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May 2020 Graduates

Ugbede Abu, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Public Health, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Bruce Fried, Dissertation: Availability of Essential Medicines in Malawi's Public Health Facilities: Enablers and Barriers

Martina Adani, Romance Languages and Literatures, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Dissertation: Stifled Voices of the Resistenza: Women's Stories on the Other Side of the Italian Civil War

Jessica Addison, Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Ram Neta, Dissertation: Imaginary Friends: Art, Ethical Criticism, and Moral Perception

Gillian Izabelle Adynski, Nursing, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Cheryl Jones, Dissertation: Nurses’ Work and How it Impacts HIV Outcomes in Namibia

Erum Agha, Social Work, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Gary Cuddeback, Dissertation: Physical and Behavioral Health Needs of Refugee Women Resettled in the United States

Feddah Musaed Edrees Al Ahmad, Occupational Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Ruth Humphry, Dissertation: Understanding the Occupation of Play: A Middle Eastern Revelation, A Preliminary Exploration into Arab Parental Values and Children’s Engagement in Play in Kuwait

Abby Anna Ampuja, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jennifer Diliberto, Dissertation: Homeschool Literacy Choices: A Case Study of How Parents Teach Their Children With Unique Learning Needs

Tara Anderson, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Cheryl Bolick, Dissertation: A Book Club for the 21st Century: An Ethnographic Exploration of BookTube

Robin Leigh Armstrong, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Robert Duronio, Dissertation: Epigenetic Regulation of DNA Replication in Drosophila Melanogaster

Jessica Asaro, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Deborah Mayer, Dissertation: A Quality Improvement Initiative: Evaluating Preoperative Education in Prostatectomy Patients

Naomi Christine Askew, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Meg Zomorodi, Dissertation: Developing a Nurse-Led Home Health Protocol to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions

Andre Assumpcao, Public Policy, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Brigitte Seim, Dissertation: Three Essays on Sanctions of Politicians in Brazil

Jessica Auer, History, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Katherine Turk, Dissertation: In the Service of Knowledge: Race, Gender, and Class in a New South University Community, 1930-1980

Jared T. Baisden, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Qi Zhang and Andrew Lee, Dissertation: Probing excited conformational states involved in microRNA biogenesis

Heather Barnes, Information and Library Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Helen Tibbo, Dissertation: Conceptualizing and Curating Digtal Documentaries

Katherine Barrett, Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Amanda Thompson, Dissertation: The Influence of Infant-Caregiver Feeding Interactions on Diet, Growth, and Metabolic Development

Jessica Barrick, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Amy Oldenburg, Dissertation: Development of a Line-Field Magneto-Motive Optical Coherence Tomography System

Keri Barron, Nutrition, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Natalia Krupenko, Dissertation: Ceramide Synthase 6 in metabolic response to dietary fat and folic acid

Marcus Luis Basiri, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Garret Stuber, Dissertation: Transcriptional Representations in Discrete Neural Systems and Their Tuning by Chronic Physiological Pressures

James John Beaudoin, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Kim Brouwer, Dissertation: In Vitro and Modeling Approaches to Investigate Mechanisms of Drug-induced Liver Injury

Rowan Far Beck, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Praveen Sethupathy and Miroslav Styblo, Dissertation: Defining the Molecular Effects of Arsenic Exposure in Circulation and in Pancreatic Beta Cells

Kelsey Behrens, Toxicology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Beverly Koller, Dissertation: Evaluating the species- and family-dependent contributions of the glutathione S-transferase enzyme family in protecting against the toxicity of electrophilic substrates

Andrew Belnap, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Ed Maydew and Jeff Hoopes, Dissertation: The Effect of Public Scrutiny on Mandatory and Voluntary Disclosure: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Martin Tomas Benavides, Marine Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Fredrick Fodrie, Dissertation: Variability in Coastal Shark Populations Across Multiple Spatiotemporal Scales

Matteo Binfare, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Gregory Brown, Dissertation: The Real Effects of Operational Risk: Evidence from Data Breaches

Natalie Blackburn, Health Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Vivian Go, Dissertation: An Economic Evaluation of an Alcohol Reduction Intervention in the HIV Clinic Setting in Vietnam

Bevin Ellen Blake, Toxicology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Suzanne Fenton and Rebecca Fry, Dissertation: Assessing the Effects of Perfluoroalkyl Substance Exposure using Transdisciplinary Science

Malia Blue, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Abbie Smith-Ryan, Dissertation: Validity of Body Composition Assessment in Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations

Paige Annalise Bommarito, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Rebecca Fry, Dissertation: Associations between toxic metals and preeclampsia: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding disease etiology

Dillan Francesca Bono-Lunn, Public Policy, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jeremy Moulton, Dissertation: Essays on the Policy Responses to Labor Market Risks Borne by Workers

Colleen Brynn Bove, Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Karl Castillo, Dissertation: Regional and species level responses of Scleractinian corals under global change within the Caribbean Sea

Elizabeth Brassfield, Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Douglas MacLean, Dissertation: Conscience and Its Role in Moral Life

Nick Brazeau, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Steven Meshnick, Dissertation: The Molecular, Spatial, and Genetic Epidemiology of Malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Tiffany Lyn Breger, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Stephen Cole, Dissertation: Estimating the impacts of interventions on non-AIDS risk factors in observational HIV cohorts

Emily Brennan-Moran, Communication Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Della Pollock, Dissertation: Naming the Dead: An Ethics of Memory and Metonymy

Renée Pouliot Bridges, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Cheryl Jones, Dissertation: Improving a Hospital’s Just Culture Environment: Reframing Nurse Leader Responses to Adverse Events Through Education and Role Play

Sarah Elisabeth Brnich, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jonathan Berg, Dissertation: Examining the Role of Functional Assays in Clinical Variant Interpretation

Katherine Paige Calvin, Art History, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Christopher Johns and Mary Sheriff, Dissertation: Antiquity and Empire: The Construction of History in Western European Representations of the Ottoman Empire, 1650-1830

L. Grant Canipe III, Ph.D., Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Carol Cheatham, Dissertation: Individualized Cognitive Decline and the Impact of Gut Microbiome Composition

L.E. Carlton, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Cheryl Giscombe, Dissertation: Increasing Confidence in Sharing Knowledge about Depression with Barbers as Lay Mental Health Advocates: A Cognitive Rehearsal Project Utilizing A.D.A.A.M.-QR Web design.

