophage Functional
Heterogeneity
William Edward Ruff Jr.
Thomas Christopher Beck
international relations
Molecular Mechanisms of B Cell Egress from Bone
Marrow
Master of Arts
Sarah Ashley Bertino
Christopher Kevin Harnisch
The Role of Transcription Factor Ascl2 in Follicular
Helper T Cell Development and Function
Mads Neumann
Pamela Yan-ghi Chan
international and
development economics
Negative Regulation of Type 2 Immunity
Raj Jitendra Chovatiya
Parainflammation and the Cell Extrinsic Stress Response
Master of Arts
Josephine Ruth Giles
Narmeen Adeel
Investigating B cell and T cell Cognate Interactions in
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Novel System for the
Study of Lupus Antigen-Specific T Cells
Yong Quan Joshua Ang
Nina Caroline Buchmann
Daniel Andrew Okin
Stephanie Ling Chiao
Investigations Into the Role of Inflammation in the
Regulation of Glucose Homeostasis
Amanda Vera Malin Dahlstrand Rudin
John Philip Ray
Signaling Components of CD4 T Cell Subset
Differentiation Following Acute Viral Infection
Shuang Shao
Gamma-Interferon Inducible Lysosomal Thiol Reductase,
Its Secretion and Role in Bacterial Infection
Layane El Hor
Virag Gabriella Forizs
Michael Hollis Harris
Aashna Jamal
Nikita Amit Kohli
Keerthi Shetty
Chris Nadine Kranzinger
Recruitment of RAG1 and RAG2 to Chromatinized DNA
During V(D)J Recombination
Rahel Melody Kroeker
Master of Philosophy
Parwiz Abrahimi
Caijia Li
David Chih Chiang Loo
Master of Science
Emily Christine Mandel
Simon Matthew Gray
Raja Panjwani
Master of Science
Tejus Parikh
Kachiko Hayashi
Tanya Philip
Master of Science
Jia Shee Hee
Charumathi Raja
Master of Science
Yukino Sakashita
Edward Herman
Arun Vignesh Selvaraju
Master of Science
Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason
Qiao Lu
Zhufei Shi
Master of Science
James Landin Smith
E-Ching Ng
Timothy Toh Yuan Feng
The Phonology of Contact: Creole Sound Change in
Context
Andres Yi Chang
investigative medicine
Doctor of Philosophy
Master of Philosophy
Gregg Anthony Castellucci
Neuroscience
Master of Arts
Justin Miles Belcher
Alysia Nicole Harris
Acute Kidney Injury in the Setting of Cirrhosis
Master of Arts
Ellen Joy Hoffman
Sean M Gleason
Functional Analysis of Genes Associated with Autism
Spectrum Disorders in a Zebrafish Model System
Dolly Goldenberg
Evelyn Hsieh
Ryan Maurice Kasak
Osteoporosis Among Individuals with HIV in China
Cihangir Okuyan
Sang Taek Kim
Jennifer Rachel Runds
Characterization of CD4 T Cells That Help Memory B
Cells and Their Clinical Relevance
Sara Sanchez-Alonso
Farrukh Mansoor Koraishy
Natalie Margaret Schrimpf
The Crosstalk of Hgf and Canonical Wnt Signaling in
Kidney Repair
management
Mathieu Lemaire
Discovery of Novel Genes that Cause Rare Pediatric Renal
Diseases using Whole-Exome Sequencing
Doctor of Philosophy
Sriya Lakshmi Anbil
Essays in Stigma and Derivatives during a Financial Crisis
italian
Doctor of Philosophy
Giulia Cardillo
Ernest Baskin
Mindset Influences on Choice
Jennifer Danilowitz
Taylor Marks Papallo
More Giving and Less Giving Up: The Role of SelfSignaling in Consumer Choice
Master of Philosophy
Green Scenes: Shades of Postwar Italian Cultural Ecology
Aytekin Ertan
Master of Philosophy
Essays on Financial Reporting, Contracting, and
Regulation
The Question of Prophecy in Dante’s Commedia
Karen Tova Raizen
Master of Arts
Master of Arts
Humberto Gonzalez
linguistics
Doctor of Philosophy
Emily Anne Gasser
Windesi Wamesa Morphophonology
Margarita Gorlin
Essays on Self-Perception in Decision Making: How
Self-Perceived Attractiveness Affects Consumer Choice and
Judgment
Weizhao Simon Huang
