Ph.D. CONVOCATIONSunday, May 18, 2014

academic procession Doctoral candidatesFaculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

greetings and opening remarks

Carlos J. AlonsoDean, Graduate School of Arts and SciencesVice President for Graduate Education

deans award for distinguished achievement

Wallace S. BroeckerPh.D. 1958, Earth and Environmental Sciences

candidates remarks Melissa BorjaPh.D. candidate, History

keynote Klaus Lackner, Ph.D.Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of GeophysicsDirector of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy

faculty mentoring awards presented by Cathy ChenPh.D. student, Electrical EngineeringVice President, Graduate Student Advisory Council

Henry M. ColecraftDepartments of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics and Pharmacology

Eugenia LeanDepartment of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Ozgur SahinDepartments of Biological Sciences and Physics

presidential awards for outstanding teaching

presented by John H. Coatsworth, Provost

Royden Jay KadyschukPh.D. student, English and Comparative Literature

Roberto PesentiPh.D. student, Art History and Archaeology

Aya WallwaterPh.D. student, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

presentation of the doctoral candidates

Andrea J. TucherDirector, Ph.D. program in Communications

gsas alumni association remarks

Louis A. ParksM.A. 1995, Ancient StudiesPresident, GSAS Alumni Association Board of Directors

final remarks andrecessional

Dean Alonso

music Agua Clara

program

The doctoral candidates listed in this booklet completed the final deposit of their dissertations by the printing deadline of April 25, 2014.

Ph.D. in Anthropologyheather noelle Atherton. Community formation

in the Spanish colonial borderlands: San Jos de las Huertas, New Mexico. Sponsor: Nan A. Rothschild.

yogesh Chandrani. Legacies of colonial history: Region, religion, and violence in postcolonial Gujarat. Sponsor: Nicholas B. Dirks.

Krista M. hegburg. Aftermath: Accounting for the Holocaust in the Czech Republic. Sponsor: Rosalind C. Morris.

thushara naresh Sukeshana hewage. Genealogies of the postcolonial state: Insurgency, emergency and democracy in Sri Lanka. Sponsor: David Scott.

Etsko Kasai. Everyday fascism of contemporary Japan. Sponsor: Marilyn J. Ivy.

yixin li. Tradition, change, and the Weilongwu Compound: Kinship, state, and local elites in southeastern China. Sponsor: Myron Cohen.

Maya t. Mikdashi. Religious conversion and Dawa secularism: Two practices of citizenship in Lebanon. Sponsor: Elizabeth A. Povinelli.

Jun Mizukawa. The crisis of language in contemporary Japan: Reading, writing, and new technology. Sponsor: Marilyn J. Ivy.

Anand Vivek taneja. Nature, history, and the sacred in the medieval ruins of Delhi. Sponsor: Partha Chatterjee.

Darryl 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 MAthEMAtICSWeiwei Shen. Portfolio optimization with

transaction costs and taxes. Sponsors: Mark N. Broadie and David E. Keyes.

ningyao Zhang. Homogenization theory for partial differential equations with large, random potential. Sponsor: Guillaume Bal.

Xiang Zheng. Large-scale simulation of spinodal decomposition. Sponsor: David E. Keyes.

ApplIED phySICSSriharsha Veerabhadraiah Aradhya. Interplay

between mechanics, electronics, and energetics in atomic-scale junctions. Sponsor: Latha Venkataraman.

Jonathan r. Widawsky. Probing electronic and thermoelectric properties of single molecule junctions. Sponsor: Latha Venkataraman.

MAtErIAlS SCIEnCE AnD

EngInEErIngCheng Cheng. Materials optimization and GHz

spin dynamics of metallic ferromagnetic thin film heterostructures. Sponsor: William E. Bailey.

theodore Jervey Kramer. Functional nanocomposites formed by two-step back-filling methods. Sponsor: Irving P. Herman.

Ph.D. in Art hIStory AnD ArChAEologyheidi Applegate. Staging modernism at the 1915

San Francisco Worlds Fair. Sponsor: Elizabeth W. Hutchinson.

Diana M. Bush. The dialectical object: John Heartfield, 1915-1933. Sponsor: Alexander Alberro.

Kathryn Josette Chiong. Words matter: The work of Lawrence Weiner. Sponsor: Rosalind Krauss.

Christopher payne Dueker. The entangled aesthetics of Alex Janvier. Sponsor: Elizabeth W. Hutchinson.

Emily Katherine liebert. Roles recast: Eleanor Antin and the 1970s. Sponsor: Alexander Alberro.

Jessica Anne Maratsos. The devotional imagination of Jacopo Pontormo. Sponsor: David Rosand.

heather oleary McStay. Viva Bacco e viva Amore: Bacchic imagery in the Renaissance. Sponsor: David Rosand.

Martina Mims. August Endells construction of feeling. Sponsor: Barry Bergdoll.

Denise Michelle Murrell. Seeing Laure: Race and modernity from Manets Olympia to Matisse, Bearden, and beyond. Sponsor: Anne Higonnet.

neeraja poddar. Krishna in his myriad forms: Narration, translation, and variation in illustrated manuscripts of the latter half of the tenth book of the Bhgavata Pura. Sponsor: Vidya Dehejia.

Ph.D. in AStronoMyDuane Morris lee. Understanding the nature of

stellar chemical abundance distributions in nearby stellar systems. Sponsor: Kathryn V. Johnston.

Destry rose Saul. Compact galactic neutral hydrogen clouds in the GALFA-HI survey. Sponsor: Mary E. Putman.

Christine Mary Simpson. Dwarf galaxies in a cosmological context: A testbench for galaxy modeling. Sponsor: Greg Bryan.

Maureen Elizabeth teyssier. Extreme stellar populations in the universe: Backsplash dwarf galaxies and wandering stars. Sponsor: Kathryn V. Johnston.

Joo heon yoon. Gas around galaxies and clusters: The case for the Virgo Cluster. Sponsor: Mary E. Putman.

Ph.D. in BIoChEMIStry AnD MolECulAr BIophySICSZahra A. Assur. CysZ: Structural and functional

studies of a novel sulfate transport protein. Sponsor: Wayne A. Hendrickson.

Klra Orsolya Felsvlyi. Learning from cadherin structures and sequences: Affinity determinants and protein architecture. Sponsor: Barry Honig.

Kate Ann Stafford. Thermal adaptation of conformational dynamics in ribonuclease H. Sponsor: Arthur G. Palmer III.

David Avrahm yarmolinsky. Mechanisms for taste sensation of carbonation. Sponsor: Charles Zuker.

Ph.D. in BIologICAl SCIEnCESSarah rose Alaei. C-terminal lysines modulate

Connexin32 turnover and its ability to suppress growth of Neuro-2a cell cultures. Sponsor: J. Chlo Bulinski.

Mauricio Alfredo Arias hernandez. Designer exons inform a biophysical model for exon definition. Sponsor: Lawrence Chasin.

lilyn Daftuar. Re-thinking the role of ribosomal proteins in the Mdm2-p53 axis. Sponsor: Carol Prives.

Chao Dai. P90 and UHRF1, two novel regulators of the P53 signaling pathway. Sponsor: Wei Gu.

Ahmed Ijaz gilani. A deficit in parvalbumin-expressing interneurons in the hippocampus leads to physiological and behavioral phenotypes relevant to schizophrenia in a genetic mouse model. Sponsor: Holly Moore.

Eric patrick henckels. Regulation of matrix metallopeptidase 1 in breast cancer metastasis. Sponsor: Ron Prywes.

Kathryn Anne Abele henckels. Mid-channel proteolysis of the L-type voltage gated calcium channel and the potential role of amyloid- precursor protein. Sponsor: Jian Yang.

Jing-ping hsin. The functions of the RNA polymerase II CTD in transcription and RNA processing. Sponsor: James L. Manley.

Justine Virginia Kupferman. Targeting ion channels to distal dendrites. Sponsor: Steven A. Siegelbaum.

thera Cathy lewis. Serum regulation of inhibitor of DNA binding/differentiation 1 expression by a BMP pathway and BMP responsive element. Sponsor: Ron Prywes.

Bianca Francesca Marcolino. Spatial, temporal, and mechanistic characterization of apoptotic death in the developing subventricular zone. Sponsor: Lloyd Greene.

Ambar Asghar Salam. HDAC6 activity is required for efficient polarization and intracellular transport of organelles in directionally migrating cells. Sponsor: J. Chlo Bulinski.

lus Carlos Santos. Cell mechanics regulate mesenchymal stem cell morphology and T cell activation. Sponsor: Michael P. Sheetz.

Sarah Jane Weil. Novel regulatory mechanisms of cytoplasmic dynein: A role for the complex base. Sponsor: Richard Vallee.

Kehui Xiang. Structural and biochemical characterizations of the Symplekin-Ssu72-CTD complex in pre-mRNA 3 end processing. Sponsors: Liang Tong and James L. Manley.

Eva Zadorozny. The role of Costal2 and its collaborators in regulation of Ci processing and in mediation of response to Hedgehog in Drosophila. Sponsor: Daniel D. Kalderon.

Feifan Zhang. Gene regulatory factors that control the identity of specific neuron types in Caenorhabditis elegans. Sponsor: Oliver Hobert.

Ph.D. in BIoMEDICAl EngInEErIngMatthew Bouchard. 2D and 3D high-speed

multispectral optical imaging systems for in vivo biomedical research. Sponsor: Elizabeth M. C. Hillman.

Emmanuel louis pierre Dumont. Proteins at interfaces: Conformational behavior and wear. Sponsor: Henry Hess.

lauren E. grosberg. Development and applications of high-speed and hyperspectral nonlinear microscopy. Sponsor: Elizabeth M. C. Hillman.

yi hou. Biomechanical assessment and monitoring of thermal ablation using Harmonic Motion Imaging for Focused Ultrasound (HMIFU). Sponsor: Elisa E. Konofagou.

Michael Ashraf Khalil. Development of a vascular optical tomographic imaging system for the diagnosis and monitoring of peripheral arterial disease. Sponsor: Andreas H. Hielscher.

