Doctoral Dissertation Fellows 2004-05

Lisa Anderson-Levy
Anthropology
“ Hiding In the Open”: Making Visible the Practices of Raced Identity in Jamaica
Adviser: Daphne Berdahl

Eray Baran
Civil Engineering
Stability of Prestressed Concrete Through-girder Pedestrian Bridges Under Vehicular Impact Load
Advisers: Catherine French and Arturo Schultz

Maria Bergstedt
Civil Engineering
Modeling the Effects of Physical Variables on Zooplankton Aggregation in Stratified Lakes
Adviser: Miki Hondzo

Adam Birr
Water Resources Science
Paired Watershed Studies for Nutrient Reduction in the Minnesota River Basin
Adviser: David Mulla

Paul Brinkman
History of Science & Technology
Dinosaurs and Department Stores: An Early History Vertebrate Paleontology at Chicago’s Field Museum, 1893-1910
Adviser: Sally Kohlstedt

Michael Byrns
Environmental Health
Determination of the Role of DNA Alkylation by cis-2-Butene-1,4-dial in Furan-Induced Carcinogenesis
Adviser: Lisa Peterson

Mario Carrillo Vilchez
Entomology
Cold Hardiness of the Indian Meal Moth, Plodia interpunctella (Hübner), and Implications for Management
Adviser: William Hutchison

Sing Hang Cheung
Psychology
Reorganization of Visual Cortex in the Presence of Central Vision Loss
Adviser: Gordon Legge

Rajdeep Dasgupta
Geology
Experimental Investigation on Partial Melting of Carbonated Peridotite and Eclogite in Earth’s Upper Mantle
Adviser: Marc Hirschmann

Tracy DeBoer
Child Psychology
A Neurobehavioral Investigation of Autobiographical Memory Development: Contributions of Source Memory and Memory for Temporal Order
Advisers: Patricia Bauer and Charles Nelson

Melissa Eblen-Zayas
Physics
Electrical Modification of Disordered and Correlated Electron Systems
Adviser: Allen Goldman

Jason Eden
History
Beyond Survival: Native Americans and Puritans in Southeastern Massachusetts
Adviser: Jean O ’Brien

Richard Farganis
Political Science
The Myth of Equal Protection: American Courts, Cultural Conflict, and What To Do About Same-Sex Marriage
Adviser: William Scheuerman

John Fletcher
Theatre Arts
Common Stage, Contested Stage: Democratic Performance Activism in America
Advisers: Michal Kobialka and Sonja Kuftinec

Kamal Gandhi
Entomology
Minnesota Biodiversity: Responses of Forest Beetles to a Catastrophic Wind-disturbance Event and Subsequent Fuel Reduction Activities
Adviser: Steven Seybold

David Gray
American Studies
Visualizing Consensus: Worker-Education Campaigns in the Industrial West, 1930-1955
Adviser: Lary May

Katja Guenther
Sociology
Eastern German Women’s Organizations and Welfare State Transformation since German Unification
Adviser: Robin Stryker

Jeffrey Haley
Chemical Engineering
Rheology and Dynamics of Miscible Polymer Blends
Adviser: Timothy Lodge

Angela Hall
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
Molecular Analysis of the murine Fatty Acid Transport Protein
Adviser: David Bernlohr

Kunsoo Han
Business Administration
Investment and Value Sharing in Interorganizational Information Systems
Adviser: Robert Kauffman

Timothy Hargrave
Business Administration
Structure, Agency, and Managerial Cognition: Explaining Corporate Responses to Global Climate Change
Adviser: Andrew Van de Ven

Lindsey Hillesheim
Physics
Dual-color Photon Counting Histogram Analysis: Demonstration and Application in Living Cells
Adviser: Joachim Mueller

Angela Hodgson
Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
The Influence of Herbivory on Spatial Patterns in a Boreal Forest Ecosystem
Adviser: John Pastor

Georgina Hoptroff
History of Science & Technology
Calls from the Wild: Clarence Ray Carpenter and Primate Communication
Advisers: John Beatty and Sally Kohlstedt

Michael Hughey
Chemical Engineering
Chemical and Thermo-Mechanical Stability of Dielectric Films
Adviser: Robert Cook