Carlos Caro Seguel, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Sean Sylvia, Dissertation: Parental investments and school-based programs to foster early socioemotional development and nutritional health in Chile

Robert C Carr, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Lynne Vernon-Feagans, Dissertation: Investigating the Effectiveness of Head Start: Evidence From a Meta-Analysis and The Family Life Project

Rohan Chabra, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Henry Fuchs, Dissertation: Improving 3D Reconstruction using Deep Learning Priors

Yan Chen, City and Regional Planning, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Yan Song, Dissertation: Analyzing Determinants of Urban Vibrancy – A Big Data Approach on Connecting Built Environment, Social Activity, and Images of Places

Liang Chi, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Kun Lu, Dissertation: The Functional Interactions of Arsenic Exposure, Gut Microbiota, and Host

Haley Ruth Chi, Pathology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Li Qian, Dissertation: Molecular Mechanisms of Direct Cardiac Reprogramming

Arkopal Choudhury, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Michael Kosorok, Dissertation: Missing Data Imputation Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Clinical Diagnostic Codes

Paige Alyse Clayton, Public Policy, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Maryann Feldman, Dissertation: Essays on the Development of Entrepreneurial Regions

Mark Edward Collins, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jennifer Ho, Dissertation: Nuclear Reproduction: Race, Gender, and Reproductive Control in US Cold War Speculative Fictions

Lauren M Conroy, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Carrie Palmer, Dissertation: Implementation of a Palliative Care Eligibility Screening Tool to Increase Enrollment in an Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic

Katie Conway, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jason Franz, Dissertation: Design and Implementation of a Motor-Driven Impeding Force System to Understand and Mitigate Age-related Deficits in Push-Off Intensity

Kirsten Cooper, History, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Jay Smith and Chad Bryant, Dissertation: Honest Germans and Perfidious French: National Ideas in Pamphlet Propaganda during the Wars of Louis XIV

Dana Z. Copeland, Curriculum and Instruction, Doctor of Education, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jeffrey Greene, Dissertation: Recontextualizing Metatextual Knowledge and Text Structure Features in Self-Regulated Learning and Online Comprehension

Evette Cordoba, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Allison Aiello and Joanna Maselko, Dissertation: Identifying whether IgG antibody response to herpesviruses and inflammation varies with exposure to neighborhood social cohesion, trauma, and psychosocial resources

William Woodfin Crosby, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jennifer D'Auria, Dissertation: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve use of Mobile Health Applications for Adjunctive Treatment of Anxiety in an Outpatient Adolescent Specialty Clinic

Ian Pierce Cruise, Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Dissertation: The Elements of a Humean Theory of Justice

Anessa Custovic, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Eric Ghysels, Dissertation: Essays in Financial Econometrics

Aaron Ray Dallman, Occupational Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Antoine Bailliard, Dissertation: Understanding the Affective Dimension of Occupational Participation Among Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study

Elizabeth R Daly, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Public Health, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Leah Devlin, Dissertation: Exploring the Role and Readiness of State Health Department Epidemiologists in the United States to Work in Emerging Areas of Public Health Practice

Manisit Das, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Leaf Huang, Dissertation: Drug Delivery Strategies to Treat Desmoplastic and Immunosuppressive Pancreatic Cancer

Hope Caroline Davis, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Brian Pietrosimone, Dissertation: Association Between Physical Activity, Cumulative Loading, and Post Traumatic Knee Osteoarthritis Symptoms and Pathology

Marlous Paula Maria De Milliano, Public Policy, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Sudhanshu Handa, Dissertation: Three Essays on Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa

Stephanie Kay Booker DeGraffenreid, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Laura McQueen, Dissertation: Quality Improvement Project on Team Strengthening to Improve Practice Using Teamstepps® Protocol

Aaron Christopher Delgaty, Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Christopher Nelson, Dissertation: Heart & Matter: Fermentation in a Time of Crisis

Sten Delos, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Adrienne Erickcek, Dissertation: Probing the Early Universe Using Dark Matter Minihalos

Ansev Demirhan, History, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Cemil Aydin and Sarah Shields, Dissertation: We Can Defend Our Rights by Our Own Efforts: Turkish Women and the Global Muslim Woman Question, 1870 -1935

Tamara Yang Demko, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Public Health, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Pam Silberman, Dissertation: The Politics of Public Health in Florida: Insights from Debates Over Medical Cannabis And Needle/Syringe Exchange Legislation

Molly Deutsch-Feldman, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Steven Meshnick, Dissertation: The Changing Spatial Epidemiology of Malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Julia DiFiore, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Brian Strahl, Dissertation: Examining the Biological Functions of the H3K36 Methylation States in Transcription Regulation and the Post-Translational Modification Landscape of Set2

Bridget Donnelly, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor James Thompson, Dissertation: Accidents Waiting to Happen: Plotting the Unexpected in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Achsah Foster Dorsey, Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Amanda Thompson, Dissertation: Iron, Infection, and Malnutrition: An Exploration of Childhood Anemia in a Peri-Urban Community in Lima, Peru

