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Doctoral Dissertation Fellows 2005-06
Hengjie Ai
Economics
Uncertainty Aversion, Optimal Learning, and the Equity Premium Puzzle
Adviser: Michele Boldrin
Priscilla A. Arling
Business Administration
Telework: The Role of Communication and Social Capital on Performance
Adviser: Mani Subramani
Stanley T. Asah
Water Resources Science
Individuals as Complex Adaptive Systems: Operationalizing Social-Ecological Resilience Analysis of Indigenous Agriculture within the Lake Chad Basin
Adviser: James A. Perry II
Michael Baldea
Chemical Engineering
Dynamics and Control of Integrated Process Networks
Adviser: Prodromos Daoutidis
Ariane M. Balizet
English
Meaning and Manners: Blood on the Early Modern Stage
Adviser: John A. Watkins
Shannon Barber
Wildlife Conservation
Determining Rates and Causes of Summer Elk Calf Mortality Following in Yellowstone National Park
Adviser: David L. Mech
Koni Benson
History
Life Beyond The House(wife): “Unattached” Women in the African Township of Bulawayo, 1945-1965
Advisers: Allen F. Isaacman and Michele Wagner
Nikki L. Berg
History
A Regency of Women: Female Plantation Management in the Old South
Advisers: Kirsten Fischer and Lisa A. Norling
Raymond W. Bouchard, Jr.
Entomology
Effects of Thermal Regime on the Phenology and Taxonomic Composition of Chironomidae (Diptera) Communities in Flowing Waters
Adviser: Leonard C. Ferrington, Jr.
Meghan E. Brown
Water Resources Science
The Distribution and Emergence of Bythotrephes Diapausing Eggs: Defining the Role of Cumulative Environmental Stressors in Dormancy
Adviser: Donn Branstrator
Laura J. Burch
French
Translating Friendship. Literature, Gender, and Sociability in the Works of Three Early Modern French Writers: Marguerite de Navarre, Madeleine de Scudéry, and Françoise de Graffigny
Adviser: Daniel A. Brewer
Bei Cai
Physics
Studies of the Highest Energy Cosmic Ray Air Showers
Adviser: Michael DuVernois
Matthew A. Carper
Civil Engineering
Subfilter-Scale Physics and the Role of Coherent Structures in Large-Eddy Simulation of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Adviser: Fernando Porte-Agel
Mariana Carriquiry
Animal Sciences
Effects of Bovine Somatotropin and Dietary Fat with Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Lactation, Reproductive Characteristics and Hepatic Gene Expression in Dairy Cows
Adviser: Brian A. Crooker
Philip J. Cozzolino
Psychology
Social Capital and Equality: A Causal Analysis
Adviser: Mark Snyder
Steven A. Culpepper
Educational Psychology
Race, Equity, and the Pattern of Opportunity
Adviser: Ernest C. Davenport
Lei Ding
Biomedical Engineering
Three Dimensional Electrophysiological NeuroImaging (3D-ENI) in a Realistic Geometry Head Model
Adviser: Bin He
Anthony G. Dodge
Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology
Novel Microbial Metabolism and Interactions with Metals
Adviser: Lawrence P. Wackett
Fang Fang
Psychology
Spatial Variation of Object Representation in Human Visual System
Advisers: Sheng He and Daniel J. Kersten
Nicolas A. Figueroa
Economics
Mechanism Design for Market with Imperfections
Adviser: Marcel K. Richter
Jared M. Fine
Fisheries
Function and Identity of the Sea Lamprey Migratory Pheremone
Adviser: Peter W. Sorensen
Nelson F. Granados
Business Administration
The Impact of IT-Driven Market Transparency on Demand, Prices, and Market Structure
Adviser: Alok Gupta
Jeong-Myeong Ha
Chemical Engineering
Crystallization and Thermotropic Properties of Organic Solids in Nanoscopic Reactors
Adviser: Michael D. Ward
Katherine E. Himes
Neuroscience
A Study of the Multiple Roles of a Cell Adhesion Molecule in the Developing Nervous System of the Hawkmoth, Manduca Sexta
