Summer 2020

Summer Quarter Dissertations (August 2020)

Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine

Mark Christopher Bitter
Ecology and Evolution
The Dynamics of Rapid Adaptation to Ocean Acidification in the Mediterranean Mussel
10.6082/uchicago.2600

Jason Casler
Cell and Molecular Biology
Visualizing Protein Sorting in the Golgi Apparatus
10.6082/uchicago.2665

Talon Chandler
Medical Physics
Spatio-angular Fluorescence Microscopy
10.6082/uchicago.2660

Wenli Dai
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Biophysical Sciences
Role of Transcription Factors and Intercalated Disc Proteins in Arrhythmogenesis
10.6082/uchicago.2601

Steven Andrew Erickson
Immunology
A Novel B-1b Precursor Stage in the Peritoneal Cavity
10.6082/uchicago.2550

Kevin Furlong
Microbiology
Factors Influencing RNA Virus Tropism
10.6082/uchicago.2559

Kevin James Gleason
Public Health Sciences
Methods for Integrative Multi-omics Association Analysis Using Summary Statistics
10.6082/uchicago.2576

Adam Reginald Hardy
Integrative Biology
Exploring the Tactile and Gustatory Capacities of Fish Fins
10.6082/uchicago.2641

Linda Yu-Ling Lan
Immunology
Influenza Hemagglutinin Stalk-Reactive Memory B Cell Responses to a Chimeric-Based Universal Influenza Virus Vaccine Candidate
10.6082/uchicago.2689

Jason Wai Kit Lui
Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology
YAP and TAZ Drive Melanoma through Overlapping and YAP Specific Pathways
10.6082/uchicago.2691

Carlos Andres Marcelo Serván
Ecology and Evolution
Assembling Large Ecological Communities: A Theoretical Exploration
10.6082/uchicago.2656

Christine Maria McIntosh
Immunology
Immune Mechanisms Maintaining Transplantation Tolerance
10.6082/uchicago.2630

Veronica Eloesa McSorley
Public Health Sciences
Evaluating Longitudinal Outcomes of Cognition by Environment, Genes, and Sleep in Aging Individuals
10.6082/uchicago.2627

Christine Helena Miller
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Immunology
Development and Function of Self-Specific Memory-Phenotype CD8⁺ T Cells
10.6082/uchicago.2621

Briana Erin Mittleman
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
The Role of Alternative Polyadenylation Variation in Gene Regulation Differences within and between Species
10.6082/uchicago.2583

William Riedl
Microbiology
Flaviviral Antagonism of RIG-I-like Receptor-Based Immunity
10.6082/uchicago.2561

Matthew Raymond Trendowski
Cancer Biology
Identification of Risk Factors and Comorbidities Associated with Treatment-Related Hearing Loss and Tinnitus and Comparison of Their Genetic Architecture with De Novo Etiologies
10.6082/uchicago.2552

Juan Manuel Vázquez Díaz
Human Genetics
The Role of Gene Duplication in Mediating Peto's Paradox in Afrotheria and Chiroptera
10.6082/uchicago.2553

Olivia Ashley Vogel
Microbiology
Suppression of Host Innate Immune Responses by the p150 Isoform of ADAR1 during Influenza Virus Infection
10.6082/uchicago.2563

Zijie Zhang
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
Genetic Analyses of mRNA N⁶-methyladenosine (m⁶A) Modification and Its Contribution to Human Diseases Heritability
10.6082/uchicago.2625

Division of the Humanities

Rowan Alexander Bayne
English Language and Literature
On the Spectrum: Form and Difference in the Long Twentieth Century
IR: No

Theodore Samuel Beers
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The Lives of Sām Mīrzā (923–75/1517–67): Dynastic Strife and Literary World-Building in Early Safavid Iran
10.6082/uchicago.2664

Joseph Robert Bitney
English Language and Literature
Passionate Exchanges: Melodrama and the Commodity Form
IR: No

Beatrice Boyd Bradley
English Language and Literature
Sweat and the Embodiment of Waste in Early Modern England
IR: No

