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Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Architectures of the Humanitarian Front, 1915-1930 The American Red Cross and the Refugee Settlement Commission of the League of Nations, Theodossios Issaias

Preschool Politics: Policy-Adaptive Political Preferences and the Crosscutting Feedback Effects of Partway Funded Transformative Social Benefits, Sophie E. Jacobson

Appropriate Transgressions: Parody and Decorum in Ancient Greece and Rome, Niek Janssen

Mechanisms of Resistance against B Cell Targeting Treatments for Myasthenia Gravis, Ruoyi Jiang

Improving the Cosmic Statistics of Neutral Hydrogen, Naim Goksel Karacayli

New Petrogenetic Approaches to the Study of Ultrahigh-temperature and Ultrahigh-pressure Rocks, Duncan Sutherland Keller

Transcompartmental Sodium Imaging in Brain Cancer, Muhammad Khan

Transcription Factors as Direct Mediators of Homeostasis and Defense, Daniel Jong-Woong Kim

Construction of the Universal Second Motivic Chern Class using Cluster Varieties, Oleksii Kislinskyi

Taking Sides with the World: Between Politics and Poetics from 1794 to 1960, Irina Kogan

RNA Methylation and Ythdf Readers in Posttranscriptional Regulation and Development, Cassandra Kontur

Phage Selection Against Antibiotic Resistance or Virulence in Opportunistic Bacterial Pathogens, Kaitlyn Kortright

Brain networks in human conscious visual perception, Sharif Ismail Kronemer

High-Throughput Experimental Strategies: The Highway to New Complex Alloys and Understanding Complex Phenomena, Sebastian Alexander Kube

Living and Judging: Studies in Pragmatic Reasoning in Philosophy, Literature, and Law, Tobias Kuehne

Risk Reduction Regarding Stigmatized and Marginalized Communities, NAVIN KUMAR

Essays on Robust Methods in Econometrics, Soonwoo Kwon

The Emancipated Empire: Faustin I Soulouque and the Origins of the Second Haitian Empire, 1847-1859, Emmanuel Lachaud

Animating Heritage: Affective Experiences, Institutional Networks, And Themed Consumption In the Japanese Cultural Industries, Heidi K. Lam

Rational Design and Self-Assembly Studies of Mixed-Graft Block Copolymers, An Le

Advancing the Underactuated Grasping Capabilities of Single Actuator Prosthetic Hands, Michael Thomas Leddy

Immune-metabolic Regulation by the Transsulfuration Pathway, Aileen Heeyeon Lee

Dynamics of Unipotent Subgroups on Infinite Volume Space, Minju Lee

Physics of the Electronic Structure and Collective Excitations in Transition Metal Compounds, Sangjae Lee

Three Families of Lie Algebras of Exponential Growth From Vertex Operator Algebras, Gabriel Legros

Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease, Shannon Noble Leslie

Toward a Media-Technological Approach to Films: Meaning-Making, Objects, and Procedures, Ido Lewit

Thin film electronics and optoelectronics based on layered and traditional materials, Cheng Li

PIWI-mediated Control of Tissue-specific Transposons is Essential for Somatic Cell Differentiation, Danyan Li

Characterization of structures and biosyntheses of ecologically important secondary metabolites in Escherichia coli and Xenorhabdus species, Jhe-Hao Li

The Wordline Effective Field Theory of Spinning Gravitational Sources, Jingping Li

Identification of signaling mechanisms controlling the development of organ-specific vascular networks, Jinyu Li

Essays on Panel and Network Modeling, Ming Li

A secreted signal from the gut inhibits axon regeneration in C. elegans, Alexander Tianma Lin-Moore

Iron Archipelago: Environment and Industry in Early Modern and Modern Japan, Joanna Morgan Linzer

Elucidation of VPS13 and PIKfyve Proteins Functioning in the Regulation of Eukaryotic Lipid Homeostasis, PeiQi Li

Pipelined Asynchronous High Level Synthesis for General Programs, Rui Li

Kinetic modeling, parameter estimation and model comparison in PET: Functional images of neurotransmitter dynamics and drug affinity, Heather Liu

Ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2: ’Negative Capacitance’ and Wake-Up Effect, Zhan Liu

Essays on Game and Economic Theory, Xiangliang Li

Clinical and Translational Cancer Research by Genomics and Transcriptomics Data Analysis, Xiaotong Li

Mechanisms by which Metaflammation and Adiponectin Regulates Glucose and Lipid Metabolism, Xiruo Li

Genetic Dissection of Local and Systemic Responses in States of Perturbed Iron Balance, Xiuqi Li

On Neuroscience-Inspired Statistical and Computational Problems, Zifan Li

Investigations of Novel Mechanisms of Epigenetic Regulation on Chromatin, William J. Lu-Culligan

Neurodevelopmental impacts of prenatal exposures to per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances; multiple outcome assessments in childhood age 5 to 11 years, JIAJUN Luo

Frictional, Large-Deformation Poroelastic Flow: Theory and Experiments, Tyler Harrison Lutz

Work, Sociability, And Inequality, Thomas Lyttelton

Diacylglycerol - PKC Epsilon - Insulin Receptor as a Key Regulatory Axis of Hepatic and White Adipose Tissue Insulin Signaling, Kun Lyu

Machine Learning Based Variational Approaches for Problems in Solid-State Physics, Bradley Magnetta

Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Medical Decision Support Systems Based on Mortality Prediction Algorithms from an Operations Research Perspective., Junchao Ma

