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Author:

Fernandez, Carla Beatriz

Title:

THE ROLE OF SPEAKER IDENTITY ON THE PROCESSING OF NATIVE AND FOREIGN-ACCENTED SPEECH

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

language
perception
EEG

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Committee Members:

Adriana Van Hell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adriana Van Hell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michele Diaz, Committee Member
Reginald Adams, Jr., Committee Member
Katharina Sophie Schuhmann, Outside Member
Kathryn Suzanne Scherf, Committee Member

Author:

Roman, Cristina Flores-almeida

Title:

EXAMINING THE HIGH INCIDENCE OF DEPRESSION IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THROUGH LOCAL AND GLOBAL STRUCTURAL NETWORK PERSPECTIVES

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

multiple sclerosis
structural connectivity
depression
connectometry
graph theory

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Committee Members:

Peter A. Arnett, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Arnett, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jose Angel Soto, Committee Member
Kathryn Suzanne Scherf, Committee Member
Chaleece Wyatt Sandberg, Outside Member
Michael Nelson Hallquist, Committee Member

Author:

Liendo, Elizabeth

Title:

Pain and Pleasure: Fictions of Erotic Violence from Ovid to Spenser

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

medieval
early modern
erotic violence
Ovid
Amores
mastery

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Committee Members:

Robert R. Edwards, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert R. Edwards, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caroline Eckhardt, Committee Member
Garrett Sullivan, Committee Member
Maria Truglio, Outside Member

Author:

Beecher, David Lory

Title:

"AN HONORABLE AND MANLY SPORT": THE ROLE OF THOROUGHBRED HORSE RACING IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Horse racing
Slavery
Plantation Life
Antebellum South
Gambling
Thoroughbred

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Committee Members:

John Rogers Haddad, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Member
Indrit Hoxha, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Wei Lin

Title:

CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND RURAL DISPARITIES: RURALITY, ENVIRONMENT AND BODY MASS INDEX AMONG U.S. CHILDREN

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Childhood obesity
Rural-urban difference
Food environment
Multilevel modeling

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Committee Members:

Leif Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leif Jensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn J. Brasier, Committee Member
Guangqing Chi, Committee Member
Jennifer Van Hook, Outside Member
Kathryn J Brasier, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hart, Michael

Title:

Glass Canon: The Cambridge School of English and the Academic Formalization of Literary Studies

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Cambridge
critical university studies
history of literary criticism

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Committee Members:

Janet Wynne Lyon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Lawrence Caserio, Jr., Committee Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Chang

Title:

THE STATIC CO-OCCURRENCE AND DYNAMIC CO-DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN EXTERNALIZING AND INTERNALIZING BEHAVIORS FROM AGES 1.5 TO 8 YEARS AT BETWEEN-PERSON AND WITHIN-PERSON LEVELS: DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES AND HERITABLE AND REARING ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

externalizing and internalizing behaviors
between-person and within-person perspectives
co-occurrence
dynamic co-development
parent-offspring adoption design
integrative data-analytic techniques
heritable and rearing environmental influences

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Committee Members:

Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ginger A Moore, Committee Member
Koraly Elisa Perez-Edgar, Committee Member
Sy-Miin Chow, Outside Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tuttle, Elizabeth

Title:

Distributing Dissidence: The Material Culture of Feminism and Anti-Imperialism in Interwar France

Graduate Program:

French and Francophone Studies

Keywords:

French Feminism
Colonial history
Material Culture Studies
Political Activism
Interwar France
French Anti-Imperialism

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Committee Members:

Jennifer Boittin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benedicte Marie-Christine Monicat, Committee Member
Tracy Leanne Rutler, Committee Member
Sophie C De Schaepdrijver, Outside Member
Carolyn Eichner, Special Member
Benedicte Marie-Christine Monicat, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Terechshenko, Zhanna

Title:

What They Say and What They Do: Hawkishness, Hostility, and Conflict Escalation

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Conflict escalation
Hostility
Hawkishness

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Committee Members:

Glenn Hunter Palmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Glenn Hunter Palmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas William Lemke, Committee Member
Zita Oravecz, Outside Member
Burt Monroe, III, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marie Hojnacki, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schroeder, Kingsley Manning

Title:

Components of Gender-Conformity Pressure: Measurement and Consequences of Awareness, Feelings, and Behaviors

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

gender development
parent socialization
felt pressure to conform to gender roles

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Committee Members:

Lynn S. Liben, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lynn S. Liben, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Committee Member
Margaret L. Signorella, Committee Member
Mayra Y Bamaca, Outside Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kafle, Madhav Prasad

Title:

Negotiating Academic Literacy in Mobility: Undergraduate Refugee Students’ Challenges in US Higher Education

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

academic literacy
Bhutanese refugees
higher education
informal networks
literacy challenges
literacy pedagogy
mobility
negotiation

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Committee Members:

Suresh Canagarajah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Committee Member
Xiaoye You, Outside Member
Robert William Schrauf, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sayre, Gordon M

Title:

Tipping the scale: Do daily financial rewards compensate for energy invested in work?