Adviser: Karen A. Mesce
Andrew R. Holdsworth
Conservation Biology
Ecological Consequences and Conservation Implications of Non-Native Invasive Earthworms in Northern Hardwood Forests
Advisers: Lee E. Frelich and Peter B. Reich
Ryan B. Holifield
Geography
Local Knowledge and Human Health Risk: Geographies of Risk Assessment at Two Hazardous Waste Sites
Adviser: Eric S. Sheppard
Cynthia S. Hsu
Entomology
Effects of Spatially Density-Dependent Mortality by Macrocentrus grandii on the Evolution of Bt Resistance by European Corn Borers (Ostrinia nubilalis)
Adviser: George Heimpel
Juraj Huska
Mathematics
Qualitative Properties of Second Order Parabolic Equations
Adviser: Peter Polacik
Noriko Ishihara
Curriculum & Instruction
Teaching Pragmatics in Second/Foreign Language Education: Teaching at the Intersection of Language and Culture
Adviser: Martha Bigelow
Monica G. Janzen
Philosophy
Reinterpreting Hospitality: A Case for Community
Advisers: Sarah W. Holtman and John P. Wallace
Michael S. Kelley
Astrophysics
The Dust Properties of Comets
Adviser: Charles E. Woodward
Himanshu Khandelia
Chemical Engineering
Design of Novel Antibiotics: Computational Studies of Antimicrobial Peptides
Adviser: Yiannis Kaznessis
John M. Kinder
American Studies
Encountering Injury: The Wounded Soldier in the American Imagination, 1917-1941
Adviser: Lary L. May
Jennifer C. Lee
Sociology
Ethnic Economy Participation and Educational Attainment Among Children of Immigrants
Advisers: Jeylan T. Mortimer and John R. Warren
Ming Li
Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics
Temporally Regulated microRNAs Time Development in Caenorhabditis elegans
Adviser: Ann E. Rougvie
Chadwick D. Lindstrom
Chemical Physics
Understanding Two-Photon Photoemission of Monolayer Scale Molecular Films on Metal Substrates with Application to Molecular Electronics
Adviser: Xiaoyang Zhu
Jia Liu
Chemistry
1.Total Synthese of (+)-Cylindricines C-E and (-)-Lepadiformine
2.Total Synthetic Studies toward Spirastrellolide A
Adviser: Richard Hsung
Shujin Luo
Conservation Biology
Comparative Phylogeography of Sympatric Wild Cats: Implications for Biogeography and Conservation in Asian Biodiversity Hotspots
Advisers: Stephen O’Brien and J. L. David Smith
Andrew I. Madyarov
Civil Engineering
Fast Solutions for 3D Elastic-Wave Imaging of Solid Bodies
Adviser: Bojan Guzina
Lorenzo Mangolini
Mechanical Engineering
Low Pressure Plasma Synthesis of Silicon Quantum Dots
Adviser: Uwe R. Kortshagen
Bryn Mason Dentinger
Plant Biological Sciences
The Systematics of Porcini Mushrooms
Adviser: David J. McLaughlin
Mihaela Mihailescu
Political Science
Interethnic Cooperation in Post-Communist Eastern Europe. The Hungarian Minorities in Romania and Slovakia
Adviser: W. Phillips Shively
Jay D. Mininger
Comparative Literature
“Nothing Too Much”: Reading the Poetics of Anxiety
Adviser: Thomas A. Pepper
Suman Muppidi
Aerospace Engineering
Numerical Simulations of Jets in Crossflow
Adviser: Krishnan Mahesh
Ronald C. Neath
Statistics
Monte Carlo Methods for Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Hierarchical Models
Adviser: Galin L. Jones
Amanda M. Nienow
Chemistry
Surface Chemistry of Size-Selected Nanoparticles
Adviser: Jeffrey T. Roberts
Vincent O. Okany
Theatre Arts
Politics and the Public Intellectual: Progressive Impulse in the Dramaturgy of Femi Osofisan
Adviser: Margaret Werry
Maria E. Ordonez
Plant Pathology
Host Specialization of Puccinia triticina on Wheat and Phylogeny of Tranzschelia Rust Species
Adviser: James Kolmer
Kevin A. Parendo
Physics
Tuning the Two-Dimensional Superconductor-Insulator Transition via the Electric Field Effect