Jarett Evan Michaelson. Quantifying structural and functional changes in cardiac cells in an in vitro model of diabetic cardiomyopathy. Sponsor: Hayden Huang.

Siddarth Devraj Subramony. Nanofiber-based scaffold for integrative anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Sponsor: Helen H. Lu.

Andrea r. tan. Towards clinical use of engineered tissues for cartilage repair. Sponsor: Clark T. Hung.

Jennifer M. Walz. Exposing internal attentional brain states using single-trial EEG analysis with combined imaging modalities. Sponsor: Paul Sajda.

Qi Wei. Roles of cell junctions and the cytoskeleton in substrate-free cell sheet engineering. Sponsor: Hayden Huang.

Supansa yodmuang. Preconditioning methods in cartilage tissue engineering: Influences of silk material properties and hypoxia on chondrogenesis. Sponsor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic.

Xiaoning yuan. Engineering the cell environment for meniscus repair: From micro- to macro-scale. Sponsor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic.

Ph.D. in BIoMEDICAl InForMAtICShua-Sheng Chiu. Aberrantly expressed ceRNAs

account for missing genomic variability of cancer genes via microRNA-mediated interactions. Sponsor: Andrea Califano.

Wei-Jen Chung. Identification of microRNA biogenesis regulators and activity modulators. Sponsor: Andrea Califano.

Sarah roche gilman. Network-based analysis of genetic disease associations. Sponsor: Dennis Vitkup.

Ph.D. in BIoStAtIStICStianle Chen. Statistical modeling and statistical

learning for disease classification and prediction. Sponsor: Yuanjia Wang.

Adam J. Ciarleglio. On wavelet-based procedures for scalar-on-function regression. Sponsor: R. Todd Ogden.

Chih-Chi hu. Sequential quantile estimation using continuous outcomes with applications in dose finding. Sponsor: Ying Kuen K. Cheung.

Xiaoyu Jia. Two-stage continual reassessment method and patient heterogeneity for dose-finding studies. Sponsor: Ying Kuen K. Cheung.

Ph.D. in BuSInESSSantiago romn Balseiro. Competition and yield

optimization in ad exchanges. Sponsor: Omar Besbes.

yang Chen. Essays on institutional investors. Sponsor: Wei Jiang.

Fikret Caner gmen. Infrastructure scaling and pricing. Sponsors: Robert L. Phillips and Garrett van Ryzin.

Jon nathan Kerr. The real effects of opacity: Evidence from tax avoidance. Sponsor: Trevor S. Harris.

Sang Won Kim. Design and evaluation of procurement combinatorial auctions. Sponsors: Marcelo Olivares and Gabriel Y. Weintraub.

russell paul lemler. Rethinking organizational leader identity development: A social network and ethnographic approach. Sponsor: Jerry W. Kim.

Meng li. Changes in the profitability-growth relation and the implications for the accrual anomaly. Sponsor: Doron Nissim.

Andres liberman. Essays in financial economics. Sponsor: Wei Jiang.

yina lu. Data-driven system design in service operations. Sponsor: Marcelo Olivares.

Assaf Aharon Shtauber. Essays in financial economics. Sponsor: Gur Huberman.

Ahmet Serdar imek. Pricing decentralization in customized pricing systems and network models. Sponsor: Robert L. Phillips.

Ph.D. in CEllulAr, MolECulAr, AnD BIoMEDICAl StuDIES

El-ad David Amir. viSNE and Wanderlust, two algorithms for the visualization and analysis of high-dimensional single-cell data. Sponsor: Dana Peer.

Joseph howard Bylund. Improvements in molecular mechanics sampling and energy models. Sponsor: Richard A. Friesner.

Joseph Minhow Chan. Network and algebraic topology of influenza evolution. Sponsor: Raul Rabadan.

Ian halsey Driver. Establishment and maintenance of adult stem cell identity: Specification of the adult copper cell region of the Drosophila intentine. Sponsor: Benjamin Ohlstein.

Benjamin David hopkins. PTEN-long, a translational variant of the tumor suppressor PTEN. Sponsor: Ramon E. Parsons.

ya-ting lei. TRPM5 channels contribute to persistent neural activity and working memory. Sponsor: Steven A. Siegelbaum.

Darrick Kong li. Novel RNA targets of the spinal muscular atrophy protein. Sponsor: Livio Pellizzoni.

Colin James palmer. The transcription factor Zfx is required for tumorigenesis caused by Hedgehog pathway activation. Sponsor: Boris Reizis.

germn Alonso plata Caviedes. Probabilistic reconstruction and comparative systems biology of microbial metabolism. Sponsor: Dennis Vitkup.

ryan rampersaud. Identification and characterization of inerolysin, the cholesterol dependent cytolsyin produced by Lactobacillus iners. Sponsor: Adam Ratner.

Ciara A. torres Vargas. Macroautophagy modulates synaptic function in the striatum. Sponsor: David Sulzer.

Ph.D. in CEllulAr phySIology AnD BIophySICSSpiro peter pantazatos. Large-scale functional

connectivity in the human brain reveals fundamental mechanisms of cognitive, sensory, and emotion processing in health and psychiatric disorders. Sponsor: Joy Hirsch.

ying Wang. Roles of macrophage mitochondrial oxidative stress and mirochondrial fission in atherosclerosis. Sponsor: Ira Tabas.

Ph.D. in ChEMICAl EngInEErIngDamla Eroglu. Modeling and characterization of

rate phenomena in complex electrochemical systems: Sodium-metal chloride batteries and Ni/SiC co-deposition. Sponsor: Alan C. West.

greeshma reddy gadikota. Geo-chemo-physical studies of carbon mineralization for natural and engineered carbon storage. Sponsor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park.

Min-hsuan Kuo. Trace gas-induced brine and disordered interfacial layers on ice. Sponsor: V. Faye McNeill.

yanir Maidenberg. Directed self-assembly of polymer-decorated nanoparticles. Sponsor: Jeffrey T. Koberstein.

tushar navin patel. Engineering heterogeneous biocatalysts. Sponsor: Scott A. Banta.

Edward J. Swanson. Catalytic enhancement of silicate mineral weathering for direct carbon capture and storage. Sponsor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park.

Joseph lai-Man Woo. Gas-aerosol model for mechanism analysis: Kinetic prediction of gas- and aqueous-phase chemistry of atmospheric aerosols. Sponsor: V. Faye McNeill.

Ph.D. in ChEMICAl phySICSDahlia Anne goldfeld. Advances in structure and

small molecule docking predictions for crystallized G-protein-coupled receptors. Sponsor: Richard A. Friesner.

Brenda Marilyn rubenstein. Novel quantum Monte Carlo approaches for quantum liquids. Sponsor: David Reichman.

Andela Saric. Self-assembly of nanoparticles on fluid and elastic membranes. Sponsor: Angelo Cacciuto.

Carl Alexander Smith. Low-rank graphical models and Bayesian inference in the statistical analysis of noisy neural data. Sponsor: Liam Paninski.

Ph.D. in ChEMIStryAhmed Baker Al-harbi. Synthesis and coordination

chemistry of oxygen-rich ligands: Bis(oxoimidazolyl)hydroborato, tris(oxoimidazolyl)hydroborato and, tris(2-pyridonyl)methane. Sponsor: Gerard Parkin.

Alexandria paige Brucks. Halonium-induced cyclization reactions for the synthesis of diverse molecular scaffolds. Sponsor: Scott A. Snyder.

Alexander Buitrago Santanilla. New approaches toward the asymmetric allylation of the formyl and imino groups via strained silane Lewis acids. Sponsor: Tristan H. Lambert.

Daniel Robert Griffith. Synthetic studies of the yunnaneic acids. Sponsor: Scott A. Snyder.

Stephen ho. Studies in polyketide total synthesis. Sponsor: James L. Leighton.

Sung young hong. Multi-photon spectroscopic studies of molecule/metal interfaces and graphene. Sponsor: Richard M. Osgood, Jr.

Chaoran Jing. Trimethoprim-based chemical tags for high-resolution live cell imaging. Sponsor: Virginia Cornish.

richard James Karpowicz, Jr. I. Advanced fluorescent false neurotransmitters for the study of monoamine transporter activity and synaptic transmission; II. New small-molecule inducers of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) from C6 glioma cells. Sponsor: Dalibor Sames.

Matthew Douglas Merguerian. Building a genetic system in yeast to search for high-affinity proteins in sequence space. Sponsor: Virginia Cornish.

yi rong. Main group and transition metal complexes supported by multidentate tripodal ligands that feature nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur donors: Synthesis, structural characterization, and applications. Sponsor: Gerard Parkin.

Christine laura Schenck. Using molecular design to influence intermolecular interactions. Sponsor: Colin P. Nuckolls.

Danielle Felicia Sedbrook. In pursuit of conjugation in one-dimension: Synthetic studies of oligomeric and polymeric organic materials. Sponsor: Colin P. Nuckolls.

trevor Charles Sherwood. Cascade approaches to polycyclic natural products. Sponsor: Scott A. Snyder.

nathan Edward Wright. Synthetic explorations and expeditions in the resveratrol class. Sponsor: Scott A. Snyder.

Jing Zhang. Theoretical study of electron transport and trapping in solvated titanium dioxide nanoparticles. Sponsor: Richard A. Friesner.

Xinxin Zhu. Novel bio-imaging techniques based on molecular switching. Sponsor: Wei Min.

Ph.D. in CIVIl EngInEErIng AnD EngInEErIng MEChAnICS

patrick thomas Brewick. Improving the quantification and estimation of damping for bridges under traffic loading. Sponsor: Andrew W. Smyth.

rishee Kumar Jain. Building eco-informatics: Examining the dynamics of eco-feedback design and peer networks to achieve sustainable reductions in energy consumption. Sponsor: Patricia J. Culligan.

Colin James McAuliffe. Numerical modeling of shear bands and dynamic fracture in metals. Sponsor: Haim Waisman.

Amy tang. Leveraging policy for renewable energy development in industrialized countries and emerging markets. Sponsor: Patricia J. Culligan.

Xiaoqi Xu. Leveraging human-environment systems in residential buildings for aggregate energy efficiency and sustainability. Sponsor: Patricia J. Culligan.

