Summer 2018
Summer Quarter Dissertations (August 2018)
Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Hussein Al-Asadi
Evolutionary Biology
Statistical Methods for Genetic Data
10.6082/r1xa-kv11
Jeffrey J Bunker
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Immunology
Specificity of Homeostatic IgA
10.6082/uchicago.1595
Joseph Bertrand Dechery
Computational Neuroscience
Describing Variability in Neocortical Microcircuit Dynamics with Multineuronal Spike Patterns and Functional Networks
10.6082/pv7b-sf66
Shane DuBay
Evolutionary Biology
The Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental History of Birds in Natural and Human Impacted Environments
10.6082/uchicago.1599
Akinola Olumide Emmanuel
Immunology
Tcf1 and Heb Cooperate to Establish the Epigenetic and Transcriptional Profile of CD4+CD8+ Thymocytes
IR: No
Victoria Flores
Evolutionary Biology
The Roles of Male Chemical Signaling, Conspecific Scent Preference, and Social Structure in Fringe-Lipped Bats
10.6082/uchicago.1609
Hilary Rose Katz
Integrative Biology
Exploring Ontogenetic Relationships Between Form and Function
10.6082/uchicago.1593
Evan Koch
Ecology and Evolution
Consequences and Scalings of Population History
10.6082/uchicago.1601
Brandon Lee
Immunology
Tissue Dependence of Immunity to Staphylococcus aureus Infection
10.6082/uchicago.1605
Justin Bradley Lemberg
Integrative Biology
Feeding Mechanics of Tiktaalik roseae: Convergent Morphology and Reconstructed Cranial Kinematics of a Tetrapodomorph Fish and Modern Alligator Gars
10.6082/uchicago.1580
Xiaolei Lin
Public Health Sciences
Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) Data: Statistical Methods for Heterogeneous Variance, Missing Data and Latent State Classification
10.6082/tkq3-7x06
Amulya Lingaraju
Pathology
Macrophages in the Pathogenesis of Obesity and Insulin Resistance-Associated Atherosclerosis
10.6082/xdkw-sn79
Joseph Lombardo
Computational Neuroscience
Structured Variability and Temporal Heterogeneity Constrain the Cortical Code for Motion Direction
10.6082/yhsa-wv37
Matthew Joseph Michalska-Smith
Ecology and Evolution
Structural Inferences: Three Cases of Linking Pattern and Process in Ecological Networks
10.6082/4yw1-6p96
Anthony Keith Mitchell
Microbiology
The Glutathionylation of Yersinia pestis LcrV and Its Effects on Plague Pathogenesis
10.6082/ekkx-wk19
Sahar Victoria Mozaffari
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
Parent of Origin Effects on Gene Expression and Quantitative Traits in a Founder Population
10.6082/g38h-q557
Ramya Parameswaran
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Biophysical Sciences
Silicon Nanowires for the Optical Modulation of Cellular Activity
10.6082/uchicago.1610
Oscar Mauricio Santos Vega
Ecology and Evolution
Disentangling the Role of Social, Economic and Environmental Heterogeneities in Urban Malaria Transmission Inderroop Singh Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition Hypothalamic Regulation of the Pancreatic Islet of Langerhans
10.6082/wb6v-r989
Tyler Nelson Starr
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Epistasis, Contingency, and Evolvability in the Sequence Space of Ancient Proteins
10.6082/9k1b-se05
Frank Tian Wen
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Ecology and Evolution
Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Seasonal Influenza Shaped by Human Immunity
10.6082/1v71-pf05
Alexander Edwards White
Ecology and Evolution
Regional Influences on Community Structure Across the Tropical-Temperate divide
10.6082/uchicago.1607
Division of the Humanities
Abigail Akavia
Classics
The Poetics of Listening in Sophocles
10.6082/3mv2-b707
Amichai Amit
Philosophy
Rational Desire and Organic Holism of Justification
10.6082/uchicago.1578
José Antonio Arellano
English Language and Literature
Life In Search Of Form: Mexican American Literature and American Literary History, 1959–1999
10.6082/8cpg-6x94
Chloe Blackshear
Comparative Literature
Between the Figure and the Text: David Stories in Late Twentieth-Century Prose
10.6082/uchicago.1600
Amos Browne
Philosophy
Acting for a Reason: A Wittgensteinian Approach
10.6082/6j6x-8q31
Christopher Carloy
Cinema and Media Studies
'True 3D': The Form, Concept, and Experience of Three-Dimensionality in 1990s Videogames
IR: No
Darrel Kwong Yung Chia
English Language and Literature
