Dissertations: 2024-2025
ANTHROPOLOGY
M Constantine
Slavs and Tatars: Semiotics of collective practice Advisor: Elizabeth Povinelli
Nile Davies
Properties, futures: Landscapes of reconstruction in Sierra Leone
Advisors: Rosalind Morris and David Scott
Margaux Fitoussi
Minor differences: A study of Jewishness and Jewish-Muslim relations in Tunisia
Advisor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
Alyssa James
Cultivating the future: Heritage, identity, and the revival of coffee production in Martinique
Advisors: David Scott and Paige West
Dakota Straub
Philanthro-tourism: Yachting, science, and the new explorers
Advisor: Paige West
ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Nicholas Croggon
The alternative video network: Recovering video’s utopian moment
Advisor: Branden Joseph
Rachel Hutcheson
Natural color photography, 1890-1920: Technology, gender, colonialism
Advisor: Noam Elcott
Hae Yeun Kim
Unkoku Tōgan (1547-1618): Art and patronage in early modern Western Japan
Advisor: Matthew McKelway
Naomi Kuromiya
The collapse of past and present: Tracing “integrated art” in modern Japan
Advisor: Jonathan Reynolds
Janina Marshall
Who speaks: Ericka Beckman’s super-8 trilogy
Advisor: Branden Joseph
Mateusz Mayer
Albrecht Dürer and the moralizing portrait of the Renaissance merchant
Advisor: Diane Bodart
Diana Mellon
Landscape and identity in Naples and the Campi Flegrei
Advisor: David Freedberg
Sophia Merkin
Co-collecting tapa: Redefining Robert Louis Stevenson’s collection of barkcloth in Samoa and beyond, 1888-1894
Advisor: Zoë Strother
Sehyun Oh
Adaptive beings: Japanese American art and environment, 1923-1943
Advisor: Jonathan Reynolds
Oluremi Onabanjo
Seeing Bahia: On the limits of photographic representation in Black Brazil, 1835-1977
Advisor: Zoë Strother
Gwen Unger
Other selves: Critical self-portraiture in Cuba during the “Special Period in the Time of Peace,” 1991-1999
Advisor: Alexander Alberro
Joseph Woldman
Look at me: Faces and gazes in Etruria in the sixth century BCE
Advisor: Francesco de Angelis
Valerie Zinner
Illustrated legends of the two masters: Sumiyoshi Gukei’s early modern engi emaki
Advisor: Matthew McKelway
Aleksa Zivkovic
Ambient empire: Ecologies, colonies, and nature vivante in modern Paris, 1860-1940
Advisor: Noam Elcott
ASTRONOMY
Jorge Cortés
Global kinetic modeling of the intrabinary shock in spider pulsars
Advisor: Lorenzo Sironi
Doyeon Kim
Bridging gaseous media across scales and phases
Advisor: Mary Putman
Navin Sridhar
Electromagnetic and multimessenger signals from magnetized outflows of compact object binaries
Advisors: Lorenzo Sironi and Brian Metzger
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Ma. Fatima Carla Bertulfo
Genome-wide CRISPR screens for identification of therapeutic targets in hematological malignancies
Advisor: Teresa Palomero and Adolfo Ferrando
Justin Burdge
Remote automated delivery of mechanical stimuli coupled to brain recordings in behaving mice
Advisor: Ishmail Abdus-Saboor
Kelly Eckartt
Light affects metabolism in Pseudomonas
aeruginosa biofilms
Advisor: Lars Dietrich
Yimeng Fang
Coordination of histone chaperones for parental histone segregation and epigenetic inheritance
Advisor: Songtao Jia
Lindsey Florek
Mechanisms and consequences of lactate- and glycolate-driven physiology in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Advisor: Lars Dietrich
Riley Gentry
Investigating the role of eIF4F during translation initiation
Advisor: Ruben Gonzalez
Jiacheng Gu
Mapping multimodal phenotypes to perturbations in cells and tissue with CRISPRmap
Advisor: Jellert Gaublomme
Zhenhao Guo
Genes needed for benomyl resistance and hypersensitivity in Caenorhabditis elegans
Advisor: Martin Chalfie
Burcu Gulez
Decoding neuronal fate specification in the pharynx of Caenorhabditis elegans
Advisor: Oliver Hobert
Rahim Hashim
Representation of mental states in the primate brain
Advisor: C. Daniel Salzman
Nicholas Ide
Investigating the contributions of eIF3 subunits to translation initiation
Advisor: Ruben Gonzalez
Jee Hun Kim
Regulation of HLH-2 in the C. elegans proximal somatic gonad
Advisor: Iva Greenwald
Aaron Limoges
Regulation of threat responses by dynorphin in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex
Advisor: Hugo Tejeda
Natalie McArthur
The molecular basis of solid-phase separation in olfactory transcriptional hubs
Advisor: Stavros Lomvardas
Rachel Misner