Essays on Asset Pricing
Wenxi Jiang
Essays on Market Speculators and Asset Prices
Jiaqi Jin
Three Essays on Asset Prices and Trading Behavior
Peter Wiest Kelly
Using Psychology to Understand and Decode Financial
Behavior
Master of Science
Owen Finn Barrett
James Robert Potepa
Geoffrey Degener Smith
Three Essays on Special Items
Guangyu Zhu
Master of Philosophy
Ofer Eldar
medieval studies
Christopher Sean Hundtofte
Master of Philosophy
Andrew Benjamin Meyer
Shannon Fogarty Beddingfield
Master of Arts
Jai Narayan Subrahmanyam
Master of Arts
Qin Tan
Master of Arts
mathematics
Doctor of Philosophy
Tarik Benjamin Aougab
Effectivizing the Geometry of the Curve Complex
Sarah Constantin
Diffusion Harmonics and Dual Geometry on Carnot
Manifolds
Shinnyih Huang
Gregory Charles Bryda
Katherine Storm Hindley
microbiology
Doctor of Philosophy
Megan Elizabeth Ericson
Uncovering the Extent and Functional Significance of the
Small Proteome in the Eukaryotic Parasite Trypanosoma
brucei
Shan Liu
First Generation Adenoviral Vectors Expressing Broadly
Neutralizing Antibodies for Prophylaxis of HIV-1
Tracy Dawn Reynolds
An Improvement to Zaremba’s Conjecture
Viral Vaccine Vectors for the Treatment of Chronic
Hepatitis B Virus Infection
Susanna Kimport
Master of Philosophy
Quantum Modular Forms, Mock Modular Forms, and
Partial Theta Functions
Lara Juliette Kohler
William Edward Leeb
Nicholas Gatta Vincent
Topics in Metric Approximation
Master of Science
Yoav Len
Tropical Brill-Noether Theory
Francisco Franco Munoz
Monique Katherine Merchant
The Classification of Associated Varieties of Some
Generalized Harish-Chandra Modules
molecular biophysics and
biochemistry
Master of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy
Vesselin Atanasov Dimitrov
Matthew Sataro Akamatsu
Master of Science
Kyle Luh
Characterization of Two Types of Interphase Nodes that
Merge to Form Cytokinetic Nodes for Contractile Ring
Assembly in Fission Yeast
Cambria Judith Alpha
Antimicrobial Properties of the Volatile Organic
Compounds Produced by Muscodor Albus and other
Members of the Muscodor Genus
Garrett Benjamin Cobb
Dimitrios Zattas
Characterization of Tau-Tubulin Interaction by Single
Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Regulation of Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) Protein
Degradation by the Doa10 and Hrd1 Ubiquitin Ligases in
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
David Craig DeWitt
Towards Understanding alpha-Synuclein’s Native
Function
Joanna Margaret Dunn
Investigations into Monomeric IAPP Membrane
Binding and the Role of Residue 18 in IAPP-Membrane
Interactions
Jennifer Lynn Fribourgh
The Interaction between HIV Proteins and Two Viral
Restriction Factors: CA-MxB and Vif-A3F
Bingjie Han
Studies of Chloride Transporters that Regulate the Quality
of GABA Signaling during Caenorhabditis Elegans
Locomotor Circuit Development
Danielle Sonya Krasner
DNA End Protection at Double Strand Breaks and
Telomeres by Ku70/80 and Cdc13
Master of Philosophy
Olga Buzovetsky
Erin Elizabeth Duffy
Michael Robert Hinrichsen
Michael Montini Lacy
Jimi Craig Miller
Stephanie Reikine
Caroline Wetherington Reiss
David Richards
Michael Rutenberg Schoenberg
Brady James Summers
Danielle Marie Williams
Hoong Chuin Lim
Chen Zhao
Evidence for a DNA-Relay Mechanism in ParABSMediated Chromosome Segregation
Master of Science
Henry Chu Nguyen
Insights into the Assembly of Cellular and Viral CullinRING E3 Ligases
April Elizabeth Rose
Cell Biological Characterization of the Walker B Mutant
of TorsinB
Marisa Andrea Rubio
Jeremy James Puthumana
molecular, cellular, and