On the Galois Action on Motivic Fundamental Groups of Punctured Elliptic and Rational Curves, Nikolay Malkin

Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction using Molecular Iron Porphyrins: Detailing the Role of Electrostatics in Small Molecule Activation, Daniel James Martin

Front Lines and the Home Front: Three Papers on Women’s Contributions to Non-State Armed Groups and the Gender Dynamics of Conflict, Hilary Amanda Matfess

The Role of Microvascular Signaling in the Neurogenic Niche, Rita Matta

Essays on the Effects of Institutional Changes, Martin Mattsson

Investigation of nuclear pore complex assembly and nuclear envelope growth in C. elegans embryos, Michael Sean Mauro

Fraternité, Liberté, Égalité: Sophie de Grouchy, Moral Republicanism, and the History of Liberalism, 1785-1815, Kathleen Theodora McCrudden

Effects of Social Context on Women’s Political Engagement: Evidence from Focus Group Experiments in Tanzania, Elizabeth Kay McGuire

High Rise: Poverty, Policing, and Crisis in American Public Housing, Philip V. McHarris

Discovering Novel Regulators of Nucleolar Form and Function, Lisa O. McLean

Clinical Treatment Human Disease Networks and Comparative Effectiveness Research: Analyses of the Medicare Administrative Data, Hao Mei

Computational Studies of Proteins:\\ Void analyses, NMR and X-ray structures, Fluctuations in protein structure measured using molecular dynamics simulations, Zhe Mei

Macrophage mechanosensing of the tissue environment and signal integration through the cytoskeleton, Matthew Lowell Meizlish

Developing Tradition: A History Of Intercultural Health Governance In Mexico, 1940-2000, Joshua Mentanko

Analyzing the role of ER membrane biogenesis in mitotic fidelity, Holly Elizabeth Merta

Regulation of Bone Marrow Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niches, Runfeng Miao

Environmental Assessments of Capital-Intensive Product Systems, Travis Reed Miller

The Roles of Polyploidy, Climate, and Genetic Architecture in the Evolution of Leaf Form in Viburnum (Adoxaceae), Morgan Kirstin Moeglein

Optimization of Orthogonal Translation Systems Enhances Access to the Human Phosphoproteome, Jack Michael Moen

A Few Applications of Seismic Waves: Anisotropy Tomography and All That, Puskar Mondal

Integrating genomics with the fossil record to explore the evolutionary history of Echinoidea, Nicolas Mongiardino Koch

Analyzing the Effect of Fuel Nitrogen on Soot Formation, Matthew Jacob Montgomery

Characterization of Postoperative Recovery After Cardiac Surgery- Insights into Predicting Individualized Recovery Pattern, Makoto Mori

Investigating the Effect of Allostery on Downstream Biology of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, Deepto Mozumdar

Essays on the Economics of Education and Health in Developing Countries, Kritika Narula

From the Oilfield to the Battlefield: The Internationalization of Northern Iranian Revolution, 1904-1921, Kayhan Aryan Nejad

The Spirit of Education: Politics and Pedagogy in Plato, Rousseau, Dewey and Freire, Stephanie Almeida Nevin

Urban Dreams and Agrarian Renovations: Examining the Politics and Practices of Peri-urban Land Conversion in Hanoi, Vietnam, Emily Nguyen

The Rheology of Striated Muscles, Khoi Dac Nguyen

The Poetics of Elsewhere: The Wakan Rōeishū Beyond Japan and China, Jeffrey Niedermaier

Institutional categories and their implications for human concepts, Alexander Noyes

Essays on Decision-Making Authority in the Courtroom, Grant Alexander Nunn

Decoding Gut Microbial Metabolites through G-Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) Activation, Phu Khat Nwe

Sampling from the Greedy Mixture Posterior, Dylan Potter O'Connell

Reversible peptide-protein interactions inside cells: enabling a new approach for achieving super-resolution imaging in live cells, Curran Oi

Stretching the Limits in Thermoplastic Forming of Bulk Metallic Glasses, Rodrigo Miguel Ojeda Mota

Identification and Characterization of the P53-Induced Long Noncoding RNA Isoform Pvt1b and Its Role in Stress-Specific Growth Inhibition via Myc Repression, Christiane Olivero

Improving Care for Survivors of Gun Violence, Kathleen O'Neill

Three Essays on Political Responses to Opioid Use in the United States, Lilla Orr

Representations of Time in Late-Medieval Music, Philippa Ovenden

Rethinking Aesthetic Humanism: Schiller After Agamben and Rancière, Thiti Owlarn

Urban Inequalities: Measuring, Forecasting, and Understanding Human Health Implications, Bhartendu Pandey

Contending With Social Positions and Social Inequality, Jun Won Park

Cross-kingdom Expression of Synthetic Genetic Elements Promotes the Discovery of a New Class of Nucleotide Analogs from the Human Microbiome, Jaymin Patel

Unraveling Heterogeneity in X Chromosome Regulation and Transcriptional Heterogeneity in Naïve Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, Benjamin Daniel Patterson

Exoplanet Measurement to the Extreme: Novel Methods of Instrumentation and Data Extraction for Radial-velocity Spectrographs, Ryan Richard Petersburg

Improving surveillance of emerging RNA viruses, Mary E. Petrone

Interdisciplinary Machine Learning Methods for Particle Physics, Mariel Pettee

At the intersection of temporal & modal interpretation, Josh Phillips