Signals influencing the development of adult follicle stem cells and their niche cells in the pupal Drosophila ovary
Advisor: Daniel Kalderon
Sunjae Park
Structural Studies of TRPML channels
Advisor: Jian Yang
Tyler Perdue
Combating gut pathogens by precise virulence inactivation using a CRISPR-associated transposase
Advisor: Harris Wang
Alison Ross
Mass spectrometry-based methods for the quantification of ex- and in-vivo proteome turnover in murine models
Advisor: Marko Jovanovic
Ryan Schwark
Behavioral fingerprinting of the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber)
Advisor: Ishmail Abdus-Saboor
Talal Syed
Patient derived organoids as a platform for assessing therapy response and characterizing epithelial plasticity in bladder cancer
Advisor: Michael Shen
Rebecca Stecky
The nose knows: Understanding the molecular underpinnings of learning and adaptation through the main olfactory epithelium
Advisors: Bianca Marlin and Stavros Lomvardas
Lauren Tang
Mass spectrometry-based proteomics as a tool to elucidate global changes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Advisor: Marko Jovanovic
Pavel Vlasov
Enhancer RNAs: A source of novel, rapidly evolving proteins
Advisor: James Manley
Xavier Westergaard
Development and characterization of novel optical tools to study serotonin in living brain tissue
Advisor: David Sulzer
CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Sylvia Bintrim
The GW approximation and Bethe-Salpeter equation for molecules and extended systems
Advisor: Timothy Berkelbach
Petra Shih
Anharmonicity and electron-phonon interactions in periodic systems
Advisor: Timothy Berkelbach
CHEMISTRY
Si Tong Bao
Dynamic chirality in perylene diimide nanoribbons
Advisor: Colin Nuckolls
Logan Beck
Development of photochemical synthetic methods with a focus on low energy light
Advisor: Tomislav Rovis
David Cabanero
Applications of red-light photoredox catalysis: From polymer chemistry to proximity labeling
Advisor: Tomislav Rovis
Cassandra Chartier
Regulation of tyrosine phosphatases through protein-protein interactions
Advisor: Neel Shah
Shan-Wen Cheng
Enhancement of energy carrier transport by coherent phonons in van der Waals semiconductors
Advisor: Xiaoyang Zhu
Julia Dorsheimer
Deaminative functionalizations of primary amines enabled by photoredox catalysis
Advisor: Tomislav Rovis
Jesse Gray
Designing high-performance organic energy storage devices
Advisor: Colin Nuckolls
Sae Young Han
Exploring the magnetic and electronic properties of van der Waals materials
Advisors: Xavier Roy and Colin Nuckolls
Shoushou He
Functional two-dimensional superatomic
materials
Advisors: Xavier Roy and Colin Nuckolls
Christie Koay
Frustrated hopping in an air-stable van der Waals metal
Advisor: Xavier Roy
Christopher Lamartina
Rh(III)-catalyzed methodologies applied to the synthesis of unnatural peptides
Advisor: Tomislav Rovis
Woojung Lee
Tuning conductance in single-molecule
electronics
Advisor: Laura Kaufman
Liang Li
Beyond exponential conductance decay: Highly conducting molecular wires based on one-dimensional topological insulators
Advisors: Latha Venkataraman and Colin Nuckolls
Xinwen Liu
Leveraging infrared imaging with machine learning for phenotypic profiling
Advisor: Wei Min
Yufeng Liu
Photoinduced transfer of spin-polarized charges at semiconductor interfaces
Advisor: Xiaoyang Zhu
Daniel Malinowski
Photophysics at the mesoscale: Macromolecular engineering for multiexcitonic processes
Advisor: Luis Campos
Alec Meacham
Rotations without polarizations: A new approach for quantifying dynamic heterogeneity at the single-molecule level
Advisor: Laura Kaufman
Adriana Mendieta
Development and characterization of fluorescent probes for understanding monoamine neurotransmitter pathways in the brain
Advisor: Dalibor Sames
Taruna Neelakantan
Discovery of unique metabolic features of mammalian cells and tissues
Advisor: Brent Stockwell
Angela Paoletta
Electroluminescence from nanoscale gaps and single-molecule junctions
Advisor: Latha Venkataraman
Claudia Prindle
Applications of charged aromatic species in electronics
Advisors: Latha Venkataraman and Colin Nuckolls
Inis Serrano
Behavioral pharmacology of classical and novel psychedelics: Frameworks for drug development
Advisor: Dalibor Sames
Shantao Sun
Design and synthesis of perylene- and perylene-diimide-based optical and electronic materials
Advisor: Colin Nuckolls
Noah Wagner-Carlberg
Rh(III)-catalyzed alkene amidation reactions: Development and mechanistic studies