developmental biology
Doctor of Philosophy
Barbara Anne Cheifet
Nucleation Processes of Peptide Amyloids
Characterizing the Role of Adipocytes in Skin Wound
Healing
Daniel Schlingman
Andy Chen
Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Unwinding and
Rewinding the Nucleosome
Mark Adam Simpson
Direct Interactions with the Integrin Beta1 Modulate
Abl2/Arg Kinase Activity
Elizabeth Marie Turner
HSV-1 as a Model System for Studying Alternative
Nuclear Transport
Ellen Marie White
Investigation of the Sequence to Structure Relationship of
Beta-Helices from a Triple-Stranded Beta-Helix
Functional Investigation of Ribozymes and Ribozyme
Candidates in Viruses, Bacteria and Eukaryotes
Nicholas William Frankel
Trade-offs in Bacterial Chemotaxis and the Adaptation of
Non-genetic Diversity
Sachi Inukai
MicroRNAs and the Gene Regulatory Network during
Aging
Min Lee Kim
Post-Transcriptional Regulation of the KRAS gene through
its 3’ Untranslated Region
Patrick Thomas McMillen
Cadherin 2 Bimodally Regulates ECM Assembly through
Distinct and Spatially Non-Overlapping Mechanisms
Chanatip Metheetrairut
C. elegans as a Model for Developmental Timing and
Sensitivity to Ionizing Radiation
Bradley Robert Parry
Cellular Metabolism Fluidizes the Glassy Cytoplasm of
Bacteria
Kathryn Rosowski
A Connection between Differentiation and Mechanics in
Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Alexis Jennifer Rovner
Construction and Characterization of Genomically
Recoded Organisms and Synthetic Auxotrophs
Zhiyuan Zhou
Functional Analyses and Application of Bacterial Noncoding RNAs
music
Doctor of Philosophy
Jonathan Charles Guez
Schubert’s Recapitulation Scripts
Moira Leanne Hill
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Passion Settings: Context,
Content, and Impact
Aaron Fitch Judd
Figures of the Chinese Landscape: A Study of Instrumental
Music, 1978-1989
John Richard Muniz
Enharmonic Procedures in Nineteenth-Century Music
Carmel Addie Raz
Master of Science
Reverberating Nerves: Physiology, Perception and Early
Romantic Auditory Cultures
Divyansh Agarwal
Joseph Robert Salem
Karthikeyan Ardhanareeswaran
Boulez Revised: Compositional Process as Aesthetic
Critique in the Composer’s Formative Works
Brenden Lee Barco
Gregory Lawrence Elison
Ann Marie Feke
Master of Philosophy
Annelies Herlinde Edgard Andries
Master of Arts
Arash Fereydooni
Tahirih Motazedian
Brandon Joseph Holtrup
Master of Arts
Cassandra Doris Johnston
Kamala Jacobs Schelling
Mohammed Khan
Ashton Chuck-Wing Lai
Master of Arts
Kirill Zikanov
Master of Arts
Xinyue Luo
Master of Arts
Paul Michael Muir
Andrew Emery Curtis Schartmann
Pujan Rajni Patel
Wesley Ellis Robertson
Lucas Daniel Sanor
near eastern languages and
civilizations
Ethan Anders Sarnoski
Doctor of Philosophy
Elizabeth Harding Scott
Niv Allon
Damian Stobierski
Jennifer S. Sun
Thomas Zhong Young
Writing, Violence and the Military: Visualizing Literacies
at the Time of Horemhab (1550-1295 BCE)
Marina Wilding Brown
Keeping Enemies Closer: Ascribed Material Agency in
Ancient Egyptian Rock Inscriptions and the Projection of
Presence and Power in Liminal Regions
Matteo Di Giovanni
James Seiken Martenson
Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Book Alpha Minor: Studies in the
History of the Tradition and Critical Editions of the Greek
and Arabic Texts
Distinct Subunit Roles in GABAA Receptor Biogenesis and
Synaptic Localization
Master of Philosophy
Hadi Jorati
Joshua Ethan Motelow
Science and Society in Medieval Islam: Nasir al-Din Tusi
and the Politics of Patronage
Does the Cortex Fall Asleep during Complex Partial
Seizures?