The Disciplines of Diplomacy: Ethics, Publics, Economics 1899-1919
10.6082/uchicago.1576
Jaime Edwards
Philosophy
The Marxian Theory of Ideology: A Reconstruction And Defense
IR: No
Anne Ning Feng
Art History
Water, Ice, Lapis lazuli: The Metamorphosis of Pure Land Art in Tang China
10.6082/uchicago.1604
Matthew Jake Fraser
Germanic Studies
Irreversible: Kleist, Kafka, and the Present's Past
IR: No
Theodore Barker Gordon
Music
Bay Area Experimentalism: Music and Technology in the Long 1960s
IR: No
Annie Greene
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Provincial, Not Peripheral: Ottoman-Iraqi Intellectuals and Cultural Networks, 1863-1914
IR: No
Simon Ross Gurofsky
Philosophy
Making Kant's Empirical Realism Possible
10.6082/rtjh-g918
Nana Holtsnider
Comparative Literature
Appropriate Conduct at Home and Abroad: Forming and Reforming Imperialist Ideologies in Popular Dutch and British Juvenile Novels, 1814-1879
10.6082/kc1w-mh42
Andrew Joseph Horne
Classics
Making Freedom in Cicero and Horace
IR: No
Kevin Masao Kimura
English Language and Literature
West of What? The Paradox of Western American Literature
10.6082/dezw-sw10
Nethanel Lipshitz
Philosophy
A Defense of Basic Equality
10.6082/1nyf-8r16
Zachary John Loeffler
Music
Speaking of Magic: Enchantment and Disenchantment in Music's Modernist Ordinary
10.6082/uchicago.1598
Zachary Loveless
Philosophy
Principled Virtue
10.6082/avyh-pm52
Carmen Merport
English Language and Literature
Ripped from the Pages of Life: The Mass Public, the Avant-Garde, and Magazine Aesthetics in Postwar American Art
IR: No
Nicole Morse
Cinema and Media Studies
Selfie Aesthetics: Form, Performance, and Transfeminist Politics in Self-Representational Art
10.6082/5fhv-se71
Kevin Matthew Murphy
English Language and Literature
Vile Affections: Medieval Literature in Reprobum Sensus Traditus
10.6082/5fhv-se71
Jessica Sylvan Mutter
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
By the Book: Conversion and Religious Identity in Early Islamic Bilād al-Shām and al-Jazīra
10.6082/uchicago.1588
Rory O'Connell
Philosophy
The Efficacy of the Good
10.6082/2m74-7v85
Rebecca Sohee Oh
English Language and Literature
States of Complaint: Dissatisfied Citizenship, Environmental Harm, and the Demand for Welfare in Global South Literature, 1956-2017
10.6082/ysz9-gf15
Nell Pach
English Language and Literature
Twentieth-Century Fantastic: The Novel and the Re-Imagination of History
10.6082/bqec-4p52
Julio Rivera
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Syria at the United Nations, 1945-1955: The Struggle for Sovereignty and Territorial Claims in Palestine
10.6082/uchicago.1597
James Rosenow
Cinema and Media Studies
Forming an American Modernism: The Rise of the Experimental Filmmaker 1927-1939
IR: No
Stephen C. Shortt
Philosophy
Practical Beauty
10.6082/fjkd-bd17
Adam Roth Singerman
Linguistics
The Morphosyntax of Tuparí, a Tupían Language of the Brazilian Amazon
10.6082/ns2a-cv36
Kaitlyn Tucker Sorenson
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Theory on the Edge: An Intellectual History of the Ljubljana School, 1968-1989
IR: No
Daniel Telech
Philosophy
In Praise of Praise
10.6082/uchicago.1611
Allison Turner
English Language and Literature
Waste, Formations, and Remnants in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
IR: No
Aleksandar Uskokov
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Deciphering the Hidden Meaning: Scripture and the Hermeneutics of Liberation in Early Advaita Vedānta
10.6082/9vjm-bx38
Jonathan Winnerman
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Rethinking the Royal Ka
10.6082/3mjm-cm59
Lindsay Jordan Wright
Music
Discourses of Musical Talent in American Culture
10.6082/uchicago.1591
Anqi Zhang
Linguistics
On Non-Culminating Accomplishments in Mandarin
10.6082/fd2w-0f40
Division of the Physical Sciences
Ross Cawthon
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Effects of Redshift Uncertainty on Cross-Correlations of CMB Lensing and Galaxy Surveys
10.6082/4kfq-qr16
Wei Chai
Mathematics
Random Topological Structures
10.6082/qyxj-p987
Likai Chen
Statistics
Statistical Learning and High-Dimensional Inference for Time Dependent Data
IR: No
SUBHADIP CHOWDHURY
Mathematics
Self-similarity of Ziggurat Fringes and Rigidity of Extremal Free Group Actions on the Circle
10.6082/mzm4-8k43
Saurja Dasgupta
Chemistry
RNA Catalysis: Structure, Function, and Evolution
