Autumn 2017

Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine

Aiello Brett Ronald
Integrative Biology
Correlated Evolution of Pectoral Fin Mechanics, Morphology, and Mechanosensation
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1554

Briscoe Steven Daniel
Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology
Further Contributions to the Study of Neocortical Origins: Input Cells, IT Cells, and the Alligator Dorsal Telencephalon
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1561

Brown Adam
Computational Neuroscience
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Caenorhabditis elegans Foraging Behavior
https://doi.org/10.6082/M1251GBT

Brown Kyler Joshua
Computational Neuroscience
Vocal Motor Coding in a Songbird Premotor Nucleus
https://doi.org/10.6082/M1XD0ZV4

Chew Justin
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
Vulnerability to Molecular Noise Constrains the Architecture of Bacterial Clocks
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1559

Dulberger Karlynn Neu
Immunology
The Development of Spec-seq and Its Application to Peripheral Blood Plasmablasts after Influenza Challenge
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1563

Gonzales Natalia
Human Genetics
Integrative Genetic Analysis of Behavioral and Metabolic Traits in an Advanced Intercross Line of Mice
https://doi.org/10.6082/M1WD3XR6

Hope C. Matthew
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Polymerization of the ETS Family Transcriptional Repressor Yan: Theory and Experiment
https://doi.org/10.6082/M13X84TH

Horton Brendan Leigh
Cancer Biology
T Cell-Intrinsic 4-1BB Signaling Regulates Tumor-Infiltrating CD8+ T Cell Accumulation and Response to Immunotherapy
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1562

Johnson Marianna B.
Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
Psychosocial Stress Exposure Impairs Mammary Gland Development and Preserves Mammary Stem Cell Populations
https://doi.org/10.6082/M1VD6WMT

Lax Simon
Ecology and Evolution
Our Microbial Interaction with Built Environments
https://doi.org/10.6082/M1G44NG6

Martinez Vargas Pamela
Ecology and Evolution
Strain Diversity and the Population Dynamics of Rotavirus
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1571

Proudfoot Kathleen Grant
Cell and Molecular Biology
Taxol-Stabilized Yeast Microtubules Reveal that a Subset of Spindle Checkpoint Proteins Delay Anaphase Onset in Response to Low Tension
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1567

Rogers Mary Rose
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
BMP9 Modulates Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis
https://doi.org/10.6082/M15Q4T8N

Roundtree Ian
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation by N6-Methyladenosine and Selective RNA Binding Proteins
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1550

Sosa Timothy
Evolutionary Biology
Evolution in Fresh Waters During the Great American Interchange
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1574

Thompson Summer Loretta
Neurobiology
Mechanisms Underlying OCD-Relevant Behaviors in Mice
https://doi.org/10.6082/M18G8HW1

Turchin Michael Charles
Human Genetics
Beyond the Low-Hanging Fruit: Leveraging Summary Data in Human Population and Statistical Genomics
IR: No

Wang Yi-wen
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
Differential BMP Signaling Initiates Cell Competition in Drosophila Female Germline Stem Cells
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1552

Division of the Humanities

Asil Ercüment
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The Pursuit of the Modern Mind: Popularization of Science, the Development of the Middle Classes, and Religious Transformation in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1880
IR: No

Elfenbein Madeleine
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
No Empire for Old Men: The Young Ottomans and the World, 1856–1878
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1566

Fink Margaret Louise
English Language and Literature
Resources of Form: Disability, Race, and the American Literary Imagination, 1952-2012
https://doi.org/10.6082/M1DB7ZZS

Franich Kathryn Hannon
Linguistics
The Interaction of Prominence, Rhythm, and Tone in Medumba
https://doi.org/10.6082/M14X55ZW

Klemm Hannah Marlene
Art History
Systems Depictions: A.R. Penck and the East German Underground, 1953-1980
IR: No

Kummer Timothy Richard
History of Culture
The Cultural Psychology of Time and Space
IR: No

Kyne Rachel
English Language and Literature
Stuck in Time: Modernist Momentums
https://doi.org/10.6082/M1KW5D6M

Perez Alonso Susana Ines
Romance Languages and Literatures
El teatro de Rafael Álvarez El Brujo: Una visión del Siglo de Oro entre la creación personal y las tendencias escénicas de la palabra
https://doi.org/10.6082/M1F769QP

Powers Katrina June
Romance Languages and Literatures
"What Was She Wearing?": Looking at Susanna in Golden Age Spain
https://doi.org/10.6082/M19G5K0C

Saud Laith S.
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Reading A Radical Thinker: A Study on Sayyid Qutb
https://doi.org/10.6082/M1X63K3S