Master of Philosophy
Jessica Carol Nelson
Classics
Axon Arborization and Extrasynaptic Neurosecretory
Terminal Development in the Serotonergic NSM Neuron
of C. elegans
Master of Arts
Seth Robert Taylor
Hasan A. Alsulami
Cell-type Specific Projections and Manipulations within the
Mesolimbic System
neurobiology
Master of Philosophy
Geoffrey James Moseley
Doctor of Philosophy
Timothy James Burbridge
Danielle Zalta Bolling
Cali Ann Calarco
Molecular and Activity-Dependent Mechanisms of Visual
Circuit Development
Kathren Louise Fink
Wenqi Han
Carol Ann Gianessi
Molecular Control of Cortical Neuronal Identity and
Connectivity
Master of Philosophy
Jeremy Tzung-Yi Chang
Kara Elizabeth Furman
Adam Craig Kaufman
Aaron Donald Levy
Daniel Li
Zhen Li
neuroscience
Mitchell Hamed Omar
Doctor of Philosophy
Andrew Howard Smith
Victoria Elizabeth Clark
Eleanor Varian Thomas
Characterizing the Genomic Architecture and Molecular
Mechanisms Driving the Formation of Non-NF2
Meningiomas
Master of Science
Jason Matthew Dwyer
Adeolu Oluwaseun Morawo
S6 Kinase 1 Signaling in Prefrontal Cortex Controls
Depressive Behavior
nursing
Jennifer Naiz-Zhen Guo
EEG and fMRI Correlates of Behavior during Childhood
Absence Seizures
Laurel Bobrow
Doctor of Philosophy
Lisa Anne Braun
Regulatory T Cell Function in Inflammatory Disease
U.S. Navy Women’s Experience with Abnormal Cervical
Cancer Screening and Follow-Up Care
Tiffany Lin
Ariana Marie Chao
Amanda Lynn Hernandez
Translational Regulation Mediates Hyperactive
mTORC1-induced Aberrations in Cortical Development
Obesity-Related Eating Phenotypes: Examining the
Relationships with Food Cravings, Stress, and Metabolic
Abnormalities
Asefeh Faraz
Factors Influencing the Successful Transition and
Turnover Intention of Novice Nurse Practitioners in the
Primary Care Workforce
Master of Philosophy
Julia Anna Sarah Borcherding
Master of Arts
Rose Clarke Nanyonga
Justin Zachary D’Ambrosio
Leadership, Followership and the Context: An Integrative
Examination of Nursing Leadership in Uganda
Master of Arts
Samuel Zincke Elgin
So-Hyun Park
Jessie Clare Munton
A Descriptive Study of Dietary Intake and Adherence
to Cancer Survivor Nutrition and Physical Activity
Guidelines
Yasemin Turkman
Master of Arts
Esther Lenore Shubert
Dylan Matthew Vollans
An Interpretive Description of Women’s Experiences with
Triple Negative Breast Cancer
physics
pharmacology
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy
Oriana Sharon Fisher
Structural Studies of Cerebral Cavernous Malformation 2
(CCM2) Reveal the Basis for its Interactions with Protein
Binding Partners
Master of Philosophy
Phillip Bradley Murray
Master of Science
Yagmur Muftuoglu
philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy
Jonathan Phillips
The Psychological Representation of Modality
Psychology
Sara Protasi
Envy
Alex Silverman
The Union of Thought and Being in Spinoza
Jason Alden Smith
Truth, Art, and Faith: Nietzsche’s Recovery of the Sacred
Alexander Liam Worsnip
Rationality’s Demands on Belief
Tomas Robert Prem-Raj Aronsson
Cross Section of Beauty Electrons in Proton-Proton
Collisions in the ALICE Experiment
Hongchul Bae
Wormhole Solutions to the Bianchi IX Wheeler-DeWitt
Equation using the Euclidean-Signature Semi-Classical
Method
Alexander Witte Cerjan
Fundamental Physics and Device Design using the SteadyState Ab Initio Laser Theory