Adviser: Allen M. Goldman
Michael D. Parkin
Political Science
When Image Matters: Media, Campaigns, and the Saliency of Candidate Image
Adviser: James N. Druckman
Anca E. Parvulescu
English
She Who Laughs Last: Feminism and Laughter
Adviser: Paula Rabinowitz
Constantin T. Parvulescu
Germanic Studies
The Egotists: The Journal “Der Einzige” and Anti-Humanist Politics in Weimar Germany
Adviser: Jack D. Zipes
Amy M. Patrick
Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication
Apocalyptic or Precautionary? Revisioning Texts in Environmental Literature
Adviser: Daniel J. Philippon
Ana P. Pereira
Sociology
Women’s Movements in Transition to Democracy: A Comparative Assessment of the Spanish and Portuguese Cases
Advisers: Jeffrey P. Broadbent and Robin S. Stryker
Yvette V. Perry
Family Social Science
A Typology of Adoptive Parents’ Lay Theories of Genetic Difference
Adviser: Harold D. Grotevant
Kathryn S. Plaisance
Philosophy
The Nature-Nurture Debate Revisited: What is a Shared Environment, Anyway?
Adviser: C. Kenneth Waters
Clancy A. Ratliff
Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication
Gender, Punditry, and Weblogs: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Blogging’s Challenge to Current Understandings of Political Discourse
Adviser: Mary Lay Schuster
Evan W. Roberts
History
Labor Force Participation of Married Women in the United States, 1880-1940
Adviser: Steven Ruggles
Peter A. Schmidt
History of Science and Technology
The Martian Life: Science Fiction and its Place in the History of Scientific Thought About Mars, 1912-1980
Adviser: Robert W. Seidel
Fortunata G. Songora
Sociology
Tanzanian Reaction to Conflicting International Discourses on the Implementation of Social Programs for Children and the Elderly
Adviser: Elizabeth Heger Boyle
Alexandra I. Stein
Sociology
Attachment, Networks and Discourse in Extremist Political Organizations: A Comparative Case Study
Adviser: Joachim Savelsberg
Simon T. Strasser
Astrophysics
The Neutral Hydrogen in the Far Outer Galaxy
Advisers: John M. Dickey and Evan Skillman
Timothy M. Urness
Computer Science
Texture-Based Visualization of Multi-Field Flow Data
Adviser: Victoria L. Interrante
Lan Wang
Materials Science and Engineering
Composition Controlled Spin Polarization in Co1-xFexS2
Adviser: Chris Leighton
Andrew C. Wilber
Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics
Sleeping Beauty-Mediated Transposition in Vivo
Adviser: R. Scott McIvor
Jeanne I. Willcoxon
Theatre Arts
The Plague of “Strange” Bodies: Contagion and Containment in the Queen’s Masques
Adviser: Michal A. Kobialka
Yang Xie
Biostatistics
Integrative Analysis of Genomic-Wide Data: From Expression Profiles to Gene Regulation
Advisers: Arkady Khodursky and Wei Pan
Cristiane Zampieri
Rehabilitation Sciences
Rehabilitation of Gaze Control to Improve Attention and Mobility in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Adviser: Richard P. Difabio
Jianmin Zhang
Soil Science
Using Stable Isotope Techniques to Investigate Carbon Cycle Dynamics of an Agricultural Ecosystem
Advisers: John M. Baker and Timothy Griffis
Xu Zhang
Curriculum & Instruction
Teaching and Learning with the Presence of Technology in a Content-Based College Adjunct ESL Program
Adviser: Constance Walker
Wei Zheng
Electrical Engineering
Self-Assembly Based Fabrication of Three-Dimensional Heterogeneous Microsystems
Adviser: Heiko O. Jacobs
Lijun Zu
Materials Science and Engineering
Doping of Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Adviser: David J. Norris
Past Doctoral Dissertation Fellows
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