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Conservation of resources
Financial rewards
Service industry
Occupational Health Psychology
Tips
Vigor
Effort-Reward Imbalance

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Committee Members:

Alicia Ann Grandey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alicia Ann Grandey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rustin D. Meyer, Committee Member
Karen Gasper, Committee Member
David Manuel Almeida, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Smilges, Johnathan

Title:

Queer Silence: Rhetorics of Resistance

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Rhetoric
disability studies
queer theory
trans* studies

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Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Hilary Jade Malatino, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Poole, Megan Renee

Title:

Technical Beauty: Rhetorics and Aesthetics of Science

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetorics of science
sensation
posthuman semiotics
Margaret Cavendish
Susanne K. Langer

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Committee Members:

Debra Hawhee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debra Hawhee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Member
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Member
Bradford James Vivian, Outside Member
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sheets, Jessica

Title:

"No More Striving of Brother against Brother": Family Divisions and Historical Memory of the Revolutionary War

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Revolutionary War
civil war
loyalists
patriots
historical memory
family divisions

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Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Member
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Thomas Townsend Amlie, Outside Member
James D. Scudieri, Special Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Allen, Patrick Sean

Title:

A Practice of Print: Race, Doctoring, and Medicine in Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem Black Print Culture

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Race
Medicine
African American Literature
Print Culture
Critical Medical Humanities
Doctors

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Committee Members:

Shirley Moody, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shirley Moody, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Member
Sean X Goudie, Committee Member
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bankoff, Richard

Title:

The Ethics and Efficacy of Conservation in the Region of Masoala National Park, Madagascar

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

Anthropology
Communicative action
Ethnography
Socioecology
Bioethics
Human-natural systems

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Committee Members:

George H Perry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George H Perry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nina G Jablonski, Committee Member
Douglas Warren Bird, Committee Member
Guangqing Chi, Outside Member
Rosemary Jane Jolly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Katherine Shenk, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lupascu, Victoria

Title:

Disposability is in the Blood: Biopolitical Cultures of Health in Chinese, Romanian and Brazilian Literature and Documentary Films

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

comparative literature
medical humanities
Chinese literature
Disposability
hiv/aids
romanian documentary films
Brazilian literature

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Committee Members:

Charlotte Diane Eubanks, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shuang Shen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosemary Jane Jolly, Committee Member
Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Committee Member
Krista Marie Brune, Outside Member
Charlotte Diane Eubanks, Program Head/Chair
Charlotte Diane Eubanks, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Kim, Jamie

Title:

A conversation analytic study on what makes students talk: Mobilizing student responses in classroom interaction

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

conversation analysis
student participation
teacher questions
classroom interaction
response mobilization
classroom discourse

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Committee Members:

Joan Kelly Hall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joan Kelly Hall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Daniel Looney, Committee Member
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member
Matthew Edward Poehner, Outside Member
Robert William Schrauf, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shin, Ki Eun

Title:

Dynamics of symptom relations in major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder: Time-series network analysis approach

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Anxiety
Depression
Comorbidity
Network analysis

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Committee Members:

Michelle Gayle Newman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Gayle Newman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Louis Georges Castonguay, Committee Member
Reginald Adams, Jr., Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Outside Member
Daniel Joseph Della Posta, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hargrave, Katharine Michelle

Title:

Lyric Tragedy and Libretto Print Culture in Early Modern France

Graduate Program:

French and Francophone Studies

Keywords:

17th and 18th Century
Lyrics
Material culture
Opera
French literature
Performance studies

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Committee Members:

Jean-Claude Vuillemin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jean-Claude Vuillemin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Member
Willa Zahava Silverman, Committee Member
Marica Susan Tacconi, Outside Member
Pierre Saby, Special Member
Benedicte Marie-Christine Monicat, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cundiff, Kelsey Lynn

Title:

Reassessing the 1990’s Crime Drop: An Individual Level Approach

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

Crime Trends
Longitudinal data analysis

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Committee Members:

Eric P Baumer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric P Baumer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Anthony Loughran, IV, Committee Member
Jeremy Staff, Committee Member
Jennifer Lianne Maggs, Outside Member
Eric P Baumer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Torres-Cacoullos, Anna

Title:

Writing with Cinema: Facing the Screen and Page in Modernist Spain (1920-1930)

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Spanish Avant-Garde
Cinema
Modernism

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Committee Members:

Nicolas L Fernandez-Medina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicolas L Fernandez-Medina, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew J Marr, Committee Member
Maria Rosa Truglio, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Outside Member
Susan Larson, Special Member
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dowgwillo, Emily Ann

Title:

Within Person Covariation of Narcissistic Grandiosity and Vulnerability in Daily Life and the Construct Validity of the Super Brief-Pathological Narcissism Inventory

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Narcissism
Covariation
Ecological Momentary Assessment

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Committee Members:

Aaron Lee Pincus, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aaron Lee Pincus, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Levy, Committee Member
Michael Nelson Hallquist, Committee Member
David E Conroy, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lafreniere, Lucas S

Title:

