Autumn 2015

Autumn Quarter Dissertations (December 2015)

Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine

Aquino-Michaels, Keston
Cancer Biology
The Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773384
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M14F1NN9

Arthur, Robert K.
Ecology and Evolution
Computational Approaches Towards The Integration of Functional and Comparative Datasets in The Evolution of Gene Regulation
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773359
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1HQ3WTC

Block, Katharine Emma
Immunology
The Role of Tfh Cells, Th17 Cells, and the Gut Microbiota in Autoimmune Arthritis
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773356
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1V40S48

Burrows, Michael Paul
Immunology
THE MICROBIOTA REGULATES TYPE 1 DIABETES THROUGH TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR SIGNALING
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773368
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1D21VJ4

Fernandez, Celia Giulietta
Neurobiology
Palmitoylation Mediates Neuron-Specific BACE1 Localization: Implications for APP Processing Using a Knock-In Mouse Model
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773374
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1X0650J

Gao, Quan
Developmental Biology
Re-engineering a Transmembrane Protein to Treat Muscular Dystrophy Using Exon Skipping
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773401
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1X63JTS

McMurray, Katherine Miles Johnston
Neurobiology
Methylglyoxal and Glyoxalase1 (GLO1) in Psychiatric Disorders
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773382
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1C24TDR

Merwin, Laura Alida
Ecology and Evolution
Adaptation to Coastal Environments in Swedish Arabidopsis thaliana
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773411
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M19021PR

Schell, Christopher John
Evolutionary Biology
Differential and Long-Term Impacts of Biparental Effects on Offspring Personality and Hormones in Coyotes (Canis latrans)
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773366
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1KW5CXM

Sivan, Ayelet Shoshana
Cancer Biology
The Role of Commensal Microbiota in Shaping Systemic Anti-tumor Immunity
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773388
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1000018

Winkelman, Jonathan David
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
Self-organization of the actin cytoskeleton
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773370
Institutional Repository: No

Division of the Humanities

Anagnost, Adrian
Art History
Contested Spaces: Art and Urbanism in Brazil, 1928-1969
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773400
Institutional Repository: No

Brightbill, Jeremy D.
Classics: Classical Languages and Literatures
Roman Declamation: Between Creativity and Constraints
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773377
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1CZ353F

Diamond, David Mark
English Language and Literature
Full Faith and Credit: Reading Character After Calvin
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773378
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1736NTX

Haswell, Todd Stephen D.
Germanic Studies
The Turn to the Self: A History of Autism, 1910-1944
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773394
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1668BBD

Jobe, Eric Paul
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Innovation in Post-Biblical Hebrew Poetry: A Stylistic Analysis of the Hymns of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773379
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M12F7KMP

Lampert, Marcus Alan
Germanic Studies
Infinite Mind: Morality, Self-Expression, and Imagination in German Idealist Thought
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773391
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1T151KJ

Mabra, Joshua Lee
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
THE ALMOST CALIPH: RECONSTRUCTING THE POLITICAL LIFE OF 'ABD AL-'AZĪZ IBN MARWĀN (D. 86/705)
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773418
Institutional Repository: No

Martinovic, Martina
Linguistics
Feature geometry and head-splitting: Evidence from the morphosyntax of the Wolof clausal periphery
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773357
Institutional Repository: No

McBride, Meredith Rosamond Aska
Music
City With Lifted Head Singing: The Practice and Politics of Music Education in Chicago
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773408
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1DR2SDS

Montanari, Chiara
Romance Languages and Literatures
The Witness on Stage: The Theater of Ascanio Celestini
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773365
Institutional Repository: No

Pierson, Marcelle Coulter
Music
The Voice under Erasure: Singing, Melody and Expression in Late Modernist Music
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773383
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M11V5BWF

Porretto, Elizabeth Anne
Romance Languages and Literatures
Other Mothers: Representations of Non-biological Motherhood in the Works of Elsa Morante and Dacia Maraini
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773387
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M13R0QRW

Roychoudhuri, Ranu
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
The Public Lives of Photographs: Aesthetic Conventions and Sociocultural Change in Twentieth-Century India
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773371
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1T151V4

Schweiger, Tristan James
English Language and Literature
Planters, Mariners, Nabobs, and Squires: Masculine Types and Imperial Ideology, 1719-1817
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773360
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M16Q1V5W

