Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Relocating Urban Lives: Negotiating Urban Identities and Urban Culture Beyond the City, Nicholas Payne Kearns
A Multi-Modal Investigation of the Basic Neural Processing Mechanisms of Real Human Face Viewing, Megan Kelley
Computational Studies of Molecular-Level Effects at Catalytic Interfaces, H. Ray Kelly
Antiblackness and 'Late' Capitalist Aesthetic Productivity, 1970s-present, Erich J. Kessel
Magical Realism in the Middle Ages: The Marvelous Merlin of Arthurian Legend, Aaron Richard Kestle
Algorithmic Decision-making with Stakeholder Participation, Vijay Keswani
Towards Practical Electrocatalysis for Industrial Wastewater Treatment, David Kim
CpG Island Turnover Predicts Evolutionary Change in Enhancer Activity, Acadia Kocher
On the Ground: Land, Sovereignty, and Terraformation in Singapore, Vanessa Koh
The Plastic Shell: Mother-of-Pearl and Material Literacy in an Early Modern Dutch World, Cynthia Koyueh Kok
Who Governs Schools?: Alienation and Participatory Democracy in New Haven Public Education, Alexander Kolokotronis
Probing Diverse Biological Systems and their Hydration Shells by Modeling Chiral Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy, Daniel Konstantinovsky
Machine Learning for Ordinal Time Series to Understand Disease Progression, Jonathan D. Koss
Securing Ablodé Blibo: Togolese Women Merchants and the Transnational Politics of Decolonization, 1915-1994, Marius Ami Kothor
Investigating the Associations Between Trauma Exposure and Conditioned Inhibition of Fear in Development, Sahana Kribakaran
Fundamental Limits of Nanophotonic Design, Zeyu Kuang
Essays in Industrial Economics, Changhyun Kwak
Discovery and Synthesis of N-Heterocyclic Drug-like Compounds by Leveraging Novel Rh(I)-Catalyzed C-H Activation Methods, Oh Sang Kweon
THE BANALITY OF ORGANIZATION: Mass Killings as a Coordination Problem in the Shadow of War, William Kwok
Job Creation, Task Changes, and Inequality, Doris Do Kyung Kwon
Essays on Macroeconomic Policy With Heterogeneous Agents, and Digital Assets, Antzelos Kyriazis
Cryogenic Studies of Upper Atmosphere: Chemical Species and Reactions, Anton Luke Lachowicz
The Role of PI3Kγ in the Immune Response, Stephen Lanahan
Investigating the Synaptic Plasticity Mechanisms Underlying a Learned Behavioral Preference in C. elegans, Joon Ha Lee
Orientation computation by a novel group of retinal amacrine cells, Wanyu Lei
Black Ideologies on Community Safety in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Demar Francis Lewis IV
Statistical Methods for Identifying Gene Expression and Epigenetic Signatures in Complex Traits, Hongyu Li
Greener Routes to Biomass Valorization: Lignin Upgrading using Electrochemical Method, Fang Lin
Learning Latent Representations for Biological Molecules, Tianxiao Li
Image-based 3D Genomics and Nucleomics in Health and Disease, Miao Liu
Statistical Methods in High-Throughput Biomedical Data with Application to Precision Medicine, Yunqing Liu
Identifying The Role And Mechanism By Which GDF15 And FGF21 Regulate Glucose Homeostasis, Zongyu Li
The Psychic Landscape of Slavery: Modern Consciousness and Damning Attachments, Ellen M. Louis
Didactic Poetry as Formal Experiment in Early Medieval England, Shu-han Luo
Dynamic and Individualized Small-scale Brain Functional Organization, Wenjing Luo
The taste of love: detection of pheromones by the taste system, Yichen Luo
Identifying Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Contributing Towards Neuronal Vulnerability in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1, Kimberly Petra Luttik
Reclaiming the Silences of Dance: Women and Ballet in Nineteenth-Century France, Madison Mainwaring
Improving Genetic Diagnostics and Developing Gene Therapies in Rare Muscle Diseases, Kaiyue Ma
Scattering for Schrödinger Operators in the Presence of Anisotropic Potentials, Tal Malinovitch
The View from Somewhere: Essays on Philosophy, Positionality and Power, Moya Mapps
A Multi-Modal Approach to Regulating Privacy and Online Platforms, Sari Mazzurco
A Natural History of the Novel: Species, Sense, Atmosphere, Margaret Ann McGowan
Crip Conversion: Narratives of Disability and Grace, Calli Micale
Bible as Scripture: Orthodox Slavic Scripturality and Church Slavonic Bibles, John Max Mikitish
A New View of Galaxy Morphology, Timothy Blake Miller
Damed Bodies: Hell and Theodicy in the Late Ancient Latin West, Sara A. Misgen
Japanese New Worlds: Intersecting Imaginaries of the Nanban Period (c. 1543–1641), Drisana Misra
