Recent Dissertations
Many recent dissertations are available in the University's digital repository, Knowledge@UChicago.
Most recent University of Chicago dissertations are available online in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. ProQuest processes dissertations within 12 weeks after the end of each quarter, so last quarter's dissertations may not be available in the ProQuest database yet, and records may not have been added to the Library Catalog.
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Summer Quarter Dissertations (August 2019)
Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Gregory Jonathan Anthony
Medical Physics
Therapeutic Ultrasound: Improved Image Guidance and Combinatorial Treatments for Recurrent Prostate Cancer
Davis Vann Bennett
Biology
Structure and Function of Astroglia in Larval Zebrafish
Daniel Fernando Camacho
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Immunology
Antigen-Presenting Cells in Type 2 Lung Inflammatory Responses
Eyjólfur Guðmundsson
Medical Physics
Functional, Volumetric, and Textural Analysis of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Using Computed Tomography and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Alexander Guzzetta
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
A Hedgehog-Fgf Signaling Cascade Patterns the Anterior-Posterior Axis During Embryonic Development
Yanran He
Cancer Biology
Simultaneous Targeting of Multiple Cancer-Specific Antigens on a Cancer Cell by One Chimeric Antigen Receptor
Jonathan Harry Kerem Kahn
Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
Uncovering the Complex Metabolic Role of Silencing Mediator of Retinoid and Thyroid Hormone Receptors (SMRT)
Victoria Lee
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Immunology
The Endogenous Repertoire Harbors Self-Reactive CD4+ T Cell Clones That Adopt a T Follicular Helper-like Phenotype at Steady State
Philip Thomas McGilvray
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Structural and Functional Characterization of Novel Eukaryotic Membrane Protein Biogenesis Factors
Leila Marie Reyes Ruiz
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
Regulation of Surface Attachment by a Suite of Two-Component Systems and Transcription Factors in Caulobacter Crescentus
Daniel Ruiz
Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
Developmental Misprogramming of Metabolism by Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: A Focus on the Glucocorticoid Receptor-Modulating Fungicide Tolylfluanid
Jeffrey David Steimle
Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology
TBX5: A Key Regulator of Cardiopulmonary Development and Disease Sriram Sundaravel Cancer Biology Mechanism of Action of a Signaling Protein DOCK4 in Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Calvin Scott VanOpstall
Cancer Biology
Revealing Mechanisms of Tumor Suppression Driven by MEIS and HOX Transcription Factors in Prostate Cancer
Alyson Lange Yee
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Microbiology
Determinants of the Early Life Microbiome
Division of the Humanities
George William Adams IV
Music
Listening to Conceptual Music: Technology, Culture, Analysis
Hannah Brooks-Motl
English Language and Literature
War, Cities, Trash: Some Midcentury Pastorals
Ebenezer Concepcion
Romance Languages and Literatures
Inverting (Trans)Modern Subjects: Toward a (Re)Vision of Sex, Gender, and Race in Two Novels by Alfonso Hernández-Catá (1885-1940)
Roger Edward Eichorn
Philosophy
Philosophy and Everyday Life: Thompson Clarke and the Legacy of Skepticism
Jose Estrada
Romance Languages and Literatures
"El monstro con su figura": Ruiz de Alarcón's Transatlantic Self-Fashioning
Julian Grove
Linguistics
Scope-taking and presupposition satisfaction
Aliz Horvath
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
The Dai Nihonshi Phenomenon: Confucianism, Collaboration, and Tradition in Early Modern Japanese History Writing (1657-1906)
Kathleen Ann Howe
Philosophy
Having a Body and Having a Perspective: An Account of Proprioceptive Awareness
Charles Allen Huff
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Punishment in the Priestly Literature
Lauren Michele Jackson
English Language and Literature
Black Vertigo: Attunement, Aphasia, Nausea, and Bodily Noise, 1970 to the Present
So Hye Kim
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Impossible Homecoming: Cinematic Returns of Korean Diaspora in Post–Cold War East Asia
Max Koss
Art History
The Art of the Periodical: Pan, Print Culture and the Birth of Modern Design in Germany, 1890-1900
Sarah Shoshanna Kunjummen
English Language and Literature
“Intrinsic Presence”: Revisions of Intimacy in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Kevin Joseph Lam
Classics
Visions at War in Lucan's Bellum Civile
Jane Mikkelson
South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Worlds of the Imagination: Bīdel of Delhi (d.1720) and Early Modern Persian Lyric Style
Ahona Panda
