Summer 2023

Summer Quarter Dissertations (August 2023)

Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine

Adegunsoye, Ayodeji Olakunle
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
Race, Telomeres, and Genomic Insights into Pulmonary Fibrosis
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7561

Aracena, Katherine Anne
Human Genetics
Unraveling the Genetic and Epigenetic Basis of Inter-Individual Variation in Immune Response to Influenza Infection
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7651

Carlson, Maryn Olivia
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
Two Problems in Population Genetics
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7509

Deshpande, Sarita Srisai
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Neurobiology
Spatiotemporal Characterization of Neural Network Activity
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7508

Edoigiawerie, Sylvia Uwaila
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Neurobiology
Neurophysiologic Monitoring and Prognostic Algorithms for Neonatal Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7518

Feng, Xinran
Human Genetics
Ome-wide Illumination of Unproductive Splicing in Brains and DNA N6-methyldeoxyadenosine in Mammals
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7530

Fogarty, Emily Clare
Microbiology
Revealing the Ecological Interactions, Evolutionary Histories and Niche Boundaries of Prevalent Human Gut Plasmids
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7635

Garde, Rania
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
Feedback and Fitness in the Heat Shock Response
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7569

Hur, Soo Ji
Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology
Quantitative Insights into the Role of RTK/MAPK Signaling Pathway on Developmental Cell State Transitions
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7654

Keyport Kik, Samantha Makala
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
Environmentally Tuned Conservation of Adaptive Biomolecular Condensation
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7645

Klawon Jr., David Edward
Immunology
Role of Regulatory T Cell Antigen Specificity in T Cell Tolerance, Autoimmunity, and Self-Nonself Discrimination
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7653

Liu, Mirabai M.
Medical Physics
Use, Optimization, and Expansion of Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Perfusion Imaging in Cerebrovascular Disease
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7506

Mendoza, Victor Daniel
Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
Macrophage Inflammation and Lipid Metabolism in Atherosclerosis
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7602

Monical, Alexis
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Neurobiology
The Role of the Laterodorsal Tegmental Nucleus in Nicotine Withdrawal
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7540

Okorokova, Elizaveta
Computational Neuroscience
Unraveling the Neural Basis of Prehension to Build Better Bionic Hands
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7661

Reis, Rebecca Anne
Microbiology
Host and Viral Regulation of Innate Immunity to Infection
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7648

Sponheim, Caleb Scheffer
Computational Neuroscience
Decomposing Complex Movement Using Discrete Dynamical Population States
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7649

Sullere, Shivang
Neurobiology
Discovery of a Cholinergic Circuit That Relieves Pain, despite Opioid Tolerance
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7638

Thomas, Alexis A
Microbiology
Functions of Conserved SCCmec Proteins: A Mobile Element Involved in Antibiotic Resistance Spread
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7584

Wang, Andrew G.
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Multi-Level Encoding of Inflammatory Memory in the NF-κB Network
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7527

Williams, Audrey Miller
Cell and Molecular Biology
Organization of a Planar Signaling System That Orchestrates Collective Epithelial Cell Migration in Drosophila
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7643

Wylder, Adam
Cell and Molecular Biology
Messenger RNA Modifications and Reader Proteins in the Regulation of Gene Expression
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7498

Zhu, Yuqing
Computational Neuroscience
Understanding Neocortical Dynamics and Computation through Spiking Neural Network Modeling
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7504

Division of the Humanities

Butcher, Jacob Gregory
Philosophy
Justice and the Good: How Should We Think About Politics?
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7608

Cassemere-Stanfield, Ashleigh
English Language and Literature
Touching Menace: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics, and the Intimacies of Synthetic Sense
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7552

Chan, Ling
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Manuscripts of the Jade-like Models: A Case Study of a Liturgical Anthology from Dunhuang
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7534

Chapman, Madison
English Language and Literature
Mortal Intimacy: Desire, Death & the Subject in British Romantic Literature
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7559

Chen, Jiayi
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Reading Games in Early Modern China
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7553

