Spring 2019
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
10.6082/uchicago.1827
Anna Dembo
(Cancer Biology)
Preventing Estrogen Receptor Alpha-Positive Breast Cancer Outgrowth with the Use of Hormone Replacement Therapy
10.6082/uchicago.1787
Kaitlin Elise Homa
(Cell and Molecular Biology)
Self-Organization of the Fission Yeast Actin Cytoskeleton
10.6082/uchicago.1820
Dallas Krentzel
(Evolutionary Biology)
The Evolutionary Anatomy, Biomechanics, and Diversification Dynamics of Repeatedly Evolved Masseter Muscles in Rodents
10.6082/uchicago.1878
Bryan Richard Lenneman
(Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology)
Bacteriophage N4 Comparative Genomics and the Mechanism of N4 RNAPII Transcription Initiation
10.6082/uchicago.1786
Katherine Leon
(Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics)
Structural Basis for Adhesion G Protein-Coupled Receptor Gpr126 Function
10.6082/uchicago.1860
Yuanyuan Li
(Cancer Biology)
The Essential Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Epidermal Differentiation and Homeostasis
10.6082/uchicago.1808
Iuri Matteuzzo Ventura
(Ecology and Evolution)
Functional Evolution of Young Retrogenes with Regulatory Roles in Drosophila
10.6082/uchicago.1799
Lindsey Elizabeth Montefiori
(Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology)
Genetic and Genomic Approaches to Investigate the Roles of Cis-Regulatory Elements in Development and Disease
10.6082/uchicago.1791
Kayla Rae Robinson
(Medical Physics)
Machine Learning on Medical Imaging for Breast Cancer Risk Assessment
10.6082/uchicago.1805
Katherine Elizabeth Silliman
(Evolutionary Biology)
Population Structure and Local Adaptation in the Olympia Oyster (Ostrea lurida)
10.6082/uchicago.1795
Laura Catherine Southcott
(Evolutionary Biology)
Mate Choice Behaviour and the Evolution of Butterfly Species
10.6082/uchicago.1816
Supriya
(Evolutionary Biology)
Effect of Ants on Elevational Diversity Pattern of Birds in the Eastern Himalaya
10.6082/uchicago.1821
Yoseop Yoon
(Integrative Biology)
Evolution of Embryonic Axis Determinants via Alternative Transcription
10.6082/uchicago.1901
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
10.6082/uchicago.1824
Kalisha Renee Cornett
(Cinema and Media Studies)
Out of the Blur of the Background: Landscape and Experience in the Road Film
IR: No
Ksenia Alexeyevna Ershova
(Linguistics)
Syntactic Ergativity in West Circassian
10.6082/uchicago.1848
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.
10.6082/uchicago.1893
Shiraz Ali Hajiani
(Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Reconstructing Alamut: New Approaches to the Study of the Qiyāma and the Nizari Polity in Iran
10.6082/uchicago.1894
Zhuqing Hu
(Music)
From Ut Re Mi to Fourteen-Tone Temperament: The Global Acoustemologies of an Early Modern Chinese Tuning Reform
10.6082/uchicago.1844
Bertie Moontasir Kibreah
(Music)
Banter and Bricolage at the Burial Chamber: Dialectical Devotionalism in Bangladesh
10.6082/uchicago.1875
Claire Elizabeth Kirwin
(Philosophy)
Value Realism and the First-Person Perspective
10.6082/uchicago.1912
David Anthony Krolikoski
(East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Lyrical Translation: The Formation of Modern Poetic Language in Colonial Korea
10.6082/uchicago.1879
Peter John Lido
(English Language and Literature)
Queer Honor: White Masculinity in the Southern Novel, 1936 - 1970
10.6082/uchicago.1861
Joshua Mendelsohn
(Philosophy)
Aristotle on the Necessity of What We Know
10.6082/uchicago.1797
Patrick Joseph Munoz
(Linguistics)
On Tongues: The Grammar of Experiential Evaluation
10.6082/uchicago.1896
Ameera Nimjee
(Music)
Moving Bodies: The Politics of Mobility in Indian Contemporary Dance
10.6082/uchicago.1884
Jessica Gabriel Peritz
(Music)
The Lyric Mode of Voice: Song and Subjectivity in Italy, 1769–1815
10.6082/uchicago.1825
Jessica Christine Resvick
(Germanic Studies)
Reading Recognition: The Poetics of Poetic Realism