Pascal Brixel
Philosophy
Freedom
10.6082/uchicago.2575

Cosette Alana Bruhns
Romance Languages and Literatures
Worth a Thousand Words: Turning to Visual Art in Medieval Italian Literature
10.6082/uchicago.2659

Charles F. Capps
Philosophy
Accomplice Liability
10.6082/uchicago.2610

Carlos Javier Cisneros
Linguistics
Free Choice from Indiscriminacy: A Study of Free Choice Indefinites and Indiscriminatives in English and Cuevas Mixtec
10.6082/uchicago.2598

Bastien Craipain
Romance Languages and Literatures
Entre-deux-mondes : anthropologie et littérature franco-haïtiennes, 1859-1915
10.6082/uchicago.2690

Angharad Darden
Classics
Visualizing the Divine in Euripidean Tragedy
10.6082/uchicago.2650

Emily Allegra Dreyfus
Germanic Studies
Classical Music on Screen: Affect and Ambivalence in Nazi Film
10.6082/uchicago.2564

Savannah Leigh Esquivel
Art History
Unsettling the Spiritual Conquest: The Murals of the Huaquechula Monastery in Sixteenth Century Mexico
10.6082/uchicago.2663

Michele Rodolfo Xicotencatl Gama Sosa
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Ḫatti, Troy, and the Balkans: Anatolian-Balkan Interactions during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages (1300-1000 BC)
10.6082/uchicago.2681

Jeffrey Patrick Geiger
Linguistics
Antecedence and Context: Identity and Nonidentity in Verb Phrase Ellipsis and Anaphoric Deaccenting
10.6082/uchicago.2581

Silvia Guslandi
Romance Languages and Literatures
Belonging to the Threshold: Apparentenza and Sradicamento in Early Twentieth-Century "Italian" Literature
10.6082/uchicago.2602

Brendan Hodges Hainline
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Linguistic Variation in the Pyramid Texts
IR: No

Jacob Oren Harris
English Language and Literature
Exquisite Schemes: The Aesthetics of Excess in the Late British Empire, 1890-1930
10.6082/uchicago.2673

Caroline Marie Heller
English Language and Literature
The Times of the Seasons: Mediations of Climate in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
10.6082/uchicago.2551

Ami Huang
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
State, Province, and Temple in Kassite Nippur: A Case Study of the Livestock Economy of the EREŠ.DINGIR Priestesses
10.6082/uchicago.2557

William Hutchison
English Language and Literature
Love among the Robots: Non-biological Consciousness and the Pursuit of Kinship 1970 to the Present
IR: No

Ana Ilievska
Comparative Literature
The Machine in the Novel: Fictional Human-Machine Interactions at the European Periphery (ca. 1870-1914)
10.6082/uchicago.2634

Joya John
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Nature Displaced: Postcolonial Hindi Literature and the Environment
10.6082/uchicago.2567

Michael Alexander Johnson
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Crafting Culture at Alalakh: Tell Atchana and the Political Economy of Metallurgy
10.6082/uchicago.2607

Tamara Kamatovic
Germanic Studies
Censorship, Secrets, Correspondences, and Freedom: The Literary Public in the Viennese Biedermeier
10.6082/uchicago.2633

Jessica Kantarovich
Linguistics
Argument Structure in Language Shift: Morphosyntactic Variation and Grammatical Resilience in Modern Chukchi
10.6082/uchicago.2623

Christopher Kempf
English Language and Literature
Writing Craft: The Workshop System in American Culture
10.6082/uchicago.2549

Michele Kenfack
Romance Languages and Literatures
Apocalypses francophones: histoire et (r)écriture dans la prose antillano-africaine (1968-1990)
10.6082/uchicago.2568

Anthony Joseph Lauricella
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Reuse to Ruin: The Persistence of the Umayyad Built Landscape
IR: No

John Y. Lawrence
Music
Listening in Color: Sonority, Style, and Meaning in Europe 1760–1830
10.6082/uchicago.2670

Robert Eugene Lewis Jr
Linguistics
Potawatomi Discourse Markers
IR: No

Meekyung Ruth MacMurdie
Art History
Likeness, Figuration, Proof: Geometry and the Arabic Book, 1050-1250
IR: No