Andrew Gerard Leister
A Search for Z’ Gauge Bosons Decaying to Tau-Antitau
Pairs in Proton-Proton Collisions with the ATLAS Detector
Ana Malagon
Search for 140 microeV Pseudoscalar and Vector Dark
Matter Using Microwave Cavities
Christopher Burt McKitterick
Prospects for Ultra-sensitive Terahertz Photon Detection
with Graphene
Gennady Voronov
The Extent of the Two-Color Fundamental Conformal
Window
Liyao Wang
Heat Capacity Bound, Energy Fluctuations and Convexity
Xiaoxiao Wang
Search for a Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark
using Boosted Top Quark Identification with the ATLAS
Detector at the LHC
Master of Philosophy
Benjamin Yuhua-Cheng Lee
Corey James Adams
David Meltzer
Master of Science
Michela Paganini
Victor Albert
Meredith Clark Powell
Master of Science
Emine Altuntas
Master of Science
Jacob Zachary Blumoff
Stefan Alexander Elrington
Jared Gregory Vasquez
Dili Wang
political science
Alexandru Bogdan Georgescu
Doctor of Philosophy
Master of Science
Costin Vlad Alamariu
Anna Kashkanova
Master of Science
The Problem of Tyranny and Philosophy: The Political
Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche
Xin Li
Kaeli Joy Andersen
Master of Science
Under the Shadow of Dictators: Explaining U.S. Military
Access to Authoritarian Regimes
Anthony Lollo Jr.
Master of Science
Selim Erdem Aytac
Manuel Mai
Master of Science
Relative Performance and the Incumbent Vote: A Reference
Point Theory of Economic Voting
Peiyuan Mao
Cameron Ballard-Rosa
Master of Science
David Mason
Master of Science
Evan Keller Pease
Master of Science
Andrei Petrenko
Master of Science
Siddharth Gokuldas Prabhu
Regime-Contingent Biases and the Politics of Sovereign
Default
Robert Allen Blair II
Four Essays on Peacebuilding and the Consolidation of
State Authority
Lara Elizabeth Chausow
It’s More than Who you Know: The Role of Access,
Procedural and Political Expertise, and Policy Knowledge
in Revolving Door Lobbying
Master of Science
Adam Michael Dynes
Alexey Shkarin
Master of Science
Three Essays on Legislative Tactics, Electoral
Accountability, and Experimental Methods
William Wendell Smith
Adi Greif
Master of Science
The Impact of Imperialism on Gender Equality: The
Benefit of Being French
Brian Peter Tennyson
Master of Science
Corinna Jentzsch
Jukka Ilmari Vayrynen
Militias and the Dynamics of Civil War
Master of Science
Jung Kim
Uri Vool
Divided Government and Legislative Bargaining in Japan
and South Korea
Master of Science
Tonima Tasnim Ananna
Charles Daryl Brown II
Stefan Ivanov Krastanov
Malte Michael Lierl
Essays on Informal Governance: Enforcement and
Accountability under Weak Institutions
Lucy Elizabeth Sempl Martin
Taxation and Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa
Luis Enrique Schiumerini
Louis Max Wasser
Incumbency and Democracy in South America
Master of Arts
Qiuqing Tai
Jung-Ho Yun
A Double Edged Sword: Western Media in Transforming
the Political Attitudes of Overseas Chinese
Dawn Langan Teele
The Logic of Women’s Enfranchisement: A Comparative
Study of the United States, France, and the United
Kingdom
Master of Arts
Master of Arts
Master of Arts
Jonathon Simon Baron
Matthew Douglas Cebul
John Arthur Dearborn
Richard Olmsted Truex
Aaron Greenberg
Representation Within Bounds
Anand Benjamin Gupta
Master of Philosophy