Upregulating Positive Emotion in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the SkillJoy Ecological Momentary Intervention

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

generalized anxiety disorder
savoring
positive valence systems
ecological momentary interventions
worry
cognitive-behavioral therapy
self-monitoring
generalized anxiety disorder
savoring
positive valence systems
ecological momentary interventions
positive emotion
worry
cognitive-behavioral therapy
self-monitoring
ecological momentary assessment

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Committee Members:

Michelle Gayle Newman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Gayle Newman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Jeffrey Wilson, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Committee Member
Rayne Audrey Sperling, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Newman, Kaitlyn Jeanette

Title:

Ethics in the Aftermath: Rethinking Post-Genocide Representations and Remembrance with Lyotard and Levinas

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Levinas
Lyotard
genocide
representation

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Committee Members:

Leonard Richard Lawlor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonard Richard Lawlor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Outside Member
Amy Rebekah Allen, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bacon, Rachel Jeannine

Title:

THREE PAPERS ON DIETARY ACCULTURATION: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE AND TWO EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS TO THE BLACK CARIBBEAN POPULATION

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Dietary acculturation
Caribbean immigrants
Segregation
Race
Health Disparities
Adventist Health Study

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Committee Members:

Stephen Augustus Matthews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Augustus Matthews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Committee Member
Roger Finke, Committee Member
Eric Plutzer, Outside Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vosburg, Nora

Title:

The syntax and semantics of periphrastic do in Kansas Plautdietsch

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

Plautdietsch
do-periphrasis
Mennonites
sociolinguistics
syntax
variation

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Committee Members:

Michael Travis Putnam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Richard Page, Jr., Committee Member
John Lipski, Outside Member
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Outside Member
Joseph C. Salmons, Special Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhu, Feng

Title:

Essays on Contests

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

all-pay contests
uncertainty
information disclosure
experiment
stochastic dominance

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Committee Members:

Ron Siegel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ron Siegel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Syed Nageeb Ali, Committee Member
Ran I Shorrer, Committee Member
Chloe Jeanne Tergiman, Outside Member
Zhe Wang, Outside Member
Marc Albert Henry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bergsma, Theodore

Title:

From Presence to Eternity: Time and Timelessness in Deleuze's Early Philosophy of the Unconscious

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Bergson
consciousness
Deleuze
eternity
Freud
Husserl
ontology
phenomenology
presence
psychoanalysis
time
timelessness
unconscious

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Leonard Richard Lawlor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonard Richard Lawlor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Amy Rebekah Allen, Committee Member
Nicolas J De Warren, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Outside Member
Amy Rebekah Allen, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mc Donie, Megan J

Title:

In the Shadow of the Volcano: Volcanic Landscapes, Indigenous Knowledge, and Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Mesoamerica

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

volcanoes
indigenous knowledge
Mexico
Guatemala

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Matthew Bennett Restall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Bennett Restall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martha Few, Committee Member
Kathryn Elizabeth Salzer, Committee Member
Amara Leah Solari, Outside Member
Tatiana Seijas, Special Member
Gregory James Smits, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Broderick, Amanda Vivian

Title:

Gene-environment interplay: The role of family factors in internalizing symptoms across childhood and adolescence.

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

internalizing
anxiety
depression
parenting
gene-environment interplay
gene-environment correlation
children
adolescents
development
genetically informed design

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Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ginger A Moore, Committee Member
Steffany Fredman, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair
Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Shapiro, Zvi Raphael

Title:

Using Statistical Modeling to Better Identify Mechanisms of Cognitive Deficits and Psychopathology

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

ADHD
Assessment
Statistical Modeling

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Cynthia L Huang-Pollock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cynthia L Huang-Pollock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Andrew Arnett, Committee Member
Charles Geier, Committee Member
Bethany Bray, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Manthey, Dominic Joseph

Title:

The Peace Script: Varieties of Anti-War Dissent in U. S. History

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

War
Peace
Rhetoric
Social Movements
Violence

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Stephen Howard Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Member
Bradford James Vivian, Committee Member
John David Mccarthy, Outside Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Erby, Brandon Marcell

Title:

The Rhetorical Campaigns of Mamie Till-Mobley

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Mamie Till-Mobley
Emmett Till
Motherhood
Rhetoric
Lynching
Activism
Racism
Pedagogy
Feminism
Social Justice
Civil Rights Movement
Black Lives Matter Movement

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Raymond Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Keith Gilyard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Member
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Crystal Renee Sanders, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Albohn, Daniel

Title:

Computationally Predicting Human Impressions of Neutral Faces

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Neutral Faces
Impression Formation
Machine Learning
Facial Expressions
Emotion Expressions

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Committee Members:

Reginald Adams, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald Adams, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jose Angel Soto, Committee Member
Christopher Daryl Cameron, Committee Member
James Z Wang, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hall, Marika

Title:

YOU ARE THE BUSINESS CARD OF YOUR OWN SUBJECT, SO IF YOU’RE A PEDAGOGICAL GESTAPO YOU DON’T HAVE A SUBJECT ANYMORE:” ISSUES IN FINNISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION POLICY AND PRACTICE