Advisor: Tomislav Rovis
Xiye Wang
Electric field and neural network in catalysis: Amine acylation in the scanning tunneling microscope-break junction and oxadiazoliums in Stetter catalysis
Advisor: Tomislav Rovis
Katherine Xie
Development and application of low-energy photoredox catalysis methodologies
Advisor: Tomislav Rovis
CLASSICAL STUDIES
Mary-Evelyn Farrior
Inscribing community: The topography of Greek epigraphy in Rome
Advisor: Francesco de Angelis
Giovanni Lovisetto
Cultures of bondage: Bodily constraint in ancient Greece
Advisor: Ioannis Mylonopoulos
CLASSICS
Carina de Klerk
Where’s Xanthias?: Visualizing the fifth-century comic male slave
Advisor: Helene Foley
Emma Ianni
When language fails: Tragedy and Thucydides
Advisor: Nancy Worman
John Izzo
Tironian notes: Literary and historical studies on Marcus Tullius Tiro
Advisor: Katharina Volk
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Kailani Acosta
Surface ocean nutrient trends and community diversity in the Northern Gulf of Mexico and beyond
Advisor: Andrew Juhl
Tanner Acquisto
Characterizing incoming plate hydration and overriding plate structure at subduction zones: Implications for plate boundary slip behavior
Advisor: Anne Becel
Rafael Antwerpen
Understanding drivers of ice mass loss in Greenland through sea-level and climate modeling, remote sensing, and machine learning
Advisor: Marco Tedesco
Shanice Bailey
Water mass transformation through the lens of numerical models and observations
Advisor: Ryan Abernathey
Clara Chang
Sediment histories: Early Mesozoic ice and North American Pleistocene-Holocene deglaciation
Advisor: Paul Olsen
Andrew Hollyday
From pole to shoreline: Constraining mantle structure and flow to understand past sea-level change
Advisor: Jacqueline Austermann
Catherine Ivanovich
Characterizing the local, regional, and global drivers of extreme humid heat
Advisors: Radley Horton and Adam Sobel
Joohee Kim
Reconstruction of the North Atlantic Deep Water end-member of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation through the Pleistocene
Advisor: Steven Goldstein
Sarah Ludwig
Hierarchical scaling of carbon fluxes in the Arctic using an integrated terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric approach
Advisor: Roísín Commane
Lauren Moseley
Optimizing an ocean model to better assess oxygen and carbon cycling in the subpolar North Atlantic
Advisor: Galen McKinley
Rose Oelkers
Disentangling tree growth and climate response of Andean-Amazon forests in Bolivia
Advisors: Rosanne D. D’Arrigo and Laia Andreu Hayles
Celeste Pallone
Multi-proxy Paleoceanographic reconstructions of the late Pleistocene eastern equatorial Pacific
Advisor: Jerry McManus
Kevin Schwarzwald
The present and future of the Horn of Africa rains
Advisor: Richard Seager
Madankui Tao
Observing and modeling spatiotemporal variations in summertime US air pollution and photochemistry
Advisor: Arlene Fiore
Carson Witte
Observations and physical modeling of the near-surface ocean: Fundamental insights into solar heating, diurnal warming, precipitation, and ocean-ice heat flux
Advisor: Christopher Zappa
Jingyi Zhuang
Novel materials simulation techniques to investigate Earth’s interior
Advisor: Renata Wentzcovitch
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Tenzin Dongchung
Wood carvers and deep forests: The expansion of Tibetan-language woodblock printing houses (1642-1900)
Advisor: Gray Tuttle
Meng-Heng Lee
Chinese law and Korean practice: Illegal border-crossing and suppressing Catholicism in late Chosŏn Korea (1791–1846)
Advisor: Jungwon Kim
Yuqing Luo
The descending words: Cult and culture of spirit-writing in China (900–1400)
Advisor: Robert Hymes
Chun Kiang Tan
Blood and empire: The emergence of hemotypology (blood-group studies) in early twentieth-century Japan
Advisor: Gregory Pflugfelder
Siwei Wang
New storm from Latin America: Staging Cuban revolution in socialist China
Advisor: Lydia Liu
Yingchuan Yang
Revolution on the air: Radio and the mass technology of Chinese Socialism
Advisor: Eugenia Lean
Yifan Zhang
Local airs of sensation: Feng Menglong’s (1574-1646) mountain songs and the fashionable language of Suzhou
Advisor: Wei Shang
Xinyi Zhao
A national cinema in search of a nation: Media culture, spectatorship, and colonial (after)lives of Manchuria, 1900s-1940s
Advisor: Takuya Tsunoda
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Roi Ankori-Karlinsky