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Philology and the Politics of Language: The Case of Bengali, 1893-1955
Madadh Pyrene Richey
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Visions of Gods and Monsters: Levantine and Mesopotamian Iconographies of Divine Combat and Their Textual Impressions
Lauren Ann Schachter
English Language and Literature
Fixing Words: English Grammar and the Literary Imagination in Britain, 1760-1832
Rachel Nicole Schine
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
On Blackness in Arabic Popular Literature: The Black Heroes of the Siyar Sha'biyya, Their Conceptions, Contests, and Contexts
Christina Michelle Weaver
Linguistics
A Multi-Generational Acoustic and Sociolinguistic Study of Emphasis in Turoyo
Melanie Lynn Zeck
Music
Well-Regulated Amusements and the Longitudinal Viability of Robert Owen's "Plan for the Amelioration of the Condition of Mankind": New Harmony, Indiana, 1825-1874
Boqun Zhou
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Mechanical Metaphors in Early Chinese Thought
Division of the Humanities and the Division of the Social Sciences
Claire Nadine Roosien
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and History
Socialism Mediated: The Soviet Mass Public in Uzbekistan, 1928-37
Division of the Physical Sciences
Mohamed Ragab Abdelhafez
Physics
Quantum Optimal Control Using Automatic Differentiation
Nazerke Bakytzhan
Mathematics
Visibility of Torsors of Modular Abelian Varieties
Daniel Campos Salas
Mathematics
Reconstruction of the Magnetic Field for a Schrödinger Operator in a Cylindrical Setting
Christina Chan
Chemistry
Nanoscale Coordination Polymers for Chemotherapeutic and Biological Cancer Therapy
Yun Cheng
Mathematics
Galois Representations and Modular Forms Mod 2
Carlos Ignacio di Fiore
Mathematics
Matrix Factorizations for Quasi-Coherent Sheaves of Categories
Zoheyr Doctor
Physics
Hearing and Seeing the Universe: Results from Gravitational-Wave and Optical Studies of Merging Neutron Stars and Black Holes
Wushi Dong
Physics
First-Principles Simulations of Quantum Electron Transport in Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Nanodevices
Nicholas John Frontiere
Physics
CRKSPH - A Conservative Reproducing Kernel Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Scheme Simas Glinskis Physics Braiding Anyons in the $\nu$ = 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect State
Yining Han
Chemistry
Bottom-Up Coarse-Graining Bridging Various Scales: From Quantum Statistics to Mesoscale
Yuefeng Han
Statistics
Robust Estimation of High Dimensional Time Series
Kade Maya Head-Marsden
Chemistry
Pair Theory and Open Systems From a Reduced Density Matrix Perspective
Pengfei Hu
Chemistry
Quaternary Center-Guided Synthesis
Eric McNeal Janke
Chemistry
Role of Disorder in III-V Nanocrystal Emitters and Self Assembly of Charge Stabilized Colloids
Kelliann Cleary Koehler
Chemistry
Synthesis and Characterization of Varied Silicon Nanomaterial Interfaces for Photoresponsive Applications
Haopeng Liu
Computer Science
Modeling and Tackling Timing Bugs in Multi-threaded Systems and Distributed Systems
Yao Lu
Physics
Parametric control of flux-tunable superconducting circuits
Christopher Gordon McKennan
Statistics
Latent Variables in 'omic' Data
Kieran Alexander Murphy
Physics
Granular Materials as a Model for how Disordered Systems Adapt
Xike Nie
Geophysical Sciences
Iron Isotope Tracing of Planetary Surface Processes and Rubidium Isotope Tracing of Volatile Element Depletion Processes
Vadim Semenov
Astronomy and Astrophysics
How Galaxies Form Stars: The Connection between Local and Global Star Formation in Galaxies
Minxing Shen
Chemistry
The Evolution of Strategies for the Development of Novel Electrophilic Reagents and the Total Synthesis of Diverse Natural Products
Hailing Shi
Chemistry
Decoding the Epitranscriptome: Reader Proteins Tailoring Regulatory Functions of mRNA Modifications
Roselyne Barreto Tchoua
Computer Science
Hybrid Human-Machine Scientific Information Extraction
Erik Henning Thiede
Chemistry
Towards the Accurate Estimation of Rare Events in Molecular Dynamics
Jianchun Wang
Chemistry
Site-Selective C−H Functionalization via Palladium/Norbornene Cooperative Catalysis
Jiasu Xu
Chemistry
Synthetic Studies toward Ambiguine Natural Products and Total Synthesis of (−)-Ambiguine P
Ki-Young Yoon
Chemistry
An Organic Chemist's Journey in Materials Synthesis : Synthesis of Graphene Nanoribbons and Other Macromolecules by Metal Catalysis
Jing Yu
Statistics
On the Application, Theory and Computation of Optimal Experimental Design in the Context of Sensor Placement
Fakhri Saleh Zahedy
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Multi-Pronged Studies of Diffuse Halo Gas around Massive Quiescent Galaxies
Yiwen Zhou
Mathematics
Completed cohomology and Iwasawa theory
Division of the Physical Sciences and the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Cesar Emilio Cardona Uribe
Biophysical Sciences