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

Language education policy
Language education in Finland
Language commodification
Language learning
Language ideology
Language marketing
Foreign language education

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Committee Members:

Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member
Meredith Christine Doran, Committee Member
Uju Anya, Outside Member
Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Member
Robert William Schrauf, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Casal, Joseph

Title:

An integrated corpus and genre analysis approach to writing research and pedagogy: Development of graduate student genre knowledge

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

Applied Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Second Language Writing
Sociocultural Theory
Content-Based Instruction

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Committee Members:

Xiaofei Lu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen E Johnson, Committee Member
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member
Matthew Edward Poehner, Outside Member
Robert William Schrauf, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Allen, Julian Bryant

Title:

Burning the candle at both ends: An examination of middle-manager well-being

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Leadership
Manager Well-Being
Longitudinal

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Committee Members:

Samuel Todd Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Todd Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Mohammed, Committee Member
Rustin David Meyer, Committee Member
Donald C Hambrick, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Griswold, Kaytlynn Rose

Title:

Inclusion is in the Eye of the Beholder: Examining Subordinate Sensemaking of Leader Diversity Behaviors in Fostering Inclusive Climates

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

inclusive leadership
inclusive climate
diversity climate
diversity behavior
diversity management
sensemaking
inculsion

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Committee Members:

Kisha Jones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kisha Jones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Mohammed, Committee Member
James Marshall Lebreton, Committee Member
Aparna Anand Joshi, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ma, Xiaochuan

Title:

Understanding Reading Comprehension in First vs. Second Language: An Exploratory Approach Combining Eye-Tracking and Network Science

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Reading Comprehension
Eye-Tracking
Network Visualization
Network Analysis

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Committee Members:

Ping Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ping Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elisabeth Karuza, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Koraly Perez-Edgar, Committee Member
Roy Clariana, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Neely, Brett Hamilton

Title:

Faces and Fraud: CEO Facial Masculinity and Firm Financial Misconduct

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Leadership
Upper Echelons Theory
CEO
Masculinity

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Committee Members:

Samuel Todd Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Todd Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alicia Ann Grandey, Committee Member
Kisha Shannon Jones, Committee Member
Aparna Anand Joshi, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Joblin, Jessica

Title:

Reorienting the Avant-Garde: Novel Objects, Queer Sociabilities

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

avant-garde
modernism
queer
sociability
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Marcel Duchamp
Duncan Grant
Virginia Woolf
Vita Sackville-West
Bryher

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Christopher Gervais Reed, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Gervais Reed, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Lisa Ruth Sternlieb, Committee Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Steiner, Troy Garrett

Title:

Applying a Social Visual Approach to the Self

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Self
Narcissim
Gender
Empathy
Reverse Correlation
Social Vision
self-image

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Committee Members:

Reginald Adams, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald Adams, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Oliver, Outside Member
Kenneth Levy, Committee Member
Christopher Daryl Cameron, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair
Theresa K Vescio, Committee Member

Author:

Patki, Priyanka Abhay

Title:

Mixture theory based poroelasticity for biopolymer degradation and fluid transport in brain

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Finite Element Method
Poroelasticity
Mixture theory
Fluid-structure interactions

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Francesco Costanzo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anil Kamalakant Kulkarni, Committee Member
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Member
Jian Yang, Outside Member
Bruce Gluckman, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Glass-Heffner, Andrea

Title:

Gentrification, Interrupted: Place-Based Identity, Vanishing Landscapes, and the War on Gentrification in Urban America

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

American Studies
Urban Studies
Gentrification
digital culture
gender and sexuality
spatial justice
memory
space and place
popular culture
visual culture
folklore
vanishing landscapes

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Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Simon J. Bronner, Committee Member
Kenneth Brian Cunningham, Outside Member

Author:

Diddi, Pratiti

Title:

INTERPLAY OF NARRATIVES AND SELF-DISCLOSURE IN ORGANIZATIONAL CRISIS COMMUNICATION

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Narratives
Stealing Thunder
Organizational crisis
Crisis Communication

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Fuyuan Shen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Denise Sevick Bortree, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Denise Sevick Bortree, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Ahern, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Outside Member
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Pabbi, Lavish

Title:

INSTRUMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY IN NOVEL 2D SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Atomic Force Microscopy
Active noise cancellation
Doped Graphene
2 dimensional materials
Transition metal dichalcogenides
Spinodal decomposition

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Eric W Hudson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric W Hudson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Outside Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ochoa Lleras, Nicolas

Title:

Control Systems and Human Factors for the Prevention of Tractor Overturn

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Control systems
Tractor
Rollover
ADAS
Human Factors
Simulated environments

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Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer, III, Committee Member
Dennis Murphy, Committee Member
Yiqi Zhang, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ren, Jerry

Title:

MOUSE BREAST CANCER MODELING: CELL CYCLE ARREST, RADIATION MUTAGENESIS, AND TRANSPOSON-BASED CANCER GENE DISCOVERY

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Transposon
Mutagenesis
Breast Cancer
c-Myc
Radiation Mutagensis
CDK4/6 inhibitor
Ras
Mammary gland development
Cell cycle inhibition
PI3K
AKT
Oncogene
Oncogene Cooperation
Mutagenesis Screen