Lori Downen, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Christian Iliadis, Dissertation: The Study of 29Si(p,γ)30P and Its Impact on Classical Nova Nucleosynthesis

Cameron M Doyle, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Kristen Lindquist, Dissertation: Unsupervised Classification Reveals Degenerate Neural Representations of Emotion

Michaela Dubay, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Linda Watson, Dissertation: Translation and Cultural Adaptation of Autism Screening Tools

Johanna Stephens Dutton, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Nancy Allbritton and Shawn Gomez, Dissertation: The Effects of Environmental Challenges on Human and Murine Primary Intestinal Cell Behavior

Tojin Thomas Eapen, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Rajdeep Grewal, Dissertation: Essays on Creative Ideation and New Product Design

Jennifer Kay Edwell, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Jordynn Jack and Jane Danielewicz, Dissertation: Origin Stories: The Rhetorical Ecology of American Birth Medicine

Azin Eftekhari, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Glenn Morrison, Dissertation: Advancing prediction of transdermal uptake of SVOCs from clothing and lotion

Ahmed Rachid El-Khattabi, City and Regional Planning, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor T. William Lester, Dissertation: Managing Demand for Scarce Water Resources: An Evaluation of Current Approaches

Bradley Charles Erickson, Religious Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jodi Magness, Dissertation: Cosmological Narrative in the Synagogues of Late Roman-Byzantine Palestine

Yanire Estrada Del Campo, Nutrition, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Alice Ammerman, Dissertation: Dietary Patterns Associated With Cardiometabolic Risk for Puerto Ricans With and Without Diabetes, and the Psychosocial Health Correlates of Adherence to the Disease-Related Patterns

Kimmie Farris, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Eliza Richards, Dissertation: The Incorporeal Scientific Method: Gender, Hybridity, and the Rise of Material Science in American Literature, 1840-1900

Yanica Faustin, Maternal and Child Health, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jon Hussey, Dissertation: Preterm Birth Risk Among Foreign-Born and U.S.-Born Black Women in New York City: A Mixed Methods Study

Thomas R. Feller, Jr., Curriculum and Instruction, Doctor of Education, May 2020, Advisors: Professors G. McDiarmid and Jeffrey Greene, Dissertation: Teacher Leaders’ Conceptualization of Teacher Leadership and Individual Teacher Leader Identity

Daniel Joseph Finkenstadt, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Valarie Zeithaml, Dissertation: Essays on Perceived Service Quality and Perceived Value in Business-to-Government Knowledge-Based Services

Zachary Fisher, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Kenneth Bollen and Kathleen Gates, Dissertation: Robust Estimation and Dynamic Models

Ramon Fowler, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Louise Dolan and Jonathan Heckman, Dissertation: Information Theoretic Interpretations of Renormalization Group Flow

Ryan John Fox, Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Theo Dingemans and M. Gregory Forest, Dissertation: Solution Structure, Rheology, and Nanocomposites of a Liquid Crystalline Polyelectrolyte

Joseph J. Frey, Social Work, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Paul Lanier, Dissertation: Multidimensional Stigma and the Mental Health of Sexual Minority Adults

Cheng-Yang Fu, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Alexander Berg, Dissertation: Single-Shot Object Detectors and the Future Direction of Object Detection

Elizabeth Mathias Garrett, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Rita Tamayo, Dissertation: Characterization of a Phase Variable Regulatory System and Its Impacts on Clostridioides difficile Physiology

Alex Gertner, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Marisa Domino, Dissertation: Quality and Access of Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Medicaid

Madeline Mary Giefer, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Stephen Walsh, Dissertation: Payment for Ecosystem Services’ Effects on Coupled Human-Natural Systems at Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve, China

John Gill, German Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Gabriel Trop, Dissertation: Wild Politics: Political Imagination in German Romanticism

Alanna Gillis, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Andrew Perrin, Dissertation: Major Questions: Reproducing Inequality Through College Major Decisions

Michael Giordano, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Kenneth Bollen, Dissertation: Estimating and Testing Random Intercept Multilevel Structural Equation Models With Model Implied Instrumental Variables

Maria De Las Nieves Gonzalez-Fuentes, Romance Languages and Literatures, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Samuel Amago, Dissertation: Érase una vez la Transición española: un nuevo relato a través del análisis fílmico feminista del cine de Cecilia Bartolomé

Amelia Goranson, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Kurt Gray, Dissertation: The Role of Perceived Harm in Moralizing Health

Erin Kathleen Grady, Art History, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Dorothy Verkerk, Dissertation: O admirandus apium fervor! Allegory and the Bee in Southern Italian Exultet Rolls

Fredy Rafael Grefa Andi, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Gabriela Valdivia, Dissertation: Sacha Runa Values and Resurgence: Implications on Payments for Ecosystem Services – The Programa Socio Bosque in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon

Aspen Rene Gutgsell, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Saskia Neher, Dissertation: Novel Strategies to Enhance LPL Activity in vivo

Emily R Haines, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Sarah Birken, Dissertation: Improving Care Coordination for Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer: Building a Bridge Between Needs and Services

Jackson Robert Hall, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Mark Schoenfisch, Dissertation: Gasotransmitter Detection Methodologies for Real-time Analysis and Studying Molecular Transport

Andrew Scott Hanson, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Toan Phan, Dissertation: Policy Implications of Asset Price Bubbles

Jeffrey Ryan Harris, History, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Lloyd Kramer, Dissertation: The Struggle for the General Will and the Making of the French and Haitian Revolutions

Susanna L Harris, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Elizabeth Shank, Dissertation: Building Complex Communities to Promote Individual Members’ Persistence and Affect Behaviors

Elliott Hauser, Information and Library Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Ryan Shaw, Dissertation: Making Certain: Information and Social Reality