Robert Marineau
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The Literary Effects of Discourse Patterns in Hittite Texts
10.6082/uchicago.2631

Steven Gerald Maye
English Language and Literature
The Limits of Lyric Autonomy: American Poetry and Its Media, 1950–Present
IR: No

Noa Merkin
Cinema and Media Studies
Little Patch of Yellow: On the Detail in Film
10.6082/uchicago.2599

Cherry Lynn Meyer
Linguistics
Noun Categorization in Ojibwe: Gender and Classifiers
10.6082/uchicago.2573

Katherine Nolan
English Language and Literature
She Objects: On the (Im)Mobility of Women in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
10.6082/uchicago.2604

Manuel Olmedo Gobante
Romance Languages and Literatures
La esgrima del Siglo de Oro y su literatura
IR: No

Pelle Valentin Olsen
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Between Work and School: Leisure and Modernity in Hashemite Baghdad, 1921-1958
10.6082/uchicago.2571

Yiying Pan
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Symphonic Spaces: Environment, Society, and Governance of Eastern Sichuan, 1723-1864
IR: No

Michal Peles Almagor
Comparative Literature
Writing at the Threshold: Language and Home in Twentieth Century Hebrew and German Literature
10.6082/uchicago.2677

Kara A. Peruccio
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Women on the Verge: Emotions, Authoritarianism, and the Novel in Italy and Turkey, 1922-1936
10.6082/uchicago.2596

David M Reher
Romance Languages and Literatures
Constantinople in the Iberian Imagination: 1400-1650
10.6082/uchicago.2545

Medardo Gabriel Rosario
Romance Languages and Literatures
Peregrinos, parias y proscritos, o de la secularización de itinerarios religiosos en la novela bizantina española
IR: No

August Nabe Samie
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The Shibanid Question: Reassessing 16th Century Eurasian History in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan
10.6082/uchicago.2692

Geronimo Sarmiento Cruz
English Language and Literature
Anational Poetics, US Minor Poetry 1981–2020
10.6082/uchicago.2645

Tyler Schroeder
Cinema and Media Studies
Film in German Public Health 1918-1946: Corporeality, Crisis, Utopia
10.6082/uchicago.2693

Martin Schwarz
Art History
The Disputed City: Art, Architecture, and the Performance of Argument in Scholastic Paris (c.1120–c.1320)
10.6082/uchicago.2636

Bradley Michael Spiers
Music
Music and the Spectacle of Artificial Life
10.6082/uchicago.2648

Elizabeth Tavella
Romance Languages and Literatures
Seeking Interspecies Justice: Spaces of Animal Confinement in Italian Literature
10.6082/uchicago.2654

Amir Armon Toft
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Revaluing the Price of Blood: Homicide in Islamic Jurisprudence and Ottoman Law
10.6082/uchicago.2548

Miriam Tripaldi
Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Opera, Politics, Mobility: Cultural Transformation at the Court of Catherine the Great
IR: No

Jacqueline Grace Victor
Romance Languages and Literatures
Female Fictions: Gender and Adventure in 12th and 13th Century Old French Romance
10.6082/uchicago.2678

Artemis Willis
Cinema and Media Studies
Performing Pictures: The Magic Lantern c. 1900
10.6082/uchicago.2542

Tingting Xu
Art History
Beyond Treaty Ports: Chinese Photography 1860-1916: Practitioners, Contexts, and Trends
IR: No

Panpan Yang
Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Animating Space: Toward a Poetics of Chinese Animation
10.6082/uchicago.2569

Division of the Physical Sciences

Evan Angelico
Physics
Development of Large-Area MCP-PMT Photo-Detectors for a Precision Time-of-Flight System at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility
10.6082/uchicago.2577

Pragallva Barpanda
Geophysical Sciences
Dynamics of Extratropical Storm Tracks on Different Timescales
10.6082/uchicago.2556

William Brandon Carpenter
Chemistry
Aqueous Proton Structures and Dynamics Observed with Nonlinear Infrared Spectroscopy
10.6082/uchicago.2584