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Edward Joseph Gunther, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Joseph Gunther, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David James Degraff, Committee Member
George Lucian Moldovan, Committee Member
Aron Eliot Lukacher, Outside Member
Hong-Gang Wang, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hanrath, Lily Savannah

Title:

Are Two Systems Better Than One?: How Interactions Between Police and CPS Workers Influence Outcomes in Child Maltreatment Cases

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

CPS
Police
Arrests
Substantiation
Child Abuse

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Jeffrey Todd Ulmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Todd Ulmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sarah Anne Font, Committee Member
Eric Silver, Committee Member
Christian Michael Connell, Outside Member
Eric P Baumer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhou, Zhangjun

Title:

Educational Attainment and Late-life Health Trajectories: Evidence from Aging Cohorts in Developing Contexts

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

demography
health disparity
life course
comparative study

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Steven Andrew Haas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Andrew Haas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David P Baker, Committee Member
Liying Luo, Committee Member
Leif Jensen, Outside Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Anantharaman, Anuradha

Title:

Organizational political ideology diversity and satisfaction: Election cycle as temporal context

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Political ideology diversity
organizational satisfaction
presidential elections
time-varying effect model

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Alicia Ann Grandey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alicia Ann Grandey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Samuel Todd Hunter, Committee Member
Rustin David Meyer, Committee Member
Aparna Anand Joshi, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Holmes, Kathryn

Title:

Your Religion is Showing: Negotiating the Culture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through the Body

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Bodylore
Mormon Studies
Folklore
Gender

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Simon Josef Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Member
Christopher Hollenbeak, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lain, Korie Lee

Title:

A House Fit For the Dead: Gravehouses in the Cultural Landscape of the Upland South

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

gravehouse

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Simon Josef Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Member
Joseph James Cecere, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kennedy, Curry

Title:

Grace and Skill: Religion and Rhetorical Education in Early Modern England

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Religion
Early Modern England
Rhetorical Education
Literacy Education
History of Religion
Reformation
Humanism
Renaissance

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Debra Hawhee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Committee Member
Claire Mary Louise Bourne, Committee Member
Michele Jean Kennerly, Outside Member
Debra Hawhee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Smith, Emily

Title:

Performing Histories: Archival Embodiment as Rhetorical Historiography

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

historiography
public memory
performance
rhetoric

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Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
Pamela Ruth Vanhaitsma, Outside Member
David Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Faircloth, Adam

Title:

Shakespeare's Tumid Embroidery: Lucan and the Figuration of Sovereign Power in the Two Tetralogies

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Shakespeare
Lucan
Sovereignty
Henriad
Pharsalia

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Claire Mary Colebrook, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Garrett Sullivan, Jr., Committee Member
Patrick G Cheney, Committee Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Committee Member
Daniel Chapin Beaver, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair
Claire Mary Colebrook, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Wang, Ziyu

Title:

Humans and Treponematoses: An Interdisciplinary Study Bridging Ancient and Modern Treponema Pallidum Genomes

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

ancient DNA
Treponematoses
Treponema pallidum
Origin of syphilis
Yaws in historical Europe

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George Robert Milner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Robert Milner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moriah Louise Szpara, Outside Member
Nina G Jablonski, Committee Member
Sheila Lukehart, Special Member
George H Perry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tim Ryan, Program Head/Chair
George H Perry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Buckley, Gina

Title:

What is a City but the People? Migration, Diet, and Chronology at the Tlajinga and La Ventilla Districts of Teotihuacan, Mexico

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

Teotihuacan
Stable Isotopes
Radiocarbon Dating
Migration
Paleomobility
Paleodiet
chronology
Mesoamerica

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Kenneth Gale Hirth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Gale Hirth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Robert Milner, Committee Member
Stephen Augustus Matthews, Outside Member
Mary Katherine Shenk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David M Carballo, Special Member
Virginie Renson, Special Member
Douglas J Kennett, Special Member
Tim Ryan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Phillips, Joseph Biaggio

Title:

Of Time and the Development of Affective Polarization

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Affective Polarization
Partisanship
Political Behavior
Prejudice
Perspective-Taking

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Eric Plutzer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Plutzer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanna Linn, Committee Member
Michael J Nelson, Committee Member
Christopher Daryl Cameron, Outside Member
Glenn Hunter Palmer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Morel, Annamarie

Title:

Glamour, Guns, And Glitter: Selfie-Empowerment and Self-Representation Online

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

photography
self-portraits
selfies
social media
digital culture
visual culture
gender
identity
vernacular photography
glamour
fashion
popular culture
folklore
influencer
beauty
firearms

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Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Member
Jeffrey A Tolbert, Committee Member
Russell Frank, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Voeller, Nathaniel Trent

Title:

Depression Apps, Design, and the Rhetorics of Mental Disability

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Technical Communication
Digital Rhetoric
Disability Rhetoric
Mental Disability Rhetoric

