Summer 2017

Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine

Barr, Kenneth A.
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
DECODING CIS-REGULATION OF THE DROSOPHILA EVEN-SKIPPED LOCUS WITH PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL MODELS AND SYNTHETIC ENHANCERS
10.6082/uchicago.1436

Bobe, Alexandria Marie
Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
Exploring the Role of Gut Microbiota as Modifiers of Autoimmune Pathogenesis in Interleukin-10 Deficient Mice
10.6082/uchicago.1444

Brechka, Hannah Jane
Cancer Biology
The Role of Homeobox Transcription Cofactors in Prostate Development and Tumor Growth
10.6082/M1PC30J4

Day, Kasey J.
Cell and Molecular Biology
Defining the Compartments of the Yeast Endomembrane System
10.6082/uchicago.1445

Eissa, Tahra
Neurobiology
Mechanisms and Translational Aspects of Propagating, Focal Neocortical Seizure Activity
IR: No

Evans, Molly Elizabeth
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Expanding high-throughput sequencing to investigate RNA biology
10.6082/M1JM27TD

Gough, Portia
Microbiology
IL-20 MODULATES INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSES OF HUMAN CELLS TO STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS
10.6082/M1542KQZ

Haddad, Christopher William
Medical Physics
Quantitative Image Analysis of Pial Collaterals in Acute Ischemic Stroke.
10.6082/M12B8W4G

Henry, Amy Katherine
Evolutionary Biology
Spatial Pattern and Dynamics in Alternative Ecological States: An Examination of Competition for Space between Two Ecosystem Engineers, the Seagrass Zostera japonica and the Sand Dollar Dendraster excentricus
10.6082/uchicago.1440

Hooper, Daniel Marc
Evolutionary Biology
Chromosome Inversions and Avian Speciation
10.6082/uchicago.1434

Koren, David
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Neurobiology
Dendritic mechanisms underlying retinal direction selectivity
10.6082/uchicago.1468

Masco, Christina Lynn
Ecology and Evolution
The Singing Behavior of Splendid Fairy-Wrens (Malurus splendens)
10.6082/uchicago.1470

Mora Solano, Carolina
Pathology
Supramolecular peptide nanofibers for active immunotherapy
10.6082/uchicago.1435

Nadadur, Rangarajan D.
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology
Defining Gene Regulatory Networks of Cardiac Rhythm
10.6082/uchicago.1464

Pitt, Jason J.
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
Deciphering Cancer Development and Progression through Large-Scale Computational Analyses of Germline and Somatic Genomes
10.6082/M19K48BS

Salzman, Gabriel Simon
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Biophysical Sciences
The Extracellular Regions of Adhesion G Protein-Coupled Receptors Regulate Ligand Binding and Intracellular Signaling
10.6082/uchicago.1455

Sample, Ashley
Cancer Biology
Autophagy-Independent Regulation and Function of Autophagy Adaptor Protein p62
10.6082/M1QZ282Z

Suresh, Jyothsna
Computational Neuroscience
Synaptic Mechanisms Underlying Emergent Epileptiform Activity in Dissociated Hippocampal Cell Cultures
IR: No

Wang, Jiebiao
Public Health Sciences
Statistical Methods for Genomics Data with Clustered Structures and Missing Values
10.6082/M19S1P5F

Wang, Xikuan
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
Computational analysis of shared etiological factors of multiple complex diseases: mining text and medical records
10.6082/M1DZ06GZ

Division of the Humanities

Aalgaard, Scott Wade
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
‘Homesick Blues’: Crisis, Critique, and Collectivity in Modern Japanese Cultural Production
10.6082/uchicago.1443

Chow, Dawn Eschenauer
Philosophy
Analogical Models of God: An Account of Religious Language
10.6082/M1VH5KZ7

Fiedler, Elizabeth Anne
Romance Languages and Literatures
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE DETECTIVE: THE PROTAGONIST’S POWER TO CHALLENGE, SHAPE AND MEND THROUGH SOCIAL CRITIQUE
10.6082/M1222RWN

Fine, Abigail Lilly
Music
Objects of Veneration: Music and Materiality in the Composer-Cults of Germany and Austria,1870-1930
10.6082/M1CN721Q

Grinsell, Timothy W.
Linguistics
Semantic Indecision
Yes

Iker, Sarah Marie
Music
An Experience-Oriented Approach to Analyzing Stravinsky's Neoclassicism
10.6082/M1707ZJD

Jacobs, Alexander Whitlyn
English Language and Literature
Stuck in the Nineteenth Century: The After Effects of Freedom and Capitalism in the New South, 1865 - 1913
10.6082/M14747ZF

Jimenez-Anglada, Thelma B.
Romance Languages and Literatures
TERRITORIOS, ARTE Y SOBERANÍA: LA NOVELA DEL NARCOTRÁFICO EN MÉXICO
10.6082/uchicago.1438

Kelly, Thomas Patrick
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Clawed Skin: The Literary Inscription of Things in Sixteenth Century China
10.6082/uchicago.1463

Kosch, Branden David
Classics: Classical Languages and Literatures
Reading Demosthenes
10.6082/M19W0CKR

Mangalagiri, Adhira Nanda
Comparative Literature
At the Limits of Comparison: Literary Encounters between China and India in the Colonial World
IR: No

Negri, Sabrina
Cinema and Media Studies
Archival Clues: Film, Digital, and the Evidential Paradigm
10.6082/uchicago.1446

Nir, Gilad
Philosophy
Rules of Inference: A Study in Early Analytic Philosophy
10.6082/M18S4N2H

Park, Hyun Hee
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Tears in the Imperial Screen: Wartime Colonial Korean Cinema, 1936-1945
10.6082/uchicago.1458

Pietraszko, Joanna Aleksandra
Linguistics
Inflectional Dependencies: A Study of Complex Verbal Expressions in Ndebele
10.6082/M16T0JRF

Rowe, Samuel Toman
English Language and Literature
Imaginary Wants: Desire, Villainy, and Capital in Eighteenth-century Fiction
10.6082/M1CJ8BM0

Russell, Francey
Philosophy
Self-Opacity, Human Agency, and Ethics
10.6082/uchicago.1452

Sheehy, August Anderson
Music
Music Analysis as a Practice of the Self in Nineteenth-Century Germany
10.6082/uchicago.1459

Sims, Matthew
English Language and Literature
A Computational Turn: Fiction and the Forms of Invention, 1965-1980
IR: No

Soyars, Jonathan Everett
New Testament and Early Christian Literature
The Shepherd of Hermas and the Pauline Legacy
10.6082/uchicago.1451

Wang, Shengyu
Comparative Literature
Chinese Enchantment: Reinventing Pu Songling's Classical Tales in the Realm of World Literature, 1880-1920
10.6082/M1959FR0

Werner, Andrew
Philosophy
HEGEL'S SPECULATIVE METHOD
10.6082/M1SX6BB5

Wilson, Leslie Meredith
Art History
Past Black and White: The Color of Photography in South Africa, 1994-2004
10.6082/uchicago.1473

Xu, Jin
Art History
Engraving Identities in Stone: Stone Mortuary Equipment of the Northern Dynasties (386-581 CE)
10.6082/uchicago.1442

Division of the Physical Sciences

Andorfer, Mary Catherine
Chemistry
CATALYST-CONTROLLED, SITE-SELECTIVE HALOGENATION USING FLAVIN-DEPENDENT HALOGENASES
10.6082/M11G0JCH

Bedell, Megan Elizabeth
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Illuminating the Origins of Planets with Solar Twins
10.6082/uchicago.1439

Boyack, Rufus M.
Physics
Establishing a consistent theory of transport in strongly correlated Fermi superfluids
10.6082/M17S7KW8

Chakraborty, Romit
Chemistry
One-Electron Theories from a Generalized Pauli Exclusion Principle
10.6082/M13776VH

Chan, Henry Yi-Wei
Mathematics
Topological Hochschild Homology of Maximal Orders in Simple Q-Algebras
10.6082/M1DN4353

Chidester, Bethany A.
Geophysical Sciences
The distribution of heat-producing radioactive elements in the deep Earth
10.6082/uchicago.1469

Ding, Feng
Geophysical Sciences
Climate Dynamics of Condensible-Rich Atmospheres
10.6082/M1BK19G5

Fedderke, Michael Alan
Physics
Studies in Higgs Physics, Particle Dark Matter, and the Early Universe
10.6082/M1PZ56X5

Figliozzi, Patrick Edward Poppe
Chemistry
Properties and Dynamics of Driven Optical Matter
10.6082/uchicago.1441

Forgy, Charles C.
Chemistry
Density Matrices: From Excitons to Molecules
10.6082/M1JD4TW1

Goswami, Subhajit
Statistics
Some metric properties of planar Gaussian free field
10.6082/M1RR1WC9

Hatt, Dylan Thomas
Astronomy and Astrophysics
On the Population II Distance Scale: Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances to Local Galaxies
10.6082/M1QV3JN7

Heinrich, Chen
Physics
Lensing Bias to CMB Polarization Measurements of Compensated Isocurvature Perturbations
10.6082/M1XD0ZS7

Huang, Zhongxing
Chemistry
Palladium-Catalyzed β-C−H Functionalization of Ketones and Amines
10.6082/uchicago.1448

Joglekar, Aniket Uday
Physics
Exploring BSM Physics in Di-boson Channels at the LHC and Beyond
IR: No

Larsson, Gustav Martin
Computer Science
Discovery of Visual Semantics by Unsupervised and Self-Supervised Representation Learning
10.6082/M1610XGG

Leesatapornwongsa, Tanakorn
Computer Science
Unearthing Concurrency and Scalability Bugs in Cloud-Scale Distributed Systems
10.6082/M1GF0RMT

Li, Ang
Statistics
Multiple Testing with Prior Structural Information
10.6082/M1TQ5ZNH

Li, Li
Statistics
TWO PROBLEMS IN PERCOLATION THEORY
10.6082/M1M32SXT

Li, Yuan
Computer Science
Some Results in Low-Depth Circuit Complexity
10.6082/M1BP00XX

Lin, Zekai
Chemistry
Design of Functional Metal-Organic Frameworks for Sensing and Catalytic Applications
10.6082/M15D8Q1P

Manzotti, Alessandro
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Future Cosmic Microwave Background delensing with galaxy surveys
10.6082/M1FJ2DWR

McCall, Patrick Marshall
Physics
CONSEQUENCES OF MOLECULAR-SCALE NON-EQUILIBRIUM ACTIVITY ON THE DYNAMICS AND MECHANICS OF SELF-ASSEMBLED ACTIN-BASED STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS
10.6082/M15T3HKM

Mills, Sean Martin
Astronomy and Astrophysics
DETECTING AND INTERPRETING THE DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION OF TRANSITING MULTIPLANET SYSTEMS
10.6082/M1Z899JK

Mocanu, Laura Monica
Astronomy and Astrophysics
A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Gravitational Lensing Potential and its Power Spectrum from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data
10.6082/uchicago.1437

Nash, Lisa Michelle
Physics
Topological Gyroscopic Metamaterials
10.6082/M1WH2N31

Nazaroglu, Caner
Physics
Automorphic Forms and Mock Modular Forms in String Theory
IR: No

Nguyen, Dung Xuan
Physics
DIRAC COMPOSITE FERMION THEORY OF JAIN'S SEQUENCES
10.6082/M1P55KMR

Ryou, Albert
Physics
Designing, probing, and stabilizing exotic Fabry-Perot cavities for studying strongly correlated light
10.6082/M11834MR

Sagatov, Sergei
Mathematics
Logarithmic Differential Operators on the Wonderful Compactification
10.6082/M1HD7SRN

Scrape, Preston Garrieth
Chemistry
MOLECULAR BEAM EXPERIMENTS AND THEORETICAL STUDIES ON THE DYNAMICS AND PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF SEVERAL SMALL MOLECULES
10.6082/M11N7Z9Z

Tang, Si
Statistics
High-Dimensional First Passage Percolation and Occupation Densities of Branching Random Walk
IR: No

Tempkin, Jeremy Owen Becker
Chemistry
Enhanced Sampling of Rare Dynamic Events
10.6082/M1PV6HHV

Teneva, Nedelina
Computer Science
Multiresolution Matrix Factorization
IR: No

Tolish, Alexander
Physics
The Gravitational Wave Memory Effect and Classical Scattering Problems
10.6082/M1M61HBJ

Valentine, Andrew J S
Chemistry
The Treatment of Diradical Systems and Molecular Optimizations with Two-Electron Reduced Density Matrices
10.6082/M18W3BDX

Vishnepolsky, Rachel
Mathematics
RANDOM WALKS ON CARTESIAN PRODUCTS OF CERTAIN NONAMENABLE GROUPS AND INTEGER LATTICES
10.6082/M1ZG6QC7

Xu, Jian
Physics
Dynamics of the Random Field Ising Model
10.6082/M1FN149G

Xu, Wanting
Statistics
On the optimal estimation, control, and modeling of dynamical systems
10.6082/uchicago.1449

Zhang, Danna
Statistics
Estimation and inference for high dimensional time series
10.6082/M1VQ30S8

Zhao, Boxuan
Chemistry
The Exuberant Vine of Epitranscriptome: RNA Methylation as a New Epigenetic Regulatory Mechanism
10.6082/M1FB512H

Zheng, Qinqing
Computer Science
First Order Methods for Nonconvex Optimization via Symmetric Factorization
10.6082/M1319T0F

Zhu, Xiang
Statistics
A Bayesian Large-Scale Multiple Regression Model for Genome-Wide Association Summary Statistics

Other Identifiers DOI: 10.6082/M1NZ85SS

Division of the Physical Sciences and the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine

Dinh, Vu Quoc
Biophysical Sciences
The Epigenetic Landscape of IL-15 Signaling in Tissue Resident Effector Cytotoxic Intraepithelial Lymphocytes
10.6082/M10863DG

Scholz, Monika
Biophysical Sciences
Developing a Quantitative Description of Feeding Behavior and Its Response to Perturbations
10.6082/M1WW7FTN

Stam, Samantha
Biophysical Sciences
Force Exertion and Transmission in Cross-Linked Actin Networks
10.6082/M1XG9P89

Division of the Social Sciences

Ang Collan Granillo, Milena
Political Science
Corrupting Accountability: Elite Control and Corruption Prosecution in Comparative Perspective
10.6082/uchicago.1467

Bhagirat, Ramaesh Joseph
History
"All ah we is one": Race, Nation, and Performative Culture in the Southern Caribbean, c.1950s-1970s
IR: No

Evangelakis, Peter
Economics
Essays in Politics and Policy
IR: No

Ford, Andrea Lilly
Anthropology
Near Birth: Gendered Politics, Embodied Ecologies, and Ethical Futures in Californian Childbearing
10.6082/M1RX996S

Gibson, Dominic James
Psychology
Gesture’s Role in Bridging Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Representations of Number
10.6082/uchicago.1471

Gyurovski, Ivo Ivanov
Psychology
Predictors and Implications of Personal Finance Management
10.6082/M1SQ8XH4

Hara, Kristyn Nicole Mahealani
Anthropology
Fueling Urbanism: An Anthracological Approach to the Socio-Ecologies of Institutions and Forests at Angkor, Cambodia
IR: No

Hayakawa, Sayuri
Psychology
Why Using a Foreign Language Changes Our Choices
10.6082/M1J964G3

Hughes, Cayce C.
Sociology
Negotiating Privacy in the Context of Poverty: Poor Mothers and the Social Safety Net
10.6082/uchicago.1454

Jha, Shefali
Anthropology
Democracy on a Minor Note: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimin and its Hyderabadi Muslim Publics
10.6082/M10G3H8K

Kim, Seong Un
History
Crazy Shows: Entertainment Television in Cold War Japan, 1953-1973
10.6082/M1K35RSF

Lee, Haena
Sociology
ENVIRONMENTAL DISORDER, PSYCHOSOCIAL DISTRESS, AND CHILDHOOD DISADVANTAGE: SOURCES OF HEALTH RISKS IN LATER LIFE
IR: No

Lin, Le
Sociology
The Emergence and Transformation of China's Education and Training Industry, 1980-2010
10.6082/M1416V58

McCallum III, John Martin
History
Democratic Violence and the Transformation of American Moral Sentiments in the 'Good War'
10.6082/uchicago.1465

McMahan, Peter
Sociology
Unreciprocated Relationships and the Structure of Status
10.6082/M1WQ01XN

Motyl, Katherina Maria
History
Bodies That Shimmer: An Embodied History of Vienna's New Women, 1893-1931
10.6082/uchicago.1447

Power, Seamus Anthony
Comparative Human Development
From the Elites to the Streets: The Psychology of Democracy and Economic Inequality
10.6082/M1GB226W

Robles Ruvalcaba, Romina
History
The Emergence of the Rancho and the Socioeconomic Transformation of the Caxcana, Jalisco, 1939-1959
10.6082/M1XP731F

Rosen, Rebecca Kala
Psychology
What's in a Voice? Effects of Dialect Perception on Activation of Crime Stereotypes
10.6082/uchicago.1433

Sattizahn, Jason Ryan
Psychology
ERROR-RELATED BRAIN ACTIVITY, ANXIETY AND COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE
10.6082/M17W69BF

Sheklian, Christopher Nicholas
Anthropology
Theology and the Community: The Armenian Minority, Tradition, and Secularism in Turkey
10.6082/M1K64G65

Tourre, Fabrice
Economics
A Macro-Finance Approach to Sovereign Debt Spreads and Returns
10.6082/M1N58JGC

Weiner, Talia Rose
Comparative Human Development
Home of the Blues: The Political Economy of Mood Disorder Self-Management in 21st Century Chicago
IR: No

Yuan, Xiaobo
Anthropology
Reform and Rectification: Chinese Christianities and the Politics of Flourishing
10.6082/uchicago.1472

Artemyev Berg, Anastasia Netta
Social Thought and Philosophy
FREEDOM, FEELING AND CHARACTER: THE UNITY OF REASON AND SENSIBILITY IN KANT’S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
10.6082/M1639MTB

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Chin-Lee, Yun-ke
The Effect of Contraceptive Advertising and Sexual Education on Condom Sales
10.6082/M12805R4

Feng, Guanhao
Essays in Statistical Learning and Asset Pricing
IR: No

Molouki, Sarah
Are Future Selves Really Treated Like Others? Comparing Determinants of Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Allocations
10.6082/M1DJ5CRC

Thomas, Michael
Essays on the Influence of Media
10.6082/uchicago.1456

Tomar, Sorabh
Firm Responses to Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting
IR: No

The Divinity School

Cather, Jason Grant
The Ontological Argument, Its Criticisms and Consequences
10.6082/M1H993BQ

Dreff, Erik
On the Intellectual Love of God in Spinoza
10.6082/uchicago.1461

Henry, Justin Wesley
Distant Shores of Dharma: Historical Imagination in Sri Lanka from the Late Medieval Period
10.6082/M1513WB3

Mihalyfy, David Francis
Heterodoxies and the Historical Jesus: Biblical Criticism of the Gospels in the U.S., 1794-1860
10.6082/uchicago.1453

Reznik, Larisa
(A)POLITICAL OR NONSOVEREIGN? THEOLOGICAL TROPES AND POLITICAL LESSONS WITH AND AGAINST ROSENZWEIG AND ADORNO
IR: No

Schultz, Daniel J.
ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF RELIGION: READING FOUCAULT ON HISTORY, TRUTH, AND SUBJECTIVITY
IR: No

Suh, Myung Sahm
Generational Dynamics and the Consolidation of the Christian Right in Contemporary South Korea
IR: No

The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies

Affan, Ahmad
Three Essays on Capital Punishment
IR: No

Hayasaka, Ramirez Sumiko
Essays on the relationship between behavior, well-being, and poverty
IR: No

Hinze-Pifer, Rebecca Jean
Understanding Student Behavior: Causes and Implications of School Practice
10.6082/uchicago.1466

The Institute for Molecular Engineering

Alfaro Perez, Johnny Daniel
Novel Aggressive Freeze-Drying Protocols to Preserve Biological Materials
IR: No

Chen, Xuanxuan
Directed Self-assembly Of Symmetric Block Copolymer With Density Multiplication For Nanopatterning Applications
10.6082/uchicago.1450

Lequieu, Joshua Paul
Self Assembly with DNA: From Materials Design to Chromatin
10.6082/uchicago.1457

Ren, Jiaxing
Three Dimensional Structures in the Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers
10.6082/uchicago.1460

The School of Social Service Administration

Anasti, Theresa
SEX WORKER OR VICTIM OF PROSTITUTION? ADVOCACY COLLABORATIONS AMONG NONPROFITS THAT REPRESENT INDIVIDUALS IN THE SEX TRADE
10.6082/uchicago.1462

Banman Aaron Joshua
Organizational and worker level factors influencing father involvement and engagement in early home visitation programs
IR: No

Das, Aditi
From the Margins to the Mainstream? A Comparative Case Study of Restorative Justice Implementation and Integration within Public Schools
10.6082/M1N29V22