10.6082/uchicago.1852
Amanda Shubert
(English Language and Literature)
Virtual Realism: Victorian Fiction as Optical Technology
10.6082/uchicago.1850
Alexander Hill Sorenson
(Germanic Studies)
Trials by Water: Law, Sacrifice and Submergence in German Realism
10.6082/uchicago.1832
Nancy Ann Thebaut
(Art History)
Non est hic: Figuring Christ's Absence in Early Medieval Art
10.6082/uchicago.1801
Chalcedony Bodnar Wilding
(English Language and Literature)
Skeletonization, Cameraflage, Loitering: Habits of Witnessing after the Great War
10.6082/uchicago.1915
David Avari Patrick Womble
(English Language and Literature)
The Physiology of the Multitude: Mass Bodies and the Novel, 1748-1907
10.6082/uchicago.1889
Yoke Hin Nicholas Wong
(Comparative Literature)
Minor-Peninsular Genres: Genealogies of Twentieth-Century Southeast Asian Chinese Writing
IR: No
Yuqian Yan
(Cinema & Media Studies and East Asian Languages & Civilizations)
The Ancient as Enchantment: Cinematic Representation of the Past in Republican China
10.6082/uchicago.1910
Division of the Physical Sciences
Oishee Banerjee
(Mathematics)
Cohomology of Algebraic Varieties via Suitable Filtration
10.6082/uchicago.1902
Mahtiyar Bonakdarpour
(Statistics)
Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Complex, Heterogeneous Data
10.6082/uchicago.1788
Stephen Philip Cameron
(Mathematics)
Modulus of Continuity Method for the Muskat Problem and Fractional Mean Curvature Flow
10.6082/uchicago.1906
Kasturi Chakraborty
(Chemistry)
DNA-Based Nanodevices to Probe Lysosomal Diseases by Chemical Imaging
IR: No
Cheryl Louise Dembe
(Chemistry)
TITLE: 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
10.6082/uchicago.1880
Lin Deng
(Chemistry)
Rhodium-Catalyzed C−C Bond Activation of Four-Membered Ring Ketones
10.6082/uchicago.1874
Zhiyuan Ding
(Mathematics)
A Toy Model of Shtukas
10.6082/uchicago.1868
Yuanwei Fang
(Computer Science)
Extreme Acceleration and Seamless Integration of Raw Data Processing
10.6082/uchicago.1869
Lei Feng
(Physics)
Coherent Nonequilibrium Many-Body Dynamics in Driven Bose Condensates
10.6082/uchicago.1836
Nir Gadish
(Mathematics)
A General Framework for Representation Stability, with Applications to Arrangements and Arithmetic
10.6082/uchicago.1807
Yordanka Aleksandrova Kovacheva
(Mathematics)
Intersection Pairing of Cycles and Biextensions
10.6082/uchicago.1812
Thomas Kuntz
(Chemistry)
Towards Molecular Microbial Medicine
10.6082/uchicago.1903
Gihoon Lee
(Chemistry)
Metabolite-Induced Protein Modifications in Cell Signaling: A Direct Link between Metabolism and Regulatory Pathways of the Cell
10.6082/uchicago.1892
Andrew Ludwig
(Physics)
Radio Detection of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos
10.6082/uchicago.1842
Sara Chamberlin Massey
(Chemistry)
Ultrafast Energy Transfer and Orientational Dynamics in Photosynthetic Bacterial Membranes
10.6082/uchicago.1877
Joelle Mbatchou
(Statistics)
Assessments of Significance for Genetic Association Analysis in Structured Samples
10.6082/uchicago.1802
Daniel Micheroni
(Chemistry)
Metal-Organic Frameworks for Energy Applications
10.6082/uchicago.1803
Drew Moore
(Mathematics)
Cohomology of Towers of Discrete Subgroups in GL_n over a p-adic Field
IR: No
Margaret Nichols
(Mathematics)
Taut Sutured Handlebodies as Twisted Homology Products
10.6082/uchicago.1897
Ngoc Hoang Minh Pham
(Mathematics)
On Lefschetz's Form of the Number of Cuspidal Representations with Some Steinberg Local Components
IR: No
Andrew W Phillips
(Chemistry)
Controlling Nanoscale Silicon Surfaces for Tailored Interfaces
IR: No
Erik Douglas Reinhart
(Chemistry)
Metal Complexes Supported by Novel Ligands
10.6082/uchicago.1913
Jeffrey D. Sayler
(Chemistry)
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of the Reaction of Alkanethiolate Self-Assembled Monolayers with Atomic Hydrogen
10.6082/uchicago.1806
Benjamin Seeger
(Mathematics)
Fully Nonlinear Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