Schonig Jordan
Cinema and Media Studies
Cinema's Motion Forms: Film Theory, the Digital Turn, and the Possibilities of Cinematic Movement
https://doi.org/10.6082/M1NS0S1M

Schopp Caroline Lillian
Art History
Body Analyses / Poetic Acts – Ambivalences of Austrian Performance Art after 1945
IR: No

Swain Amanda
English Language and Literature
Getting Personal: Politics and the Problem of Subjectivity in Postwar America
https://doi.org/10.6082/M1D798MR

Tizzard Jessica
Philosophy
Sense-Dependent Rationalism: Finding Unity in Kant's Practical Philosophy
https://doi.org/10.6082/M14Q7S5Q

Trotman Theodore Orson
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Mythopoetics of Post-Soviet Literary Fiction: Viktor Pelevin and Vladimir Sorokin
https://doi.org/10.6082/M10Z71FC

Velasco Maria Josefa
Music
Popular Song, Revolution, and Devotional Culture in the French Pyrénées, 1780-1850
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1558

Wang Dan
Music
Scenes of Feeling: Music and the Imagination of the Liberal Subject
https://doi.org/10.6082/M1RJ4GMJ

Westphal Jessica Lynn
History of Culture
Church and Theater: Creating Sacred Places in Chicago, 1857-1896
IR: No

Division of the Physical Sciences

Baris Marites Villarosa Garcia
Geophysical Sciences
The Morphological Diversity of Coccolithophores Across Environments, Geographic Space, and Geologic Time
10.6082/M19K48C7

Chen Hsin-Yu
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Multi-Messenger Astronomy with Advanced LIGO-Virgo
10.6082/M1NV9GDX

Clark Logan William
Physics
Quantum Many-Body Dynamics with Driven Bose Condensates: Kibble-Zurek Mechanism and Bose Fireworks
10.6082/M1J38QPH

Florian Michael Kenneth
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Measurements of Morphology in Strongly Lensed Galaxies in the Image Plane
10.6082/M18K777V

Hansen Christopher Brian
Chemistry
1. Tungsten Photoredox Chromophores Containing Amine-Functionalized Diphosphine and N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands. 2. The Chemistry of Low-Coordinate Cobalt Compounds Supported by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Bulky Amines.
10.6082/M1CC0XVD

Huang Shao Ying
Geophysical Sciences
Finite-Amplitude Local Wave Activity as a Diagnostic of Anomalous Weather Events
10.6082/M1057D3H

Kamm Judith
Chemistry
Supramolecular Functionalization of Planar Surfaces Using Gallium-Porphyrin Monolayers
10.6082/uchicago.1564

Labe Kevin Russell
Physics
Tests of Lorentz Invariance at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
IR: No

Lee Victor
Physics
Electrostatic Charging and Particle Interactions in Microscopic Insulating Grains
10.6082/M1BG2M4R

Nihill Kevin John
Chemistry
Atomic and Molecular Beam Scattering: Characterizing Structure and Dynamics of Hybrid Organic-Semiconductor Interfaces and Introducing Novel Isotope Separation Techniques
10.6082/M1PN93SJ

Scholz Bjorn Jorg
Physics
First Observation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
10.6082/M1SF2TC2

Shen Jiajun
Computer Science
Transformation Invariance and Equivariance In Deep Learning
10.6082/M1J101B1

Wang Wei
Statistics
Applications of Adaptive Shrinkage in Multiple Statistical Problems
10.6082/M1MS3QX8

Zheng Haibin
Chemistry
Ultrafast Electronic Dynamics in Core-Shell Quantum Dots Probed with Dispersion-Free Broadband Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy
10.6082/M1C827GX

Division of the Physical Sciences and the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine

Gudjonson Herman
Biophysical Sciences
Computational Genomic Analysis of Transcriptional Regulation in Innate Lymphoid Cell Development
10.6082/M1RN3618

Division of the Social Sciences

Arlen Gordon Ricker
Political Science
Oligarchs Among Us: Confronting Wealth and Power in a Democratic Age
10.6082/uchicago.1572

Bitar Brian A. N.
Social Thought
Hobbes's Conception of Desire for Power
IR: No

Blair Amanda Helen
Political Science
Going Beyond Accountability and Untangling the Politics of Conflict-Related Rape
10.6082/M15T3HNH

Caicedo Soler Santiago
Economics
Essays on Interactions, Innovation and The Wage Distribution
IR: No

Castelle Michael C.
Sociology
Transaction and Message: From Database to Marketplace, 1970-2000
10.6082/M1SN0746

