Spring 2020
Spring Quarter Dissertations (June 2020)
Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Advani Alexander
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
Reading-Frame Shift Mechanisms of Introducing Genetic Novelty to the Human Genome
10.6082/uchicago.2209
Asano Yuta
Immunology
Local B Cell States and Selection Mechanisms in Human Renal Allograft Rejection
10.6082/uchicago.2333
Beiriger Anastasia E
Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology
Origins and Migration of the Octavolateral Efferent and Facial Branchiomotor Neurons in Zebrafish
10.6082/uchicago.2223
Blanchard Benjamin David
Evolutionary Biology
The Evolution and Ecology of Defensive Traits in Ants
10.6082/uchicago.2244
Costa Vieira Marcos
Ecology and Evolution
Evolution of Adaptability and the Immune Response to Influenza and HIV
10.6082/uchicago.2308
Crosby Jennie Sandoz Marie
Medical Physics
Investigation of Deep Learning in Medical Imaging for Enhanced Workflow, Improved Diagnosis, and Explanatory Artificial Intelligence
10.6082/uchicago.2294
Delaney Kyle Adam
Cancer Biology
Discovery and Validation of Methacryllysine Modification on Histone Proteins
10.6082/uchicago.2232
Foy Joseph James
Medical Physics
Variability and Harmonization of the Radiomics Workflow for Improved Clinical Implementation
10.6082/uchicago.2253
George Andrew Bradley
Integrative Biology
Functional Morphology and Evolution of the Balistiform Swimming Mode
10.6082/uchicago.2266
Márquez Pizano Roberto
Ecology and Evolution
The Evolutionary, Biogeographic, and Genetic Origin of Color Pattern Diversity in Phyllobates Poison-Dart Frogs
10.6082/uchicago.2328
Pittman Jay Maxson
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Amyloid-beta Aggregation Intermediates
10.6082/uchicago.2248
Quintanilla Christopher Alexander
Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology
Parallel Roles for Cdx and Retinoic Acid in the Regulation of the Pectoral Fin Field in the Early Zebrafish Embryo
10.6082/uchicago.2225
Rich Ashley
Cell and Molecular Biology
Optogenetic Analysis of Rho family GTPases during Morphogenesis and Polarization
10.6082/uchicago.2222
Smith Corey De'on
Medical Physics
Model-Based Image Reconstruction for Multiple View Microscopy
10.6082/uchicago.2216
Division of the Humanities
Allemana Michael
Music
"Will You Still Be Mine?": Memory, Place, Race and Jazz on Chicago’s South Side
10.6082/uchicago.2245
Alvarado Elizabeth
Music
Songs of Science: Musical Worlding in the American Space Age
10.6082/uchicago.2237
Cannon Josh
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Painted Ceramic Traditions and Rural Communities in Hittite Anatolia
10.6082/uchicago.2211
Carranza Daniel
Germanic Studies
The Gift of Metamorphosis: Goethe's Poetic Science of Form
10.6082/uchicago.2246
Clark Timothy Forrest
Classics
The Nature of Dominance: Roman Representations of Parthia and Armenia and the Development of New Narratives of Imperial Victory
IR: No
Dierickx Veerle
Romance Languages and Literatures
Notes Taking Sides: Social and Aesthetic Meanings of Music in the Novel
10.6082/uchicago.2227
Driggers Kristopher Tyler
Art History
The History of Idolatry and the Codex Durán Paintings
10.6082/uchicago.2219
Fanlo Gonzalez Isaias
Romance Languages and Literatures
Staging a Queer Nation: Landscapes of Desire in Contemporary Catalan Drama
10.6082/uchicago.2231
Grasso Julianne
Music
Video Game Music, Meaning, and the Possibilities of Play
10.6082/uchicago.2292
Hughes John Arthur
Music
Needlepoint: For Large Orchestra
10.6082/uchicago.2277
Jayanth Malarvizhi Annal
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Abolishing Agrarian Slavery in Southern Colonial India
10.6082/uchicago.2213
Kalb Emma Christine
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Slaves at the Center of Power: Eunuchs in the Service of the Mughal Elite, 1556-1707
IR: No
Lasman Samuel Warren
Comparative Literature
Dragons, Fairies, and Time: Imagining the Past in Medieval Welsh, Persian, and French Narratives
10.6082/uchicago.2264
Lefevre Tavárez Jorge
Romance Languages and Literatures
El indianismo en Cuba y Puerto Rico
10.6082/uchicago.2332
Maurer Joseph Michael
Music
Learning and Teaching Musical Heritage in Immigrant Chicago
10.6082/uchicago.2291
Moslemani Fadil
Romance Languages and Literatures
Filosofia letteraria e romanzo storico. Un’analisi della rappresentazione della Storia attraverso il prisma foucaultiano del “carnevale del tempo”
IR: No
Nifosi Chiara Ludovica Maria
Romance Languages and Literatures
Expérience de l'espace et pensée de la métaphore chez Marcel Proust
10.6082/uchicago.2257
Phillips Jacob B
Linguistics
Sibilant Categorization, Convergence, and Change: The Case of /s/-Retraction in American English
10.6082/uchicago.2307
Polk Nicholas O.