Margot Iverson
History of Science & Technology
Genetic Studies of Native Americans and Debates Over Biological Theories of Race in American Anthropology,
1940-1970
Advisers: John Beatty and Sally Kohlstedt

Sumeet Jain
Chemical Engineering
Phase Behavior and Applications of Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymers
Adviser: Frank Bates

Abhishek Jhalani
Chemical Engineering
Hydrogen From Natural Gas: Water-gas Shift and Preferential Oxidation
Adviser: Lanny Schmidt

Xiaoping Jin
Biostatistics
Multivariate Conditional Autoregressive Models for Areal Public Health Data
Adviser: Bradley Carlin

Wendy Johnson
Psychology
Antecedents of Individual Differences in Academic Achievement
Adviser: Matthew McGue

Zornitsa Keremidchieva
Communication Studies
After the Vote: Women’s Citizenship, Immigration, and the Nationalization of Politics, 1920-1924
Advisers: Karlyn Campbell and Jacquelyn Zita

Hawon Kim
Art History
Formation of Identity: The 19th-century Jain Pilgrimage Site of Satrunjaya, Gujarat
Adviser: Frederick Asher

Briana Kozlowicz
Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
Functional Analysis and Determination of the Mechanism Used by PrgX, Key Negative Regulator of Asc10 Expression and pCF10 Plasmid Transfer
Adviser: Gary Dunny

Douglas Latch
Chemistry
The Photochemical Fate of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Natural Waters
Adviser: Kristopher McNeill

Shuwang Li
Mechanics
Morphological Control of Crystal Growth
Advisers: Perry Leo and John Lowengrub

Zhihua Li
Mechanical Engineering
Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Shaped Tubes in Polymer Heat Exchangers: Heat Transfer and Mechanical Design
Adviser: Jane Davidson

Paul Loftness
Mechanical Engineering
A Prototype Instrument for Subretinal Surgery
Adviser: Arthur Erdman

Nicole London
Molecular Veterinary Biosciences
Statistical Theory and Methods for Mapping Genes and QTL with Gender Affected Expression
Adviser: Yang Da

Rhonald Lua
Physics
The Problem of Knots and Sequence Design in Proteins and Compact Chains
Adviser: Alexander Grosberg

Sarika Mehra
Chemical Engineering
Unveiling Regulatory Networks of Secondary Metabolism by Integrating Gene Perturbations, Transcriptome Dynamics Analysis and Mathematical Modeling
Adviser: Wei-Shou Hu

Shirley Mier
Music
Visages: Song Cycle for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra
Adviser: Alex Lubet

David Monteyne
American Studies
Shelter from the Elements: Architecture During the Early Cold War
Adviser: Katherine Solomonson

Mark Myers
Conservation Biology
Endangered Wildlife Conservation in the Neotropics: Lessons and Strategies from Costa Rica
Adviser: Stephen Polasky and J.L. David Smith

Ali Nasiri Amini
Electrical Engineering
State-covariance Spectral Estimation and Applications
Adviser: Tryphon Georgiou

Ian Offord
French
The Discourse of Hygiene in French Fascist Literature
Adviser: Maria Brewer

Matthew O’Shaughnessy
Microbiology, Immunology & Cancer Biology
Modification of T Cell Signaling and Tolerance Induction
Adviser: Bruce Blazar

Alina Oxendine
Political Science
Inequality and Isolation: How Economic Stratification Harms Social Capital
Adviser: John Sullivan

Tingrui Pan
Electrical Engineering
Micro and Nanotechnology for Glaucoma
Advisers: David Brown and Babak Ziaie

Jooho Park
Physics
Spin Dynamics in Geometrically Confined Ferromagnetic Thin Films
Adviser: Paul Crowell

Yun Peng
Comparative Literature
From Freud to Deleuze: The Neurological Link of Modernity
Adviser: Thomas Pepper

Kanan Puntambekar
Materials Science
Characterization of Charge Transport Bottlenecks in Organic Semiconductors using Spatially Resolved Potential Measurements
Adviser: C. Daniel Frisbie