William M. Kwok
Robert Vitold Arnold
Melis Gulboy Laebens
Master of Arts
Lauren Elizabeth Pinson
Vivekinan Lavanya Ashok
Master of Arts
Joshua Stanton Braver
Master of Arts
Natalia Salgado Bueno
Suparna Chaudhry
Master of Arts
Charles Houston Decker
Petr Gocev
Master of Arts
Joshua Ross Goodman
Hari Narayan Ramesh
Jacob Berman Schumaker
Eric Wasserman Stern
psychology
Doctor of Philosophy
Yael Levin Belinkie
A Transdiagnostic Prevention Program Targeting
Rumination and the Dysregulation of Emotion in
Adolescent Girls
Master of Arts
Jamie Dale Benoit
Michael Kalin
Pharmacologically-Induced Histone Acetylation can be
Decoupled from Normally Generated Transcriptional
Events
Master of Arts
Jiyoung Ko
Master of Arts
Stacey Lee Blase
Master of Arts
Impact of Expectancy Explanations in Nontraditional
Therapeutic Interventions: Relation to Treatment
Acceptability, Dissemination, and Outcome
Shmuel Nili
Su Mei Lee
Gareth Hugh Bernard Nellis
Master of Arts
William George Nomikos
Clarifying the Role of the Posterior Superior Temporal
Sulcus in Social Cognitive Processing
Master of Arts
Vivian Hiu-Wing Li
Pia Johanna Raffler
Master of Arts
Idea Cognition and Intellectual Property Ownership:
Insights from Development
Niloufer Aamina Siddiqui
Rebecca Lynn Pearl
Master of Arts
Effects of Weight Stigma on Health: Psychological
Components and Behavioral Outcomes
Anurag Sinha
Master of Arts
Junli Ping
The Nitrate Oxide (NO) Signaling Pathway Regulates
Pre- and Postsynaptic Mechanisms Following Long-Term
Potentiation (LTP) Induction at Thalamo-Amygdala
Synapses
Master of Philosophy
Master of Science
Rebecca Goldman Boswell
Rebecca Gwen Fortgang
Danielle Marie Gerhard
Jacqueline Sue Smith
Elizabeth Tepe Kneeland
Social Category Congruity, Group Membership, and the
Boundaries of Appropriate Emotional Expression
Hannah Elizabeth Raila
Aysu Suben
Andrea Celeste Vial Vazquez
Contextual Influences (or Lack Thereof ) on Attention and
Perception
Katherine Rose Von Culin
Peng Wang
public health
Coping with Social Disadvantage in an Ambiguous
World: Perceiving and Responding to Prejudice and
Discrimination
Doctor of Philosophy
Master of Philosophy
Konika Banerjee
Erica Boothby
Master of Science
Sara Emily Burke
Bryan A Bassig
Risk Factors for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Eastern Asia
Emily Marie Bucholz
Sex and Race Differences in Long-Term Survival and Life
Expectancy after Acute Myocardial Infarction
Javier Cepeda
Master of Science
Characterizing the Post-Incarceration Risk Environment in
St. Petersburg, Russia
Kevin Callender
Kathleen O’Connor Duffany
Hillary Chapman Devlin
Maternal Obesity and Related Conditions: Risk Factors for
Childhood Delays
Lindsey Arline Drayton
Charles Zachary Firestone
Meagan Colleen Fitzpatrick
Master of Science
Evaluating Proxy Vaccination Strategies: Rabies and
Pertussis
Matthew Fisher
Julie Rozelle Gaither
Aleena Carmen Hay
Suzanne Ruth Horwitz
The Association between Guideline-Concordant Long-Term
Opioid Therapy and All-Cause Mortality in HIV+ and
HIV- Veterans
Samuel Gregory Blane Johnson
Owais Gilani
Jonathan F. Kominsky
Spatiotemporal Calibration and Resolution Refinement of
Output from Deterministic Models
Aaron Nicholas Santascoy
Master of Science
Justin Thomas Sevier
Master of Science
Zarrar Shehzad
Master of Science
Arber Tasimi
Rebecca Naomi Van den Honert