Menglu Chen
Physics
Transport Property on Mercury Chalcogenide Colloidal Quantum Dot
10.6082/uchicago.2640

Yongrui Chen
Statistics
High-Frequency Functional Inference of Dynamic Data in Time and Frequency Domains
10.6082/uchicago.2608

Zewei Chu
Computer Science
On Learning and Applying Text Representations
10.6082/uchicago.2666

Ran Dai
Statistics
Estimation and Inference for High-Dimensional Semiparametric Models
IR: No

Clara Elisabeth del Junco
Chemistry
Energy Dissipation Controls Emergent Order in Model Driven Liquids and Biochemical Clocks
10.6082/uchicago.2588

Bernard Dickens III
Computer Science
Capitalizing on Security, Performance, and Energy Tradeoffs in Full Drive Encryption Schemes for Fun and Profit
10.6082/uchicago.2544

Adam Dziedzic
Computer Science
Input and Model Compression for Adaptive and Robust Neural Networks
10.6082/uchicago.2637

Maya Fishbach
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves
10.6082/uchicago.2613

Maulik Subhash Jani
Chemistry
NOckout: A DNA-Based Fluorescent Probe to Quantitatively Map NOS3 Activity with Subcellular Spatial Resolution
10.6082/uchicago.2579

Tae Hyun Kim
Statistics
Statistical Methods for Transcriptome Data
10.6082/uchicago.2586

Guangxu Lan
Chemistry
Energy-Converting Metal-Organic Nanomaterials for Biomedical and Photocatalytic Applications
10.6082/uchicago.2605

Huaicheng Li
Computer Science
Evolving Storage Stack for Predictability and Efficiency
10.6082/uchicago.2642

Haoyang Liu
Statistics
Algorithmic and Statistical Optimality for High-Dimensional Data
10.6082/uchicago.2593

Jeffrey Ferrari Lukman
Computer Science
Algorithmic, Heuristic, and Systematic Approaches for Software Model Checking of Distributed Systems
10.6082/uchicago.2603

Philip Mansfield
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Dark Matter Halos and Their Environments
10.6082/uchicago.2679

Richard John Mazuski
Chemistry
Seeking Design Principles for Control of Ultrafast Energy Transfer in Synthetic Light Harvesting Scaffolds
10.6082/uchicago.2618

Ryan James Menssen
Chemistry
DNA Hybridization Mechanism Elucidated by Temperature-Jump Infrared Spectroscopy and Computational Modeling
10.6082/uchicago.2682

John Alan Parker
Physics
Collective Electrodynamic Excitations and Non-conservative Dynamics in Optical Matter and Meta-atom Systems
10.6082/uchicago.2652

Alexandra Elizabeth Raeber
Chemistry
Current-Constrained Reduced-Density-Matrix Theory for Molecular Conductivity
10.6082/uchicago.2686

Erik N Schaumann
Chemistry
Geometric and Bioelectric Cues to Cell Mechanics
10.6082/uchicago.2680

Hao Tong
Computer Science
Improving the Performance of Long-Running Scientific Pipelines in a Bioinformatics Pipeline Platform
10.6082/uchicago.2562

Tatsuhiro Tsukamoto
Chemistry
Acceptorless Catalytic Dehydrogenative Electrocyclization
10.6082/uchicago.2675

Juan Gabriel Vargas Asensio
Geophysical Sciences
Molecular and Environmental Controls on Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophy
10.6082/uchicago.2651

Thomas Erik Videbaek
Physics
The Onset and Growth of Viscous Fingering for Different Fluids in Radial and Linear Geometries
10.6082/uchicago.2635

Anthony Yuming Wang
Mathematics
p-adic Shtukas
10.6082/uchicago.2684

Zhi Wang
Chemistry
Multiscale Simulations of Ion Transport in Membrane Proteins
10.6082/uchicago.2657

Yuanshun Yao
Computer Science
Practical Backdoor Attacks and Defenses in Deep Learning Systems
10.6082/uchicago.2560