Do past winds protect forests from future storms? A multi-scale assessment of chronic wind-exposure and canopy structure impacts on hurricane damage in tropical forests
Advisor: María Uriarte
Savannah Cooley
Forest dynamics and climate change: a multi-scale analysis of structure, degradation, recovery, and greenhouse gas fluxes
Advisor: Duncan Menge
Alexis Earl
Advisor: Individual decision-making and the maintenance of cooperative breeding in superb starlings (Lamprotornis superbus)
Advisor: Dustin Rubenstein
Michael Levin
Conserving power: Considering animal movement around large-scale, ground-mounted photovoltaic solar energy facilities in the United States
Advisor: Ruth DeFries
Jay Schoen
Carnivore movement ecology for conservation prioritization: Synthetic, comparative, and machine-learning approaches to model large carnivore movement in mixed-use landscapes
Advisor: Ruth DeFries
Elissa Sorojsrisom
It’s not just a phase: Development, evolutionary history, and consequences of the free-living gametophyte life phase in the life cycles of ferns
Advisors: Deren Eaton and Barbara Ambrose
ECONOMICS
César Barilla
Essays in economic theory of adaptation to a changing environment
Advisors: Yeon-Koo Che and Navin Kartik
Aimé Bierdel
Essays on climate change, real assets markets and the macroeconomy
Advisor: Jennifer La’O
Palaash Bhargava
Connected to one and all: The role of social and family networks in shaping individual outcomes
Advisor: Sandra Black
Zakary Campbell
Three essays in applied microeconomics and behavioral economics
Advisor: Douglas Almond
René Chalom
Essays in empirical industrial organization: Topics in transportation
Advisor: Gautam Gowrisankaran
Paul Connell
Essays in computational law and economics
Advisor: W. Bentley MacLeod
William Matthew Davis
Essays on environmental change and social inequality
Advisors: Suresh Naidu and Jack Willis
Lucas Panico de Lara
Essays in behavioral and experimental economics
Advisor: Mark Dean
Matthew Easton
Essays in urban and spatial economics
Advisor: David Weinstein
Surabhi Ghai
Essays in product creation and substitution
Advisor: Eric Verhoogen
William Grimme
Essays on bandit games and endogenously missing data
Advisors: Pietro Tebaldi and Sebastián Otero
Ruoqing Jiang
Essays on econometric inference with high-dimensional factor models
Advisor: Jushan Bai
Sang Hoon Kong
Essays in regional and international economics
Advisor: David Weinstein
Jongho Lee
Essays in international macroeconomics and finance
Advisor: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé
Marina Lemos
Essays on labor and public economics
Advisor: Michael Best
Kosha Modi
Essays in macrofinance
Advisor: José Scheinkman
Victoria Mooers
Essays in political economy and public economics: Information, institutions,and behavior
Advisor: Andrea Prat
Akanksha Vardani
Institutions, recognition, and gender: Essays on development economics
Advisors: Michael Best and Cristian Pop-Eleches
Emilio Zaratiegui
Essays in macroeconomics
Advisor: Martin Uribe
Qianyang Zhang
Essays in cities, environmental amenities, and housing markets
Advisors: David Weinstein and Donald Davis
ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Patrick Anson
Literature in action: The uses of reading in the twenty-first century
Advisor: Matthew Hart
Sheila Byers
Swarms: Epistemological encounters in the Early American environment
Advisor: Branka Arsić
Katrina Dzyak
The poetics of endurance: Managing natural variation in the Atlantic World
Advisor: Branka Arsić
Mia Florin-Sefton
The inheritance plot: History, fiction, and forms of negative accumulation, 1924-2024
Advisor: Jack Halberstam
Alec Joyner
Going to pieces: Laughter, women’s writing, and the multiple self, 1928-1943
Advisor: Brent Edwards
Christine Klippenstein
Performing proximities: Atypical neighbourship on the early modern English stage
Advisor: Jean Howard
Nicholas Mayer
Conjuring resistance to oppression: Inscrutability, religious excess, and enigma in Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno and Martin R. Delany’s Blake
Advisor: Branka Arsić
Andrea Penman-Lomeli
Desiring debt: The production of subjectivity in contemporary Latinx and Latin American literature
Advisor: Joseph R Slaughter
Tyler Grand Pre
The infrastructure of allegory: Figurations of housing in African diasporic literature and culture
Advisor: Brent Edwards
Lilith Todd
Care work: Nursing and writing, 1650-1800
Advisor: Dustin Stewart
Alex Valin