Smucker, Peter Christian Wyse
Music
A Listener-Sensitive Analytic Approach to Elliott Carter's Late Chamber Music, 1990–2012
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773407
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1TT4NWK

Tharsen, Jeffrey R.
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Chinese Euphonics : Phonetic Patterns, Phonorhetoric and Literary Artistry in Early Chinese Narrative Texts
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773367
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1XS5S9K

Wald, Andrea
Germanic Studies
Ornament. Eine österreichische Befindlichkeit
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773355
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1C8276B

Wohl Lillian Marie
Music
The Musical Labors of Memory: Jewish Musical Performance in Buenos Aires
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773362
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1M906KM

Division of the Physical Sciences

Cheng, Yangyang
Physics
Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Bottom Quarks at ATLAS
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773392
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1B56GN7

Crooks, James
Biophysical Sciences
Statistical Learning Models of T Cell Receptor Dynamics
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773406
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M16D5QXH

Golkar, Siavash
Physics
Geometry, Topology and Anomalies in Effective Field Theories of Condensed Matter Systems
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773348
Institutional Repository: No

Hoy, Erik P.
Chemistry
Reduced Density Matrices and Tensor Factorizations for Low Cost Quantum Chemistry
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773416
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M12N506K

La Porte, Nathan Todd
Chemistry
Photosensitizing the Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reaction
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773386
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M13B5X3M

Li, Wenxin
Chemistry
INTERACTIONS OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SPECIES WITH ICE AND SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773395
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1ZK5DM9

Lin, Chien-Hung
Physics
Topological Phases and Exactly Soluable Lattice Models
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773353
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M19884X5

Liu, Nian
Chemistry
N6-methyladenosine-dependent RNA Structural Switches Modulate RNA-protein Interactions
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773389
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1S75D8T

Lu, Xingyu
Chemistry
BASE-RESOLUTION SEQUENCING METHOD FOR 5-FORMYLCYTOSINE AND 5-CARBOXYLCYTOSINE AND GENOME-WIDE MAPPING METHODS FOR 5-HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE FROM LOW INPUT DNA
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773421
Institutional Repository: No

McCuller, Lee Patrick
Physics
Testing a Model of Planck-scale Quantum Geometry with Broadband Correlation of Colocated 40m interferometers
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773393
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M10P0WXK

Mine, Aric Howard
Geophysical Sciences
Phosphorus biogeochemistry in microbial aquatic ecosystems: insights into P remineralization
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773410
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1JW8BS7

Montgomery, Thomas
Chemistry
Studies of Palladium Catalyzed Functionalization of Indoles, Synthesis of Piperazines and Rhodium Catalyzed Binol Arylation
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773417
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1XS5SK5

Moore, Wynton E.
Physics
Primordial Fluctuations in Extended Liouville Theory
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773373
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1BR8Q41

Natoli, Tyler Jaymes
Physics
A Search for Transient Sources in the First 100 deg2 of SPTpol Data
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773415
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1QJ7F71

Neuman, Jeremy Francois
Physics
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Large-Scale Brain Activity
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773352
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1J1012F

Payne, James Thomas
Chemistry
Engineering Halogenases for Selective Functionalization of Bioactive Molecules
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773412
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1VX0DFP

Reyes, Julius Rene
Chemistry
Total Synthesis and Methods Inspired by (-)-N-Methylwelwitindolinone B Isothiocyanate
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773413
Institutional Repository: No

Robinson, Alan Edward
Physics
Dark Matter Limits from a 2L C3F8 Filled Bubble Chamber
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773351
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M12F7KCJ

Tissot, Francois Louis Henri
Geophysical Sciences
Geochemistry and cosmochemistry of uranium stable isotopes
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773364
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1P8493C

ZHANG, CHEN
Chemistry
DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND DIRECTED EVOLUTION OF ARTIFICIAL METALLOENZYMES
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773414
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1HQ3WVT

Zhang, Hao
Chemistry
INORGANIC SURFACE CHEMISTRY OF COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS: DESIGN OF THE INTERFACE BETWEEN NANOCRYSTALS AND SURROUNDING MEDIA
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773363
Institutional Repository: No