Using Genomically Inferred Co-Occurrence and Metabolic Networks to Characterize the Built Environment Microbiome
Daniel Henry Solz Kerr
Biophysical Sciences
The Membrane Context of Phosphatidylserine Exposure Influences its Recognition by the TIM Proteins: A Structurally Guided Study
Division of the Social Sciences
Michaela Appeltova
History
Did the Body Have a Cold War? Gendered Bodies and Embodied Experiences in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia
Jonah Michael Fares Augustine
Anthropology
Style, Aesthetics, and Politics: Polychrome Ceramic Iconography in the Tiwanaku Valley, AD 500-1100
Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani
Sociology
Elite Politics, Jurisdictional Conflicts and the Legacy of Colonial State Building in Malaysia
Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez
Psychology
A Critical Examination of the Impact of Social Stratification and the Environment on Brain Development and Mental Health
Eric Chase-Sosnoff
Political Science
The Effect of Perceived Discrimination on Authoritarianism Among Stigmatized Racial Minorities: A Multi-level Analysis
John Skylor Cropper
History
Fueling the State: Energy, Politics, and the Environment in Senegal, 1450 to the Present
Molly Kathleen Cunningham
Anthropology
Detroit Can’t Wait: Love and War at the Brink of Municipal Death (An Ethnographic Accounting of Emergency)
Nicholas Carby Denning
Anthropology
Reconstituting the Nature of the Nation: Extractivism, Biodiversity, and the Rights of Nature in Ecuador
Mariya Grinberg
Political Science
Planning for the Short Haul: Explaining Wartime Trade between Enemies
Sana Jaffrey
Political Science
Leveraging the Leviathan: Politics of Impunity and the Rise of Vigilantism in Democratic Indonesia
Elisa Joy Jones
History
Liberty of Conscience and the Boundaries of the Polity: Toleration, Sovereignty, and Citizenship in Sixteenth-Century France
Noriko Kanahara
History
Perceptions of Islam and Muslims in Japan, 1920-1945
Omid Kardan
Psychology
No Hurst for the Weary: Suppression of Scale-Free Brain Activity as a Measure of Cognitive Effort and Predictor of Working Memory Performance
William Spencer Levine
Political Science
The Movement is Everything: Radical Kantianism and the Ideal of Emancipation in Modern Germany
Maria Michele Macia
Economics
The Disparate Impact Standard and Housing Discrimination in Mortgage Lending
James Patrick Murphy
Sociology
Essays on the Social Organization of Adolescent Peer Groups
Ishan Brownell Nath
Economics
The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change
Carly Offidani-Bertrand
Comparative Human Development
Understanding Collective Interpretation and Response to Cultural Change: A Case Study of a Mixed Status Immigrant Community in Chicago
Melissa Osborne
Sociology
How First-Generation College Students Navigate Social Mobility
Tejas Parasher
Political Science
Self-Rule and the State in Indian Political Thought, 1880-1950
Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker
Sociology
That Kind of Neighborhood: Creating, Contesting, and Commodifying Place Reputation
Michael Steven Rosol
Political Science
Weberian Militaries: Promotion and Appointment Systems as a Determinate of Military Effectiveness in Population Centric Counterinsurgency
Marjorie Weber Schaeffer
Psychology
Understanding How Key Socializers' Attitudes Influence Children's Math Performance
Haeden Eli Stewart
Anthropology
In the Shadow of Industry: The Lively Decay of Mill Creek Ravine
Winnie Lillian van Dijk
Economics
Essays on Rental Housing Market Policies and the Socio-Economic Mobility of Low-Income Households
Yike Wang
Economics
Panel Data with High-Dimensional Factors: Inference on Treatment Effects with an Application to Sampled Networks
Patrick R. Ward
Economics
A Method for Obtaining Closed-Form Policy Solutions to Dynamic Optimization Problems
The Divinity School
Ezra Blaustein
Cataloging Revelation: Echoes of Islamic Legal Theory in Maimonides' Sefer ha-Mitsvot [Book of Commandments]
Cathleen Kavita Chopra-McGowan
Representing the Destruction of Jerusalem: Literary Artistry and the Shaping of Memory in 2 Kings 25, Lamentations, and Ezekiel
Cameron Evan Ferguson
The Binding of Past to Present: A New Perspective on the Use of Paul in the Gospel of Mark
Michelle Anne Harrington
Laying Down One's Life: Autonomy in the Time of Medicalized Death
Jawad Anwar Qureshi
Sunni Tradition in an Age of Revival and Reform: Sa‘id Ramadan al-Buti (1929-2013) and His Interlocutors
Hannah Amaris Roh
Specters of Western Metaphysics: Christianity and Colonial Modernity in Early Modern Korea, 1876-1945
The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies
Katherine Ann Baird
Risk Updating and the Economics of the Catastrophe Bond Market
The Law School
Marcos David Garcia Dominguez
International Administrative Due Process
Weijia Rao
Empirical Essays on the Institutional Design of Investor-State Dispute Settlement
The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Alec Steven Bowen
Coarse Grained Modeling of Semiflexible and Anisotropic Materials