10.6082/uchicago.1577
Soudeep Deb
Statistics
Irregular Spaced Data, Spatio-temporal Modeling and Clustering of Time Series
10.6082/m7f7-3y69
Kushal Kumar Dey
Statistics
Model based Visualization of Structure in Biological Data
10.6082/4h8n-9q84
Stewart Martin Edie
Geophysical Sciences
Macroevolutionary and Macroecological Scaling of Environmental and Biological Controls on Biodiversity Dimensions: Analyses of Living and Fossil Bivalvia
Aiman Fang
Computer Science
Application-based Focused Recovery (ABFR): Convenient Management of Latent Error Resilience Using Application Knowledge
10.6082/yr77-0j06
Joseph Jeffery Gair
Chemistry
Transition Metal Mediated Non-Directed C-H Functionalization
10.6082/3w53-c184
Wooseok Ha
Statistics
High-dimensional estimation and optimization with multiple structured signals
10.6082/f72d-f989
Endao Han
Physics
Transient Dynamics of Concentrated Particulate Suspensions Under Shear
10.6082/614s-ft02
Raluca Havarneanu
Mathematics
G-Tambara Functors are G-commutative Monoids
10.6082/mknf-n929
Mohammad Jahangoshahi
Statistics
On Multiple-Paths Schramm-Loewner Evolution
10.6082/4ztx-5n92
Ningyuan Jia
Physics
Quantum Many-Body Physics with Photons
10.6082/ywnn-ck80
Sayar Karmakar
Statistics
Asymptotic Theory for Simultaneous Inference Under Dependence
10.6082/wdcp-n629
Alexey Kochemirovskiy
Physics
Study of Vacuum RF Breakdown in Strong Magnetic Fields
10.6082/487m-xw68
Cameron Jia Liang
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Multiphase Gaseous Halos Around Galaxies
10.6082/yeb6-4w53
Madeline Sebek Marshall
Geophysical Sciences
Sequence Stratigraphy and Taphonomic Expression of Hiatuses in a Highly Condensed, Organic- and Phosphate-Rich Record: Paleoenvironmental Analysis and Paleoecology of the Permian Phosphoria Rock Complex, Southeastern Idaho
IR: No
Pavel Motloch
Physics
Topics in Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background
10.6082/f10v-r476
Vivak Patel
Statistics
Identification of Dynamical Systems: Identifiability to Stochastic Optimization
10.6082/e8hb-tw86
Ian Schneider Remming
Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Propagation of Flame Fronts Through Inhomogeneously Magnetized Plasma
10.6082/1gzn-td15
Arjun Sharma
Physics
PLACING LIMITS ON EXPERIMENTAL SIGNATURES OF DARK MATTER MODEL PREDICTIONS
10.6082/vy8k-yt33
Vishwas Srivastava
Chemistry
Next Generation Synthetic Routes to Colloidal III-V Quantum Dots Yan Xu Chemistry Transition Metal-Catalyzed Functionalization of C−H and C−C Bonds
10.6082/uchicago.1608
Division of the Physical Sciences and the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Yevgeniy Leypunskiy
Biophysical Sciences
Seasonal Effects on Biological Rhythms
10.6082/uchicago.1583
Joshua A Riback
Biophysical Sciences
Determinants of the Solvent Quality of Water for Disordered Proteins
IR: No
Division of the Social Sciences
Pedro Aceves
Sociology
Linguistic
Relativity, Collective Cognition, and Team Performance
10.6082/38xq-c249
Talia Berkowitz
Psychology
The Influence of Parent Math Anxiety on Children's Early Math Input and Knowledge
10.6082/uchicago.1586
YUNG TSEN CHEN
Psychology
Effect of Aging Stereotype Activation on Older Adults’ Memory and Neural Activity
IR: No
Lindsey Anne Conklin
Comparative Human Development
Cartography of Courtship: Space, Community, and Self in Amman, Jordan
IR: No
Richard Del Rio
History
Drug Trades and Drug Wars: The Mass Transformation of Retail Pharmacy and The Development of a Modern Illicit Narcotics Market in Chicago, 1870-1926
IR: No
Yazan Doughan
Anthropology
Corruption, Authority and the Discursive Production of Reform and Revolution in Jordan
10.6082/uchicago.1582
William John Feeney
Anthropology
Laughing Until It Hurts: Children, Mothers and Concerns about Comedic Television in Contemporary Japan
10.6082/uchicago.1602
Rebecca Frausel
Comparative Human Development
Narratives of Personal Experience in Early Parent-Child Interactions: Developmental Trajectories and Relations to Higher-Order Thinking
10.6082/yk7t-rn40
Karma Frierson
Anthropology
Jarocho Publics and the Presencing of Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz, Mexico
10.6082/uchicago.1585
Phillip Joseph Henry
History
Experimental Futures and Impossible Professions: Psychoanalysis, Education, and Politics in Interwar Vienna, 1918-1938
10.6082/w1xg-hy22
Taeju Kim
History
