ANATOMY AND CELL BIOLOGY

Boguslavsky, Revekka L. Sponsor: Howard Worman. Anatomy and Cell Biology. The Role of A-type Lamins in Adipogenesis and in Heat Shock Response: Implications for Human Disease.
Hope, Justin Chitepo. Sponsor: Greg Freyer. Anatomy and Cell Biology. The S. pombe RecQ DNA Helicase Acts with Homologous Recombination in Recovery from DNA Damage and Replication Arrest.
Huckaba, Thomas Matthew. Sponsor: Liza Pon. Anatomy and Cell Biology. Mechanisms and Consequences of Actin Retrograde Flow in the Budding Yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Distinction
McCarthy, Ellen Elizabeth. Sponsor: Thomas Ludwig. Anatomy and Cell Biology. Mouse Models of Hereditary Breast Cancer.
Tekinay, Turgay. Sponsor: Richard Kessin. Anatomy and Cell Biology. Mechanisms of Regulation of Autophagy in Dictyostelium discoideum.

ANTHROPOLOGY

de la Cruz, Deirdre Leong. Sponsor: John Pemberton. Anthropology. All His Instruments: Mary, Miracles, and the Media in the Catholic Philippines. Distinction.
Gandolfo, Daniella M. Sponsor: Michael Taussig. Anthropology. The City at Its Limits: Taboo, Transgression, and Urban Renewal in Lima, Peru. Distinction.
Huq, Maimuna. Sponsor: M. Elaine Combs-Schilling. Anthropology. The Politics of Belief: Women’s Islamic Activism in Bangladesh.
Kernaghan, Richard Brownell. Sponsor: Michael Taussig. Anthropology. Coca’s Gone: An Ethnography of Time and the Political in Peru’s Upper Huallaga Valley.
Ochoa, Todd Ramón. Sponsor: Michael Taussig. Anthropology. The Dead and the Living in a Cuban-Kongo Sacred Society. Distinction.
Oushakine, Serguei Alex. Sponsor: Rosalind Morris. Anthropology. The Patriotism of Despair: Symbolic Economies, National Memory, and Communities of Loss in Russia. Distinction.

APPLIED PHYSICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Bose, Tulika. Sponsor: H.G. Evans. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Search for B_s Oscillations D0.
Burns, Samuel P. Sponsor: Adam Sobel. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Asymptotic and Numerical Solutions of the Axisymmetric Moist Hadley Circulation.
Cates, Cory James. Sponsor: Michael Mauel. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Active Feedback Suppression of Resistive Wall Instabilities on HBT-EP.
Cheng, Lili. Sponsor: William Bailey. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Materials-based Control of Ultrafast Relaxation in Ferromagnetic Thin Films.
Choi, Jae Beom. Sponsor: James Im. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Pulsed-Laser-Induced Melting and Solidification of Al Thin Films.
Grancharov, Stephanie Grant. Sponsor: Stephen O’Brien. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Study of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Overcoatings for Biological Applications Including a Sensor Device.
Ibrahim, Noelle. Sponsor: Bruce Berne. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Calculation of Elastic Properties of Semiflexible Polymers Based on the Quantum Rotor Isomorphism.
Herceg, Deborah. Sponsor: Adam Sobel. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Studies in Regional Climate Modeling over the Tropical Atlantic Region.
Klein, Alexander Jörgen. Sponsor: Thomas Pedersen. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. High-Speed Digital Mode Control Feedback on Magneto-Hydrodynamic Instabilities in the HBT-EP Tokamak.
Lau, June W. Sponsors: Yimei Zhu and Gertrude Neumark. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Transmission Electron Microscopy Analysis of Magnetization Reversal Processes in Patterned Permalloy Films, and Dopant Nanoclusters in the Triple Delta-doped ZnSe:Te System.
Ren, Kui. Sponsor: Guillaume Bal. Applied Physics and
Applied Mathematics. Inverse Problems in Transport and Diffusion Theory with Applications in Optical Tomography. Distinction.
Verástegui, Ramón. Sponsor: Guillaume Bal. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Time Reversal for Waves in Random Media: Application to Underwater Acoustics.
Vunni, George Blue. Sponsor: Daniel Beshers. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Mechanical Hysteresis in Iron: Magnetomechanical Damping (MMD), Magnetic Flux Variations and Harmonics at 22.5 KHz.
Yan, Hanfei. Sponsor: Cev Noyan. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Modeling of Strain Fields in Semiconductor Single-Crystals Using Dynamical Diffraction Theory. Distinction.
Zhu, Zuoming. Sponsor: Richard M. Osgood Jr. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics.Epitaxial Growth and Characterization of II-VI-Semiconductor, One-Dimensional Nanostructures and Thin Films.

ARCHITECTURE

Akcan, Esra. Sponsors: Andreas Huyssen, Kenneth Frampton, Mary McCleod. Architecture. Modernity in Translation: Early Twentieth Century German-Turkish Exchanges in Land Settlement and Residential Culture.

ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Bradley, Robert Charles. Sponsor: Esther Pasztory. Art History and Archaeology. The Architecture of Kuelap.
Butler, Karen Katherine. Sponsor: Benjamin Buchloh. Art History and Archaeology. Jean Fautrier’s Resistance: Painting, Politics and the French Avant-Garde, 1930-1955.
Gilman, Claire Swan. Sponsors: Rosalind Krauss and Benjamin Buchloh. Art History and Archaeology. Arte Povera’s Theater: Artifice and Anti-Modernism in Italian Art of the 1960s.
Grossman, Max Elijah. Sponsors: Stephen Murray and Marvin Trachtenberg. Art History and Archaeology. Pro Honore Comunis Senensis Et Pulchritudine Civitatis: Civic Architecture and Political Ideology in the Republic of Siena, 1270-1420. Distinction.
Gutschow, Kai Konstanty. Sponsor: Robin Middleton. Art History and Archaeology. The Culture of Criticism: Adolf Behne and the Development of Modern Architecture in Germany, 1910-1914.
Kaizen, William. Sponsor: Jonathan Crary. Art History and Archaeology. The Immediate; Video and the Aesthetics of Liveness, from Andy Warhol to Postminimalism.
Lovette Guichard, Celeste. Sponsor: Richard Brilliant. Art History and Archaeology. Travels and Traversals in the Hellenistic Oracular Temples at Klaros and Didyma.
Maier, Jessica. Spons- or: David Rosand. Art History and Archaeology. Imago Romae: Renaissance Visions of the Eternal City.
Onuf, Alexandra Kirkman. Sponsor: David Freedberg. Art History and Archaeology. Local Terrains: The ­Small Landscape Prints and the Depiction of the Countryside in Early Modern Antwerp. Distinction.
Tezuka, Miwako. Sponsor: Benjamin Buchloh. Art History and Archaeology. Jikken Kôbô (Experimental Workshop): Avant-Garde Experiments in Japanese Art of the 1950s.
Van Liefferinge, Stefaan. Sponsor: Stephen Murray. Art History and Archaeology. The Choir of Notre-Dame of Paris: An Inquiry into Twelfth-Century Mathematics and Early-Gothic Architecture.
Weissman, Terri. Sponsor: Benjamin Buchloh. Art History and Archaeology. Documentary Photography and Communicative Action: The Realisms of Berenice Abbott.
Williams, Gratia Cassandra. Sponsor: Miyeko Murase. Art History and Archaeology. Takuma Eiga: A Revisionist Analysis of a Fourteenth-Century Buddhist Painter.
Wilson, Siona Marion. Sponsors: Christina Kiaer and Benjamin Buchloh. Art History and Archaeology. The Filmic Mode: Feminist Art Practices and the Avant Garde in North America and Britain during the 1970s.

ASTRONOMY

Dijkstra, Mark. Sponsor: Zoltán Haiman. Astronomy. Constraints on High Redshift Galaxy Formation and Its Impact on the Intergalactic Medium.
Gezari, Suvi T.K. Sponsor: Jules Halpern. Astronomy. Long-Term Profile Variability of Double-Peaked Emission Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei & Follow-Up Observations of Candidate Tidal Disruption Events.
Glikman, Eilat. Sponsor: David Helfand. Astronomy. The Nature of Dust Obscured Quasars.
Jackson, Miranda. Sponsor: Jules Halpern. Astronomy. Geminga.

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS

Butterwick, Joel Adam. Sponsor: Arthur Palmer. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. On the Dynamics of Thermophilic Proteins: Interrelationships between Form, Flexibility and Function.
Carr, Peter Andrew. Sponsor: Arthur Palmer III. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. Protein Dynamics Studied by NMR Spin Relaxation: Fibronectin, Tenascin, and GCN4.
Chen, Chien Pong (Peter). Sponsor: Barry Honig. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. Theoretical and Experimental Insights into Specificity Determinants and Molecular Mechanisms of Cadherin Mediated Adhesion. Distinction.
de Lencastre, Alexandre. Sponsor: Anna Marie Pyle. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. Exploring the Structure of a Group II Intron Using Interference Mapping, Suppression, and Photocrosslinking. Distinction.
Grey, Michael J. Sponsor: Arthur Palmer. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. Characterizing Conformational Changes in Proteins Using NMR Spin Relaxation Dispersion: Theory, Methods, and Applications. Distinction.
Huang, Danmei. Sponsor: Wayne Hendrickson. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. Structural Studies on the Regulation of Cytokine Signaling: Pim-1 Protein Kinase and SOCS Proteins.
Khalil, Mona H. Sponsor: Rae Silver. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. Mast Cell Interactions with the CNS.
Luria, Victor Asher Yosef. Sponsor: Edward Laufer. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. Genetic Control of Ventral Vertebrate Limb Innervation.
Patel, Saurabh Deepak. Sponsor: Lawrence Shapiro. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. High-resolution Structural Studies of Resistin, an Adipocyte-secreted Hormone that Induces Insulin Resistance.
Siggers, Trevor William. Sponsor: Barry Honig. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. Aligning and Modeling Protein-DNA Interfaces: Towards an Understanding of Protein-DNA Binding Specificity. Distinction.
Valentine, Elizabeth Ruth. Sponsor: Arthur Palmer. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. NMR Dynamics of the GluR2 Ionotropic Glutamate Receptor Ligand Binding Core.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Chesler, Alexander T. Sponsor: Stuart Firestein. Biological Sciences. Identity and Development of Olfactory Neurons.
Jiang, Guoying. Sponsor: Michael Sheetz. Biological Sciences. Studies of Talin1 and RPTPa in Cellular Force Generation and Extracellular Matrix Rigidity Sensing.
Karpowich, Nathan Kyle. Sponsor: John Hunt. Biological Sciences. Structural and Biochemical Characterization of ATP Binding Cassettes from ABC Transporters. Distinction.
Leung, Sandra Wan-Ping. Sponsor: Lili Yamasaki. Biological Sciences. Manipulating Neuroendocrine Tumorigenesis in Rb+/- Mice Using E2f1-Deficiency and Genetic Background.
Li, Xiaofan. Sponsor: Audrey Minden. Biological Sciences. Functional Studies of PAK4 and PAK5, Two Members of Group B p21-Activated Kinases.
O’Hagan, Robert. Sponsor: Martin Chalfie. Biological Sciences. Components of a Mechanotransduction Complex in C. Elegans Touch Receptor Neurons: An In Vivo Electrophysiological Study. Distinction.
Smith, Paul Marshall Compton. Sponsor: John Hunt. Biological Sciences. Mechanochemistry of ATP Binding Cassettes and the F1 Model for Mechanical ATPases at Large. Distinction.
Steinhauer, Josefa. Sponsor: Daniel Kalderon. Biological Sciences. Screen for Enhancers of PKA in Drosophila Oogenesis: The RNA Binding Protein Squid is Required for Anterior-Posterior Polarity.
Tao, Xiao. Sponsor: Liang Tong. Biological Sciences. Structural and Functional Studies on Human DJ-1 (PARK7), a Protein Associated with Early-onset Parkinson’s Disease.
Xie, Cheng. Sponsor: Jian Yang. Biological Sciences. Functional Architecture and Location of the Activation Gate of Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels.
Zhang, Xiang. Sponsor: Lawrence Chasin. Biological Sciences. Predictive Identification of cis splicing signals in the Human Transcriptome. Distinction.