10.6082/uchicago.1876
Hassan Shapourian
(Physics)
Topology and Entanglement in Fermionic Systems
10.6082/uchicago.1845
Donghyuk Suh
(Chemistry)
Enhanced Sampling Methodologies for Free Energy Calculations in Biomolecular Systems
10.6082/uchicago.1907
Samuel James Whiteley
(Physics)
Spin-Phonon Interactions with Defects in Silicon Carbide
10.6082/uchicago.1815
Alison Mae Wilders
(Chemistry)
Synthesis and Olefin Polymerization Behavior of Electronically-Unsymmetrical Pd(II)-Alkyl Catalysts
10.6082/uchicago.1798
Nicholas Edward Williams
(Chemistry)
Probing Quantum Dynamics and Spectral Broadening in Semiconductor Nanocrystals With Nonlinear Spectroscopies
10.6082/uchicago.1817
Fan Yang
(Statistics)
Estimation and Inference for High Dimensional Data with Structured Signals
10.6082/uchicago.1830
Qiancheng You
(Chemistry)
Novel Methods for In-Depth Investigation of Chromatin Structure and Epigenetic Landmark
10.6082/uchicago.1826
Huazhe Zhang
(Computer Science)
Maximizing Performance in Power-Constrained Computing Systems
10.6082/uchicago.1858
Lisheng Zhang
(Chemistry)
High-Resolution Mapping of mRNA Modifications
10.6082/uchicago.1789
Chun Zhou
(Chemistry)
Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer Thin Films for Fabricating Tailored Nanostructures
10.6082/uchicago.1792
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
10.6082/uchicago.1800
Division of the Social Sciences
Triwit Ariyathugun
(Economics)
Asset Pricing Implications of the Interest on Reserves Policy
IR: No
Fabian Arzuaga
(Political Science)
Paradoxes of Individuality: Liberalism, the Crisis of Work, and the Critique of Political Economy
10.6082/uchicago.1916
Lindsay Marie Atnip
(Social Thought)
From Tragic Form to Apocalyptic Reality in Four American Works: Toward an Epistemological Theory and Practice of Reading
10.6082/uchicago.1888
Anam Khan Barakzai
(Psychology)
Which Side Are You On? How Friends Balance Competing Obligations of Loyalty and Morality
10.6082/uchicago.1914
Meru Bhanot
(Economics)
The Effects of Credit Supply Shocks and Neighborhood Spillovers on Housing Investment: Evidence from Chicago
10.6082/uchicago.1870
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
(Political Science)
A House Is Not a Home: Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary Democracies
10.6082/uchicago.1853
Joe Bonni
(Anthropology)
Everything Is Full of Gods: Representing Religion at the Edges of Empires
10.6082/uchicago.1895
Nicolás Andrés Castro Cienfuegos
(Economics)
Essays in Macroeconomics and Production Networks
10.6082/uchicago.1887
Jose Ignacio Cuesta
(Economics)
Essays on Regulation of Credit and Health Markets
10.6082/uchicago.1871
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
10.6082/uchicago.1790
Kelly Elizabeth Faig
(Psychology)
The Psychophysiology of Social Behavior: A Focus on the Behavioral Immune System
IR: No
Joshua James Foster
(Psychology)
Alpha-Band Oscillations Track Spatial Priority in the Human Brain
10.6082/uchicago.1834
Chiara Fratto
(Economics)
Essays on Mobility Restrictions and Agents' Behavior
10.6082/uchicago.1885
Tom Gijssels
(Psychology)
Action Language Understanding Reflects Bodily and Social Experience
10.6082/uchicago.1898
David M Gutherz
(Social Thought)
Towards The People: The Search for Subjugated Knowledges in Post-Fascist Italy
IR: No
Lloyd Sangwoo Han
(Economics)
Dynamics of Macroeconomic Forecasting Variation and Correlation Structure in the Business Cycle
10.6082/uchicago.1796
Alexis Lyn-Marie Howard
(Comparative Human Development)
Exploring Disability Outcomes Among Aging Latinos in the United States: A Mixed Methods Approach
10.6082/uchicago.1831
Tania Islas Weinstein
(Political Science)
Politics in a House of Mirrors: Art, Nationalism, and Representation in Contemporary Mexico
10.6082/uchicago.1891
Jennifer Marcella Jackson
(Political Science)
Race, Risks, and Responses: Mapping Black Americans' Reactions to Group Threat
10.6082/uchicago.1839
