Autumn 2014
Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Cunliffe, Alexandra Rose
Medical Physics
Thoracic Computed Tomography Image Texture Analysis for Assessment of Radiation-Induced Lung Tissue Damage and Early Identification of Radiation Pneumonitis
Davenport, Emily Rebecca
Human Genetics
Examining the Environmental and Genetic Basis of Human Gut Microbiome Composition
Fukuda, Yusuke
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
Spatial Control of Microtubule Length and Lifetime by Opposing Stabilizing and Destabilizing Functions of Kinesin-8
Kandur, Aaron
Ecology and Evolution
The Distribution of Mytilus californianus in the Strait of Juan de Fuca
Khuong, Nhi
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
Coliphage N4 Inhibits Cell Division by Targeting FtsZ and FtsA
Kregel, Steven William
Cancer Biology
The Role of Pluripotent Stem Cell Transcription Factors in Prostate Cancer
Krinsky, Benjamin Henry
Evolutionary Biology
The Evolution of Expression Networks Driven by a Young Gene in Drosophila
Lamar, Kay-Marie
Human Genetics
Mechanisms of LTBP4 in Muscular Dystrophy
Landback, Patrick Francis
Genetics
The Evolution and Phenotypic Impact of New Gene Duplicates in Humans
Liu, Yen-Chyi
Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Neural Control of Alternative Escape Behaviors through Integrated Activity of Hindbrain and Spinal Cord Circuits
Luchniak, Anna Malgorzata
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dissecting the molecular etiology of tubulin-related neurodevelopmental disorders in humans
McCord, Charlene
Organismal Biology and Anatomy
The Evolution and Functional Morphology of Partitioned Adductor Mandibulae Muscles and a Novel Jaw Mechanism in Triggerfishes (Teleostei: Balistidae)
McDonald, Benjamin Dewart
Immunology
The Development of Unconventional Intestinal Intraepithelial Lymphocytes
Misiura, Agnieszka
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Roles of Two Serine Recombinases in Mobilizing the Methicillin Resistance Cassette in MRSA
Moen, Erika Linn
Cancer Biology
Genome-wide Cytosine Modifications and Their Implications for Sensitivity to Chemotherapeutic Agents
Pusic, Aya Darinka
Neurobiology
Neuroimmune Signaling of Environmental Enrichment; The Role of Exosomes in Remyelination
Division of the Humanities
Aloisio, Miriam
Romance Languages and Literatures
Dalla comicità all'apocalisse: una lettura ecocritica dell'opera di Luigi Malerba
Caldwell IV, Perry Ernest
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Writing Chinese Laws: The Form and Function of Statutes in Qin Legal Culture
Coleman, Jeffrey Kwesi
Romance Languages and Literatures
Bracing for Impact: Portrayals of Immigration in Contemporary Spanish Theatre
Duda, Kathryn Anne
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Inherited Humanism: The Case of Evgeniia Ginzburg and Vasilii Aksenov
Erickson, Peter Svaren
Germanic Studies
Religious Conversion in the Late German Enlightenment: Goethe, Schiller, and Wieland
Gundogdu, Cihangir
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
"Are There No Asylums?" The Ottoman State and the Insane, 1856-1908
Hensley, Judy
Philosophy
Equity Strikes Back: The Lost Ideal of Aristotelian Equitable Justice in Contemporary Statutory Interpretation
Jacobs, Joela
Germanic Studies
Speaking the Non-Human: Plants, Animals, and Marginalized Humans in Literary Grotesques from Oskar Panizza to Franz Kafka
Keane, Jonathan Thomas
Linguistics
Towards an Articulatory Model of Handshape: What Fingerspelling Tells Us About the Phonetics and Phonology of Handshape in American Sign Language
Leipert, Trent
Music
Feeling in the Cracks: Subjective Binds in Contemporary European Composition
Mahler, Anthony Edwards
Germanic Studies
Writing Regimens: The Dietetics of Literary Authorship in the Late German Enlightenment
Martin, Marianna
Cinema and Media Studies
Reading the Cards: Contemporary Genre Practice and Digital Audiences
Maydanchik, Michelle
Art History
Creative Disruption: Contemporary Russian Performance Art
Scotch, Henry Robert
English Language and Literature
Oceanic America: A Literary Geography, 1844-1930
Tasdelen, Esra
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Literature as a Mirror of History: A Comparative Study of the Historical Fictions of Ahmet Hikmet Muftuoglu (1870-1927) and Jurji Zaydan (1861-1914)
Wright, Samuel T.