Erikka Loftfield
Exploring Associations of Coffee Consumption with Cancer
and Mortality and Unraveling the Underlying Mechanisms
Lesley S Park
Cancer and HIV in the Antiretroviral Therapy Era:
The Effects of Cancer Diagnosis Data on Epidemiologic
Research Results, Cancer Incidence Time Trends, and Viral
Suppression’s Role in Cancer Prevention
Master of Science
Nicholas Emile Torsiello
Victoria Lynn Webb
Decision-making and Obesity Policy: Self-control, Mental
Accounting, and Menu Labels
Master of Philosophy
Elizabeth Faye Davidson
Alexander Reza Bazazi
Those Who Listen: Shenoute’s Sermons at the White
Monastery
Zhixuan Fu
Ellen Marie Gough
Gregg Steven Gonsalves
Making a Mantra: Jain Superhuman Powers in History,
Ritual, and Material Culture
Daniel I Jacobs
Tracy Melissa Layne
Christina Clair Harker
Catherine C Lerro
Paul, Empire, Calendar, & Galatia: A Postcolonial
Analysis of Galatians and Its Modern Interpretation
Isabel Martinez
Alexandra Kaloyanides
Josefa Lynn Martinez
Baptizing Buddhists: The Nineteenth-Century American
Missionary Encounter with Burmese Buddhism
William Kenji Murk
Sarah Elizabeth Koenig
Samantha Acson Streicher
Kiersten Laurel Strombotne
The Legend of Marcus Whitman and the Making of
American History
History
Jose Ramon Troche
Andrew More
Qing Zhao
Early Statements Relating to the Lay Community in the
Svetambara Jain Canon
Master of Science
Talha Ali
Jeffrey Lynn Morris II
Rethinking Christian Realism in the 21st Century
Avni Amit Bavishi
Stephen Robinson Ogden
Xiaoxuan Cai
Xiyang Dou
Receiving and Making Aristotle’s Intellect: A New
Assessment of Averroes and Aquinas
Philosophy
Mengtian Du
Shari Lisa Rabin
Wei Jiang
Manifest Jews: Mobility and the Making of American
Judaism, 1820-1877
Bingbing Lu
Hao Mei
Lan Min
Sara A. Ronis
“Do Not Go Out Alone at Night”: Law and Demonic
Discourse in the Babylonian Talmud
Janice Eunsoo Oh
Master of Philosophy
Beata Marta Planeta
Bradley Raymond East
Yan Tian
Xiaotian Wu
Yinjie Yang
Master of Arts
Mary Kamal Farag
Master of Arts
Andrew Charles Forsyth
Master of Arts
religious studies
Doctor of Philosophy
Yousef Alexander Casewit
The Forgotten Mystic: Ibn Barrajan (d. 536/1141) and the
Andalusian Mu tabirun
Lang Chen
Heroic Sinners: Evil in Buddhist Narrative Literature
Simcha Menachem Gross
Master of Arts
Alison Acker Gruseke
Master of Arts
Mark Joseph Holum
Master of Arts
Yonatan Shimshon Moss
Tyler James Smith
Yasushi Xavier Tanaka-Gutiez
Master of Arts
Towards a New Cultural Sociology of Mass Mobilizations:
A Comparative Analysis of Occupy Wall Street and the
2011 English Riots
Olivia Catherine Stewart
Master of Arts
Master of Arts
Samuel Jonathan Ross
renaissance studies
Master of Philosophy
Matthew Steven Tanico
Spanish and Portuguese
Sandy Yili Zhao
Justice, Law, and the Elite Student Experience in Russian
and American Legal Education
Master of Philosophy
Sara Shoshanna Bastomski
Master of Arts
Jonathan Charles Endelman
Master of Arts
Todd Michael Madigan
slavic languages and
literatures
William Matthew McMillan
Master of Philosophy
Master of Arts
Aura Evenstar Young
sociology
Doctor of Philosophy
Seongsoo Choi
Educational Investment and Institutional Contexts: Three
Essays on Educational Stratification in Comparative
Perspective
Thomas Alexander Crosbie
Democratic Oversight and Military Autonomy: The U.S.