Colaneri, Laura
Romance Languages and Literatures
The Sinister Southern Cone: Mood, Affect, and Horror in the Cultural Imaginary of Argentine and Brazilian State Terror
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7517

Dasgupta, Supurna
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Intimate Revolutions: Men and Women in 1960s Bengali Literature
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7536

Desai, Tanya
Cinema and Media Studies
Sitaron Ka Tarana: Acts of Expression in the Bombay Film Song
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7669

Doreste Rodríguez, Pedro Noel
Cinema and Media Studies
A Cinema of Free Association: Counter-Institutional Film Cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean, 1952-1968
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7525

Eren, Omer
Linguistics
Morpho-Syntactic Variation in (Heritage) Laz
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7675

Froehlich, Clint James
Cinema and Media Studies
Playing with Cinema: The Development of Audio-Visual Style in Video Games
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7587

Garibovic, Melina
Philosophy
The Reality of Persons
IR: No

Graham, Aaron Marshall
Philosophy
Theoretical Disagreements, Hard Cases, and the Positivist Theory of Legal Validity
IR: No

Gray, Sam Tobias Kari
Linguistics
To Sound Like Oneself: Transmasculine Vocal Change and Satisfaction on HRT
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7610

Harvey, Elon
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Green Jars and Other Prohibited Receptacles in Early Islamic Law
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7555

He, Yanxiao
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Post-Hellenistic Asia and Common Ethnographic Knowledge in Rome and China
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7609

Hewett, Matthew Russell
Linguistics
Types of Resumptive Ā-Dependencies
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7667

Hoffmann, Alexandra
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Strong Warriors, Liminal Lovers, and Beardless Men: Masculinities and Embodiment in Pre-modern Persian Poetry
IR: No

Hughes, Zoe Bassin
English Language and Literature
Feline Modernism
IR: No

Ihns, Kirsten
English Language and Literature
Aspect Choreography
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7580

Jasperse, Leland
English Language and Literature
Insignificant Others: The Literary Politics of Celibacy, 1880-1930
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7600

Ji, Yueling
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
A History of Style: Literary Criticism in Cold War China
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7576

Jones, Winifred Danielle
English Language and Literature
21st Century Neo-Slave Narratives and Genre as Technology
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7557

Kafer, Gary Alexander
Cinema and Media Studies
After Ubiquity: Surveillance Media and the Technics of Social Difference
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7628

Khan, Muhammad Taimoor Shahid
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Saif al-Mulūk, the Quest For Love: Islam, Travel, and the Ethics of Cosmopolitanism in the Indian Ocean World
IR: No

Kim, Tae Ho
Germanic Studies
Orienting Pleasures: Identity and Language, 1900/2000
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7513

King, Zachary Murphy
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Modernism under the Microscope: The Reception and Translation of Marcel Proust, John Dos Passos and James Joyce in Soviet Russia, 1922-1942
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7614

Kotler, Ayelet
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Persian Literary Translation in the Early Mughal Period
IR: No

Kraver, Stephanie Lisa
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
(Un)Believers in Times of War: Darwish and Ravikovitch’s Poetics of Possibility in Palestine/Israel
IR: No

Lam, Chi Dat
Linguistics
The Encoding, Maintenance and Retrieval of Complex Linguistic Representations in Working Memory
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7526

Long, Cooper
Cinema and Media Studies
John Frankenheimer's Untimely Media
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7582

Martinez del Rio, Aurora
Linguistics
Repetition Reduction across the Lexicon of American Sign Language
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7634

McDaniel, Sarah Adeline
English Language and Literature
Queer Correspondence: Epistolary Form and LGBTQ+ Life-Writing
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7583

Metzel, Peter
Germanic Studies
Dramaturgie des Bürgerkrieges: Schiller, Grillparzer, Hebbel
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7503

Miller, Caitlin Lenore
Classics
Status and Social Reproduction in Pindar's Epinician Odes
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7662

Mondal, Rivky
English Language and Literature
Mean Difference: Poetics of Microsocial Encounter in Modernism
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7668