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Deuteronomy and Treaty Texts: A Critical Reexamination of Deuteronomy 13, 17, 27, and 28
10.6082/uchicago.2269
Reddy Gautham Mummareddy
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
An Empire of Literary Telugu: Remaking Language and Community in Colonial South India, 1812-1920
10.6082/uchicago.2212
Shearing Laura Catherine Olivia
Music
Sounds of the Modern Backwoods: American Old-Time Musics, Heritage, Place
10.6082/uchicago.2276
Siegel Oren
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Walls of the Rulers: The Development of Monumental Enclosure Walls in Ancient Egypt Prior to the New Kingdom
10.6082/uchicago.2218
Sweis Sami Jiryis
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Hashemite Household Anxieties: The Amirate of Mecca, Arabism, and the Arab Revolt (1880-1919)
10.6082/uchicago.2207
Tang Pao-chen
Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
The Animist Imagination of Cinema
10.6082/uchicago.2250
Thieme David Martin
English Language and Literature
Reading Algorithms
10.6082/uchicago.2284
Truett Brandon
English Language and Literature
Art War: The Transnational Imaginary of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-2019
IR: No
Division of the Humanities and the Division of the Social Sciences
Sullivan William
Classics and History
Admissibility in Roman-Canon Procedure: The Emergence of the Law of Positions
10.6082/uchicago.2210
Division of the Physical Sciences
Ackerman Matthew Michael
Chemistry
From Basic Concepts to Emerging Devices: Mercury Telluride Colloidal Quantum Dot Infrared Photodiodes for 1 - 5 Microns Detection
10.6082/uchicago.2240
Anderson Christopher Paul
Physics
Spin Qubits in Silicon Carbide Electronic Devices
10.6082/uchicago.2263
Billett Brent Allen
Chemistry
Synthetic Studies Toward Ent-Kaurene Natural Products: An Application of Carbon–Carbon Bond Activation in Synthesis
10.6082/uchicago.2256
Blanco Carlos
Physics
$\gamma$-Cascade: A Simple Program to Compute Cosmological Gamma-Ray Propagation
10.6082/uchicago.2312
Chang Alan
Mathematics
Besicovitch Sets, Rectifiability, and Projections
10.6082/uchicago.2270
Chen Lvzhou
Mathematics
Surfaces in Graphs of Groups and the Stable Commutator Length
10.6082/uchicago.2309
Farahat Navah
Geophysical Sciences
Numerical Models for a Better Understanding of Off-Axis Hydrothermal Systems
IR: No
Gerbelli-Gauthier Mathilde
Mathematics
Growth of Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups and the Stable Trace Formula
10.6082/uchicago.2315
Gomez-Gonzales Claudio Jacobo
Mathematics
On the Topology and Arithmetic of Spaces of Non-degenerate Maps between Complex Projective Spaces
10.6082/uchicago.2318
Harris Reid Monroe
Mathematics
The Kernel of the Monodromy of the Universal Family of Degree d Smooth Plane Curves
10.6082/uchicago.2331
Ho Johnny
Physics
A Measurement of the Total Hadronic π⁻ on Argon Cross Section in the Kinetic Energy Range from 0.2–1 Giga-Electron Volts in a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber
10.6082/uchicago.2230
Hsiao Wei-Han
Physics
Subgap Collective Modes in Two-Dimensional Superfluid near the Pomeranchuk Instabilities
10.6082/uchicago.2280
Hwang Hyeondo Luke
Chemistry
The Nature of α-Synuclein Interactions with Model Membrane Systems: Binding, Structure, and Physiological Implications
10.6082/uchicago.2303
Kamysbayev Vladislav
Chemistry
Atomic Engineering of Nanomaterials in Molten Salts and Liquid Metals
10.6082/uchicago.2260
Kawamura Airi
Chemistry
Magnetism of Inorganic-Organic Molecular Materials Featuring First-Row Transition Metals
10.6082/uchicago.2271
Kim Youngseok
Statistics
Bayesian Shrinkage Methods for High Dimensional Regression
10.6082/uchicago.2252
Korytov Danila
Physics
Modeling Galaxies in Cosmological Simulations: Using Halo Cores to Model Galaxy Distributions in Clusters, and Constructing the Synthetic Galaxy Catalog CosmoDC2
10.6082/uchicago.2214
Lee Youjin
Chemistry
Synthesis and Applications of Silicon Nanowires for Studying Biointerfaces
10.6082/uchicago.2226
Li Zimu
Physics
Direct Detection of Harmonic Gravitational Waves from Galactic Cosmic String Loops
10.6082/uchicago.2314
Lou Zhipeng
Statistics
High Dimensional Inference Based on Quadratic Forms
10.6082/uchicago.2287
Lyons III Richard Joseph
Geophysical Sciences
Planetesimal Collisions in the Early Solar System and a Framework for Interpreting Iron Meteorite Cooling Rates
10.6082/uchicago.2272
Martin Olivier
Mathematics
Zero-Cycles and Measures of Irrationality for Abelian Varieties
10.6082/uchicago.2295
Montee MurphyKate
Mathematics
Random Groups at Density d<3/14 Act Non-trivially on a CAT(0) Cube Complex
10.6082/uchicago.2249
Naisat Gregory
Statistics
Tropical Algebra and Algebraic Topology of Deep Neural Networks
10.6082/uchicago.2215
Ni Kaiyuan
Chemistry
Nanoscale Metal-Organic Frameworks for Cancer Immunotherapy
10.6082/uchicago.2259
Panov Petr
Statistics
Loop Soup Occupation Fields and Poisson Cylinders
IR: No
Schaefer Karl
Mathematics
Class Groups of Kummer Extensions via Cup Products in Galois Cohomology
10.6082/uchicago.2316
Trinh Minh-Tam
Mathematics
Algebraic Braids and Geometric Representation Theory
10.6082/uchicago.2317
Wang Chengpeng
Chemistry
Direct β-Functionalization of Ketones via Palladium-Catalyzed Redox Cascade
10.6082/uchicago.2255
Wang Minzhe
Statistics
Optimal Estimations in Topic Modeling
10.6082/uchicago.2282
Wood Ryan Edward
Chemistry
Ultrafast Dynamics of Two-Dimensional Materials Probed with Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy
10.6082/uchicago.2261
Wu Yuxiao
Physics
Hecke Operators and Galois Symmetry in Rational Conformal Field Theory
10.6082/uchicago.2323
Xu Changji
Statistics
Random Walk among Bernoulli Obstacles
10.6082/uchicago.2304
Zhang Fengshuo
Statistics
Theoretical Guarantees of Variational Inference and Its Applications
10.6082/uchicago.2221
Zhou Zhiyao
Chemistry
The “Golden Apple”: Gold Catalysis in the Synthesis of Caged Indole Alkaloids, Strictamine and Arborisidine, and Harziane Diterpenes
10.6082/uchicago.2241
Zhuo Bumeng
Statistics
Topics on Bayesian Inference Sampling Algorithms
10.6082/uchicago.2286
Zou Foling
Mathematics
A Geometric Approach to Equivariant Factorization Homology and Nonabelian Poincaré Duality
10.6082/uchicago.2234
Division of the Physical Sciences and the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Hong Lu
Biophysical Sciences
The Biophysical Basis of Nucleotide Sensitivity in the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock
10.6082/uchicago.2251
Division of the Social Sciences
Bai Yuehao
Economics
Essays on the Econometrics of Randomized Controlled Trials
10.6082/uchicago.2229
Boelaars Ilja Andreas
Economics
Optimal Intergenerational Risk-Sharing When Stock and Labor Markets Are Co-integrated
10.6082/uchicago.2275
Brandon Alec
Economics
Social Pressure and Self-Selection in Experimental Policy Evaluation
10.6082/uchicago.2302
Carter Michele Ashley
Economics
The Long-Run Effects of Program Interactions in the Social Safety Net: Evidence from Food Stamps and Head Start
10.6082/uchicago.2236
Drake Ashley Elizabeth
Comparative Human Development
Militarizing Affection: The Making of the Military Working Dog Team
IR: No
English Eric
Economics
Essays on Education and Healthcare
10.6082/uchicago.2278
Feser Alison
Anthropology
Reproducing Photochemical Life in the Imaging Capital of the World
IR: No
Fu Fang
Economics
The Role of Sales Information in Online Consumer Search
10.6082/uchicago.2326
Gabriel Antonio
Economics
Idea Flows, Economic Growth and Human Capital
IR: No
Gannaway Grant Woolley
Economics
Essays in Health Economics
10.6082/uchicago.2336
Grigsby John Rockbridge
Economics
Skill Heterogeneity and Aggregate Labor Market Dynamics
10.6082/uchicago.2265
Haskins Alex
Political Science
Innovating Empire: Domination and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan
10.6082/uchicago.2228
Herts Julianne Barbara
Psychology
Adult Math Anxiety: Relation to Math Performance and Adult/Child Math Interactions
10.6082/uchicago.2329
Hickman Kristin Gee
Anthropology
Révolution Dārija? Imagining Vernacular Futures in Morocco
10.6082/uchicago.2220
Jackman Robert Wesley Graydon
Economics
Learning Speeds and Labor Market Adjustments
10.6082/uchicago.2293
Janson Lara Helena
Sociology
Neutralizing Title IX: Hyperlegal Consciousness on College Campuses in the Age of #MeToo
IR: No
Jiang Bo
Economics
Banking Globalization and Cross-border Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies
10.6082/uchicago.2338
Jordan Andrew William
Economics
What Can Plea Bargaining Teach Us about Racial Bias in Criminal Justice?
10.6082/uchicago.2239
Kiatsakuldecha Paphon
Economics
Essays on Economics of Rural Households in Developing Countries
10.6082/uchicago.2281
Kim Kyeongbae
Economics
Medical Testing as Optimal Information Acquisition
10.6082/uchicago.2279
Knorr Daniel
History
Putting Empire in Its Place: Urban Elites and the Qing Imperial State in Jinan, Shandong, 1639–1926
10.6082/uchicago.2247
Kost Kyle
Economics
Trade Policy Uncertainty, Investment, and Lobbying
10.6082/uchicago.2273
Lee Do Young
Political Science
Tailoring Extended Deterrence: How States Provide a Security Umbrella
10.6082/uchicago.2297
Lee Jun Hee
History
“Rather a Hundred Singing Laborers than a Single Professional”: Imagining the Japanese Masses in the Utagoe Movement, 1948-Present
10.6082/uchicago.2290
Lee Wooyong
Economics
Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Random Coefficient Models
10.6082/uchicago.2322
Mausolf Joshua Gary
Sociology
Enter the Partisan Firm: How Affective Polarization Shapes Corporation and Career
10.6082/uchicago.2242
Meidenbauer Kimberly Lewis
Psychology
The Role of Preference in the Affective and Cognitive Benefits of Nature
10.6082/uchicago.2262
Nagarajan Karthik
Economics
The Investment and Insurance Effects of Unreliable Electricity: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing
10.6082/uchicago.2340
Pearce Jeremy Gordon
Economics
Idea Production and Team Structure
10.6082/uchicago.2306
Rao Sarojini
Economics
Essays in Economic Development
10.6082/uchicago.2283
Ushioda Yu
Economics
Long-Term Tax Salience Effects
IR: No
vandenBerghe John
Economics
Competitive Information Degradation
IR: No
Wang Yuyao
Economics
Relationship Lending and the Transmission of Credit Supply Shocks
10.6082/uchicago.2254
Wu Liangjie
Economics
Partially Directed Search in the Labor Market
10.6082/uchicago.2327
Xu Wenji
Economics
Essays in Information Economics
10.6082/uchicago.2330
Yang Kai Hao
Economics
Informational Monopoly: An Equivalence Result
10.6082/uchicago.2310
Zhou Ying
Economics
Search and (In-)Elastic Rest Unemployment: An Analytical Framework
10.6082/uchicago.2268
Division of the Social Sciences and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Pegoraro Stefano
Economics and Business
Essays on Financial Intermediaries and Monetary Policy
10.6082/uchicago.2320
Xu Xun
Economics and Business
Essays on Incompleteness in Financial Markets and Contracts
10.6082/uchicago.2337
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Abrams Eliot
Assessing Bank Deposit Market Power Given Limited Consumer Consideration
10.6082/uchicago.2233
Biswas Shirsho
Investigating the Effects of Including Discount Information in Advertising
10.6082/uchicago.2288
Feng Yifan
Active Learning in Marketplaces and Online Platforms
10.6082/uchicago.2311
He Jingyu
XBART: A Scalable Stochastic Algorithm for Supervised Machine Learning with Additive Tree Ensembles
10.6082/uchicago.2324
Kardas Michael
It’s Surprisingly Nice to Meet You: An Expectancy-Value Theory of People’s Social Engagement Decisions
10.6082/uchicago.2267
Kim Yewon
Customer Retention under Imperfect Information
10.6082/uchicago.2339
Lin Xiaocai
Valuing Intrinsic and Instrumental Preferences for Privacy
10.6082/uchicago.2224
Liu Lisa Yao
Do Auditors Help Prevent Data Breaches?