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Chahine, Nadeen O. Sponsors: Gerard Ateshian and Clark T. Hung. Biomedical Engineering. Multi-Scale Measurements of the Mechanical and Transport Properties of Native and Engineered Articular Cartilage.
Chao, Pen-hsiu Grace. Sponsor: Clark T. Hung. Biomedical Engineering. Physical Forces on Cells: Effects of Applied Osmotic Loading and Direct Current Electric Fields.

BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS

Campbell, David Andrew. Sponsor: Stephen Johnson. Biomedical Informatics. A Natural Language Processing System to Assess User Needs in Information Retrieval. May 2005 Degree.
Horsky, Jan. Sponsor: Vimla Patel. Biomedical Informatics. Distributed Cognitive Resources: The Analysis of Human Interaction with a Complex Clinical Information System.

BIOSTATISTICS

Chen, Mei-Yin. Sponsor: Ying Kuen Cheung. Biostatistics. Two-Stage Stepwise Procedures for Dose-Finding in Clinical Trials with a Biological Endpoint.
Tian, Hong. Sponsor: Marianthi Markatou. Biostatistics. Variance Estimation of the Cross Validation Estimator of the Generalization Error.
Yang, Yuqing. Sponsor: Zhezhen Jin. Biostatistics. Some Statistical Methods for Diagnostic Accuracy with Correlated Data.

BUSINESS

Allon, Gad. Sponsor: Awi Federgruen. Business. Competition in Service Industries.
Eisenman, Micki Limor. Sponsor: Eric Abrahamson. Business. Essays on Aesthetic Innovation.
Gu, Li. Sponsor: Andrew Ang. Business. Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing.
Iyengar, Raghuram. Sponsors: Asim Ansari and Sunil Gupta. Business. Structural Models for Nonlinear Pricing Schemes. Distinction.
Khaire, Mukti V. Sponsor: Heather Haveman. Business. Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grow: Strategies for New Venture Growth.
Krishnamoorthy, Srinivas. Sponsor: Guillermo Gallego. Business. Competitive Revenue Management.
Manral, Lalit. Sponsors: Richard Nelson and Kathryn Harrigan. Business. Towards a Theory of Endogenous Market Structure in Strategy: Feedback Effect of Firm Investment Strategy on the Evolution of Industrial Market Structure in Industries Based on Systemic Technologies.
Obayashi, Yoshiki. Sponsor: Suresh Sundaresan. Business. Essays on Corporate Credit.
Robinson, Jeffrey Arnold. Sponsor: Paul Ingram. Business. An Economic Sociology of Energy Barriers: Business Entry and the Inner City Market.
Shin, Jongtae. Sponsor: Eric Abrahamson. Business. The Social Contexts of Industry Coding: The Coding Scheme, Coders and Coded Organizations.
Siegel, Stephan. Sponsor: Geert Bekaert. Business. Asset Pricing and Asset Allocation in the Presence of Durable Consumption Goods.
Wurthmann, Kurt Alan. Sponsor: Donald Hambrick. Business. Responsibility, Social Buffering, and Devaluation of Elites Associated with Corporations that Perform Poorly.
Yehuda, Nir. Sponsors: Nahum Melumad and Stephen Penman. Business. On the Informativeness of the Reporting on Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances.
Ye, Jianming. Sponsor: Steven Penman. Business. Essays in Empirical Accounting Research.
Yun, Hayong. Sponsor: Suresh Sundaresan. Business. Three Essays on the Choice of Corporate Liquidity and Bankruptcy.
Zemborain, Martin. Sponsors: Gita Johar and Asim Ansari. Business. The Bolstering Effect: Psychological Processes and Consequences for Consumer Preferences.

CELLULAR, MOLECULAR, AND BIOPHYSICAL STUDIES

Auerbach, Marcy Robin. Sponsor: Ila Singh. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. The Role of GAG in Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus Replication.
Berry, Katherine Lucinda. Sponsor: Oliver Hobert. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. A C. elegans CLIC-like Protein Required for the Morphogenesis and Maintenance of Specific Cellular Membranes.
Chen, Albert I. Sponsor: Thomas Jessell. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. Transcriptional Regulation of Sensory Axon Targeting in the Developing Spinal Cord.
Evans, Katia Jacquel. Sponsor: Brett Lauring. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. Spastin, a Microtubule Severing Enzyme, Interacts with Atlastin: Two HSP Genes Suggesting a Common Pathway for Axonal Maintenance.
Greenwood, Jessica. Sponsor: Jean Gautier. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. XLX: A Xenopus laevis Inhibitor of Apoptosis (IAP) Family Member.
Goldberg, Naomi R. Sponsor: Jonathan Javitch. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. Bacterial Homologues of the Eukaryotic Sodium-dependent Neurotransmitter Transporters.
Kawate, Toshimitsu. Sponsor: Eric Gouaux. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. Biochemical and Structural Studies of P2X Receptors.
Langston, Lance D. Sponsor: Lorraine Symington. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. Opposing Roles for DNA Structure-specific Proteins Rad1, Msh2, Msh3 and Sgs 1 in Yeast Gene Targeting. Distinction.
Leung, Juliana Yiu-Ting. Sponsor: Stephen Goff. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. Identification of Cellular Host Factors Required for Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus (Mo-MuLV) Replication.
Phan, Ryan Thinh. Sponsor: Riccardo Dalla-Favera. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. The BCL6 Proto-Oncogene Regulates Responses to Genotoxic Stress in Germinal-Center B Cells. Distinction.
Regelmann, Adam G. Sponsor: Konstantina Alexandropoulos. Cellular Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. Chat-H: An Essential Regulator of Hematopoietic Cell Trafficking. Distinction.
Shakya, Reena. Sponsor: Frank Costantini. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. The Role of GDNF/Ret and FGF7/FGFR2IIIb Signaling in the Development of the Excretory System. Distinction.
Shendelman, Shoshana. Sponsor: Asa Abeliovich. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. Functional Studies on DJ-1, a Redox-regulated Molecular Chaperone Implicated in Parkinson’s Disease. May 2005 Degree.
Stallings, Christina Leigh. Sponsor: Saul Silverstein. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. Characterization of the Varicella Zoster Virus ORF29p Subcellular Targeting Mechanisms. Distinction.
Yoo, Andrew Seung Jo. Sponsor: Iva Greenwald. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. Target Genes of LIN-12/Notch Signaling in Vulval Precursor Cells in C. elegans.
Zimmerman, Sabina Kaplan. Sponsor: Fred Chang. Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. The Regulation of Microtubule Organization in Fission Yeast. Distinction.

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Shen, Gang. Sponsor: Rastislav Levicky. Chemical Engineering. DNA Monolayers: Preparation and Electrochemical Characterization.
Zheng, Min. Sponsor: Alan West. Chemical Engineering. The Role of Additives on Direct Cu Electrodeposition on Barriers.

CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Kim, Byungchan. Sponsor: Richard Friesner. Chemical Physics. Polarizable Force Field for Proteins and Efficient Sampling.
Li, Xin. Sponsor: Richard Friesner. Chemical Physics.
Advances in High Resolution Protein Structure Modeling.
Liu, Pu. Sponsor: Bruce Berne. Chemical Physics. Exploring Biomolecular Systems: From Methodology to Application.

CHEMISTRY

Biscoe, Mark Roger. Sponsor: Ronald Breslow. Chemistry. Hydrophobically-Directed Selective Reductions and Oxidations.
Bolshakov, Sergey. Sponsor: James Leighton. Chemistry. Total Synthesis of (+)-SCH 351448.
Breen, Nicholas Fraser. Sponsor: Ann McDermott. Chemistry. Studies of Photochemically Induced Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Centers: Wavelength and Time Dependence.
Dukovic, Gordana. Sponsor: Louis Brus. Chemistry. Electronic Spectra of Carbon Nanotubes: Excitonic States, Chemical Doping, and Chiral Interactions. Distinction.
Fang, Zhenglai. Sponsor: Ronald Breslow. Chemistry. Regioselective Hydroxylation of Steroids with Artificial Cytochrome P-450 Enzymes.
Franz, Roberto. Sponsor: Nicholas Turro. Chemistry. Part I: Mechanistic Insight into the Photooxidation of Enecarbamates. Part II: Catalytic Functionalization of Terminal Unactivated C-H Bonds. Part III: Design of Smart Materials; Synthesis of Cross Polymerisable Photoprotected Functional Macromonomers.
Guan, Hairong. Sponsor: Jack Norton. Chemistry. Ruthenium-Catalyzed Ionic Hydrogenation of Iminium and Aziridinium Cations. Distinction.
Holman, Michael William. Sponsor: David Adams. Chemistry. Electron Transfer in Molecular Electronic Structures: Single-Molecule Studies, Ensemble Spectroscopy, and Quantum Chemical Calculations. Distinction. May, 2005 Degree
Horoszewski, Dana. Sponsor: Colin Nuckolls. Chemistry. Synthesis and Structural Properties of Hydrogen-Bonded Triphenylenes and Bent Acenes.
Huang, Lei. Sponsor: Ann McDermott. Chemistry. Solid State NMR Spectral Properties and Partial Sequential Assignments of a Membrane Protein, the Light Harvesting Complex 1 (LH1).
Klare, Jennifer E. Sponsor: Colin Nuckolls. Chemistry. Assembling Cruciforms for Molecular Electronics Applications.
Kumar, Divya. Sponsor: Jack Norton. Chemistry. I. Proton Transfers to Terminal and Bridging Oxo Ligands. II. Iron Binding to the Apoprotein of Horse Spleen Ferritin.
Lorieau, Justin Lucien. Sponsor: Ann McDermott. Chemistry. Protein Dynamics: Solid-State NMR and Computational Studies. Distinction.
Meng, Zhaoyang. Sponsor: Samuel Danishefsky. Chemistry. 1. Asymmetric Synthesis of Merrilactone A. 2. Studies toward the Total Synthesis of Pinnamine.
Nguyen, Kim Thien Duy. Sponsor: Kenneth Eisenthal. Chemistry.
Second Harmonic Generation Studies of Molecular Motions at Membrane Mimetic Interfaces.
Reedy, Charles John. Sponsor: Brian Gibney. Chemistry. Heme-binding Thermodynamics of Designed Proteins: Implications on the Nature of Cytochromes.
Sezen, Bengü. Sponsor: Dalibor Sames. Chemistry. Development of Selective and Catalytic Arylation Methods for sp2 and sp3 C-H Bonds in Complex Organic Molecules. Distinction.
Sfeir, Matthew Y. Sponsor: Louis Brus. Chemistry. Probing the Electronic Structure of Carbon Nanotubes Using Rayleigh Scattering. Distinction.
Shuman, Nicholas Scott. Sponsor: James Valentini. Chemistry. Evaluating Models of Reaction Dynamics.
Tan, Zhongping. Sponsor: Virginia Cornish. Chemistry. Substrate Plasticity of the Ribosomal Biosynthetic Machinery.
Tang, Lihao. Sponsor: Jack Norton. Chemistry. Scope and Mechanism of Chain Transfer Catalysis with Metalloradicals and Metal Hydrides.
Tao, Haiyan. Sponsor: Virginia Cornish. Chemistry. Directed Glycosynthase Evolution via Chemical Complementation.
Tulevski, George Stojan. Sponsor: Colin Nuckolls. Chemistry. Integration of Molecular Self-Assembly with Nanoscale Organic Electronics and the Development of New Metal-Molecule Coupling Chemistry.
Varga, Krisztina. Sponsor: Ann McDermott. Chemistry. Membrane Protein Secondary Structure and Spectral Assignments by Solid State NMR: S. Lividans KcsA Potassium Channel and E. Coli ATP Synthase Subunit c.
Wang, Xiaolun. Sponsor: James Leighton. Chemistry. Strained Silacycles in Organic Synthesis: The Tandem Aldol-Allylation/Aldol-Aldol Reaction and Their Asymmetric Variations.
Wang, Zhigang. Sponsor: Thomas Katz. Chemistry. Part I. Syntheses and Applications of Some Helicene Derivatives. Part II. Conservation of Helical Asymmetry: An Electronic Theory for Molecular Chirality and Chiral Interactions.
Xie, Cheng. Sponsor: Jian Yang. Chemistry. Functional Architecture and Location of the Activation Gate of Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels.
Zheng, Shengping. Sponsor: Samuel Danishefsky. Chemistry. The Formal Synthesis of Ecteinascidin 743.
Zhu, Guang. Sponsor: Gerard Parkin. Chemistry. Transformations Relevant to Hydrodenitrogenation as Modeled by Reactions of Trimethylphosphine Molybdenum Compounds.
Zhuang, Jinyou. Sponsor: Brian Gibney. Chemistry. Investigation of the Effects of Non-Natual Amino Acids and Hemes in De Novo Heme Protein Design.

CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MECHANICS

Chiara, Nicola. Sponsor: Michael Garvin. Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. Real Option Methods for Improving Economic Risk Management in Infrastructure Project Finance.
Hashemi Nezhad Ashrafi, Seyed Ali. Sponsor: Andrew Smyth.  Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. Modeling and Parametric Identification of Nonlinear Hysteretic Behavior.
Liu, Shimin. Sponsor: Rimas Vaicaitis. Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics.An Analytical Study of Electrorheological Material Based Adaptive Structures.
Rambalakos, Andreas. Sponsor: George Deodatis. Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. Monte Carlo Simulation Methodology for the Reliability of Aircraft Structures under Damage Tolerance Considerations.
Wang, Jieh-Jiuh. Sponsor: Hoe I. Ling. Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. Rapid Needs Assessment System for Typhoon-Triggered Debris Flow Disasters in Taiwan.
Yang, Songtao. Sponsor: Hoe I. Ling. Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. A Unified Model for Sands and Its Application into Geotechnical Analysis.

CLASSICAL STUDIES

Cox, Sarah E. Sponsor: Richard Brilliant. Classical Studies. Rome Restored: The Themes of Pax and Restitutio under Vespasian and Titus.
Strong, Anise Keyssar. Sponsor: William Harris. Classical Studies. Labeled Women: Roman Prostitutes and Persistent Stereotypes.
Valladares, Hérica Nascimento. Sponsors: Richard Brilliant and Natalie Kampen. Imago Amoris: The Poetics of Desire in Roman Painting.

CLASSICS

Barrenechea, Francisco. Sponsor: Helene Foley. Classics. Narrative in Aristophanes’ Wealth.
Cole, Spencer Everett. Sponsor: James Zetzel. Classics. Immortal Designs: Cicero and the Rise of Deification at Rome.
DeSmidt, David Benjamin. Sponsor: Gareth Williams. Classics.The Declamatory Origin of Petronius’ Satyrica.
Elliott, Jacqueline Michelle. Sponsor: James Zetzel. Classics. Poetry and History in Ennius’ Annales.
Lauritzen, Federick Alexander Mark. Sponsor: Alan Cameron. Classics. The Depiction of Character in the Chronographia of Michael Psellos.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Agnihotri, Lalitha. Sponsor: John Kender. Computer Science. Multimedia Summarization and Personalization of Structured Video.
Elhadad, Noemie. Sponsor: Kathleen McKeown. Computer Science. User-Sensitive Text Summarization: Application to the Medical Domain.
Evans, David Kirk. Sponsor: Kathleen McKeown. Computer Science. Identifying Similarity in Text: Multi-Lingual Analysis for Summarization.
Gupta, Suhit. Sponsor: Gail Kaiser. Computer Science.Context-Based Content Extraction of HTML Documents.
Hershkop, Shlomo. Sponsor: Salvatore Stolfo. Computer Science. Behavior-based Email Analysis with Application to Spam Detection.
Krishnan, Santosh. Sponsor: Henning Schulzrinne. Computer Science. Scalable Multi-module Packet Switches with Quality of Service.
Marian, Amélie. Sponsor: Luis Gravano. Computer Science. Evaluation of Top-k Queries over Structured and Semi-structured Data.
Nenkova, Ani. Sponsor: Kathleen McKeown. Computer Science. Understanding the Process of Multi-Document Summarization: Content Selection, Rewriting and Evaluation.
Schiffman, Barry. Sponsor: Katheleen McKeown. Computer Science. Learning to Identify New Information.
Svore, Krysta Marie. Sponsor: Alfred Aho. Computer Science. Achieving Reliable, Scalable, Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation. Distinction.
Zhao, Weibin. Sponsor: Henning Schulzrinne. Computer Science. Towards Autonomic Computing: Service Discovery and Web Hotspot Rescue.

EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Deo, Puspendu. Sponsor: Ponisseril Somasundaran. Earth and Environmental Engineering. Conformational Mechanisms of Hydrophobically Modified Polymers and Polymer/Surfactant Systems in Solutions and at Solid-Liquid Interfaces.
Liu, Xue-Feng. Sponsor: Peter Schlosser. Earth and Environmental Engineering. Evidence of Biodegradation of Atmospheric Carbon Tetrachloride in Soils: Field and Microcosm Studies.
Pizarro, Gonzalo. Sponsor: Upmanu Lall. Earth and Environmental Engineering. Instruments for Managing Seasonal Flood Risk Using Climate Forecasts.
Zeman, Frank Steven. Sponsor: Klaus Lackner. Earth and Environmental Engineering. Air Extraction: The Feasibility of Absorbing CO2 Directly from the Atmosphere.

EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Chiu, Tzu-Chien. Sponsor: Richard Fairbanks. Earth and Environmental Sciences. Atmospheric 14 C Record Spanning the Past 50,000 Years via High-Precision 230Th/ 234 U/238 U,231 Pa/235 U and 14C Dating of Pristine Fossil Corals. Distinction.
Farmer, Emma Christina. Sponsor: Peter de Menocal. Earth and Environmental Sciences. Reconstructing Tropical Atlantic Climate from Mg/Ca and Oxygen Isotopes of Planktonic Foraminifera.
Gier, Elizabeth Jean. Sponsor: Charles Langmuir. Earth and Environmental Sciences.The Geological Implications of the Basalts and Sediments of the Lucky Strike Segment.
Katz, Richard Foa. Sponsor: Marc Spiegelman. Earth and Environmental Sciences. The Deep Roots of Volcanoes: Models of Magma Dynamics with Applications to Subduction Zones. Distinction.
Keimowitz, Alison R. Sponsor: H. James Simpson. Earth and Environmental Sciences. Arsenic Mobility in Groundwaters at Contaminated Sites. Distinction.
Pederson, Neil A. Sponsor: Edward Cook. Earth and Environmental Sciences. Climatic Sensitivity and Growth of Southern Temperate Trees in the Eastern US: Implications for the Carbon Cycle.
Santella, Nicholas. Sponsor: Peter Schlosser. Earth and Environmental Sciences. Measurement of SF6 and CFCs in the Environment: Application to Groundwater Dating, Soil Air Dynamics and Atmospheric Mixing.
Shapiro, Josslyn B. Sponsor: Kevin Griffin and H. James Simpson. Earth and Environmental Sciences. Watershed Budgets of Chloride and Sulfate as Integrators of Ecosystem Processes.
Stammerjohn, Sharon E. Sponsor: Douglas Martinson. Earth and Environmental Sciences. Seasonal Sea-Ice Advance and Retreat in the Southern Ocean: Sensistivity and Response to Climate Variability.
Stramler, Kirstie Lynn. Sponsor: Anthony Del Genio. Earth and Environmental Sciences. The Influences of Synoptic Atmospheric Motions on the Arctic Energy Budget.

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

Kallander, George Lawrence. Sponsor: Gari Ledyard. East Asian Languages and Cultures. Finding the Heavenly Way: Ch’oe
Che-u, Tonghak and Religion in Late Choson Korea.
Kim, Bonnie. Sponsor: Gari Ledyard. East Asian Languages and Cultures. “Closed” Encounters: The Arrival of the West in Nineteenth-Century Korea.
Koh, Khee Heong. Sponsor: Robert Hymes. East Asian Languages and Cultures. East of the River and Beyond: A Study of Xue Xuan (1389-1464) and the Hedong School.
Newhard, Jamie Lynn. Sponsor: Haruo Shirane. East Asian Languages and Cultures. Genre, Secrecy and the Book: A History of Late Medieval and Early Modern Literary Scholarship on Ise monogatari. Distinction.
Saito, Satoru. Sponsor: Tomi Suzuki. East Asian Languages and Cultures. Allegories of Detective Fiction: Confession, Social Mobility, and the Modern Japanese Novel, 1880-1930. Distinction.
Song, Mingwei. Sponsor: David Der-Wei Wang. East Asian Languages and Cultures. Long Live Youth: National Rejuvination and the Chinese Bildungsroman, 1900-1958.
Stoneman, Jack Chris. Sponsor: Haruo Shirane. East Asian Languages and Cultures. Constructing Saigyô: Poetry, Biography, and Medieval Reception.

ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY

Arce-Nazario, Javier A. Sponsor: Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez. Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology. Reconstructing Amazonian Ecological Memory: How Humans and Rivers Shape the Peruvian Amazon Landscape. Distinction.
Bilgin, Ibrahim Rasit. Sponsors: Don Melnick and Juan Carlos Morales. Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology. The Phylogeography and Population Genetics of Three Cave-Dwelling Bat Species in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia.
Bowman, William Patrick. Sponsor: Kevin Griffin. Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology. The Respiratory Ecophysiology of Woody Stems and Branches in Temperate Forest Trees. Distinction.
Faivovich, Julián. Sponsor: Darrel Frost. Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology. The Phylogenetic Relationships of Scinax and Other Hylid Frogs (Anura: Hylidae).
Grant, Taran. Sponsor: Darrel Frost. Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. The Phylogeny of Poison Dart Frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Dendrobatidae). Distinction.
Kelly, Ryan Patrick. Sponsor: Rob DeSalle. Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. Genetics and Geography in Pacific Coast Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora).
Naro-Maciel, Eugenia. Sponsor: Rob DeSalle. Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. Connectivity and Structure of Atlantic Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas): A Genetic Perspective.
Reddy, Sushma. Sponsor: Joel Cracraft. Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. Historical Biogeography of Southern Asia: Investigating Patterns of Biotic Assemblages and Their Relationships Using Endemic Avian Taxa. May 2005 Degree.
Schelly, Robert C. Sponsor: Melanie Stiassny. Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. The Phylogenetics of the Lamprologini (Perciformes: Cichlidae) based on Morphology and DNA Sequence Data.
Smith, William Leo. Sponsor: Melanie Stiassny. Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. The Limits and Relationships of Mail-Cheeked Fishes (Teleostei: Percomorpha) and the Evolution of Venom in Fishes. Distinction.
Vítazková, Sylvia Katarína. Sponsors: Susan Wade and Marina Cords. Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. Demographic and Ecological Factors Affecting the Parasites of Free-Ranging Black Howler Monkeys, Alouatta Pigra, from Belize and Mexico.