Moshe Dolejsi
New Methods and Materials for Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers
Katie Marie Herbert
Targeted Design of Dynamic and Mechanical Bonds Towards Functional, Responsive Polymeric Networks
Yu Kambe
Ion Transport in Nanoscale Polymer Pathways
Selami Emre Sevgen
Leveraging Free Energy in Molecular Dynamics: Applications and New Approaches
Hao Wu
Exploring Non-Equilibrium Physics of Polyelectrolyte Complexes via X-ray, Neutron, Imaging, and Modeling
The School of Social Service Administration
Kathryn Tasha Bocanegra
Correctional Boundaries: Examining Punishment in Community; A Spatial Analysis of Probation in Chicago, Illinois
Mary Elizabeth Bunn
Restoring Social Bonds: Group-Based Treatment and the Social Resources of Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Ashley Elizabeth Cureton
Patterns of Student Engagement among Muslim Refugee Youth: The Role of Schools in the Trump Era
Nora Yvette Medina
Early Relationships between Young Low-Income Mothers and Their Infants
Keunhye Park
The Influence of Social Surroundings on Juvenile and Criminal Justice Involvement of 17-Year-Olds Transitioning from Foster Care to Adulthood: A Longitudinal and Life-Course Approach
Sadiq Yusuf Patel
Examining the Proximal Experiences of Urban Youth in Chicago, Illinois
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Peter Chao-Wen Chen
Mergers, Aggregate Productivity, and Markups
An Qi
Machine Learning Models Applied To High Frequency Financial Data
Spring Quarter Dissertations (June 2019)
Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Wanhao Chi
(Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology)
Genetic and Neural Mechanisms of PNPO Deficiency in Vitamin B6-Dependent Epilepsy
Anna Dembo
(Cancer Biology)
Preventing Estrogen Receptor Alpha-Positive Breast Cancer Outgrowth with the Use of Hormone Replacement Therapy
Kaitlin Elise Homa
(Cell and Molecular Biology)
Self-Organization of the Fission Yeast Actin Cytoskeleton
Dallas Krentzel
(Evolutionary Biology)
The Evolutionary Anatomy, Biomechanics, and Diversification Dynamics of Repeatedly Evolved Masseter Muscles in Rodents
Bryan Richard Lenneman
(Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology)
Bacteriophage N4 Comparative Genomics and the Mechanism of N4 RNAPII Transcription Initiation
Katherine Leon
(Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics)
Structural Basis for Adhesion G Protein-Coupled Receptor Gpr126 Function
Yuanyuan Li
(Cancer Biology)
The Essential Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Epidermal Differentiation and Homeostasis
Iuri Matteuzzo Ventura
(Ecology and Evolution)
Functional Evolution of Young Retrogenes with Regulatory Roles in Drosophila
Lindsey Elizabeth Montefiori
(Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology)
Genetic and Genomic Approaches to Investigate the Roles of Cis-Regulatory Elements in Development and Disease
Kayla Rae Robinson
(Medical Physics)
Machine Learning on Medical Imaging for Breast Cancer Risk Assessment
Katherine Elizabeth Silliman
(Evolutionary Biology)
Population Structure and Local Adaptation in the Olympia Oyster (Ostrea lurida)
Laura Catherine Southcott
(Evolutionary Biology)
Mate Choice Behaviour and the Evolution of Butterfly Species
Supriya
(Evolutionary Biology)
Effect of Ants on Elevational Diversity Pattern of Birds in the Eastern Himalaya
Yoseop Yoon
(Integrative Biology)
Evolution of Embryonic Axis Determinants via Alternative Transcription
Division of the Humanities
William James Carroll
(Cinema & Media Studies and East Asian Languages & Civilizations)
The Depth of Flatness and the Voice of Silence: Suzuki Seijun and 1960s Japanese Film Theory
Kalisha Renee Cornett
(Cinema and Media Studies)
Out of the Blur of the Background: Landscape and Experience in the Road Film
Ksenia Alexeyevna Ershova
(Linguistics)
Syntactic Ergativity in West Circassian
Ji Gao
(Romance Languages and Literatures)
Guillaume Roville et Benoît Rigaud (1545-1597). Politiques èditoriales, contraintes èconomiques et ambitions culturelles en France dans la seconde moitié du seizième siècle.
Shiraz Ali Hajiani
(Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Reconstructing Alamut: New Approaches to the Study of the Qiyāma and the Nizari Polity in Iran
Zhuqing Hu
(Music)
From Ut Re Mi to Fourteen-Tone Temperament: The Global Acoustemologies of an Early Modern Chinese Tuning Reform
Bertie Moontasir Kibreah
(Music)
Banter and Bricolage at the Burial Chamber: Dialectical Devotionalism in Bangladesh
Claire Elizabeth Kirwin
(Philosophy)
Value Realism and the First-Person Perspective
David Anthony Krolikoski
(East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Lyrical Translation: The Formation of Modern Poetic Language in Colonial Korea
Peter John Lido
(English Language and Literature)
Queer Honor: White Masculinity in the Southern Novel, 1936 - 1970
Joshua Mendelsohn
(Philosophy)
Aristotle on the Necessity of What We Know
Patrick Joseph Munoz