Roni Shapira
Comparative Studies in Discourse & Society
Switched-on Deutschland: The Sounds of Germany
Adviser: John Mowitt

Tsutomu Shimotori
Civil Engineering
Polymer Membranes Containing Zero-valent Iron as a Contaminant Barrier
Adviser: William Arnold

Michael Sizer
History
Making Revolution Medieval: Revolt and Political Culture in Fifteenth-century Paris
Adviser: Kathryn Reyerson

Amy Skonieczny
Political Science
The Analytic Opportunity of Unexpected Events: Human Action and the Social Context of International Trade Politics
Adviser: Raymond Duvall

Kurt Spokas
Soil Science
Investigation into Processes Controlling Soil Gas Transport in the Subsurface: Mineralization, Sorption, and Sampling Effects
Adviser: Dong Wang

Matthew Stone
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
Structural and Functional Analysis of Vitamin K-Dependent Plasma Proteins
Adviser: Gary Nelsestuen

Graeme Stout
Comparative Literature
Images of the Negative: Representing Terrorism in Post-war Italy and Germany
Adviser: Cesare Casarino

Silvia Suarez
Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures & Linguistics
Redefining Identities in Early Modern Hispanic Cultures: An Interpretation of “Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda” and the “Comentarios reales”
Adviser: Nicholas Spadaccini

Karen Switek
Chemistry
Synthesis of Block Copolymers for Biomedical Applications
Advisers: Frank Bates and Marc Hillmyer

Angsana Techatassanasoontorn
Business Administration
The State-based and Contagion Theories of Technology Diffusion: International Diffusion of Digital Wireless Technology
Adviser: Robert Kauffman

Amanda Thein
Curriculum & Instruction
Crossing Between the Text and the Lived Experience: High School Girls’ Social and Cultural Reading and Response Practices
Adviser: Richard Beach

Jessica Toft
Social Work
Low-Income Mothers’ Citizenship in the Time of Welfare Reform
Adviser: C. David Hollister

Elise Townsend
Child Psychology
Development of Recognition Memory and Attention in Typically Developing Children and Children at Risk for Early Hippocampal Damage: A Comparison of Neuropsychological and Experimental Measures
Advisers: Charles Nelson and Kathleen Thomas

John Troyer
Comparative Studies in Discourse & Society
Technologies of the Human Corpse
Adviser: John Archer

Michael Tracey
Chemistry
Synthesis and Reactivity of Allenamides and Ynamides
Adviser: Richard Hsung

Alexander Ueberfeldt
Economics
Working Time During the 20th Century, A Macroeconomics Perspective
Advisers: Michele Boldrin and Ellen McGrattan

Miriam van Mersbergen
Communication Disorders
Functional Dysphonia During Mental Imagery: Exploring Sources of Anxiety
Advisers: Leslie Glaze and Christopher Patrick

Jing Wang
Aerospace Engineering
Several Topics in Multiphase Flow
Adviser: Daniel Joseph

Jennifer White
Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
Parasitism of the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis, by Macrocentrus grandii: From Individual Behavior to Spatial Outcomes
Adviser: David Andow

Daisaku Yamamoto
Geography
A Comparative Analysis of Regional Economic Change in Japan and the United States
Adviser: Eric Sheppard

Yong Zhang
Mass Communication
Transplanting Modernity: Cross-Cultural Networks and the Rise of Modern Journalism in China, 1890s-1930s
Adviser: Chin Chuan Lee

Pusheng Zhang
Computer Science
Efficient Mining and Accessing Techniques on Spatial Time Series Data
Advisers: Vipin Kumar and Shashi Shekhar

Yan Zhao
Chemistry
Computational Thermochemical Kinetics and Gas Phase Reaction Dynamics
Adviser: Donald Truhlar

Guthrie Zimmerman
Wildlife Conservation
Weather and Habitat Determinants of Forest Stand Occupancy by Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus): Modeling and Robust Estimation
Adviser: R. J. Gutierrez

Julie Zimmerman
Conservation Biology
Community-level Consequences of Trout Introductions: Investigating Interactions Between Native and Nonnative Species in a Small Coldwater Stream
Adviser: Bruce Vondracek