ECONOMICS

Almeyda Duran, Regina. Sponsor: Sherry Glied. Economics. Three Essays on Health and Health Systems.
Bose, Satyajit. Sponsor: Prajit Dutta. Economics. On the Economics of Global Warming with Threshold Effects.
Brindisi, Francesco. Sponsor: Alessandra Casella. Economics. Essays on Information and Coordination Failures.
Canals, Claudia. Sponsor: David Weinstein. Economics. Trade, Technology, and Wages.
Correa, Ricardo. Sponsor: Charles Calomiris. Economics. Essays on Finanical Integration. Distinction.
Felettigh, Alberto. Sponsor: John Donaldson. Economics. Essays in Dynamic Macroconomics.
Hsu, Tse-Chien. Sponsor: Ronald Findlay. Economics. Three Essays on Heterogeneous Firms and International Trade.
Michalski, Tomasz Kamil. Sponsor: Richard Clarida. Economics. Three Essays on Limited Commitment in Open Economies.
Miquel-Florensa, Josepa. Sponsor: Bernard Salanié. Economics. Essays on Foreign Aid Contracts. Distinction.
Mohapatra, Sanket. Sponsor: Charles Calomiris. Economics. Three Essays in Finance and Development.
Rendina, Anna. Sponsor: John Donaldson. Economics. Labor Market Institutions and Capital Accumulation: Three Essays.
Robalino, Juan Andres. Sponsor: Alexander Pfaff. Economics. Essays on Environmental Economics and Economic Development.
Vaknin, Michael. Sponsor: Richard Clarida. Economics. Fair Pricing and Inflation Inertia.
Visaria, Sujata. Sponsors: Rajeev Dehejia and Miguel Urquiola. Economics. The Link between Judicial Quality and Economic Outcomes: Micro-level Evidence from India. Distinction.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Bahl, Mayank. Sponsor: Richard M. Osgood Jr. Electrical Engineering. Electromagnetic Simulations of Active and Nonlinear Photonic Devices.
Chan, Steven Choon. Sponsor: Kenneth Shepard. Electrical Engineering. Design of Multi-GHz Resonant Global Clock Distributions.
Chatterjee, Shouribrata. Sponsor: Peter Kinget. Electrical Engineering. Analog Circuit Design Techniques at 0.5 V.
Cheok, Lai-Tee. Sponsor: Alexandros Eleftheriadis. Electrical Engineering. Object-based Services with Optimization in Layered Multi-Source Video Delivery.
Hong, Danny. Sponsor: Alexandros Eleftheriadis. Electrical Engineering. Optimization and Representation Techniques for Multimedia Processing Software.
Jose, Anup P. Sponsor: Kenneth Shepard. Electrical Engineering. Circuit Techniques for Low-Latency, Low-Energy Intrachip Communications.
Li, Yee. Sponsor: Kenneth Shepard. Electrical Engineering. Self-Timed Techniques in Digital Signal Processing.
Patounakis, George. Sponsor: Kenneth Shepard. Electricial Engineering. Active CMOS Substrates for Biomolecular Sensing through Time-Resolved Fluorescence Detection. Distinction.
Rajapandian, Saravanan. Sponsor: Kenneth Shepard. Electrical Engineering. Implicit dc-dc Conversion through Charge-Recycling for Dynamic Voltage Scaling and High-Voltage Power Delivery.
Small, Benjamin A. Sponsor: Keren Bergman. Electrical Engineering. Ultra-Low Latency Optical Packet Switching Networks. Distinction.
Turk, Brandon Avedon. Sponsor: James Im. Electrical Engineering. Formation of Crystalline Silicon Films via Sequential Lateral Solidification for Large-Area Electronics Applications.
Villela, Daniel Antunes Maciel. Sponsor: Daniel Rubenstein. Electrical Engineering. Resource Management in Large-Scale Services: Models and Algorithms.
Wan, Chieh-Yih. Sponsor: Andrew Campbell. Electrical Engineering. A Resilient Transport System for Wireless Sensor Networks.
Wang, Yong. Sponsor: Shih-Fu Chang. Electrical Engineering. Resource Constrained Video Coding/Adaptation.
Xie, Lexing. Sponsor: Shih-Fu Chang. Electrical Engineering. Unsupervised Pattern Discovery for Multimedia Sequences.
Zhang, Dongqing. Sponsor: Shih-Fu Chang. Electrical Engineering. Statistical Part-Based Models: Theory and Applications in Image Similarity, Object Detection and Region Labeling.
Zhang, Xiaowei. Sponsor: Nicholas Maxemchuk. Electrical Engineering. A Splitting Algorithm for Multihop wirEless Networks (SAMEN) and the Effects of the Number of Neighbors in Multihop Wireless Networks.

ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Alkan, Tiffany Jo. Sponsors: Jean Howard and Julie Crawford. English and Comparative Literature. “The Fantastical Dreams of Abbie-Lubbers”: Romance and Religion in Early Modern England.
Boggs, Nicholas Taylor. Sponsor: Robert O’Meally. English and Comparative Literature. The Critic and the Little Man: On African-American Literary Studies in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Distinction.
Bussell, Donna Alfano. Sponsor: Robert Hanning. English and Comparative Literature. Straight Talk: Community, Conflict, and Critique in the Lives of Women Saints in Medieval England.
Conisbee Baer, Benjamin. Sponsor: Gayatri Spivak. English and Comparative Literature. “--your ghost-work...”: Figures of the Peasant and the Autochthon in Literature and Politics, 1880s-1940s.
Farmer, Alan Bryan. Sponsor: David Kastan. English and Comparative Literature. “Made like the times Newes”: Playbooks, Newsbooks, and Religion in Caroline England.
Hao, Tianhu. Sponsor: David Kastan. English and Comparative Literature. Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden: Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England.
Khanmohamadi, Shirin. Sponsor: Robert Hanning. English and Comparative Literature. Proximate Others and Distant Selves; Writing Culture in Late Medieval Europe.
Kurnick, David Scott. Sponsor: D.A. Miller. English and Comparative Literature. The Vocation of Failure: Frustrated Dramatists and the Novel. Distinction.
Laufer, Matthew Ian. Sponsor: David Damrosch. English and Comparative Literature. Upstaging the Novel: Modern Fiction, Individualism, and the Turn to Drama.
Lennon, Brian. Sponsor: Ursula Heise. English and Comparative Literature. Plurilingualism and Translation: Antinomies of Literature.
Martin, Amy E. Sponsor: Gauri Viswanathan. English and Comparative Literature. Acts of Union: Representing National-States and National Identities in Victorian British and Irish Writing. Distinction.
Massimilla, Stephen T. Sponsor: George Stade. English and Comparative Literature. Myth, Anti-Myth, Post-Myth: On Western and Eastern Myth and Allusions to Antiquity in Irish British, Expatriate American, Local American, and Postcolonial Modernist Poetry (Yeats, Eliot, William, Moore, Lorca, Walcott).
McGann, Tara. Sponsor: Franco Moretti. English and Comparative Literature. A Fever of Speculation: Narrating Finance in the Nineteenth-Century Novel.
Outland, Allison M.M. Sponsor: Jean Howard. English and Comparative Literature. “Embroideries Out of Old Mythologies”: Engendering a British Nation in the Early Modern English Theatre.
Smith, Alexander. Sponsor: Edward Mendelson. English and Comparative Literature. The Literary Consequences of the Peace: T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and the Treaty of Versailles.
Walls, Charles Anthony. Sponsor: Robert O’Meally. English and Comparative Literature. Acts of the Imagination: Racial Sentimentalism and the Modern American Novel.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES

Choi, Hyunok. Sponsor: Frederica Perera. Environmental Health Sciences. Transplacental Exposure of Airborne Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Their Effects on Fetal Growth.

EPIDEMIOLOGY

Cordova, Isabel Maria. Sponsor: Ann Stueve. Epidemiology. The Relationships of Acculturation Level, Acculturative Stress, and Family Processes with Depressive Symptoms and Suicidality in Puerto Rican Youth Residing in the South Bronx. Distinction.
Weiss, Lisa Stieber. Sponsor: Pam Factor-Litvak. Epidemiology. The Effects of the World Trade Center Disaster on Pregnant Women and Their Offspring.

FILM

Biskind, Peter Ebin. Sponsor: Michael Wood. Film. Seeing is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties.

FRENCH AND ROMANCE PHILOLOGY

Allen, Leigh Elizabeth. Sponsor: Antoine Compagnon. French and Romance Philology. Valère Novarina’s “Lesson in Obscurity”.
Balasingham, Anjali. Sponsor: Gita May. French and Romance Philology. The Representation of Pregnancy in Eighteenth-Century French Literature.
Muresan, Maria R. Sponsor: Pierre Force. French and Romance Philology. Time and Private Languages: Jacques Roubaud and His Interlocutors. Distinction.
Uhden, Raina Forbes. Sponsor: Dominique Jullien. French and Romance Philology. “Décomposer, c’est créer”: Alchemy and Art in Selected Works of Honoré de Balzac.

GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENT

Agalliu, Dritan. Sponsor: Thomas Jessell. Genetics and Development. The Early Determination of Motor Neuron Identity and Axonal Pathfinding. Distinction.
Berkey, Cristin Denise. Sponsor: Marian Carlson. Genetics and Development. Nrg1 and Nrg2 Transcriptional Repressors and Stress Responses in Yeast.
Chia, Ian Vui En. Sponsor: Frank Costantini. Genetics and Development. The Rules of Axin and Axin2 during Mouse Development.
Goll, Mary Grace. Sponsor: Timothy Bestor. Genetics and Development. Biological Role of the DNA Methyltransferase Homologue Dnmt2 in Diverse Eukaryotes. Distinction.
Krawchuk, Dayana. Sponsor: Edward Laufer. Genetics and Development. Twist1 Function in the Pattering of the Vertebrate Limb.
Papanayotou, Costis (Constantinos). Sponsor: Claudio Stern. Genetics and Development. ERNI, BERT, Geminin and Their Role during Neural Induction in the Chick Embryo.
Stevens, Katherine Elizabeth. Sponsor: Richard Mann. Genetics and Development. The Role of Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling in the Regulation of Extradenticle Activity.
Wang, Weidong. Sponsor: Gary Struhl. Genetics and Development. Endocytosis of DSL Ligands and Activation of the Notch Signaling Pathway in Drosophila. Distinction.

GERMANIC LANGUAGES

Beier, Silvia Dagmar Erika. Sponsor: Mark Anderson. Germanic Languages. Nobody’s Voice: Constructions of Poetic Identity in Celan, Rilke and Bachmann.
Dupree, Mary Helen. Sponsor: Dorothea von Mücke. Germanic Languages. Playing Against Type: ‘Actress-Writer’ in German Literature and Culture, 1775-1815.
Villas Bôas Castelo Branco, Luciana. Sponsors: Dorothea von Mücke and David Armitage. Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature. Travel Writing and Religious Dissent. Hans Staden’s Warhaftig Historia in Print.