Osorio Guimaraes da Silva, Luiza
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Kingship in the Everyday: Experiencing Royal Authority in the Middle Kingdom
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7660

Ottonello, Pablo Tomás
Romance Languages and Literatures
Sinfonía de lo cotidiano: la pose de fracaso en los diarios de Levrero, Piglia y Pizarnik.
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7516

Pelejà, Cinta
Cinema and Media Studies
The Screen Encounter: Cinematic Experiences of the Self
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7621

Peters, N.A.
Comparative Literature
Aesthetics of Acknowledgment: Suffering and Fellow Feeling in Human Rights Literature
IR: No

Prokopaki, Ermioni
Philosophy
Understanding the Threat of Relativism in the Theaetetus of Plato
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7678

Rak, Diane
Linguistics
Polysemy and Homonymy in the L2: Non-native Processing of Lexical Semantic Ambiguity
IR: No

Reza, Taimur
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Muslim Home-Making: Bengali Muslims' Belonging in a Transnational Horizon, c.1880-1914
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7636

Rhone, Joel Terence
English Language and Literature
Disciplinary Aesthetics: Race and Representation After the Cold War
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7596

Siegmund, Colton Grant
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The Morphological Means for Coding Modality in the Sumerian Verbal Complex
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7539

Su, Susan Dan
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Infrastructural Promises: Developmentalism and the Rewriting of Tibetan Culture in China
IR: No

Velasquez, Rebeca
English Language and Literature
Colonized Futures: Law, Inheritance, and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7615

Walch, Florian
Music
Extreme Metal Across the Digital Divide: Music, Technology, Genre
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7585

Wang, Ziting
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Intercultural Communication and Miscommunication: Egyptian Diplomacy in the New Kingdom Period
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7558

Wilhelm, Elisabeth
Germanic Studies
World, Universe, and Heterocosm in the Early German Romantic Project of Universal Poetry (1795-1802)
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7570

Williams, Korey
English Language and Literature
Fading Futures: James Baldwin and Our Modern Malaise
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7601

Yang, Zhiyan
Art History
Inventing Contemporary Chinese Architectural Culture in the Age of Globalization, 1979–2006
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7535

Division of the Physical Sciences

Beaufore, Lucas Wayne
Physics
Construction and Impact of the High Energy Light Isotope Experiment's Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7589

Cao, Yang
Chemistry
Chemical Biology Approaches to Study and Manipulate Translation and Post-Translational Modifications
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7548

Cheng, Baorui
Chemistry
Large-Scale Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Polymers and Their Membrane Applications
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7519

Chiu, Wen Han
Physics
Beyond the Standard Model Phenomena: From Model Building to Searches
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7631

Cryan, Jennifer Rose
Computer Science
Measuring Perceptions and Mitigating Bias in Text and Voice
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7625

Diesing, Rebecca Rimai
Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Maximum Energy of Shock-Accelerated Cosmic Rays
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7528

Durfee, Nathaniel D
Chemistry
Asymmetric Total Syntheses of the Fontonamides Via Formanilide-Directed Palladium-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization and Synthetic Studies Towards (+)-Welwitindolinone A
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7523

Esmerian, Clarke Jarett
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Modeling Dust Production, Growth, and Destruction in Reionization-Era Galaxies
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7581

Ge, Ruiqi
Chemistry
Development of Site-Specific and Quantitative N6-Methyl Adenosine (m6A) Profiling Methods
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7629

Gomez, Christian Andres
Chemistry
Engineering Fe(II)- and α-ketoglutarate-Dependent Oxygenases for Selective C–H Functionalization
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7507

Gu, Chao
Mathematics
Potential Modularity of K3 Surfaces with Large Picard Rank
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7644

Gupta, Shobhit
Physics
Engineering Long-Lived Rare Earth Dopants for Scalable Hybrid Quantum Interconnects
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7586

Hack, John Harvard Kolm
Chemistry
Water and Protons Confined in Acidic Zeolites Studied with Broadband 2D IR Spectroscopy
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7642