Low fidelity: Sound technology, aesthetics, and ideology in late twentieth-century African American and Black diasporic literature
Advisor: Farah Griffin
FRENCH
Nadrah Mohammed
Narrative bonds: Female friendship, affect, and politics in novels by twentieth-century Francophone women writers
Advisor: Madeleine Dobie
Andre Pettman
All things commune: The communal imaginary in twenty-first-century French fiction and poetry
Advisor: Aubrey Gabel
GERMANIC LANGUAGES
Christopher Hoffman
Practice and form in Rilke, Kafka, and Walser
Advisor: Oliver Simons
Varol Kahveci
(Un)homely encounters: The poetics and politics of Heimat between nineteenth-century Orientalism and contemporary literatures of migration
Advisor: Claudia Breger
Nathaniel Wagner
Futurity after the end of history: Chronotopes of contemporary German literature, film, and music
Advisor: Claudia Breger
HISTORY
Amnah Almukhtar
Anticolonial thought in Iraq in the journals al-‘Irfan, al-‘Ilm, and al-Yaqīn, 1909-1925
Advisor: Marwa Elshakry
Jessica Cohen
A better life for us all?: A social history of the family planning movement in Accra, 1957-2000s
Advisor: Abosede George
Robert Corban
Bitter harvest: The militarization of agriculture in Mussolini’s Italy, 1915-1945
Advisor: Victoria De Grazia
Roslyn Dubler
Discrimination: Family care and the transformation of the welfare state in the European community, 1957-1992
Advisor: Susan Pedersen
Amanda Faulkner
“A place of beginning along the land”: Migration and community in the Dutch Atlantic world, 1609-1715
Advisor: Pamela Smith
Eric Frith
Against the empire of theory: Mexico and the language of political economy in the age of Alamán (1790-1853)
Advisor: Pablo Piccato
Jennifer Goetz
Developing Soviet photography: From military mobilization to family photo albums, 1934-1956
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov
Luis Andrei Guadarrama Domínguez
Circuits of power: Economic elites and the politics of development in Mexico City, 1870s-1960s
Advisor: Pablo Piccato
Emily Hawk
The movements of Black modern dance:Choreography, education, and community engagement, 1960-1976
Advisor: Casey Blake
Seth Kamil
The inter-colonial provisioning of Barbados from New York and New Jersey, 1650-1765
Advisor: Christopher Brown
Nada Khalifa
The politics of self-determination in Egypt and Bilād al-Shām: A regional history, 1908-1923
Advisors: Marwa Elshakry and Rashid Khalidi
Lynton Lees
Democracy’s children: Education, citizenship and social change in Britain and the empire, c. 1902-1955
Advisor: Susan Pedersen
Isobel Plowright
The International Workingmen’s Association in the United States, 1865-1876
Advisor: Stephanie McCurry
Stephanie Rivadeneira
The Confraternity of Our Lady of Los Remedios: Piety, politics, and capital in Mexico City
Advisor: Caterina Pizzigoni
Sohee Ryuk
Unraveling the Soviet carpet: Handicraft carpets as commodity, craft, and heritage, 1890-1982.
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov
Rohan Shah
Reluctant globalists: The political economy of “Interdependence” from Nixon’s new economic policy to Reagan’s hidden industrial policy
Advisors: Kimberly Phillips-Fein and Anders Stephanson
Gabriel Solís
Entangled assembly: A history of the global factory in Taiwan and the US-Mexico Border, 1960-1993
Advisor: Frank Guridy
Reut Ullman
From the workshop to Lomonosov’s laboratory: Chymical knowledge in early modern Russia (1500-1800)
Advisor: Pamela Smith
Jordan Villegas-Verrone
Pochitas: Mexican-American girlhood in Depression-era Texas
Advisor: Karl Jacoby
ITALIAN
Claudia Antonini
Machiavelli poeta: Politics, love, and laughter in Renaissance Florence
Advisor: Jo Ann Cavallo
Anna Borgarello
Bifocal narratives. The self and the other in contemporary Italian, French, British, and North American Literature
Advisor: Elizabeth Leake
Charles Firestone East
Identity across the scale of being: Puzzles and problems of synchronic and diachronic identity in Dante’s corpus
Advisor: Teodolinda Barolini
Beatrice Mazzi
Becoming a witness: Impegno and testimony in contemporary Italian literature and culture
Advisors: Elizabeth Leake and Marianne Hirsch
Angelica Modabber
Holy calculus: Early modern mathematics and religion in Guarino Guarini’s writings
and architecture
Advisor: Jo Ann Cavallo
LATIN AMERICAN AND IBERIAN CULTURE
Elvira Blanco
Imaginaries of the common in contemporary Venezuela (2010-2024)
Advisor: Bruno Bosteels
MATHEMATICS
Kuan-Wen Chen