(Linguistics)
On Tongues: The Grammar of Experiential Evaluation
Ameera Nimjee
(Music)
Moving Bodies: The Politics of Mobility in Indian Contemporary Dance
Jessica Gabriel Peritz
(Music)
The Lyric Mode of Voice: Song and Subjectivity in Italy, 1769–1815
Jessica Christine Resvick
(Germanic Studies)
Reading Recognition: The Poetics of Poetic Realism
Amanda Shubert
(English Language and Literature)
Virtual Realism: Victorian Fiction as Optical Technology
Alexander Hill Sorenson
(Germanic Studies)
Trials by Water: Law, Sacrifice and Submergence in German Realism
Nancy Ann Thebaut
(Art History)
Non est hic: Figuring Christ's Absence in Early Medieval Art
Chalcedony Bodnar Wilding
(English Language and Literature)
Skeletonization, Cameraflage, Loitering: Habits of Witnessing after the Great War
David Avari Patrick Womble
(English Language and Literature)
The Physiology of the Multitude: Mass Bodies and the Novel, 1748-1907
Yoke Hin Nicholas Wong
(Comparative Literature)
Minor-Peninsular Genres: Genealogies of Twentieth-Century Southeast Asian Chinese Writing
Yuqian Yan
(Cinema & Media Studies and East Asian Languages & Civilizations)
The Ancient as Enchantment: Cinematic Representation of the Past in Republican China
Division of the Physical Sciences
Oishee Banerjee
(Mathematics)
Cohomology of Algebraic Varieties via Suitable Filtration
Mahtiyar Bonakdarpour
(Statistics)
Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Complex, Heterogeneous Data
Stephen Philip Cameron
(Mathematics)
Modulus of Continuity Method for the Muskat Problem and Fractional Mean Curvature Flow
Kasturi Chakraborty
(Chemistry)
DNA-Based Nanodevices to Probe Lysosomal Diseases by Chemical Imaging
Cheryl Louise Dembe
(Chemistry)
Development of Low Temperature Thermometry in the 20mK (0.02K) Region, Involving Induced Circuitry Surrounding Cerium Magnesium Nitrate, Applied to an Investigation of Quantized Vortices Generated around Alpha Particles in a He3/He4 Dilution Refrigerator
Huseyin Gokalp Demirci
(Computer Science)
Approximation Algorithms for Capacitated k-Median and Scheduling with Resource and Precedence Constraints
Lin Deng
(Chemistry)
Rhodium-Catalyzed C−C Bond Activation of Four-Membered Ring Ketones
Zhiyuan Ding
(Mathematics)
A Toy Model of Shtukas
Yuanwei Fang
(Computer Science)
Extreme Acceleration and Seamless Integration of Raw Data Processing
Lei Feng
(Physics)
Coherent Nonequilibrium Many-Body Dynamics in Driven Bose Condensates
Nir Gadish
(Mathematics)
A General Framework for Representation Stability, with Applications to Arrangements and Arithmetic
Yordanka Aleksandrova Kovacheva
(Mathematics)
Intersection Pairing of Cycles and Biextensions
Thomas Kuntz
(Chemistry)
Towards Molecular Microbial Medicine
Gihoon Lee
(Chemistry)
Metabolite-Induced Protein Modifications in Cell Signaling: A Direct Link between Metabolism and Regulatory Pathways of the Cell
Andrew Ludwig
(Physics)
Radio Detection of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos
Sara Chamberlin Massey
(Chemistry)
Ultrafast Energy Transfer and Orientational Dynamics in Photosynthetic Bacterial Membranes
Joelle Mbatchou
(Statistics)
Assessments of Significance for Genetic Association Analysis in Structured Samples
Daniel Micheroni
(Chemistry)
Metal-Organic Frameworks for Energy Applications
Drew Moore
(Mathematics)
Cohomology of Towers of Discrete Subgroups in GL_n over a p-adic Field
Margaret Nichols
(Mathematics)
Taut Sutured Handlebodies as Twisted Homology Products
Ngoc Hoang Minh Pham
(Mathematics)
On Lefschetz's Form of the Number of Cuspidal Representations with Some Steinberg Local Components
Andrew W Phillips
(Chemistry)
Controlling Nanoscale Silicon Surfaces for Tailored Interfaces
Erik Douglas Reinhart
(Chemistry)
Metal Complexes Supported by Novel Ligands
Jeffrey D. Sayler
(Chemistry)
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of the Reaction of Alkanethiolate Self-Assembled Monolayers with Atomic Hydrogen
Benjamin Seeger
(Mathematics)
Fully Nonlinear Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Hassan Shapourian
(Physics)
Topology and Entanglement in Fermionic Systems
Donghyuk Suh
(Chemistry)
Enhanced Sampling Methodologies for Free Energy Calculations in Biomolecular Systems
Samuel James Whiteley
(Physics)
Spin-Phonon Interactions with Defects in Silicon Carbide
Alison Mae Wilders
(Chemistry)
Synthesis and Olefin Polymerization Behavior of Electronically-Unsymmetrical Pd(II)-Alkyl Catalysts
Nicholas Edward Williams
(Chemistry)
Probing Quantum Dynamics and Spectral Broadening in Semiconductor Nanocrystals With Nonlinear Spectroscopies
Fan Yang
(Statistics)
Estimation and Inference for High Dimensional Data with Structured Signals
Qiancheng You
(Chemistry)
Novel Methods for In-Depth Investigation of Chromatin Structure and Epigenetic Landmark
Huazhe Zhang
(Computer Science)
Maximizing Performance in Power-Constrained Computing Systems
Lisheng Zhang
(Chemistry)
High-Resolution Mapping of mRNA Modifications
Chun Zhou
(Chemistry)
Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer Thin Films for Fabricating Tailored Nanostructures
Division of the Physical Sciences and the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Kevin Changhun Song
(Biophysical Sciences)
Folding and Misfolding of the Potassium Channel Pore Domain during Assembly and Tetramerization
Division of the Social Sciences
Triwit Ariyathugun
Economics
Asset Pricing Implications of the Interest on Reserves Policy
Fabian Arzuaga
Political Science
Paradoxes of Individuality: Liberalism, the Crisis of Work, and the Critique of Political Economy
Lindsay Marie Atnip
Social Thought
From Tragic Form to Apocalyptic Reality in Four American Works: Toward an Epistemological Theory and Practice of Reading
Anam Khan Barakzai
Psychology
Which Side Are You On? How Friends Balance Competing Obligations of Loyalty and Morality
Meru Bhanot
Economics
The Effects of Credit Supply Shocks and Neighborhood Spillovers on Housing Investment: Evidence from Chicago
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
Political Science
A House Is Not a Home: Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary Democracies
Joe Bonni
Anthropology
Everything Is Full of Gods: Representing Religion at the Edges of Empires
Nicolás Andrés Castro Cienfuegos
Economics
Essays in Macroeconomics and Production Networks
Jose Ignacio Cuesta
Economics
Essays on Regulation of Credit and Health Markets
Ryan William Dahn
Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
The Forgotten Founder of Quantum Mechanics: The Science and Politics of Physicist Pascual Jordan, 1902–1980
Kelly Elizabeth Faig
Psychology
The Psychophysiology of Social Behavior: A Focus on the Behavioral Immune System
Joshua James Foster
Psychology
Alpha-Band Oscillations Track Spatial Priority in the Human Brain
Chiara Fratto
Economics
Essays on Mobility Restrictions and Agents' Behavior
Tom Gijssels
Psychology
Action Language Understanding Reflects Bodily and Social Experience
David M Gutherz
Social Thought
Towards The People: The Search for Subjugated Knowledges in Post-Fascist Italy
Lloyd Sangwoo Han
Economics
Dynamics of Macroeconomic Forecasting Variation and Correlation Structure in the Business Cycle
Alexis Lyn-Marie Howard
Comparative Human Development
Exploring Disability Outcomes Among Aging Latinos in the United States: A Mixed Methods Approach
Tania Islas Weinstein
Political Science
Politics in a House of Mirrors: Art, Nationalism, and Representation in Contemporary Mexico
Jennifer Marcella Jackson
Political Science
Race, Risks, and Responses: Mapping Black Americans' Reactions to Group Threat
Steven Andrew Jacobs
Comparative Human Development
Balancing Abortion Rights and Fetal Rights: A Mixed Methods Mediation of the U.S. Abortion Debate
Kyu-hyun Jo
History
The Rise of the South Korean Left, the Death of Unitary Socialism, and the Origins of the Korean War, 1945-1947
Trish Kahle
History
The Graveyard Shift: Mining Democracy in an Age of Energy Crisis, 1963-1981
Jun Hyung Kim
Economics
The Economics of Parenting Skill and Child Development
Michael James Kirker
Economics
Essays on Productivity Growth from New Workers
Danya Raquel Lagos
Sociology
Embodiment, Identity, and Gender Regimes in the United States: Findings from Population Surveys
Elliot Andrew Layden
Psychology
Functional Connectivity Signatures of Interhemispheric Coordination and Vocal Learning in the Zebra Finch Brain
Jeong-Ha Lee
History
'We are the Red Cavalry! (My-Krasnaia kavaleriia!)': A Collective Biography of the Red Cavalry Commanders, 1918-1938
Zachary T Leonard
History
Against "Anomaly": India Reformism and the Politics of Colonial Dissent
Emily Lyons
Comparative Human Development
Learning under Pressure: Stereotype Threat and Evaluative Performance Pressure in the Mathematics Classroom
Tasneem Mustafa Mandviwala
Comparative Human Development
That Thing on Their Heads: How Muslim American Women Became Navigators of a New Culture
Erin Katherine McFee
Comparative Human Development
An Ambivalent Peace: Mistrust, Reconciliation, and the Intervention Encounter in Colombia
Kirsty Montgomery
History
“Floating Bridges,” “Knotty Points,” and “Boroughmonger Tools”: Malthus, Extra-Parliamentary Politics, and the Debates on Emigration, 1798-1834
Nora Catherine Nickels
Comparative Human Development
The Relationship between Acute Psychosocial Stress, Hormones, Cognition, and Social Behavior in Men and Women
Noemi Nocera
Economics
Essays on Immigration and the Family in Labor Economics
Krisztina Orban
Economics
The Inception of Capitalism Through the Lens of Firms
Kai Perry Parker
History
Faith without Hope: Black Protestants, Chicago, and the Critique of Progress, 1914-1968
Alicia Rose Riley
Sociology
The Social Production of Health Inequalities across State and Regional Contexts
Megan Marie Savel Hawryluk
Political Science
Expectations, Perceptions, and Social Roles: The Effects and Performance of Gender in Campaigns for the United States Congress
Caroline Virginie Sequin
History