Steven Andrew Jacobs
(Comparative Human Development)
Balancing Abortion Rights and Fetal Rights: A Mixed Methods Mediation of the U.S. Abortion Debate
10.6082/uchicago.1883
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
10.6082/uchicago.1900
Trish Kahle
(History)
The Graveyard Shift: Mining Democracy in an Age of Energy Crisis, 1963-1981
10.6082/uchicago.1828
Jun Hyung Kim
(Economics)
The Economics of Parenting Skill and Child Development
10.6082/uchicago.1804
Michael James Kirker
(Economics)
Essays on Productivity Growth from New Workers
10.6082/uchicago.1849
Danya Raquel Lagos
(Sociology)
Embodiment, Identity, and Gender Regimes in the United States: Findings from Population Surveys
10.6082/uchicago.1886
Elliot Andrew Layden
(Psychology)
Functional Connectivity Signatures of Interhemispheric Coordination and Vocal Learning in the Zebra Finch Brain
10.6082/uchicago.1833
Jeong-Ha Lee
(History)
'We are the Red Cavalry! (My-Krasnaia kavaleriia!)': A Collective Biography of the Red Cavalry Commanders, 1918-1938
IR: No
Zachary T Leonard
(History)
Against "Anomaly": India Reformism and the Politics of Colonial Dissent
10.6082/uchicago.1899
Emily Lyons
(Comparative Human Development)
Learning under Pressure: Stereotype Threat and Evaluative Performance Pressure in the Mathematics Classroom
10.6082/uchicago.1873
Tasneem Mustafa Mandviwala
(Comparative Human Development)
That Thing on Their Heads: How Muslim American Women Became Navigators of a New Culture
10.6082/uchicago.1823
Erin Katherine McFee
(Comparative Human Development)
An Ambivalent Peace: Mistrust, Reconciliation, and the Intervention Encounter in Colombia
10.6082/uchicago.1905
Kirsty Montgomery
(History)
“Floating Bridges,” “Knotty Points,” and “Boroughmonger Tools”: Malthus, Extra-Parliamentary Politics, and the Debates on Emigration, 1798-1834
10.6082/uchicago.1864
Nora Catherine Nickels
(Comparative Human Development)
The Relationship between Acute Psychosocial Stress, Hormones, Cognition, and Social Behavior in Men and Women
10.6082/uchicago.1829
Noemi Nocera
(Economics)
Essays on Immigration and the Family in Labor Economics
IR: No
Krisztina Orban
(Economics)
The Inception of Capitalism Through the Lens of Firms
10.6082/uchicago.1904
Kai Perry Parker
(History)
Faith without Hope: Black Protestants, Chicago, and the Critique of Progress, 1914-1968
10.6082/uchicago.1911
Alicia Rose Riley
(Sociology)
The Social Production of Health Inequalities across State and Regional Contexts
10.6082/uchicago.1856
Megan Marie Savel Hawryluk
(Political Science)
Expectations, Perceptions, and Social Roles: The Effects and Performance of Gender in Campaigns for the United States Congress
10.6082/uchicago.1855
Caroline Virginie Sequin
(History)
Prostitution and the Policing of Race in the French Atlantic, 1848-1947
IR: No
Joseph Edward Simmons
(Social Thought)
Irenic Modernism: The Early Work of David Jones and W. H. Auden
10.6082/uchicago.1835
Philip Bennett Sugg
(Social Thought)
The Search for a View of the Whole: Models of Community in Goethe, Eliot and Melville
10.6082/uchicago.1882
Muhammed Alparslan Tuncay
(Economics)
Assortative Mating and Inequality
10.6082/uchicago.1881
Gabriel Mateo Velez
(Comparative Human Development)
Conceptualized Peace: A Study of Colombian Adolescents' Meaning Making and Civic Development
10.6082/uchicago.1810
Marilyn S. Webb
(Education)
The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life
10.6082/uchicago.1793
Karen J. Ye
(Economics)
Understanding Peer Effects in Educational Decisions: Evidence from Theory and a Field Experiment
IR: No
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
10.6082/uchicago.1841
Konrad Charles Weeda
(Social Thought and Classics)
Imagined Languages and Forms of Life: Horace Reads Virgil
IR: No
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
10.6082/uchicago.1908
Alejandro Hoyos Suarez
(Economics and Business)
Clientele Political Ideology and Asset Prices