George Merlin Hayward, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Lisa Pearce, Dissertation: Searching for Meaning: New Methods, Measures, and Modeling Approaches in the Sociology of Religion

Yunyan He, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Mark Forest and Kerry Bloom, Dissertation: Hierarchical Loop Structures Regulate Chromosome Organization

Douglas James Hermes, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Sylvia Fitting, Dissertation: GPR18 Drives FAAH Inhibition-Related Neuroprotection Against HIV-1 Tat-induced Neurodegeneration

Rebecca Beth Hershow, Health Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Vivian Go, Dissertation: A Longitudinal Study of Alcohol Use and Intimate Partner Violence among Men with HIV and Hazardous Alcohol Use in Vietnam

Jeffrey Alden Hertel, German Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jakob Norberg, Dissertation: Liberating Laughter. Dramatic Satire and the German Public Sphere, 1790-1848

Katie Rose Hirsch, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Abbie Smith-Ryan, Dissertation: Metabolic Effects of High-Intensity Interval Training and Essential Amino Acid Supplementation

Joseph Hooper, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor James Trier, Dissertation: Mobile Activism and Psychogeographic Inspirations: A Qualitative Study on iOS App Making with College Students

Riley L Howard, Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Nancy Allbritton, Dissertation: Analyzing the effects of scaffold and synthesized material properties in an in vitro colonic epithelial cell model

Travis Howell, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Chris Bingham, Dissertation: Surrounding the Founder: Examining the Hidden Figures of Entrepreneurship

Mengying Hu, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Leaf Huang, Dissertation: Relaxin Gene Therapy for Advanced Liver Diseases: Fetching an Endogenous Repair Mechanism

Sunwoo Hwang, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Anil Shivdasani and Elena Simintzi, Dissertation: The Effects of Contingent Employment on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Duhyeong Hwang, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Alexander Kabanov, Dissertation: Poly(2-oxazoline)-Based Polymeric Micelle Platform for Drug Delivery

Dakota Irvin, History, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Donald Raleigh and Louise McReynolds, Dissertation: Revolving Doors of Power: Local Government in Russia’s Revolutions and Civil War, 1917-1923

Zafrullah Jagoo, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Laurie McNeil, Dissertation: Effects of Light, Bias Stress and Moisture on Organic Thin-Film Transistors

Hannah Jahnke, Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Amanda Thompson, Dissertation: Madres Sanas, Bebés Sanos: The Intergenerational Effects of Maternal Stress in the Galápagos Islands

Erica Marie James, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Gerald Meyer, Dissertation: Electron Transfer in Dye-Sensitized TiO 2, SnO 2, and Core/Shell Nanocrystalline, Mesoporous Thin Films

Sehrish Javaid, Dentistry (Oral and Craniofacial Biomedicine), Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Adrienne Cox and Channing Der, Dissertation: Targeted therapeutic strategies for treatment of HRAS mutant head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Yue Jiang, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Jason Fine and Shanshan Zhao, Dissertation: Contributions to Effect Size Measures for Mediation Analysis

Fan Jiang, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Stan Ahalt and Claris Castillo, Dissertation: On Improving Efficiency of Data-Intensive Applications in Geo-Distributed Environments

Xiaotong Jiang, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Michael Kosorok, Dissertation: Developing Machine Learning Methodology for Precision Health

Rhi Johnson, Romance Languages and Literatures, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Irene Gómez-Castellano and Juan Carlos González Espitia, Dissertation: Water Women: Reclaiming Erotic Agency Through Image in the Transatlantic Nineteenth Century

Hanna Kalmanovich-Cohen, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jeffrey Edwards, Dissertation: Bridging Time and Power: How Changes in Social Power Influence Individuals’ Prosocial Behavior at Work

James Edward Keating, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Gary Glish, Dissertation: New Approaches to Improve Analyses Using Differential Ion Mobility Spectrometry - Mass Spectrometry

Cory Keeler, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Michael Emch, Dissertation: Moving People, Moving Pathogens: Population movement and disease emergence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Andrew Nicolas Keith, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Sergei Sheiko and Frank Leibfarth, Dissertation: Traversing the Elastic Landscape With the Polymer Brush Architecture: Lessons in the Pursuit of Nature

Ben Keith, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Terrence Furey and Shehzad Sheikh, Dissertation: Molecular Stratification and Prognostic Determinants of Adult and Pediatric Crohn’s Disease

Justin Kent, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Atul Nerkar, Dissertation: To Start or Not to Start? An Empirical Examination of the Decision to Start a Business

Jennifer Lauren Kernan, Pharmacology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Michael Emanuele, Dissertation: Cell Cycle and APC/C Ubiquitylation Regulate Chromatin Dynamics to Achieve Timely Cell Proliferation

Joshua Kiers, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Prakash Belkale, Dissertation: Geometric Invariant Theory and Applications to Tensor Products and the Saturation Conjecture

Claire Elizabeth Kiers, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Christopher Jones, Dissertation: Rate-induced Tipping in Applied Dynamical Systems: Multi-dimensional Flows and Maps

Christine Yaeree Kim, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Bruce Fried, Dissertation: Spatial access, coverage, and utilization of maternal healthcare services in Afghanistan, 2010-2015

Laura Krull, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Lisa Pearce, Dissertation: The (Rainbow) Elephant in the Email: How Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Parenthood Status Shape Churches’ Treatment of Potential New Members

Megan Kwiatkowski, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Erik Alexanian, Dissertation: Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions of Unactivated Alkyl Electrophiles

Charlotte Lane, Nutrition, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor LInda Adair, Dissertation: Growth in HIV-Exposed and -Uninfected Infants in Malawi and Rwanda

David Leather, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Jacob Sagi and Neville Francis, Dissertation: Inquiries Into Real Estate and Macroeconomics: Zoning & Monetary Policy Regimes