Prostitution and the Policing of Race in the French Atlantic, 1848-1947
Joseph Edward Simmons
Social Thought
Irenic Modernism: The Early Work of David Jones and W. H. Auden
Philip Bennett Sugg
Social Thought
The Search for a View of the Whole: Models of Community in Goethe, Eliot and Melville
Muhammed Alparslan Tuncay
Economics
Assortative Mating and Inequality
Gabriel Mateo Velez
Comparative Human Development
Conceptualized Peace: A Study of Colombian Adolescents' Meaning Making and Civic Development
Marilyn S. Webb
Education
The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life
Karen J. Ye
Economics
Understanding Peer Effects in Educational Decisions: Evidence from Theory and a Field Experiment
Division of the Social Sciences and the Division of the Humanities
Britta Elisabeth Ingebretson
Anthropology and Linguistics
Curating Value: The Politics of Language and Leisure in Huangshan, China
Konrad Charles Weeda
Social Thought and Classics
Imagined Languages and Forms of Life: Horace Reads Virgil
Division of the Social Sciences and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Michael Duglas Barnett
(Economics and Business)
A Run on Oil: Climate Policy, Stranded Assets, and Asset Prices
Alejandro Hoyos Suarez
(Economics and Business)
Clientele Political Ideology and Asset Prices
Willem Jan van Vliet
(Economics and Business)
Connections as Jumps: Estimating Financial Interconnectedness from Market Data
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Jae Hyen Chung
Estimation of Sequential Search Models
Raphael Duguay
The Economic Consequences of Financial Audit Regulation in the Charitable Sector
Hye-young Kim
Consumer Mind Perceptions: How Technology Influences Mind Attributions to Objects and People
Sehwa Kim
Do Delays in Banks’ Loan Loss Provisioning Affect Economic Downturns? Evidence from the U.S. Housing Market
Justin Hilyin Leung
The Impact of Government Policies on Retail Prices and Welfare
Jinzhi Lu
Limited Attention: Implications for Financial Reporting
Anna Nakhmurina
Does Fiscal Monitoring Make Better Governments? Evidence from US Municipalities
Jung Sakong
Essays in Business Cycles, Inequality and Racial Discrimination
John Shim
Arbitrage Comovement
Ling Yang
An Information Quality-Based Explanation for Delayed Loan Loss Provisioning during the 2008 Financial Crisis
Xiao Zhang
Expectation Error
Yiwen Zhang
Consumer Decisions in Response to Price Increases
Charles Zou
Learning-by-Doing and Preference Discovery in Video Game Play
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Division of the Social Sciences
Klakow Akepanidtaworn
(Business and Economics)
Can Institutional Investors Trade on News? Evidence from Firm-Level and Macroeconomic Announcements
Gregory Edward Buchak
(Business and Economics)
Financing the Gig Economy
Paymon Khorrami
(Business and Economics)
The Risk of Risk-Sharing: Diversification and Boom-Bust Cycles
Johnathan Loudis
(Business and Economics)
Expectations in the Cross Section: Stock Price Reactions to the Information and Bias in Analyst-Expected Returns
Yiyao Wang
(Business and Economics)
Counterparty Risk and Repo Runs
The Divinity School
John Whitney Buchmann
The Price of Solidarity: Adam Smith, Thomas Aquinas, and the Ethics of Exchange
Darryl Scott Dale-Ferguson
Capable Agents and Just Institutions: A Reconstruction of Paul Ricoeur's "Ethical Aim" Using Anthony Giddens' Theory of Structuration
William Ezekiel Goggin
Hegel's Sacrificial Imagination
Timothy Gutmann
Conscripting Traditions: Islam, Confucianism, Modernity
Lisa Landoe Hedrick
Theology after the Problem of Intentionality: A Whiteheadian Corrective for Analytic Philosophy of Language
Russell Johnson
Communication Ethics in Social Conflict: Nonviolent and Christian Perspectives
Michael Thomas Le Chevallier
The Stain of Association and the Burden of Membership: Institutional Ethics in Paul Ricoeur and Catholic Social Thought
Robert John Porwoll
Parisian Pedagogies: The Educational Debate between Peter Abelard, Hugh of Saint-Victor, Peter Lombard, and John of Salisbury
Susan Christopher Shields
Beyond Words: Reading the Bible in Antebellum Contexts
David Kerman Tomlinson
Buddhahood and Philosophy of Mind: Ratnākaraśānti, Jñānaśrīmitra, and the Debate over Mental Content (Ākāra)
Stephen C. Walker
Boundless Ways: Undoing Dào in the Zhuāngzǐ
The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies
Nour Julnar Abdul-Razzak
Essays in Social Policy and Crime
The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Alfred Chi-Fei Chon
Development of Spatially Controlled Innate Immune Agonists
Lu Li
Phase Behaviors and Composition Partitioning in Polyelectrolyte Complexation Systems
Brittany Anne Moser
Engineering the Immune System to Improve Vaccines: From Molecular Probe Design to Translational Applications
Winter Quarter Dissertations (March 2019)
Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Erin Alana Thorpe Boyle Anderson
(Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology)
The Role of the Tbx5 Paralogues during Pectoral Fin Development in Zebrafish