Essays on Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Masaki Miyashita
Development of techniques to characterize RNA motifs throughout the transcriptome, Michelle H. Moon
Uncovering the regulation and role of tissue-wide calcium signaling in the regenerating epidermis, Jessica L. Moore
Observing, Controlling, and Planning Compliant Robot Manipulation, Andrew Morgan
Internal and External State-Dependent Modulation of Visual Perception and Cortical Processing, Mitchell Paul Morton
Democracy in Motion: Livelihoods, Politics, and Small Transport Operators in Delhi, India, Souvanik Mullick
Defining the Function and Therapeutic Potential of Mutant PPM1D in High-Grade Glioma, Matthew A. Murray
Neural Memory for Reinforcement Learning and Temporal Credit Assignment, Shanna Kathleen Murray
The Dramatic Turn: Science, Theater, and Russian Literature at the End of the Nineteenth Century, Valeriia Mutc
Computational Studies of the Mechanical Properties of Metallic Glasses, Aya Nawano
Semi-Inclusive Measurement of the Shared Groomed Momentum Fraction of Jets in Au+Au Collisions at STAR, Daniel B. Nemes
Rearticulating Work: Entrepreneurship and Work-based Identity in Contemporary CongoBrazzaville, Rundong Ning
Resource Allocation Problems for Efficient and Sustainable Next-Generation Networks, Nicholas Nordlund
Understanding Vulnerabilities in Metabolism and DNA Repair in Oncometabolite-producing Cancers, Katelyn Noronha
Essays on the political economy of foreign aid, Cleo O'Brien-Udry
Early and Late Stage Mechanisms of Autophagosome Formation, Taryn J. Olivas
Ornament and the Other: Owen Jones and the Design of Victorian Modernity, Christine Olson
Data-driven Heart Geometry Modeling for Patient-specific Biomechanics, Daniel Hyungseok Pak
Stochastic Modeling and Optimization of Blockchain Networks, Nikolaos Papadis
Recasting the Past: Russian Literature, Drama, and the Plastic Arts in the Era of Reform, Chloe Simone Papadopoulos
Exploiting DNA Repair Deficiencies in Cancer to Develop and Characterize Novel Therapeutics, Sateja Paradkar
Essays on Political Economy and Gender, Antonia Paredes-Haz
Expression and Function of Downstream-of-Gene RNAs in Innate Immunity, Annsea Park
Investigating Patterns and Processes of Diversification in the Adaptive Radiation of Antarctic Notothenioid Fishes, Chantal Elyse Parker
Essays on Civil Procedure: Remedies, Federal Courts, and Marginalized Groups, Portia Pedro
Foreign Knowledge and Shared Histories: Islam and Historical Thought in Medieval Latin Christendom, Alexander Peña
Cinematic Meteorology: Aesthetics and Epistemology of Weather Images, Hsin-Yuan Peng
Investigating Factors That Influence Food Cue Reactivity in Humans, Emily Elizabeth Perszyk
Writing History in the Nineteenth-Century Great Lakes, Benjamin Pokross
Chromatin Expansion Microscopy Reveals Nanoscale Organization of Transcription and Chromatin, Mark Pownall
Going Urban: The Jewish Experience of the Metropolis in Early 20th Century Literature, Ariel Yehudith Pridan
The Social Fabric: Franz Erhard Walther’s Fabric Objects and the Sociological Turn of Art in Postwar Germany, Gregor Quack
Systemic Targeting of Therapeutic RNA to Tumors via a Cell-Penetrating and RNA-Binding Antibody, Elias Quijano
Thermomechanical Nanomolding: Characterization And Fabrication, Arindam Raj
Mechanisms of Immunopathology Following COVID-19 and Vaccination in Children & Early Life Immunity in Neonates, Anjali Ramaswamy
Electronic Property Tuning and External Stimuli Control of Two-Dimensional Materials via Surface Functionalization, Serrae Reed-Lingenfelter
Mind perception in moral judgment, Madeline G. Reinecke
Religio Licita: Empire, Religion, and Civic Subjects, 250-450 CE, Carl Ross Rice
Children's Intuitive Theories of Group Collaboration, Emory Richardson
Reading the Surface in Early Modern English Literature, Sophia Richardson
Polymeric Antiscalants for Gypsum Scale Mitigation: Mechanisms and Implication for Membrane Desalination, Julianne Rolf
“The Example He or She Sets”: American Public Schools, Social Norms, and Regulations on Teacher Gender and Sexuality, 1900-1980, Rachel Rosenberg
Informing Design of Sustainable Sorbents for Drinking Water Treatment: Faceted Nanohematite for Oxoanion Removal, Holly Elizabeth Rudel
Beyond Bias: Three Papers on Bias in Social Networks and Mitigating Bias in Social Science Research, Jeffrey K. Sachs
All-Inclusive Care: Infrastructures of Aging Activism, 1965-1987, Maya Cory Sandler