Duyeol Lee, Statistics and Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Michael Kosorok and Kai Zhang, Dissertation: Precision Finance and the Binary Expansion Randomized Ensemble Test

Katherine Jane Lee, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jillian Dempsey, Dissertation: Development, Refinement, and Application of Electrochemical Methods for Evaluating Fuel-Forming Catalysts

Jordan Talmadge Lee, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Claudio Battaglini, Dissertation: The Heart of the Matter: Cardiovascular Vulnerability of Breast Cancer Survivors. Implications for Aerobic Capacity and Cardiovascular Risk

Angelica Elizabeth Leigh, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Shimul Melwani, Dissertation: Am I Next? Mega-Threats, Identity Labor, and the Buffering Effect of Close Work Relationships

Sara Levintow, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Brian Pence, Dissertation: The Role of Depression in HIV Transmission Among People Who Inject Drugs in Vietnam

Nicholas A. Levis, Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor David Pfennig, Dissertation: Plasticity-Led Evolution in Nature

Weiwei Li, Statistics and Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Jan Hannig and Corbin Jones, Dissertation: Data Science Methods with Applications to Genetic Sequencing

Jia Lin, Curriculum and Instruction, Doctor of Education, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Xue Lan Rong, Dissertation: Development and Validation of a Reading Proficiency Scale for Chinese as a Second Language

Jessica Jean Link Reeve, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Public Health, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Leah Frerichs, Dissertation: BE FAST Bella Stroke Awareness Campaign: A Qualitative Study of Implementation Factors

David Richard Little, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Robert Janssens, Dissertation: Nature of Low-Spin Excitations and Shape Coexistence in 64Ni

Nicky Lo, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jean Davison, Dissertation: Performance Improvement in Risk Assessment for Hepatitis A, B, and C among Asymptomatic Hmong Patients in a Primary Care Setting

Kenneth Lota, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jennifer Ho, Dissertation: The Post-Noir Novel: Pulp Genre, Alienation, and the Turn from Postmodernism in Contemporary American Fiction

Kendall Lough, Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Scott Williams and Mark Peifer, Dissertation: Multiple Roles of Afadin in Epithelial Morphogenesis

Jared Myles Lowe, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Michel Gagné, Dissertation: Selective Modification of Carbohydrates: Role of Boronium Ions, Solvent, and Computational Investigation

Cara Audrey Lutzow, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Grace Hubbard, Dissertation: Practice Change: Social Media Usage Screening to Identify High-Risk Adult Psychiatric Patients

Angus Curran Lyall, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Gabriela Valdivia, Dissertation: The Millennium City: Oil Politics and Urbanization in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon

Deidra D. Lyon, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jennifer Alderman, Dissertation: Evidence-Based Strategies for Implementing and Sustaining a Successful Nurse Residency Program

Jennifer K. MacCormack, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Kristen Lindquist, Dissertation: Minding the Body: The Role of Interoception in Linking Physiology and Emotion During Acute Stress

Jack Barton Maguire, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Brian Kuhlman and Alain Laederach, Dissertation: Improving Computational Methods for Designing Polar Protein-Protein Interfaces

Viren Makhijani, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Joyce Besheer, Dissertation: Predator odor stress and mineralocorticoid receptor regulation of alcohol self-administration

Alina Malkova, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Klara Peter, Dissertation: Essays on Credit Market Development and Labor Market Choices

Maggie Malone-Povolny, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Mark Schoenfisch, Dissertation: Role of Sustained Nitric Oxide Release on the In Vivo Analytical Performance of Glucose Biosensors

Sean Doyle McCabe, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Michael Love and Danyu Lin, Dissertation: Statistical methods for the analysis of multi-omics and multi-study datasets

Ethan Michael McCormick, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Eva Telzer, Dissertation: Neural Network Plasticity in Response to Experience: Contributions of Learning and Development

Ian Michael McDonald, Pharmacology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Lee Graves, Dissertation: Exploring the Controversial Role of MELK in Cancer

Joseph Alan McGirr, Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Christopher Martin, Dissertation: Genomic Changes Underlying Adaptive Traits and Reproductive Isolation Between Young Species of Cyprinodon Pupfishes

Julie Caitlin McIntosh, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Matthew Lockett, Dissertation: Development of Methods to Accurately Quantify Cellular Viability and Multidrug-Resistant Phenotypes within 3D Paper-Based Tumor Models

Josh McKenney, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Joaquı́n Drut, Dissertation: Properties and Thermodynamics of Anomalous One-Dimensional Fermions

Michael Francis McLaughlin, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jeffrey Johnson, Dissertation: Dearomative Spirocyclizations for the Preparation of Complex Carbo- and Heterocycles and the Development of a Thermodynamic Diastereomer Enrichment of a Fluorophosphite Ligand

Joshua Brent McManus, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor David Nicewicz, Dissertation: Novel Methods for C−H Functionalization via Organic Photoredox Catalysis

Elizabeth Michael Melton, Communication Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Renée Alexander Craft, Dissertation: Stages of (de)Segregation: Performing Stories of Public School Desegregation in Longview, Texas

Hashem Meriesh, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Brian Strahl, Dissertation: Elucidating the function of the histone H4 basic patch in SAGA-mediated histone H2B deubiquitination and histone acetylation

Sebastian Mestril, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Nancy Allbritton and Shawn Gomez, Dissertation: Platform for Calcium Imaging, Isolation, and Characterization in Primary Colon Epithelial Cells

Toni Miguel, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Harriet Able, Dissertation: Coaching Preservice Early Childhood Teachers in Evidence-Based Practices for Promoting Young Children's Social-Emotional Competence