The Moral Realism of the Postwar Japanese Intellectuals
IR: No
Owen Nathaniel Kohl
Anthropology
Were the Balkans Made for Rap? Semiosis within the Homemade Hip Hop Imaginary
10.6082/uchicago.1592
Yeon Ju Lee
Political Science
Democracy Without Redistribution: The Sense of Injustice, Perceived Inequality, and Preferences for Redistribution in East Asia
IR: No
Averill J Leslie
Anthropology
The New England Town Meeting as Icon and Ethnographic Object: New Perspectives on Participatory Democracy
10.6082/t2ty-2256
Ramon Edgardo Lopez III
Political Science
The Politics of Natural Right: Moral Deliberation in Democratic Regimes
IR: No
Agnes Malinowska
Social Thought
Technocratic Evolution: Experimental Naturalism and American Biopolitics around 1900
10.6082/t0ky-w813
David Jordan Takeshi Malison
Economics
Relationship Quality, Family Structure, and Child Outcomes
10.6082/rr38-0v50
Mohsen Mirtaher
Economics
Consumption Insurance via Intra-household Allocation of Resources
10.6082/snmk-vf85
Bogdan Gabriel Popescu
Political Science
Empires in the Making: Legacies of the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires in Europe
IR: No
Adam Lynd Rowe
History
The Paradox of Union: The Civil War and the Transformation of American Democracy
10.6082/uchicago.1594
Nadxieli Toledo Bustamante
Comparative Human Development
Socializing Attention, Emerging Participation and Language Choice: Three Case Studies in Juchitán, Oaxaca, México.
IR: No
Brian Tuohy
Sociology
Mexican Chicago: Modes of Incorporation in a Mexican American Network
10.6082/uchicago.1606
Division of the Social Sciences and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Adam Jorring
Economics and Business
The Cost of Financial Mistakes: Evidence from U.S. Consumers
IR: No
Yinan Su
Economics and Business
Interbank Runs: A Network Model of Systemic Liquidity Crunches
10.6082/wb0k-qf72
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Robert Sanders
The Economics of Retail Food Waste
IR: No
Xiaolong Wu
Essays on Implied Spherical Space Forms in Statistics and Econometrics: from Applications of Algebraic Topology to Interactive Graphical Tools
IR: No
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Division of the Social Sciences
Jessica Bregant
Business and Psychology
The Intuitive Jurisprudence of Punishment
10.6082/ss66-2b89
The Divinity School
Jessie DeGrado
Authoring Empire: Intellectual Engagement with the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Bible
IR: No
Mary Emily Briehl Duba
God Is Here: A Theology of Place and Displacement
10.6082/uchicago.1603
Aaron Thomas Hollander
The Multimediation of Holiness: Hagiography as Resistance in Greek Orthodox Theological Culture
10.6082/uchicago.1596
Alexander Ong Hsu
Practices of Scriptural Economy: Compiling and Copying a Seventh-Century Chinese Buddhist Anthology
10.6082/tzjd-2k59
Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed
Knowledge and Felicity of the Soul in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī
10.6082/1d67-p634
Andrew Mark Langford
Diagnosing Deviance: Pathology and Polemic in the Pastoral Epistles
10.6082/uchicago.1581
Sam Berrin Shonkoff
Sacramental Existence: Embodiment in Martin Buber’s Philosophical and Hasidic Writings
10.6082/6ncf-re90
Willa Cornelia Swenson-Lengyel
The Future of Hope: On Climate Inaction and Moral Agency
10.6082/uchicago.1589
The Institute for Molecular Engineering
Lucas William Antony
Molecular Simulation of Organic Glasses: Tuning Structural Properties via Vapor Deposition, Photoisomerization, and Chemical Structure
10.6082/uchicago.1579
The Law School
Asher Asif Qazi
A Government of Judges: A Story of the Pakistani Supreme Court's Strategic Expansion
10.6082/fj4a-cq52
The School of Social Service Administration
Sameena Vaseem Azhar
HIV Stigma and Gender: A Mixed Methods Study of People Living with HIV in Hyderabad, India
10.6082/0rtc-2e56
Clifford Simon Bersamira
Policy Stakeholder Perspectives on Addiction Recovery in the Era of Healthcare Reform
10.6082/ydrz-t806
Daysi Ximena Diaz-Strong
"Estaba Bien Chiquito" (I Was Very Young): The Pathways to Adulthood of the Undocumented 1.25 Generation
10.6082/uchicago.1587
John Thomas Halloran
Population Dynamics in the Child Welfare System
10.6082/pvgz-0533
Jill Spielfogel
Relationships between birth and non-relative foster parents: Do they matter for child wellbeing and permanency?
IR: No