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

Héctor E. Acarón Ledesma
Biophysical Sciences
Mechanisms Underlying Motion Discrimination in the Mammalian Retina
10.6082/uchicago.2638

Catherine Genevieve Triandafillou
Biophysical Sciences
Stress-Associated Intracellular Acidification Is Adaptive
10.6082/uchicago.2591

Division of the Social Sciences

Sarah Adcock
Anthropology
After the End: Animal Economies, Collapse, and Continuity in Hittite and Post-Hittite Anatolia
10.6082/uchicago.2653

Stephanie Ahrens
Political Science
Democratic Trust and the Limits of Distrust in Democracy
10.6082/uchicago.2609

Sneha Annavarapu
Sociology
Moving Targets: Traffic Rules, State Authority and Road Safety in Hyderabad, India
10.6082/uchicago.2647

Alexandre Balduino Sollaci
Economics
Agglomeration, Innovation, and Spatial Reallocation: The Aggregate Effects of R&D Tax Credits
10.6082/uchicago.2546

Andrea Bartoletti
Political Science
Escaping the Deadly Embrace: Encirclement at the Origins of Major Wars
10.6082/uchicago.2555

Jasmine Helene' Benjamin
Political Science
The Democratic Consequences of Highly Publicized Events of Police Misconduct for Black Political Attitudes towards Police and Local Government Officials in Chicago
IR: No

Alexandra E Brewer
Sociology
The Deserving Pain: How Hospitals Structure Medical Decision-Making around Pain Management
10.6082/uchicago.2587

Ella Patricia Butler
Anthropology
Producing Taste: Food Science and the American Sensorium
IR: No

Nicholas Campbell-Seremetis
Political Science
Fanatics, Fools, and Madmen: How Perceptions of Bias, Incompetence, and Irrationality Impact International Politics
10.6082/uchicago.2687

Amy Rebecca Coombs
History
Beyond the Nitrogen Thesis: Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Brassica Napus Oilseed Design Diversification for Crop Rotation, Soil Pest Suppression, Livestock Management, and Convertible Husbandry in the British Agricultural Revolution(s), 1715-1830
10.6082/uchicago.2676

Oliver Cussen
History
Capital and Critique: The Commercial Imperialism of Old Regime France
10.6082/uchicago.2554

Natalja Denise Czarnecki
Anthropology
Authority That Matters: An Ethnography of Trust and Food Safety in Post-Soviet Georgia
10.6082/uchicago.2696

Sabrina Datoo
History
The Madrasa Tibbiya and the Reform of Avicennian Medicine in Colonial India c. 1889-1930
10.6082/uchicago.2672

Jonathan Mark Deming
Political Science
The Strategic Foundations of Authoritarian Successor Parties
10.6082/uchicago.2649

Onursal Erol
Political Science
Claiming Gezi: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Urban Contention
IR: No

Ines Escobar Gonzalez
Anthropology
Settlers of the Debtfare Society: Home, Property, and Social Relations after Mexico's Housing Reform
10.6082/uchicago.2632

Jerel Michael Ezell
Sociology
The Theater of Crisis Management: Planning, Power and Penalty during the Flint Water Crisis
IR: No

Christopher Alexander Gatto
History
From Cochineal to Coffee: The Making of a New Rural Economy in Miahuatlán, Oaxaca, 1780-1880
10.6082/uchicago.2643

Nathaniel James Gonzalez
Sociology
Living with Violence: The Causes and Consequences of Recurrent Buddhist-Muslim Violence in Myanmar
10.6082/uchicago.2578

Roli Danielle Samantha Gostelow
Sociology
Cross-Country Variation in the Stigmatization of People with Schizophrenia
10.6082/uchicago.2617

Jennifer Nicole Hall
Comparative Human Development
Parenting within the Hyperghetto Carceral Complex: Making Meaning of Youth Behavior through Parental Identity
10.6082/uchicago.2669

Benjamin Jeffery
Social Thought
An Image on Water: A Reading of Shakespeare's The Tempest
10.6082/uchicago.2688

Gentry Kip Jenkins
Political Science
The Revolutionary Roots of Peripheral Rebellions
10.6082/uchicago.2585