Kathryn Miller, School Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Jessica Dykstra Steinbrenner and Sandra Evarrs, Dissertation: Multidimensionality of Caregiver Burden in Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Carisa Ashley Miller, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Adrienne Erickcek, Dissertation: Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Early Universe

Carla Marie Staton, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Erik Alexanian and David Nicewicz, Dissertation: Intermolecular Aliphatic C–H Functionalization via Multisite-Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer

Gabriel Walpole Moss, History, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Richard Talbert, Dissertation: Hostile Ground: Terrain, Force, and Control in the Roman Empire

Mahmoud Mostapha, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Martin Styner, Dissertation: Learning from Complex Neuroimaging Datasets

Jacob Adam Mota, Exercise and Sport Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Eric Ryan, Dissertation: Time Course of Neuromuscular Adaptations During High-Intensity Interval Training

Brittany C. Murray, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Thurston Domina, Dissertation: Other People’s Parents: The Relationship Between Collective Parent Involvement and Racial Equity in Diverse Public Schools

Christina Grace Na, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Erik Alexanian, Dissertation: Investigations of Heteroatom-Centered Radicals for Site-Selective Functionalizations of Unactivated C-H Bonds

Francesco Nappo, Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Marc Lange, Dissertation: The Most Beautiful of All Bonds: Analogy in Scientific Inquiry

Caroline Wood Newhall, History, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor W. Fizthugh Brundage, Dissertation: Under The Rebel Lash: Black Prisoners of War in the Confederate South

Kelsey Noll, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Mark Heise and Martin Ferris, Dissertation: The Role of Host Genetic Variation in Influenza A Virus Pathogenesis and Humoral Immunity

Hannah Nowotarski, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Nancy Allbritton, Dissertation: Development of a Microraft-based Invasion Assay for the Selection of Single Cells based on Metastatic Potential

Emily I. Nwakpuda, Public Policy, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Maryann Feldman, Dissertation: Three Essays on the Impact of High-Net-Worth Science Philanthropy

Devran Koray Ocal, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Pervin Gökariksel, Dissertation: Perceived Stateness, Everyday Geopolitics and the Reconfiguration of Religion: A Quotidian Political Analysis of Turkish Mosques in Germany

Krystal Ann Orlando, Pathology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Bernard Weissman and Joel Parker, Dissertation: The Epigenetic Consequences of BRG1/SMARCA4 Loss in Small Cell Carcinoma of the Ovary, Hypercalcemic Type (SCCOHT) Tumorigenesis

Michael Pablo, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Timothy Elston and Klaus Hahn, Dissertation: Spatiotemporal Coordination of Signaling at Single Molecule Resolution

Jaesung Park, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Dinesh Manocha, Dissertation: Real-Time Robot Motion Planning Algorithms and Applications Under Uncertainty

Nicole Corene Parsley, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Leslie Hicks, Dissertation: Exploring Cysteine-rich Botanical Bioactive Peptides via Mass Spectrometry

John Bernard Pawlak, Cell Biology and Physiology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Kathleen Caron, Dissertation: Adrenomedullin Signaling and Lymphatic Mimicry in Vascular Remodeling and Reproduction

Andrew Irving Perault, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Peggy Cotter, Dissertation: Interbacterial Competition in the Burkholderia cepacia Complex

Madelyn Sylvan Percy, Geological Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Larry Benninger, Dissertation: Weathering of Basalt in a Tropical Island System: Effects on Soil Moisture, Soil Weathering, and the Critical Zone

Brae Vernon Petersen, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Nancy Allbritton, Dissertation: Multiplexed Single Cell Analysis of Enzyme Activity and Gene Expression for Capillary Electrophoresis

Jedson Pereira Pinto, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Robert Bushman and Wayne Landsman, Dissertation: Does reduced mandatory disclosure increase price efficiency?

Colin Christopher Post, Information and Library Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Christopher Lee, Dissertation: Networked Alternatives: Digital Curation and Artistic Production on Artist-run Platforms

Srihari Vijayendra Pratapa, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Dinesh Manocha and Tom Olson, Dissertation: Efficient Random Access Compression Schemes for Image-Based Representations

Julianna Prim, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Karen McCulloch, Dissertation: Heart Rate Variability and Exertional Task Analysis in the Recovery of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Servicemembers (Hearts)

Connor Puett, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Otto Zhou, Dissertation: Advancing the Clinical Potential of Carbon Nanotube-enabled stationary 3D Mammography

Tong Qiu, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Conghe Song, Dissertation: Characterizing Responses of Land Surface Phenology to Urbanization, Climate Change, and Extreme Weather Events Using Remote Sensing and Bayesian Models

Joshua David Quinn, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Virginia Miller, Dissertation: Temperature and pH Regulate PsaE and PsaF to Control Expression of psaA in Yersinia pestis

Martino Rabaioli, Romance Languages and Literatures, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Federico Luisetti, Dissertation: Sensibilità and Flesh – Emotions and Body in Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone

Lauren Christine Radlinski, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Brian Conlon and Thomas Kawula, Dissertation: Harnessing Interspecies Antagonism to Enhance Antibiotic Efficacy

Amanda Christine Raimer, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor A. Matera, Dissertation: Effects of SMN Mutations on Protein Stability and SMA-like Phenotypes in Drosophila

Nestor Alexis Ramirez, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Eric Houck, Dissertation: Geography and College Choice: Foundational Analyses Towards a Geospatial Framework

Geovani RamÃrez, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor María DeGuzmán, Dissertation: Re-Imagining Chicana/o Thought Through Labor Discourses: The Transnational Ideologies of Mexican-Heritage Women Writers, 1872-Present

Tanmay Vitthal Randhavane, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Dinesh Manocha, Dissertation: Social Perception of Pedestrians and Virtual Agents Using Movement Features

Kishore Rathinavel, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Henry Fuchs, Dissertation: Volumetric and Varifocal-Occlusion Augmented Reality Displays

Jeff Kenneth Ratzloff, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Nicholas Law, Dissertation: Designing and Building the Evryscopes, Fast Transit Search Results.