Ph.D. in ClASSICAl StuDIESMonica Maria hellstrm. Public construction

under Diocletian: A study of state involvement in construction in Roman-era towns in present day Tunisia and eastern Algeria. Sponsor: Roger S. Bagnall.

Irene Sanpietro. Money, power, respect: Charity and the creation of the Church. Sponsor: William V. Harris.

Ph.D. in ClASSICSEvgenia papathanasopoulou. Space in

Aristophanes: Portraying the civic and domestic worlds in Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. Sponsor: Helene Foley.

Ph.D. in CoMMunICAtIonS

paul J. Cronin. Exasperation and curiosity: Alexander Mackendrick at the California Institute of the Arts. Sponsor: Todd Gitlin.

Zohar Kadmon Sella. News media and the authority of grief: The journalistic treatment of terrorism victims as political activists. Sponsor: Andie Tucher.

Ph.D. in CoMputEr SCIEnCE

Sambuddho Chakravarty. Traffic analysis attacks and defenses in low latency anonymous communication. Sponsor: Angelos Keromytis.

John David Demme. Overcoming the intuition wall: Measurement and analysis in computer architecture. Sponsor: Simha Sethumadhavan.

richard W. neill. Heterogeneous cloud systems based on broadband embedded computing. Sponsor: Luca Carloni.

Swapneel Kalpesh Sheth. Exploring societal computing based on the example of privacy. Sponsor: Gail E. Kaiser.

paul Etienne Vouga. Discrete differential geometry of thin materials for computational mechanics. Sponsor: Eitan Grinspun.

Adam Scott Waksman. Producing trustworthy hardware using untrusted components, personnel, and resources. Sponsor: Simha Sethumadhavan.

Lauren Wilcox Patterson. User interfaces for patient-centered communication of health status and care progress. Sponsor: Steven K. Feiner.

John ruoyu Zhang. Correlating visual speaker gestures with measures of audience engagement to aid video browsing. Sponsor: John R. Kender.

Ph.D. in EArth AnD EnVIronMEntAl EngInEErIng

Eric Dahlgren. Rescaling capital: The potential of small-scale mass-produced physical capital in the energy and materials processing industries. Sponsor: Klaus S. Lackner.

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.

Garrett Christopher Fitzgerald. Multi-scale analysis of methane gas hydrate formation and dissociation via point source thermal stimulation and carbon dioxide exchange. Sponsor: Marco J. Castaldi.

Naomi Beth Klinghoffer. Utilization of char from biomass gasification in catalytic applications. Sponsor: Marco J. Castaldi.

thomas Adrian Socci. A computational model of networked small-scale fuel synthesis demonstrating greater production flexibility and specificity. Sponsor: Klaus S. Lackner.

rob van haaren. Utility scale photovoltaic plan variability studies and energy storage optimization for ramp rate control. Sponsor: Vasilis Fthenakis.

Jun Wu. Greener surface active reagents: Structure, property, and performance relationships. Sponsor: Ponisseril Somasundaran.

huangjing Zhao. Tailored formation of mineral carbonates in the presence of various chemical additives for in situ and ex situ carbon storage. Sponsor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park.

Ph.D. in EArth AnD EnVIronMEntAl SCIEnCESElisabeth Streit Falk. Carbonation of peridotite in

the Oman Ophiolite. Sponsor: Peter B. Kelemen. Christopher tyler hayes. Marine thorium

and protactinium distributions: Tools for past and present chemical flux. Sponsor: Robert F. Anderson.

Jason Jweda. Geochemistry of the Tatara-San Pedro continental arc volcanic complex and implications for magmatism in the Chilean Southern Volcanic Zone. Sponsor: Steven L. Goldstein.

Colin patrick Kelley. Recent and future drying of the Mediterranean region: Anthropogenic forcing, natural variability, and social impacts. Sponsor: Mingfang Ting.

Miriam Elizabeth Marlier. Public health impacts from fires in tropical landscapes. Sponsor: Ruth DeFries.

Ivan Mihajlov. The vulnerability of low-arsenic aquifers in Bangladesh: A multi-scale geochemical and hydrologic approach. Sponsor: Martin Stute.

Ph.D. in EASt ASIAn lAnguAgES AnD CulturESDavid Carl Atherton. Valences of vengeance: The

moral imagination of early modern Japanese vendetta fiction. Sponsor: Haruo Shirane.

Shannon M. Cannella. The path toward the other: Relational subjectivity in modern Chinese literature, 1919-1945. Sponsor: David Der-Wei Wang.

Buyun Chen. Dressing for the times: Fashion in Tang Dynasty China (618-907). Sponsor: Dorothy Yin-Yee Ko.

Jennifer lindsay guest. Primers, commentaries, and kanbun literacy in Japanese literary culture, 950-1250 C.E. Sponsors: David Barnett Lurie and Haruo Shirane.

Michael Barrett McCarty. Divided loyalties and shifting perceptions: The Jky Disturbance and courtier-warrior relations in medieval Japan. Sponsor: David Barnett Lurie.

Gregory Magai Patterson. Elegies for empire: The poetics of memory in the late work of Du Fu (712-770). Sponsor: Wendy Swartz.

Mi-ryong Shim. Regional rebirths: Imperialization, pan-Asianism, and narratives of conversion in colonial Korea. Sponsors: Theodore Hughes and Tomi Suzuki.

Minna Wu. On the periphery of a great empire: Secondary formation of states and their material basis in the Shandong Peninsula during the late Bronze Age, ca. 1000-500 B.C.E. Sponsor: Feng Li.

Christina Song Me yi. Fissured languages of empire: Gender, ethnicity, and literature in Japan and Korea, 1930s-1950s. Sponsors: Theodore Hughes and Tomi Suzuki.

yurou Zhong. Script crisis and literary modernity in China, 1916-1958. Sponsor: Lydia Liu.

Ph.D. in ECology, EVolutIon, AnD EnVIronMEntAl BIology

Matthew Easton Fagan. The changing matrix: Reforestation and connectivity in a tropical habitat corridor. Sponsor: Ruth DeFries.

Kari lynn Schmidt. Spatial and temporal patterns of genetic variation in scarlet macaws (Ara macao): Implications for population management in La Selva Maya, Central America. Sponsor: George Amato.

Ph.D. in ECONOMICSAdonis Antoniades. Three essays in banking.

Sponsor: Pierre-Andr Chiappori. David S. Blakeslee. Three essays on development

and the political economy of south Asia. Sponsor: Suresh Naidu.

Alejo Eduardo Czerwonko Pupi. Essays in alternative fi nancial services. Sponsor: Katherine Ho.

Yun Kyung Kim. Essays on corporate cash holdings and business groups. Sponsor: Brendan OFlaherty.

Tao Li. Essays in economics and corporate fi nance. Sponsor: Patrick Bolton.

Benjamin Michael Marx. Essays in charitable organizations and public policy. Sponsor: Wojciech Kopczuk.

David Joseph Munroe. Essays on government policy in real estate markets. Sponsor: Wojciech Kopczuk.

Hyun Seung Oh. Essays in macroeconomics and business cycles. Sponsor: Ricardo Reis.

Giovanni Paci. Essays in applied behavioral economics. Sponsor: Eric Verhoogen.

Mara Jos Prados. Essays on economic inequality. Sponsor: Bernard Salani.

Sbastien Turban. Essays in political economy. Sponsor: Alessandra Casella.

Zhanna Victorovna Zhanabekova. Essays in health care and public economics. Sponsor: Wojciech Kopczuk.

Ph.D. in ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGWei-Yi Cheng. Att ractor molecular signatures

and their applications for prognostic biomarkers. Sponsor: Dimitris Anastassiou.

Anna Choromanska. Selected machine learning reductions. Sponsor: Tony Jebara.

Maulik Mahadev Desai. Topics in routing and network coding for wireless networks. Sponsor: Nicholas F. Maxemchuk.

Ryan Michael Field. High-speed wide-fi eld time-correlated single-photon counting fl uorescence lifetime imaging microscopy. Sponsor: Kenneth L. Shepard.

Ning Gu. Experimental investigations of the role of proximity approximation in near-fi eld radiative transfer. Sponsor: Arvind Narayanaswamy.

Junfeng He. Large-scale nearest neighbor search - Theories, algorithms, and applications. Sponsor: Shih-Fu Chang.

Kyung-Wook Hwang. Design of scalable on-demand video streaming systems leveraging video viewing patt erns. Sponsor: Daniel Rubenstein.

Alexandros Iliadis. Haplotype inference through sequential Monte Carlo. Sponsor: Dimitris Anastassiou.

Karthik Tripurari Jayaraman. RF frontend for spectrum analysis in cognitive radio. Sponsor: Peter Kinget.

Jayanth Narasimhan Kuppambatt i. Design techniques for analog-to-digital converters in scaled CMOS technologies. Sponsor: Peter Kinget.

John Christopher Sarik. Systems for pervasive electronics and interfaces. Sponsor: Ioannis Kymissis.

Yevgeniy Slutskiy. Idenifi cation of dendritic processing in spiking neural circuits. Sponsor: Aurel A. Lazar.

Christos Vezyrtz is. Continuous-time and companding digital signal processors using adaptivity and asynchronous techniques. Sponsors: Steven M. Nowick and Yannis P. Tsividis.

Baradwaj Vigraham. Power-e cient circuit architectures for receivers leveraging nanoscale CMOS. Sponsor: Peter Kinget.

Nader Zaki. A correlated 1-D monatomic condensed matt er system: Experiment and theory. Sponsor: Richard M. Osgood, Jr.

Ph.D. in EnglISh AnD CoMpArAtIVE lItErAturEJeffrey Michael Brown. To stage a reading: The

actor in British modernism. Sponsor: W. B. Worthen.

Anna Elizabeth Clark. Centers of consciousness: Protagonism and the nineteenth-century British novel. Sponsor: Sharon Marcus.

Jean-Christophe Cloutier. Archival vagabonds: Twentieth-century American fiction and the archive in novelistic practice. Sponsor: Brent Hayes Edwards.