He, Kevin
Physics
Efficient Control and Tomography in Multimode Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7520

Jiang, Ruojing
Mathematics
Average Area Ratio and Minimal Surface Entropy of Hyperbolic Manifolds
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7665

Laker, Rachel Marie
Geophysical Sciences
Preservational Heterogeneity of Marine Vertebrates in a Sequence Stratigraphic Context: Inferring Exposure and Burial Dynamics from Bone Diagenesis
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7514

Liu, Yu
Chemistry
Multiscale Simulations of Proton-Coupled Membrane Transporters and Proton Channels
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7605

Long, Yanan
Chemistry
Probing the Health Outcomes in Early Childhood Using Bayesian Data Analysis on Big Data
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7603

Luo, Taokun
Chemistry
Metal-Organic Nanosensitizers for Drug Delivery and Cancer Therapy
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7556

Matsuzawa, Takumi
Physics
Life, Death, and Propagation of Turbulence
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7499

McGeehan, Ryan Alexander
Physics
SuperSpec: Development and Characterization of Kinetic Inductance Detector-Based On-Chip Spectrometer for Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Observations
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7624

McNutt, Andrew Michael
Computer Science
Understanding and Enhancing JSON-based DSL Interfaces for Visualization
IR: No

McPartlon, Matthew Timothy
Computer Science
Accelerating Protein Design with Deep Learning
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7659

Mehta, Umang Bharat
Physics
Postmodern Fermi Liquids
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7545

Mull, Nathan
Computer Science
Weak and Strong Normalization of Tiered Pure Type Systems via Type-Preserving Translation
IR: No

Mundinger, Joshua Paul
Mathematics
On Deformation Quantization and Differential Operators in Positive Characteristic
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7641

Ochi, Shusuke
Chemistry
C−C Bond Functionalization of Cyclic Ketones by Rhodium and 2-Aminopyridine Cooperative Catalysis
IR: No

Onizhuk, Mykyta
Chemistry
Understanding the Magnetic Environment of Spin Qubits from First Principles
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7666

Peng, Cheng
Chemistry
Studies of the Strategic Syntheses of Natural Products with Contiguous All-Carbon Quaternary Stereocenters
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7529

Povey, Rhys Geoffrey
Physics
Two-Dimensional Optomechanical Resonators in Gallium Arsenide
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7543

Psaromiligkos, Konstantinos
Mathematics
The Lafforgue Variety and Topics in Geometric Representation Theory
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7549

Quinn, Solomon
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Asymmetric Transport in Continuous Topological Insulators
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7655

Roberts, David Benjamin
Physics
Hidden Time-Reversal Symmetry, Quantum Detailed Balance, and Exact Solutions of Open Quantum Systems
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7537

Sager-Smith, LeeAnn Marie
Chemistry
Exploration of Highly-Correlated Systems on Classical and Quantum Devices
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7640

Scheibner, Colin Ross
Physics
Odd Elasticity, Excitable Interfaces, and Spontaneous Wrinkling of Atomically Thin Films
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7681

Tran, Zana
Mathematics
First-Order Theory of Function Fields of P-adic Curves
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7650

Trisnadi, Jonathan
Physics
The Design and Construction of a Quantum Matter Synthesizer
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7623

Valenton, Emmanuel Goce
Chemistry
Optical Magnetism in Nanophotonics and Optical Matter
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7544

Varriano, Louis James
Physics
Search for an Electroweak Tensor Coupling with Trapped ⁸Li β-decay
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7626

Warren, Alexandra Oksana
Geophysical Sciences
Transient Terrestrial Planet Habitability: Insights from Models and Measurements of Martian Craters and the Evolution of Venus' Atmosphere
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7680

Xiang, Daniel
Statistics
Testing on the Edge: Detection and Localization of Sparse Signals in Sequence Data
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7622

Xie, Dongyue
Statistics
Empirical Bayes Methods for Count Data
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7522