On the Hodge structures of global smoothings of normal crossing varieties
Advisor: Robert Friedman
Hung Chiang
A higher Hida cuspidal Siegel Eisenstein family for GSp4
Advisor: Eric Urban
Hindy Drillick
Hydrodynamic limits and fluctuations for interacting particle systems
Advisor: Ivan Corwin
Ryuichi Haney
Open enumerative mirror symmetry for lines in the mirror quintic
Advisor: Mohammed Abouzaid
Zoe Himwich
Integrability and noise sensitivity in the KPZ universality class
Advisor: Ivan Corwin
Caleb Ji
Convolution monodromy groups of tori and the Shafarevich conjecture
Advisor: William Sawin
Davis Lazowski
LMN maps in equivariant K-theory and applications
Advisor: Andrei Okounkov
Taeseok Lee
On curvature estimate on extended Kähler-Ricci flow
Advisor: Duong Phong
Patrick Lei
Gromov-Witten theory of smooth Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in weighted P^4
Advisor: Chiu-Chu Liu
David Marcil
p-adic L-functions for P-ordinary Hida families on unitary groups
Advisor: Michael Harris
Roy Magen
Geometric criterion for 6-functor formalisms: Betti realization, gluing, and the motivic homotopy theory of complex analytic stacks
Advisor: Andrew Blumberg
Morena Porzio
The arithmetic of del Pezzo surfaces and Hilbert schemes of points
Advisor: Aise Johan de Jong
Alvaro Martinez Ruiz
SL2-Plethysms and Cartan categorification
Advisor: Mikhail Khovanov
Emily Saunders
Persistent homology of zigzag families of filtrations
Advisor: Andrew Blumberg
Jingbo Wan
Nonlinear stability of Reissner-Nordström blackhole spacetimes: The positive-spin nonlinear Regge-Wheeler system
Advisors: Mu-Tao Wang and Elena Giorgi
Alex Xu
The Seiberg-Witten equations and asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein metrics
Advisor: Francesco Lin
Chuwen Wang
On the method of auxiliary Monge-Ampère equations in complex geometry
Advisor: Duong Phong
Chaim Avram Zeff
Toward generic modularity of higher theta series over global function fields and p-adic local fields
Advisor: Chao Li
Baiqing Zhu
The modularity of arithmetic generating series of special cycles on X0(N)
Advisor: Chao Li
MIDDLE EASTERN, SOUTH ASIAN, AND AFRICAN STUDIES
Bandar Alsaeed
Whose divers? Pearling, British imperialism, and the making of the foreigner in the Gulf, c. 1800-1932
Advisor: Joseph Massad
Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr
Persian letters: Language, politics and desire in the late Ottoman Empire Advisor: Hamid Dabashi
Sourav Chatterjee
Printed bodies: Gender politics of imagetexts in colonial India, 1874-1945
Advisor: Sudipta Kaviraj
Alaa El-Shafei
Colonial carcerality: Egyptian prisons under British rule
Advisor: Timothy Mitchell
Jared Sacks
Architects of revolution? A strategic analysis of South African leftist NGOs in the struggle for a better world
Advisors: Timothy Mitchell and Paige West
Aviroop Sengupta
Configurations of life: The pursuit and practice of ‘Indian’ biology, 1876-1964
Advisor: Partha Chatterjee
Niyati Shenoy
The body on the threshold: Histories of rape in colonial North India
Advisor: Anupama Rao
Fatima-Ezzahrae Touilila
Colonizing Islam: Imaginaries of religion and sovereignty in North Africa
Advisors: Emmanuelle Saada and Gil Anidjar
MUSIC
Lauren Bernard
Chaotic Blackness, Black gesture, and Black posthumanism in Afrofuturist music
Advisor: George Lewis
Hicham Chami
Jebli music culture: Soundings from a Moroccan periphery
Advisors: Alessandra Ciucci and Aaron Fox
Jesse Chevan
Trombone shout: Instrumental voices in the United House of Prayer for All People
Advisor: Christopher Washburne
Gabrielle Ferrari
Gothic disembodiment, supernatural voices: Gender, voice, and performed disembodiment in music and media
Advisor: Ellie Hisama
Manuel García-Orozco
Bullerengue and cantadoras: Elderly women singers’ knowledge, memory, and affect in the Afro-Colombian Maroon Caribbean
Advisors: Ana María Ochoa and Christopher Washburne
Charles Kirchen
Generic mobility in the compositional process of Otis Jackson Jr. at the turn of the millennium
Advisor: Benjamin Steege
Kathryn Radishofski
Hip-hop memorialization, American genre, and gentrification in New York City
Advisor: Kevin Fellezs
Lauren Shepherd
Reconceiving genre in twentieth- and twenty-first century American popular music
Advisor: Benjamin Steege
MUSIC COMPOSITION (DMA)
Nina Fukuoka
Horror as multimedia genre
Advisor: George Lewis
Uri Kochavi
The mechanisms of instrumental expansion: Musical instruments and their gravitational fields
Advisor: Georg Haas