10.6082/uchicago.1846
Willem Jan van Vliet
(Economics and Business)
Connections as Jumps: Estimating Financial Interconnectedness from Market Data
IR: No
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Jae Hyen Chung
Estimation of Sequential Search Models
10.6082/uchicago.1857
Raphael Duguay
The Economic Consequences of Financial Audit Regulation in the Charitable Sector
IR: No
Hye-young Kim
Consumer Mind Perceptions: How Technology Influences Mind Attributions to Objects and People
IR: No
Sehwa Kim
Do Delays in Banks’ Loan Loss Provisioning Affect Economic Downturns? Evidence from the U.S. Housing Market
10.6082/uchicago.1859
Justin Hilyin Leung
The Impact of Government Policies on Retail Prices and Welfare
10.6082/uchicago.1811
Jinzhi Lu
Limited Attention: Implications for Financial Reporting
10.6082/uchicago.1865
Anna Nakhmurina
Does Fiscal Monitoring Make Better Governments? Evidence from US Municipalities
IR: No
Jung Sakong
Essays in Business Cycles, Inequality and Racial Discrimination
10.6082/uchicago.1819
John Shim
Arbitrage Comovement
IR: No
Ling Yang
An Information Quality-Based Explanation for Delayed Loan Loss Provisioning during the 2008 Financial Crisis
IR: No
Xiao Zhang
Expectation Error
IR: No
Yiwen Zhang
Consumer Decisions in Response to Price Increases
10.6082/uchicago.1854
Charles Zou
Learning-by-Doing and Preference Discovery in Video Game Play
10.6082/uchicago.1822
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
10.6082/uchicago.1909
Gregory Edward Buchak
(Business and Economics)
Financing the Gig Economy
10.6082/uchicago.1890
Paymon Khorrami
(Business and Economics)
The Risk of Risk-Sharing: Diversification and Boom-Bust Cycles
10.6082/uchicago.1813
Johnathan Loudis
(Business and Economics)
Expectations in the Cross Section: Stock Price Reactions to the Information and Bias in Analyst-Expected Returns
10.6082/uchicago.1837
Yiyao Wang
(Business and Economics)
Counterparty Risk and Repo Runs
10.6082/uchicago.1867
The Divinity School
John Whitney Buchmann
The Price of Solidarity: Adam Smith, Thomas Aquinas, and the Ethics of Exchange
10.6082/uchicago.1818
Darryl Scott Dale-Ferguson
Capable Agents and Just Institutions: A Reconstruction of Paul Ricoeur's "Ethical Aim" Using Anthony Giddens' Theory of Structuration
10.6082/uchicago.1851
William Ezekiel Goggin
Hegel's Sacrificial Imagination
10.6082/uchicago.1863
Timothy Gutmann
Conscripting Traditions: Islam, Confucianism, Modernity
10.6082/uchicago.1866
Lisa Landoe Hedrick
Theology after the Problem of Intentionality: A Whiteheadian Corrective for Analytic Philosophy of Language
10.6082/uchicago.1843
Russell Johnson
Communication Ethics in Social Conflict: Nonviolent and Christian Perspectives
10.6082/uchicago.1838
Michael Thomas Le Chevallier
The Stain of Association and the Burden of Membership: Institutional Ethics in Paul Ricoeur and Catholic Social Thought
10.6082/uchicago.1814
Robert John Porwoll
Parisian Pedagogies: The Educational Debate between Peter Abelard, Hugh of Saint-Victor, Peter Lombard, and John of Salisbury
10.6082/uchicago.1847
Susan Christopher Shields
Beyond Words: Reading the Bible in Antebellum Contexts
10.6082/uchicago.1794
David Kerman Tomlinson
Buddhahood and Philosophy of Mind: Ratnākaraśānti, Jñānaśrīmitra, and the Debate over Mental Content (Ākāra)
10.6082/uchicago.1840
Stephen C. Walker
Boundless Ways: Undoing Dào in the Zhuāngzǐ
IR: No
The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies
Nour Julnar Abdul-Razzak
Essays in Social Policy and Crime
10.6082/uchicago.1872
The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Alfred Chi-Fei Chon
Development of Spatially Controlled Innate Immune Agonists
IR: No
Lu Li
Phase Behaviors and Composition Partitioning in Polyelectrolyte Complexation Systems
10.6082/uchicago.1862
Brittany Anne Moser
Engineering the Immune System to Improve Vaccines: From Molecular Probe Design to Translational Applications
10.6082/uchicago.1809