Nicholas C. Judd
Sociology
Political Fractions and Campaign Contributors: Intraparty Conflict and Campaign Finance in American Democracy
10.6082/uchicago.2612

Robert Patrick Kaminski
History
Managers of Uncertainty: Labor, Finance, and America’s Corporate Consolidation, 1885-1907
IR: No

Emily Alexandra Katzenstein
Political Science
Race(d) Futures: Race, Risk and the Politics of Prediction
10.6082/uchicago.2668

Mennatallah Hassan Khalil
Anthropology
Visions of Military Authority: Sacred Servants in Post Revolutionary Egypt
IR: No

Mishal Khan
Sociology
Empire, Law, and Order Making after the Abolition of Slavery: Three Laboring Figures in India
10.6082/uchicago.2580

Hiroko Kumaki
Anthropology
Reasonably Exposed: Politics and Ethics of Living Fukushima
IR: No

Patrick Charles Lewis
Anthropology
Publics of Value: Higher Education and Language Activism in Turkey and North Kurdistan
10.6082/uchicago.2629

Eliza Starbuck Little
Social Thought
The Self-Exhibition of Reason: Hegel on Intuition and Logical Content
10.6082/uchicago.2671

K. Bryce Lowry
Anthropology
Tracing a Transition: The Political Economy of Bronze and Iron Age Mongolia
10.6082/uchicago.2543

Deirdre T. Lyons
History
"Work, Family, and Public Order": Slavery, Emancipation, and Family Politics in the Nineteenth-Century French Antilles
10.6082/uchicago.2558

Naama Maor
History
Delinquent Parents: Punitive Welfare and the Creation of Juvenile Justice, 1899-1927
IR: No

Jane McCamant
Sociology
Moral Education in Chicago Catholic Schools and Moral Authority in the Roman Catholic Church, 1945-1975
10.6082/uchicago.2566

Kathryn Elizabeth McHarry
Anthropology
Entrepreneurs of the Future: Speculative Care and Early Childhood Education in Senegal
10.6082/uchicago.2655

Amy Leia McLachlan
Anthropology
Cultivating Futures: Botanical Economies and Knowledge Ecologies in Migrant Colombian Amazonia
10.6082/uchicago.2661

Yasmeen Mekawy
Political Science
Passionate Publics: Emotions and Events through Social Media in the #Jan25 Egyptian Revolution
IR: No

Eunki Min
Economics
Beliefs and Perceptions in Energy and Environmental Economics
10.6082/uchicago.2547

Parysa Clare Mostajir
Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
Volunteering Away Humanity: A Pragmatist Critique of Scientism
10.6082/uchicago.2582

Hieu Trung Nguyen
Economics
Topics and Methods in Labor Economics
10.6082/uchicago.2644

Victoria Nguyen
Anthropology
Urban Interrupted: An Ethnography of Urbanization and Its Others in Contemporary Beijing
IR: No

Natasha Piano
Political Science
Elites and Democracy: Italian Elite Theory, American Political Science and the Problem of Plutocracy
10.6082/uchicago.2674

Georg Rilinger
Sociology
Toward a Sociology of Economic Engineering: The Creation and Collapse of California’s Electricity Markets between 1993 and 2001
10.6082/uchicago.2646

Colin Patrick Rydell
History
"Alcohol in the Garden of Eden": Cider as Alternative Agriculture in Early Modern England, 1650-1766
10.6082/uchicago.2658

Zachary Sheldon
Anthropology
Waiting on Embers: Duration, Dispossession, and Everyday Life among Iraqi Migrants in Jordan
10.6082/uchicago.2628

Luis Assad Simon Tamborrel
Economics
Capital Requirements in a Model of Bank Runs: The 2008 Run on Repo
10.6082/uchicago.2572

Moodjalin Sudcharoen
Anthropology
Gradients of Childhood: Thai Schooling, National Imaginaries, and the Figuration of the Migrant Child
IR: No

Nazmul S Sultan
Political Science
Waiting for the People: Colonialism and the Idea of Democracy in India
10.6082/uchicago.2622