HISTORY

Backes, Matthew W. Sponsor: Elizabeth Blackmar. History. The Father and the Middle Class: Paternal Authority, Filial Independence, and the Transformation of American Culture, 1800-1850.
Clark, Shannan Wayne. Sponsor: Casey Blake. History. “White-Collar Workers Organize”: Class-Conscousness and the Transformation of the Culture Industries in the United States, 1925-1955.
Glasson, Travis F. Sponsor: David Armitage. History. Missionaries, Slavery, and Race: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World.
Goldberg, Jessica. Sponsor: Adam Kosto. History. Geographies of Trade and Traders in the Eleventh-Century Mediterranean: A Study Based on Documents from the Cairo Geniza. Distinction.
Haselby, Sam. Sponsor: Barbara Fields. History. The Origins of American Religious Nationalism, 1787-1832.
Hernández-Múzquiz, Rowena. Sponsor: Wim Smit. History. Economy and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Seville (1391-1506): A Study of the Abasteçimiento [Provisioning] of an Iberian Urban Center. May 2005 Degree.
Jackson-Weaver, Karen. Sponsor: Manning Marable. History. Lift Every Voice: Black Women’s Invisible Leadership and Faith during the Civil Rights Era, 1955-1965.
Kwak, Nancy Haekyung. Sponsor: Kenneth Jackson. History. A Citizen’s Right to Decent Shelter: Public Housing in New York, London, and Singapore, 1945 to 1970.
Lehr, Quincy Roland. Sponsor: Barbara Fields. History. Terror, Reform, and Repression: Oklahoma Politics in the Early 1920s.
Lifset, Robert Douglas. Sponsor: Alan Brinkley. History. Storm King Mountain & The Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism 1962-1980.
Loeffler, James Benjamin. Sponsor: Michael Stanislawski. History. “The Most Musical Nation”: Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late Russian Empire. Distinction.
Martin, Benjamin George. Sponsor: Victoria de Grazia. History. A New Order for European Culture: The German-Italian Axis and the Reordering of International Cultural Exchange, 1936-1943.
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. Sponsor: Eric Foner. History. A Culture of Dissent: American Abolitionism and the Ordeal of Equality.
McCormick, Ted Greer. Sponsor: David Armitage. History. Sir William Petty, Political Arithmetic, and the Transmutation of the Irish, 1652-1687.
McMillian, John Campbell. Sponsor: Alan Brinkley. History. Smoking Typewriters: The New Left’s Print Culture, 1962-1969.
Mullaney, Thomas Shawn. Sponsor: Madeleine Zelin. History. Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification and Scientific Statecraft in Modern China, 1928-1954.
Pak, Jung H. Sponsor: Alan Brinkley. History. ‘Not by Power nor by Might’: American Missionaries and the Spiritual Wars in Korea, 1885-1953.
Pennington, Lee Kennedy. Sponsor: Carol Gluck. History. Wartorn Japan: Disabled Veterans and Society, 1931-1952.
Rosenfeld, Frances Amaliah. Sponsor: Volker Berghahn. History. The Anglo-German Encounter in Occupied Hamburg, 1945-1950.
Trask, Jeffrey. Sponsor: Elizabeth Blackmar. History. “American Things”: The Cultural Value of Decorative Arts in the Modern Museum, 1905-1931.
Voegler, Max Herbert. Sponsor: Volker Berghahn. History. Religion, Liberalism and the Social Question in the Habsburg Hinterland: The Catholic Church in Upper Austria, 1850-1914.
Weir, Todd H. Sponsor: Volker Berghahn. History. The Fourth Confession: Atheism, Monism and Politics in the Freigeistig Movement in Berlin 1859-1924.

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH

Chen, Nan. Sponsors: Steven Kou and Paul Glasserman. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. Two Problems in Financial Engineering.
Kang, Wanmo. Sponsors: Perwez Shahabuddin and Paul Glasserman. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. Large Deviations and Fast Simulation of Multifactor Portfolio Credit Risk.
Katta, Akshay Kumar Reddy. Sponsor: Jay Sethuraman. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. Efficiency, Fairness and Incentives in Resource Allocation.
Kaya, Özgür. Sponsor: Mark Broadie. Industrial Engineering and Organizational Research. Exact Simulation of Financial Models with Stochastic Volatility and Jumps, and Lattice Methods for Corporate Debt Pricing.
Lee, Haengju. Sponsor: Guillermo Gallego. Industrial Engineering and Organizational Research. Revenue Management of Callable Products with Overbooking.
Zhang, Ge. Sponsor: Guillermo Gallego. Industrial Engineering and Organizational Research. Optimal Policies for Multi-Echelon Production-Inventory Systems with Random Demands.

LAW

Allen, Jessie. Sponsor: Peter Strauss. Law. Legal Magic: How Ritual Formality and Doctrinal Formalism Help Adjudication Shape Our World.
Blecher-Prigat, Ayelet. Sponsor: Carol Sanger. Law. Toward Relational Understanding of Visitation.
Cooney, Sean Thomas. Sponsor: Mark Barenberg. Law. Improving Regulatory Strategies for Dealing with Endemic Labor Abuses.
Danchin, Peter Grahame. Sponsor: Jeremy Waldron. Law. Towards a Theory of Freedom of Religion in International Law.
Derzko-Dmytrijuk, Natalie Myroslava. Sponsor: Harold Edgar. Law. An Analysis of Selected Legal Problems Arising under the Hatch-Waxman Legislation, at the Cross-Section of Patent Law and Food and Drug Law.
Elrod, Jennifer. Sponsor: Patricia Williams. Law. Free Expression under the Speech and Press Clauses of the First Amendment.
Herzog, Itzhak Isaac. Sponsor: Jeremy Waldron. Law. The Dignity of Constitutional Interpretation. May 2005 Degree.
Kessler, Laura Terri. Sponsor: Martha Albertson Fineman. Law. Law and the Politics of Care.
Rabinovich-Einy, Orna. Sponsors: Eben Moglen, Carol Liebman and Susan Sturm. Law. From Settlement to Justice: Dispute Resolution in the Internet Age.

MATHEMATICS

Alyurov, Mikhail. Sponsor: Duong Phong. Mathematics. Aloff-Wallach Spaces: Volumes, Curvatures, Injectivity Radii.
Freiermuth, Hans Georg Joseph. Sponsor: Michael Thaddeus. Mathematics. On Partial Compactifications of the Space of Framed Vector Bundles on the Projective Plane.
Hedden, Matthew. Sponsor: Peter Ozsváth. Mathematics. On Knot Floer Homology and Cabling.
Kawamuro, Keiko. Sponsor: Joan Birman. Mathematics. The Algebraic Crossing Number and the Braid Index of Knots and Links.
Lamberson, Peter J. Sponsor: Walter Neumann. History. Splice Type Singularities and Iterated Branched Cyclic Covers.
Laza, Radu-Mihai. Sponsor: Robert Friedman. Mathematics. Deformations of Singularities and Variations of GIT Quotients.
Martens, Johan André Katharina Karel. Sponsor: Michael Thaddeus. Mathematics. Instanton Counting through Non-Abelian Localization.
Phan, Jeffry Phuquoc. Sponsor: David Bayer. Mathematics. Order Properties of Monomial Ideals and Their Free Resolutions.
Qiu, Yannan. Sponsor: Shou-Wu Zhang. Mathematics. Special Cycles on Siegel 3-Folds.
Zuehlke, John Alan. Sponsor: Patrick Gallagher. Mathematics. Some Diophantine Equations with Complex-Valued Exponents.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Basalo Pérez-Luna, Inés María. Sponsor: Gerard Ateshian. Mechanical Engineering. Effects of Enzymatic Degradation and Supplementation of Chondroitin Sulfate on the Frictional Properties of Articular Cartilage.
Cheng, Peng. Sponsor: Y. Lawrence Yao. Mechanical Engineering. Effects of Non-Uniform Properties and Geometry on Laser Forming.
Lee, Changgu. Sponsor: Luc Fréchette. Mechanical Engineering. Development of a Microfabricated Turbopump for a Rankine Vapor Power Cycle. Distinction.
Long, Xi. Sponsor: Y. Lawrence Yao. Mechanical Engineering. Automatic Detection of Cultured Cells for Robotic Micromanipulation Systems. Distinction.
Liu, Ningli. Sponsor: René Chevray. Mechanical Engineering. Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flow and Heat transfer in Microchannels.
Modroukas, Dean Peter. Sponsors: Vijay Modi and Luc Frechette. Mechanical Engineering. Mass Transport Studies in Conventional and Mircrofabricated Free Convection Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells.
Park, Seonghun. Sponsor: Gerard Ateshian. Mechanical Engineering. Interstitial Fluid Flow-dependent and Flow-independent Mechanical and Tribological Response of Articular Cartilage.

MICROBIOLOGY

Banks, Alexander S. Sponsor: Paul Rothman. Microbiology. Regulation of Insulin Receptor Signaling by SOCS7.
Kuo, Tracy Chia-Chien. Sponsor: Kathryn Calame. Microbiology. Transcription Factors in Late B-cell development.
Lesley, Joseph Allen. Sponsor: Howard Shuman. Microbiology.
Extracellular Signal Detection by the Escherichia coli PhoQ-PhoP Two-Component System.
Rosenfeld, Amy Beth. Sponsor: Vincent Racaniello. Microbiology. Internal Ribosomal Entry Site (IRES) Dependent Intitiation of Translation in Saccaromyces cerevisiae.
Shohdy, Nadim. Sponsor: Howard Shuman. Microbiology. A Yeast-based Approach Identifies Legionella pneumophila Effectors that Target Membrane Trafficking Pathways. Distinction.

MIDDLE EAST AND ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

Sacks, Jeffrey. Sponsor: Muhsin Al-Musawi. Middle East and Asian Languages and Literatures. Opening Figures: Acts of Mourning in Modern Arabic Letters.

MUSIC

Cox, Cathy Lynn. Sponsor: Joseph Dubiel. Music. Listening to Acousmatic Music.
Freeman, Jason Alexander. Sponsor: Bradford Garton. Music. Glimmer for Chamber Orchestra and Audience.
Helbig, Adriana Nadia. Sponsor: Ana Maria Ochoa. Music. “Play for Me, Old Gypsy”. Music as Political Resource in the Roma Rights Movement in Ukraine.
McQuiston, Katherine. Sponsor: Elaine Sisman. Music. Recognizing Music in the Films of Stanley Kubrick.
Minks, Amanda. Sponsor: Aaron Fox. Music. Interculturality in Play and Performance: Miskitu Children’s Expressive Practices on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua.
Oakes, Jason Lee. Sponsor: Timothy Taylor. Music. Losers, Punks, and Queers (and Elvii too): Identification and “Identity” at New York City Music Tribute Events.
Poirel, Annalisa Swig. Sponsor: Leeman Perkins. Music. New Music in Old Clothes: Tinetoris, Glarean, and the Creation of a Renaissance in Music.
Thompson, Daniel N. Sponsor: Daniel Ferguson. Music. The Role of Music in the Construction and Maintenance of Irish Identity among Musicians in New York City at the Turn of the Millennium.

NEUROBIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR

Manzini, Maria Chiara. Sponsor: Carol Mason. Neurobiology and Behavior. Roles of AMPA/KA-Type Glutamate Receptor Activation in Differentiation and Survival during Neuronal Development.

NURSING

Cabello, Charlotte C. Sponsor: Janice Smolowitz. Nursing. No Turning Back: A Roller Coaster Marathon of Adult Live Liver Donation to Surviving Recipients.
Choi, Jeeyae. Sponsor: Suzanne Bakken. Nursing. Development and Evaluation of a Computer-Interpretable Guideline for Depression Screening and Initial Management in Primary Care.
Lai, Tsai-Ya. Sponsor: Suzanne Bakken. Nursing. The Design and Evaluation of HIV TIDES - Tailored Interventions for Management of Depressive Symptoms in Persons Living with HIV/AIDS.
Lee, Nam-Ju. Sponsor: Suzanne Bakken. Nursing. Development and Evaluation of a Prototype Personal Digital Assistant-Decision Support System for the Management of Obesity.
Merrill-Matzner, Jacqueline Carty. Sponsor: Suzanne Bakken. Nursing. A Network Analysis of Information Use in a Public Health Organization.
Pollard, Myrtle Denise. Sponsor: Mary Byrne. Nursing. Meaning of Maternal Care Giving and Health Perceptions in Ghana, West Africa: A Visual Ethnography.
Roberts, William Daniel. Sponsor: Suzanne Bakken. Nursing. Clinical Practice Guideline-Related Knowledge Representation Models and Comprehension-Generated Inferences of Nurse Practitioners and Physicians at Varying Levels of Expertise.
Roche, Sharon J. Sponsor: Mary Byrne. Nursing. Stories from the Front: Narratives of Critical Care Nurses Caring for the Dying Elderly.
Thompson, Paige. Sponsor: Joyce Anastasi. Nursing. The Relationship of Fatigue and Meaning in Life in Breast Cancer Survivors.