CHEN Chen
Anthropology
Making Couples: Kinship, Intimacy and Consumption in Contemporary Urban China
IR: No

de Antuñano Emilio
History
Planning a 'Mass City': The Politics of Planning in Mexico City, 1930-1960
10.6082/uchicago.1557

Dowdy Sean Michael
Anthropology
Goroka: Cosmography and the Shared Account in Assam
10.6082/uchicago.1565

Dunlap Christopher Thomas
History
Parallel Power Play: Nuclear Technology and Diplomacy in Argentina and Brazil, 1945-1995
10.6082/uchicago.1553

Hampel Amir
Comparative Human Development
From Mask to Mirror: Self as Object in Chinese Popular Psychology
10.6082/M1H41PK4

Henry Andrea
Psychology
The Role of Math Anxiety and Situational Anxiety in Math Performance
10.6082/M17P8WJV

Khun Jush Gita
Economics
Assessing the City Size Earnings Premium in Germany
10.6082/M1QN64WG

Lindquist Kathryn Ann
Political Science
Facing Revolutionary Realities: Understanding High-Intensity State Sponsorship of Non-State Actors
10.6082/M16Q1VD1

Mackinnon Emma Stone
Political Science
Imperial Promises: The Contested Politics of Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
10.6082/uchicago.1575

Maher Amanda Moure
Political Science
The Corrupt Republic: The Contemporary Relevance of Machiavelli's Critique of Inequality and Dependence
10.6082/M1TD9VGF

Mata Karim
Anthropology
Values Materialized: An Interdisciplinary Archaeology of Socio-Historical Transformation in the Celto-Germanic Iron Age and Roman Period
10.6082/uchicago.1556

Oh Daniel J.
History
The United States-Republic of Korea Military Alliance: Impacts on US-ROK Relations and South Korean Political Development, 1960-69
10.6082/M1JW8C27

Park Nara
Political Science
The Nature Of Japanese Governance: Seikai-Tensin (政界転身)’S Political Success in Postwar Japan, 1947-2014
IR: No

Rashed Dina Ibrahim
Political Science
Authoritarianism and the Civilianization of Force: Police Power in Militarized Regimes
10.6082/uchicago.1570

Reddy Malavika
Anthropology
Law in Mae Sot, Law and Thailand
10.6082/uchicago.1555

Rollert John Paul
Social Thought
At Home and Abroad: Reflections on the Nature and Limits of Empathy
10.6082/uchicago.1568

Rosensweig Jason
Social Thought
Progress, Forms of Life, and the Nature of the Political
10.6082/M11Z42KR

Siddiqui Hasan Zahid
History
Lords, Libraries, and Banquets: The Expansion of Mughal Imperial Society, 17th-18th c.IR: No

Stern Robert
History
The Liberal Nomos of Empire: Extraterritoriality, Legal Orientalism, and the Universalization of “Civilized” International Law in China
10.6082/uchicago.1551

Verstyuk Sergiy
Economics
Log, Stock and Two Simple Lotteries
10.6082/M1W66HZ0

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Bodmeier Andreas
Earnings Call Textual Information and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
IR: No

Gunn Matthew Daniel
Share Repurchases: Market Timing and Abnormal Returns
10.6082/M1MW2F9J

Lin Xiliang
Disaggregate Network Effects on Two-Sided Platforms
10.6082/uchicago.1573

Lombardi Brett James
Financial Reporting and the Market Risk Premium
10.6082/M12Z13PP

The Divinity School

Connor Joshua Andrew
Recollecting the Soul: Studies of the Psyche and the I-Thou Relation
IR: No

Durdin Andrew Francis
Redescribing “Magic”: Discourse, Alterity, and Religion in the Roman World
10.6082/uchicago.1569

Lyons David P.
Philosophy, Politeness, and Party: David Hume and the Constitution of a Modern Social Order
10.6082/M1Z60M6Q

Yingst Daniel
Towers in the Mud: Honorius Augustodunensis through the Lens of Pedagogy
10.6082/M1H1306N

The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies

Namen Leon Olga Marcela
Essays on Education in Developing Countries
IR: No

The Institute for Molecular Engineering

Andrich Paolo
Quantum Metrology with Spin Defects in Nanodiamonds
10.6082/uchicago.1560

Garner Grant Parker
Coarse Grained Modeling of Block Copolymer Lithography: The Effects of Pattern Design on the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of the Directed Self Assembly of Block Copolymers
10.6082/M1154F7W

The Law School

Beltrametti Silvia
Essays in International Law
IR: No

Robinson Zoe
Identifying Constitutional Rights-Holders: Three Essays
IR: No