Mudit Trivedi
Anthropology
An Archaeology of Virtue: Tradition, Islam and the Materiality of Conversion in Medieval North India
IR: No

Jessica Carmen Villaseñor
Sociology
"Quiero vivir en mi fantasía": The Social World of Youth in Street Situations in Mexico City
10.6082/uchicago.2597

Chao Wang
History
Disabled but Useful: Blindness and the Making of Modern China, 1900-1945
10.6082/uchicago.2639

Shirley Ceensem Yeung
Anthropology
Welcome Work: Hospitality and the Mediation of Migrant Mobility in Swiss Integration Policy
10.6082/uchicago.2614

Piotr Zoch
Economics
Sovereign Default, Banking Crises, and Financial Repression
10.6082/uchicago.2683

Division of the Social Sciences and the Division of the Humanities

Hannah Renee McElgunn
Anthropology and Linguistics
Language at the Center of the Universe: An Ethnography of the Hopi Language
10.6082/uchicago.2615

Division of the Social Sciences and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Ka Ying Becky Lau
Psychology and Business
The Effect of Nativenesss of Language on Social Norm Adherence
10.6082/uchicago.2685

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Nasser Barjesteh
Pricing and Matching in Service and Manufacturing Systems
10.6082/uchicago.2595

Ali Goli
Personalized Versioning: Product Strategies Constructed from Experiments on Pandora
10.6082/uchicago.2624

The Divinity School

Bevin Brittany Blaber
“Under the Influence of Writing”: Maurice Blanchot's Interwar Journalism
IR: No

Gregory Welsh Chatterley
Salt and Light: Free Churches, Suburban Evangelicals and the Transformation of White Supremacy in the United States
10.6082/uchicago.2695

Francesca Chubb-Confer
Islamic Modernity, Lyric Ambiguity: Muhammad Iqbal and the Ghazal
10.6082/uchicago.2662

Marshall Allen Cunningham
(Re)-Constructing Judeanness: Homeland, Diaspora, and the Construction of Judean Identity in the 6th and 5th Centuries ʙᴄᴇ
10.6082/uchicago.2694

Robert Fargo Greenlee III
Worlds Collide: The Competing Legal Cosmologies of Tokugawa Japan
10.6082/uchicago.2594

David Curtis Gregg
Artificial Gods: Whiteheadian Aesthetics and the Art of the Theater
10.6082/uchicago.2616

David G. Latimore
Liberating the Neoliberal Black Church: A Theological Response to the Ideological Influence of Neoliberalism on the Black Church
10.6082/uchicago.2590

Alexander Wolfson
Force and Stabilization: Transness in 20th-Century Critical Thought
10.6082/uchicago.2606

The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

Arin Rae Greenwood
First Principles Calculations of Nanomaterials for Renewable Energy
10.6082/uchicago.2619

Kevin Miao
Coherence and Coupling of Driven Spins in Silicon Carbide
10.6082/uchicago.2570

Joshua J Moller
Constructing Chromatin through Multiscale Simulations: A Nucleosome-Centric Approach
10.6082/uchicago.2626

Marcello Puligheddu
Computational Predictions of the Thermal Conductivity of Solids and Liquids
10.6082/uchicago.2611

Viktor Rozsa
First Principles Studies of Aqueous Systems at Ambient and Extreme Conditions
10.6082/uchicago.2620

Timothy McCormick Steeves
Photothermal Heating to Explore the Spatial Dynamics of Two Reaction Systems
10.6082/uchicago.2574

Ruben Zachary Waldman
Metal Oxide Growth on Polymer Surfaces and within Polymer Volumes: Applications in Novel Membrane Materials
10.6082/uchicago.2565

Yefei Zhang
Cellulose Nanocrystals Based Functional Polymer Nanomaterials
10.6082/uchicago.2667

The School of Social Service Administration

Kallie Clark
Postsecondary Pathways in Chicago Public Schools
10.6082/uchicago.2592

Ryan Douglas Heath
The Role of Extracurricular Activities in Psychosocial Development and Educational Outcomes
IR: No

Sophia Panayiota Sarantakos
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