NUTRITION

Lele, Karen Moeller. Sponsor: Debra Wolgemuth. Nutrition. Transcriptional Control of the Gene for Cyclin A1 and Kinetic Analysis of Mutant Cyclin A1/CDK Complexes Associated with Infertility.
Phan, Loan Kim. Sponsor: Rudy Leibel. Nutrition. The Positional Cloning and Physiological Characterization of the Mouse Mahoganoid (Mgrn1md) Mutation.
Seidelmann, Sara Bretschger. Sponsor: Alan Tall. Nutrition. Genetic Analysis of Murine Atherosclerosis. Distinction. May 2005 Degree.

PATHOLOGY

Assanah, Marcela Cristina. Sponsor: James Goldman. Pathology. Exploring the Relationship between Progenitor Cells and Gliomas.
Huang, Fannie. Sponsor: Andrew Marks. Pathology. Ryanodine Receptor Modulation by Calstabin2 (FKBP12.6): Structural Dynamics and Functional Implications.
Lim, Hui-Ying. Sponsor: Andrew Tomlinson. Pathology. The Roles of Snail Family Transcription Factors in the Patterning of the Fly Eye.

PHARMACOLOGY

Almanzar-Paramio, Dorca. Sponsor: Stephen Sturley. Pharmacology. NCR1, the Yeast Ortholog of the Niemann-Pick C1 Disease Gene, NPC1.
Cormier, Joseph William. Sponsor: Robert Kass. Pharmacology.
Insights into Ion Channel Structure and Function in the Heart: Impact of Computational Biology.
Xie, Hui. Sponsor: Wayne Hendrickson. Pharmacology. Inhibiting the Binding of HIV to Its Initial Cellular Receptor: Design of Chemical Derivatives of Human CD4 and Characterization of Their Interactions with HIV gp 120. Distinction.

PHILOSOPHY

Barry, Christian Hillary. Sponsor: Thomas Pogge. Philosophy. The Contribution Principle: Its Meaning and Significance for Allocating Responsibility for Addressing Acute Deprivation. May 2005 Degree.
Brunero, John Stephen. Sponsor: Joseph Raz. Philosophy. Essays on Practical Reason and Instrumental Rationality.
Cresto, Eleonora Beatriz. Sponsor: Isaac Levi. Philosophy. Inferring to the Best Explanation: A Decision Theoretic Approach. Distinction.
Garcia, Ernesto V. Sponsor: Thomas Pogge. Philosophy. Nature and Freedom in Kant’s Ethics: The Historical Development of Kant’s Moral and Political Philosophy, 1775-1798. Distinction.
Keren, Arnon. Sponsor: Philip Kitcher. Philosophy. Testimony, Science and the Social: Obtaining Knowledge from Authorities.
Middleton, Nancy. Sponsor: Akeel Bilgrami. Philosophy. Conceptual Content.
Neufeld, Jonathan Andrew. Sponsor: Lydia Goehr. Philosophy. Listeners, Critics, and Judges: Performance and Deliberation in the Musical Public Sphere. Distinction.
Shainok, David. Sponsor: Achille Varzi. Philosophy. Words as Tools: An Investigation into the Normativity of Meaning.
Slater, Matthew H. Sponsors: Philip Kitcher and Achille Varzi. Philosophy. The Nature of Kinds.
Smith, Rebecca. Sponsor: Akeel Bilgrami. Philosophy. There’s an Elephant in the Living Room on Twin Earth.
Soucek, Brian Robert. Sponsor: Lydia Goehr. Philosophy. The Personification of Art.
Spohr, Paul Michael. Sponsor: Thomas Pogge. Philosophy. Hegel’s Rationalist Account of the Moral Will.
Williams, Neil Edward. Sponsor: Achille Varzi. Philosophy. The Power to Persist. Distinction. May 2005 Degree.
Wong, Sophia Yinchee. Sponsor: Thomas Pogge. Philosophy. Rawlsian Contractualism and Cognitive Disabilities.

PHYSICS

Aidala, Christine Angela. Sponsor: Brian Cole. Physics. Measurement of the Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetry for Mid-rapidity Production of Neutral Pions in Polarized p+p Collisions at 200 GeV Center-of-Mass Energy.
Chonko, James Christopher. Sponsor: Charles Hailey. Physics. Development and First Flight of the High Energy Focusing Telescope and Analysis of Spectral Features in the Isolated Neutron Star 1E1207.4-5209.
Djordjevic, Magdalena Radoje. Sponsor: Miklos Gyulassy. Physics. Radiative Heavy Quark Energy Loss in a Strongly Interacting Quark Gluon Plasma.
Djordjevic, Marko. Sponsor: Andrew Mills. Physics. Biophysics and Bioinformatics of Transcription Regulation in Bacteria and Bacteriophages.
Finley, Chad Barrett. Sponsor: Stefan Westerhoff. Physics. Anisotropy of Arrival Directions of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays.
Guo, Huidong. Sponsor: Erick Weinberg. Physics. Dynamics of Massless Monopoles and Instabilities of Chromodyons.
Hackworth, James C. Sponsor: Erick Weinberg. Physics. Vacuum Decay in de Sitter Spacetime.
Joseph, Ilon. Sponsor: Allen Boozer. Physics. Controlling Chaos in Hamiltonian Systems: An Algorithm to Improve Stellarator Surfaces
Kim, Jaeup. Sponsor: Ben O’Shaughnessy. Physics. Organization of Nanosized Objects by Polymer Materials.
Mellado, Bruce. Sponsor: Allen Caldwell. Physics. Measurement of Diffractive Heavy Vector Meson Photoproduction at HERA with the ZEUS Detector.
Middendorf, Manuel Johannes. Sponsor: Chris Wiggins. Physics. Using Machine Learning to Predict and Analyze Biological Networks.
Ning, Yujin. Sponsors: Allen Caldwell and Frank Sciulli. Physics. Measurement of Neutral Current Cross Sections at High Bjorken-x with the ZEUS Detector at HERA.
Park, Hayn. Sponsor: Tony Heinz. Physics. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Organic Molecules and Self-Assembled Monolayers.
Ren, Zhenhai. Sponsors: Allen Caldwell and Frank Sciulli. Physics. Search for Strange Pentaquark Resonances with ZEUS at HERA.
Russo, Peter L. Sponsor: Yasutomo Uemura. Physics. Muon Spin Relaxation Study of Superconducting Bi2Sr 2 –x La x CuO 6+delta
Small, Joshua Phillip. Sponsor: Philip Kim. Physics. Thermoelectric Transport in Nanoscale Materials.
Wadley, Leven Marsh. Sponsor: Anna Marie Pyle. Physics. A Reduced Representation Coordinate System Yields Insights into RNA Structure.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Chen, Xi. Sponsors: Thomas Bernstein and Andrew Nathan. Political Science. An Authoritarian State and a Contentious Society: The Case of China. Distinction.
Douglas, Frank “Scott” Colin, IV. Sponsors: Richard Betts and Robert Jervis. Political Science. Hitting Home: Coercive Theory, Air Power, and Authoritarian Regimes.
Esarey, Ashley W. Sponsor: Andrew Nathan. Political Science. Caught between State and Society: The Commercial News Media in China.
Farhang, Sean. Sponsor: Ira Katznelson. Political Science. The Litigation State: Public Regulation and Private Lawsuits in the American Separation of Powers System. Distinction.
Jaeger, Hans-Martin. Sponsor: Jean Cohen. Political Science. “World Opinion” and World Organization: Governmentality, System Differentiation, and the International Public Sphere.
Kemahlioglu, Ozge. Sponsor: John Huber. Political Science. When the Agent Becomes the Boss: The Politics of Public Employment in Argentina and Turkey. Distinction.
LeBas, Adrienne. Sponsor: Jack Snyder. Political Science. From Protest to Parties: Explaining Effective Opposition in Democratizing Africa.
Leblond, Patrick. Sponsor: Helen Milner. Political Science. The Political Economy of International Monetary Integration in the Post-World War II Period.
Lerner, Hanna. Sponsor: Jean Cohen. Political Science. Constitution Making in Deeply Divided Societies: The Incrementalist Option.
Nalepa, Monika. Sponsor: John Huber. Political Science. The Power of Secret Information: Transitional Justice after Communism.
Parent, Joseph M. Sponsors: Kenneth Waltz, Robert Jervis, and Jack Snyder. Political Science. E Pluribus Unum: Political Unification and Political Realism.
Park, Jee-Kwang. Sponsor: Robert Shapiro. Political Science. Three Essays on the U.S. Presidency.
Resnick, Evan N. Sponsor: Robert Jervis. Political Science. “Ties That Bind or Ties That Blind”: Assessing Engagement as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy.
Rosenthal, Justine Ari. Sponsor: Robert Jervis. Political Science. Razing the Terrorism Monolith: Group Typologies and State Strategies.
Schoenman, Roger. Sponsor: Jack Snyder. Political Science. Captains or Pirates? Elites, Conflict and the State. May 2005 Degree.
Shirkey, Zachary C. Sponsor: Page Fortna. Political Science. Is This a Private Fight or May Anybody Join? Unexpected Events and the Spread of Interstate War, 1815-1995. Distinction.
Shor, Boris. Sponsor: Nolan McCarty. Political Science. The Political Geography of Distributive Politics in the United States.
Springer, Melanie Jean. Sponsor: Robert Erikson. Political Science. Electoral Institutions, Voter Turnout and American Democracy: The States, 1920-2000.
Wang, Juntao. Sponsor: Andrew Nathan. Political Science. Reverse Course: Political Neo-Conservatism and Regime Stability in Post-Tiananmen China.
Yoon, Tae-Ryong. Sponsor: Robert Jervis. Political Science. Fragile Cooperation: Net Threat Theory and Japan-Korea-U.S. Relations.

PSYCHOLOGY

Bieger, Katherine Lynch. Sponsor: Jennifer Mangels. Psychology. The Role of Episodic Associations in the Early Stages of Concept Formation.
Brodscholl, Jeffrey Charles. Sponsor: E. Tory Higgins. Psychology. Regulatiory Focus and Utility in Goal Pursuit.
Butterfield, Brady August. Sponsor: Janet Metcalfe. Psychology. The Hypercorrection Effect and Its Neural Correlates. October, 2003 Degree.
Cesario, Joseph Frank. Sponsor: E. Tory Higgins. Psychology. Regulatory Fit from Nonverbal Behaviors: How Source Delivery Style Influences Message Effectiveness.
Choi, Won Yung. Sponsor: Jon Horvitz. Psychology. The Role of D1 andD2 Dopamine Receptors in the Expression of a Simple Appetitive Response and Different Stages of Learning.
Kang, Nita Jan. Sponsor: Geraldine Downey. Psychology. The Reduction of Rejection Sensitivity through Satisfying and Supportive Romantic Relationships.
London, Bonita E. Sponsors: Geraldine Downey and Carol Dweck. Psychology. Gender Rejection Sensitivity: Theory, Validation, and Implications for the Psychosocial Well-Being and Achievement Outcomes of Women.
Romero-Canyas, Rainer. Sponsors: Geraldine Downey and Carol Dweck. Psychology. The Impact of Rejection Sensitivity in the Perception of Negative Affect in Interpersonal Contexts: A Test of Three Hypotheses
Soldan, Anja. Sponsor: Jennifer Mangels. Psychology. Neurocognitive Processes Underlying Priming in the Possible/Impossible Object-Decision Test.
Stern, Emily R. Sponsor: Jennifer Mangels. Psychology. Neural Correlates of Preparatory Attentional Control: Relationship to Behavior and Processing of Conflict Stimuli.
Summerfield, Christopher. Sponsor: Jennifer Mangels. Psychology. Cognitive Control during Episodic Memory Formation.