Xie, Victoria Cochran
Chemistry
The Development of In Vivo Phage-Assisted Directed Evolution Platforms to Modulate Protein-Protein Interactions
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7571

Xu, Ziwan
Chemistry
Nanoscale Metal-Organic Frameworks for Cancer Therapies
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7532

Yearwood-Davidson, Stephen Glenn
Mathematics
Properties of Schramm Loewner Evolution and Supercritical Liouville Quantum Gravity Metric Exponents
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7512

Zacharegkas, Georgios
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Modeling the Non-Linear Scales in Cosmology via the Galaxy-Halo Connection with Applications in DES Y3
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7588

Zhang, Helin
Physics
Fast Control of Low-Frequency Fluxonium Qubits
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7595

Zhang, Linda
Chemistry
Targeting the N6-Methyladenosine Pathway for Cancer Immunotherapy
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7658

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

Alvarado, Walter
Biophysical Sciences
Understanding Chromatin Remodeling Through Physics-Based Machine Learning Approaches
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7573

Chou, Wen-hung
Biophysical Sciences
Dynamics and Regulation of Myosin Clusters on Contractile Cytoskeletal Structures
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7618

Kroll, Kourtney Lillian
Biophysical Sciences
LILAC: Designing and Implementing a Light-Sensitive Actin-Binding Peptide
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7566

Morgan, Jessica Marie
Biophysical Sciences
Use of Nanomaterials for Transient Transformation of Plants
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7657

Redford, Steven Alden
Biophysical Sciences
Reining Chaos: Understanding and Manipulating the Microscopic Underpinnings of Turbulent Flows in a Model of Collective Motion
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7531

Veseli, Iva Annamaria
Biophysical Sciences
A Novel Framework for Metabolism Reconstruction Identifies Determinants of Microbial Resilience and Lifestyle in the Human Gut and Global Surface Oceans
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7627

Zsolnay, Vilmos
Biophysical Sciences
Molecular Mechanisms of the Actin Cytoskeleton
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7676

Division of the Social Sciences

Almqvist, Adam
Political Science
Autocracy after the Welfare State: Youth Governance and Authoritarian Durability in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7565

Bergey, Claire Augusta
Psychology
Remarkable Features: Using Descriptive Contrast to Express and Infer Typicality
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7679

Bloechl, Christopher Paul
Anthropology
Voicing the Maya: Media Technologies and Politics of Ethnolinguistic Identity in Yucatán
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7572

Butler, Rebecca McMahon
Psychology
How Juvenile Zebra Finches Learn Song: Investigating the Effects of Age, Genetic Sex, and Acute Song Exposure on Molecular Mechanisms of Sensory Song Learning
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7533

Coffey, Daina Kathleen
History
“Build a Fence Around Los Angeles”: Labor, Unemployment, and Survival in the City of Angels, 1929-1941
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7597

Cole, Geneva Valerie
Political Science
Shades of White: How White Identity Shapes Attitudes About Racial Politics
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7674

Foley, Jillian Elaine
Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
Cryptography and Speculative Technopolitics in the 20th Century United States
IR: No

Foster, Nicholas David
History
Country On FIRE: The Virtuous Producer In The Era Of Finance Capitalism
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7505

Fulcher, Margaret Tess
Psychology
The Development of Help-Seeking as a Problem-Solving Tool
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7542

Gonzalez, Elsy Maria
Political Science
Under the Shadow of Precedent: The Changing Rhetoric of Recognition of Statehood by Third-Party Major Powers
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7563

Grant, Leigh Hamilton
Psychology
The Impact of Communication Medium on Negotiation during Conflict
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7500

Hakim, Rafadi
Anthropology
Togetherness: Language, Relationality, and the Politics of Exchange in Kupang, Eastern Indonesia
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7652

Howie, LaShaya Shari
Anthropology
Death Work and the Body: Contemporary Black Funeral Practices in the United States
IR: No

James, Chandler Donovan
Political Science
Presidential Conformity, Presidential Disobedience
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7672