Anna-Louise Walton
Defamiliarizing the voice: Approaches to vocal composition in the music of Anna Korsun, Charmaine Lee, and Anna-Louise Walton
Advisor: Zosha Di Castri
PHILOSOPHY
Martina Botti
Parthood without mereology
Advisor: Achille Varzi
Anthony Garruzzo
The problem of organization: A study of Michel Foucault’s conception of systemic power
Advisors: Taylor Carman and Frederick Neuhouser
Ethan Jacobs
Rational belief as moral orientation and the conditions for hope in Kant’s practical philosophy
Advisor: Frederick Neuhouser
PHYSICS
Colin Adams
Faint signatures in large archival datasets: Searching for exotic particles, events, and sources with VERITAS
Advisor: Reshmi Mukherjee
Bhavya Bandaru
Quantum de Sitter entropy and sphere partition functions: A-hypergeometric approach to all-loop order
Advisor: Frederik Denef
Elena Busch
Semi-supervised learning for semi-visible jets: A search for dark matter jets at the LHC with the ATLAS Detector
Advisors: P. Michael Tuts and John Parsons
Guanqun Ge
MicroBooNE investigations on the photon interpretation of the MiniBooNE low energy excess
Advisor: Georgia Karagiorgi
Benjamin Gilbert
Photoproduction processes as a probe of the strong nuclear force in relativistic heavy ion collisions at the LHC
Advisor: Brian Cole
Manvir Grewal
Thermodynamic traces of de Sitter quantum gravity
Advisor: Frederik Denef
Ioanna Kourkoulou
Spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry as a bridge between high energy and condensed matter physics
Advisor: Alberto Nicolis
Luke Krauth
Electromagnetic emission from compact black hole binaries
Advisor: Zoltan Haiman
Aleksandra Kusiak
Probing the ionized gas in distant galaxies with the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect
Advisor: James Hill
Matija Medvidović
Neural-network compression methods for computational quantum many-body physics
Advisor: Andrew Millis
Samuel Moore
Confined light-matter interaction in Van der Waals heterostructures probed by scanning
near-field optical microscopy
Advisor: Dmitri Basov
Andrew Smith
A search for displaced leptons from long-lived particle decays with the ATLAS detector
Advisor: John Parsons
Yuan Song
Correlated phases beyond commensurate fillings in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides
Advisor: Abhay Pasupathy
Jooyun Woo
From photons to cosmic rays: A multiwavelength pursuit of galactic PeVatrons
Advisors: Reshmi Mukherjee and Charles Hailey
Jiawei Zang
Exploring quantum many-body physics with computational methods
Advisor: Andrew Millis
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Ayrton Aubry
Africas on one’s mind: Studying appropriation in world politics from the Africanization of security in Senegal
Advisor: Jack Snyder
Charles Battaglini
Transformative hegemony: Theorizing subaltern coalitions through Antonio Gramsci and W.E.B. Du Bois
Advisor: Jean Cohen
Stephanie Char
Scaring the monkey by killing the chicken: Effectiveness of countercriticism coercion by China
Advisor: Jack Snyder
Tenzin Dorjee
Religious routes to conflict mitigation: Three papers on Buddhism, nationalism, and violence
Advisor: Andrew Nathan
Nathan Feldman
The science of liberalism: A genealogy of political theory
Advisor: Karuna Mantena
Jose Gomez-Espinal
The engagement gap: Studies of Latino political socialization, voter turnout, and candidate emergence
Advisor: Donald Green
Samuel Houskeeper
Three essays on the international politics of climate change
Advisor: Nikhar Gaikwad
Dahsol Jun
Essays on coercion and signaling in cyberspace
Advisor: Virginia Page Fortna
Ki Young Kim
Economic freedom through dependencies
Advisor: David Johnston
Colleen Larkin
Contested stories, uncertain futures: Upheavals, narratives, and strategic change
Advisor: Jack Snyder
Da In Lee
Minority political ambition and candidate supply in the United States
Advisors: Shigeo Hirano and Yamil Velez
Alexandra Mathieu
Unpacking international status in the Japanese context
Advisor: Virginia Page Fortna
Rebecca Marwege
Climate action, movements, and political change
Advisor: Jean Cohen
Gustavo Novoa
Redistricting, representation, and perception: Three essays on US local politics
Advisor: Andrew Gelman
Jonathan Panter
The illogic of naval forward presence
Advisor: Richard Betts
Urte Peteris
Pen and sword: How foreign propaganda organizations select strategies
Advisor: Jack Snyder
Kylan Rutherford
Posting politics: Essays on the supply side of social media
Advisor: Donald Green