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
The Expansion of a Discipline: Intellectual Change in Nyaya-Sastra in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century India
Division of the Physical Sciences
Crum, Keith Alan
Physics
A Measurement of sin^2(2 theta_13) with the Double Chooz Experiment
Driscoll, Michelle Millan
Physics
Geometric Control of Failure Behavior in Perforated Sheets
Fields, Nicole Elizabeth
Physics
CosI: Development of a Low Threshold Detector for the Observation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
Fitzgerald, Ivy Jean
Biophysical Sciences
Development and Utilization of a Monomeric Superfolder GFP for Analysis and Enhancement of Yeast Secretion
Gates, Zachary
Chemistry
Studies on solid phase synthesis of peptide-thioesters for use in chemical protein synthesis
Herbst, Daniel Charles
Physics
Water Uptake Profile in a Model Ion-Exchange Membrane: Conditions for Water-Rich Channels
Li, Ho Ling
Physics
Search for W' -> tb -> qqbb with Novel Techniques at the ATLAS Experiment
McCowan, David Daniel
Physics
A Numerical Study of Longtime Dynamics and Ergodic-Nonergodic Transitions in Dense Simple Fluids
Peng, Yuxing
Chemistry
Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proton Transport in Nanoconfined Spaces: From Nanomaterial to Biology
Ramachandran, Radha
Physics
A Comparison of Two-Dimensional Viscous Fingering in Miscible and Immiscible Fluids
Tramm, Nora Ashley
Physics
Measuring Behavioral Dynamics of <italic>C. elegans</italic>
Zablocki, Alan
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Constraining Neutrinos and Dark Energy with Galaxy Clustering in the Dark Energy Survey
Zolkin, Timofey
Physics
Beam Transverse Instability in the FNAL Booster
Division of the Social Sciences
Applebaum, Lauren
Psychology
Encouraging Analogical Reasoning in STEM Learning: The Role of Cues to Comparison
Belsky, Natalie
History
Encounters in the East: Evacuees in the Soviet Hinterland during the Second World War
Bilgel, Yasemin
Political Science
Regional Power Politics after the Cold War
Brawn, Timothy Paul
Psychology
Sleep-Dependent Memory Consolidation in European Starlings
Doering, Laura
Sociology and Business
The Social Determinants of Economic Growth: Microenterprise and Microfinance in Latin America
Dvorakova, Antonie
Comparative Human Development
Beyond the "Two-Worlds": Native American Scholars' Experience
Fairweather, Daryl Rose
Economics
Essays in the Economics of Education and Inequality
Guengerich, Anna Katherine
Anthropology
Monte Viudo: Residential Architecture and the Everyday Production of Space in a Chachapoya Community
Henwood, Keith Jefferson
Economics
Essays on the Economics of Solar Power
Holmes, Marcia Elizabeth
Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
Performing Proficiency: Applied Experimental Psychology and the Human Engineering of Air Defense, 1940-1965
Kontra, Carly
Psychology
Leveraging Somatic Experience for Learning
Lee, Monica
Sociology
Structural and Cultural Processes in the Development of the Frankfurt School
Phillips Jr., Dwight E
History
Reengineering Institutional Culture and the American Way of War in the Post-Vietnam U.S. Army, 1968-1989
Ramsey, Jason D.
Anthropology
Spaces of Possession: Negotiating 'Ruin' at the Mexican Periphery
Raudenbush, Danielle
Sociology
Informal Health Care Strategies of the Urban Poor
Schechter, Oded
Social Thought
Existence and Temporality in Spinoza
Staisch, Matthias
Political Science
When Do International Institutions Restrain Great Powers? A Network Theory
Stevenson, John Allen
Political Science
Capitol Gains: How Foreign Military Intervention and the Elite Quest for International Recognition Cause Mass Killing in New States
Thompson, Jeremy
History
The Role of Lupus of Ferrières in the Ninth-Century Predestination Controversy
Ticer-Wurr, Jolyon
Sociology
Routines, Race, and Social Control: Coordinating Action and Constructing Identity as a Neighborhood Majority Transitions from White-Ethnic to Mexican-American
Viedma, Manuel
Political Science
The Social Origins of Authoritarian Institutions: Bosses and Elites in Postrevolutionary Mexico and Bolivia
Wakeford, Michael Paul
History
The Aesthetic Republic: Art, Education, and Social Imagination in the United States, 1900-1960
Walker, Joshua
Anthropology
The Ends of Extraction: Diamonds, Value, and Reproduction in Democratic Republic of Congo
Warner, Travis James
Political Science
Elections as Concessions: Revenue, Stability, and Village Self-Governance in China
The Divinity School
Osborne, Lauren Evans
From Text to Sound to Perception: Modes and Relationships of Meaning in the Recited Qur'an
Whitaker, Robyn Jane
Seeing God: Ekphrasis, Vision, and Persuasion in the Book of Revelation
The Law School
Ahmed, Dawood
Democracy under God: Constitutional Islamization and Human Rights
The School of Social Service Administration
Hardesty, Melissa
Ethical Labor and the Making of American Family in Child Welfare
Johnson, David Wilson
College-going Culture in Urban High Schools: Building Relational Infrastructure to Support Postsecondary Attainment
Perez, Alfred Gene
Are We Putting the Cart Before the Horse? Understanding Legal and Relational Permanence Among Young Adults with Foster Care Histories
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Hauser, Roie
Busy Directors and Firm Performance: Evidence from Mergers
Sutkoff, Anne
A Regular Vine-Copula Approach to Endogenous Regressors in Brand Value Estimation
Askin, Noah
Business and Sociology
Essays on Status Dynamics in American Higher Education