Dissertations: December 2025

January 27, 2026

ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Heather Woolley
“Marvelous Economy”: The Veil of Veronica and the reproduction of the faith in nineteenth-century France
Advisor: Jonathan Crary
 

CHEMISTRY

Inki Lee
Trapping light to unlock strong coupling interactions with matter
Advisor: Milan Delor
 

FRENCH AND ROMANCE PHILOLOGY

Laetitia Ndiaye
Writing and seeing the world: Language, movement, and identity in Francophone literature and cinema
Advisor: Souleymane Diagne
 

HISTORY

Julia Tomasson
Polygons and polyphony: Traditions of Arabic mathematics in and between Europe and the post-classical Islamicate world
Advisor: Matthew Jones

Azat Bilalutdinov
The Russian Empire adrift: Nationality, property, commerce, and sovereignty in the revolutionary Black Sea, 1917–1923
Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov
 

MUSIC (DMA)

Unnur Evans
Listening to the source: Nature and difference in “Kits Beach Soundwalk” and “Bismillah Meets the Creator in Springtime”
Advisor: George Lewis
 

PHYSICS

Zihao Xu
Search for dark matter with the XENONnT experiment: Knowns and unknowns
Advisor: Elena Aprile

Joshua Swann
Transport measurements of correlated states in multi-moiré Twisted graphene
Advisor: Cory Dean
 

PSYCHOLOGY

Anna Vannucci
Neurobehavioral mechanisms of affective semantic memory development
Advisors: Niall Bolger and Nim Tottenham