Ji, Yu
Psychology
Cognition-Driven Distributional and Dynamical Modeling of Domain-Oriented Language Variation and Evolution
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7567

Kim, Hannah Hok
Psychology
What's Fair Is Not Fair! Children’s Contextual Understanding of Impartial Rules
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7616

Kitchen, Emma Leigh
History
The Aurochs Through Time: A History of Integrating Timescales and Disciplines in the Study of the Ancestral Cow
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7510

Kunzelman, Grant William
Psychology
Developmental Shifts in Epigenetically-Defined Regulatory Region Accessibility Reveal Putative Controllers of Critical Period Learning
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7663

Kwok, Chit Pan
Economics
Can Acceptance Reduce Anticipated Discrimination? Evidence from Second-Generation Immigrants
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7577

Leung, Ashley Chui-Kay
Psychology
Learning to Talk: The Development of Children's Communicative Skills
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7620

Li, Yujie
History
Wheels and Sweat: Muscle-Powered Transportation in the Everyday Life of Maoist China, 1949-1979
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7521

Lowe, Taylor Rhodes
Anthropology
Designing Dhammacracy: An Ethnography of Design Activism and Cosmopolitical Representation in Thailand
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7568

Ma, Xiangyu
Sociology
Moral Matters in Cultural Spaces
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7639

Noureldin, Laila H.
Sociology
From Incarceration to Imancipation: How Blackamerican Muslim Male Converts Access and Use New Religious Networks during Imprisonment and Reentry
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7670

Olimpieva, Evgenia Arkadyevna
Political Science
Putin's Prosecutors: Personnel Politics and Building Authoritarianism in Russia
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7551

Owen, Rose Alexandra
Political Science
Feminist Violence: Rape and Militancy in the Second Wave
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7612

Page, Corbin
History
Legal Perversions: The Creation of the Sexual Carceral State
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7560

Painter, Stephanie Marie
History
Women's Violent Crime and a Crisis of Weak Patriarchy in Late Imperial China
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7637

Ray, Andrea Elizabeth
Social Thought
Reasoning Over Time: Hegel’s Critique of Spinoza and the Possibilities of History
IR: No

Reichert, Anne-Sophie
Anthropology
Shaking the Habitual: Experimentation, Technique and Self-Formation in Dance Research
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7671

Shams, Alexander Reza
Anthropology
Constructing Islamic Modernity: Power, Religion, and Masculinity in Post-Revolutionary Iran
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7562

Stier, Andrew Jacob
Psychology
Urban Psychology: A Framework for Ecologically Relevant Investigations of Human Behavior
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7574

Thyer, William Somerset
Psychology
Storage in Visual Working Memory Recruits a Content-Independent Pointer System
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7578

Tian, Yuan
History
Western Privileges in Chinese Eyes: A Social History of Extraterritoriality in Qing China’s Interior (1860-1911)
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7594

Trinidad, Jose Eos
Comparative Human Development and Sociology
Organizational Networks and School Improvement: The Spread of Early Warning Indicators in a Decentralized Educational System
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7656

Uribe, Andres Davies
Political Science
Coercion and Capture in Democratic Politics
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7554

Zeng, Yukun
Anthropology
Reading Classics, Alternative Education, and the Movement of Eternal Wisdom in Contemporary Chinese Societies
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7564

Division of the Social Sciences and the Division of the Humanities

Brandly, Christy Monet
Political Science and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Political Imagination and Liberal Reform: Figuring the Family in 19th-Century Russian Literature
IR: No

Duede, Eamon Kenneth
Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science and Philosophy
Epistemology of AI-Infused Science
IR: No

Trubowitz, Joshua Boone
Social Thought and Philosophy
Spontaneous Activity and Truthfulness in Aristotle's Theory of Perception
IR: No

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Desiraju, Shweta R.
Essays on Information in Consumer Contexts
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7619

Hillas, Lisa Catherine Aoki
Designing Service Menus for Bipartite Queueing Systems
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7633

Hinojosa, Cintia Preciado
Critical Narratives Counter Psychological and Structural Barriers to Racial Equity
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7501