Alicia Margaret DeSantis. The feeling of a line: Nineteenth-century American literature and the psychology of imagination. Sponsor: Nicholas Dames.

Anne Claire Diebel. The outward turn: Personality, blankness, and allure in American modernism. Sponsor: Ross Posnock.

Elizabeth Bonnette Eliott Lockhart. Remembering things: Tranformative objects in texts about conflict, 1160-1390. Sponsor: Patricia A. Dailey.

nathaniel Farrell. The modernist defense of poetry in prose and verse. Sponsor: Michael Golston.

Alvan Azinna Ikoku. Forms of global health. Sponsor: Brent Hayes Edwards.

Emrah Efe Khayyat. Muslim literature, world literature, Tanpnar. Sponsor: Bruce Robbins.

Anjuli Fatima raza Kolb. Epidemiology of terror: Health, horror, and politics in colonial and postcolonial literature. Sponsor: Gauri Viswanathan.

Ivan Lupi. Subjects of advice: Drama and counsel from More to Shakespeare. Sponsor: David Scott Kastan.

Andrew leren lynn. Minstrels in the drawing room: Music and novel-reading in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Scott, and George Eliot. Sponsor: Nicholas Dames.

Sara Ann Murphy. Revised lives: Lineage and dislocation in seventeenth-century English autobiography. Sponsor: Julie A. Crawford.

Samuel Joseph north. Useful works: Literary criticism and aesthetic education. Sponsor: Nicholas Dames.

Imani D. owens. At the crossroads: African American and Caribbean writers in the interwar period. Sponsor: Farah Jasmine Griffin.

Ben W. parker. Unhappy consciousness: Recognition and reification in Victorian fiction. Sponsor: Nicholas Dames.

Anitta Caridad Santiago. Common place: Rereading nation in the quoting age, 1776-1860. Sponsor: Ross Posnock.

Jessica Elaine teague. Ears taut to hear: Sound recording and twentieth-century American literature. Sponsor: Brent Hayes Edwards.

Daniel Wright. Bad logic: Reasoning about desire in the Victorian novel. Sponsor: Sharon Marcus.

Ph.D. in EnVIronMEntAl hEAlth SCIEnCESMegan Marie niedzwiecki. Mechanisms of arsenic

toxicity in humans: Interplay of arsenic, glutathione, and DNA methylation in Bangladeshi adults. Sponsor: Mary V. Gamble.

Ph.D. in EpIDEMIologyCatherine richards. The effect of hospital financial

distress on immediate breast reconstruction. Sponsor: Dawn Hershman.

nicole Anastasia Stehling-Ariza. He who dies with toysA longitudinal look at materialism and physical health. Sponsor: Sharon Schwartz.

Ph.D. in FrEnCh AnD roMAnCE phIlologyroderick philip Cooke. From aesthetics to

politics in the Dreyfus affair. Sponsor: Elisabeth Ladenson.

Sverine Camille Martin. Out of the Nant into the everyday: A rediscovery of Mallarms poetics. Sponsor: Elisabeth Ladenson.

Eric todd Matheis. Capital, value, and exchange in the Old Occitan and Old French Tenson (Including the Partiman and the Jeu Parti). Sponsor: Sylvie Lefvre.

Ph.D. in gEnEtICS AnD DEVElopMEntJames Chi-ping Chen. Computational inferences of

mutations driving mesenchymal differentiation in glioblastoma. Sponsor: Andrea Califano.

lisa Michelle Kennedy. Genetic analysis of novel regulators of neuronal migration in Caenorhabditis elegans: The insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway, a chromatin-binding factor ZFP-1 (AF10), and endogenous RNAi. Sponsor: Alla Grishok.

Sudha ramesh Kumar. Undertanding the mechanism of pigment rim formation at the periphery of the eye in Drosophila melanogaster. Sponsor: Andrew Tomlinson.

Munevver parla Makinistoglu. HDAC4 integrates PTH and sympathetic signaling in osteoblasts. Sponsor: Gerard Karsenty.

Kally Zhang pan. Cell-size control in fission yeast. Sponsor: Frederick Chang.

Aditi Singhania. Patterning of dendritic territories by dendrite-dendrite and dendrite-substrate interaction. Sponsor: Wesley B. Grueber.

Ph.D. in gErMAnIC lAnguAgESKri Driscoll. Toward a poetics of aminality:

Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Pirandello, Kafka. Sponsor: Mark Anderson.

Brook henkel. Animistic fictions: German modernism, film, and the animation of things. Sponsor: Stefan Andriopoulos.

Adi Mahalel. The radical years of I. L. Peretz. Sponsors: Jeremy Dauber and Dan Miron.

Ph.D. in hIStorynina Ansary. The roots of feminist invocations in

post-revolutionary Iran. Sponsor: Richard W. Bulliet.

Melissa May Borja. To follow the new rule or way: Hmong refugee resettlement and the practice of American religious pluralism. Sponsor: Mae Ngai.

Jun hee Cho. Court in the market: The business of a princely court in the Burgundian Netherlands, 1467-1503. Sponsor: Martha C. Howell.

William Monroe Coleman IV. Making the state on the Sino-Tibetan frontier: Chinese expansion and local power in Batang, 1842-1939. Sponsor: Madeleine Zelin.

Joanna Dee Das. Choreographing a new world: Katherine Dunham and the politics of dance. Sponsor: Eric Foner.

Aimee M. genell. Empire by law: Ottoman sovereignty and the British occupation of Egypt, 1882-1923. Sponsor: Mark A. Mazower.

laura Jeanne hornbake. Community, place, and cultural battles: Associational life in central Italy, 1945-1968. Sponsor: Victoria de Grazia.

Abhishek Kaicker. Unquiet city: Making and unmaking politics in Mughal Delhi, 1707-39. Sponsor: Nicholas B. Dirks.

Ariel Mae lambe. Cuban antifascism and the Spanish Civil War: Transnational activism, networks, and solidarity in the 1930s. Sponsor: Pablo Piccato.

Jared Braidwood Manasek. Empire displaced: Ottoman-Habsburg forced migration and the Near Eastern crisis, 1875-1878. Sponsor: Samuel Moyn.

tamara Beth Mann. Honor thy father and mother: Defining and solving the problem of old age in the United States, 1945-1961. Sponsor: Elizabeth Blackmar.

Michael James neuss. Balancing blood, balancing books: Medicine, commerce, and the royal court in seventeenth-century England. Sponsor: Matthew L. Jones.

yuki oda. Family unity in U.S. immigration policy, 1921-1978. Sponsor: Mae Ngai.

Adina l. popescu. Casting bread upon the waters: American farming and the international wheat market, 1880-1920. Sponsor: Elizabeth Blackmar.

Meha priyadarshini. From the Chinese guan to the Mexican chocolatero: A tactile history of the transpacific trade, 1571-1815. Sponsor: Adam McKeown.

herbert h. toler, Jr. Nothin but ligion: The American Missionary Associations activities in the nations capital, 1862-1877. Sponsor: Eric Foner.

Kira Kalina von ostenfeld-Suske. Official historiography, political legitimacy, historical methodology, and royal and imperial authority in Spain under Philip II, 1580-99. Sponsor: Adam J. Kosto.

timothy Ming-Chih yang. Market, medicine, and empire: Hoshi Pharmaceuticals in the interwar years. Sponsor: Carol Gluck.

Ph.D. in InDuStrIAl EngInEErIng AnD opErAtIonS rESEArCh

InDuStrIAl EngInEErIngrodrigo A. Carrasco. Resource cost aware

scheduling problems. Sponsors: Garud N. Iyengar and Clifford S. Stein.

opErAtIonS rESEArChMenghui Cao. From continuous to discrete:

Studies on continuity corrections and Monte Carlo simulation with applications to barrier options and American options. Sponsor: Steven S. G. Kou.

Xinyun Chen. Perfect simulation, sample-path large deviations, and multiscale modeling for some fundamental queueing systems. Sponsor: Jose H. Blanchet.

Bo huang. Convex optimization algorithms and recovery theories in sparse models in machine learning. Sponsor: Donald Goldfarb.

Jinbeom Kim. Pricing, trading, and clearing of defaultable claims subject to counterparty risk. Sponsor: Tim Siu-Tang Leung.

Alexander Daniel Michalka. Cutting planes for convex objective nonconvex optimization. Sponsor: Daniel Bienstock.

haowen Zhong. Two papers of financial engineering relating to the risks of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Sponsor: Steven S. G. Kou.

Ph.D. in ItAlIAnIleana Moreno-Viqueira. Invisible mathematics in

Italo Calvinos Le citt invisibili. Sponsor: Paolo Valesio.

Ph.D. in lAtIn AMErICAn AnD IBErIAn CulturESMauricio Andres Castillo. Avant-garde and

socialist dreamworlds in Latin America: Global and local designs, 1919-1939. Sponsor: Carlos J. Alonso.

lara E. tucker. Spectacles of inclusion: Cultures of leisure and entertainment in early twentieth-century Argentina. Sponsor: Graciela Montaldo.

scar Ivn useche. Beyond the material: Energy, work, and movement in the cultural imagination of Restoration Spain. Sponsor: Wadda Ros-Font.

Adam lee Winkel. Zones of influence: The production of Madrid in early Franco Spain. Sponsor: Alberto Medina.

Ph.D. in MAthEMAtICSCorrin Jeannette Clarkson. Three manifold

mutations detected by Heegaard Floer homology. Sponsor: Robert Lipshitz.

Tristan Clifford Collins. Canonical metrics in Sasakian geometry. Sponsor: Duong H. Phong.

Jonathan Michael hanselman. Bordered Heegaard Floer homology and graph manifolds. Sponsor: Robert Lipshitz.

thomas William nyberg. Constant scalar curvative of toric fibrations. Sponsor: Duong H. Phong.

hang Xue. The geometry and arithmetic of genus four curves. Sponsor: Shou-Wu Zhang.

Ph.D. in MEChAnICAl EngInEErIngEdwin S. Ahn. Addressing stability robustness,

period uncertainties, and startup of multiple-period repetitive control for spacecraft jitter mitigation. Sponsor: Richard W. Longman.

ryan Cooper. Thin film mechanics. Sponsor: Jeffrey W. Kysar.

