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Sean Purcell
Major: Media Arts and Sciences
Dissertation Title: The Tuberculosis
Specimen: The Dying Body and Its
Use in the War Against the “Great
White Plague”
Research Chair: Stephanie DeBoer
Shukufe Rahman
Major: Curriculum and Instruction
Dissertation Title: In Search of a
Science Education for Rohingya
Refugees in the Camps in
Bangladesh
Research Chair: Gayle Buck
Amala Raj
Major: Chemistry
Dissertation Title: A Novel Orbital
Optical Trap and an Ultrafast
Probe of Vibrations in Viruses
Research Chair: Bogdan Dragnea
Pedro Guillermo Ramon Celis
Major: Anthropology
Dissertation Title: Migration,
Ethnogenesis and Tradition:
Zapotec Urban Organization
in Postclassic Guiengola,
Tehuantepec, Oaxaca
Research Chair: Stacie King
Agrim Sachdeva
Major: Business
Dissertation Title: Human-AI
Collaboration in Software
Development: A Multi-Method
Investigation of Vulnerability
Introduction Prediction And Code
Generation
Research Chair: Alan Dennis
Charles Joseph Salcido
Major: Geological Sciences
Dissertation Title: Evolutionary Lag
and the Evolution of Carnivory in
Cenozoic Mammals
Research Chair: Paul David Polly
Kamilya Salibayeva
Major: Neuroscience
Major: Psychology
Dissertation Title: An Integrative
Approach to Human Emotions:
Topology, Networks, Interoception
Research Chairs: Aina Puce and Olaf
Sporns
Cesar Saturnino Salinas Depaz
Major: Economics
Dissertation Title: Essays in
Macroeconomics, Financial
Markets, and Epidemics
Research Chair: Bulent Guler
Nicolò Salmaso
Major: Italian
Dissertation Title: The Myth of
Raffaella Carrà: Female Stardom
in Post-1968 Italy
Research Chair: Colleen Ryan
Jill A. Scott
Major: Literacy, Culture, and
Language Education
Dissertation Title: “Making” Stories:
Decentering Print with a Maker
Literacies Workshop
Research Chair: Karen Wohlwend
Stepan Serdiukov
Major: History
Dissertation Title: Identity,
Citizenship, and the Modern State:
Russian Sectarian Migrants in the
United States, 1901-1930
Research Chair: John Bodnar
Paul Edward Shephard III
Major: Philosophy
Dissertation Title: Trust So You
Know: Addressing the Spread
of Political Misinformation on
Social Media through the Lens of
Epistemic Trust
Research Chair: Frederick Schmitt
Elizabeth Meaghan Sherrill
Major: Geological Sciences
Dissertation Title: Unlocking the
Mysteries of the Earthquake Cycle
at Subduction Zones and Stable
Continental Regions
Research Chair: Kaj Johnson
Saber Sheybani Moghadam
Major: Intelligent Systems
Engineering
Dissertation Title: Active
Sensorimotor Learning: Insights
from Infant Visual Experience and
Cooperative Physical Tasks
Research Chair: Zoran Tiganj
Cuishan Shi
Major: Music Education
Dissertation Title: A Multiple Case
Study on International Graduate
Music Education Students’
Learning Experience in the United
States
Research Chair: Julia Shaw
Ivanka Simic Stanojevic
Major: Leisure Behavior
Dissertation Title: Sexual Health
of LGBTQ+ Individuals with
Intellectual and Developmental
Disabilities: Self-Efficacy and
Support Needs of Direct Care and
Service Providers
Research Chairs: Alison Greene and
Jennifer Piatt
Neeraj Kumar Singh
Major: Vision Science
Dissertation Title: Optical
Implications of Myopia
Control Contact Lenses During
Accommodation and the Effect
of Prolonged Screen Time on the
Retinal Defocus Characteristics of
Children’s Eyes
Research Chair: Pete Kolbaum
Margaret Gwendolyn Lena Slaughter
Major: Religious Studies
Dissertation Title: Clefts in the
Rock: The Theology of Sheela-na-
gigs in Medieval Ireland
Research Chair: Constance Furey
Wyatt Arlen Smith
Major: Physics
Dissertation Title: Studies in
Hadron Spectroscopy: Amplitude
Analysis, Regge Physics and
Lattice QCD
Research Chair: Adam Szczepaniak
Xan Smith
Major: Media Arts and Sciences
Dissertation Title: An Exploratory
Model of Avatar Identification
for Transgender, Nonbinary,
and Gender Diverse Video Game
Players
Research Chair: John Velez
Samuel Jay Smucker
Major: Media Arts and Sciences
Dissertation Title: Expatriate
Cinema: Melvin Van Peebles’s
Paris Years
Research Chair: Michael Martin
Pooja Lakshmi Somasundaram
Major: Business
Dissertation Title: How Consumers
Prioritize Their Own (and Others’)
Time for Well-Being
Research Chair: Jonny Olson
Kortney Seanne Stern
Major: English
Dissertation Title: Sonic
Interventions: Silence, Sound, and
Melody in Medieval Literature
Research Chair: Patricia Ingham
Meng Sun
Major: Business
Dissertation Title: After-Hours
Market Reactions and Media
Coverage of Firms’ Earnings
Announcements
Research Chair: Ken Merkley
Aditi Tandon
Major: History, Philosophy, and
Policy in Education
Dissertation Title: Dissecting
Domination: Critical Perspectives
of Caste, Class, and Gender in
Schools in Central India
Research Chairs: Bradley Levinson
and Quentin Wheeler-Ball
Alexandria Marie Berry Thielmeyer
Major: School Psychology
Dissertation Title: Participation in
a Community Based Dance Class
to Improve the Social Skills of
Children on the Autism Spectrum
Research Chair: Scott Bellini
Jiannan Tian
Major: Intelligent Systems
Engineering
Dissertation Title: GPU-Accelerated
Data Reduction for Scientific Data
Toward Exascale Computing
Research Chair: Dingwen Tao
Zuoyu Tian
Major: Linguistics
Dissertation Title: Investigating
Language Change in Chinese with
Computational Methods
Research Chairs: Patricia Amaral
and Sandra Kübler
Claire Sigrid Tomlinson
Major: Psychology
Dissertation Title: Brief Court-
Affiliated Online Parenting
Programs in Family Law
Research Chair: Amy Holtzworth-
Munroe
Nicolette Maria Madeleine van den
Bogerd
Major: Musicology
Dissertation Title: Writing Music
after the Holocaust: Survivor
Identity and Memory in the Works
of Polish Jewish Composers
Research Chair: Halina Goldberg
Louis Alexandre van der Elst
Major: Intelligent Systems
Engineering
Dissertation Title: Multi-
scale Engineering of Device
Architecture for a Prescribed
Biomedical Function
Research Chair: Alexander
Gumennik
Lance Anthony Vanderberg
Major: Higher Education
Dissertation Title: The Impact of
Low-Grant, High-Paying Status on
Freshman Retention
Research Chair: Thomas Nelson
Laird
Chao Wang
Major: Economics
Dissertation Title: Essays in
Industrial Organization
Research Chairs: Stefan
Weiergraeber and Ruli Xiao
Chuhua Wang
Major: Computer Science
Dissertation Title: Distortion
Adversarial Attacks within
Egocentric Video Analysis
Research Chair: David Crandall
Fengge Wang
Major: Epidemiology
Dissertation Title: Modifiable Risk
Factors in Relation to Risk of
Breast Cancer
Research Chair: Juhua Luo
Yanhao Wang
Major: Business
Dissertation Title: Essays in Health
Economics
Research Chair: Haizhen Lin
Zihao Wang
Major: Computer Science
Dissertation Title: Understanding
and Exploiting Threats in Transfer
Learning
Research Chair: XiaoFeng Wang
Zitai Wang
Major: Business
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on
Corporate Finance
Research Chair: Kristoph Kleiner
Eman Wasim
Major: Chemistry
Dissertation Title: Ligand and
Support Coordination Effects on
Pd-ligand Supported Catalysts for
Selective Hydrogenation Reactions
Research Chair: Steven Tait
Andrew David White
Major: Psychology
Dissertation Title: Reflective
Pathways: Seeing Identity
Development Opportunities in
Academic Contexts Promotes
Student Belonging
Research Chair: Amanda Diekman
Marisa Grace Wieneke
Major: Folklore and
Ethnomusicology
Dissertation Title: Memes as
Folklore: Toward a Method for
Meme Analysis
Research Chair: Pravina Shukla
Elizabeth Cargile Williams
Major: Philosophy
Dissertation Title: Character as
Narrative: Moral Responsibility in
Context
Research Chair: Kate Abramson
Maureen Victoria Wood
Major: School Psychology
Dissertation Title: Consultee-
Centered Consultation:
Supporting Student Emotion
Regulation and Development
Through Collaboration with
Teachers
Research Chair: David Shriberg
Claire Michelle Woodward
Major: Germanic Studies
Dissertation Title: Narrative
Bystanders: A History of
Compassion and Implication in
Observing Suffering in German
Storytelling
Research Chair: Fritz Breithaupt
Brittanni Nichole Wright
Major: Health Behavior
Dissertation Title: Understanding
the Sexual Experiences of People
Living with Sickle Cell Disease
Research Chair: Debby Herbenick
Travis Wright Jr.
Major: History
Dissertation Title: “You Can Help”:
The Friends of SNCC and the
Black Freedom Movement
Research Chair: Cara Caddoo
Yue Xiao
Major: Computer Science
Dissertation Title: Fulfill Privacy
and Security Compliance in
Software Supply Chain
Research Chairs: Xiaojing Liao and
Luyi Xing
Meng Yang
Major: Health Behavior
Dissertation Title: Use, Deception,
and Cessation of E-Cigarettes and
Other Tobacco Products Among
U.S. Youth and Adult Populations
Research Chair: Hsien-Chiang Lin
Alfred Thomas Yerger III
Major: Mathematics
Dissertation Title: On the
Deformation of Triply Periodic
Minimal Surfaces of Genus Four
Research Chair: Matthias Weber
Ramazan Yol
Major: Mathematics
Dissertation Title: Symmetrization
of Minimal Surfaces in Three-
Dimensional Euclidean Space
Research Chair: Matthias Weber
Shuhan Yuan
Major: Health Behavior
Dissertation Title: The Significance
of Physical Activity on Cognitive
Function in Middle Age: Insights
from a Long-Term Study and a
Daily Diary Study
Research Chair: Angela Chow
Donghyeon Yun
Major: Speech, Language, and
Hearing Sciences
Dissertation Title: Effects of
Compression Parameters and
Noise Reduction on Output
Signal-to-Noise Ratios of a Digital
Hearing Aid and Validation of a
Phase-Inversion Technique
Research Chair: Jennifer Lentz
Zhiyu Zang
Major: Chemistry
Dissertation Title: Discovery of
Small Molecule Modulators of
Viral Infection in Bacteria
Research Chair: Joseph Gerdt
Wesley Mlsna Zebrowski
Major: Public Affairs
Dissertation Title: Discretion
and Inequities in Government
Agricultural Programs
Research Chair: James Farmer
Chengcheng Zhai
Major: Business
Dissertation Title: Improving
Drinking Water Access: NGOs’
Operations and Strategies
Research Chair: Kurt Bretthauer
Chengming Zhang
Major: Intelligent Systems
Engineering
Dissertation Title: Hardware-
Software Co-design of Efficient
and Scalable Deep Learning
Research Chair: Dingwen Tao
Qiu Zhong
Major: Curriculum and Instruction
Dissertation Title: What Can Models
Do?: Improving Secondary
Science Preservice Teachers’
Epistemological Knowledge about
Climate Modeling
Research Chair: Adam Maltese
Rui Zhu
Major: Computer Science
Dissertation Title: Understanding
and Mitigating Security and
Privacy Risk in AI Systems
Research Chair: Haixu Tang
Yihan Zhu
Major: Higher Education
Dissertation Title: Career
Development for Chinese
Undergraduate International
Students at a Four-Year U.S.
Institution
Research Chair: Cindy Ann Kilgo