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Stuart Selber, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stuart Selber, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cuevas-Buendia, Gerardo Valente

Title:

Exploring the Relationship Between School District Racial/Ethnic Composition and Socio-Economic Composition and School Punishment in an Era of Changing School Disciplinary Policies

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

School Discipline
Racial/Ethnic Composition
Socio-Economic Composition

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David M Ramey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David M Ramey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Allen Kreager, Committee Member
Jeremy Staff, Committee Member
Barrett Alan Lee, Outside Member
Erica Frankenberg, Outside Member
Thomas Anthony Loughran, IV, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tabur, Merve

Title:

Ends of Language in the Anthropocene: Narrating Environmental Destruction in Turkish, Arabic, and Arab-Anglophone Speculative Fiction

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

Turkish literature
Arabic literature
Arab-Anglophone literature
Speculative fiction
Middle East
Anthropocene
Environmental justice
Environmental destruction
Climate Change

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Nergis Erturk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nergis Erturk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shuang Shen, Committee Member
Anna Ziajka Stanton, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Outside Member
Sabine Doran, Outside Member
Charlotte Diane Eubanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ancic, Ivana

Title:

At The Limits of the Human Rights Regime: Perpetrator Perspectives in Contemporary Literatures and Visual Cultures

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature (PHD)

Keywords:

World Literature
Human Rights
Global South
Perpetrator
Race
Global Capitalism

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Rosemary Jolly, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Major Field Member
Sarah Townsend, Outside Unit & Field Member
Emmanuel Jean-Francois, Major Field Member
Charlotte Eubanks, Major Field Member
Charlotte Eubanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nolte, Hannah

Title:

Cognitive stress and engineering design: Investigating the effect of state mindfulness-based interventions on the experience of introductory engineering students

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Engineering design
mental stress
mindfulness
mental workload
creativity
Engineering Design
mental stress
mindfulness
mental workload
creativity

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Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Steven Landry, Major Field Member
Chris McComb, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Catherine Berdanier, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jessica Menold, Major Field Member

Author:

Ravida, Nigel

Title:

The Effects of Novel Drug Compounds on Glioblastoma As An Indicator For Therapeutic Intervention

Graduate Program:

Anatomy (MS)

Keywords:

Glioblastoma
Hypoxia
Cytotoxicity

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Patricia Mclaughlin, Program Head/Chair
James Robert Connor, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seyed Alireza Mansouri, Committee Member

Author:

Shirazi, Talia

Title:

Endocrine organization of sex differences in psychology and behavior: Evidence from isolated GnRH deficiency

Graduate Program:

Anthropology (PHD)

Keywords:

hormones
organizational effects
behavioral endocrinology
isolated GnRH deficiency
androgens
estrogens
puberty

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Asher Rosinger, Major Field Member
Sonia Cavigelli, Outside Field Member
Mark Shriver, Major Field Member
Suzy Scherf, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Puts, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Katherine Shenk, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khandare, Sujata

Title:

Mechanical response of tendons to common therapies and the effects of tendon injury progression

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Dry needling
Focused ultrasound
Tendon
Mechanical properties
Mechanical testing
Rotator cuff
Computational model
Glenohumeral joint
Muscle activation
Force couple
Tear severity
Rotator cuff tear

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Stephen Piazza, Outside Unit & Field Member
Spencer Szczesny, Major Field Member
Meghan Vidt, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julianna Simon, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Thomas, Kierstan Bailey

Title:

Knowing While Black: Insidious Ignorance and Oppositional Knowledge

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

social epistemology
white ignorance
Black feminism
Black feminist epistemology
critical philosophy of race
epistemology of ignorance
epistemology of resistance
epistemology of oppression
willful ignorance

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Nancy Tuana, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hil Malatino, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Miller, Major Field Member
Robert Bernasconi, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rife, Jared Sorensen

Title:

The Faith That Matters Most: LDS Youth Folklore and Culture in the 21ST Century

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

Mormon
LDS
Folklore
Youth
Digital

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John Haddad, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Anthony Buccitelli, Major Field Member
Simon Bronner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Haddad, Major Field Member
Chris Hollenbeak, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Clares Pastrana, Ana Paula

Title:

Fundamental Understanding into Bimodal Powder Size Distributions in Binder Jetting Additive Manufacturing Process

Graduate Program:

Additive Manufacturing and Design (MS)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Binder Jetting
bimodal distributions

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Allison Beese, Program Head/Chair
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy W. Simpson, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Committee Member

Author:

Patel, Aditya

Title:

Software Support For Offloading off-the-shelf applications to PIM Cores

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

PIM
BLIMP
Compiler
LLVM

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Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member

Author:

Yu, Tongguang

Title:

Hardware Functional Obfuscation With Ferroelectric Active Interconnects

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

FeFET
Hardware Security
Reverse Engineering
Ferroelectric

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Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Sumitha George, Committee Member
Kai Ni, Committee Member

Author:

Yocum, Rebeka

Title:

Socialization of Safety: An Investigation into the Impact Socioeconomic Factors Have on Crash Frequency, Severity, Risk, and Cost in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

transportation safety
crash frequency
crash severity
crash risk
crash cost
statistical analysis
socioeconomics

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Eric Donnell, Major Field Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Major Field Member
John Hughes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vikash Gayah, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rathbun, Molly

Title:

Herpes simplex virus 1 ecology and evolution in natural infections

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

Herpes simplex virus type 1
genital herpes
virus genomics
transmission
host20 pathogen evolution
oligonucleotide enrichment
within-host diversity
virus transmission
host-pathogen evolution
neurovirulence
comparative transcriptomics
virus evolution

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Moriah Szpara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shaun Mahony, Major Field Member
Kateryna Makova, Outside Field Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Outside Unit Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Program Head/Chair
Timothy Miyashiro, Major Field Member

Author:

Yanich, Daniel

Title:

POLICE BODY-WORN CAMERAS IN SMALL AND RURAL PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENTS

Graduate Program:

Criminal Justice (MA)

Keywords:

Police Body-Worn Cameras (BWC)

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Jennifer Gibbs, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jennifer Catherine Gibbs, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Lindmar Schally, Committee Member
Daniel Andrew Howard, Committee Member

Author:

Abrams, Alyssa

Title:

Comparing Heavy Episodic Drinking and High-Intensity Drinking: Effects on Academic Achievement Across Adolescence

Graduate Program:

School Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

alcohol
adolescence
heavy episodic drinking
high-intensity drinking
time varying effect model
academic achievement
time-varying effect model

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Cristin Hall, Major Field Member
Jennifer Frank, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Turrisi, Outside Unit Member
Elizabeth Hughes, Outside Field Member
Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Outside Field Member
James Diperna, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alharbi, Omar

Title:

INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF OCEANIC WAVES ON LASER PROPAGATION

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Optical Propagation
FSO
Ocean Waves
Underwater Wireless Optical Communication
IoT
IoUT
Air-Water-Interface

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Tim Kane, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Noel Giebink, Major Field Member
John Doherty, Major Field Member
Diane Henderson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pham, Viet

Title:

An Analysis and Framework for Multi-label Image Classification of Insect Taxonomy with Convolutional Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

multi-label image classification
image classification
computer vision
machine learning
insect taxonomy
convolutional neural networks

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Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member

Author:

Gertel, Victoria Haley

Title:

Prediction is Production? Exploring the Relationship Between Language Prediction and Production in Younger and Older Adults

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

language prediction
language production
cognitive aging
language processing
self-paced reading

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Chaleece Sandberg (she/her), Outside Unit & Field Member
Michele Diaz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Frank Hillary, Major Field Member
Nancy Dennis, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Outside Field Member

Author:

Chang, Yi Ting

Title:

Independence's Others: Decolonial Taiwan in the Transpacific

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

Independence
Taiwan
Transpacific
decolonial
island
Asian America

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Claire Colebrook, Major Field Member
Shuang Shen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mariana Ortega, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hester Blum, Major Field Member
Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Tina Goudie, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Kim, Kyungin

Title:

The experiences of Korean TVET teachers in Professional Learning Communities: A phenomenological study

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development (PHD)

Keywords:

Professional Learning Community
Technical and Vocational Education and Training
TVET Teachers
Phenomenology

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Mark Threeton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Ewing, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cynthia Pellock, Major Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Joey Fleck, Major Field Member

Author:

Leong Mattern, Alexandra Christine

Title:

FOR WHOM DOES PERCEPTION OF THREAT PREDICT SUSEQUENT AGGRESSION PERPETRATION?

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

family violence
IPV
PCA
dominance
interpersonal threat
threat sensitivity
threat perception

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Steffany Fredman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amy Marshall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Lebreton, Major Field Member
Yo Jackson, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Niebauer, Allison Kate

Title:

“THE DIOCESE’S DARKEST CHAPTER”: CONSTRUCTING CULTURAL TRAUMA IN THE ALTOONA-JOHNSTOWN CATHOLIC DICOESE

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Cultural trauma
Rhetorical Criticism
Catholic
Child Abuse
Communal Conflict
Social Change

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Sarah Miller, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradford Vivian, Major Field Member
Stephen Browne, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Denise Solomon, Program Head/Chair
Timothy Worley, Major Field Member

Author:

Jose, Nikesh

Title:

Ultrasonic Structural Health Monitoring of a metal target position in the transducer near field

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ultrasound testing
Structural health monitoring
Piezo electric transducer
Immersion testing
Near Field

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Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacques Riviere, Committee Member
Christopher Kube, Committee Member

Author:

Shiverdecker, Levi Keith

Title:

Structural Equation Modeling with Ordinal Variables: Performance of Robust Estimators Under Conditions of Misspecification, Missing Data, and Nonnormality

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Structural equation modeling
SEM
Simulation
Estimators
maximum likelihood
weighted least squares
ordinal
missing data
nonormal

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Rustin Meyer, Major Field Member
Pui-Wa Lei, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Lebreton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Jean Phillips, Major Field Member