RELIGION

Antonova, Stamenka Emilova. Sponsor: Vincent Wimbush. Religion. Barbarian or Greek? The Charge of Barbarism and Early Christian Apologetics.
Butters, Albion Moonlight. Sponsor: Robert Thurman. Religion. The Doxographical Genius of Kun mkhyen kLong chen rab ‘byams pa.
Coates, Delman Lamont. Sponsor: Vincent Wimbush. Religion. Resistance Reading: Reconsidering the Functions of Early Christian Allegory.
Freidenreich, David Moshe. Sponsors: Robert Somerville, David Weiss Halivni, and Neguin Yavari. Religion. Foreign Food: A Comparatively-enriched Analysis of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law. Distinction.
Illich, Marina Alexa. Sponsor: Robert Thurman. Religion. Selections from the Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Polymath: Chankya Rolpai Dorje (Lcang skya rol pa’i rdo rje), 1717-1786.
Rubenstein, Mary-Jane Victoria. Sponsor: Wayne Proudfoot. Religion. Wondrous Strange: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe. Distinction.
Wimpfheimer, Barry Scott. Sponsor: David Weiss-Halivni. Religion. Legal Narratives in the Babylonian Talmud. Distinction.

SLAVIC LANGUAGES

Kronrod, Irina. Sponsor: Catherine Nepomnyshchy. Slavic Languages. Russian Women of the French Avant-Garde: The I of the Other.
Lodge, Kirsten. Sponsor: Boris Gasparov. Slavic Languages.The Peak of Civilization on the Brink of Collapse: The “Roman Paradigm” in Czech and Russian Decadence. Distinction.

SOCIAL WORK

Bannon, William Michael, Jr. Sponsor: Edward Mullen. Social Work. The Effect of Racial Socialization on Urban African American Parent Use of Mental Health Services for Themselves & Their Children.
Barocas, Briana. Sponsor: Sheila Akabas. Social Work. The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Balancing Work and Family: Individual and Organizational Effects and Implications.
Blitz, Lisa V. Sponsor: Steven Schinke. Social Work. Using a Culturally Competent Multicultural Framework for Trauma Recovery Milieu Therapy with Black and Latina Women in a Domestic Violence Shelter: An Evaluation of Services.
Gao, Qin. Sponsor: Irwin Garfinkel. Social Work. The Chinese Social Benefit System and Its Impact on Income Inequality: From 1988 to 2002. Distinction.
Lahaie, Claudia. Sponsor: Jane Waldfogel. Social Work. The Impact of Parental Involvement on the Educational Achievement of Children of Immigrants.
Lee, Yeon-Shim. Sponsor: Sheila Akabas. Social Work. The Effects of Flexible Work Hours and Company-provided Child Care on Wages of Mothers and Other Women.
Linkh, David John. Sponsor: Grace Christ. Social Work. Fire from a Cloudless Sky: A Qualitative Study of Loss, Trauma and Resilience in the Families of Surviving New York City Firefighters in the Wake of the Terrorist Attacks of September 11th 2001. Distinction.
Singh, Karun Krishna. Sponsor: Edward Mullen. Social Work. The Impact of Strategic Planning Process Variation on Organizational Performance in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations Providing Mental Health Services.
Son, Shin. Sponsor: Sheila Akabas. Social Work. Defining the Meaning of Work for Minority Older Adults: A Comparative Study between Korean Americans and African Americans.
Song, Ki-bum. Sponsor: Neil Guterman. Social Work. Prevalence of Client Violence toward Child & Family Social Workers and Its Effects on Burnout, Organizational Commitment, and Turnover Intention: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach.
Traube, Dorian Elizabeth. Sponsor: Susan Witte. Social Work. An Empirical Validation of Social Action Theory: Applications for Adolescents Affected by HIV.
Vorsanger, Susan. Sponsor: Julien Teitler. Social Work. Parents’ Perspectives on Child Care Subsidies.
Wang, Shu-Yung. Sponsor: Sheila Kamerman. Social Work. Demography, Power Resource, Globalization, Institution, and Young Child Policy Variations in an Era of Retrenchment.

SOCIOLOGY

Aratani, Yumiko. Sponsor: Seymour Spilerman. Sociology. Race, Space, and Life-Chances: The Role of Parental Housing in Stratification Processes.
Bremner, Francesca. Sponsor: Charles Tilly. Sociology. Life of a Street in Sri Lanka: Spatial Practices and Ethnic Conflict. May 2005 Degree.
Brunton, Jennifer Elizabeth. Sponsor: Priscilla Ferguson. Sociology. Effable/Ineffable: Fresh Perspectives on the Sociology of Creativity.
Chu, Lui. Sponsor: Priscilla Ferguson. Sociology. Out of the Cold-War West: A Sociological View on the Emergence of a Chinese Art Cinema in the Mid-1980s.
Demetriou, Charalambos. Sponsor: Charles Tilly. Sociology. Public Identity of the Greeks of Cyprus, 1400-1700.
Fuentes-Mayorga, Norma. Sponsor: Herbert Gans. Sociology. Gender, Racialization and the Incorporation to Work among Dominican and Mexican Women in New York City.
Herrera, Gioconda. Sponsor: Allan Silver. Sociology. The Catholic Church and Public Life in Ecuador under Liberalism. 1895-1920.
King Allen, Jana. Sponsor: David Stark. Sociology. Practicing Transparency: Roles and Ideologies of Foreign Lawyers in China’s Transitional Economy.
Kourvetaris, Andreas Yiorgos. Sponsor: Charles Tilly. Sociology. Local Races, Politicized Ethnicity, and Political Narratives in New York.
Kossinets, Gueorgi. Sponsor: Duncan Watts. Sociology. Essays on Structural Modeling of Evolving Social Networks. Distinction.
Lee, Gunjeong. Sponsor: Peter Messeri. Sociology. Social Capital and Gender: Structured Use of Health-related Services among People with HIV/AIDS in New York City.
McInerney, Paul-Brian. Sponsor: David Stark. Sociology. Circuit Riders and Software Giants: Economic Conventions and the Making of a Technology Market.
Rosenblum, Randi. Sponsor: Kathryn Neckerman. Sociology. Standards Up for Grabs: The Negotiation of Responsibility, Authority, and Flexibility at an Urban Public College.
Shim, Bo-Seon. Sponsor: Priscilla Ferguson. Sociology. Race and Culture in Nonprofits: The Transformation of New York Asian American Arts Organizations, 1971-2004.
Smithsimon, Gregory Charles. Sponsor: Sudhir Venkatesh. Sociology. The Shared City: Using and Controlling Public Space in New York City.

SOCIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Abramson, David Michael. Sponsor: Ronald Bayer. Sociomedical Sciences. The Rules of Engagement: How Federal AIDS Policy Shaped Community Participation, and Was Shaped by It. May 2005 Degree.
Feivelson, Dina J. Kotkin. Sponsor: Robert Fullilove. Sociomedical Sciences. Experiences in Stem Cell Transplant: An Ethnography of a Transplant Center.
Scout. Sponsor: Robert Fullilove. Sociomedical Sciences. Social Determinants of Transgender Health.
Shah, Svati Pragna. Sponsor: Carole Vance. Sociomedical Sciences. Seeing Sexual Commerce: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai.

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE

Bodden, Chela Adrienne. Sponsor: Patricia Grieve. Spanish and Portuguese. Staging Sanctity from Lope to Calderón: Gender and Society in the Comedia de santos.
Greene, Patrick Graham. Sponsor: Alfred MacAdam. Spanish and Portuguese. The Anti-Peronist Ideology of Rhetoric in Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, 1943-1955.
Guzauskyte, Evelina. Sponsor: Raúl Marrero-Fente. Spanish and Portuguese. The Places of Places: Naming and Ordering the World in Christopher Columbus’ Diario de a bordo (1492-1504). Distinction. May 2005 Degree.
Rodríguez Matos, Jaime. Sponsor: Gustavo Perez-Firmat. Spanish and Portuguese. Unmothered Americas: Poetry and Universality.
Zuese, Alicia Rose. Sponsor: Patricia Grieve. Spanish and Portuguese. Cityspeak: Writing Urban Space in Seventeenth-century Novelas Cortas.

STATISTICS

Hernández-del-Valle, Gerardo. Sponsor: Victor de-la-Peña. Statistics. First Passage Time Densities of Brownian Motion and Applications to Credit Risk. May 2005 Degree.
Kardaras, Konstantinos. Sponsor: Ioannis Karatzas. Statistics. The Numéraire Portfolio and Arbitrage in Semimartingale Models of Financial Markets. Distinction.
Kerman, Jouni Petteri. Sponsor: Andrew Gelman. Statistics. An Integrated Framework for Bayesian Graphical Modeling, Inference, and Prediction.
Liang, Yu. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying. Statistics. Joint Modeling and Analysis of Longitudinal Observations and Observation Times.
Pal, Soumik. Sponsor: Ioannis Karatzas. Statistics. On Capital Requirements and Optimal Strategies to Achieve Acceptability. Distinction.
Shnaidman, Michael. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying. Statistics. New Approaches to Modelling and Analyzing Recurrent Event Time Data.
Xu, Jinfeng. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying. Statistics. Parameter Estimation, Model Selection and Inferences in L1-based Linear Regression. Distinction.
Young, Fanesca Chien-Pin. Sponsor: Daniel Rabinowitz. Statistics. Discrimination between Common Risk Factors and a Causal Relationship in Familial Co-Aggregation Studies.
Zhang, Daqing. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying. Statistics. Marginal Quantile Regression Methods for Censored Multiple Event Times.
Zhang, Xi. Sponsor: Daniel Rabinowitz. Statistics. Estimating the Mixing Proportion in a Semi-Parametric Mixture Model from Censored Time-to-Event Data.