Keceli, Cagla
Learning in Operational Settings
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7591

Kong, Xinyao
Heterogeneous Consumer Dynamics and the Financing Gap
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7613

Montgomery, Robert John
Improving Community Health Services in Remote Settings: Papers on Operations Management Approaches to Global Health
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7617

Moore, Alexander Kentaro
Navigation Strategies and Heuristics in Consumer Search
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7590

The Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Paulson, Allison L.
Health Care Utilization and 12-Month Mortality Following a Nonfatal Opioid Overdose among Nonelderly Individuals Dually Enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid, 2014-2016
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7647

Weiner Davis, Tadeo Miguel Gerardo
"Obama Yes, Displacement No": Challenging Benevolent Development on Chicago’s South Side
IR: No

The Divinity School

Bustion, Olivia
Autonomy and the Bonds of Love
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7611

Buyan, Derek Michael
We Believe These Truths: American Democracy's Humanistic Political Ethic of Belief
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7502

Khan, Nadia Inji
American Muslim Tarbiya: Parents, Experts, ʿUlamāʾ, and Debates about Mothering
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7606

Kranz, Mendel
The Postcolonial Jewish Question: Jewish and Arab Entanglements in Postwar France
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7664

Marty, Elsa
Contesting Context: Adivasi Theology and the Indeterminacy of Context
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7511

Matthews, Alexandra Christine
Authority, Astrology, and Alphanumericism in Fāṭimid Thought: Kitāb al-Fatarāt wa-l-Qirānāt
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7547

Mikawa, Kyohei
The Cunning of Buddhahood: An Omnitelic Reconception of Teleology in Tiantai Buddhist Thought
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7579

Nagar, Dhruv Raj
Thinking Spi|Ritually: Grammar, Action and Embodiment in and before Advaita
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7599

Pinkney, Foster James
Rending the Veil: Blackness as Dignity Constructed through the Works of Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7673

Smolin, Justin Nathaniel
The Mirror of Realities: The Translation of Religious Difference in Early Modern South Asia
IR: No

Winkelman, Bruce
Genealogies of Japanese Buddhism: The Institutional Politics of Founder Centrism in Early Medieval Japan
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7546

The Divinity School and the Division of the Humanities

Kanner-Botan, Allison Leigh
Divinity and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Maddening Love: Islamic Thought and the Ethics of Desire in the Legend of Layla and Majnun
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7630

The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies

Chau, Terence
Essays on the Economics of Innovation
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7550

The Law School

Ashok, Krithika
Essays on the Popular Character of the Supreme Court of India
IR: No

Huang, Chung-Chia
An Analysis of Precaution-Taking Behavior: Victims, Gatekeepers, and Online Copyright Enforcers
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7632

The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

Alpar, Aaron Tamas
Cytokine Engineering to Modulate DC:Treg Networks and Therapeutic Applications Thereof
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7593

Marcks, Jonathan Charton
Interactions between Nitrogen-Based Spin Defects in Diamond
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7646

Palacio Betancur, Viviana
Computational Techniques for Investigating Nematic Liquid Crystals: Chirality, Confinement, and Colloidal Self-Assembly
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7677

Shi, Chengjian
Continuous Temporal Signals and Electronic Health Records for Broad Health States Forecasting
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7592

Shmilovich, Kirill
Data-Driven Approaches for Molecular Design and Simulation: From Self-Assembling Peptides to Enhanced Sampling Techniques and Atomistic Structure Generation
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7598

Stevens, Kaden Cole
The Effect of Polyelectrolyte Architecture on Polyelectrolyte Complexation
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7515

Vasquez Montoya, Gustavo Andres
Integrating Surface Acoustic Waves and Microfluidic Flows to Control Nanoparticles and Liquid Crystals
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7607

Wang, Kai
Ion Transport in Hydrated Polymer Electrolytes - Role of Segmental Dynamics, Water Concentration, and Interface
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7604

Wang, Yuxin
Noise and Fluctuations for Quantum Information Processing
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7538