Author:

Ferland, Troy

Title:

Fire, Climate, and Vegetation in Pleistocene East Africa: Insights from Bulk Organic and Compound Specific Indicators at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

organic geochemistry
PAHs
East Africa
paleoclimate
Olduvai Gorge

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Erin DiMaggio, Major Field Member
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Outside Unit & Field Member
Elizabeth Hajek, Major Field Member
Kate Freeman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Foley, Kasey

Title:

Understanding Reception of Advice About Antibiotics by Emerging Adults in Primary Care Settings

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

interpersonal communication
advice
provider-patient communication
clinician-patient communication
antibiotic resistance
antibiotic stewardship
primary care

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Denise Solomon, Major Field Member
Kathleen Bieschke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Erina Macgeorge, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew High, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Rachel Smith, Major Field Member

Author:

Yau, Eric

Title:

Role of Surfactant Protein A and its Receptor SP-R210 in Influenza Responses in Macrophages

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Surfactant Protein
SP-A
Macrophages
Alveolar Macrophages
Influenza
IAV
Trafficking
Pulmonary Immunity
Pulmonary Inflammation
Surfactant Protein
SP-A
Alveolar Macrophage
Macrophage
AM
Influenza
Influenza A
IAV
Pulmonary Immunity
Pulmonary Inflammation
Trafficking
Virus Trafficking
IAV Trafficking
IAV Endocytosis
Surfactant Protein A

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Committee Members:

Jong Yun, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nicholas Buchkovich, Major Field Member
John Wills, Major Field Member
Zissis Chroneos, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Eck, Andrew

Title:

Evaluating Dust Suppressant Efficacy and Roadbed Stability of Dirt and Gravel Roads

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

dirt and gravel roads
dust suppression
OGPW
oil and gas produced water
dust
oil and gas wastewater
road spreading
dust palliative
road dust

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Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Nathaniel Warner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William D Burgos, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Srinivasan, Arun

Title:

Topics on High-Dimensional Statistical Methods for Compositional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

compositional data analysis
robust statistics
human microbiome
high-dimensional statistics
covariance estimation
knockoff filter
variable selection
tyler's m-estimator
huber's m-estimator

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Lingzhou Xue, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiang Zhan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Major Field Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Major Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Gentile, Kayla

Title:

Transport and Assembly in Active Systems

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

micropumps
fluid motion
catalysis
enzymes
protein aggregation

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Thomas Mallouk, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Major Field Member
James Adair, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ayusman Sen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mc Pheeters, Devyn

Title:

Soil Health Indicators as Tools to Understand The Effects of Disturbance

Graduate Program:

Ecology (MS)

Keywords:

disturbance
occasional tillage
perennials
chisel-disk
moldboard plow
soil health

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Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Mary Ann Victoria Bruns, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather D Karsten, Committee Member
Francisco Dini Andreote, Committee Member
Curtis James Dell, Committee Member

Author:

Marhefka, Jacqueline Tellier

Title:

Approaching or Avoiding Deadlines: The Why and How of Deadline Motivation

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Deadlines
Temporal Individual Differences
Motivation

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Committee Members:

Jean Phillips, Outside Unit & Field Member
Samuel Hunter, Major Field Member
Karen Gasper, Major Field Member
Susan Mohammed, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Matamoros, Cesar Ivan

Title:

Effect of Acetate Supplementation on Milk Fat Production and Mammary Lipogenesis

Graduate Program:

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology (PHD)

Keywords:

de novo
fatty acids
sodium acetate
de novo
fatty acids
sodium acetate

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Andrew Patterson, Outside Unit Member
Gregory Shearer, Major Field Member
Arlyn Heinrichs, Outside Field Member
Kevin Harvatine, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Donna Korzick, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Miller, William

Title:

The Role Of Regulated In Development and DNA Damage Response 1 (REDD1) in Diabetes-Induced Retinal Pathology and Visual Dysfunction

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

antioxidants
diabetes
oxidative stress
retina
vision
glycogen glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3)
hyperglycemia
nuclear factor 2 (erythroid-derived 2-like factor) (NFE2L2) (Nrf2)
oxidative stress; post-translational modification (PTM)
reactive oxygen species (ROS)
retinopathy
chaperone mediated autophagy (CMA)

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Alistair Barber, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jeffrey Sundstrom, Major Field Member
Scot Kimball, Major Field Member
David Waning, Major Field Member
Michael Dennis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Williamson, Jason

Title:

WORKPLACE LONELINESS: THE ROLE OF POLITICAL IDENTITY DISSIMILARITY, IDENTITY STRENGTH, AND ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Workplace Loneliness
Political Ideology
w

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Committee Members:

Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Daniel DellaPosta, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alicia Grandey, Major Field Member
Susan Simkins, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Weier, Jacklyn

Title:

The Political Economies of U.S. Communes

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

intentional communities
diverse economies
commons
governance
property
geography

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Committee Members:

Melissa Wright, Major Field Member
Lorraine Dowler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kathleen Sexsmith, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karl Zimmerer, Major Field Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair