Dissertations: November 2025

December 29, 2025

ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Barthélemy Glama
How colonial archaeology transformed the Louvre: Antiquities, empire, and the encyclopedic museum in France (1830–1870)
Advisors: Zainab Bahrani and Anne Higonnet

Benjamin Cassese
Differentiable models for high-precision time series observations of planetary systems
Advisor: David Kipping
 

CHEMISTRY

Iris Mercer
Understanding collagen I self-assembly for control of gel structure and mechanical properties
Advisor: Laura Kaufman
 

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

Stella Kim
Embodied belongings: Gender, reproduction, and motherhood in Late Chosŏn Korea
Advisor: Jungwon Kim
 

ECONOMICS

Natalie Yang
Essays in the economics of transportation
Advisor: Donald Davis
 

HISTORY

Barnaby Raine
Immanent freedom: Visions of ending capitalism in the heart of empire
Advisor: Adam Tooze
 

MUSIC

Paola Messina
Listening for Bilad al-Shām in São Paulo: expressions of “baladī belonging” through music and sound
Advisor: Alessandra Ciucci

 

PHYSICS

Tuan Nguyen
Sculpting visual cortex: How recurrent structure, modulatory signals, and development shape V1 responses
Advisor: Kenneth Miller
 

PSYCHOLOGY

Jiawen Huang
How prior knowledge scaffolds memory: A "kind of naturalistic" approach
Advisor: Christopher Baldassano
 

RELIGION

Kripanand Komanapalli
Material faith: Christian speech, space, and the work of belonging in Hyderabad
Advisor: Rachel McDermott
 

URBAN PLANNING

Duane Ebesu
Linking neighborhood with child sex offender residence: The case of Long Island
Advisor: Weiping Wu