Steve Raymond, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Eric Ghysels, Dissertation: Essays in Financial Econometrics and Macrofinance

Margaret Suzanne Hamilton Reif, German Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Eric Downing, Dissertation: Disruptive Organizers: Wild Children in German Realism (1850-1900)

Robert Shepard Richard, History, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Harry Watson, Dissertation: Panic and Power: North Carolina's First Great Depression, 1819-1833

Tricia Roby, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jason Mihalik, Dissertation: The Effect of Repetitive Head Impact Exposure on Cerebrovascular Function in High School Athletes

Allison A. Rodriguez, History, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Chad Bryant, Dissertation: Silesia at the Crossroads: Defining Germans and Poles in Upper Silesia during the First World War and Plebiscite Period

Emily Elizabeth Roscoe, Information and Library Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Christopher (Cal) Lee, Dissertation: Potential Risks of Legal Liability for Collecting Institutions: An Empirical Study of Legal Claims and a Comparison With Legal Issues Included in LIS Graduate Curricula

Josh Rosera, Geological Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Drew Coleman, Dissertation: The origin of volatile-rich silicic magmas and implications for crustal pre-conditioning of porphyry-style mineralization

Alyson S Rose-Wood, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Public Health, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Sandra Greene, Dissertation: How Can HIV Care Transition Be Improved When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Repatriates Detained Aliens to Mexico?

Jennifer Sadler, Nutrition, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Kyle Burger, Dissertation: Learning From Taste: Brain Connectivity, Adaptation, and Behavioral Correlates

Fabiola Salas Villalobos, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Xue Rong and Michael Domínguez, Dissertation: Exploring Parental Involvement of First-Generation Latinx Mothers in Activities That Contribute to the Education of their Children in the New Latinx Diaspora

Juan Carlos Salgado Hernandez, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Justin Trogdon, Dissertation: Simulation of Alternative Tax Policies for Sugar-sweetened Beverages: Consumer and Producer Outcomes in Mexico

Macy Salzberger, Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Susan Wolf, Dissertation: The Meaning and Moral Significance of Domestic Violence

Jennifer Schiller, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Samuel Lai and Leaf Huang, Dissertation: Selective Tuning of Biogels and Antibodies to Enhance Trapping of Pathogens

Rebekah Watkins Schulz, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jenny Ting, Dissertation: STING-activating acetalated dextran microparticles enhances NK anti-tumor immunity and generates physiological changes in NK cells

Anneke Ellen Schwob, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jane Thrailkill, Dissertation: In Situ: Environmental Management and the Progressive Literary Imagination, 1872-1924

Olivia Scott Kamkwamba, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Xue Rong, Dissertation: Ngati Mukuwerenga Ndichedwa Kale Kale Pieces of the Puzzle: Aid, Education and Geography in Malawi A Comparison of GIS and Manual Methods for Increasing Ownership Opportunities in International Aid to Education in Malawi

Jedediah David Seltzer, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Dirk Dittmer, Dissertation: Determining the Function of the Interleukin-1 Receptor Associated Kinase Pathway in Primary Effusion Lymphoma

Holly Shablack, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Kristen Lindquist, Dissertation: Concept Accessibility and the Experience of Stress

Nur Majida Shahir, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Terrence Furey and Shehzad Sheikh, Dissertation: Inflammatory Bowel Disease Differentially Affects Region Specific Composition and Aerotolerance Profiles of Mucosally-Adherent Bacteria

Chengyuan Shao, Mass Communication, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Victoria Ekstrand, Dissertation: The Surveillance Experience of Chinese University Students and the Value of Privacy in the Surveillance Society

Chen Shen, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Justin Sawon, Dissertation: Lagrangian Fibrations by Prym Varieties

Sharon Laburt Shofer, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Xue Rong, Dissertation: Student-centered learning and pedagogical choice in the American college classroom: Perspectives from international teaching assistants

Bonnie E. Shook-Sa, Biostatistics, Doctor of Public Health, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Michael Hudgens, Dissertation: Inverse Probability Weighting and Outcome Regression Approaches in Causal Inference and Survey Sampling

Keshav Singh, Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Ram Neta, Dissertation: Rational Agency and Normative Achievement

Edhriz Siraliev-Perez, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor John Sondek, Dissertation: Dynamics of allosteric regulation of the phospholipase C-gamma isozymes

Nicole Marie Smiddy, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Nancy Allbritton, Dissertation: Microraft Array Platforms for Sorting Live-Cell Colonies Based on Intracellular Protein Fluorescence

Ryan John Snyder, Toxicology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Steven Kleeberger and Stavros Garantziotis, Dissertation: Oxidative Lung Injury and its Persistent Mitogenomic Effects in Human Airway Epithelial Cells

Allison Rose, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Lora Cohen-Vogel, Dissertation: How State Education Agencies Frame the Teacher Quality Gap: A Discourse Analysis

Wakako Sogo, School Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Rune Simeonsson, Dissertation: An ICF-CY-Based Content Analysis of the Behavior Assessment System for Children, Third Edition (BASC-3)

C Joy Stewart, Social Work, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Dean Duncan, Dissertation: The Effects of Complex Trauma on Human Capital among Vulnerable Youth

Larissa Ruth Stiglich, History, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Konrad Jarausch, Dissertation: After Socialism: The Transformation of Everyday Life in Eisenhüttenstadt, 1975-2015

Alison Marie Stroh, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Victoria Soltis-Jarrett, Dissertation: Implementing a Depression Screening Protocol in a Primary Care Practice