Zheng, Tianyue
Chemistry
Investigation on the Structure-Property Relationship of Organic Photovoltaics and Side Reactions of Stille Polycondensation
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773409
Institutional Repository: No

Zhou, Jing
Physics
Direct Dark Matter Detection with the DAMIC Experiment at SNOLAB
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773397
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1V985ZB

Division of the Social Sciences

Akchurin, Maria
Sociology
The Politics of Water: Privatizing Water and Sanitation Utilities in Argentina and Chile
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773405
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1W093VR

Brummel, Elizabeth Jane
Anthropology
Youth for Life: Language, Narration, and the Quality of Youth in Urban Kenya
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773381
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M17H1GGM

Dingwall, Christopher James
History
The Sale of Slavery: Memory, Culture, and the Renewal of America, 1877-1920
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773390
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M19Z932T

Goldman, Leah Daphne
History
Art of Intransigence: Soviet Composers and Art Music Censorship, 1945-1957
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773380
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1G44N6M

Jabloner, Anna
Anthropology
Humanity Pending: Californian Genomics and the Politics of Biology
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773358
Institutional Repository: No

Jamison, Kelda
Anthropology
Making Kurdish Public(s): Language Politics and Practice in Turkey
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773419
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1KS6PH9

Johnson, Sarah
Political Science
The Ages We Live By: Historical Periodization in Social and Political Thought
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773369
Institutional Repository: No (originally yes but then decided not to participate)

Lesure, Ainsley Nicole
Political Science
Making Racism Visible in the World: Achieving Racial Justice Through Political Resistance
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773420
Institutional Repository: No

Martinez-Martin, Nicole Angela
Comparative Human Development
Bad to the Brain: Neuroscience, Criminal Law and Responsibility
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773398
Institutional Repository: No

McClintock, Louisa Marie
Sociology
Projects of Punishment in Postwar Poland: War Criminals, Collaborators, Traitors, and the (Re)Construction of the Nation
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773350
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1NC5Z4S

Morton, Gregory Duff
Anthropology and Social Service Administration
Leaving Labor: Reverse Migration, Welfare Cash, and the Specter of the Commodity in Northeastern Brazil
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773399
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1JH3J4H

Ocobock, Abigail
Sociology
The Institutionalization of Same-Sex Marriage: How Access to Legal Marriage Impacts LGBQ People's Relationships
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773354
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1R20Z9Z

Qiu, Ziyi
Economics
Merger Analysis with Endogenous Prices and Product Qualities - Generalized Theorem and Application to the U.S. Airline Industry
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773372
Institutional Repository: No

Rosenberg, Stephen Daniel
Sociology
Buying Time: A Theory of Mass Consumption as Wage Labor Commensuration
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773404
Institutional Repository: No

Weiss, Joseph JZ
Anthropology
UNSETTLING FUTURES: HAIDA FUTURE-MAKING, POLITICS AND MOBILITY IN THE SETTLER COLONIAL PRESENT
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773396
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1JH3JCN

Zhao, Hai
History
Manchurian Atlas: Competitive Geopolitics, Planned Industrialization, and the Rise of Heavy Industrial State in Northeast China, 1918-1954
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773361
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1QC01DX

The Divinity School

Andruss, Jessica
Exegesis, Homily, and Historical Reflection in the Arabic Commentary on Lamentations by Salmon ben Yerūḥīm, Tenth-Century Karaite of Jerusalem
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773403
Institutional Repository: No

DeCort, Andrew David
Bonhoeffer's Beginning: Universal Entry, "the Problem of Morality," and the Ethics of New Beginning
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773376
Institutional Repository: No

The Institute for Molecular Engineering

Seidel, Robert
The Impact of Substrate Interaction in Directed Self-Assembly of Symmetric Diblock Copolymer Thin Films
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773402
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1P848VT

Williamson, Lance David
Investigation of Chemical Pattern Design and Block Copolymer Formulation on Directed Self-assembly
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773385
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1862DC1

The School of Social Service Administration

Frank-Miller, Ellen G.
How Does It Fit? Department Stores' Brand Images, Managers' Perceptions, and Opportunities For Older Workers
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773349
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1BG2KW6

Moro, Teresa
AGENCY STAFF PERCEPTIONS OF END-OF-LIFE CARE FOR ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773375
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1FT8HZX