Army’s Management of American Journalism, 1939-2004
Alison Kathleen Gerber
Art Work?: Tradition, Rationalization, and the Valuation
of Contemporary Artistic Practice
Joseph Klett
The Social Life of Noise
Matthew Cadogan Lawrence
Generating Educational Inequality: Multigenerational
Approaches to the Transmission of Advantage and
Disadvantage
Carolyn Mai Ly
Candas Pinar
Celene Raymer Reynolds
Luke Eugene Wagner
Master of Arts
Iris Willey
Master of Arts
James Walter Abbott
Anne Marie Champagne
Tony Cheng
Inkwan Chung
Alexandra Jane DiBranco
Jung In
Javed Saunja Jaghai
Angela Ifeoma Onwuachi-Willig
African American Studies
Dicky Yangzom
Mustafa Yavas
spanish and portuguese
Meaning and Merit in American Municipal Firefighting
Doctor of Philosophy
Elizabeth May Roberto
Elizabeth Lynn Gansen
The Boundaries of Spatial Inequality: Three Essays on the
Measurement and Analysis of Residential Segregation
Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo (1478-1557): Renaissance
Reader and New World Naturalist and Historian
Laurie Jane Lomask
Qijun Fang
Modernity in Stride: Walking in Modern Spanish
Literature
Zhichan Huang
Tanya Romero-Gonzalez
Mundos convergentes: Lo material y lo fantasmagorico en
la literatura y el cine espanol contemporaneo
Xiaoyang Lu
Junchao Ma
Jingxian Wu
Master of Philosophy
Baobao Zhang
Ian Geoffrey Mario Althouse
Angli Zhao
Master of Arts
Diego Del Rio Arrillaga
Master of Arts
Janelle Gondar
Master of Arts
Veronica Anne Mayer
Master of Arts
Stephanie Danielle Rohner Stornaiuolo
Master of Arts
Master of Arts
Edwin Stewart Atkins II
Francisco Pérez Marsilla
statistics
Doctor of Philosophy
Sabyasachi Chatterjee
Adaptation in Estimation and Annealing
Zhao Ren
Structured Covariance and Precision Matrices Estimation:
Toeplitz Covariance and Gaussian Graphical Model
Xiao Yang
Compression and Predictive Distributions for Large
Alphabets
Saier Ye
Multivariate Regression with Block-structured Predictors
Master of Arts
Rosemary Anne Brewin
William David Brinda
Dongmiao Cui
Emily Morgan Dodwell
the newberry memorial organ, woolsey hall
Built in 1901 by the Hutchings-Votey Organ Company of Boston, Massachusetts, the Newberry
Memorial Organ was improved mechanically and almost doubled in size in 1915 and was then rebuilt
and greatly enlarged in 1928. One of the largest, most outstanding, and beautiful instruments of this
period, it is kept in excellent playing condition and is used throughout the academic year for recitals
and concerts. The organ has 12,617 pipes in a three-story chamber. An “echo room” in the basement
of Woolsey Hall has 700 additional pipes of zinc, lead, and sugar pine, producing tones that sound
like horns, flutes, and whistles. The instrument, which requires tuning three times a year due to
changes in humidity and temperature, is powered by two 20-horsepower motors.
the shield of the graduate school of arts and sciences
The design for the Graduate School shield was drawn by Yale art professor
Theodore Sizer and approved by the University. Four themes are symbolized in
the arms of the School. The background of the “chief ” (the place of honor) is
Yale blue, with Roman numerals in white representing 1847, the year of the
founding of the Department of Philosophy and the Arts, the earliest formal
organization for graduate study at Yale and, in fact, in the entire United States.
Below, on a white background, is a black Y-shaped device representing the
“pallium,” a garment worn by philosophers in ancient Rome, and frequently
used as a symbol for Yale. The three red crosses are derived from the arms of
Bishop George Berkeley, who established in 1732 an endowment for Yale College
graduates “reading for the second degree.” These were the first scholarships
exclusively for graduate study at Yale
the mace of the graduate school of arts and sciences
The mace is carried at the head of ceremonial processions by the School’s marshal
and displayed at such events as the annual Matriculation ceremony, awards
Convocation, and Commencement.
The shaft of the mace is turned red mahogany. Inset near the top of the shaft on
two sides is the shield of the Graduate School, rendered in cloisonné-enameled
metal. For description of the shield, see above. The shaft is topped by a disk of
grained red and black macasser ebony, on which sits a large, faceted crystal orb,
the chief design element of the mace. The orb symbolizes several characteristics of
advanced study in the arts and sciences. The global shape suggests the ambition
of advanced study to be comprehensive in its inquiry. The transparent clarity of
the fine Austrian lead crystal of which the orb is made alludes to the motto of Yale
University, Lux et Veritas, and to the enlightenment that scholars seek in their
research and teaching. Finally, the many facets of the orb symbolize the complexity
of advanced learning in the arts and sciences and the importance of approaching
its subjects from many intellectual directions.
In addition to the large ceremonial school mace described above, there are four
smaller maces that are carried by faculty and staff marshals. These marshals’
batons each have a similarly turned shaft of mahogany. At their tops is a single
enameled shield.