Jin ho Kim. A microfluidic approach to selection and enrichment of aptamers for biomolecules and cells. Sponsor: Qiao Lin.

Mirk palla. Novel engineering approaches for DNA sequencing and analysis. Sponsor: Qiao Lin.

Emil Jose Sandoz-rosado. The tribological behavior of graphene and its role as a protective coating. Sponsor: Elon J. Terrell.

Karthik Sasihithlu. A theoretical study of the effect of curvature on near-field radiative transfer. Sponsor: Arvind Narayanaswamy.

hongliang Wang. Laser surface texturing, crystallization, and scribing of thin films in solar cell applications. Sponsor: Y. Lawrence Yao.

tung-lin yang. Revealing the molecular structure and the transport mechanism at the base of primary cilia using superresolution STED microscopy. Sponsor: Jung-Chi Liao.

yuan Zhang. Identification of key structural elements of ATP-dependent molecular motors. Sponsor: Jung-Chi Liao.

Jing Zhu. Genetic analysis and cell manipulation in microfluidic devices. Sponsor: Qiao Lin.

Ph.D. in MICroBIology, IMMunology, AnD InFECtIon

Arnab De. Understanding two inhibitors of NF-B: A20 and IB. Sponsor: Sankar Ghosh.

lindsie Adela goss. Threonine phosphorylation regulates two-component systems involved in cell wall metabolism. Sponsor: Jonathan Dworkin.

Ph.D. in MIDDlE EAStErn, South ASIAn, AnD AFrICAn StuDIES

Ajay Singh Chaudhary. Religions of doubt: Religion, critique, and modernity in Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Walter Benjamin. Sponsor: Hamid Dabashi.

Arthur Dale Dudney. A desire for meaning: hn-i rzs philology and the place of India in the eighteenth-century Persianate world. Sponsor: Frances W. Pritchett.

Elaine Marie Fisher. A new public theology: Sanskrit and society in seventeenth-century south India. Sponsor: Sheldon Pollock.

yasmine Khayyat. Memory in ruins: The poetics of All in Lebanese wartime and postwar cultural production. Sponsor: Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi.

Kamal Soleimani. Islam and competing nationalism: The Kurds and the Turks in the late Ottoman era. Sponsor: Gil Anidjar.

Kadr stn. The new order and its enemies: Opposition to military reform in the Ottoman Empire, 1789-1807. Sponsor: Rashid Khalidi.

D.M.A. in MuSICJoshua Frederick Cody. Nono and Marxist

aesthetics. Sponsor: Alfred W. Lerdahl. Mario Diaz de leon. Mansion: Inner cosmologies,

thresholds, and contacts. Sponsor: George E. Lewis.

Damon russell holzborn. Building mobile instruments for improvised musical performance. Sponsor: George E. Lewis.

Andile Wiseman Khumalo. Glissando as a metaphor in Beat Furrers FAMA and Cry Out, Shades of Words, Bells Die Out. Sponsor: George E. Lewis.

Keith Andrew Moore. A multiphonic reappraisal and the alto saxophone concerto Radial. Sponsor: Alfred W. Lerdahl.

Ph.D. in MuSICMahir Cetiz. Listening experience and musical

construction: Spectromorphological analysis of Enfilade: Lamento-Cambiata. Sponsor: Alfred W. Lerdahl.

Juliet Eleanor Forshaw. Dangerous tenors, heroic basses, and non-ingnues: Singers and the envoicing of social values in Russian opera, 1836-1905. Sponsor: Karen Henson.

Scott Michael Gleason. Princeton theorys problematics. Sponsor: Joseph Dubiel.

Ph.D. in nEuroBIology AnD BEhAVIorIrene helen Ballagh. Sex differences in the

structure, function, and regulation of vocal circuits in Xenopus. Sponsor: Darcy B. Kelley.

Elizabeth Erin Crouch. Adult neural stem cells and their perivascular niche. Sponsor: Fiona Doetsch.

heather El-Amamy. Independent effects of paternal age and Neuregulin1 expression in mice in relation to schizophrenia. Sponsor: Jay Gingrich.

Andrew Jacob pixley Fink. Exploring a behavioral role for presynaptic inhibition at spinal sensory-motor synapses. Sponsor: Thomas M. Jessell.

Frederick Luke Hitti. Genetically targeted anatomical and behavioral characterization of the cornu ammonis 2 (CA2) subfield of the mouse hippocampus. Sponsor: Steven A. Siegelbaum.

Saul Sen Kato. Temporal processing by Caenorhabditis elegans sensory neurons. Sponsor: Laurence F. Abbott.

Matthew Roderick Lovett-Barron. Functional consequences of dendritic inhibition in the hippocampus. Sponsor: Attila Losonczy.

Maxim Valerievich nikitchenko. Inference of functional neural connectivity and convergence acceleration methods. Sponsor: Liam Paninski.

pia-Kelsey tiu oneill. Long-range synchrony between medial prefrontal cortex, thalamus, and hippocampus underlies working memory behavior in mice. Sponsor: Joshua A. Gordon.

Christopher James peck. Space and value in the primate amygdala and basal forebrain. Sponsor: C. Daniel Salzman.

Ellen l. peck. Space and value in the primate amygdala. Sponsor: C. Daniel Salzman.

Zev Benjamin rosen. Dopaminergic control of hippocampal neural circuitry. Sponsor: Steven A. Siegelbaum.

Carl Edward Schoonover. Strength and dendritic organization of thalamocortical synapses onto excitatory layer 4 neurons. Sponsor: Randy M. Bruno.

Krista Joan Spiller. Using the natural resistance of motor neuron subpopulations to identify therapeutic targets in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Sponsor: Christopher E. Henderson.

Qing Wang. Neuronal diversification within the retina: Generation of crossed and uncrossed retinal ganglion cells. Sponsor: Carol A. Mason.

gregory Duncan Wayne. Self-modeling neural systems. Sponsor: Laurence F. Abbott.

Ph.D. in nurSIngKenrick D. Cato. Hispanic patients role preferences

in primary care treatment decision making. Sponsor: Suzanne Bakken.

nicole Faerman geller. Examining bullying, harassment, and horizontal violence (BHHV) in student nurses. Sponsor: Elaine L. Larson.

young Ji lee. Online health information seeking behaviors of Hispanics in New York City. Sponsor: Suzanne Bakken.

Mayuko uchida. Comparative and cost-effectiveness analyses of resident quality outcomes in nursing homes. Sponsor: Patricia W. Stone.

Ph.D. in nutrItIonAl AnD MEtABolIC BIologyChi nok Chong. The influence of central insulin

signals on stress response in mice. Sponsor: Lori M. Zeltser.

Katherine Jean Wert. Gene therapy provides long-term visual function in a pre-clinical model of retinitis pigmentosa. Sponsor: Stephen Tsang.

Ph.D. in pAthoBIology AnD MolECulAr MEDICInEyige guo. Molecular mechanisms of mitotic spindle

assembly and accurate chromosome segregation. Sponsor: Yinghui Mao.

netonia lisa Marshall. BIN3 is a novel 8p21 tumor suppressor that regulates the attachment checkpoint in epithelial cells. Sponsor: Jose Maria Silva.

Mai Sato. Insights into MYC biology through investigation of synthetic lethal interactions with MYC deregulation. Sponsor: Jean Gautier.

Ph.D. in phArMACology AnD MolECulAr SIgnAlIng

Minji Kim uh. Notch signaling determines lymphatic cell fate and regulates sprouting lymphangiogenesis. Sponsor: Jan Kitajewski.

Mi Wang. The role of GM-CSF/IL-3/IL-5 receptor common subunit (CBS) in Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell (HSPC) expansion, monocytosis, and atherosclerosis. Sponsor: Alan R. Tall.

Ph.D. in PHILOSOPHYAdrian Avery Terence Archer. The rational

signifi cance of desire. Sponsor: Katja Vogt. Katherine Lynn Gasdaglis. Intuition in Kants

theoretical epistemology. Sponsor: Patricia Kitcher.

Harold Barnes Ingram, Jr. The possibility of mutual benefi t from exchange between the philosophy of language and second-language-acquisition research and pedagogy. Sponsor: Achille C. Varzi.

Chloe Layman. Descartes slight and metaphysical doubt. Sponsor: Patricia Kitcher.

Ph.D. in PHYSICSGary Chia Li Cheng. Precision search for muon

antineutrino disappearance oscillations using a dual baseline technique. Sponsor: Michael H. Shaevitz .

Hung The Dang. The study of transition metal oxides using dynamical mean fi eld theory. Sponsor: Andrew J. Millis.

Seth Nathaniel Hillbrand. The E and B Experiment: A balloon-borne cosmic microwave background anisotropy probe. Sponsor: Amber D. Miller.

Kiyohito Iigaya. Neural network models of decision making with learning on multiple timescales. Sponsor: Yasutomo Uemura.

Ali Masoumi Khalil Abad. Topics in vacuum decay. Sponsor: Erick J. Weinberg.

Nikiforos Nikiforou. Search for non-pointing photons in the diphoton and missing transverse energy fi nal state in 7 TeV p p collisions using the ATLAS detector. Sponsor: John Parsons.

Christopher Butler Osborn. The physics of ultracold Sr2 molecules: Optical production and precision measurement. Sponsor: Tanya Zelevinsky.

Dennis Vadimovich Perepelitsa. Inclusive jet production in ultrarelativistic proton-nucleus collisions. Sponsor: Brian A. Cole.

Gunes Demet Senturk. Observational properties of gigaelectronvolt-teraelectronvolt blazars and the study of the teraelectronvolt blazar RBS 0413 with VERITAS. Sponsor: Thomas Brian Humensky.

Feng Tian. Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in Z + fi nal states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Sponsor: Michael Tuts.

Dustin Henry Urbaniec. A measurement of the jet multiplicity in di-lepton fi nal states of tt bar events. Sponsor: Gustaaf H. Brooijmans.

Junpu Wang. The e ective fi eld theory approach to fl uid dynamics, modifi ed gravity theories, and cosmology. Sponsor: Alberto Nicolis.