TEACHERS COLLEGE

Altman, Julie B. Sponsor: Margaret Crocco. Teachers College. Higher Education for Women in an Age of Rising Standards: The Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 1881-1916.
Angilella, Marybeth. Sponsor: Madonna Constantine. Teachers College. Implicit Theories of Personality and Their Relationship to Counseling-Related Variables in College Students.
Ansary, Nadia Samy. Sponsor: Suniya Luthar. Teachers College. Antecedent-consequent Associations between Externalizing and Internalizing Distress and Academic Achievement: A Study of Affluent Suburban Adolescents. Distinction.
Avila Diaz, Luis A. Sponsor: O. Roger Anderson. Teachers College. Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Two Laboratory Course Constructivist Learning Environments.
Basu, Sreyashi Jhumki. Sponsor: Angela Calabrese Barton. Teachers College. How Urban Youth Express Critical Agency in a 9th Grade Conceptual Physics Classroom.
Charlton, Audrey Kay. Sponsor: Lambros Comitas. Teachers College. “Cat Born in Oven Is Not Bread” Jamaican and Barbadian Immigrants in Cuba between 1900 and 1959.
Chen, Suhong. Sponsor: Stephen Peverly. Teachers College. The Relationship between Mathematical Beliefs and Performance: A Study of Students and Their Teachers in Beijing and New York.
Christoforou-Gioules, Irene. Sponsor: John Saxman. Teachers College. The Developmental Coordination of Respiratory Movements and Swallowing.
Cohen, Peter F. Sponsor: Lambros Comitas. Teachers College. Ambiguous Engagement: Invasion, Intervention and Participation in a Brazilian Squatter Settlement.
Covington, Tina Marie. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer. Teachers College. Effects of Rate-based Responding on Comprehension and Maintenance of Textual Responding in Beginning Readers.
Crawford, Cair Wegerski. Sponsor: Nel Noddings. Teachers College. Sacred Geography: The Significance of Place in the History of Origins.
Danielowich, Robert Michael. Sponsor: Angela Calabrese Barton. Teachers College. Encouraging Different Forms of Reflection in a Collaborative Group: A Multiple Case Study of Four Early Career Secondary Science Teachers.
Delmhorst, Frederic Paffard. Sponsor: W. Warner Burke. Teachers College. Self-Awareness and Leadership Development: Examining the Impact of Self-Subordinate Agreement on Perceptions of Leadership. Distinction.
During, Elizabeth Claudia. Sponsor: George Bond. Teachers College. Transnational Lives: Sierra Leonean Immigrants and Refugees in Metropolitan New York.
Fabus, Renee Laura. Sponsor: Peter Gordon. Teachers College. Evaluating the Procedural Deficit Hypothesis: Language and Motor Deficits in Preschool Children.
Feliciano, Gina Marie. Sponsor: Denise Ross. Teachers College. Multiple Exemplar Instruction and the Listener Half of Naming in Children with Limited Speaker Abilities.
Fong, Anthony Brian. Sponsor: Henry Levin. Teachers College. Essays on Sorting, Mobility, and Attrition in the Teacher Labor Market.
Galek, Kathleen. Sponsor: W.Warner Burke. Teachers College. Reciprocal Commitment: An Examination of the Old and New Psychological Contract in the Workplace.
Gates, Gregory James. Sponsor: Ronald De Meersman. Teachers College. The Chemoreceptor Contribution to Sympathetic Outflow. Distinction.
Gilic, Lina. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer. Teachers College. Development of Naming in Two-Year Old Children.
Goldstein, Miriam Tamar. Sponsor: Dolores Perin. Teachers College. The Relation of Literacy Ability and Demographic and Academic Variables to Achievement in a Community College Content Course.
González-Castañeda, Olga M. Sponsor: Charles Harrington. Teachers College. Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes. Distinction.
Grossman, Frank David. Sponsor: Aaron Pallas. Teachers College. Dissent from Within: How Educational Insiders Use Protest to Change Their Institution.
Hunter, Carla. Sponsor: Christine Yeh. Teachers College. Cultural Orientation, Perceptions of Racial Discrimination, and Collective Self-Esteem among African American and West Indian Americans.
Hugh-Pennie, Amoy Kito. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer. Teachers College. The Effects of Contingent Auditory Consequences on Non-Contexual Repetitive Speech / Palilalia.
Jacobs, Benjamin Marc. Sponsor: Stephen Thornton. Teachers College. The (Trans)formation of American Jews: Jewish Social Studies in Progressive American Jewish Schools, 1910-1940. Distinction.
Johnson, Dylan Celeste. Sponsor: Jeffrey Henig. Teachers College. High-Stakes Accountability and Instruction at the Elementary School Level in North Carolina and South Carolina.
Juliao, Tracy Renea. Sponsor: Christine Yeh. Teachers College. Women’s Multiple Roles, Role Balance, and Social Support as Predictors of Life Satisfaction and Mental Health.
Jung, Sunna. Sponsor: Christine Yeh. Teachers College. Priming Korean American Cultural Selves. May 2005
Kantowitz, Riva Beth. Sponsor: Debra Noumair. Teachers College. Healing Systems: A Multi-Level Social Psychological Model of Trauma in Guatemala.
Karp, Melinda Jane Mechur. Sponsor: Aaron Pallas. Teachers College. Facing the Future: Identity Development among College Now Students. Distinction.
Kehati-Bronner, Naomi. Sponsor: George Bonanno. Teachers College. Specificity of Autobiographical Memory Organization and Adjustment of Adolescents to Young Adults Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: A Narrative Approach.
Kelly, Angela Marian. Sponsor: O. Roger Anderson. Teachers College. Newton in the Big Apple: Issues of Equity in Physics Access and Enrollment in New York City Public High Schools.
Kennis, James Richard. Sponsor: Bruce Vogeli. Teachers College. Probabilistic Misconceptions across Age and Gender.
Kwon, Chang Wook. Sponsor: Bruce Vogeli. Teachers College. Changes in High School Mathematics Education in Korea after the Educational Revolution of July 30, 1980.
Leland, Rebecca Forest. Sponsor: Jill Harkavy Friedman. Teachers College. Symptom Awareness in Schizophrenia: The Relationship between Insight into Positive and/or Negative Symptoms and Treatment Compliance. May 2005 Degree.
Lim, Miyoun. Sponsor: Angela Calabrese Barton. Teachers College. Exploring Urban Children’s Sense of Place.
Lowe, Marie Elisabeth. Sponsor: Lambros Comitas. Teachers College. The Impact of Industrial Fishing on Localized Social and Environmental Change in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.
Madan-Bahel, Anvita. Sponsor: Christine Yeh. Teachers College. Development and Evaluation of a Sexual Health Program Using Bollywood Films for South Asian Female Youth.
Matthews, Katherine Meincke. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer. Teachers College. Induction of Metaphorical Responses in Middle School Students as a Function of Multiple Exemplar Instruction. May 2005 Degree.
McCullough, Rosemary Byrd. Sponsor: George Gushue. Teachers College. The Relationship among Ethnic Identity, Differentiation of Self, and Marital and Partner Satisfaction in Latino Americans.
McNulty, Robert Emmett. Sponsor: Nel Noddings. Teachers College. On the Ontogenesis of Moral Consciousness and Some Implications for Education: A Sketch of a Theory. Distinction.
Mikheev, Caroline Crutcher. Sponsor: Marla Brassard. Teachers College. A Conflict Resolution Intervention’s Effect on Adolescents’ Rates of Peer Victimization and Conflict Strategy Use.
Nonoyama, Yuko. Sponsor: Henry Levin. Teachers College. A Cross-National Multi-Level Study of Family Background and School Resources Effects on Student Achievement.
Nwuneli, Nkemuka O. Sponsor: W. Warner Burke. Teachers College. A Package Deal: Transformational and Transactional Behaviors as Predictors of Team Climate and Empowerment.
O’Neill, Tara Breckenridge. Sponsor: Angela Calabrese Barton. Teachers College. Negotiating Ownership: Understanding the Cultivation of Student Ownership in an Urban Science Video Project. May 2005 Degree.
Ortiz, Loaiza. Sponsor: Angela Calabrese Barton. Teachers College. The Kids at Hamilton Elementary School: Purposes and Practices for Co-Opting Science. May 2005 Degree.
Papa, Anthony. Sponsor: George Bonanno. Teachers College. Social and Undoing Functions of Smiles.
Pappas Schattman, Sarantoula Sandra. Sponsor: Herbert Ginsburg. Teachers College. Fostering Kindergarteners’ Metacognition.
Pieterse, Alex L. Sponsor: Robert T. Carter. Teachers College. The Relationship between Perceptions of Racism, Life Stress, Racial Identity, and Psychological Functioning in Black Men: An Exploratory Investigation.
Querimit, Dara S. Sponsor: Robert T. Carter. Teachers College. Visible Racial-Ethnic Identity and Womanist Identity as Predictors of Body Image and Eating Concerns among Asian American College Women. May 2005 Degree.
Ramaswamy, Sudha. Sponsor: R. Douglas Greer. Teachers College. An Establishing Operation for Response Acquisition and Its Differential Effect on Performance Tasks.
Rofagha, Nader. Sponsor: Bruce Vogeli. Teachers College. An Investigation of the Mathematical and Pedagogical Contribution of Baha Al-Din Muhammad Ibn Husayn Amili (Aka Sheikh Bahai), A Sixteenth Century Middle Eastern Teacher and Scholar.
Rogevich, Mary Elizabeth. Sponsor: Dolores Perin. Teachers College. The Effects of a Literacy Intervention on Adolescents with Attention and Behavioral Disorders. Distinction.
Ryan, Rebecca M. Sponsor: Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. Teachers College. Are Two Parents Always Better Than One? The Moderating Effect of Parental Risk Factors on Associations between Family Structure and Early Child Outcomes.
Semple, Randye. Sponsor: Lisa Miller. Teachers College. Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Children: A Randomized Group Psychotherapy Trial Developed to Enhance Attention and Reduce Anxiety. Distinction.
Senior, Deanna Siegel. Sponsor: W. Warner Burke. Teachers College. The Moderating Effect of Corporate Volunteerism on Reactions to Organizational Change: A Self-Affirmation Analysis.
Shafiq, Mohammad Najeeb. Sponsor: Henry Levin. Teachers College. Understanding Household Child Labor and Schooling Decisions in Rural Bangladesh.
Shin, Yuhyung. Sponsor: Elissa Perry. Teachers College. The Effect of Perceived Team Person-Environment Fit on Team Performance in Korean Firms: An Examination of Mediating and Moderating Effects.
Soliman, William Atef. Sponsor: Keith Sheppard. Teachers College. An Examination of Past and Present Influences on University Chemistry Education.
Spillane, Anne. Sponsor: Linda Hickson. Teachers College. The Relative Effectiveness of Two Approaches to Abuse Prevention for Individuals with Moderate to Severe Disabilities.
Stafford, Katherine Brooke. Sponsor: Joanna Williams. Teachers College. Learning from Text: The Effect of the Connection of Information to a Protagonist on Readers’ Content Acquisition and Motivation. Distinction.
Stillwaggon, James Barry. Sponsor: David Hansen. Teachers College. Educing Eros: Desire, Distance, and the Educational Relation.
Sullivan, Florence R. Sponsor: Xiaodong Lin. Teachers College. The Ideal Science Student and Problem Solving.
Tye, Matthew H. Sponsor: Debra Noumair. Teachers College. Social Inequality and Well-Being: Race-related Stress, Gay-related Stress, Self-Esteem, and Life Satisfaction among African American Gay and Bisexual Men.
Valas, Joan. Sponsor: Lambros Comitas. Teachers College. The Impediments to Change: Public Health Concerns and the Specter of Emergency Preparedness.
Voronov, Maxim. Sponsor: Lee Knefelkamp. Teachers College. Investigating the Relationship between Power and Strategic Organizational Learning.
Wefer, Stephen H. Sponsor: O. Roger Anderson. Teachers College. Bioinformatics in the Secondary Science Classroom: A Study of State Content Standards and Students’ Perceptions of, and Performance in, Bioinformatics Lessons.
Weiner, Jennifer Lauren. Sponsor: Christine Yeh. Teachers College. Exploring the Effects of Counselor Trainees’ Heterosexist Bias on Clinical Assessments of Lesbian Clients.
Wright, Andrew Jordan. Sponsor: Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. Teachers College. Resistance to Peer and Advertising Pressure and Substance Use in an Early Adolescent, Urban Minority Sample.
Zelazo, Laurel Bidwell. Sponsor: Suniya Luthar. Teachers College. Maternal Ego Development, Substance Use and Internalizing Disorder: Implications for Parenting experience and Child Outcome.
Zhang, Li-Wen. Sponsor: Francisco Rivera-Batiz. Teachers College. China’s Higher Education Trade and the Impact of the WTO/GATS Liberalization.

THEATRE

Hein, Nina. Sponsor: Martin Puchner. Theatre. Performing the Image: Representations of the Body in the Avant-garde.
Lundskaer-Nielsen, Miranda. Sponsor: Arnold Aronson. Theatre. Life Ain’t a Cabaret: Theatre Directors and the Rise of Musical Drama in the 1980s and 90s.
Ruf-Maldonado, Elizabeth Anne. Sponsor: Julie Peters. Theatre. Cubanidad and the Performance of Blackness in the Theater of Cuba’s “Special Period”.

URBAN PLANNING

Currid, Elizabeth M. Sponsor: Susan Fainstein. Urban Planning. The ‘New’ New York Scene: How and Why Fashion, Art and Music Happen in New York City.
Taylor, Shane Patrick. Sponsor: Susan Fainstein. Urban Planning. Theorizing Educational Tourism: Practices, Impacts, and Regulation in Ecuador.