Lindsay Sullivan, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Ted Bateman, Dissertation: Assessing Structural and Material Properties of Bone Following Radiation Therapy and Hemarthrosis

Wenyang Sun, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Xue Rong, Dissertation: The Family Language Policy of Chinese Immigrant Families in a New Gateway State: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Study on Parents’ Views

Joshua Albury Tait, History, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Benjamin Waterhouse, Dissertation: Making Conservatism: Conservative Intellectuals and the American Political Tradition

Tetsuya Takahashi, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Ming Lin, Dissertation: Efficient Particle-Based Viscous Fluid Simulation With Video-Guided, Real-to-Virtual Parameter Transfer

Dwight Kenneth Tanner, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jennifer Ho, Dissertation: In the End: Apocalyptic Literature, Minoritarian Identity, and Hopeless Futurity

Sara Jeanne Snell Taylor, Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Allen Hurlbert, Dissertation: Understanding species distribution and diversity: insights from temporal occupancy

Phyo Than Htoo, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Til Stürmer, Dissertation: Estimating treatment effects in the presence of calendar time trends in prescribing: instrumental variables and trend-in-trend design

Taylor Evan Thomas, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Peter Ornstein, Dissertation: The Influence of Suggestive Parent-Child Conversations and Interviews on Children’s Memory Reports

Eric Harrison Thomas, Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Rudolf Colloredo-Mansfeld, Dissertation: Making the Frontier: Contested Development on the Coast of Patagonia

Megan Vaness Threats, Information and Library Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Amelia Gibson, Dissertation: Information Behaviors and Engagement Along the HIV Prevention and Care Continua

Kate Tierney, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Kathleen Harris, Dissertation: A Demographic and Sociological Analysis of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the United States

Michaela Iman Tiller, Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Alan Nelson, Dissertation: Locke's Ideas of Power

Sarah Elizabeth Tomlinson, Musicology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Chérie Ndaliko, Dissertation: Representing Classical Music to Children and Young People in the United States: Critical Histories and New Approaches

Hanna Trzeciakiewicz, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Todd Cohen, Dissertation: The Regulation of Tau Pathogenesis in Neurodegeneration

Thelma Effie Uzonyi, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Elizabeth Crais, Dissertation: Revisiting Transactions: Developing a Comprehensive Method to Measure Parent-Child Engagement

Christina Brianna Vander Vegt, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Johna Register-Mihalik, Dissertation: Physiological Correlates of Working Memory Behavior for Cognitive Efficiency: implications for concussion management

Heidi Anahi Vuletich, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors B. Payne and Beth Kurtz-Costes, Dissertation: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes Perceptions of Time: Consequences for Decision-Making and Academic Achievement

Chi-Tsan Wang, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor William Vizuete, Dissertation: Emissions from the cultivation of cannabis and their impact on regional air quality

Ray Li Wang, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Luca Flabbi, Dissertation: The Impact of Grades on College Major Choice, Dropout, and Labor Outcomes

Ting Wang, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Haibo Zhou and Xiaofei Wang, Dissertation: Improving Enrichment Strategies in Outcome-Dependent Sampling Designs and Adaptive Biomarker-Threshold Designs

Joanna A Warren, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Nilu Goonetilleke, Dissertation: CD8+ T Cell Immunity in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 (HIV-1) Infection

Ariel Ivory Washington, School Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Steven Knotek, Dissertation: Transformational Intervention for Principal Leadership (TrIPLe): A Feasibility Study of an Innovative Professional Development Workshop for Principals of Schools with Exclusionary Discipline

Timothy Martin Weigand, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Cass Miller, Dissertation: On the Use of Entropy Production to Improve Mathematical Models and Numerical Methods for Non-Dilute Flow and Transport in Porous Media

William Weir, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Peter Mucha and William Kim, Dissertation: Modularity-based approaches to community detection in multilayer networks with applications toward precision medicine

A. Quinton White, III, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Jonathan Williams, Dissertation: Taxation of Multi-Product Firms with Cost Complementarities

Andreas Lutz Wierschen, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Michel Gagné, Dissertation: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Silylpalladium Cations

Kathryn Leigh Williams, Occupational Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Grace Baranek and Nancy Bagatell, Dissertation: Factors Impacting Participation in the Sensory Environment for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Mary K. Wolfe, City and Regional Planning, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Noreen McDonald, Dissertation: Access to Health Care: Perspectives on Transportation as a Social Determinant of Health

Amber McCrary Woodard, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Cheryl Jones, Dissertation: Missed Nursing Care and Clinical Decision Support: Can Electronic Nursing Worklist Reminders Help Reduce This Quality and Patient Safety Concern?

Hao Wu, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Rebecca New, Dissertation: Meanings and Means of Children’s Heritage Language Maintenance in Chinese Immigrant Families in the United States: Three Ethnographic Case Studies

Ayana Younge, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Shimul Melwani, Dissertation: Grateful or Slimy? The Influence of Social Hierarchy on the Witness-Recipient Difference in Perceptions of Authentic Gratitude

Vasyl Zhabotynsky, Biostatistics, Doctor of Public Health, May 2020, Advisors: Professors Wei Sun and Fei Zou, Dissertation: Analysis of Genetic, Parent of Origin or Treatment effect on gene expression using RNA-seq data in Human and Mouse

Yang Zhan, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Donald Porter, Dissertation: Efficient, Locality-Maintaining Namespace Operations in a Write-Optimized File System

Yinglong Zhang, Information and Library Science, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Robert Capra, Dissertation: Beyond Searching: Understanding How People Use Search to Support Their Creative Endeavors

Qiang Zhu, Pathology, Doctor of Philosophy, May 2020, Advisors: Professor Joan Taylor, Dissertation: GRAF1 is a novel mediator of PINK1-Parkin dependent mitophagy

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