Xiuyuan Yang. Cosmology with weak lensing peaks. Sponsors: Lam Hui and Morgan May.

Tae Hyun Yoon. An atom trap trace analysis (ATTA) system for measuring ultra-low contamination by krypton in xenon dark matt er detectors. Sponsor: Tanya Zelevinsky.

Liuyan Zhao. Chemical vapor deposition grown pristine and chemically doped monolayer graphene. Sponsor: Abhay Pasupathy.

Ph.D. in POLITICAL SCIENCEEmily Cochran Bech. Voice and belonging: How

open vs. restricted models of national incorporation shape immigrant-minority identifi cation and participation. Sponsor: Jack L. Snyder.

Robert Chamberlain. Security exchange theory: How great powers trade security with small states. Sponsor: Jack L. Snyder.

Sandipto Dasgupta. Legalizing the revolution. Sponsor: Jean L. Cohen.

Gustavo de las Casas. Nationalism-as-technology and peace in Europe, 1815-1914. Sponsor: Jack L. Snyder.

Felix Hans Gerlsbeck. Experimental democracyCollective intelligence for a diverse and complex world. Sponsor: Melissa Schwartz berg.

Suzanne Katz enstein. Why surrender sovereignty? Empowering non-state actors to protect the status quo. Sponsor: Jack L. Snyder.

Maria Narayani Lasala Blanco. God made the country, and man made the town: The impact of local institutions on the political att itudes and behavior of immigrants and minorities in the United States. Sponsor: Robert Y. Shapiro.

Carmen le Foulon Morn. The impact of transparency on legislative behavior: Taking position avoidance into account. The case of Chile. Sponsor: Maria Victoria Murillo.

Eric ndahayo Mvukiyehe. Essays on microfoundations of peacebuilding in war-torn societies: Hypotheses and evidence from a field experiment in rural Liberia. Sponsor: Virginia Page Fortna.

Sayres Steven rudy. Citizen-subjectivity, experiential evaluation, and activist strategies: Explaining Algerian violence and Polish peace under authoritarian rule. Sponsor: Mark Kesselman.

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.

oscar M. 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.

Chien-min yang. Between ethnic and civic: A paradox of national identification in contemporary Taiwan. Sponsor: Andrew J. Nathan.

Ph.D. in pSyChologyAllison turza Bajger. Acute, repeated-dose, and

residual effects of amphetamines derivatives on psychological measures in humans. Sponsor: Carl L. Hart.

teal S. Eich. Cognitive control in schizophrenia. Sponsor: Kevin Ochsner.

Brian Svavar Maniscalco. High-level cognitive and neural contributions to conscious experience and metacognition in visual perception. Sponsor: Hak-wan Lau.

Ph.D. in rElIgIonAri Bergmann. Halevy, Halivni, and the oral

formation of the Babylonian Talmud. Sponsor: David Weiss Halivni.

todd Edison French. Just Deserts: Losing Origen and gaining retributive judgment in the hagiographical literature of the early Byzantine world. Sponsor: John Anthony McGuckin.

Asha Kalyani Moorthy. A seal of faith: Rereading Paul on circumcision, Torah, and the Gentiles. Sponsor: John Anthony McGuckin.

Ph.D. in SlAVIC lAnguAgESAlison Beth Annunziata. Sentimentalism made

strange: Shklovsky, Karamzin, Rousseau. Sponsor: Irina Reyfman.

Andrew Benjamin hicks. Negotiating the scope of postwar Stalinist novels. Sponsor: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy.

Katharine Mansfield Holt. The rise of insider iconography: Visions of Soviet Turkmenia in Russian-language literature and film, 1921-1935. Sponsor: Valentina Izmirlieva.

Ph.D. in SoCIAl WorKtara Calderbank Batista. Empowering foster care

youth. Sponsor: Barbara Levy Simon. Jennifer Dempsey. An examination of cognitive and

behavioral referents of acculturation and their impact on predictors and frequency of sexual communication between Mexican-origin parents and their young children. Sponsor: Michael J. MacKenzie.

Jordan DeVylder. Clinical significance of psychotic experiences in the general population. Sponsor: Ellen P. Lukens.

leyla Karimli. Financial asset accumulation by poor adolescents participating in child savings accounts in low resource communities in Uganda. Sponsor: Fred M. Ssewamala.

Jennifer l. Kenney. Understanding the arrest experiences of women with co-occuring substance abuse and posttraumatic stress disorders: An application of general strain theory. Sponsor: Elwin Wu.

yamile M. Mart haidar. What is the experience of foster care mothers? Sponsor: Ellen P. Lukens.

Colleen Mcginn. Every day is difficult for my body and my heart. Forced evictions in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Womens narratives of risk and resilience. Sponsor: Denise Burnette.

William Benjamin nowell. Human, social, and cultural capital predictors of early Baby Boomer productivity in mid- to late life: An examination of formal volunteering behavior. Sponsor: Denise Burnette.

Joyce yonghee Shim. Family leave policy and child health: Evidence from nineteen OECD countries from 1969-2010. Sponsor: Jane Waldfogel.

laura Cordisco tsai. I will help as much as I can, but I cant give them everything: The financial lives of women who were formerly trafficked into sex work in the Philippines. Sponsor: Vicki Lens.

Ph.D. in SoCIologynatan Dotan. The life and death of mass media.

Sponsor: Saskia Sassen. Steven george Mandis. What happened to

Goldman Sachs: An insiders story of organizational drift and its unintended consequences. Sponsor: David Stark.

Daniel navon. Genomic designation: New kinds of people at the intersection of genetics, medicine, and social action. Sponsor: Gil Eyal.

Maria pilar opazo Breton. Appetite for innovation: The mobilization of change and creativity at elBulli. Sponsor: Peter S. Bearman.

Iva ognianova petkova. Co-creating strategy and culture in new technology regimes on the Internet: How new digital entrepreneurs affect mature imcumbents in the fashion industry. Sponsor: David Stark.

Anna Zamora-Kapoor. A structural explanation for anti-immigrant sentiment: Evidence from Belgium and Spain. Sponsor: Saskia Sassen.

Ph.D. in SoCIoMEDICAl SCIEnCESlinnea Marie Carlson. Takin it on:

Communicating AIDS through universal templates in Guyana. Sponsor: Kim Hopper.

Claire Ellen Edington. Beyond the asylum: Colonial psychiatry in French Indochina, 1880-1940. Sponsor: Ronald Bayer.

Allison Beth goldberg. Norms within networks: Opinion leader and peer network influences on mothers/caregivers childhood immunization decisions in rural northern Nigeria. Sponsor: Peter Messeri.

Brian Burroughs Johnson. The politics of affliction: Crisis, the state, and the coloniality of maternal death in Bolivia. Sponsor: Kim Hopper.

Carmen Juana yon leau. Sexuality, social inequality, and sexual vulnerability among low-income youth in the city of Ayacucho, Peru. Sponsor: Richard Parker.

Ph.D. in StAtIStICSVincent Joseph Dorie. Mixed methods for mixed

models. Sponsor: Andrew Gelman. Chien-hsun huang. Interaction-based learning for

high-dimensional data with continuous predictors. Sponsor: Shaw-Hwa Lo.

ying liu. Kernel-based association measures. Sponsor: Tian Zheng.

radka pickov. Generalized volatility-stabilized processes. Sponsor: Ioannis Karatzas.

timothy tervinen. Semiparametric estimation of a gaptime-associated hazard function. Sponsors: Michael E. Sobel and Zhiliang Ying.

Ekaterina olegovna Vinkovskaya. A point process model for the dynamics of limit order books. Sponsor: Rama Cont.

Ph.D. programs at tEAChErS CollEgE

Anthropology AnD EDuCAtIon

louise lamphere Beryl. Ways with the Word in the New World: Language and literary socialization among Born-Again Christian African families in Massachusetts. Sponsor: Charles C. Harrington.

Stephanie Jean phillips. The stage and the dance in medias res: An ethnographic study of ideologies associated with tradition and continuity in a French ballet academy in the United States. Sponsor: Lambros Comitas.

Amina tawasil. The howzevi (seminarian) women in Iran: Constituting and reconstituting paths. Sponsor: Herv H. Varenne.

ApplIED AnthropologyCarole lynn hutchinson. Growing toward the sun:

How the good-food movement catapulted a small New York City third-sector organization into rapid growth, success, and many challenges. Sponsor: Herv H. Varenne.

Kiran Carder Jayaram. Hitting the books and pounding the pavement: Haitian educational and labor migrants in the Dominican Republic. Sponsor: Herv H. Varenne.

Katharine Anne Keenan. Imagining a new Belfast: Municipal parades in urban regeneration. Sponsor: Herv H. Varenne.

ApplIED BEhAVIorAl

AnAlySISClaire Cahill. Actions and names: Observing

responses and the role of multiple stimulus control in incidental language acquisition. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer.

BEhAVIorAl nutrItIontomoko Jane Iwaki. Gateway to green: The family

experience of community-supported agriculture. Sponsor: Isobel R. Contento.

lorraine nicole Mull. Associations among measures of weight status, energy balance-related behaviors, and psychosocial mediators in urban upper-elementary school 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.

ClInICAl pSyChologyMonica A. Brooker. The role of relatedness and

expressive flexibility in the prediction of complicated grief. Sponsor: George A. Bonanno.

Debaki Chakrabarti. The investigation of helping behavior in the virtual world. Sponsor: Elizabeth Midlarsky.

Monica Carmela ghailian. Association between adversity and prosociality in children exposed to trauma in four sites in west Africa. Sponsor: Lisa J. Miller.

Bonita Schneider. Interpersonal distress and interpersonal problems associated with depression. Sponsor: Helen Verdeli.

Dmitri Aaron young. Predictors of obesity in adults: The roles of demographic factors, body dissatisfaction, depression, and life stress. Sponsor: Elizabeth Midlarsky.

Sara Emily Zoeterman. In the moment: Prenatal mindful awareness and its relationship to depression, anxiety, and birth experience. Sponsor: George A. Bonanno.

CognItIVE StuDIES In EDuCAtIon

Jessica hammer. Playing prejudice: The impact of game-play on attributions of gender and racial bias. Sponsor: Charles Kinzer.