Christopher Daniel Katanski
(Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics)
Mechanisms of Remodeling Translation during Stress
Sangman Michael Kim
(Immunology)
Tissue Stress and Posttranslational Modifications of Gluten Drive the Development of Tissue Destruction in Celiac Disease
Elizabeth Erin Lailei Lee
(Neurobiology)
Novel Methods and Techniques to Investigate Voltage Sensitive Proteins
SangWook Lee
(Computational Neuroscience)
Corticocortical Connections between the Primary Motor and Somatosensory Cortices in the Macaque
Lindsey Megan Fong Mao
(Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology)
TBX5A Functions in Anterior Lateral Plate Mesoderm Specification and Migration in Zebrafish Embryos
Mohammad Siddiq
(Ecology and Evolution)
The Role of Alcohol Dehydrogenase Evolution in Alcohol Adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster
Claire Stedden
(Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology)
Semaphorin Signaling Coordinates the Collective Migration of Epithelial Cells in the Drosophila Egg Chamber
Andy Vo
(Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology)
Genetic Modifiers of Muscular Dystrophy
Ali Ekrem Yesilkanal
(Cancer Biology)
Discovery of Anti-metastatic Therapies Guided by the Physiological Suppressor Raf Kinase Inhibitory Protein
Division of the Humanities
Nadia Chana
(Music)
To Listen on Indigenous Land: Method, Context, Crisis
Nicholas Mahood Lambrecht
(East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
New Arrivals: Returnee Identity and the Memory of Repatriation in Japanese Literature
Solveig Nelson
(Art History)
The Whole World Is (Still) Watching: The Televisual, Early Video, Nonviolent Direct Action, 1930s-1970s
Natalie L Trevino
(Classics)
Inspiration and Narrative in the Homeric Odyssey
Division of the Physical Sciences
Mary Terese Burkey
(Physics)
Searching for Tensor Currents in the Weak Interaction Using Lithium-8 β Decay
Hillary Lyn Child
(Physics)
Cosmology through Large-Scale Structure: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Bispectrum and Evolution of Halo Profiles
Nathan Don Earnest
(Physics)
Engineering Light-Matter Interactions with Metastable States in a Heavy Fluxonium
William Foreman
(Physics)
A Demonstration of Light-Augmented Calorimetry for Low-Energy Electrons in Liquid Argon
Nicole M James
(Chemistry)
The Role of Surface Chemistry in the Shear Jamming of Dense Suspensions
Nelson Leung
(Physics)
Quantum Computing with Distributed Modules
Joseph Nathanael Mastron
(Chemistry)
Fluorescence-Encoded Infrared Vibrational Spectroscopies
Jonathan Raybin
(Chemistry)
Defects and Dynamics in Block Copolymer Thin Films: A Study of Polymer Pattern Evolution with Environmentally-Controlled Atomic Force Microscopy
Guohua Shen
(Chemistry)
Synthesis of Mercury Chalcogenide Colloidal Quantum Dots and Core Shells
Nolan Miller Shepherd
(Chemistry)
Manipulating Electromagnetic Fields in Colloidal Metal Nanoparticle Systems
Vishal Hasmukh Soni
(Physics)
Geometry of Colloidal Materials
Shareefa Thekkan
(Chemistry)
cHOClate: A DNA-Based Fluorescent Probe to Quantitatively Map Subcellular HOCl
Zongan Wang
(Chemistry)
Fast, Atomic-Level Simulations of the Forced Unfolding of Proteins Using a New Membrane Burial Potential
Benjamin Weissman
(Chemistry)
Analysis of Self-Cleaving Ribozyme Transition States
Division of the Physical Sciences and the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Ryan Lee Mork
(Biophysical Sciences)
Staphylococcus aureus Acquisition, Persistence, and Infection Dynamics in the Household
Division of the Social Sciences
Marcel Sebastian Anduiza Pimentel
(History)
From Pacific Gateway to Tourist City: Mobility, Revolution, and the Development of the Mexican Seaside, Acapulco, Mexico, 1849-1970
Mohamad Ballan
(History)
The Scribe of the Alhambra: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb, Sovereignty and History in Nasrid Granada
Amy Michelle Genova
(History)
Strategies of Resistance: Cretan Archaeology and Political Networks during the Late 19th and Early 20th Century
Alfredo Gonzalez
(Political Science)
Other Than Honorable: The Rise and Decline of Citizenship-for-Service, 1918-1965
Mary Denise Robertson
(Anthropology)
Selling Aspiration, Recognizing Difference: Race, Class, and the Politics of Advertising in South Africa
Christopher Patrick Todd
(History)
The Slaves' Money: Bondage, Freedom and Social Change in Jamaica, 1776-1832
Division of the Social Sciences and the Division of the Humanities
Luke Harry Parker
(Social Thought and Classics)
Listening to Logos: A Prose Poetics in Heraclitus
The Divinity School
James Robert Covington
The Poetics of Translation in Greek Genesis and the Virtuous Plot
The Institute for Molecular Engineering
Youpeng Zhong
Violating Bell’s Inequality with Remotely-Connected Superconducting Qubits
The Law School
Marco Segatti
The Point of Equal Access to Justice: On the Duty to, at Times and Provisionally, Pause, Cool Down and Listen