10.6082/uchicago.2300
Liu Miao
Assessing Human Information Processing in Lending Decisions: A Machine Learning Approach
10.6082/uchicago.2334
Lopez Jessica
Attitudinal Ambiguity and Dehumanization
10.6082/uchicago.2335
Seo Hee Kwon
Lacking Incentives, Technologies, or Both? Valuing Productivity Thresholds Using a Novel Educational Field Experiment
10.6082/uchicago.2235
Shin Johanna Sehee
Institutional Investors as Information Suppliers: Evidence from Investment Conferences
IR: No
Tenekedjieva Ana Maria K
The Revolving Door and Insurance Solvency Regulation
IR: No
White Shannon M
When Shrouded Prices Signal Transparency: Consequences of Price Disaggregation
10.6082/uchicago.2258
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Division of the Social Sciences
Boyer Charles
Business and Economics
Public Pensions and State Government Borrowing Costs
10.6082/uchicago.2319
The Divinity School
Ferguson Thomas Scott
The Needs of Reason: Kant, Metaphysics, and the Proofs for the Existence of God
10.6082/uchicago.2313
Ferris Michele Mosser
The Religious Bildungsbürgertum in the Queen City: Race and Cultural Politics in Cincinnati’s German Denominational Newspapers, 1830-1862
10.6082/uchicago.2217
Hwang Eun Young
Therapeutic Vision, Discipline, and Religious Virtue in Ordinary Life: A Comparative Ethical Analysis of Augustine and Zhiyi
10.6082/uchicago.2208
Shin Joyce Sue-mee
Faith in an Age of Cultural Pluralism: An Aesthetic Approach to Transformation
10.6082/uchicago.2301
Vanderpoel Matthew
Contingency, Theology, and Poetry at the Collège de Navarre in the Age of Gerson
10.6082/uchicago.2289
Zaleski Richard Aaren
Between the Literal and the Allegorical: Biblical Paraphrase and the Mediation of Scripture in Philo of Alexandria's and Gregory of Nyssa's Lives of Moses
10.6082/uchicago.2305
The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies
Gorges Rebecca Jean
Unintended Consequences of Medicaid Policy for High-Need Beneficiaries
10.6082/uchicago.2238
Laverde Quintero Mariana
Essays on School Choice and Civilian Collaboration in Civil Conflicts
10.6082/uchicago.2298
Pathak Yuvraj
Three Essays in Energy and Environment and Development Economics
10.6082/uchicago.2296
Qiu Chenyu
Essays in Energy Market Competition and Policies
10.6082/uchicago.2285
The Law School
Ren Zeyu
China's IPO Market: Regulation and Reform
IR: No
The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Guo Ashley
Molecular Simulation of Biological Macromolecules: Aggregation, Ion Capture, and Sliding Dynamics
10.6082/uchicago.2243
Jarin Zachary
Coarse-Grained Approaches to Membrane Remodeling and I-BAR Domain Self-Assembly
10.6082/uchicago.2274
Kim Seong-Min
Investigating Contact Hypersensitivity by Studying Biochemical Properties of a Contact Allergen, 1-Chloro-2,4-Dinitrobenzene
10.6082/uchicago.2325
Rauscher Phillip Mark
Molecular Simulations of Poly[n]catenanes
10.6082/uchicago.2321
The School of Social Service Administration
Park Michael
Moving Beyond the Racial Triangulation: An Empirical Study of the Racialization Experience of Asian American Youth and Its Influence on Developmental Outcomes
10.6082/uchicago.2299