David Simpson
Residential segregation, municipal competition, and local decision making
Advisor: Michael Ting
Jenny Xiao
Three papers on the international political economy of AI: Statistical and game-theoretic analyses
Advisor: Allison Carnegie
PSYCHOLOGY
Natalie Biderman
The role of memory in value-based decisions
Advisor: Daphna Shohamy
John Andrew Chwe
Towards a richer model of social perception
Advisor: John Freeman
Ana DiGiovanni
Beyond the trade-off: Uncovering the diverse outcomes of co-rumination across social, affective, physiological, and behavioral domains
Advisor: Niall Bolger
Camille Gasser
The paradox of prior knowledge: How both predictability and novelty benefit episodic memory
Advisor: Lila Davachi
Manasi Jayakumar
Attentional fluctuations and the temporal organization of memory: Insights from behavioral and pupillometry measures
Advisor: Mariam Aly
Jorge Mallea
Exploring the effects of the probability and rate of reward on goal- and sign-tracking behavior
Advisor: Peter Balsam
Benjamin Silver
Changing my mind: The socio-affective mechanisms underlying impression updating
Advisors: Kevin Ochsner and Christopher Baldassano
Margaux Wienk
The social cognitive dynamics of categorizing sex and gender
Advisor: Jon Freeman
Daniel Yonas
Prioritizing intent in judgments of intergroup and intragroup harms
Advisor: Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
Wangjing Yu
Understanding memory transformation through the lens of reactivation
Advisor: Lila Davachi
RELIGION
Zachary Domach
Recycled wisdom: Maxims and meaning making in late antique and Medieval Christianity
Advisor: Euan Cameron
Sarah Hedgecock
Living memory: Nostalgia and evangelical girlhood from the Cold War to the present
Advisor: Courtney Bender
Manpreet Kaur
A performance history of Baba Farid
Advisor: John Hawley
Katrina Hermanson
Sex and the soul: Science, religion, and non-binary gender in the nineteenth-century United States
Advisor: Gale Kenny
Gaurika Mehta
Bearing the burden of history: The Indo-Caribbean Madrasi diaspora
Advisor: Rachel McDermott
Yogendra Trivedi
Nishkulanand, Premanand, and the musical formation of the Swaminarayan Sampraday
Advisor: John Hawley
SLAVIC LANGUAGES
Veniamin Gushchin
Modernist poets after Stalin: The late styles of Pasternak, Akhmatova, and Zabolotsky
Advisor: Mark Lipovetsky
Vera Senina
Empire and the intimate: Fictions of the mind in Russian prose, 1830-40s
Advisor: Irina Reyfman
SOCIOLOGY
Martin Barnay
Loneliness in old age: Elements for a study in sociology
Advisor: Adam Reich
Berenike Firestone
The social reproduction of support for the far right
Advisor: Thomas A. DiPrete
Timothy Ittner
Managing marginality: Jails, health, and inequality
Advisor: Bruce Western
Mireia Triguero Roura
Colorblind ethnocentrism: Racialized imagined communities in western Europe and the United States
Advisor: Adam Reich
Bonnie Siegler
Framing racial equity in US school districts
Advisor: Thomas A. DiPrete
Anastasia Tsaturyan
Strategic traditionalism and fragmented modernities in non-Democratic contexts
Advisor: Gil Eyal
STATISTICS
Julien Boussard
Localizing spike sources for improved registration, spike-sorting, and decoding in large-scale Neuropixels recordings
Advisor: Liam Paninski
Casey Bradshaw
Statistical methods for understanding social issues
Advisor: David Blei
Collin Cademartori
Trade-offs and opportunities in high-dimensional Bayesian modeling
Advisors: Andrew Gelman and Cynthia Rush
Ling Chen
Modern latent variable analysis: High-dimensional grade of membership models and process data
Advisor: Jingchen Liu
Leon Fernandes
Application of distance covariance to time series modeling and assessing goodness-of-fit
Advisor: Richard Davis
Richard Groenewald
Some quandaries in the theory of optimal stopping
Advisor: Ioannis Karatzas
Russell Kunes
Low dimensional structure in single-cell data
Advisor: Simon Tavaré
Diane Lu
On modeling spatial time-to-event data with missing censoring type
Advisor: Tian Zheng
Jaesung Son
Statistics of tensor forms
Advisor: Sumit Mukherjee
Joseph Suk
Advances in non-stationary sequential
decision making
Advisor: Samory Kpotufe
Jiajin Sun
Semiparametric modeling and analysis for time-varying network data
Advisor: Zhiliang Ying
Abhishek Tilva
Portfolio theory in markets with randomly fluctuating dimension and composition
Advisor: Ioannis Karatzas
Gan Yuan
Topics on machine learning under
imperfect supervision
Advisors: Samory Kpotufe and Tian Zheng