Samuel D Mandelman. Exploring the Aurora Battery, a gifted identification tool, in a small sample of fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-graders. Sponsor: John B. Black.

Michael Wilson Mcgahan. Perspective switching in virtual environments. Sponsor: Barbara Tversky.

lisa Shaw ling pao. Effects of keyword generation and peer collaboration on metacomprehension accuracy in middle school students. Sponsor: Joanna P. Williams.

Stephanie holstad ramsey. How do we develop multivariable thinkers? An evaluation of a middle school scientific reasoning curriculum. Sponsor: Deanna Kuhn.

Satyugjit Singh Virk. Learning STEM through integrative visual representations. Sponsor: John B. Black.

CoMpArAtIVE AnD

IntErnAtIonAl EDuCAtIonKaren Bryner. Piety projects: Islamic schools for

Indonesias urban middle class. Sponsor: Lesley Bartlett.

yue lin. A sociocultural approach to the study of motivation and attitudes toward the learning of Mandarin Chinese in the U.S.: Secondary school students perceptions. Sponsor: Maria E. Torres-Guzman.

CounSElIng pSyChologylauren Marie Appio. Poor and working-class

clients social class-related experiences in therapy. Sponsor: Laura Smith.

Cristina Dorazio. The impact of ethnic identity on attitudes toward counseling for Italian-Americans. Sponsor: Laura Smith.

rachel haeyoung Kim. Differential impact of racial microaggressions on Asian Americans: Relationship to perpetrator and power status. Sponsor: Derald Wing Sue.

rebecca rangel Expsito. The appropriated racial oppression scale development and initial validation. Sponsor: Robert T. Carter.

Kolone ruth leilani Scanlan. The relationship of cultural affiliation and cultural congruency to depression, anxiety, and psychological well-being among native Hawaiian college students. Sponsor: George V. Gushue.

rodolfo Victoria. Exploring how skin color and racial identity modify the relationship between perceptions of racism and psychological distress among Latinas/os. Sponsor: Robert T. Carter.

EConoMICS AnD EDuCAtIonKristen Bucceri patel. Are early commitment

programs the answer to gaps in college enrollment and outcomes by income? The case of Oklahomas Promise. Sponsor: Judith Scott-Clayton.

peter Michael Crosta. Essays on the economics of education: Structured transfer programs, enrollment patterns, and efficiency at community colleges. Sponsor: Thomas R. Bailey.

Charles olufemi ogundimu. Does the mode of entry into teaching matter in teacher retention? A discrete-time survival analysis modeling of New York City public school teachers. Sponsor: Thomas R. Bailey.

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.

Steven troy Simpson. Essays on the economics of education. Sponsor: Judith Scott-Clayton.

Di Xu. Three essays on the impact of cost-saving strategies on student outcomes. Sponsor: Thomas R. Bailey.

EDuCAtIonAl lEADErShIpthomas 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.

EnglISh EDuCAtIonAlison Villanueva. Implementing a district-wide

professional development initiative: What it means to educate for the twenty-first century. Sponsor: Ruth Vinz.

hIStory AnD EDuCAtIonJames Edward Alford, Jr. For alma mater:

Fighting for change at historically black colleges and universities. Sponsor: Cally Lyn Waite.

IntEllECtuAl DISABIlItIES AnD AutISM

Sarah Beth Mallory. Factors associated with peer aggression and peer victimization among children with autism spectrum disorder, children with other disabilities, and children without a disability. Sponsor: Linda Hickson.

MAthEMAtICS EDuCAtIonMegan Elizabeth gibson. Motivation and study

habits of college calculus students: Does studying calculus in high school make a difference? Sponsor: Bruce R. Vogeli.

Frida K. grant. Cross national comparisons of excellence in university mathematics instructions: An analysis of key characteristics of excellent mathematics instructors based on teacher evaluation forms. Sponsor: Bruce R. Vogeli.

Andrea hernandez-Duhon. Exploring algebra-based problem solving methods and strategies of Spanish-speaking high-school students. Sponsor: Erica N. Walker.

raeann Kyriakou. New York State elementary school teacher certification and examinations in mathematics in the nineteenth century. Sponsor: Alexander P. Karp.

MEASurEMEnt AnD EVAluAtIon

Jon-paul noel paolino. Penalized joint maximum likelihood estimation applied to two parameter logistic item response models. Sponsor: Matthew S. Johnson.

phIloSophy AnD EDuCAtIonDror post. Anteros: On friendship between rivals and

rivalry between friends. Sponsor: Megan Laverty. phySICAl DISABIlItIESJennifer 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.

SChool pSyChologyElizabeth Andrea Belanfante. The cognitive and

demographic variables that underlie note-taking and review in mathematics: Does quality of notes predict test performance in mathematics? Sponsor: Stephen T. Peverly.

Christina Stark laitner. Beyond cognition: Examination of Iowa Gambling Task performance, negative affective decision-making, and high-risk behaviors among incarcerated male youth. Sponsor: Stephen T. Peverly.

leah Anne Mcguire. A comparative analysis of the revised Childrens Manifest Anxiety Scale scores of traumatized youth with and without PTSD relative to non-traumatized controls. Sponsor: Philip A. Saigh.

Erica Michelle Miller. Peer sexual harassment in middle school: Classroom and individual factors. Sponsor: Marla R. Brassard.

SCIEnCE EDuCAtIonCheryl Ann lyons. Relationships between

conceptual knowledge and reasoning about systems: Implications for fostering systems thinking in secondary science. Sponsor: Ann E. Rivet.

SoCIAl-orgAnIZAtIonAl

pSyChologyAvina gupta. Employee perceptions of managers

who express anger: Could a high-quality relationship buffer women from backlash? Sponsor: Caryn J. Block.

John Krister lowe. Conflict climates in organizations: An integrated decision-making model of participation in conflict resolution training. Sponsor: James Westaby.

SoCIology AnD EDuCAtIonAllison 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. Small high schools and big inequalities: Course-taking and curricular rigor in New York City. Sponsor: Amy Stuart Wells.

SpEECh AnD lAnguAgE pAthology

laura Virginia Sanchez. N170 visual word specialization on implicit and explicit reading tasks in Spanish-speaking adult neoliterates. Sponsor: Karen Froud.

tEAChIng oF SoCIAl StuDIESAviv Abraham Cohen. Conceptions of citizenship

and civic education: Lessons from three Israeli civics classrooms. Sponsor: William Gaudelli.

Jay Matthew Shuttleworth. Teaching sustainability as a social issue: Learning from three teachers. Sponsor: Anand Reddy Marri.

Scott Spencer Wylie. The challenge of critical pedagogy as a social studies teacher educator. Sponsor: William Gaudelli.

Ph.D. in thEAtrEDarragh gerard Martin. The master of the rebels:

Teenage encounters with Shakespeare, 1944-2012. Sponsor: W. B. Worthen.

Ph.D. in urBAn plAnnIngAndrea Catherine rizvi. How planning process

impacts bus rapid transit outcomes: A comparison of experiences in Delhi and Ahmedabad, India. Sponsor: Elliott Sclar.

The doctoral candidates listed in this addendum completed the fi nal deposit of their dissertations between April 26 and the printing deadline of May 9, 2014.

addendum

Ph.D. in APPLIED PHYSICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS

APPLIED MATHEMATICSYu Gu. Probabilistic approaches to partial di erential

equations with large random potentials. Sponsor: Guillaume Bal.

APPLIED PHYSICSSarah Martha Angelini. High-speed videography on

HBT-EP. Sponsor: Michael E. Mauel. Bryan Angelo Debono. How rotation a ects

instabilities and the plasma response to magnetic perturbations in a Tokamak plasma. Sponsor: Michael E. Mauel.

Ph.D. in ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Anne Hunnell Chen. From the seed of the gods: Art, ideology, and cultural exchange with the Persian Court under the Roman Tetrarchs, 284-324 C.E. Sponsor: Francesco de Angelis.

Sarah Catherine Schaefer. From sacred to spectacular: Gustave Dors biblical imagery. Sponsor: Anne Higonnet.

Ph.D. in BIOLOGICAL SCIENCESOren Litvin. Heterogeneity and context-specifi city in

biological systems. Sponsor: Dana Peer.

Ph.D. in BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERINGOfer Idan. Modeling nanoscale transport networks.

Sponsor: Henry Hess. Heon Goo Lee. Innate immune-like function of

osteogenic cells and their e ects on infl ammatory osteolysis. Sponsor: Christopher R. Jacobs.

Xiaowei Zou. Magnetic resonance imaging applications of pseudo-random amplitude modulation. Sponsor: Paul Sajda.

Ph.D. in BUSINESSJun Kyung Auh. Essays on corporate credit.

Sponsor: Rachel Ollivier.Hyung Il Oh. A new accounting approach to

evaluate M&A prices and goodwill allocations. Sponsor: Stephen H. Penman.

Oded Rozenbaum. Do fi rms contribute to the variation in employees performance in knowledge-intensive industries? The case of equity research. Sponsor: Trevor S. Harris.

Ph.D. in CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MECHANICS

Daniel Eric Marasco. Alternative metrics of green roof hydrologic performance: Evapotranspiration and peak fl ow. Sponsor: Patricia J. Culligan.

Ph.D. in CLASSICSCaleb Michael Xavier Dance. Literary laughter

in Augustan poetry: Vergil, Horace, and Ovid. Sponsor: Katharina Volk.

Ph.D. in COMMUNICATIONSAlexandra Meltz er Goldman. Threatened

innocents and the news: The history of a national preoccupation. Sponsor: Andie Tucher.

Ph.D. in COMPUTER SCIENCEWon Sang Song. Next-generation emergency call

system with enhanced indoor positioning. Sponsor: Henning Schulzrinne.

Lisa K. Wu. Accelerating similarly structured data. Sponsor: Martha A. Kim.

Ph.D. in EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCESAnna Elizabeth Foster. Surface-wave propagation

and phase-velocity structure from observations on the USArray Transportable Array. Sponsor: Gran Ekstrm.

Ph.D. in EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURESSu Jung Kim. Transcending locality, creating

identity: Shinra Myjin, a Korean deity from Japan. Sponsor: Bernard Faure.

Ph.D. in ECONOMICSRitam Chaurey. Essays on fi rm behavior in India.

Sponsor: Eric Verhoogen. Jonathan Ivan Dingel. Essays in spatial economics.

Sponsor: Donald R. Davis. Corinne Siu-Lin Low. Essays in gender economics.

Sponsor: Pierre-Andr Chiappori. Wataru Miyamoto. Essays on macroeconomics.

Sponsor: Stephanie Schmitt -Groh. Joan Monrs. Essays on internal and international

migration. Sponsors: Donald R. Davis and Eric Verhoogen.

Thuy Lan Nguyen. Essays on business cycles. Sponsor: Jn Steinsson.

Ral Snchez de la Sierra. Essays on the economics of statelessness and state formation. Sponsors: Suresh Naidu and Eric Verhoogen.

Hyelim Son. Three essays on human capital investment. Sponsor: Miguel S. Urquiola.

Laurence Henry Wilse-Samson. Essays in political economy and crisis. Sponsor: Suresh Naidu.

Ph.D. in ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGJe rey Brandt Driscoll. Silicon photonics: All-

optical devices for linear and nonlinear applications. Sponsor: Richard M. Osgood, Jr.

Richard Ryan Grote. Nanophotonics for optoelectronic devices: Extrinsic silicon photonic receivers and organic photovoltaics. Sponsor: Richard M. Osgood, Jr.

Ph.D. in ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATUREEmily Frances Hayman. Inimical languages:

Confl icts of translation in British modernist literature. Sponsor: Sarah Cole.

Sarah Gretchen Minslo . Losing the margin: Poetry and poetic form in the Victorian novel. Sponsor: Nicholas Dames.

Ph.D. in EPIDEMIOLOGYDavid Freedman. Neurodevelopmental risks for

bipolar disorder. Sponsor: Alan Brown.

Ph.D. in FRENCH AND ROMANCE PHILOLOGYErin Kathleen Twohig. The contentious classroom:

Education in postcolonial literature from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Sponsor: Madeleine Dobie.

Ph.D. in GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAlyssa Bost. An investigation into the function and

specifi cation of enteroendocrine cells in Drosophila melanogaster and Mus musculus. Sponsor: Benjamin Ohlstein.

Ph.D. in HISTORYTobias Joel Harper. Orders of merit? Hierarchy,

distinction, and the British honours system, 1917-2004. Sponsor: Susan Pedersen.

Erin Elizabeth McBurney. Art and power in the reign of Catherine the Great: The state portraits. Sponsor: Richard S. Wortman.

Simon Wolfe Taylor. The modern condition: The invention of anxiety, 1840-1970. Sponsor: Samuel Moyn.

Ph.D. in INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH

OPERATIONS RESEARCHTulia Judith Herrera Humphries. On the kidney

exchange problem and online minimum energy scheduling. Sponsor: Jay Sethuraman.

Song-Hee Kim. Data-driven decisions in service systems. Sponsor: Ward Whitt .

Matt hieu Plumett az. Graph structure and coloring. Sponsor: Maria Chudnovsky.

Irene Song. New quantitative approaches to asset selection and portfolio construction. Sponsor: Soulaymane Kachani.

Chun Wang. High-dimensional portfolio management: Tax, execution, and information relaxation. Sponsor: Martin Haugh.

Ph.D. in MATHEMATICSKarol Krzysztof Koziol. Pro-p-Iwahori-Hecke

algebras in the mod-p local Langlands program. Sponsor: Rachel Ollivier.

Xuanyu Pan. Rational normal curves on complete intersections. Sponsor: Aise Johan de Jong.

Krzysztof K. Putyra. On a triply-graded generalization of Khovanov homology. Sponsor: Mikh ail Khovanov.

Alex S. Waldron. Self-duality and singularities in the Yang-Mills fl ow. Sponsor: Panagiota Daskalopoulos.

Ye-Kai Wang. A spacetime Alexandrov theorem. Sponsor: Mu-Tao Wang.

Ph.D. in MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGZhengyi Zhang. Optical and electrical properties

of single-walled carbon nanotubes with known chiralities. Sponsor: James C. Hone.

Ph.D. in MICROBIOLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY, AND INFECTION

John Joseph Seeley. MicroRNA regulation of endotoxin tolerance. Sponsor: Sankar Ghosh.

Ph.D. in MIDDLE EASTERN, SOUTH ASIAN, AND AFRICAN STUDIES

Suzanne Lee Schneider Reich. Religious education and political activism in mandate Palestine. Sponsor: Rashid Khalidi.

D.M.A. in MUSICCourtney Lara Bryan. A time for everything, for

chorus: Analysis of a musical meditation. Sponsor: George E. Lewis.

Ph.D. in MUSICAndrew Bruce Eggert. Staging the operas of

Francesco Cavalli: Dramaturgy in performance, 1651-52. Sponsor: Giuseppe Gerbino.

Aaron Joseph Johnson. Jazz and radio in the United States: Mediation, genre, and patronage. Sponsor: George E. Lewis.

Ph.D. in NURSINGAngela Amy Northrup. Maternal att itudes,

subjective norms, and feeding practices of young children. Sponsor: Arlene Smaldone.

Ph.D. in NUTRITIONAL AND METABOLIC BIOLOGYChad Michael Trent. Fat in hearts: Uptake, storage,

and turnover. Sponsor: Ira Goldberg.

Ph.D. in PHYSICSZhongjie Lin. The chiral and U(1)A symmetries

of the QCD phase transition using chiral latt ice fermions. Sponsor: Norman H. Christ.

Ph.D. in POLITICAL SCIENCEErica Dreyfus Borghard. Friends with benefi ts?

Power and infl uence in proxy warfare. Sponsor: Jack L. Snyder.

Pierce Conor OReilly. Financing welfare states and the structure of taxation. Sponsor: Isabela Mares.

Eldon Grant Porter. Financing the health care safety net: How federalism and Medicaids funding formula shape state budgets and American welfare. Sponsor: Ira Katz nelson.

Ph.D. in PSYCHOLOGYChristopher Marcus Crew. The behavioral and

neural e ects of rejection sensitivity on selective att ention and feedback-based learning. Sponsor: Geraldine Downey.

Barbie Jean Huelser. Learning by making errors: When and why errors help memory, and the metacognitive illusion that errors are harmful for learning. Sponsor: Janet Metcalfe.

Lisa Ely Zaval. Decision architecture and implicit time horizons. Sponsor: Elke Weber.

Ph.D. in RELIGIONElana Yael Stein. Rabbinic legal loopholes:

Formalism, equity, and subjectivity. Sponsor: David Weiss Halivni.

Ph.D. in SOCIOLOGY Seth Rachlin. From whatever source derived: Wealth,

national citizenship, and the ratifi cation of the income tax amendment. Sponsor: Allan Silver.

Ph.D. in STATISTICSKristen Louise Gore. Unbiased penetrance estimates

with unknown ascertainment strategies. Sponsor: Daniel Rabinowitz .

Ph.D. programs at TEACHERS COLLEGE

APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGYJanny Chang. A matt er of trust: Three case studies of

Chinese and Zambian relationships at the workplace. Sponsor: George C. Bond.

APPLIED BEHAVIORAL

ANALYSISHelena Song-A Han. E ects of the elimination of

stereotypy on the emission of socially-appropriate verbal interactions for students with autism who have audience control. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer.

Laura Elizabeth Lyons. The e ects of the mastery of auditory matching of component sounds to words on the rate and accuracy of textual and spelling responses. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer.

COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGYAvy Alosha Skolnik. The burden of suspicion:

A grounded theory study on the psychological and interpersonal consequences of criminalizing stereotypes. Sponsor: Laura Smith.

DEVELOPMENTAL

PSYCHOLOGYValerie Khait. Making use of the dual functions of

evidence in adolescents argumentation. Sponsor: Deanna Kuhn.

ECONOMICS AND EDUCATIONKatharine McKinley Conn. Identifying e ective

education interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis of rigorous impact evaluations. Sponsor: Laura Elizabeth Tipton.

EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIPJessica Blum-Stefano. Teaching and learning

with self: Student perspectives on authenticity in alternative education. Sponsor: Eleanor Drago-Severson.

Travis Bristol. Black men of the classroom: An exploration of how the organizational conditions, characteristics, and dynamics in schools a ect black male teachers pathways into the profession, experiences, and retention. Sponsor: Carolyn J. Riehl.

Elizabeth Chu. Out of class and o track: High school suspension in New York City. Sponsor: Douglas David Ready.

Terri Lynne Germain-Williams. Mathematical modeling algebra textbooks at the onset of the Common Core state standards. Sponsor: Bruce R. Vogeli.

ENGLISH EDUCATIONChristine Gentry. Speak, memory: Oral storytelling

in the high school classroom. Sponsor: Ruth Vinz.

MATHEMATICS EDUCATIONNicole C. Taylor-Buckner. The e ects of elementary

departmentalization on mathematics profi ciency. Sponsor: Erica N. Walker.

PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATIONDavid Backer. The distortion of discussion. Sponsor:

Megan Laverty.Stephanie A. Burdick-Shepherd. Reading for

childhood in philosophy and literature: An ethical practice for educators. Sponsor: Megan Laverty.

Micahel Ian Schapira. Historical perspectives on the crisis of the university. Sponsor: Megan Laverty.

SCIENCE EDUCATIONChristi Lee Browne. Professional learning

communities (PLCs) as a means for school-based science curriculum change. Sponsor: Ann E. Rivet.

Stefania Macaluso. Exploring the development of classroom group identities in an urban high school chemistry class. Sponsor: Felicia Moore Mensah.

SPEECH AND LANGUAGE

PATHOLOGYPaula Bibiana Garcia. Perception of American

English vowels by adult Spanish-English bilingual listeners. Sponsor: Karen Froud.

Ph.D. in THEATREAnne Reynolds Holt. Reading costume design: The

rise of the costume designer, 1850-1920. Sponsor: Arnold Aronson.